I broke the internet.

Or at least my little corner of it. I just upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1, and am getting some really cool errors up at the top of my page (just look up above, and you can see them for yourself).

I know what’s causing the problem, though: tagging. I’ve been using the Simple Tagging plugin for a while now, and apparently, it doesn’t play nicely with 2.3.1, because 2.3.1 comes with its own tag functionality built in. I suppose if I’d read up on the latest version of WordPress before upgrading, I would have known that. Alas, I like to live dangerously.

At any rate, I’m now left with a crappy selection of choices:

A. I can leave the error up above and continue to use Simple Tagging (basically not an option, because that error is pretty yuck, and I like things to work smoothly);
B. I can lose all of my tags that I’ve applied, and start over from scratch.
C. See below.

I know, there are some of you in the crowd going, “well, just import the tags from Simple Tagging, and then get rid of the plugin.” A fine idea – I’m just not sure that’s possible. It appears that Simple Tags is the successor to Simple Tagging; Simple Tags works with 2.3.1, and Simple Tagging does not. So, I’m now poking around, trying to figure out if there’s anyway for me to keep my tags, possibly by installing Simple Tags, importing my tags from Simple Tagging to Simple Tags, and then importing my tags from Simple Tags into the top-level, WordPress approved tags area.

Simple my ass.

So – if my system here explodes and you see bits of my blog floating around on the internet, you know what happened.

Update: All fixed. I wasn’t looking in the right area in WordPress for the tags importer. I found it; imported; and now all is well in the world – at least in my little digital corner of it.

P.S. WordPress makers: why, oh why, will you not make TinyMCE’s Full Screen function part of the standard offering on the editing window toolbar? Why?