Changes are afoot at Richard’s Kingdom. I’ve made a few behind the scenes improvements and added a whole load of new functionality. There’s now some shiny stuff in the sidebars (use the new “skip past content” link above to go there now) and I’ve added a couple of really useful site features too.

Full changelog after the jump…

• New features
  • Post tagging
  • OpenID logins (get yours here)
  • Sidebar widgets for my photos, bookmarks, playlists & claimID page
  • A Blogroll
  • A Statistics page
• Upgrades
  • WordPress to v2.3.1
  • Scott Wallick‘s fantastic Simplr theme to v4.0
  • wp-db-backup (a backend database backup plugin) to v2.1.5
• Changes
  • Revised and simplified my categories to focus on this blog’s key topics
  • Routed RSS feeds through Feedburner
  • New sidebar layou
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed the archive page
  • Fixed the search function

There are still a few things I want to do. These should appear over the next few days:

• Upgrade and fix the bsuite stats plugin
• Write a privacy policy
• Anonymise the statistics collection
• Make the webserver logs erase themselves after some (short) period
• Fix the creative commons license plugin [DONE] (turns out it was just an Internet Exploder fault – Firefox FTW!)
• Install a “related posts” plugin to take advantage of the new tags
• Add a feedburner counter

Any comments or feedback would be most welcome. What do you think of the new features? Are there any plugins or widgets I need to know about? What would your ultimate wordpress setup look like?