By the time you get back to WordPress 2.0 and try hitting the blog installation directory in your web browser, all you get is a plain, unstyled page that says:

It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.

The funny thing is, that page works just fine. You click the link, it takes you to install.php, and… that’s really just a splash page, which talks about what you’re going to do, and requires that you click on a big link that says “First Step” in order to proceed. So, while it does “work”, it does so at the expense of making the user click the mouse twice, unnecessarily.

In the past 4 years, the WordPress team has made the install process look sleeker and more styled. But I think the real improvement in user experience isn’t the visuals — it’s the removal of those two unnecesary, time-wasting mouse clicks.

I started off by getting my /etc, /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin, and /var/named directories under version control. That’s good. Plus I think I’ve got things set up to where I can upgrade WordPress plugins on my local setup, then reliably push the changes through version control to my live site.

Oh, and my Twitter feed importer is a little prettier, in terms of how it displays how long ago a tweet was posted.

But then there’s the Live+Press plugin… I have high hopes that I’ll be able to use that to automatically crosspost from here to my new Dreamwidth account, but for now, it only seems to communicate with Livejournal. Since there’s a feature request open in the project’s wish list to make it work with other LJ-codebase sites, I figure I may as well pick that up and run with it.

Of course, that just slows me down on LJ Content Sieve… *sigh*

Because I don’t have everything done, I feel like I didn’t accomplish much today. That’s silly, but knowing that it’s silly doesn’t chance my feelings much.