Wordpress is already pretty easy to install and manage, but did you know that if you have command line access to your server, you can probably make that whole process a lot easier - especially when it comes to upgrades.

To install a fresh copy of Wordpress in a directory named blog, follow these three steps.
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I’ve made some behind the scenes changes to my blog. Most of these will be invisible to you, the reader, but they should help me keep things up-to-date and respond to comments more efficiently.

• Moved theme to subversion repository (link on request)
• Using subversion to keep blog & plugins up-to-date.
• Now using the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5 Winning, WP Comment Remix to manage and respond to comments.
• RSS Feed switched to Feedburner to allow me to track statistics.
• Using Google Analytics to track comments.

Hopefully these changes make it easier to stay on top of my blog in the limited time I have available. I’m hoping that the next major update will be a multilingual version of the site.

Updates:
Here are a couple of screenshots showing what I consider to be the two key benefits of the WP Comment Remix plugin.

1. Screenshot 1
2. Screenshot 2