• Add categories from the post page
• Post from the front end when logged in
• Eliminate Ctrl+D from inserting tags in the editor (the trapping of these keystroke seriously interrupts my normal browsing behavior, specifically how I get to the browser location bar)

The first two are inspired primarily by the beautiful interface in basecamp, especially how it handles adding and removing items to & from to-do lists.

Granted, the tools aren’t the solution, but a lot of the basic AJAX framework to do things like this are built into Ruby on Rails (not to mention the cool, handy, elegant scaffolding solution that looks like it goes a long way to solving common web-app db CRUD friction).

I need to install and test typo , the blog engine that uses Ruby on Rails. Maybe, like the Rails bunch , WordPress will just be my interim solution.

In no particular order, some fun features I’d like to add to WP:

• to my current theme: change color palette based on photo loaded in header
• load header photo randomly from flickr based on tag search / color palette search (prerequisite: creative commons licensing)
• ‘tag w/ del.icio.us’ link on each post, similar to what Tom Evslin is doing with his typepad blog.

After less than a day of using WP in “production” on my blog, here are things I’ve wanted to do but can’t, at least not yet:

• Admin interface to about me sidebar section
• Perms-protected pages
• Perms-protected links categories
• Search of pages as well as of posts
• xhtml-compatible search form (close input tags)
• Daylight Savings Time support

With the exception of the perms-related controls, these shouldn’t be plug-in provided. These are all core items—- manual DST time changes?

If I can get through my list of features I’d like to add, I’ll see if I can fix one or two of these.

• Almost Fall (based on almost-spring by Becca Wei)
• moved search and page links from sidebar to header
• removed meta section from sidebar to footer
• moved RSS/Atom links from sidebar to footer
• added support for header photo
• added about me sidebar box
• added support for about me photo
• reordered sidebar elements
• retained xhtml 1.0 transitional validation
• more to come…

• [update: I’ve changed a lot more since this (including switching to LightPress)... Looks like it’s going to be constantly evolving. Not much sense to keep track of all the changes, but thanks to Becca for a great starting point.]