Azure Web Sites includes a way to easily install a number of web apps such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Orchard, and DotNetNuke. By itself, that’s a great offering. But Azure has built in a way to continuously deploy updates to your web site through TFS or Git. I’m running my blog on Azure Web Sites using WordPress and GitHub publishing and this is a walk-through of how I set that up.…

Update: If all you want to do with WordPress on Azure is host a blog, I do not recommend this method. Since this post was published Microsoft released Azure Web Sites with a super easy way to get WordPress up and running. I’ve written a post on how to set it up along with GitHub publishing. So check that out. So you want to try installing WordPress on Windows Azure? You want to store your media files in Azure Storage?…