I’ve been following on the upcoming version 2.8 of WordPress. One of the major focus of this next version of WordPress is the sizeable changes being done to the widgets system. I liked the idea of bringing back the good old days of drag and drop to the widgets which makes it a lot easier to configure widgets for a blog.

Besides the overhaul of the widgets component of WordPress in version 2.8, the other thing I noticed is the welcome addition of descriptions for tags. You might have noticed that prior to version 2.8 only categories have descriptions.

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I’ve been putting more time to finishing my WordPress Chameleon Theme over the past few days so that I could be able to fully use it on my web sites. Once I’m done with the base code, it would be easier for me to make layout changes on the same WordPress theme.

Today, I’ve just finished putting WordPress pretty permalinks on the Web Directory module of the WordPress Chameleon theme. Links that use to look like this — “/links?cat=developers“, now look like this — “/links/developers“. I’ve also updated the module so that the proper <title> and <description> head tags will be properly set to the correct values for improved SEO and search engine indexing.

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