A few days ago noticed that the Tag Suggestion functions in Ultimate Tag Warrior were no longer working. So I spent a few hours this week looking into the issue and came up with an alternative solution. UTW provides two Tag Suggestion options. One is from Yahoo and the other from Tagyu. The Yahoo service stopped working because it requires an AppID which I can only assume has either expired or has exceded is maximum number of requests and the Tagyu service stopped working because it has been shut down by the owner.

Well I really liked the Tag Suggestion service so I decided to either fix it in UTW or find an alternative. I fixed the Tagyu service by replacing it with a similar service from tagthe.net and this is what this document is about. But the fix for I the Yahoo service requires an AppID so by hacking the code (similar to the code below) and using my own Yahoo AppID I got the service running again.
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This is my first publicy released WordPress Plugin/Widget. This plugin reads a Writely RSS Feed and display the items in a Widget on your sidebar. It’s based entirley on the RSS Feed Widget that comes with the WordPress Widgets Control but instead of just displaying the feed items I have modified it to remove the Introduction and Private items.

How It Works:
The Writely RSS Feed Widget will display a list of links of documents from Writely. If a user is either the owner or a collaborator they will see the document in edit mode other wise they will see the document in a read-only view mode.
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Tags Tags Tags. I love Tags and I love Tagging. So the Ultimate Tag Warrior is a perfect one-stop-shop for your tagging needs.

When I was writing my post, Wordpress Plugins: Technorati I noticed that I had the UTA plugins in my plugins directory but I wasn’t using the plugin. I had UTW there for to support the SEO Plugin which, by the way is also very handy. I think I did tryit out at one point but at the time the concept of tags and tagging was lost on me. But now that I have discovered a new addiction to tags the UTW is the perfect enabler.
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Essential list are just like fingers; every body’s got at least 10.

I’ve been using Wordpress since March 2006 and in that time I have found a loads of plugins that enhance the whole Wordpress experience.

The way I see it is that there are 3 types of plugins:
Plugins that enhance the Readers Experience.
Plugins that enhance the Writers Experience.
Plugins that are useless.

Well in the past month I have disocvered a 4th catageory: Plugins that promote and disrtibute your content.
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It’s all about syndication. Today I have gathered some Wordpress Plugins the aid in consuming and producing RSS Feeds that I have found useful.

• InlineFeed
  This lets you display RSS feeds in your Wordpress posts and pages. It’s very easy to use and you can see it in action here.
• CompleteRSS
  This removes the ‘content:encoded’ tags from your XML feed which can help if your using an off-line blog manager like Drivel.
  

As of 2006-08-25

Here is a collection of Wordpress Plugins that use FeedBurner in some way shape or form.

• FeedBurner Awareness
  This lest you access FeedBurner statistics
• Feedburner Wordpress Widget
  This allows you put Feedburner subscription links into your WordPress sidebar and arrange it with the rest of your widgets.
• Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports
  This is a very handy tool but you need a Google Analytics account for the Google reports.

As of 2006-08-25
*updated 2006-08-2005*
Here is a collection of Wordpress Plugins that use Technorati in some way shape or form.

• TechnoTag
  Adds a Tags button to the post editor which you add a list of tags to.
• WP-CaTT: WordPress Category Technorati Tag Plugin
  Add (t) to the end of each category in the post: Tagging(t)
• My Technorati Tag Cloud
  Add your Tags from Technorati as a Tag Cloud to your sidebar.
• Cosmos link plugin for WordPress
  Adds 2 Technorati links to your post: one to see who else is linking to the post and one to add the post to your watch list.
• Bunny’s Technorati Tags
  Adds a textbox to the post edit form that you can add Technorati tags to.
• MightyTechno
  This will convert tags from your configuration page into links to search your site. *I hacked mine to do a Technorati Tag search instead of a local search.