Kicked up the site to start using Wordpress, because it’s just too hot. Mephisto is great for some things (prototyping, for instance) and it’s made of Rails, but OMG does Wordpress kick ass — it’s come a long, long way since I first used it in 2004.

Some things I like to use with it now:

• Code Colorer — get gorgeous syntax highlighted code blocks for a variety of languages. Comes with Blackboard, which is my favorite TextMate theme. Props to Sam Huckins for suggesting it.
• Textile 2 — get some Textile(markup_language) action for your Wordpress content. Vital to doing the next thing.
• Blogging from TextMate — not a plugin so much as a way of life, the ability to simply shoot posts at my blog is one of the main reasons I switched to Wordpress. Not having to go to the web to do something is really my kind of method. One key combo shoots this stuff right into the blog. Lovely.
• Easy-ass deployment — I love Capistrano, but it’s overkill for deploying a CMS. With Wordpress, I just have a tiny script on my server to update my wp-content folder, which I keep as a git repo.

I also made a TextMate snippet to make it easier to do code color blocks:

Oh boy am I an efficient blogging machine now…