I was concerned about WordPress the other night when my auto upgrade did not reactivate my plugins and I realised how dependent I was on many of them. I am actually considering putting an html site together for another domain I’m working on.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Via comment or if you want to guest post – I’m not concerned that you have strong/negative views on Thesis – I’d really like to know more about your above comments. Let me know what you think. Cheers.

I don’t look at word counts and that post about Michael’s course you mentioned actually took me a fair amount of time.
I went through the signup process to ensure there were no major pitfalls I would be embarrassed about, checked out lots of the materials to ensure even the free content was worthwhile etc.

I don’t use Thesis – quite often is causes more problems than it solves.

First link priority on home link?
Noindex Nofollow on date based archives? http://thesisthemehq.com/2009/11/
If I created a new layout configuration on my desktop for me, or maybe for a client, who would I migrate that to a live server without messing in options files or database exports?
If you wanted to leave Thesis, what happens with all your custom titles?
Sandbox was using theme hooks and child themes before Thesis existed, yet you would think they were somehow exclusive to Thesis.
Both Sandbox and Thematic have much better semantic markup.

(note: my site is just a testbed, I mess around with things all the time, my functions.php is currently switched off)
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I had the above list in my ‘research’ folder from quite some time ago and thought I would finally get around to putting it to a post. Thank you for mentioning the name “Daniel” as I didn’t have the reference link pasted on the page with my notes.

You are correct – the list is from Daily Blog Tips, by Daniel Scocco.

Even though some sites aren’t updated, doesn’t mean they don’t still hold value. A website that is not updated for a few years doesn’t get discriminated against like a blog that doesn’t drip in the owner’s blood, sweat and tears. It’s just unnecessary sometimes to keep updating a site or chopping a good feature article up into 10 ‘stand-alone’ articles just for the sake of SEO.

I will leave the first 10 links up, update the reference and clearly acknowledge Daniel – sending readers his way for the rest of the list. I am continuing to share the link love in the spirit of blogging – including yours. Thank you for your ‘peer review’.

As for ‘adding value’, I assumed that the 186 words prior to the list, putting links into context, was adding value. A bit like your article “How To Build Profitable Minisites” with 194 words. But, to try and make readers happy that have the extra time to read a lengthier post – I added an extra 350 words – just for you actually. You ‘inspired’ me somewhat.

It’s a pity you don’t power your WordPress site with Thesis Theme – I could have given you a free review :-)