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Contents 1 Overview 2 Installation 3 Updating 4 Plugins / Themes 4.1 Facebook Integration 4.2 Livejournal Crosspost 4.3 Akismet 4.4 Social Links

Overview

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

http://wordpress.org/

Installation

I track the stable SVN version so that updated can be applied with a simple "svn up" command.

mkdir ~/svn/wordpress/
cd ~/svn/wordpress/
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7/ .
ln -sf ~/svn/wordpress ~/public_html/wordpress/

Now head to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/

See http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion

Updating

See more at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion

Plugins / Themes

Facebook Integration

If you arent on facebook, you dont have a life (I am told). Ok, we can solve this problem by using the Wordbook plugin to cross post to the Facebook Wall. I dont see any option provided by Wordbook to choose which posts are to be crossposted but I dont need such a feature at this time. Wordbook does its job.

Livejournal Crosspost

I want to continue to update my two Livejournal accounts - shankerbalan.livejournal.com and purple_dude.livejournal.com. Among the plugins I looked at, JournalPress worked best. It supported multiple accounts and was simple enough to use.

The other plugins which I tried are LJ-XP and Livepress. Livepress supports multiple accounts and has a whole bunch of settings which looked very useful to have but refused to work for me with Wordpress 2.7.

LJ-XP on the other hand worked very well but supprted only one Livejournal account.

The last plugin to try on my list was Journalpress. Journal press was easy to configure and just worked with both my accounts. It is based on LJ-XP.

You can find more crossposting related plugins at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/crossposting

Akismet

Hook up to the Akismet Spam feeds. Register at https://wordpress.com and get your activation key.

Social Links

The Sociable plugin allows you to add links to your posts to all social bookmarking sites like Facebook and Digg. Turn this on.