Just wondering how everyone approaches it when they find themselves needing to set up a weblog with its categories, custom fields, preferences etc that they’ve done before for another site.
I know that you can spin off templates into files and add those in quickly that way, but I’m interested in how you approach all the basic foundational work that goes into setting up the infrastructure for a weblog.
Example 1: a weblog for testimonials, with referee, reference, ref-org etc
Example 2: a weblog for books, with title, author, ISBN etc.
Example 3: a weblog for events, with event-name, venue, date, speakers, organiser etc.
All of these are potentially things that you may want to set up on more than one website, and perhaps many. Given that you’re happy with the format already and don’t need to customise, how do you speed up that process ?
I look forward to hearing your tips and shortcuts.