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I would actually prefer this because it might still reveal the target URL in the status bar, which has always bugged me about the MT Blacklist redirector.

This doesn’t seem too difficult to implement as a filter.
How would you want to mark the MathML in your content area? Something like:
blah blah blah [mathml]sqrt(5*30)[/mathml] blah blah blah
Is there a stardard in WP for this sort of thing?

I’ve packaged this whole thing as a plugin.
I’m kind of new to the process of this. Do I add this to the Wiki or elsewhere or what?
Here’s the URL, if you’d like to download it: https://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacks

It would be very helpful if there were developer thoughts available on how they intend to implement multiblog in the source so that people who are trying to hack it in could attempt to keep their hacks reasonably compatible with future releases.

There is a lot of verbage in the MT install about cgi-this and cgi-that. As a Windows server user, I could give a rat’s butt, but for Linux folks on pay-for-blog hosting, the installation directory requirements could be an important thing. On the other hand, do you think this issue might be inferred from the Perl/PHP requirement?
I’ve got Nucleus and Blosxom in my to-do. pLog was suggested also.

Yes, I’m basing it off of a base install. I should probably mention that plugins are available that would enable many of the features that do not come with the base install.
I’ve seen something called Wuh Wuh that looked like an interesting souped-up WordPress, with many plugins pre-installed.
I should add Blosxom and Grey Matter to the list. GM is listed in many places for importing. I don’t think any development work is going on there these days, but I could be wrong. Others have suggested adding pLog and Nucleus.
I plan on adding (yes, I’m being tricky) a comment to each of the packages noting how responsive the support channel (forum) was on responding to my request. A preview: WordPress and pMachine totally dominate this category. One specific failure was TextPattern, where I got no responses. Interestingly, the MT forum responded a lot, but didn’t do much to answer my questions. (It reminds me a lot of /., actually) All of the other forum requests were answered almost instantaneously with the exact information I needed, some more helpful than others. Of course, this experience is my isolated attempt to get info, but you figure that in a sea of bloggers seeking answers, you will be only one voice of many.
With the recent MT fallout, it’s nice to see what everyone has to offer.

I have updated a few things, and added some new criteria. Do you think I should add anything else? Is there something that WordPress is particularly good at that WP users might want to tout?

skippy: Yes, you’re right, but I think it’s a step toward a working solution. The next step in my mind after this would be to assign user permissions to categories. I feel that this type of feature is important because it fills a popular gap between a clumsy multiple-install of WP to manage more than one weblog/channel/content-area on a single page and multiple installs of WP to accomodate different distinct sites on a single server.
rboren: As I’ve admitted, I’m not a WP user yet, and so I’m not intimately familiar with all of the tag functions. Your suggestion, now that I’ve seen the source for get_posts(), seems very in-tune with my proposal. get_posts() is not as full-featured as the blog header, but it seems that the author of that function had similar thoughts to mine. I get this impression from the “not implemented yet” comments in the code.
davidchait: To be clear, I have no interest in “Links” as defined by the WP control panel. When I refer to sidebar links, I refer to things like you have in the sidebar on your site that link to a specific post in my own database, but only draw from a specific category(ies).
My main… objection(?) is that there isn’t an inherent way of doing anything but displaying the posts as defined by wp-blog-header, and it’s seeming less difficult to get results now after sifting through the source a bit, but it could be much easier.