I’m renovating this blog in preparation for my year of travel, to make my entries more accessible for my friends. Here are a few pieces of functionality that I’d like to have in place by January, in order of priority:

  • Exposing blog entries on my Facebook profile
  • Exposing Flickr albums directly in this blog
  • Adding Google maps functionality which will show my location for each blog post

There are already a few different plug-in options available for 1 and 2. I’m definitely going to be using WordBook, since I often edit my posts after I’ve published them for grammatical errors, and don’t want the incorrect version being pulled down by Facebook’s RSS reader. For photos, I’m torn between FAlbum and Flickr Photo Album. I’ll probably try out both and make a call after seeing the presentation differences for myself. 3 represents the greatest challenge, since (to my knowledge) there aren’t any existing plugins that offer comparable functionality, which will mean building directly on top of Google’s APIs.

We’ll see how many of my to-do’s I actually get through. But first things first - I need a much overdue upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress.