Moving To Wordpress

I plan to move http://shankerbalan.net to a wordpress based pubslishing system. Why wordpress? Well, I have heard a lot of good things about it so thats why. If it does not work out well, I could always change it later too. :)

See http://shankerbalan.net/blog/ for the current WIP

Plan

Done

1. New beta location is http://shankerbalan.net/blog/
2. Install and configure wordpress from SVN. The current stable release is 2.7
3. Import existing LJ entries for shankerbalan and purpledude from LJ into WP
4. Crosslink photos (coppermine) and wiki (mediawiki)
5. Create photos, wiki, blog subdomains for shankerbalan.net
6. Setup 404 to /index.php?error=404 as explained in http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Error_404_Page
7. Move out the old pages and put WP in document root so http://shankerbalan.net is on WP by default
8. Ensure photos and wiki work
9. Updated robots.txt
10. Fix dmoz entry
11. Add the social widget to "slashdot it", "buzz it up", "facebook it" etc...
12. Embed google analytics and rightmedia into WP (01/05)
13. Configure WP to publish to social sites (facebook)(01/04)
14. Setup "this page has moved" links for all deprecated URLs (01/04)
15. Crosspost to LJ (01/05)
16. Get RMX ads onto Coppermine (01/05)
17. Use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/ plugin

TODO

1. Add a guest book or a "talkback" widget
2. move static pages into the WP content system
3. Move old static content into WP with redirects in place
4. Move dynamic pages using appropriate plugins into WP. cdlist.php is one such page
5. Sitemap for wordpress, coppermine and mediawiki (and automate it)
6. Submit sitemap to various crawler as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps
7. Redo UI with Ajax and tabs