This was in my feedreader this morning and I thought it might benefit some of those on this forum who are new to WordPress. WP veterans may not take much away from this, but it's worth posting...

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01...all-checklist/

One thing they don't specifically mention (which I can't understate the importance of) is to get yourself a good plugin to combat comment spam. I have a blog which I haven't updated in over a year and it still gets 10-20 spam comments a day because I didn't install proper comment spam protection.

Akismet is pretty much killing comment spam on most new blogs. But older unprotected ones are still getting raped.