Shy you are a real asset to Black Hat World. I see Executive VIP in your future. That was an awesome post.
I have a quick question for you though. After you've finished your first site, can you just download it and then re upload it as another site. Then just go in and make the few necessary changes site name/erase posts/keywords? Would that be easier, or am I way off?
Yeh-- You aren't really saving yourself a step by doing that as you are going to want to change the theme up [but as I said to keep a folder with 'completed themes' that you will eventually fill up with all your themes completed, and then it's even easier]. All that will be configured for you if you do it that way would be the UAW plugin and it would be configured with the information from w/e site it is that you d/led and reuped the files from. So you still have to go there [and now more than before because it will be set as 'activated' and the divs will have the other site's div ids on it, the other site's name as the site name, and sometimes it will check the uncategorized box which we don't want as it will post random information not related to your site. I've tried it that way so I am speaking from experience on that too.
I did forget one thing to add but as I wrote this reply...I forgot what it was. :/ Eh...if I remember I'll post it--just another one of those things that you may run across and find as common sense and do anyhow, but want everyone to know to remember to do....but it has really slipped out of my mind....I'll report back if I remember it lol.
eta: I always configure my permalinks, MBP Ping Optimizer, categories, and WP VideoTube/Answers before posting any content to assure that the permalinks are right, the blog is not excessively pinging right away, you have categories to post to, and you have the proper templates setup so nothing will go wrong with posting.
I DO TWITTER VERY LAST because I don't want the immediate influx of posts to be posted to twitter right away. I want it to be a natural progression as once the autoblog is setup, it will be.
That was not what I was thinking of...but it did come to my mind too so thought I'd share it too.