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I just love the simplicity and the power of WordPress. It’s versatile enough to be used as a blog and as a CMS. A few years back, I tried to get Joomla to work for a site idea I had, but after playing with it for a couple of days, I realized that with the right kind of theme, I could get WordPress to do the same. I haven’t look back since.

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As I have mentioned before, I am doing a redevelopment of my Category Magic Plugin. I have reworked a lot of code and write I am in the testing phase. I have made some enhancements to the general structure of the plugin in order to make it flow better. I didn’t just stop at making the code flow better.

WordPress has made some changes along the way and the big addition has been tags. That means new features and tags are the biggest one when it comes to Category Magic. New changes I made in the code also include support for tags. I have listened to suggestions here and I decided to make sure that they was support for excerpts and full posts in the code.

All of this has introduced a brand new problem. As I prepare to release it, should I release it all as updates to category magic or should I just make the simple changes to Category Magic and release another plugin titled Expanded Category Magic, or something to that effect?

I’d love to hear some advice. Right now I am looking at having the new changes available for download within a couple of days of the release of 2.7. Now’s the time to make your voices heard.

Can you believe it? WordPress is 5 years old already. I was rather surprised to read that in the WordPress dashboard yesterday. I always had it younger in my mind, but then I got to thinking about when I first starting using WordPress and that was back in 2004…..I can’t believe I have been using it for 4 years on a myriad of websites.

WordPress has truly grown in the last few years and is now one of the must have web applications. It’s perfect as a blog and with just a little extending, it can be used as an awesome CMS. It’s like a jack of all trades on the net.

I wonder what’s in store for WordPress over the next 5 years?

I have a plugin that works great with WordPress and works with the newest versions as well as older versions. It does what it needs to do and does it right. There aren’t any annoying bugs in the code. It just works solid.

I often times wonder if I should just update it for no reason. See, people expect you to update your plugin from time to time. They want to you update it to fix bugs even if no bugs exist or so it seems. I am in a bit of a quandry here trying to decide what I should in fact do. How often to update it?

I have finally started work on a new project. It still is in its beginning phase so it’s not ready for public download yet, but I can’t stop gushing about it. It’s an RSS Content Generation Script for WordPress.

Basically it works by pulling in feeds from across the internet and making them into posts that can either be put inside a WordPress database or can be created as stand alone flat files. This will work alongside the new enhancements I am making to Category Magic. I know there are these type of scripts out there, but none have the simplicity that mine has.

I think that this will be a unique script and I am considering selling the script, but maybe I will just ask for donations for further development.