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Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

Chris Messina — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:58:26 -0000

Nice to see OpenID on that list! ;)

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

BrianEnigma — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:02:10 -0000

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?

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

morganpdx — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:17:53 -0000

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.

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

Mike Rohrig — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:05:33 -0000

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

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

Aaron B. Hockley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:13:19 -0000

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

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

Kathleen McDade — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:09:28 -0000

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

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

Aaron B. Hockley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:07:20 -0000

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.

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

Kathleen McDade — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:01:41 -0000

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

Re: Steps in Launching a New Blog

AdamD — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:53:32 -0000

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.