Just a side note about my plans – here's a list of what I plan on attacking and when.
1) Comment Subscription
This is an important enough feature I have here, (I think, anyway) that I feel warrants delaying my official move to WordPress until I have it working. Especially since the comments can sometimes be more important and informative than my actual posts!
Once that's done, I think I'm safe to transfer the blog to WordPress. All the other "simple" tweaks are done. Here's my plan for afterwards:
2) Comment show/hide
This will be a modification/add on to my existing "show/hide more" plugin.
3) Pagination-extra
Someone commented that they would like more flexibility about where the navigation for the pages go – so I'll probably make a second plugin that will allow you to do that. There will be a bit more code you'll need to add to your template to do that – but hopefull not much (maybe a line or two more)
4) Comment Hi-lite
This is strictly for my own personal use… as I said before, sometimes the comments here are more important than the post. And there are some comments that are more important than others. I want the ability to have certain comments (that I indicate) hilighted in some fashion, so it's easier for users to find when they're looking through page after page of comments.
I'll add on to this as I come up with more things or get more requests. Keep in mind that that first one is a DOOZY. LOL! There's a lot of layers to it – especially with users managing which posts they're subscribed to, and being able to maintain a "do not mail" list – so that I comply with the whole "can-spam" stuff. So it will probably take me awhile before I can move off that first step. But I figured I'd post the "project plan" in case you were interested.