{"id":3910,"date":"2006-11-09T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T04:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/09\/jumping-ship\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:22:44","slug":"jumping-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/09\/jumping-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping Ship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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Plugins I should pay particular attention to? Tips or tricks I should know or avoid?<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve managed to track down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelf.com\/projects\/php-markdown\/\" title=\"PHP Markdown\">PHP Markdown<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelf.com\/projects\/php-smartypants\/\" title=\"PHP Smartypants\">PHP Smartypants<\/a>, and have activated <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\" title=\"Akismet\">Akismet<\/a>, but that&#8217;s it (and all this is on a non-public test installation). I&#8217;m particularly interested in seeing if there&#8217;s a good (easy to implement) &#8216;tagging&#8217; solution, such as I&#8217;m using here in lieu of categories. 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