I am slowly getting ready for a new beta release, which will feature a few bugfixes, email sending to all blog admins on comment submission, and an .htaccess rule for previous/next pages so that they too are search-engine friendly.
After this release there will be one more beta, since as the codebase grows I am starting to feel the need to encapsulate all accessory functions (eg comment posting, "top posts" and other sidebar queries, etc.) to separate files. I am still a bit undecided on how to do this without losing too much in terms of performance and code readability, but I want to move along and start working on the backend so it should happen pretty soon.
As always, stay tuned.
Status ?
It's progressing. I've found a few bugs that needed fixing, streamlined the code a bit, and added mail notification on new comments (which isn't as simple as it sounds once you take encodings into account) and pagination for all the index/category/archive pages.
I'm now sort of stuck trying to separate the various functions in the post page without overarchitecting everything. I'm trying to fit a "mail this post" function in, which is very useful especially in high traffic blogs, and the posts.php include is becoming cluttered fast. But I don't want to implement a plugin architecture for the frontend, I want it to remain lean and mean. Plugins are necessary for the backend, but that's it.
I expect to have a new beta out in a couple of days. If you have any thoughts on the above issues, feel free to share them :)
In the meantime, you might want to look at a few sites running wpff.
medium traffic
autoblog.it
ecoblog.it
mobileblog.it
softblog.it
low traffic
my new Italian blog
Orientalia4All
The blogs above looks nice, to bad I don't speak/read Italian (yet)
I'm porting soderlind.no to wpff. I'll tell you when it's done .
Great!
Be prepared to change a few minor things in your templates, though :)