DISQUS

AdamD · 5 months ago

That's a good checklist. Thanks for sharing it. Yes, some people will want other items and some won't do all of them, but having a place to start is great.

Kathleen McDade · 5 months ago

"Setup user account (not the admin account)" - why user/not admin?

Aaron B. Hockley · 5 months ago

I like to setup a second account using my standard username both out of habit from when I did system administration as well as to have a second account "just in case" something goes wonky with one of them.

Kathleen McDade · 5 months ago

Oh. But it's not an admin account? I set up an account with my username, but it IS an admin account.

Aaron B. Hockley · 5 months ago

Depends how much separation you want. My user accounts are also admin accounts. Expert sysadmins would probably tell me I'm #doingitwrong

Mike Rohrig · 5 months ago

Great list. Reminded me of some plug-ins I forgot and exposed me to some new useful oness.

morganpdx · 5 months ago

Wow great list Aaron! Good as an initial reference. I agree there could be a little more clarity on some items - "affiliate/ads" is one I'm interested in looking a bit more at.

This is going in my 'official reference' virtual file.

BrianEnigma · 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing such a great checklist! I do not plan on starting up any new blogs soon, but am definitely bookmarking this. Some of those plugins look to be pretty useful (and new to me!) I wonder if your exclusion of a caching plugin was intentional or accidental? Wordpress blogs tend to have a reputation within Digg comment threads for dying under the strain of being dugg. I understand something like the WP-Cache plugin helps out significantly.

Also, I'd like to know a bit more about how you do OpenID integration. From some of your previous tweets (re: Vidoop), it sounds like you use a 3rd party server for this instead of hosting it yourself within Wordpress?

Chris Messina · 5 months ago

Nice to see OpenID on that list! ;)