WordPress Skeleton

Wordpress Version: 2.9.3 (WordPress 3.0 Beta version available in 3.0 branch)

Installation

git clone git://github.com/kennethreitz/wordpress-skeleton.git git submodule init
git submodule update

WordPress installed in /blog/, but will serve site from /
Robust wp-config.php
- Built to support dev + production environments w/ debugging
- Default FTP connection info for installing/updating/deleting components
Ready to go .htaccess
- Enables mod_rewrite for pretty urls
- Gzip conpression for most requests
- Adds reasonable upload filesizes
Ready to go robots.txt
- No robots on /archive/ pages
- No robots on /category/ pages
- no robots on /tag/ pages
Example /external.php for dipping into WordPress API from external PHP

After the Deadline (Spelling and grammar checking)
Akismet (Comment spam destroyer)
Collabpress (Project tracking within backend)
CoreyLib (Universal API parser + cache)
Disable Updates (I got sick of client sites breaking on updates)
Disqus Commenting System (Socialize your site)
Front End Editor (Beautiful plugin for editing a page/post's content on the spot)
Google Sitemap Generator (Google wants the latest)
Markdown 1.3 (I don't like typing HTML all the time)
More Fields (No more ugly custom fields + custom post/page types)
PageMash (Content-heavy sites can be cumbersome)
PushPress (Support for PubSubHubbub)
Redirection (They are called permalinks for a reason)
Role Manager (Turns WordPress into a real CMS)
Shopp (The total ecommerce package)
Tantan S3 (Amazon S3 for WordPress uploads)
Twitter Tools (AutoPost to Twitter when a post goes live. Soon to be replaced with Salsa )
Clippy Syntax Highlighter (GeSHi + Clippy from GitHub for one-click copying of code)
WP-Dummy Content (Fills your WordPress installation w/ dummy content)
WP-Minify (Fantastic Auto minification plugin w/ cacheing)
WP-Super Cache (Very robust plugin for cacheing Posts and/or Pages)
WP-Touch (One click iPhone support)