[wp-hackers] Perfecting WordPress - a checklist

[Stephen Cropp]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

>
> I think that list is a good reminder that we shouldn't become to 
> disconnected from the real world.
>

The Real World?? No.... Say it isn't so! You mean there is something 
more to life than the Internet and coding for the sake of coding? :-) 
</facetious remark> ;-)

A lot of the suggestions are very good. However, I can see the databases 
of whatever platform implements his link and abbr suggestions becoming 
rather bloated with a lot of tables. As for post metadata links, surely 
this is just an extension of the trackback/pingback functionality 
already in pretty much every blogging software available today?

As far as his updated Content goes, most of his suggestions are better 
suited to a wiki (like the diff of changes/updates to posts) and if you 
are really producing content that you want to track that sort of 
information for, a blog tool (like WP, MT, Blogger or any other) is 
probably not really suited to the task.

A lot of what is suggested in his document is already available in WP 
and other platforms. There are only a few things I personally would 
consider impractical or not suited to a blogging platform. The diff 
suggestion being the most obvious.

I don't disagree with Anne, I like a lot of what is suggested. However, 
it looks like his "perfect blog" is really something more like a CMS 
such as Tikiwiki. To get all the functionality he suggests, you would 
end up with a product that basically IS tikiwiki as a blog.