As anticipated by WordPress fans long-awaited WordPress 2.9 have been released on December 18. The good thing about this new release is it is not merely a  security release. It comes with some brilliant enhancements. I will later address what is new in this release. Today I would like to tell you more about a solution to Simple Tags plugin with this new release.

Simple Tags plugin users (including me!) have been shocked with this new WordPress release because they got an error message saying “Simple Tags can’t work with this WordPress version !” While I have been trying to find a fix, I discovered my friend Alex Sysoef’s brilliant post WordPress 2.9 Upgrade And Simple Tags Solution. If you are still struggling to use Simple Tags with the new WordPress release, you might find Alex’s post handy and quite useful…

You might wonder why I desperately tried to fix Simple Tags. Let me tell you more about it. I extracted below from the Simple Tags plugin page:

Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin.It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of new functions

• Administration
  • NEW Related tags !
  • NEW AJAX Admin features !
  • NEW Tags suggestion from Yahoo Term Extractions API, Tag The Net and Local Tags with AJAX request
    • Compatible with TinyMCE, FCKeditor, WYMeditor and QuickTags
  • NEW Improve performance !
  • Auto tags !
  • Auto link tags in post content
    • This feature may degrade performance! Be careful !
  • Importer for embedded tags
  • type-ahead input tags / Autocompletion
  • Click tags
  • tags management (rename, delete, merge, search and add tags, edit tags ID)
  • Edit mass tags (more than 50 posts once)
  • Possibility to tag pages (not only posts) and include them inside the tags results
  • Embedded tags () for compatibility with old plugins
  • Easy configuration ! (in WP admin)
• Blog
  • Meta keywords generate from tags in your header’s blog
  • Technorati, Flickr and Delicious tags
  • Dynamic Tag Clouds with colors with Widgets (random order, etc)
  • Related content since common tags
  • Possibility to add related posts inside RSS
  • Extended the_tags function (outside the loop, technorati, etc)