Getting Wordpress 2.3 to Play Nice With ELA and UTW

OK, so I have avoided upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 for-EVER.

Heck, I went to Panther (Mac OS 10.5) and iPhone firmware version 1.1.2 faster than I went to Wordpress 2.3.

I remember tinkering with a pre-release version of Wordpress 2.3 in a sandbox that I use for testing new hacks/plugins/etc. before moving them to the so-called “production” site. Everything broke with that early pre-release version…and I had no time…so I backed away.

Until now.

As a point of reference, it is useful to mention that as of the time of this post, I am running Wordpress 2.3.2 and K2-svn-268 (google numbers).

A. Fixing Arnaud’s Extended Live Archive (ELA ver 0.10beta R18):

STEP 1: Go Here, download the patches and install them. If the link goes down, let me know and I will post the zip files.

STEP 2: In K2, edit “page-archives.php” to remove “&& !($wp_version > 2.2)” from the line that checks to see if the ELA function is present.

With those tweaks, ELA should work as it did under Wordpress 2.2.

B. Fixing Christine’s Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW)

OK, so it is impossible to “fix” Christine’s UTW. Wordpress has gone and completely bollixed-up the tagging interface (using some of her variable names and some of her function names). But I very much wanted some of Christine’s functions (which Wordpress did not bother to replicate). In particular, I wanted a function named “weightedlongtailvertical”.

For those of you who used to use UTW, and want “weightedlongtailvertical” to work, I offer the following:

STEP 1: Disable the old UTW plugin.

STEP 2: Download the “UTWRenderThing.php” from Here.

STEP 3: Edit the file as described in this comment.

STEP 4: Upload and Activate it.

With those tweaks, “weightedlongtailvertical” should work as it did under Wordpress 2.2.

That’s all for now. As I come up with other tweaks, I will add another post.