Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.

(This is a new weekly feature, the Weekend Project. Every week, I’ll point you to a bunch of great resources for doing a particular thing on the Web – in this case, starting and awesomeifying a Wordpress blog.)

To anyone who asks me about starting a blog, I recommend Wordpress over and over. It’s the Firefox of blogging – incredibly extensible, impossibly customizable, and since everyone uses it there’s a huge community of helpful people to get you going like a champion.

But all that can mean it’s incredibly daunting to get started. With 50 kajillion themes out there, which one do you pick? And what the heck is a plugin?