
Spent some time tonight playing around with the new WordPress. I changed up the theme (Not overly happy with it yet), redid the ads and am using some ad plug-ins to server them up randomly. Added side content using widgets so next time I change themes I don’t need to edit the theme files by hand.
I am really impressed with how far WordPress has come over the years. Really you can do everything you want from the admin panel and never have to touch the site files or themes. Updating via the web is not so painless you have no excuse not to be up to date with the current version. I am still using a plug-in to filter out spam comments, but might try disabling it and see if WordPress has anything under the hood by default to deal with spam.
Over the past while I have become a widget and plug-in whore. Everything I think of doing seems to have a plug-in. Installing plug-ins from the admin panel allows you to install, play with, and delete in minutes. I was a little worried about using a plug-in to manage google ads, since it would be easy for someone to make it so they got all the clicks (I think I am safe with my 2 clicks a month).
In searching for the above WordPress logo image I used google images. I really dislike the new google images search page and the loading of the image in the foreground of a AJAX window. I wish you could go back to the old image pages with the top frame.

Google Image Search 2010