No functionality changes, but I spent an hour on [the Clipper](http://www.clippervacations.com/ferry/) yesterday figuring out how to make WP-Cats [work with WP 2.2.2](http://uwmike.com/wordpress/wp-cats/).

Admittedly, WP-Cats is a more sophisticated plugin than some in the degree to which it interacts with core code, but my first experience contributing to a major open-source project has been a little mixed. My attempt to interact with the team [received no response](http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers/browse_thread/thread/837588396d794b9d), and I can tell by checking out the trunk that the next point release of WP is going to—again—break the basic interface upon which WP-Cats relies.

Despite this, I think the plugin provides useful and worthwhile functionality in an elegant little package, and I’ve had dozens of thank-you emails about it over the past year; that’s motivation enough to carry on. So enjoy!

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