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WordPress News
  • Wordpress and Twitter
    Unless you have been hiding under a rock you will have already or will have plans to enter the twitterverse. If you are using Wordpress then there is good news as there are plenty of tools to help you promote your twitter profile, manage your tweets and generally promote your tweetdom in a bid to gain more followers.
    - By WebDesign Lessons
  • Plugins And The Lack Of Change Logs
    The other day, I noticed I had about 9 plugins that needed to be upgraded. So I browsed to the plugin management page in WordPress 2.8 and noticed the link to view the details regarding the new plugin version as I figure that will tell me why I should upgrade. Once I click on this link, I get a lightbox popup showing me the same view I would see if I were looking at this plugin on the WordPress.org plugin repository. Tabs to see the description, installation, screenshots, Faq and other notes. No Change Log link.
    - By WP Tavern
  • WPWeekly Episode 58 – WordPress Deep Dish Style
    In this episode of WordPress Weekly, David and I are joined by Jacob Santos, Brad Williams, Lisa Sabin Wilson and Kim Parsell to talk about WordCamp Chicago. Afterwords, David and I dived into the news of the week including the release of WordPress 2.8, iThemes going GPL, and the merger between the self-hosted WordPress software and WordPress MU.
    - By WP Tavern
  • Digging Into WordPress
    Got a little news for ya’ll. Remember when I announced me and Jeff Starr were looking for a publisher for a book about WordPress? Well, that worked, and we talked a number of different publishers. They were all very nice, but after weighing everything out we decided that when we are done we’ll be self-publishing it as a PDF for now.
    - By CSS Tricks
  • Killing The WordPress Bugs and Helping Out With User Problems [WordPress Community]
    The best thing about an open source platform is that there are users who contribute to make it much more bigger and better, WordPress is no different and it has a huge user community that not only contributes to the core, but, also help in answering user questions and solve their problems.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection

WordPress 2.8 News

  • WP Q&A: When Should I Update WordPress?
    Hello again everyone. This is Chris Jean, iThemes’ very own Code Monkey. Today, I’m going to do my best to help you prepare for and plan WordPress upgrades.
    - By iThemes
  • Wordpress 2.8 Features and Themes Compatibility
    The good news is now finally out! Wordpress 2.8, with code name “Baker,” is now available. Once you log on to your Wordpress you will be receiving a notice on the availability for download of this latest Wordpress version.
    - By Templatelite
  • Caution When Updating To WordPress 2.8
    Users reporting me, that they are missing files, after they automatically updated to WordPress version 2.8 and there were a problem while updating. I checked out the WordPress Trac and found a brand new record, which confirms this
    - By WP Engineer
  • New User Features in WordPress 2.8
    With WordPress 2.8 out, many people are loving the new drag and drop widget page, plus the faster-loading-by-compression backend
    - By WP Tavern
  • Wordpress 2.8 And 10 Things That You Should Know Before/After You Upgrade
    Wordpress 2.8 had been released at 10th June 2009. There are a lot of add on features and improvements in this version. It is good for Wordpress users to upgrade to the latest version. Today, we are going to summarize some of the important features and also something that you should read/consider before you upgrade to the latest version.
    - By WebDesignBooth
  • How WordPress 2.8 upgrade will improve your blogging experience – My video review
    I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.8 today. Not as major upgrade as WordPress 2.7 but WordPress 2.8 has couple of huge changes in Appereance menu. These changes will make it much easier for bloggers to find, install and change themes on their blogs without having to use FTP and without uploading files onto the server.
    - By How To Make My Blog
  • 5 Things of Interest to Developers in the New WordPress 2.8
    With each major WordPress release, public changes like the new widgets administrative interface usually get all the glory. Here are some new features in WordPress 2.8 that most users won’t even know exist but you will probably care about, if you’re a WordPress developer.
    - By Pressed Words
  • 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets
    I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.
    - By WordPress Blog

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

  • 10 Ways to Install Accordion Menus in Your Wordpress Theme
    Today you will learn 10 ways to install accordion menus in your Worpress theme!
    - By Pro Blog Design
  • How to detect the visitor browser within WordPress
    To ensure maximum cross-browser compatibility on your blog theme, you have to be able to detect the browser used by the visitor. Sure, you can use conditionnal comments, but WordPress itself can detect client browser. Let’s see how to do.
    - By WP Recipes
  • Define Your Own WordPress Action Hooks
    WordPress is based on the so-called Hook-System. This serves WordPress, and all extensions to involve functions in a certain place. The Hooks are not only to hook, but can also be used in custom extensions and thus create a better overview and offer additional interfaces for more possibilities to develop. Especially the second option is interesting when you create a theme, which aims to offer a variety of interfaces, or create a Plugin which can be expand by other authors or serve as a framework.
    - By WP Engineer
  • Creating user-defined RSS feeds in WordPress
    RSS feeds are very useful, and indeed, very popular. WordPress creates RSS feeds by default, which is good in 99% of times. But how to create your own, custom RSS Feed? Just read this post to find out!
    - By WP Recipes
  • Escaping API updates for WordPress 2.8
    The WordPress escaping API functions have been updated. Escaping is a way of using untrusted text that “neuters” anything that could do damage. Escaping is used in WordPress to avoid SQL injection and cross-site scripting/script injection (XSS), among other things.
    - By Mark on WordPress
  • How to create a sales letter landing page with WordPress Thesis Theme
    If you want to sell your own product, you need a sales letter landing page to send potential buyers to either from your own blog, via affiliates or via PPC search engine marketing. Landing page template can help you improve conversions and drive sales.
    - By How To Make My Blog
  • 22 Mixed Quality Wordpress Hacks
    WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or less similar, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you need to tweak it a little bit by using quality hacks.
    - By instantShift
  • A Guide to the Actions API
    WordPress theme frameworks have been all the rave nowadays, and rightly so. Everybody’s either using one or rolling their own flavor. Theme frameworks introduce several new concepts to theme authoring that till now, only plugin developers have been taking advantage of. In this article, I’m going to introduce you to the actions API, and break it down so you can understand how it all works.
    - By WP Candy
  • Hosting your JS at Google
    While in a previous post I talked about WordPress database optimization, with this post I intend to show you how to improve your sites performance a bit more by hosting your javascripts with Google.
    - By Yoast
  • Quick Tip – Separate Page Templates in Wordpress
    Making unique page templates is surprisingly simple to do in Wordpress, and is often an overlooked feature. There’s no need for bloating a single file with series of PHP loops to determine the file name and content. This is built in simplicity, and we’ll start with a brief explanation of how it works.
    - By Build Internet
  • 10 Things You can Do with WordPress Besides Blogging
    Today you’re going to learn 10 things you can do with WordPress besides blogging, and whether you’re a WordPress newbie or longtime veteran – I guarantee that you will learn something after reading this post!
    - By WP Candy
  • WordPress 2.8 Tips and Tricks Collection
    Now that WordPress 2.8 has been released, it really would be more useful and helpful to get a big list of tips and tricks that addresses several new things in WordPress 2.8 and helps to learn or tweak the new features, these tips come from several users who have been using WordPress 2.8 for sometime and have contributed with several posts that may help you make the best out of the latest version in WordPress.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Get Posts With Same Custom Field VALUE As Current Post
    So, you’ve read all the tutorials on how to get custom field values and how to get posts that have a certain key/value, but what about if the post your are viewing has a custom field, and you want all the other posts with that custom field value; a value that you won’t know in advance…?
    - By Epic Alex

WordPress Plugins

  • Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress
    I did a post for a Antivirus plugin for WordPress, several users commenting about different plugins that improve the security of WordPress, so I decided to sum up some of the plugins that provide security and comment spam protection for WordPress blogs.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Antivirus Plugin For WordPress
    WordPress in itself is very safe and secure platform, however there are chances that your blog may get affected because of loopholes in your themes.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/13
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?
    Twitterized answer? Abso-freakin-lutely! Take a look at the following graph. It shows the pageviews and unique visitors on this blog from mobile browsers since we started tracking last year. Notice the numbers and the trends? How many of your visitors, do you think, come back to your blog after your page takes five minutes to load on their iPhone, and needs the twenty flick, carpal thumb scroll to read browse through the huge header? If you care about your reader and want to keep up with this growing populations’ reading habits, a mobile plugin on your blog is a necessity. Now what you use is up to you.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Plugin: Automatically Link Keywords & Phrases in Posts
    SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
    - By Blog Perfume
  • WP-Click-Track WordPress Plugin
    Did you ever want to be able to track the clicks on the links that you use inside posts and pages? If so, you should check the WP-Click-Track plugin. It comes with two different features
    - By Daily Blog Tips
  • Top 20 Wordpress Plugins – June 2009
    Back once again with the Enterprise Master… er …mind. Neglect. Thats all I can call it and I have to hold my hands up and admit that I have neglected this blog completely in the last few months. So in a small gesture of recompense my Top 10 Wordpress Plugin roundup for June is a Top 20.
    - By Enterprise Mastermind
  • Wordpress Status Bar Plugins
    Display status in your blog became very useful when you write often and want to update your readers what you do and where you are.
    - By WP Feed

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WordPress
  • Google’s Matt Cutts on WordPress
    Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google where he specializes in search engine optimization (SEO) issues. He is known in the webmaster and SEO community for applying Google’s Quality Guidelines. Before working in the Search Quality group at Google, Matt worked at the ads engineering group and on Google’s SafeSearch. The point is, unlike many “SEO Professionals” who only claim to know what they’re doing, Matt Cutts is well respected because he really does!
    - By WordPress Informer
  • WordCamp Chicago Photos
    The photos below were all taken by either Ashley at WordCamp Chicago last weekend or taken from the official Flickr Group. Feel free to use any of our photos, but do ask those responsible (marked in the photo comments) before using theirs.
    - By Theme Playground
  • State of the Word from WordCamp – Part 2
    “WordPress should be invisible” was something I loved to hear Matt Mullenweg say during his “State of the Word” address at WordCamp San Francisco. What did he mean by that?
    - By WordPress Informer

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

  • How To Create Double Posts Columns On The Homepage
    From time to time you need to change some things from the Wordpress default. One of the easiest hacks to do is creating double posts columns.
    - By WP Feed
  • An Introduction to WordPress Action Hooks
    If you’re going to be doing any level of WordPress development, themes or plugins, you will invariably run into the need to take advantage of the WordPress Action Hook system. But the more I am able to talk to people in the community, the more I realize that people simply don’t understand the concept very well, or at all.
    - By Nathan Rice
  • 10 Useful WordPress Loop Hacks
    The loop is a very important aspect of WordPress blogs. In fact, the loop is what allows you to get posts from your WordPress database and print them on the screen. A set of useful and user-friendly functions, the loop is incredibly powerful. With it, you can get a single post, a list of posts ordered by date, title or category, a list of posts written by a specific author and much more.
    - By Smashing Magazine
  • WordPress: How to get custom fields outside the loop
    Custom fields are definitely very useful and are used on many WordPress-powered blogs. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to easily get custom fields values outside the loop.
    - By WP Recipes
  • 10 Ways to Get That Elusive ‘Magazine’ Look in WordPress
    WordPress ‘Magazine’ themes haven’t been around for long, but they’ve exploded in popularity. In this post we’ll look at ten ways to get that elusive ‘magazine’ look into your own WordPress theme.
    - By Nometech

WordPress Plugins

  • Set Meta Links For WordPress Plugins
    In the past I explained in the article „How To Improve WordPress Plugins“ , how you can expand Plugins with useful functions and therefore optimize their usage. One of the suggestions was a simple link to the options page of your Plugin.
    - By WP Engineer
  • Shadowbox JS WordPress Plugin v3.0.0.0 Released
    The Shadowbox JS WordPress plugin has been updated to version 3.0.0.0. This is a large update to the plugin. The majority of the plugin has been rewritten to load only the minimal amount of code needed for either the admin or frontend. New to this release is Shadowbox 3.0b1, programmatic loading of Shadowbox only when needed, selection of which Shadowbox players to load.
    - By Sivel

WordPress Themes

  • 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time
    WordPress is very powerful and easy to use. We have been searching for some of the best free WordPress themes available on the internet, and compiled them into 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time. All of them are nicely designed and look really professional. You should be able to find the suitable one for your WordPress blog.
    - By Blog Perfume

Pro Blogging & SEO

  • CMS Showcase Galleries – Submit your site
    In today’s article from the “Webdesign Gallery Week” series, we will look at the different Content Management System galleries
    - By Mogdesign
  • Six Rules of Blogging (That Also Apply to Twitter)
    I’ve been blogging for around 4 years now and despite all the changes we see in technology and software, the ‘rules’ to a successful blog tend to have remained the same. Yet, while the rules haven’t changed much, a lot of our traffic generation methods have. Gone are the days where 50 votes would guarantee a Digg homepage or you could place some technorati tags in your post and get thousands of visitors.
    - By Daily Blog Tips

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It’s been a week since the last WordPress Article-post here on WPStart.org. The reason is that it’s summer, and I have spent my free time with my family (WPStart.org is just a hobby). But here are the last week’s WordPress articles from the WordPress Community:
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WordPress Tutorials, Tips & Hacks

  • WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin
    - By Sivel
  • Underused Plugin Function
    There is often a lot of talk about where WordPress plugin settings pages should be placed in the admin panels, and once the plugin author has decided where to put it, the user then has to work out where to find it. Well in WordPress 2.7, a new filters was added to solve the problem.
    - By Epic Alex
  • The WordPress MU Manual
    Welcome to the most comprehensive an easy to use manual to installing your WordPress MU (WPMU) site on the web!
    - By WPMU DEV Premium
  • How To Use Thumbnails Generated By WordPress In Your Theme
    Many WordPress Themes display post excerpts on blog homepage with a little thumbnail image of one of the images used within a post, but most of the WordPress themes I have seen, use some kind of external image resizing script like phpThumb or tinyThumb or they use some custom field in the post to show thumbnail image.
    - By Web Developer Plus
  • Joomla to Wordpress – Content Converter!
    More and more people using WordPress as CMS nowadays and replacing systems like Joomla on their website. Marco from solariz.de provides a handy script to convert your Joomla content to your WordPress installation.
    - By WP Engineer
  • How To Redirect a Page Using Custom Fields in WordPress
    Today, I wanted to share a very quick tip that will allow you to insert an internal or external URL in a custom field for a page, and when a user visits that page, they will be redirected to the URL you put in the custom field.
    - By Nathan Rice
  • WordPress page template to redirect to first child page
    Many WordPress users uses parent pages and subpages to order the informations displayed on their blogs. A heavily requested recipe is how to be able to redirect to the first child page if the current page have children pages? here is the answer.
    - By WP Recipes
  • How To Share A Blog Post Without A Plugin
    If you don’t want to use any sharing or bookmark plugins to help you share your latest blog post, I have come up with a list of the most popular sharing website links that you can drop at the bottom of your post. The examples are simple text links but of course you can add your own social bookmark icons.
    - By PimpMyWordPress
  • WordPress hack: Display your tags in a dropdown menu
    I never liked tag clouds, for the simple reason that most of the time, they’re aren’t readable properly. Here is the solution to this problem: Displaying tags in a dropdown menu.
    - By WP Recipes
  • Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page (part 3)
    So. Here we are. Part three. After creating and implementing our options page in parts one and two, we’re now going to add some options to posts. Or that was the plan; trouble is, it’s a little too complicated to cram into a single post and I don’t have the time to write another five posts explaining how to do it. The good news though is that I found a tutorial explaining how to do it, which you can find on WeFunction.com. Handy that!
    - By Nometech
  • How to Display Recent Posts From a Specific Category Using Widgets
    One of the things I like most about WordPress is the ability to pretty much do anything you want with it. With the help of a plugin, or custom PHP code, you can accomplish most things.
    - By StudioPress
  • 10 Ways to Speed up Your WordPress Blog
    In this post we’ll explore ten ways to speed up your site, with tricks ranging from easy to even easier; none of the stuff in this post is difficult, so there’s no excuse for a slow-loading blog after reading this!
    - By Pro Blog Design
  • 5 Useful WordPress Functions You Didn’t Know Existed
    Deep within the source code of WordPress lies an endless list of useful functions just waiting for you to use them in your theme or plugin. The problem is, most people don’t know they exist, probably because the Codex is ridiculously underdeveloped, and most people hate looking through source code. Luckily for you, reading the WordPress source code is a hobby of mine.
    - By Nathan Rice
  • How to: hide portions of text to Google on your WordPress blog
    I already shown you how to easily prevent Search Engine indexing on a certain post or page. But how to only hide a portion of text to Google, your navigation menu for example? Just read on to get started.
    - By WP Recipes

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It’s bean a week since the last post here on WPStart.org. The reasons is that I have bean up in the mountains for 4 days walking and WPstart.org has also moved from Servage to WP Web Host. Servage’s database had to much dowtime, so I hope the new host i better ;) But here are this weeks articles from the WordPress Community:
WordPress
  • Where next for premium themes?
    The GPL debate seems to be abating now with the conclusion that buying a theme means paying for support, or, for those that are simply not going to release under GPL that they will live with the consequences of being left out of official channels. Is this the final solution though?
    - By WP Fun
  • WPWeekly Episode 56 – Back On Track
    In this episode of WordPress Weekly, special guests Brian Gardner and Lisa Sabin Wilson give us the lowdown on WordCamp Chicago taking place this weekend. Afterwords, David and I discussed the news of the week getting everyone back on track.
    - By WP Tavern
  • WordPress 2.7 User Guide In PDF
    Yes, it’s here – the new WordPress 2.7 User Guide first draft
    - By Spectacu.la
  • WPWeekly Episode 55 – WordCamp Toronto/Columbus Recap
    In episode 55, we had a roundtable discussion of sorts centered around the various WordCamps we attended over the past two weekends. David Peralty and Jeremy Clarke discussed WordCamp Toronto, I talked about WordCamp Columbus and Brad Williams talked about his experience at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic. We discussed the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding our experiences. If you’re thinking about organizing a WordCamp event, be sure to tune in and take a listen as you might be able to pick up a thing or two to help improve your event.
    - By WP Tavern
  • WordPress 2.8 Beta 2
    - By WordPress.org
  • Some WordPress News from WordCamp San Francisco
    For all you fans of WordPress, this weekend has been a good one. Although I personally wasn’t able to attend the WordCamp San Francisco event, many were able to go and we’ve been receiving a lot of great information.
    - By WP Hacks

WordPress Tutorials, Hacks, Tips & How to’s

  • Get rid of auto media enclosures on your WordPress blog
    When you’re adding a multimedia file as such as a mp3 or flv file, WordPress automatically create a custom field named enclosure and add the media url to your rss feed. Great for podcasters, but unusefull for most bloggers. Let’s see how to get rid of it.
    - By WP Recipes
  • Prevent WordPress stylesheet from being cached
    Stylesheets, as well as external JS files or images, are cached by browsers. This is mostly good because it saves bandwith, but it can be a pain when you’re upgrading your stylesheet and want your visitors to see the changes without having to manually refresh their cache.
    - By WP Recipes
  • WordPress tip: Create invisible custom fields
    Existing Custom fields are visible and editables when you edit a post. But when the custom field is created by a piece of code, you may not want to display it publicly. Here is how to do.
    - By WP Recipes
  • Adding classes to comments
    A couple of days ago I was trying to add classes to comments using WordPress 2.7+ filter comment_class. I ran into a little confusion which I thought could tie someone up and though I should share it.
    - By WP Fun
  • Correct Pagination with get_posts
    If you like to show your posts a little bit different on your homepage or category page. For example having a different amount of posts showing on these pages, as it is set in your admin, you will get a problem with the pagination function. Because WordPress and several paging Plugins use $wp_query->max_num_pages
    - By WP Engineer
  • Multilingual Website With Wordpress
    From time to time you get projects demanding multilingual websites, even if you’re not a developer, you can you use these multilingual wordpress plugins to reach more visitors.
    - By WP Feed
  • The Ultimate Guide to Setting up WordPress after an Install
    There are a few essential steps that need to be taken with any new wordpress install. Obviously not every wordpress blog will be the same but there are some basics that I feel should be done regardless of what kind of blog you’re creating.
    - By Pro Blog Design
  • How To: WordPress Tag Archive
    Tags have become a very popular way to browse sites online. You pick the keyword you’re after and get a set of posts specifically related to that topic. They’re ideal for bloggers for because one post can be tagged multiple times and it’s very easy to do.
    - By Pro Blog Design
  • Secure Visitor Posting for WordPress
    Normally, when visitors post a comment to your site, specific types of client data are associated with the request. Commonly, a client will provide a user agent, a referrer, and a host header. When any of these variables is absent, there is good reason to suspect foul play.
    - By Perishable Press
  • 9 Ways to Set Dynamic Body IDs via PHP and WordPress
    When designing sites, it is often useful to identify different pages by adding an ID attribute to the element. Commonly, the name of the page is used as the attribute value
    - By Perishable Press
  • Browser Detection and the body_class() Function
    Yesterday, I wrote an article introducing and unwrapping the new WordPress body class function that will be included in WordPress 2.8. Today, I want to take it a step further by giving you a practical example of how you you can use the function to make things easier for yourself.
    - By Nathan Rice
  • WordPress 2.8 and the body_class() Function
    Back on February 7th, I was casually browsing the WordPress trunk code, and discovered a very cool new function in the wp-includes/post-template.php file.
    - By Nathan Rice
  • WordPress for Designers: Day 15
    We’re back with our Wordpress for Designers series! Moving on with our ‘Paper Business’ theme, it’s time to bring in the slider. Today, we will build and implement a jQuery slider plugin into WordPress, style it properly, and discuss how we will pull out the information from the admin panel. Let’s get our slide on!
    - By In the Woods
  • 3 ways to Change WordPress Default Username
    Changing the default username of WordPress blog is one of the most elementary security measures for preventing it from being hacked.
    - By Million Clues
  • 10 Twitter Hacks For Your Wordpress Blog
    Twitter has grown exponentially in the past few months and Still, It’s growing like crazy. Twitter has surpassed Facebook and others to become the fastest-growing site in the “Member Communities” category. Twitter is a powerful marketing and promotion tool that no active blogger can ignore.
    - By InstantShift
  • Even More Advanced Thumbnail Selection in Wordpress
    About 3 weeks ago I did a screencast on how to build a dynamic thumbnail selector for Wordpress. When I wrote that function, I noticed that if the post was in more than 1 of the specified categories, then it choose the first one (alphabetically). This bothered me enough that today I devised a system that will select the category based on a hierarchy we give to the options.
    - By Fire Studios
  • Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page (part 1)
    These days with so many WordPress themes being released, you need something to make your theme stand out from the crowd. One of the ways you can do this is by creating an awesome theme options page. In this post we’ll explore exactly how to do that.
    - By Nometech
  • Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page (part 2 – implementation)
    Continuing on the ‘Create An Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page’ series, and following directly on from part one
    - By Nometech
  • How To Optimise Your WordPress Ping List
    I came across a lot of blogs not touching their default list of “ping” URL. Blogger’s need to pay more attention to their Ping list.
    - By Pimp My WordPress
  • The (Really) Ultimate Guide to Creating a Photoblog With WordPress
    The “ultimate” measure of whether a guide is really the ultimate is not in how many links it can put into one place, but in how many dodgy resources it leaves out. I have sifted through the vastness of space we call the interwebs, employing all manners of searching, in order to bring you the best resources available on creative a WordPress photoblog – minus, of course, the outdated, useless and repetitive information you really don’t need.
    - By Theme Playground

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  • What’s New in WordPress 2.8?
    Today, while browsing the WordPress website, I noticed that WordPress 2.8 Beta was available for testing. So, I decided to download it and give it a test run. Here is a list of major changes that make this release a bit different from the earlier versions.
    - By Blog Oh Blog
  • A Look Around WordPress 2.8, Beta 1
    WordPress 2.8 beta one was released just the other day, and after 2.7’s big overhaul, you weren’t expecting any big changes were you? You were? Sorry. There aren’t many. But there are some, and they’re quite neat changes too. This post takes a poke around the new beta.
    - By Alex Denning on Nometech

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & How to’s

  • How to Hide Your Plugin’s Custom Fields
    Many plugins use custom fields to store data about individual posts. When a plugin adds a custom fields, its key and value (or name and value) are listed in the Custom Fields meta box. For instance, a syntax hilighting plugin may set a custom field syntax_enabled on posts that use the syntax highlighting CSS.
    - By John Kolbert
  • How To Display your categories in two columns
    The stadard wp_list_categories() functions echoes a list of all your categories. With this simple trick we can display the categories in two columns.
    - By JAUHARI
  • Multiple WP Blogs On One WP Core
    Last Saturday I had the opportunity to listen to Mike Krotscheck talk about techniques for advanced WordPress installations. One of the most interesting things I took away from his talk was a way to install multiple WordPress blogs on one WordPress core. Note we’re not talking about WordPress MU. When you only need 2 or 3 blogs, WordPress MU can be a bit overkill, but installing these blogs on the same WordPress core can save space and make updates easier. Here’s how you do it.
    - By Will Anderson
  • How to Set Up a Killer WordPress Testing Environment Locally
    If you’re a heavy WordPress developer like me, you might find that you need to create a new installation for each site that requires a strange structure or specific posts, instead of using your uniform local test WordPress installation. Cue WordPress Mu. WordPress Multi User is a platform created by the geniuses at Automattic that is basically a WordPress installation that allows multiple blogs to run using the same software.
    - By NETTUTS

WordPress Plugins

  • Broken Link Checker 0.5 Available
    The latest version of Broken Link Checker for WordPress is now available on WordPress.org. If you’re already using the plugin you should get an update notification within 24 hours. Below you’ll find a list of changes and a bit commentary about the update.
    - By W-Shadow
  • The Problem with Related Post Plugins
    Showing related content to your users is important. I don’t think there’s anyone disputing that (at least not that I’m listening to). The real question is “how?” How can you show your user good related content without adding a ton of extra work for yourself? This is where related posts plugins come into play.
    - By Aaron D. Campbell on WordPress Informer
  • WLTC Plugin Competition: Max Image Size Control
    The next plugin in the WLTC Plugin Competition is the Max Image Size Control plugin. The concept behind this plugin is that it lets you choose the image sizes that WordPress generates when you upload the image based the post or category the image belongs to.
    - By WP Fun

WordPress Themes

Pro Blogging & SEO
  • Banishing Spammers and Trolls With .htaccess Files
    Are you plagued by spammers and trolls inside of the comments section of your blog? If you are, I want to give you a simple little trick to kick them off your blog and keep them out by blocking their IP address.
    - By Neil Matthews on ProBlogger
  • Getting Started with Search Engine Optimization – Part 3
    Internal, deep linking, home page, and back-linking are just a few of the many types of linking that you can do. Building links to your blog can be a natural process for some blogs but difficult for others. Original content can help build links, but some effort had to be done on your part to ensure that you are getting links from relevant and authoritative sites.
    - By ThemeLib
  • 15 Ways to Rework Your Next Blog Post Title
    Your task today is to rework the title of the next post that you write
    - ByDarren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • 5 Free Ways To Promote Your Website
    You have a website, now what? You do a search for your website but it does not appear in any search engine. It is not in Google, Yahoo! or any other directory. There are a lot of services that can help but they cost money. Social networking is a good way to promote your site but you do not have the time for that. What can be done to help promote your website without spending a whole lot of time and money? And I know you are wanting free, fast and easy.
    - By Gary Reichel on MakeUseOf
  • 13 blogging lessons learned from Stephen King’s On Writing
    Stephen King’s book On Writing is a very good read. It is targeted towards writers and wanna-be writers, but it is a very inspiring book for anyone.
    - By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog
  • 5 Basic Blogging Lessons You Must Remember
    Let me ask you a question, “How many articles have you read about being a better blogger?”
    - By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues
  • The Other Side Of ProBlogging: Making Real Money Right From The Start Of Your Blogging Career
    You started a blog with the dream of making a living from writing about something you love. A month, or six months, or two years down the line, you’ve got a handful of subscribers, a few pennies accumulating in Google AdSense, and a growing sense of frustration. The gurus touted blogging as an “easy” way to make money: frankly, digging ditches is starting to look more appealing.
    - By Ali Hale on ProBlogger
  • How Important is Hosting to Your Blog?
    Hosting is now largely sold to the blog community as a commodity. Advertising will always focus on one thing, and that of course is the monthly price. Yes “features” will be pushed along with this, such as 1-click installs of WordPress, unlimited hard disk space capacity, unlimited bandwidth for all your video streaming needs, and unlimited domains so you can host all of your websites in one convenient place. This is great, and I had all that, so why did I change hosting providers in a hurry?
    - By Chris Garrett on The Blog Herald
  • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Ways of Getting Traffic to Your Blog
    Experience really counts! I’ve been blogging for a while on many different blogs. Before turning into a partial-pro blogger, I did some research on ways to get traffic my blog, and I would like to share my points of view with you. What is the good, what is the bad and what is the ugly way of generating traffic.
    - By Daily Blog Tips
  • Nothing to Blog About: Are You Blogging What You Should Be Blogging?
    In the last article in this new series called Nothing to Blog About, I asked you to go back to your roots, in a sense, to start over and find that “lovin’ feeling” you’ve lost about your blog subject matter to re-energize your creative blogging spirit.
    - By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald

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WordPress
  • What Are Your Theme Standards?
    On a thread within the WPTavern forum, there is an interesting discussion taking place among some prominent theme authors on creating a theme standards system. The initial idea is to create a standards system which would give theme authors a goal to shoot for. However, as the discussion has progressed, it’s easy to see that this entire idea of rating themes or putting together a set of standards is a complex problem.
    - By Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection
  • Are child themes the best option?
    Child themes have been gaining popularity recently but there still seems to be a great amount of confusion involved and I wonder whether they are the best option, despite their popularity.
    - By WP Fun

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & How to’s

  • How I Build My Wordpress Niche Sites – Part 1
    Some of you that follow me on Twitter may remember me mentioning that I was working on a side project about a month or two ago. I said that it was indeed a small niche site I was developing to create some decent side-income that I can then replicate a few times to create a nice cash flow. Since then, I haven’t created anymore due to my schedule and the fact that I dedicate myself more to Wordpress and this website, but seeing the amount of traffic this niche site of mine is getting leads me to believe I’m doing something right.
    - By ForTheLose
  • Different Favicons For Backend And Frontend
    Do you have the same problem? We all have a lot tabs open, especially of our own blogs and all tabs look the same, since there is the same favicon for backend and frontend in your tabs. It can be annoying to click around to find the admin tab between all the opened tabs of some posts of your blog.
    - By WP Engineer
  • How To: Hack WordPress Theme Template Pages
    The key to being able to display exactly what you want in Wordpress is understanding Wordpress theme template pages. These are the theme files that display pages, not the ones that perform functions like comments, sidebar, etc. Most of us don’t use the Wordpress default theme that comes with installation, and end up downloading a free theme from the Internet. This is a great way to customize your blog, but not all theme authors code their theme the same way. The capabilities of that theme largely depend on how much time the web designer took to code it, in addition to their knowledge of Wordpress itself.
    - By John Pratt on WP Hacks
  • WordPress News for 5/18/09
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Designing a Custom WordPress Theme – Working with a Designer
    When you’re designing your blog all sorts of options are open to you – starting with a free theme (that you can later edit), through a premium customizable theme (like Thesis or Revolution2) and ending with a custom theme, created just for your site.
    - By Amir Helzer on ProBlogger

WordPress Plugins

  • Weekday Tip: 9 Ultra-useful Wordpress Plugins
    No Wordpress blog is complete (or even fully functional) with a healthy arsenal of plugins in it’s repertoire. So here are 9 ultra-useful plugins to use on every blog setup you configure.
    - By Fire Studios
  • Five Comment Related Plugins for WordPress
    Next up on the “Five” series is a sampling of 5 comment related plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory. There are 395 plugins as of today that are tagged with the term comment to choose from.
    - By  Weblog Tools Collection
  • Live Blogging
    Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live “micro” blogging of running events, such as major sport events or tech conferences. It was originally developed for the University of York’s Nouse website (The Roses sporting tournament was the first event to use it).
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/17
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Released WP Minify 2.0
    WP Minify version 2.0 is here!
    - By Thaya Kareeson on OMNINOGGIN
  • Plugin Code Repository Bookmarklet
    Ryan McCue has released a cool bookmarklet which when used on the WordPress Plugin Repository, will take you directly to the code browser for that plugin. The bookmarklet works on subpages of the plugin page as well as the installation or FAQ pages. If you’re using FireFox, drag the link for the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar. Then, when on a plugin page within the repository, click the button and you’ll be taken right to the code repository for it.
    - By WP Tavern
  • 5 Useful Wordpress Plugins For Google Adsense
    Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program and proper custom integration with Wordpress can help to increase Adsense earnings. Now on this post we have describe 5 useful wordpress plugin for google adsense.
    - By Just Skins
Pro Blogging & SEO
  • Nothing To Blog About: Go Back to Your Roots
    In this new series called Nothing to Blog About, we’re looking at the various ways your blogging creativity can be temporarily dried up and plugged up, and how to break the dam. Today, my recommendation is to go back to your roots.
    - By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
  • Sunday Morning SEO: What is Anchor Text and Why is It Important?
    In a survey of 37 search experts, the 2nd highest SEO factor was the anchor text of links from other sites. However, many webmasters who want to rank better on the search engines don’t know what anchor text is. Fortunately, anchor text is an easy concept to understand. In this post and next week’s post, we’ll look at what anchor text is and how to use it well for your blog.
    - By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald
  • Offsite SEO-Tips To Increase Traffic And Make More Money
    As far as SEO is concerned, offsite SEO is by far more important than onsite (to my way of thinking anyways.) Good onsite SEO can only take you so far, but offsite SEO can catapult you to the top of the serps! Offsite SEO is all about building backlinks. Backlinks come in many forms, and the value of these backlinks (from a SEO perspective) varies greatly.
    - By Cash Blog-n
  • Firefox SEO Plugins That Make Your Life Easier
    There’s some pretty suave Firefox plugins out there that come in really useful for playing around with and exploring sites. Each one has it’s own merit. If there’s anything you use that’s awesome, share it in the comments pls k thx bai.
    - By Shark SEO
  • More Google SEO Myths Exposed
    Google’s Susan Moskwa wrote in 2008 on the Google Webmaster Central Blog an article titled Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty”. One year later many webmasters still look at “duplicate content” without really understanding what it is and what it does.
    - By Mihaela Lica on SitePoint
  • How To Improve Your Branding With Your Content
    Branding experts hit the nail on the head when they say that a winning brand conveys why you are your prospects’ only solution. If you can’t achieve that, you should at least convey why you are your prospects’ best solution. Of course, the same logic applies to your clients. So make a compelling claim about your business, product or service, and back it up.
    - By Rick Sloboda on Smashing Magazine

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After 5 days in Greece (Athens and Mykonos) I’m back home in Norway ready for more work ;) I had a very nice trip and believe that I have a lot of blog posts from the WordPress Community to read. So here is the best articles from the WordPress Community from the last 5 – 6 days.

WordPress
  • Introducing Blogs.mu
    So, there you go, that’s our big news – say hello to Blogs.mu.
    -By WPMU
  • A premium solution
    So here’s the problem: WordPress has thousands of themes. These themes are currently divided into two arbitrary, self-titled, ambiguous, tiers: premium and other. The definition of premium may or may not include payment, servicing, licensing standards, features, and quality, depending on who you ask. So how is a chap to compare themes? Well, I think I may have a solution.
    - By WP Fun
  • People Who Rock WordPress
    A new project called We Rock WordPress headed by Netizens Media aims to showcase the cream of the crop when it comes to talent in the WordPress community. Out of the 23 people on the site thus far, I have interacted or know of 18 of them. Not bad I guess. Like WPZooms 20 WordPress Rockstars post, this site showcases mugshots instead of graphics.
    - By WP Tavern
  • Premium only in name: The state of paid-for WP themes
    It is part of my daily “job” to follow what’s going on in the WordPress theming community and I must admit that I’ve been slightly disappointed with the recent spade of “premium” theme releases. At the moment it just seems that everyone is jumping on a bandwagon, in the hope of making a quick buck and in the process they are totally ignorant to the quality of their offering.
    - By Adii Rockstar
  • Harness The Power of Wordpress Child Themes
    How long does it take you to build or modify a wordpress theme? Do you sometimes get frustrated by the time it takes for you to finish a theme even if you’ve already created a handful of them? Did you ever wish there was an easier way? Actually there is, and the answer is by using Wordpress child themes.
    - By Raymond Selda

WordPress Tutorials, Tips and How to’s

  • Moderate Wordpress Comments Live on Your Desktop
    How often do you check your blog dashboard for unmoderated comments? If you would prefer a desktop client for moderating wordpress blog comments here is some good news for you. Daniel Dura has released an Adobe AIR desktop client called Moderator which allows you to moderate your blog comments from desktop in real time and without requiring your browser.
    - By Amit Banerjee on Quick Online Tips
  • WordPress Proxysupport
    Who is using WordPress in an intranet environment, will quickly realize, that despite internet connection, no feed content gets loaded in the backend. In general, it’s because of the proxy of the company. So far WordPress wasn’t particularly flexible in this case. As of WordPress 2.8 that will change and new constants make ensure that you now can enter the proxy directly to wp-config.php.
    - By WP Engineer
  • WordPress Weekend Resources – May 15, 2009
    Another week, another set of weekend resources. Got some good ones this week.
    - By Theme Lab
  • Add private notes to your WordPress blog posts
    Sometimes, you may need to leave a private note (Only visible to admins) to a post, but there’s no built-in solution in WordPress to do it. So, here’s a nice hack I use on my blogs.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
  • EasyWP: Install WordPress in One Click
    Something to watch: EasyWP is a one-file script that downloads and unzips latest WordPress build on your web server (so the average Joe doesn’t have to download the archive, unzip on his computer, and then upload everything).
    - By planetOzh
  • WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker
    Community member Andrea passed this along on Twitter the other day. It’s called the WordPress plugin compatibility checker. The sites to scan the WordPress repository on a regular basis to show plugin authors if their plugin meets the guidelines for compliance. Amongst the data collected so far, it has been discovered that a few false positives do exist. If your plugin happens to have one of these false positives, I recommend signing up to the BraveNewCode forum and let them know so they can increase the accuracy of their dataset.
    - By WP Tavern
  • Multiple Page WordPress Posts
    There may be occasions when you want to split a WordPress post or page into multiple pages. This can be useful and reduce load times if it is a particularly long article or has a lot of images embedded in it. This is easy to do using WordPress.
    - By WordPress Max
  • How To: Use WordPress Conditional Tags to Hack Your Theme
    By using simple conditional tags – it’s pretty easy to add some very basic hacks to your Wordpress theme to have more control over what’s displayed when.
    - By John Pratt on WP Hacks
  • Advanced Wordpress Thumbnail Generation
    Thumbnails in Wordpress themes are a critical part of relaying the topic or aspect of the article/post you’ve written. With some simple tricks you can add your own to your theme, and there are even plugins out there to do it for you. The fact of the matter is that these systems you have in place have faults, so here’s a video detailing how to create an advanced Wordpress Thumbnail generator in your own theme.
    - By Fire Studios
  • Publishing Extend of WordPress
    Not always you want to solve things like WordPress provides and you seek for a different solution. Sometimes you don’t need various applications of the backend to publish posts.
    - By WP Engineer
  • Custom Fields Hacks For WordPress
    In our previous articles on WordPress hacks, we discussed the incredible flexibility of WordPress, which is one of the biggest reasons for its popularity among bloggers worldwide. Custom fields in particular, which let users create variables and add custom values to them, are one of the reasons for WordPress’ flexibility.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on Smashing Magazine
  • WordPress shortcode: Display content to registered users only
    Ever wanted to be able to show some content only to registered users in your blog posts? If yes, just read this recipe, which contains an awesome shortcode to do it!
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
  • Five Nifty Sidebar Widgets for your WordPress Site
    In my last post I discussed WordPress plugins that can spruce up your WordPress based website. What I would like to do in this one is point out five sidebar widgets that you can put to use in your own sidebar to expand its capabilities and add additional functionality to your site for your visitors.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • What The Hell, Wordpress?
    I’m not sure how many of you are aware, but Wordpress defaults to 302 redirects. This is, for the most part, not a good thing. You’ll probably find this affecting you most when you have people linking to both http://yourdomain.com and http://www.yourdomain.com. If you’re using Wordpress’ default 302s, then you won’t get the link juice from the URL that’s being redirected.
    - By Shark SEO
  • FirePHP and WordPress
    WordPress uses a whole series of constants and variables that may be useful. Even better if you know what is in there. A clean output of the contents can be realized with the Firefox add-on FirePHP for Firebug.
    - By WP Engineer
  • Creating Theme Options
    If you create WordPress themes then a useful addition to a standard theme is to give the user a simple way to change the logo or header in use, perhaps allow them to change the colour of the background, the width of the site too. These options are designed to save people time but more importantly, to make it easy for non-developers to make a few alterations to their theme without needing to go looking through the code.
    - By Bloggingtips
  • Need Help With That?
    Over the past two years, I’ve had the privilege to talk with a number of different plugin/theme developers. While they each have their own unique style of getting things done, one thing they all have in common is providing support.
    - By Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection
  • Generate rss feed for several tags on your WordPress blog
    You know it, RSS feeds are a very popular way to read blogs. So why only purpose one feed to your readers? In this recipe, I’ll show you how to easily generate RSS feeds for several tags.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
  • 25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS
    WordPress is often thought of as little more than a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Through a little customization and the use of plugins, WordPress can easily be transformed into a full-featured content management system. Here are more than 25 sites who have done just that (and done it well).
    - By Noupe
  • Create a Business Wordpress PSD Layout
    In this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice business Wordpress layout. this PSD layout can be used also for a corporate layout. The PSD file is free for download for the next 24 hours. Subscribe to RSS or follow us on Twitter if you don’t want to miss our next releases
    - By Grafpedia
  • Customize your 404 page from the WordPress admin
    Most 404 templates in WordPress themes suck. They generally read something like “404 Not Found” and give an extra sentence or two about an error. This is totally unnacceptable to a site visitor that comes across a 404 page.
    - By Justin Tadlock
  • Widgetise Your Theme Part II
    Last week I wrote about how to widgetise your theme, and explained how to turn your sidebar into a dynamic sidebar, allowing you to add widgets from within your admin panel, rather than manually coding them into the sidebar. We can now take this one step further and create multiple sidebars/widget ‘blocks’.
    - By Bloggingtips

WordPress Plugins/Widgets

  • Plugin: The DotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack
    The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit from dotMobi to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.
    - By Blog Perfume
  • Free Wordpress featured slider widget
    Easily put a slider in your wordpress installation by installing this widget without a need to hack your theme (or finding theme with featured slider widget). of course if you know how to custom wordpress theme this widget will be more flexible since you can place the slider anywhere in your theme.
    - By Tobacamp Development
  • How To Add A Favicon To Your WordPress Blog
    “Blog Icons” is one of my favorite plugins created by Joost de Valk. This is a very simple plugin to use. It lets you easily add a favicon to your blog URL.
    - By PimpMyWordPress
  • Tweetable Twitter Plugin For WordPress
    Yesterday I released my newest WordPress plugin: Tweetable. It helps integrate Twitter into your blog. It tweets your posts as they are published and adds a configurable sidebar widget that displays your latest tweets (with optional follower count). The automatic post-tweeting can be configured to use the URL shortener of your choice, and Google Analytics campaign tags can be included.
    - By Webmaster-Source
  • WordPress Plugin Release for 12/05
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Plugin: Broken Link Checker for WordPress
    Sometimes, links get broken. Most likely many of your blog posts contain links. It is almost inevitable that over time some of them will lead to a “404 Not Found” error page. Obviously you don’t want your readers to be annoyed by clicking a link that leads nowhere. You can check the links yourself but that might be quite a task if you have a lot of posts. You could use your webserver’s stats but that only works for local links.
    - By Blog Perfume
  • Plugins to Spruce Up Your WordPress Based Website
    As many of you know – plugins can add significant functionality to your website. For instance there is a plugin that will add an entire forum to your site (Simple:Press) and there is another one that will allow your visitors to contact you via a customizable form (Contact Form 7).
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • WordPress Theme Tweaker Plugin Review
    I recently came across a pretty cool plugin called Theme Tweaker, which basically lets you alter the colors of your theme without touching your CSS code. I thought I would go over this plugin in a review post.
    - By Theme Lab

WordPress Themes

WordPress Links

  • Blogs.mu
    Blogs.mu is a site that allows you to setup your own WordPress based blog community or network – with the minimum of fuss. Set up blogs yourself or let users come to you.
  • wpazo – the best WordPress stuff
    w•pazo | wuh PAW zo | verb 1 to hit something or someone—esp. over the head—with the power of WordPress. noun 2 the best WordPress stuff. 3 a blog that hits you over the head with the good links to all the best WordPress stuff.
Pro Blogging and SEO
  • Getting Started with Search Engine Optimization – Part 2
    Is it really that simple to bring your site and internal pages to the first page of Google results within a few simple steps? Yes, but you’ll need to learn a few basics about SEO and how search engines work.
    - By ThemeLib
  • Promote Your Blog on Kindle, Make Money
    Currently in beta version, Kindle Publishing for Blogs allows any blog owner to sign up. Just fill out an application, fork over your RSS feed and Amazon will take care of the rest – including setting what they feel is a fair subscription price. Blog subscriptions will be priced between $0.99 and $1.99.
    - By Andrew G.R. on The Blog Herald
  • Be Consistent and Useful – Thoughts on How Often to Publish on Your Blog
    In the last task of our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge I encouraged bloggers to set up a plan for the next steps in their blog. As an example I set up a hypothetical Blogging Calendar with an activity for each day of the next month.
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • How To Get Blog Traffic By Pissing Off Your Audience
    It has been said that you never want to upset your customers. However, I’m here to tell you that sometimes there is a place for it. IF you do it strategically…
    - By David Risley
  • Great Firefox Plug-Ins for Bloggers
    I abandoned Internet Explorer for Mozilla Firefox several years ago. But for whatever reason, I never embraced Firefox plug-ins. Perhaps it was laziness on my part or a simple misunderstanding of how practical some of the add-ons can be.
    - By Andrew G.R. on The Blog Herald
  • A Strategy to Multiply Your Online Content
    I love blogging, but if you’re anything like me, then you find it hard to really grow your blog quickly. One of the main challenges is to be able to add new content to your blog on a consistent basis.
    - By Justin Brooke on Daily Blog Tips
  • Onsite SEO-Things You Should Do If You Want Your Posts, Articles, etc. To Rank Well In The SERP’S
    How important is utilizing proper onsite seo techniques? Very important if you long for high ranking in the serps, and especially Google. If you succeed in a first page showing, for your keywords, in Google, I would imagine the other search engines are going to like your offerings as well.
    - By Cash Blog
  • 10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People
    Which is more important, driving traffic to your website or encouraging as many people as possible to see your content? Believe it or not, they are not one and the same.Too often, we as website owners live and die by web analytics applications. We fret about bounce rates, unique visitors and dwell time. However, when we focus so heavily on the performance of our website, we miss a fundamental point: we should aim to expose users to our content, not our website. The website is a tool to showcase our content, but it is not the only tool that does this.
    - By Paul Boag on Smashing Magazine
  • How Not to Promote Your Blog: Top 10 Broken Blog Promotion Strategies
    For every great blog promotion strategy, there are five that suck. Really suck. They suck so bad that using them can get you blacklisted by real bloggers, ignored by annoyed readers, unfollowed on Twitter, and possibly placed on the terrorist watch list.
    - By Kevin Geary on ProBlogger
  • The Entrepreneur’s Handbook – 58 Resources For First Time Entrepreneurs
    As a first time entrepreneur you probably have tons of questions. And every time you do a Google search for an answer you are bombarded with too much information and in some cases that information contradicts other things you have heard. Due to this, I have created a list of 54 resources that should help you out.
    - By Neil Patel on Quick Sprout
  • Sunday Morning SEO: How Many Links is Enough?
    Last month, I started SEO work for a client. The client has a website in a pretty popular niche. As I worked on the site, it surprised me how powerful SEO is especially the activity of link building. Since the client is in a popular niche, I thought it would be hard to get them a front page ranking. See one of the maxims in SEO is popular niches are very competitive. And the more competitive a niche is, the harder it is to attain a top 10 ranking.
    - By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald
  • SEO Experiment: Let Google Sort it Out
    One way to prevent Google from crawling certain pages is to use elements in the section of your web documents. For example, if I want to prevent Google from indexing and archiving a certain page
    - By Jeff Starr on Perishable Press
  • 10 Ways to Launch a New Blog with a ‘Bang’
    Do you want to enter the blogosphere like a quiet librarian enters a classroom, or do you want to rock the stage? I am definitely one to rock stuff out and in this article I will share a few tips to help you make an attention grabbing launch.
    - By Webdesigner Depot
Blog Development/Design
  • Diving into PHP: Day 15
    Continuing with our OOP review, today, we’ll create a very simple “calculator” class that should give you a better idea of how abstracting your code to its own class can save you a great deal of time. We’ll also take a look at the helpful “__construct” method, as well as creating variables. Enjoy!
    - By In the Woods
  • The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files
    Apache’s .htaccess configuration files have baffled countless developers. This tutorial aims to break through this confusion by focusing on examples and thorough descriptions. Among the benefits of learning .htaccess configuration is automatic gzipping of your content, providing friendlier URLs, preventing hotlinking, improving caching, and more. First, the basics.
    - By Joseph Pecoraro on NETTUTS
  • 7 Powerful image carousels for web designers
    This post is a collection of some powerful carousels for images and text content ready to use in your web projects. It includes Agile Carousel, YUI Carousel, JCarousel, iCarousel (jQuery + MooTools) and a tutorial about how to implement a simple Flickr-like carousel using Prototype-UI.
    - By Antonio Lupetti
  • CSS Template Layouts: A Simpler CSS Layout System, Now Possible With JQuery
    For the longest time I’ve been waiting for browsers to support the CSS Template Layout module. Today, I found out that Alexis Deveria has given the web community the gift we’ve all been waiting for. Using JQuery and a plugin we can now take full advantage of the CSS Template Layout Module.
    - By Neal Grosskopf
  • 27+ Handy Javascript Techniques for Web Designer
    Javascript is such an useful script language. It is used in many web sites to add functionality, validate forms, randomize images, and much more. Although it is not required to be pro coder, there are some useful techniques every web designer should know. In this post you will find 27+ useful JavaScript techniques, scripts, method and object that will help you save time in your next project.
    - By Desizn Tech
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I’m going on an vacation for 1 week, so don’t expect to see any new posts from me the next 6 – 7 days ;)
WordPress
  • WPWeekly Episode 54 – Warmup For WordCamp Toronto
    In this episode, David and I discussed WordCamp Toronto which started yesterday and will last until Sunday May 10th. So far, it looks like not all things are going according to plan at the event as the venue has awkward placement of outlets, no dedicated video or audio equipment and expensive food. Hopefully, David has a better time the rest of the weekend.
    - By WP Tavern
  • Talking WordPress With Vladimir Prelovac
    Back on episode 47 of WordPress Weekly, I had the chance to interview Vladimir Prelovac but due to technical difficulties, I had to edit out the interview. So to make up for that interview, I’ve asked Vladimir a set of questions from the interview which covers most of what was discussed on the show. Thanks to Vladimir for answering these and maybe next time, the interwebs won’t be so mean to us.
    - By WP Tavern
  • WordPress News: BuddyPress News, WordPress 2.8 News, WordCamp Toronto & Virginia, WordPress.tv Feeds, and More
    - By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
  • Contributing to WordPress, Part III: Usability Testing
    One of the reasons WordPress 2.7 was such a success is the amount of usability testing that took place during the development cycle. Starting with testing 2.5 and the Crazyhorse prototype and following with the 2.7 beta, the testing program looked at almost every feature and function in the application. That kind of thing? Takes a lot of time.
    - By Jane Wells on WordPress Blog
  • What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium?
    Recently our friend Andrew of WP-Fun.co.uk wrote an interesting post titled A New Name for Premium Themes: Themes. In his post, Andrew attempts to define what a premium WordPress theme is, then compares that definition with the most downloaded themes at the Free WordPress Theme Directory.
    - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

WordPress 2.8

  • WordPress 2.8 Feature Password
    WordPress 2.8 is going to be published soon, even though they do not have a date yet. Nevertheless, another small insight into a new feature.
    - By WP Engineer
  • Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
    Imagine you ran a website that reviewed books, movies, and music. When writing posts in WordPress, you want to label something as a book, yet you also want to further label it by genre or by author.
    - By Justin Tadlock
  • Exciting new things in WordPress 2.8?
    WordPress 2.8 is slated to be released late this month. Unfortunately, I’ve heard a lot of talk that 2.8 isn’t anything to get excited about. People are saying that it doesn’t have a lot of new features. As a matter of fact, in the WordPress Weekly Podcast – Episode 49 Were You Fooled?, David Peralty even said that it only had “stuff that should have been in WordPress already”.
    - By Aaron D. Campbell on Xavisys

WordPress Tutorials/Tips/How to’s

  • WordPress Function to Make Links Clickable
    Apparently I’ve been doing things the hard way in my WordPress-related coding. I’ve been using regular expressions to turn URLs into clickable links, when WordPress already has a built-in formatting function to do just that.
    - By Webmaster-Source
  • Build A Theme With Thematic
    Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimize WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples and styling for popular plugins.
    - By WP Tavern
  • Dissecting the WordPress Text Widget
    In this tutorial, we will take a close look under the hood of the WordPress text widget to uncover the process of creating a widget that can be added to multiple widget locations.
    - By Jarkko Laine on NETTUTS
  • WordCast 53: The Twitter Wars
    Kym Huynh and Jonathan Bailey come together this week to bring you the latest WordPress controversy; what’s this? A Twitter fight? New releases abound this week in the WordPress community including the much anticipated BuddyPress from Andy Peatling to a theme development series by Ian Stewert. PLUS: The exclusive release of the latest WordPress rap!
    - By WordCast
  • Five Tools to Increase the RSS Subscribers for your WordPress Blog
    When you build a website one of the things most people want are visitors. New visitors are great because they tend to turn into return visitors. People will return to your website because they find the content entertaining, informative and worth their time. However, you know how busy we get these days. We save a link to our favorites for a website and promise that we will be back on a regular basis. How often do you really go to your favorites directory and go back visiting websites? I know my answer – rarely.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • 110+ Massive Wordpress Video Tutorial Collection
    On this list You’ll find all available WordPress video tutorials on Internet with a lot of links for every level of knowledge. Video screencasts in my opinion teach You skills a lot faster than the best book You can find. In future You should check for updates on those sites, because WordPress is rapidly growing, but sites offering such great video screencasts stay and update.
    - By Dainis Graveris on 1stWebdesigner
  • WordPress Links for 5/6/09
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
  • Blogging in Realtime With The P2 Theme
    - By Pimp My WordPress
  • 101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress
    This is the first article in the four-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress“. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
    - By Noupe
  • How To Build a Social Networking Site using Wordpress
    To create a social networking site, you can either register a free account with a third party social networks provider or install open source software on your server and be your own administrator. There are pros and cons in these two methods. The first method allows you to handle your social networks without any technical knowledge, but you risk losing all your data when the third party site close down. The latter requires you to have certain technical knowledge, but you get full control over every single detail in your site.
    - By Damien Oh on Make Use Of
  • 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog
    - By Alex Denning on Cats Who Code
  • Important Security Fix for WordPress
    The other day, my server crashed and Perishable Press was unable to connect to the MySQL database.
    - By Jeff Starr on Perishable Press

WordPress Plugins

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WordPress
  • Automattic releases BuddyPress – Official “Sister Project” to WordPress
    Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and Automattic, announced the release of BuddyPress last week on the official WordPress site. The BuddyPress site is live, with free downloads and installation instructions for BuddyPress 1.0 – which expands a typical WordPress blog installation into a full social network with most of the features of mySpace, Facebook, Ning, and other popular sites.
    - By Aaron D. Campbell on WordPress Informer

WordPress 2.8

WordPress Inspiration

  • 15 Impressive and Beautiful Uses of WordPress
    WordPress is no longer just used to power blogs. It has become the CMS of choice for many web designers. It’s always interesting to see how it’s flexibility provides web designers with the freedom to design sites with no limitations. Here are 15 beautiful web sites all powered by WordPress.
    - By Web Design Ledger

WordPress Tutorials, Tips & SEO

  • WordPress Theme Development Check List – PDF Version
    Today it is time to release an improved official PDF version of the Checklist for the WordPress crowd. This PDF version is clean and easy to print, which makes it an excellent checklist when you are developing your new WordPress Theme.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy
  • WordPress Tip: Obscure get_option Parameter
    Any WordPress Plugin developer worth their salt knows about the get_option function, which allows options to be retrieved from the database. What I recently discovered is that this function accepts a second parameter, indicating a default value to be returned if the option doesn’t exist in the database.
    - By Will Anderson
  • Build Your Own WordPress Themes the Easy Way
    WordPress is by far one of the most favored blogging tools, and WordPress themes are certainly popular. A custom theme is a handy service to sell to a client, while creating your own theme for your blog is a fantastic way to let your personality and skills shine through — much more so than downloading some run-of-the-mill theme already being used by five hundred other blogs.
    - By SitePoint
  • 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog
    - By Alex Denning on Cats Who Code
  • Force CSS changes to “go live” immediately
    If you update your WordPress theme’s style.css, you may have noticed that you have to “force-reload” your site in your browser to see the changes.
    - By Mark Jaquith
  • How to Stop Trackback Spam on WordPress
    One of the problems with most blogging platforms is that people can easily abuse the trackback feature. On WordPress, for instance, you have a box right below the text editor titled “Send Trackbacks.” If users put the URL of your post there and publish or update their posts, your blog will get a trackback notification and probably put a link on your comments section to that blog.
    - By Daniel Scocco on Daily Blog Tips
  • Easily get posts with a specific custom field/value on your WordPress blog
    Ever wanted to be able to only get the list of posts which have a specific custom field key as well as a specific value? If yes, just read on. Our friend John Kolbert have this short, but useful recipe for you.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
  • Screencast 3: Designing for WordPress: Part 1: HTML to WordPress
    Designing for WordPress is something that a lot of people want to learn how to do. But don’t know where to start. Why? There aren’t too many great tuts out there for people wanting to get started with WordPress theme design. In this screencast we’ll be converting HTML to WordPress: a great place to start for any aspiring theme developer.
    - By Alex Denning on Nometech

WordPress Themes

WordPress Plugins

  • Automatically Tweet WordPress Posts with WordTwit
    Twitter has exploded in popularity over the past year as many mainstream media sources have been using the service to communicate with their readers/viewers, but did you know that bloggers can now use Twitter to promote their content as well?
    - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks
  • 6 WordPress plugins that help your blog’s maintenance
    Ever heard of the broken windows theory? Basically it says that external signs of vandalism encourage bad behavior. Some say that websites would obey the same rule, comment spam and broken links being the broken windows of the internet. If your website is based on WordPress, here are a few plugins to help you keep a neat blog.
    - By Designer Daily
  • Analyze WordPress Performance – Plugin
    Performance of Wordpress can be quickly and easily negative effected by using some Plugins. You don’t have to be an expert to know, that more function will provide more load. However, provides the simplicity of creating a Plugin for WordPress, which have made it so popular and I very much appreciate, a problem – You don’t have to be a professional developer to create a Plugin, but an optimized syntax lead to a much improved performance of a WordPress installation.
    - By WP Engineer

bbPress

Pro Blogging & SEO
  • 17 Statistics to Monitor on Your Blog
    Today your task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge is to spend some time looking at your blog’s statistics/metrics package to see what you can learn from it.
    - By Darren Roese on ProBlogger
  • Thinking out of the “text is king” blogging box
    I always focus on creating new content. So are the majority of bloggers. And that is what majority of the blog advice sites suggest. Write great content consistently and grow your blog and audience that way.
    - By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog
  • Simple Dummy Text Generation
    Those people outside of the world of web design might sit and wonder, “Why might somebody need an entire web site dedicated to creating made up words?”. However, those people inside of the web design world know that dummy text generation makes it handy to test a web site without having to fill it up with real content, just yet. Needing some dummy text of your own? Check out and save the Blind Text Generator for help.
    - By Mitchelaneous
  • Find a WordPress Job With Twitter
    If you’re a WordPress freelancer, you already probably have your regular web sources for your gigs (and if you don’t, do read How to find a WordPress job right now). Did you know that Twitter was also a fine potential source of information for your next project ?
    - By planetOzh
  • Sunday Morning SEO: Stay Motivated by Tracking Your Rankings
    It often takes time to see the results of link building in terms of traffic. Compare this to social media marketing. With social media, you can see traffic spikes right away whenever you get stumbles, diggs, and retweets.
    - By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald
  • Write a ‘Review’ Post
    I know that many bloggers already write ‘reviews’ on their blogs but you can never have enough practice on this type of post.
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • Hunt for Dead Links
    Blogging is built on the ‘link’. One blog links to another blog who links to another who makes comment on another. This is a wonderful thing – but what happens when one of the blogs that you’re linking to is retired, is deleted, changes it’s link structure, moves etc?
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • Prepare an Emergency Backup Blogging Kit
    When an unexpected family situation kept me from blogging for several weeks, I learned a valuable lesson: ALWAYS BE PREPARED.
    - By Andrew G.R. on The Blog Herald
Blog Development/Design
  • How to Stop Spam Harvesting With Email Obfuscation
    he day I discovered the “mailto:” link was glorious. I could publish my address on a web page and anyone could email me with a single click. This was in the more innocent days of the web – before the spam harvesters took over. Use a “mailto:” today and your first viagra message will appear 30 seconds later. So how can you publish an email address without attracting unwanted attention from spammers?
    - By Craig Buckler on SitePoint
  • Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery)
    An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery. Although there are many great plugins already, this tutorial will help you understand how the image rotator works and helps you create your own from scratch.
    - By Soh Tanaka on DesignM.ag
  • 11 Syntax Highlighters To Beautify Code Presentation
    When sharing codes on a website, even they are wrapped with code tags or styled differently, it is always a challenge to read them without syntax highlighting.
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WordPress

WordPress SEO

  • The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog
    I started writing my beginner’s guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It’s time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO.
    - By Joost de Valk

WordPress Tutorials/Tips/How to’s

  • Using your own url shortener
    I’ve seen a few posts recently giving some basic ideas for rolling your own URL shortener. I guess these are all the rage. So I decided to have a go myself. I figured that WordPress had some behind-the-scenes stuff that could be used to good effect.
    - By WP Fun
  • How To Display The Number of Comments On Your Blog
    If you have a popular WordPress blog with lots of comments, you should promote how popular it is by displaying the total number of comments you have since you started blogging on your header or sidebar.
    - By Pimp My WordPress
  • Create Post Only For Your RSS Subscribers in WordPress
    To benefit their regular readers, blog owners some times need to create posts only for those who subscribe to their RSS Feed. The benefit might be some promotional scheme, freebies or discount announcement that you only want to provide to your regular RSS subscribers. Here’s how to do it if you have a WordPress powered blog.
    - By Web Developer Plus
Pro Blogging & SEO
  • Put Time Into Your Blog Posts
    There are mixed opinions about whether a blogger should focus on spewing out lots of posts or whether sparse but quality posts are better. Should you post often regardless of quality, or less often but content rich posts? Spend 30 minutes on a daily post or 3 hours on a quality weekly post?
    - By Roman Jelinek on DavidRisley.com
  • 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media
    In this day and age, it seems everything online has a price associated with it. Whether you’re subscribing to a pay site for full articles or clicking on ads in a blog, everything online seems to have money associated with it. Luckily there is still a large, and very healthy, movement online for media files listed under the Creative Commons licenses.
    - By Sean Aune on SitePoint
  • How Bands Can Avoid Making 7 Big SEO Mistakes
    SEO rules tend to apply universally, but specialty sites require some additional thought. When assessing a music artist’s site in regards to optimization, one has to consider that artistic expression is often more important than search visibility.
    - By Jason Feinberg on MediaShift
  • Build How-To Material to Grow Relationships
    People want “how-to” information, and they want it to be entertaining.
    - By Chris Brogan
Blog Development/Design
  • How To Use Icons On Your Web Site
    Icons have been used in design since, well, since design began. From the hieroglyphics on the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the orange RSS icon now gracing so many web sites, icons have been used in both print and in web design for the same purpose — to draw the eye quickly to important parts of the document or web page.
    - By SitePoint
  • 20 More Explosive Web Development Screencasts
    Months ago, we posted a popular resource for 30 eye-opening screencasts. As a result of the success of that particular article, we’re back with twenty more web development video tutorials that should prove to be as equally helpful in your quest to become a web development ninja.
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WordPress
  • Jeffro – The WordPress Ninja From the WordPress Tavern
    A month back, when I started this blog, I wanted to interview a number of people that are very active in the WordPress community. One of the first names that came to mind was Jeffro from Jeffro2.0, WP Tavern and the WP Weekly Podcasts.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy
  • Are widgets easy enough now?
    Widgets in WordPress 2.7 are a pain the rump to build. So much so that I wrote a plugin called Fun with Theme Widgets, which took specifically built files from a theme folder and created widgets out of them. In 2.8 however widgets are far easier to create, which leads me to wonder whether they are now easy enough for the average WordPress user to dive into.
    - By WP Fun
  • WordPress Theme Design Contest – Win $300
    If you are a WordPress theme designer, here’s your chance to win a cool sum of $300! Participate in this contest, show off your design skills, and earn some easy money (plus bragging rights as the theme designer). All you have to do is design and code the best WordPress theme that enters this contest. There is also a runner-up prize of $100 for the second best entry. Excited? Go ahead, read the rules
    - By Blog Oh Blog

WordPress Tutorials/Tips/How to’s

  • Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio
    WordPress is often thought of as just a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Even WordPress’ documentation includes an entire section on using WordPress as a content management system. Because WordPress is such an easy-to-use platform, it makes sense to consider using it as a platform to build just about any kind of website, a portfolio website included.
    - By Cameron Chapman on Smashing Magazine
  • 9 Useful Snippets for Your WordPress Functions
    Seeing as how the WordPress category is one of the most successful and popular categories on Themeforest, it seems fit to cover some useful tips on the topic. When it comes to WordPress, many designers seem to be scared off or uninterested in the functions.php file, when really it can be one of the most useful files for your WordPress theme. Today, we will review nine superb code snippets you can use to enhance your theme.
    - By Drew Douglass on In the Woods
  • How to: Display your number of tweets in full text mode on your WordPress blog
    Twitter is obviously a very useful tools for bloggers. Did you ever wanted to know how many times your posts are sent to Twitter by your readers? If yes, just read on and learn how to know it, and display it on your blog, in full text mode.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
  • How To Make Your Own WordPress Widget
    In this article, I’m going to show you how to write a simple plugin that adds a new widget to WordPress. We’ll be using the new WP_Widget class, which is the newest method but means that the widget will only work in WordPress 2.8+. I know that 2.8 isn’t actually out yet, but it will be soon and there’s no sense in learning the old method.
    - By Aaron D. Campbell on WP Informer
  • Improve Performance of Your WordPress Theme in 5 Minutes
    There’s a quick and relatively simple way to increase the performance of your WordPress theme while reducing overall server load. The problem is that most themes are written to be as portable as possible. This comes in handy because you can just drop in a theme and it works with no editing at all. Unfortunately, it means that a lot of information that never changes is queried from the database anyway. If you want to speed your theme up, you can customize it to your site and reduce database queries. All in about 5 minutes.
    - By Aaron D. Campbell on WP Informer
  • 40 WordPress Optimisation tips
    I presented on A4UExpo Europe yesterday on WordPress Optimisation, doing 40 tips in 40 minutes. Here are the slides
    - By Joost de Valk
  • 9 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog “Smart”
    Many of you might be confused by the title and the term “smart”. To me a “smart” blog is a blog that behaves differently depending on its visitors’ behavior and characteristics.
    - By Thaya Kareeson on Weblog Tools Collection
  • How to Only Show Posts With a Specific Custom Field
    Sometimes you only want to show posts that you’ve added a specific custom field to. For instance, lets say you write book and movie reviews and for each you give them a custom field “review_type” with the value set to either “book” or “movie”. So how would you show posts that are only movie reviews? Easily!
    - By John Kolbert
  • Removing WordPress dashboard widgets
    For some reason, unknown to us mere mortals, there doesn’t seem to be a built in WordPress function to remove an already added dashboard widget.
    - By Clearskys
  • Add the Fast Forward Button Right from the Post Editor
    The concept behind such a button is that, readers who need no introduction to the subject of the post can easily jump to the main content.
    - By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues
  • Unique Author Comment Styles in Wordpress
    When I first looked into making styled author comments, I got a bit of a headache sifting through all of articles out there. There weren’t many that solved the problem from start to finish. The most helpful introduction I found was on the Aonach Consulting blog.
    - By Zach Dunn on Build Internet

WordPress Plugins

  • Top 10 WordPress plugins you didn’t see on other lists
    Statistics say there are around 5,000 WordPress plugins on the Internet. Some are better than others and you have probably already seen many ‘top lists’ featuring the best ones. Main problem with these lists is that a lot of plugins tend to repeat and you have hard time finding cool new plugins.
    - By Vladimir Prelovac
  • 5 Essential SEO WordPress Plugins
    One of the biggest advantages of WordPress over blogspot is the power to add functions and modify the settings for better search engine optimization. Search engine optimization in simple words means making your blog/website search engine friendly. This will help your posts to rank high in search engine.
    - By Quick Online Tips
  • Customize the Managing Posts Panel with WordPress Plugin
    he WordPress backend is very flexible, and can easily be customized to accommodate a lot of different purposes. In this article by Vladimir Prelovac, we shall learn how to customize the Manage Panel. We will also explore the possibility of turning WordPress into a Content Management System (CMS), using methods provided to us by WordPress. This article is extracted from the “WordPress Plugin Development” book.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy
  • WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/27
    - By Weblog Tools Collection
Pro Blogging, Making Money & SEO
Blog Development/Design
  • How to Increase AdSense Earnings Through Better Design
    AdSense has been one of the most proven ways for bloggers, small and large alike, to generate some additional cash flow through their blog each month. However, some misconceptions about the quality of the program, especially in the way that sites present their ads (i.e. Made for AdSense or “scraper” blogs) have arisen over the past.
    - By ThemeLib
  • How to Use a Magazine to Improve Your Blog
    This is an off line activity – all you need to complete it is a pack of sticky notes, a notebook, pen, a magazine (or a newspaper) and an hour of time.
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • Best CSS Screencasts and Slideshows
    Today we present collection of the best CSS screencasts
    - By AjaxLine
  • 20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
    Back in October we wowed you with 20 Excellent Ajax Effects You Should Know. The post went on to become one of the most popular ever published at Nettuts+. This time around we have twenty more equally excellent Ajax effects for you to know and love.
    - By Glen Stansberry on Nettuts

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WordPress
  • WPWeekly Episode 52 – Matt Mullenweg Interview
    This edition of WordPress Weekly featured a special interview with the WordPress project leader, Matt Mullenweg. In this interview we asked a wide variety of questions. Some of which were mine while most of them came from you, the listeners of the show. It was great to get Matt back on the show again and I hope we can do this every three or four months just to talk WordPress. Here are the list of questions we covered during the show.
    - By WP Tavern
  • What Automattic Should Do With WP.com
    I’m happy to see that Automattic has been able to acquire WP.com, from Yahoo incidentally, who also sold the blo.gs domain to the creators of WordPress and Akismet not so long ago. Matt is thrilled, and rumor has it* that he spent a full day just typing in wp.com and watching it resolve to wordpress.com (*not confirmed).
    - By Thord Daniel Hedengren on The Blog Herald
  • Announcing Wordpress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0)
    It is that time of the year again. We will be holding another WordPress Plugin Competition. The Plugin Competitions held in the past years have generated a tremendous amount of interest in WordPress and our entrants have come up with fantastic plugins such as WP Comment Remix, Manageable, Who Sees Ads and of course OneClick in addition to hundreds of others that were voted upon by readers like you.
    - By Mark Ghosh on Weblog Tools Collection
  • Automattic Purchases WP.com
    Being a long time domainer, I’ve always understood the value of a strong domain name. It can literally make or break a product before it even launches! Automattic appears to understand domains as well, and wants to protect their brand. In a brilliant move, it seems they recently completed the purchase of WP.com, the common abbreviation for WordPress, which was previously owned by Yahoo.
    - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

WordPress Tutorials/Tips/How to’s

  • WordPress Plugin-Path
    When working on a Plugin I noticed that the path to its files is not always complete, which depends on the WordPress version.
    - By WP Engineer
  • Display the total number of users of your WordPress blog
    If your blog allow user registration, what about displaying the total number of registered users? This simple code will allow you to do it easily.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
  • WordPress for Designers: Day 14
    Moving full steam ahead with our WordPress series, it’s time to finish our static home page that we have been creating. Today, we will utilize all kinds of cool WordPress tricks and functions to bring our home page together. Get ready for a day full of custom fields, WordPress queries, and special functions!
    - By Drew Douglass on In the Woods
  • The Hidden Gem Of WordPress
    The other day, I was thinking about how easy it is to make a mess on the web. For example, purchasing a domain that you attach an email address to that is used for a year only to end up wanting to use a different domain.
    - By Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection

WordPress Plugins

WordPress Themes

  • 20 Wordpress Theme Frameworks And Starting Resources
    A theme framework is a theme that is designed to be a flexible foundation that can serve as a parent theme for building child themes. The use of WordPress theme frameworks may ease theme development by reducing the volume of work which may be needed in creating a backbone for your theme (usually by using PHP and WordPress Template Tags). Theme frameworks also make theme development more accessible, removing the need for programming knowledge. I listed here the best Wordpress theme frameworks available as well as several child themes and related articles to help get Your foot with Wordpress theme developing.
    - By Dainis Graveris on 1stwebdesigner
Pro Blogging & SEO
  • Article Marketing=Better Backlinks=More Money For You II
    Article marketing is a source of quality backlinks you really should devote some serious time to. Why? Because you are in complete control of the quality, the amount of content, and of course the all important anchor text used to link back to your site! Not only that, but write a good solid 500 to a 800 word article giving needed information, and more than likely it will be picked up by people looking for content for their ezines, blog, newsletters, ect. and your number of links well grow, grow, and grow some more!
    - By Cash Blog
  • Pay Special Attention to a Reader
    The Task – Choose one (or more than one) of your current readers and do something out of the blue that acknowledges them, shows them that you see them as valuable and highlights them to your other readers.
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire
    In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.
    - By E. Kinney Zalesne on The Wall Street Journal
  • The best piece of SEO advice I’ve given so far
    Ask your non-techy friend, neighbor or brother to evaluate your site.
    - By Vladimir Prelovac
  • Sunday Morning SEO: Improve Your Rankings by Increasing Your Traffic
    Sugarrae published an interesting study on her blog a couple months ago. It’s entitled You Don’t Need SEO to Rank in Google. It basically shows that increasing your traffic can help your rankings. Usually we think of it backwards. We do SEO to increase our traffic, but if you have a knack for attracting visitors without doing SEO, your rankings will improve as a by product.
    - By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald
  • Tracking Your Affiliates with OSI Affiliate Software
    I would like to tell you about this piece of software that I use to track my affiliates. But before I get to that, let me explain a bit about affiliate marketing. If you are unfamiliar with the term, in short it is an affective advertiser’s solution that track stats based on a pay-per-performance model.
    - By ThemeLib
  • Is your Blog yet another Partial Blog?
    Feeds were originally invented so that people could keep track of their favorite blogs without having to manually check them for updates. When publishers choose to keep RSS Feeds partial, it does not serve the purpose, which in most cases can be read as ‘you end up with lesser subscribers’.
    - By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues

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  • WordPress News: WordPressMU Updated, WordPress 2.8 News, WP.com, WordPress Events
    Some Administration Panel Redesigns in WordPress 2.8: While WordPress committed to no changes in the WordPress Administration Panels interface, there will be a few minor tweaks. In “Design Tweaks: Who’s In? (An idea in three acts),” Jane Wells explains that your help is wanted to redesign the header area of the interface. UX and design guidelines have been posted and you are welcome to have your input until Tuesday, April 27, 2009. The submissions will be offered for voting for only one day due to the pressure to get WordPress 2.8 released.
    - By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald
  • Blogging and WordPress links for 4/25/2009
    - By Mark Ghosh on Weblog Tools Collection
  • First Ohio WordPress Meetup A Success
    The first Ohio WordPress meetup went off last night as a success. While we did not have a huge crowd (only five people) the first event proved to be a nice base to build upon. Kim Parsell, Angelo Mendato, Jeff Lee, Brian Layman and myself were all in attendance. We discussed everything from caching to databases to WordPress MU, BuddyPress, and finally social media stuff like Twitter and Facebook. A couple things I noticed about the event.
    - By WP Tavern

WordPress Tips/Tutorials/How to’s

  • Show Tags On A WordPress Theme
    There are numerous tagging plugins available that can do this for you. But if you want to control where the tags are shown on your WordPress blog then you might want to disable the plugins and edit the themes files to show the tags exactly where you want them to.
    - By WordPress Max
  • A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development
    Despite an extensive codex, many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins. In today’s screencast, we’ll start from scratch and build our first usable plugin. For this example, we’ll write a simple “tuts formatting” function that allows a blog editor to more easily format articles.
    - By Jeffrey Way on Nettuts

WordPress Plugins

  • Wanna WordPress Wiki
    The bright folks over at Instinct Entertainment, makers of the WP e-Commerce Plugin, have released the WordPress Wiki plugin which converts an innocent WordPress blog/site into a Wiki.
    - By Ryan Hellyer on WP Tavern

WordPress Themes

Pro Blogging & SEO
  • 31 Days to Build a Better Blog – Two Thirds Through Update
    We’re at Day 20 (almost 21) in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge and at two thirds of the way through the project I thought I’d give a quick update with a few random highlights, updates and thoughts
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • How to Create A Better Online Portfolio
    Since last few years it’s very essential for a designer to look again at how he presents himself to existing and potential clients. It doesn’t matters which one is your creative discipline as your website is the only foundation of how you are perceived. Even if you are very good at what you do and your work is predominantly in print or broadcast in interactive media, your online portfolio is usually the first stop of call for people looking to commission or hire you as clients are always be nervous or hesitant about purchasing freelance services.
    - By Anders Ross on instantShift
  • Leave Comments on Other Blogs
    If there’s one piece of advice for building traffic to a blog that is given to new bloggers more than any other it is about leaving comments on other blogs.
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • Article Marketing=Better Backlinks=More Money For You!
    I’ve been busy writing articles for a new site I’m building (more on that in my next post;o). Why? Because I think you can get some of the very best backlinks that way! Why? Because you are in total control of everything (anchor text, content of article, length of the article, ect, ect.)
    - By Cash Blog
  • How Do Your Come Up, Store and Organize Ideas for Blog Posts?
    Joel Drapper asks: I would like to know how you come up with ideas for posts, and also how you store, and organize those ideas.
    - By Daniel Scocco on Daily Blog Tips
  • How to Create the Right Avatar for You and Your Brand
    In contrast to corporate or business avatars, personal ones are simple: crop a photograph you like and that’s it. It doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. That avatar represents who you are, and since you don’t care about branding that much you don’t need to worry about what’s in that little picture that will be associated with your name in the social network you’re using. Besides, if you use social networking just for personal reasons, changing that avatar every now and then could be fun and it will also attract some attention from your followers.
    - By Mihaela Lica on SitePoint
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It has been 4 days since the last post in WP Links. So today I have collected what happend in the WordPress Community within those days ;) (*try to post more often ;)

WordPress

WordPress Tips/Tutorials/How to’s

WordPress Plugins

WordPress Themes

Pro Blogging & SEO
  • A simple tip to indirectly attract advertisers to your blog
    When I wrote the record breaking traffic day blog post earlier this month, I was just excited about the achievement and wanted to share the experience with the readers, in hope that it may inspire, motivate and help you as well.
    - By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog
  • 7 Tips to Keep People on Your Blog Longer
    While many people have set a goal of multiple goals, there is one universal goal that everyone should be trying to attain. No matter what type of blogger you are – writing for a personal blog, for a company, or for profit in general, you want to be able to attract new visitors to your blog and retain them for as long as possible without forcing them to stay on your blog.
    - By ThemeLib
  • Top 3 Suggestions For Driving Traffic To Your Blog
    Most bloggers don’t really have a hard time writing and figuring out what to say on their blogs. The big challenge is driving traffic. How do we get people to pay attention to us?
    - By David Risley
  • Watch a First Time Reader Use Your Blog
    New readers to your blog are making decisions within seconds of arriving at your blog that will determine how (and if) they’ll use your blog.
    - Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
  • 20 Law-Related Questions Every Blogger Should Know
    Though journalism schools are often maligned in the blogging world as producing stale writing, they do teach many valuable lessons that are useful when running your own site.
    - By Jonathan Bailey on The Blog Herald
  • Getting Started With Google Ad Manager
    The Google Adsense Blog helps you to get started with Google Ad Manager, Google’s hosted solution for managing your ads. Ad Manager is free to use, but if you grow big you might have to pay up, be sure to read the terms of service so that you know what you’re getting into.
    - By Thord Daniel Hedengren on The Blog Herald
Blog Development/Design
  • Development Tutorial: Creating 301 Re-directs
    From time to time you’ll probably want to send a website visitor who tries to access a page that has moved, been deleted, etc to a brand spanking new page of which quite possibly will have the content they were looking for.
    - By Christopher Hennis on JungleJar
  • How To Use Help Elements To Improve Your Designs
    When designing a website, the most important thing is to make it as usable and convenient as possible. On a website on which users could possibly get confused, it is best to include help elements.
    - By Matt Cronin on Smashing Magazine
  • New Screencast: Basic Table Styling with CSS
    Tables are great. They are perfectly suited for use on the web. That is, for displaying tabular data! In this screencast we’ll cover what that actually means, take a look at a table, the markup that creates it, quirks and things-you-should-know. Then we start styling it up with CSS and quickly touch on some jQuery bonus stuff at the end.
    - By Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks
  • Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery
    Recently I was checking out some nice flash galleries and came across an effect that I really liked. I had a sudden urge to duplicate that similar effect but using my bread and butter (CSS and jQuery). I thought I’d share this and maybe some of you can find it useful.
    - By Soh Tanaka
  • What is Vertical Align?
    CSS has a property called vertical align. It can be a bit confusing when you first learn about it, so I thought we could go through it’s use a little bit.
    - By Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks

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WordPress

WordPress Tips/Tutorials/How to’s

  • How I Stopped Blog Content Theft

    If you have an established blog with original content posted on a regular basis you too may be a victim of the lame and lazy. There may be many other ways to stop content theft from WordPress blogs, but I have found the easiest for me is to add little something to each new post.
    - By WordPress Max

  • Video Tutorial – Style Threaded Comments

    I didn’t realize how complicated styling threaded comments can be until I watched this video. David Perel published a screencast on From The Couch.com which goes over how to style threaded comments in WordPress complete with source files for the code but more importantly, hand holding to figure out all of the CSS required for good looking threaded comments. While this is a basic tutorial, it was easy for me to get lost between parent comments, sub comments, sub-sub comments, etc, but that is not his fault.
    - By WP Tavern

  • How to: Automatically insert text in WordPress editor

    Do you always insert the same text on all your posts, for example to tell people to subscribe to your rss feed? If yes, you should definitely set up WP to have it automatically inserted in the editor.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • Disable WordPress Search

    Not always is the search in WordPress desired. The one or another application with WordPress doesn’t need this feature. Even if it is an added value in my opinion. In some cases, it still shouldn’t be displayed and so I have them deactivated with access to two hooks. For now, I can see no other place where you could access it in my applications and it works so smoothly.
    - BY WP Engineer

  • Plugin Style Settings – Database Or CSS?

    Today I wanted to talk about a problem which Justin Tadlock will be covering in more detail at some point in the future and that is, plugins which contain a CSS file to edit their style. Don’t get me wrong, Lester Chen is a great plugin author, but I find it increasingly annoying that after I make the necessary styling changes to his WP-PageNavi plugin so that it blends in with my theme, I overwrite those changes once I upgrade his plugin.
    - By WP Tavern

  • WordPress Child Theme Basics

    In this post you’ll learn all the basics of WordPress Child Themes: WordPress Child Theme file structure, how to make any WordPress Theme a blank framework, how to import Parent Theme CSS styles, how to override Parent Theme styles, and how to override Parent Theme Template files. You’ll also learn that all of this is incredibly easy and within your grasp and that it might just change how you think about WordPress and Theme development.
    - By Ian Stewart on ThemeShaper

  • 250+ Super Cool Wordpress Tutorials – Newbie To Pro

    There is no reason to deny that WordPress is world’s favourite blogging software and there are many sites out there who publish great wordpress tutorials, following these tutorials one can easily learn wordpress in no time. Here is my list which is divided into different categories, each list is arranged in way that it goes from basics to advanced level. Hope you have a great time learning them.
    - By Ants Magazine

WordPress Plugins

Pro Blogging & SEO
Blog Development/Design

  • 404/403 Website Error Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer

    Website error pages are perhaps one of the most overlooked pieces of a fully rounded website. Not only are they important but they give you the opportunity to have a little fun. Although many web developers rely on server logs to keep an eye out for hits on error pages, I’m going to take a different approach by using a PHP generated email. In addition, we will spice up the design a bit, add basic navigation and link to the website sitemap.
    - By Jarel Remick on Nettuts

  • 84 Amazingly Useful CSS Tips & Resources

    As a dedicated Web Standards gal, i appreciate the beauty and power of CSS, in fact my design studio – Postscript5 is built on the aim of producing beautiful, accessible websites. The love and respect for web standards is continually growing in the online community and the push to create more and more unique web designs and layouts means the use and functionality of CSS is more keenly discussed.
    - By Grace Smith

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  • WordCast 51: Big-Wheeled Sedan

    We’re pleased to be joined this week by expert guest host Jonathan Bailey to discuss actual news! Yes, we’re back to the regular routine this week, covering everything from the brand new Digg bar (it is, contrary to popular belief, not edible), and how often a blog theme really should be changed, and how much. Make sure to also listen for all the regulars: our picks, the tip of the week, it’s all here this week on WordCast.
    - By Dave Moyer on WordCast

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

WordPress Plugins

Pro blogging & SEO

  • Shorter URLs With to.ly

    Do we really need yet another URL shortener service? I guess we do, if nothing else but to get even shorter URLs for our slightly compulsive microblog link pushing. The most recent one is to.ly, created by Jonas Lejon, who also did the Twitter backup service. So why did he venture into URL shortening? Aren’t the competition good enough?
    - By Thord Daniel Hedengren on The Blog Herald

  • What Changes Your Mind About Leaving a Blog Comment?

    A few minutes ago I followed a trackback to a lovely blog post about one of my blog posts. It was quite complementary and made some good points. I was in the middle of composing a reply when I glanced over to the sidebar and saw the listing of the most recent blog posts featuring what were clearly pay-per-post or sponsored post titles. Ick!
    - By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald

Blog development/design

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WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • WordPress for Designers: Day 13

    Get ready to jump straight into WordPress coding as we continue on with our Wordpress for Designers series. As suggested by many of our readers, we will go straight into WordPress and begin coding our theme. Today, we will cover a basic reset, as well as begin coding our home page. Start your servers, launch your text editor, and let’s go!
    - By Drew Douglass on In the Woods

  • Creating a Custom Blog Homepage

    Wordpress is extremely customizable and that’s one of the beauties of it. When you are able to master customizing blog themes for Wordpress, you can turn the platform into almost anything.
    - By David Risley

  • 10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

    WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! But what happens when you combine the power of javascript with WordPress, the possibilities are infinite. This article will share 10 great practices, examples & Plugins for using the most popular Javascript frameworks out there to spice up your WordPress theme.
    - By devSnippets

  • How to: Display posts in columns

    Today, here one of the top most wanted WordPress hacks: Displaying post content in columns. In this recipe, you’ll learn how to easily do it without any plugin.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • How to toggle comments with one line of code

    I accidentally discovered today a great usability feature for WordPress blogs – ability to toggle display of comments with a simple click.
    - By Vladimir Prelovac

  • Fix Missing Images During WordPress Database Import

    After transferring a WordPress site from one domain to another there is often an issue with missing images. Even though you checked the box that sounds like it is downloading and transferring all attachments.
    - By WP Toy

WordPress themes

Pro blogging & SEO

  • RankSense SEO Software Review

    RankSense is basically an all-in-one SEO software solution. It has 12 integrated tools that you can use to optimize most aspects of your website, and its objective is to make the whole process as user friendly as possible.
    - By Daniel Scocco on Daily Blog Tips

Blog Development/Design

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  • WordPress 2.8 Widgets Options Page – First Screenshot

    In the current trunk of WordPress is a “first run” of the new widget management available to see. This is a development version, it shows the warning “This page is not 100% ready, please use only on test installations.”.
    - By WP Engineer

  • Media Management In WordPress 2.9

    How long has it been since we started talking about the media management system in WordPress receiving a major overhaul? Based on what I’ve read, the plan is to revamp the media system in WordPress 2.9 instead of WordPress 2.8. Shane who operates Bugssite.org has released his proposed wireframes for media management in WordPress aimed at version 2.9.
    - By WP Tavern

  • WPWeekly Episode 50 – Interview With Cathy Perkins

    This week on our big Five-O episode, we had the chance to interview Cathy Perkins otherwise known as The WordPress Wizard. We discussed a number of issues pertaining to WordPress such as the complexity of the software, how its changed over the years, tips on how to choose a theme as well as plugins and much more. This episode was geared more towards end users rather than developers.
    - By WP Tavern

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • Set Up WordPress as a CMS

    If you’re used to how WordPress works, then using it as a CMS (Content Management System) to power a standard website is an excellent idea. It’s lightweight and easy to use, has fantastic support from the WordPress community and is easily extendable with the various CMS style plugins available. If you also want a news or continual archive style section for information (eg. news, announcements, events etc) then you can still utilise the blogging system that we know and love.
    - By Stuff By Sarah on Blogging Tips

  • WordPress Tip: Valid, SEO-Friendly Email Permalink Buttons

    In addition to your choice collection of “Share This” links, you may also want to provide visitors with a link that enables them to quickly and easily send the URL permalink of any post to their friends via email
    - By Jeff Starr on Perishable Press

  • Screen Options To Customize The WordPress Dashboard

    With the latest version of WordPress new options have been added to customize the view of each module. Now you can choose what to show on the screen. To keep your view as simple and uncluttered as you want.
    - By WordPress Max

  • How to add Fullsize in WordPress

    Fullsize is very helpful when you have a lot of pictures on you blog and you want to view the fullsize of the image in the same window just in a click.
    - By Alex Vorn on WP Crowd

  • Comment Form Style with JQuery in WordPress

    In this post I want to show you How you can change the style of your comment forms in WordPress making more great looking using JQuery.
    - By Alex Vorn on WP Crowd

  • Backgrounds in WordPress, Tips and Examples

    In this article I want to show you how to make a background to your WordPress blog, what kind of background style you can use, what CSS codes require to add in your style.css file and some great examples based on very creative blog designs.
    - By Alex Vorn on WP Crowd

WordPress plugins

  • Highlight Search Terms WordPress Plugin

    Highlight Search Terms is a WordPress plugin that can highlight search terms on your blog’s search page. The plugin is based on a tutorial by Thaya Kareeson, but it also includes several additional features not present in the tutorial and better browser compatibility.
    - By W-Shadow

  • 15 Useful SEO Plugins For Wordpress

    Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. This post will help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more.
    - By Just Skins

  • WordPress Download Monitor Review

    When you build a website – what is your goal? Most of us want to get visitors and provide a product that our readers and visitors will enjoy. One of the ways you can add some value to your website is to offer downloads. These downloads an be pretty much anything you want them to be – the goal of course would be having something that people want.
    - By Weblog Tools Collection

  • Social Bookmarking With WordPress Plugin

    In this article by Vladimir Prelovac, we will learn to create our first functional WordPress plugin and learn how to interact with the WordPress API (this is the WordPress interface to PHP) on the way. The knowledge you will gain in this article alone will allow you to write a lot of similar plugins.
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  • WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/11

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Pro blogging & SEO

  • Blog As An Online Reputation Management Tool

    Most people who blog are blogging for either two reasons: making money from the blog or just passionate enough to blog (even without getting compensated). Only few people do understand that blogs can be used as an online reputation management tool.
    - By Blog for Beginners

  • Danny Outlaw Talks Personal Branding & Promotion: Tips on How to Get Yourself Out There

    Starting out as a designer, or blogger isn’t always easy. The hardest part is promoting yourself & your blog. Danny Outlaw, from Outlaw Design Blog talks us through how he tackled the problem, and gives us some seriously useful and true tips to help you build your own personal brand. Danny is re-launching his blog soon, and talks us through his strategy of building his brand.
    - By Function Web Design & Development

  • How to float to the top of Google Search Results, without paying

    Seems like too many websites and brands start up from scratch, and get absolutely NO WHERE. Without the blitzkrieg of press releases and public relations broo-haha, it can be damn hard to get relevant traffic to your site, especially with no money. Here’s my comprehensive guide for getting traffic to your site when you have no fan base, no tribe, no cult following, no page rank, no domain age, no public relations, and most importantly, no money.
    - By Assault Blog

Blog Development/Design

  • Be Inspired, but Don’t Copy

    There’s a thin line between inspiration and copying. We are surrounded with objects and art in our every day life. Finding inspiration for a design is an easy task these days. In this article, I will guide you through the design process of a website I recently finished. I will provide images of websites that inspired me to create a new and unique web layout.
    - By In the Woods

  • Design a Clean Corporate Website With Illustrator

    Corporate web design is rather simple, because it often follows basic guidelines and trends. Today, we will go over the complete process of creating a clean and relatively simple corporate web design using Adobe Illustrator. I will talk about the best techniques and approaches to creating a web design started in Illustrator, which is a great tactic. The image below shows what we will be creating. This style of design can be used universally, as it follows many trends, and looks very professional. We will use the most common corporate structure, which consists of a header, an introduction with welcome text and screenshots, and a simple grid-based information layout. After completing the interface in Illustrator, I will go over how to use the Slice Tool to prepare the design for the development stage.
    - By Spoonfed Design

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  • WPSeek – An Awesome Research Tool

    Ever wish you could search for WordPress functions, template tags, function sources, user notes, etc all from one place? That is exactly what WPSeek.com allows you to do as it acts as a very slick WordPress centric search engine.
    - By WP Tavern

  • The WordPress theme directory needs an upgrade

    The WordPress theme directory was opened last July. It currently houses 700 themes and has surpassed 4 million downloads. For anyone that’s wondering, those are good numbers to be looking at if you’re a part of the WordPress community.
    - By Justin Tadlock

  • WordPress Implements Jcrop

    With the upcoming version 2.8 of WordPress, the extension to the JavaScript library jQuery Jcrop is implemented. Jcrop allows directly into a web application to crop images.
    - By WP Engineer

  • Avoiding Common WordPress Errors

    All systems built by humans are prone to fail, including the times they are editing code that shouldn’t necessarily be tampered with. When you look at WordPress as a whole, the system is continually becoming more feature-rich and secure, while the number of errors people are encountering appears to be on the incline. A large percentage of the time, the errors encountered are not the fault of the content management/blog system, but rather on the user’s end, as the result of an action that may have produced undesired results for your readers and visitors.
    - By ThemeLib

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery

    A neat way to spice up your WordPress search page is to highlight search terms within your search results. I’ve seen some tutorials on the net on how to do this, but I haven’t found one that highlights both title and post content and is a drop-in modification for WordPress. Today I will bring you this drop-in hack for highlighting search terms on your WordPress blog.
    - By Thaya Kareeson on Weblog Tools Collection

  • How to: Get latest sticky posts

    Introduced in WordPress 2.7, stciky posts are an awesome new functionality, but sadly, retrieving and sorting them isn’t easy as you can expect. In this recipe, you’ll learn how to easily retrieve sticky posts.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • 10 tricks to make your WordPress theme stand out

    There are a ton of WordPress themes out there these days, so it can be hard to get your theme noticed. The solution? Use the ten tricks listed in this post to make your theme stand out from the crowd.
    - By Alex Denning on Cats Who Code

Pro blogging & SEO

  • Increase Web Traffic: Part 2 of 4

    With an understanding of where your site garners traffic from, I’d like to expand on the three principle areas of traffic origination: direct, search engines, and links.
    - By SageRock

  • Increase Web Traffic: Part 1 of 4

    To start, don’t give me that “Well-it-has-to-be-quality-traffic” shpeal. There’s nothing wrong with traffic; when did just good old, eager-to-please traffic become a bad thing? I know the argument for “quality” traffic, but this series might just change your view. You give me traffic and I’ll show you how to get something out of it, but maybe that’s the sales guy talking.
    - By SageRock

  • Key Components of a Clean and Readable Blog Article

    There are many variables that play into the equation of readability and usability in web design. Content needs to be as readable as possible to be efficient and effective, but styling is important at the same time. There is unique balance for every website, and that balance must be found to have a successful website. This is true for all types of sites, especially blogs which contain a large amount of text.
    - By Spoonfed Design

  • 15 Steps to a More Productive Workday

    Freelance designers, as well as those who work for small design studios, often face the challenge of getting the most productivity out of their time and achieving maximum efficiency. While this can be a struggle for anyone in a more “typical” job, freelancers have added distractions, unique challenges, and no one to hold them accountable. To be a successful freelancer you’ll have to place a priority on productivity and find ways that work for you.
    - By Vandelay Design

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  • Find WordPress Functions, Template Tags And More With WPSeek!

    Check out WPSeek, a new tool to search for WordPress Functions, Template Tags, Function Sources, User notes and more. It’s a pretty handy tool to handle all kinds of search requests.
    - By WP Engineer

  • WordPress for Designers: Day 12

    It’s time to move on to Day 12 of “Wordpress for Designers!” We are very close to jumping in to our Wordpress coding, but before we do we need to slice out those images. Today, we will have an in depth look at using the slice tool with our .psd to pull out any images needed to complete our theme. Wordpress theme here we come!
    - By Drew Douglass on In the Woods

  • WordCast 50: Our Semi-centennial!

    We’ve made it, everybody! 50 great weeks of 50 great episodes of this great podcast. To celebrate, we had a great party on this week’s show, with not only Dave and Kym, but we even dragged along Lorelle VanFossen, Liz Strauss and and Jonathan Bailey!
    - By WordCast

  • New Widget API in WordPress 2.8 – Get The Feedback In!

    If you are fairly updated with the latest developments on the new 2.8 version of WordPress, you know that one of the key features is the new Widget API. This API will give the developer all the functions they need when developing a new WordPress widget.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • How to: List most recent comments

    There’s plugins and widgets that allows you to list recent comments on your WordPress blog. But you know it, I like to avoid using many plugins and enjoy understand how things works. Here’s a nice code to display recent comments on your blog.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • How to make the most out of your sidebar

    When designing a WordPress site, many people overlook the power of the sidebar. It’s an excellent way to display information, and an even better way to display page-relevant information that doesn’t really fit into the “content” area of that page. Better yet, using dynamic content for the sidebar will make sure the user pays attention to it, since it (generally) displays less cluttered information and is obviously relevant to the page the user is currently browsing. Examples would be posts in the same category, author information, or specific ads for specific categories.
    - By Pontus Etéus on WP Candy

WordPress plugins

WordPress themes

  • Comparisons Between Most Popular Theme Frameworks

    Developing a WordPress theme from the ground up is a big task. Sure it might not take long to throw up the basics, but there are a lot of small details that can go into a site. Frameworks are a tool to make developing a theme easier and quicker. Their not something that everyone needs to use, but it’s an option for people.
    - By Dan Cole on WP Tavern

Pro blogging & SEO

  • Make Webpages Easier On The Eyes With Readable

    Have you ever needed to read something that is on a horribly formatted website? I am talking about white text on a light colored background or dark purple text on a dark background. Maybe the page you need to retrieve some knowledge from is riddled with pornography? Or maybe you are sensitive to all the penile enlargement advertisements?
    - By Karl L. Gechlik on MakeUseOf

  • Are You Using Google Analytics? Is Your Code Up To Date?

    A survey on 10,000 of the “top websites on the Internet” (according to Alexa) done by Pingdom reveals that a whopping 40% of the Google Analytics users still use the old tracking code, known as urchin.js. This script still works, but it might not in the near future.
    - By Thord Daniel Hedengren on The Blog Herald

  • 5 Tips On How To Handle Criticism In The Comments

    Copyblogger has published a list of five things to consider when getting hit by those snarky critics that just want to pick your carefully penned blog post to pieces. We’ve all been there, haven’t we, gotten hit by criticism. Sometimes it is warranted, and sometimes not. It really doesn’t matter, what does is how you handle it.
    - By Thord Daniel Hedengren on The Blog Herald

  • Video Marketing Tips and Tricks

    Video marketing is POWERFUL. In fact, you’ll be seeing me produce more videos. It works quite well – if you do it right.A couple of buddies of mine recently created a video to share some video marketing tricks. This is related to a brand new info product they just released called Video Marketing Rockstar.
    - By David Risley

  • Calculus of Blogging: The Whys and Hows of Blogging Success

    Experience online has taught me many essential elements to being a better blogger. As my success grows online I become more excited about what I am doing and the potential awaiting me. My excitement often leads to discussions with friends and family where I get the question, “Why Blog?” Trying to explain why blogging is something I enjoy, I keep returning to their question. Why do I or anyone blog? I finally came up with an answer.
    - By Seth Waite on Daily Blog Tips

  • Promote a Blog Post [Day #3 - 31DBBB]

    Blog Promotion is something that most bloggers have tried to do in many ways – however one mistake that I see a lot of bloggers making in their attempts to find new readers is that they only ever promote their blog as a whole. Their promotion is all about driving traffic to their blogs home page URL.
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger

Freebies

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WordPress

WordPresst tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • Wordpress Must Do’s – Part I

    Wordpress is growing to be the most popular blogging platform today and since lot of people are using it, it’s quite possible that your blog looks like just another blog in that pool of 1000’s of blogs. So, to make it stand out amongst the crowd, here are some Must Do’s for your Wordpress blogs.
    - By Blog Oh Blog

  • WordPress Links Categories In Different Sidebar Widgets

    So far up to version 2.7.1, WordPress is still showing all the Links or Blogroll in just one sidebar widget. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could separate those links by categories? You can with a little help from a plugin.
    - By WordPress Max

  • Build A WordPress 2.8 Widget With The New Widget API

    One of the main changes in WordPress 2.8 is the new widget API. This API is fully object oriented and provides the programmer all the necessary functions to create a WordPress widgets. Also, it now allows multiple use of each widget.
    - By WP Engineer

  • How to: Automatically insert content after each post

    Most blogs automatically displays some text after each post, for exemple to ask readers to subscribe to their rss feed. This text is very often hardcoded. Why not using function.php instead, and be able to keep the text when you’ll switch theme?
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • How I Got Started With Wordpress

    A common question I receive is how to get started with Wordpress. I’m speaking more of the theme-development part of Wordpress, not so much how to use Wordpress to run your blog. I don’t know if this is the best way, but it’s how I first got acquainted with Wordpress.
    - By For the Lose

  • How to preset text in the WordPress post editor

    I came across an interesting forum post the other day titled NO ONE can answer this: Preset Text In Wordpress [sic] Posts. Of course, I took this as a personal challenge to actually figure out how this is done.
    - By Justin Tadlock’

  • 60+ Awesome WordPress Tutorials

    Everyone want to have their own WordPress theme, they want to be unique and be able to present their own style. Here I have compile a list of “how to create your own WordPress theme” tutorials/articles. I hope this can save your time on searching and pay attention to your very own WordPress theme development.
    - By Themetation

WordPress plugins

  • Configuring Contact Form 7

    I installed Contact Form 7. Copied that line of code onto my page. The contact form shows up by nothing comes in to my email box. What am I doing wrong?
    - By Jeffro on WP Tavern

  • Wordpress Plugins That We Consider Essential

    Over the years I’ve come across a few Wordpress CMS Plug-ins that I have found essential and have used at one time or another on a few, if not all, of my websites.
    - By JungleJar

  • All In One SEO Pack for Windows Live Writer

    Windows Live Writer and All in One SEO Pack are two really good pieces of softwares available for WordPress users. Windows Live Writer allows users to write and publish blog posts from their desktop, on the other hand All in One SEO pack gives users the ability to optimize the post title for Search engines, and allows users to specify custom keywords and descriptions for the post.
    - By Keith Dsouza on Weblog Tools Collection

  • 5 Awesome Plugins for Community Building

    Frequency of Updates, Reader Feedback and an active Community, these are the elements that distinguishes a blog from a Website. And when you have all these factors right, you are on the right track to success. It’s easy to control Frequency, but the User Feedback greatly depends on the Community around the blog.
    - By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues

WordPress themes

Pro blogging and SEO

  • Sneak Peek: PostRank’s New Topic-Based Discovery Engine for Web Content

    PostRank is about to get a makeover with some very useful features for bloggers and readers alike.
    - By Ben Parr on Mashable

  • 5 Reasons Why URL Shorteners Are Useful

    URL shorteners, such as bit.ly and tinyurl, are services that help take longer URLs (which can be over a hundred characters long) and transform them into manageable links that almost never exceed 20 characters. URL shorteners are not new – TinyURL has been around since 2002. But their popularity has skyrocketed with the rise of Twitter, which only allows for 140 characters in any message.
    - By Ben Parr on Mashable

  • Write a List Post [Day 2 - 31DBBB]

    Today your challenge in the 31 Day project that we’re running here at Problogger is focused around writing a post and is to write a ‘list post’.
    - By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger

WebDevelopment/Design

  • 20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project

    Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.
    - By Noupe

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WordPress

  • WPWeekly Episode 49 – Were You Fooled?

    David and I discussed recent development news into WordPress 2.8 as well as BuddyPress 1.0. We also had a chat regarding how to offer paid support packages while offering the main product for free. Last but not least, we covered a premium theme directory which is aimed squarely at showcasing the premium themes that exists across the community.
    - By Jeffro on WP Tavern

  • WordPress for Designers: Day 11

    After a short break, we are back! Today is a big day as we continue on with our “WordPress for Designers” series and introduce the .psd that we will be converting. Join us as we get to know the ins and outs of the design we are working with and the basics of getting our images out of the .psd and ready for the web.
    - By Drew Douglass on In the Woods

  • 10 Changes To Wordpress That Would Make It A Killer CMS

    Since going freelance, I’ve supplied customers with a number of “Wordpress as a CMS” solutions. Not only because Wordpress is free and fairly userfriendly, but because for most websites Wordpress is more than enough and certainly more than solely a blog platform. So much, in fact, that I’ll bet you Wordpress is the next big thing on the CMS scene. It’s just waiting to happen, like a big secret waiting to pop out and say “Howdy”.
    - By Noscope

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

WordPress plugins

WordPress themes

Pro blogging and SEO
WebDevelopment/Design

  • Fun With CSS Shapes

    I bet a bunch of you don’t realize that we can create the illusion of shapes by using 100% CSS. By utilizing the border property in creative ways, we can make some really interesting polygons. In this week’s screencast, we’ll figure out a way to create speech-bubbles without resorting to background images.
    - By Jeffrey Way on Nettuts

  • 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

    Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect.
    - By Antonio Carusone on Smashing Magazine

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  • WordCast 49: Barbaric Blog Herald Barrage

    WordPress 2.8 delayed until April WordPress is in Google’s Summer of Code 2009 and they want ideas WordCamp Toronto gets how to run a WordCamp Celebrity Pressers: Lorelle wants your help! WordPress for iPhone now in the app store! Jane Wells wants EVERYONE to contribute to WordPress. Here’s how. Michael Pick launches Making WordPress.tv, and we want more of the good…
    - By Dave Moyer on WordCast

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • Adding Subcategories To WordPress

    Adding subcategories to a WordPress blog is quite easy, or as it is referred to in the dashboard: You might have a category, and under that have children categories. A child category is created by adding a category to a parent category. That is an easy way to keep your WordPress blog organized and easy to navigate.
    - By WordPress Max

WordPress plugins

  • Strange WP-Supercache WordPress Folders

    I use WP-Supercache, an amazing WordPress plugin which caches html pages of our php pages and reduces the server load drastically. But due to recent internal server errors, I looked inside my WordPress supercache folders and found some strange folders.
    - By Quick Online Tips

Pro blogging and SEO

  • Create Simple & Useful Screencasts With ScreenCastle

    One of the best ways to explain something computer-based is through a screencast. It’s easier to learn how to do something when you’re being shown where to move your mouse, where to click, and walks you through every step of a potentially complicated process.
    - By David Pierce on Make use of

WebDevelopment/Design

  • Build a Better Tooltip with jQuery Awesomeness

    Browsers will automatically display a tooltip when you provide a title attribute. Internet Explorer will also use the alt attribute. But, in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to quickly write a jQuery plugin that will replace the typical browser tooltip with something a little flashier.
    - By Jon Cazier on Nettuts

  • 10 Best jQuery Menu Plugins

    In this article we present ten best jQuery menu plugins.
    - By AjaxLine

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It’s have been some days since the last WP Links post. The reason is that I’ve not been feeling very well the last days. But now I’m back again ;)

As you can see, WP Start also has a new design (not finished yet). I felt is was about time now since I get bored with designs very fast ;) Hope you like it.

And here is the articles from the WordPress community from the last days:

WordPress

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • New Plus Tutorial: WordPress, Beginner to Master: Parts 4-6

    Throughout this six-part beginner-to-master series, we’ll be using the advanced features of WordPress to create our own portfolio & blog, complete with an options page, multiple styles and support for the new WordPress 2.7 features.
    - By Dan Harper on Nettuts

  • Saving Time While Publishing With Wordpress

    In this article I’ll give you a few tips that have helped me over a bit of time to save a bit of time. The fact that running a website and writing for it as well can require quite a bit of time and dedication, we all need new ways to help us publish and promote our articles quicker.
    - By Christopher on JungleJar

  • How to: Resize images on the fly

    Ever wished you could be able to upload your images, and didn’t care about manually resizing it? If yes, here is a real time saver: A php script that can resize your images “on the fly”.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • Pages & Subpages – Is Parent?

    WordPress allows to create sub-pages in your backend. This is why many uses WordPress as a CMS. Sometimes you like with the help of the Conditional Tags to start several queries with a certain respond – but then you see frequently in the template static queries on any ID of a page.
    - By Frank on WP Engineer

  • WordPress shortcode to display related posts

    Last week, I shown you how to display your related posts without using a plugin. But what about using a WordPress shortcode, which will allow you to define where the related posts might be displayed?
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • How To: Prevent Images from Being to Large

    Have you ever had an image show up on your website which is to large, causing problems for your WordPress theme? This is especially common for WordPress blogs that have multiple authors, where some authors or guest posters may not know how big they can make the images.
    - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

  • DRY WordPress Theme Coding

    Don’t Repeat Yourself is the rule, the name of the game, and what you should apply to just about everything you code. It is a simple principle which seems to be totally ignored when it comes to WordPress themes. So what is DRY? In it’s simplest form it means don’t write the same code over and over again.
    - By Curtis Henson

  • Five WordPress Security Tips

    Your website is one of your biggest assets. If your site’s security gets breached, you’re easily up a ship without a paddle. Imagine your WordPress powered website compromised and flooded with thousands of links to pornography… not a pretty picture. SO how do you prevent such a disaster from happening?
    - By Allan Collins

  • Optimizing WordPress database performance

    I’ve been working with a plugin that was mentioned on the wp-hackers list last week, called debug queries, to optimize the performance on some of my sites, including this one. The plugin was pretty easy to use, and I’ve improved a bit on it. I’ve sent the patch to Frank, who authored the original plugin, and he was kind enough to immediately update the plugin.
    - By Joost de Valk on Yoast

  • 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Wordpress Blog

    It is a common fact that if your blog is slow it’s likely that people won’t wait. Nobody likes a slow loading blog.
    - By James on Blog for Beginners

  • Wordpress Resources: 20 Various Wordpress Tutorial Videos

    I myself am more of a visual learner. What that basically means is that I tend to learn things mor efficiently through watching others instead of just reading from a book or website.
    - By Ralph on Fore the Lose

  • Add a Maximum Width To Your Images

    One thing I find annoying about the WordPress “Add New Post” page is the images part. You know, if you have a content area of 500px width and you will add an image of 800px width, your whole layout gets screwed up.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy

  • Ultimate Share Link Bonanza For Coda, Wordpress And Everything Else

    Ever wanted to include those sharing links to social or bookmarking sites so users can easily submit your content to these sites in a Wordpress site or any other platform?
    - By Matthias Kretschmann

WordPress plugins

  • Fantastic new plugin: Front End Editor

    I always wanted to create a plugin that allows me to edit the posts from front-end, through some kind of Ajax interface but never had the time to write it.
    - By Vladimir Prelovac

  • WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/30

    - By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection

  • Plugin Review: cSprites for WordPress

    cSprites for WordPress plugin helps speed up your blog by reducing the number of requests made for images. When activated all images within a post will automatically be stitched up and displayed properly as compressed CSS sprites.
    - By Thaya Kareeson on Weblog Tools Collection

  • Optimize Your WordPress Database with Optimize DB WordPress Plugin

    If your WordPress blog has been around for awhile, chances are there is some clutter in your MySQL database. For these situations, Joost De Valk of Yoast.com has an easy to use WordPress plugin called Optimize Database.
    - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

  • The “Simple Video Embedder” WordPress Plugin

    The “Simple Video Embedder” WordPress plugin is the perfect companion for anyone wanting to embed video within their WordPress powered website. Let’s face it, video has landed, and WordPress isn’t just for blogging anymore. Many of my WordPress themes integrate video in a way that is very visually appealing, but until now there really wasn’t a “simple” way to embed video within your posts without having to go through a bunch of time consuming, and confusing (depending on the user) steps.
    - By Jason Schuller on Press75

  • Multi-Author WordPress Blog Plugins

    Do you want to run a WordPress blog with a number of authors other than just yourself? I definitely need to grab some of these plugins, and try them out for myself, and this blog as well.
    - By Andrew on WP Thoughts

  • 10 Image and Gallery Lightbox Solutions for Wordpress – Plugins

    The easiest way to create an image gallery within Wordpress is by using the add feature (from WP 2.5+), but to give your gallery something extra you may wish to add the Lightbox effect. Originally developed by Lokeshdhaker.com, Lightbox has gained widespread popularity because it is easy to use and it gives a professional and stylish finish to your images
    - By Speckyboy

  • 12 WordPress Plugins for Theme Development

    One of the great things about using WordPress as a content management system is the huge community of users and all of the resources that are available. While all plugins could be used by theme developers, the ones featured in this post have features that can be especially helpful for various aspects of theme development.
    - By Vandelay Design

  • The “Simple Post Thumbnails” WordPress Plugin

    The “Simple Post Thumbnails” WordPress plugin marks the beginning of several plugins to be released on Press75.com. Using thumbnail images within your posts is a visually efficient way to give your visitors insight as to what your post is about without wasting a bunch of unnecessary space. The majority of my WordPress themes use post thumbnails, but until now there really wasn’t a “simple” way to add thumbnails to your posts without having to go through a bunch of time consuming steps.
    - By Jason Schuller on Press75

  • WP Minify WordPress Plugin

    I have previously reviewed the Minify PHP application and found that the only drawback it had for a WordPress user was that it was semi-tedious to integrate with WordPress. Because of that I would like to release the ‘WP Minify’ WordPress plugin that will integrate Minify into WordPress for you and help you improve your site load time.
    - By Thaya Kareeson on Omninoggin

  • Plugin: Feed Pauser

    I have been using this WordPress plugin ever since it’s release. The plugin basically delays your new post to be send to your RSS feed.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy

WordPress themes

Pro blogging and SEO

  • 50 Excellent Image Galleries You Can Use Today

    Here are 50 of our favorite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They’ve been built with everything from CakePHP to jQuery to Ruby on Rails. A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community!
    - By Glen Stansberry on Nettuts

  • SEO Gems: How to pick a great Domain name

    In the video I explain how to pick a great domain name for your blog or niche site. The main advantage of this technique is it’s so easy to implement, it’s free and will yield great results.
    - By Vladimir Prelovac

  • Do not worry about SEO, just concentrate on your blog readers

    I often get search engine optimization questions from bloggers. SEO isn’t an information problem. There are hundreds of books on SEO, and there are even more blogs, subscription and training sites, some charging hundreds of dollars. For an average blogger it is just too much information.
    - By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog

  • Get Slightly Famous by Blogging

    Having a blog is a great way to go public with your expertise. In a way, having a blog is like having a PR agent that gets you published in print, web, and even on radio and TV shows.
    - By Chris Forbes on Happy Joe

  • Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post

    One of the best things about the web and social media is how much great information is written and produced every single day. If you’re a regular reader of blogs, you probably come across great articles that you just want everyone to know about. But what’s the best way to share these posts?
    - By Ben Parr on Mashable

  • Sunday Morning SEO: How to Find Good Long Tail Keywords (Part 3)

    In my last post, I gave the second step to finding good long tail keywords: targeting the keywords on your initial keyword list. Here is the third and final step.
    - By Dee Barizo on The Blog Herald

  • Building an Empire around Your Blog

    When many people get into blogging, they usually, not always, but more often than not, start by blogging about their daily life’s activities. When they see that not too many people are interested in knowing what they’re doing on a daily basis, they figure out that they need to offer some sort of incentive in order to get visitors.
    - By Robby G on ProBlogger

  • How To Speech Enable Your Blog

    By speech enabling your blog, you offer readers the option of listening to your blog content. This can be incredibly useful for people with bad eyesight or for people doing a lot of multi-tasking that just prefer to listen to the content being read as they are doing other things.
    - By Sara Morgan Grand on Make use of

  • Value your Blog or Website

    There are many reasons why people contemplate selling their websites. Whatever the reason, you need to value a website. Whether it’s a new site, or an established site, there are times when the offers to buy your site don’t seem to stop pouring in.
    - By ThemeLib

WebDevelopment/Design

  • Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

    All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through.
    - By Sam Dunn Build Internet

  • 8 methods to bring your front end coding to rockstar levels

    There are a lot of good front end developers out their right now. If you fancy yourself as a front end editor then you really should be looking at how you can differentiate yourself from the rest. Yes there are lots of “good” front end developers, but there are not a whole lot of excellent front end developers.
    - By StylizedWeb

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  • WPWeekly Episode 47 – Interview With Vladimir Prelovac

    While I really wanted to dive into plugin development with Vladimir Prelovac and talk about his WordPress plugin development book on the show, his Skype connection simply wouldn’t have anything to do with the show. Because the audio quality was so bad, I have edited the show to remove most of the interview so you won’t have to put up with the anger inducing Skype anomalies presented all throughout the first halfhour. So instead of an audio interview, I will most likely send Vladimir a list of questions via email and do things the old fashioned way. Also, David and I certainly had enough WordPress news to talk about which is what we did for the remainder of the show.
    - By Jeffro on WP Tavern

  • WordCamp News: Tokyo, China, Montreal, Egypt, New Orleans, Toronto

    Upcoming WordCamp and WordPress Events include…
    - By Lorelle VanFossen

  • WordPress News: WordPress 2.8, Summer of Code, PodPress Returning, iPhone Update

    WordPress 2.8 News and Development: The WordPress Development team has confirmed that WordPress 2.8 will be released in April.
    - By Lorelle VanFossen on The Blog Herald

  • Using WordPress as Social Media Platform

    Iguess many of you know about the flexibility of WordPress. There are WordPress based Galleries, Shops and whole sites, but there is more. With a good understanding of the WP core, combined with a solid foundation of PHP & MySQL, you can create almost everything with WordPress.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy

WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • 9 Ways to a Faster WordPress Blog

    When you build a site or blog with WordPress, you want to make the most of it. We have to remember though, not everyone is visiting your blog with the fastest browser connection. Also, with the of mobile browsing, we have to consider those users too.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy

  • WordPress: Working With Options

    Options in WordPress are in an extra options table (with Prefix before) stored. Options include the blog name, which theme is used, etc.. Plugins define their settings as options.
    - By Michael on WP Engineer

  • How to: Allow your visitors to send your articles by email to their friends

    Many websites allow their visitors to send their articles to friends, so why not implement it on your WordPress blog? The following recipe contain an easy solution to do it.
    - By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

  • Show Tweetmeme Button on Selected WordPress Posts

    Show Tweetmeme Button on Selected WordPress Posts

    Tweetmeme is a Digg-like site for popular links on Twitter. Using a Tweetmeme badge can be a helpful reminder for your readers to retweet it – and if my experience is anything to go by, Twitter does send targeted traffic to your blogs.
    - By Quick Online Tips

  • Get the latest sticky posts in WordPress

    I came across an interesting question the other day. A user wanted to know how to query a specific number of sticky posts for the front page. Generally, I just point people to the Definitive Sticky Posts Guide for WordPress, but this question was not covered.
    - By Justin Tadlock

  • How To: Use Custom Fields in Wordpress

    Custom Fields are one of the most powerful features in Wordpress. Most newbies are either afraid of these mysterious input areas or simply don’t even know they exist. In this post, my goal is to enlighten you on what exactly the Custom Fields are and provide some examples of what they can be used for. Let’s get started, shall we?
    - By Ralph on For the Lose

WordPress plugins

  • WP Gallery EXIF Reader

    For those who don’t know, EXIF is the exchangeable image file format used to encode details about a photo in the file itself. It records things like shutter speed, aperture, and camera model. Among other things, it can help others see how you achieved the shot, or record where you were (via GPS data, which you can add in Picasa).
    - By POS51

  • Link Hopper

    If you run a Wordpress installation and want to use affiliate links, it can get a bit ugly. Wouldn’t it be nice to link to www.yoursite.com/hop/name instead?
    -By fergusweb

  • SoJ Page Link

    Simple plugin that allows you to point a page to an outside site. If you add a custom field whose key is “link to,” and whose value is a URI, any generated link to that page will point to the given URI. This way you can create page links in your menu that point outside your site.
    - By Jeff Johnson on WordPress plugins

  • 6 More Wordpress Plugins You Should Be Using

    Back in February I put together a list of essential plugins for your Wordpress website or blog. Since then I’ve come across some additional plugins that I think would be useful to install and which I thought would be worth sharing.
    - By Addicott Web

  • Plugin: Ultimate Category Excluder

    When I was posting some beautiful WordPress based sites to WP TOY’s Gallery, I was facing some RSS difficulities. As I have build that gallery based on posts, those “posts” were threaded exactly like them. That means they are included in the general RSS feed.
    - By Stefan Vervoort on WP Toy

  • Video posts and comments – the future of blogging

    Maybe you heard about it, maybe not – but there are already some pretty cool ways to easily add video posts and comments to your blog.
    - By Vladimir Prelovac

  • WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/26

    - By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection

  • Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

    After looking at the options available for WordPress plugins for Silverlight, I found one that was outdated and the author’s URL looked to be broken. So I adapted/updated the plugin to work again.
    - By Tim Heuer

WordPress themes

Pro blogging and SEO

  • What An Executive Blog Editor Needs to Know

    I have a list of URLs for projects that I would love to do, if I had nothing better to do. All of these projects are content marketing related. In some cases, I want to write about something like business travel. In other cases, I want to write product reviews. In all cases, these are commercial ventures, and have a revenue plan as well as a larger business goal in mind.
    - By Chris Brogan

  • Risley’s ProBlogger Toolbox – Software & Services Listed

    As you know, I have turned blogging into a full-time business for me. And, yes, I do pretty well at it. Every day, I try to show people on this blog how to do things to turn their own blogs into a business. Another part of the story, though, is the tools and software I use to do what I do.
    - By David Risley

  • How to choose a domain name for your blog

    There is no doubt that having your own domain name makes your blog look more professional. Your domain name brands your blog and it represents your blog. It is one of the first things people recognize, and it is a very important factor in the success of your blog. Naming your blog correctly is a very important step to having a successful blog.
    - By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog

WebDevelopment/Design

  • The Importance of Color in Web Design

    All too often, I see a great design concept with a poor choice of colors. Part of what makes a great web design “great” is layout, typography and color. When each of these aspects work to compliment each other, great design is born.
    - By Jarel Remick on In the Woods

  • 15 Surefire Ways to Break Your CSS

    The life of a CSS developer isn’t all about attending glamorous champagne parties, jet-setting around the world and hanging out with supermodels. In fact, when your CSS doesn’t behave the way it should, the job can be downright tedious. I’ve spent untold hours of my life debugging my code — and I’m guessing I’m not alone here.
    - By Rob Glazebrook on CSS Newbie

  • Beginner’s Guide To Ruby On Rails: Part 2

    Last week we published Getting Started With Ruby On Rails, the first part of our Ruby On Rails introduction. We explained basic ideas behind Ruby and presented concepts and essential components of the language. In this article you’ll learn more about Rails, you will learn how to get Ruby on Rails running on your computer, and get an overview of the basic functionality of Rails and demonstrate how Rails’ main parts work together.
    - By Jan Varwig on Smashing Magazine

Tools

  • The 15 Most Popular Text Editors for Developers

    For many developers, a trusty text editor is all you need for even the most complex web applications. Whether you’re creating a site from scratch, editing a CSS file, or messing around with configuration files on the server – a good, solid text editor will do the trick just fine. Last week, over 600 people voted for the text editor that they felt was the best from the large set of options out in the market.
    - By Jacob Gube on Six Revisions

Freebies
  • 200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena
    200 Free Exclusive Icons: SienaSiena is a brand new set of 200 free icons, developed exclusively for Webdesigner Depot. You can use them for your designs such as logos, websites and much more. They come in 6 different raster sizes and we have also included vector files for all the icons, so you can resize them as needed.
    - By Walter on Webdesigner Depot

  • The Ultimate List of Sources for Free Background Patterns

    As a designer, Background Patterns are one of the many things which i found still fascinating myself. Have you ever wondered the seamless patterns often used in every other website backgrounds where they came from or how to create them. It’s always essential for designers to have an good understanding of pattern usability and sources because patterns just could not satisfied designers needs.
    - By Daniel Adams on Instant Shift

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WordPress tips/tutorials/how to’s

  • WordPress Category Exists?

    Already tried in WordPress to check if a category exists? There is no Template Tag so you need to create your own solution.
    - By Frank on WP Engineer

  • Core Dump Files in WordPress Folders

    I was surprised to see my WordPress folder sizes increasing and FTP revealed huge ‘Core’ dump files in several folders of my WordPress installation. As they gobbled up my server storage space, I had no idea where these came from and what to do with them.
    - By Quick Online Tips

WordPress plugins

  • Quote This: WordPress Plugin

    To continue working on my mission to create new WordPress widgets, fulfill my obsession with shortcodes, and release my fourth plugin this month, I present to you Quote This, a plugin to display quotes on your blog.
    - By Justin Tadlock

  • WordPress Backup Plugin by Blog Traffic Exchange

    About a year and a half ago we wrote about how to backup your WordPress blog. In that post, we covered a few different WordPress plugins to manage your database backups, and explained why that was so important.
    - By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

WordPress themes

Pro blogging and SEO
WebDevelopment/Design

  • How to Create Dropdown Navbars for Your Subpages and Subcategories

    In this tutorial, you will see how to display your sub-categories in an animated dropdown, and how to create similar dropdowns for sub-pages as well. You’ll even be able to highlight the page your reader is currently on.
    - By Michael Martin on Pro Blog Design

  • 25 Free Online Color Resource Web Applications

    This is a list of 25 free color related web applications to create color palettes, edit color palettes, create color themes, test colors and color palettes against a myriad of variables, find color palettes from images, and more.
    - By Christopher on JungleJar

  • New Screencast: HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics

    This video is the VERY basics of what HTML and CSS is, for the absolute beginner. HTML and CSS files are, quite literally, just text files. You don’t need any special software to create them, although a nice code editor is helpful. You can create these files on any computer and use your web browser to preview them during development. You can think of HTML as the content of your website: a bunch of text and references to images wrapped in tags. CSS is the design of your website. It targets the tags you wrote in your HTML and applies the style. Keeping these two things separate is key to quality web design.
    - By Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks

  • 15 Must See MooTools Techniques

    - By WebAir blog

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  • Time to Break WordPress This Summer

    In Want to Break and Remake WordPress? on the Blog Herald, I summarized this year’s WordPress/Google Summer of Code, an exciting annual project that brings together the top WordPress Community experts with college students from around the world dedicated to making and breaking WordPress so we all benefit.
    - By Lorelle VanFossen