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Well, I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.2.3 to Wordpress 2.3. After Upgrading, Ultimate Tag Warrior no longer works, so I am using the built in Taxonomy system in Wordpress 2.3. Before I could add tags to my posts via Windows Live Writer, my favorite desktop blogging client, but after the Wordpress Upgrade that no longer works.

I went searching around the internet, and found the solution that I was looking for and here the steps that I took to be able to post tags from Windows Live Writer.

First of all, if you are on a self hosted Wordpress Blog, download wlwmanifest.xml from Wordpress Trac. This patch somehow didn’t make it into the 2.3 Release, so hopefully it will in Wordpress 2.3.1. Once you have downloaded the zip, extract the folder and upload it to the root folder of your blog, i.e. the place where the wp-config.php resides.

Well once you have done that, the difficult thing is that you need to make Live Writer trust you that your blog allows tags. Well there is a registry hack that does this, but I would rather keep it simple so here is standalone executable, that will enable tags on your Live Writer blogs on a per blog basis.

Once you have done all of the steps stated steps, you are now one step away from Taxonomy glory in Live Writer. By default you can’t see the Tags pane, so you need to manually activate it. Well here are the steps that you need to follow.

• Locate the Toolbar below the editor and click on the arrow that is pointing upwards.

• Now you should see the Keywords entry. This is where you should enter all your tags.

If you see something similar to the screenshots above, then get yourself a nice cup of coffee, because you have done a nice job. So the next time you post something on your blog make sure you add some tags to it. .