Organize Series 2.0 Roadmap

I just thought I’d write a little update about some of the things I’m working on for the next version of my Organize Series WordPress Plugin. As I’ve noted in my earlier post, the existing version of Organize Series will not work with WordPress 2.3 because of the way I had written the plugin to integrate with the category system of WordPress. The good thing is that if you upgrade your blog to WordPress 2.3 you can deactivate Organize Series and your existing series structure will stay intact because it’s based on WordPress categories. This means you can still blog using the series structure you’ve been accustomed to with one caveat of course – the “organize” part of Organize Series won’t be available…yet. The bad news is that although I am wanting to get Organize Series upgraded as soon as possible (because I use it myself and want the spiffyness of WordPress 2.3!) I am not able to work on the plugin full-time so – it will still be a while yet before the update is done.

Upcoming WordPress 2.3 will break current version of Organize Series Plugin

Just a heads up folks that the upcoming new version of WordPress will break my Organize Series Plugin.  I just read a great article about the new Taxonomy Schema changes that will be introduced with the new version of WordPress and unfortunately due to the way I designed the plugin, Organize Series won’t work with 2.3.  This isn’t a knock against 2.3 though because I like the direction they are going with the taxonomy structure in the database.

Unfortunately it means a pretty significant rewrite of my plugin in order to work right with 2.3  On the plus-side – in the course of the rewrite I will probably try to introduce some of the features I’ve had on my ticket list for a while.  Also, because I use my plugin pretty throughly myself I’ll probably start working on it sooner rather than later.

However, I can’t make any promises regarding time frame for a new version release as this is something I do as a hobby.  I just wanted to announce this now though so that people using my plugin will know not to upgrade right away when WordPress 2.3 comes out (unless you don’t mind not using the plugin for a while :) ).

“Getz” has been gotten

WordPress 2.2 (code-named ‘Getz’) has just been released and I decided to upgrade UnfoldingNeurons.com and see how it goes.? So far, so good.? Took me about 5 minutes and it looks like nothing is broken.? The only glitch I saw was that for some reason my “ElseWhere’s” section (blogroll) in the footer had a mysterious spacing and “0′s” appear.? I was using a get_links() template tag but didn’t think there was any changes with 2.2? Oh, well – a little modification and alls well.

One bonus…my Organize Series WordPress Plugin seems to work just fine with “Getz”!? Yay!