Holy shit Mike, what I've learned and remembered and changed about the way I do things would fill up the whole rest of this page if I listed it all. Man, what a great idea this whole thread was. Thanks!
Even though I'm not participating in your competition, I've changed my whole outlook on what WP is capable of. Previously, I looked at it as a blog platform, even though I knew it could do more. I was limiting myself thinking that way. I just never tried some of the things I'm doing now.
I've designed some kick-ass looking sites (that don't look at all like blogs) using WP, a sweet collection of plugins and some newly acquired php editing skills. I know a hell of a lot more today about WP than I did just a few weeks ago, all because I began following this thread and thinking about what I could do.
Thanks to everyone who gave tips, ideas and solutions. Thanks to all the people who asked questions, too. I got a lot out of reading answers to other peoples questions, too... things I didn't know I didn't know.
Good luck to all you new Wordpress hackers! I hope y'all got half as much out of this thread as I did. If so, you've gotten one hell of an education.
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