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My work is to make some static html produced by web designer into really working pages, backed by a CMS. This means that a non technical and a non web savvy user will produce tons of (some time bad) contents to be published inside the templates I realize (or better that I make live inside a CMS).

Today people like create tableless html, with tons of CSS to make a number of div look like a table. But when a stupid user write the content in the wrong manner (may be with a big image inside), those template break-up horribly.

Please, html people, the table are not so bad. Use them when thay are useful and keep all togheter in a good way!

I have a number of whishes to be natively implemented in WordPress, even in a simple way, as they do with the tag system. Some of those feature are available with plugins. I think it would be much better if they were native.

1. More SEO oriented: it is easy to add 2 db fields for posts and pages to keep the meta title and description with a couple of function to retreive them (and if empty rolling back to the post title and the post excerpt). For categories, too, can be useful to have those two fileds.
2. A complete and clear documentation of what is inside WordPress that can be useful for plugin writer: many plugins have tons of code that can be avoided using the functions of wordpress.
3. Best practies for plugin writer: many plugins can be extremely simplified and optimized usingthe wordpress functions in the right way
4. A "raw" editor for "raw" posts. Sometime I need to create a pure HTML post, with JavaScript and so on. I need a way to say: this post is "raw" and it will be opened with a textarea (never with the editor) and won't be processed by the texturize plugin.
5. A quick category changer. A way to change the categories of the posts just from the posts list, withoutopen every post with the editor. I think it would be very easy with AJAX.

Lorelle has a good post about tags and categories. I invite you to read it carefully, before to start in filling your blog with tags. May be the wild tagging means poor organization?

With WordPress 2.3.1 we have the native tags support. I'm not a fan of tags. Even if it's a way to freely classify your articles, are your sure this classification is correct as having a simple set of categories?

There is any advantage for the readers? And as a SEO point of view? I don't know, really. I'm too lazy to remember the tag I used to avoid a tag "explosion" in my blog. Singular, plural, synonims are all different words (specially in non english languages) so the risk to split the articles between the tags "post" and "posts" or "woman" and "women".

What is your choice?

Today I have a question for all the experts outside there: integrate or not Digg on this blog? I saw that all the A-blogger do not integrate Digg in their site.

There is a good reason? It's only a layout problem? Do they prefer to list a set of social bookmark services (like the one you can get with "share this" wordpress plugin) instead of a real time counter from Digg?

I'm not interested in optimize this blog for search engines, it has not niche content. So no strange (and may be heavy) SEO plugins will land here. But at least the title... dear theme creators...

Tha way to have a good page title is this, do not belive to others:

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

on the header.php file of you template.(If you cut&paste the code, delete the quotes and rewrite them, WordPress has a built in texturize plugin that tranforms quotes and other base character in the typographic version, not good for PHP).