Here are things I still need to do for this site

• make all “simple steve” pages valid XHTML strict
• fix display problems in IE6/Win (page width, footer, more?). Use conditional comments for hacks?
• decide what to do about images from the old site

Here, in reverse-chronological order, is what I have done to this WordPress site (idea lifted from librarian.net/aboutblog

• upgraded to WP 2.1.3
• added the Get Recent Comments plugin and put it into the footer
• added del2wp script (aka WordPre.cio.us) to add linkblog posts to my main blog
• got magpieRSS working
• upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 in quick succession
• upgraded to WordPress 2.1
• uploaded and enabled the Theme Switcher plugin
• uploaded my “Simple Steve 0.1″ theme for alpha testing
• upgraded from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6
• disabled the “visual rich editor” or whatever it is called (a checkbox at the bottom of the user screen under “Users”). It was playing absolute hell with tags on posts with complex HTML. See Which is the best WYSIWYG editor? on the WordPress support forums.
• added the plugin WpLicense and chose a by-nc license (looser than the by-nc-sa license on the old See Also…)
• added the plugin LiveCommentPreview (same as the one on librarian.net)
• unchecked the “convert smileys to images”; I prefer :) to
• put my del.icio.us linkblog in the sidebar
• used phpMyAdmin to truncate slugs on imported entries to 15 characters
• imported entries from the old Movable Type setup
• changed permalink structure to /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html as suggested on WordPress Codex
• added underscorepermalinks.php to plugins