The Haiku
Plugins are desired
to manage cache and comments
and other nerd stuff

The biggest resource that I use is the WordPress Plugin directory (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/)

Even though these are user submitted (what on the Internet isn’t these days? [end crotchety nostalgia]), they’re pretty thoroughly reviewed.

A must is wp-cache. That speeds up your page load times. (You can tell when I’ve emptied the cache because the pages take a little bit longer to load.)

The Math Comment Spam plugin is also necessary. When I re-did some of the files on the site recently, my e-mail started filling up with lots of blargh. I think it works better than the captchas because I don’t have to cross my eyes to see if letters are capitalized or not.

WordPress 2.5.1 is actually pretty sweet. My brother-in-law is setting up a WordPress for our pastor at church. We were joking about how Jeremy would not know the difference between the older versions because this version is where he starts. It’s just like how I was amazed at the jump between Tiger and Leopard (or, more appropriately, MS-DOS 5.0 to Windows 3.1) but other people buying new MacBooks only know Leopard, with its Spaces and Time Machine goodness.

If you’re using your own host server, you can set up the plugins. I think that if you have one on wordpress.org, it’s like blogspot or typepad and you don’t have full access to certain folders.

I think it’s a great idea for you to set up your own blog. (I’m envisioning the Scott Kurtz/Gabe and Tycho linkbacks.)

Any questions and I’d love to add any insight.

But the big question: What’s up with Wipeout? Is it a rip-off of MXC?

Semi-related posts:

1. WordPress 2.5.1
2. Plugins…plugins…plugins
3. WordPress 2.5 – “My goodness!”
4. The next dancing baby?
5. Not so much a post, but a discussion