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.

It always seems like I have a huge number of personal projects I am always thinking about doing, Unfortunately, my ability and my imagination are only exceeded by my lack of time. I have now come up with a list of projects that I am looking to complete in the coming year. I really don’t know if I will succeed or not, but I am willing to give it a go and see which I can complete.

These are my projects in the IT area:

1. I want to rewrite Category Magic to build on my programming experience.

2. I want to write a second wordpress plugin.

3. I want to learn another programming language.

4. I want to design a web application that will serve up a an auto website.

5. I want create at least 5 new websites in my newest niche areas. More about that later.

Ok, in Part II, I will discuss my planned projects for 2008 in the business area.