Designs with WordPress

WordPress is adding a new description to their Resume:

I Always thought blogging was social, but now Wordpress will take it to a new level. The goal is to leave MySpace and FaceBook in the dust.

Matt Mullenweg says; The world doesn’t need another social network, it needs a thousand networks that let you own your data and interconnect using open standards. We invest countless hour giving our data to networks like MySpace, essentially sharecropping on their land for the privilege of being able to connect to our friends. It’s our friends, our time, our connections, our data — it should be our software.

It make sense to have control of the look and feel of your design, but also what and who you share your pages with.

The update has been extended for another week to March 17th +/- a day or more, and it maybe a couple of more days before it finally gets to your browser. You can expect there's going to be some work to the themes and plugins to upgrade to the new 2.5.

Because of the extra time it will take before all the plugins and themes are ready there will be some time to do some preparation & cleaning including:

1. Change and clean the navigation: I always recommend a well thought out navigation system and looking at my own sites, well Its a good time to re-think the categories.
2. Fix broken links internal and external links.
3. Make sure each page has all the meta tags, title, keywords, and description tags.
4. Check for missing image tags: alt, height and width tags.
5. Add a contact pages.

I do back ups weekly and it will be part of the requirements for upgrading to the new WordPress 2.5 so it you haven't done that in a while know is the time, and check it to make sure it's readable.