Blog updated to WordPress 2.3

Just a quick admin note that the blog has been upgraded to WordPress 2.3 from 2.2.1. I used the WordPress Auto-Update plugin for the first time, and it worked great.

In anticipation of the new tagging structure I switched over to the Simple Tagging Plugin earlier, and an now using Simple Tags which is the 2.3 optimized version. Tags were the big thing I was concerned about in the 2.3 upgrade, but all worked fine.

Also some other weirdness of the Similar Posts plugin (related to technical/code details) resulted in my switching to using the related posts option in Simple Tags, although I prefer the look of Similar Posts and it seemed to do a better job. Also keeps the modifications to the K2 theme to a minimum.

Also switched over to the All In One SEO plugin, consolidating many other plugins doing similar functions. This adds all of those and more.

Modified the K2 theme so it is no longer adding the default WordPress description to the description meta-tag of every page. Meta-tag description plugins were creating duplicates, now the descriptions are page-specific as intended all along.

Also, this post should not appear in the RSS feed if the Feed Control plugin is working properly.

Save for my webhost blocking my IP address (all fixed now), everything went much smoother than anticipated, and future upgrades should be painless.

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