WordPress 2.3 is soon to be released, 24th September 2007 to be exact and there are many new features to look out for, tha main talking point is the integration of Tags in the new version.
Aaron Brazell of Technosailor has posted a very useful articles about what to expect from the new version, his post is entitled 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3.
Excerpt:
Let me share some of the in-built changes that tags bring to the table.
1. Terms Table - For developers, there is a new table called wp_terms. This table is a lookup table of sorts that shares terms between categories, tags and bookmarks. In previous releases, the wp_categories table was shared between categories and bookmarks and this table was the crux of the new development approach that was taken after tags were dropped for WordPress 2.2 and rebuilt from the ground up for WordPress 2.3.
2. New Tag and Terms API - Plugin developers will appreciate new API that inevitably comes with a new feature this large. Take a look at the new wp-includes/taxonomy.php for lots of new API functionality. Note that the new API probably effects more than tags, but I don’t know for sure. It probably interacts with category and links/bookmarks/blogroll API as well. If your plugins interact with this API, make sure your plugins still function as expected.
Meanwhile David Span talks about WordPress 2.3 & the Tag Usage
Excerpt:
Now there is 2 ways to add them. First in a tag cloud format with wp_tag_cloud that would work good in the side bar and the second way is with the the_tags() tag within the Loop.
First I’ll show you how to use the cloud tag because there are a lot of parameters in this one. The very basic, or default usage would be to just use:
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