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March 25, 2009

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WordPress and Blogging articles for 25.03.09

WordPress

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

WordPress tips/tutorial/how to’s

Why you should nofollow and noindex your category pages

Two reasons.
- By Vladimir Prelovac
New Plus Tutorial: WordPress, Beginner to Master

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
How to: Display your most popular content in your blog sidebar

Blog posts aren’t all equals: Some are better than the others. In order to make visitors stay longer on your blog, what about giving them a quick access to your most commented posts? Here’s a nice code to do it easily.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
More WordPress Pages Get Google SiteLinks!

Google grants Sitelinks in Google search results to popular websites to help users reach deeper into these sites and find what they are looking for. I spotted that WordPress was being granted sitelinks for their subdomains, categories and several important pages too.
- By Quick Online Tips
13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance

Performance is a key factor for any successful website. And since WordPress is becoming more popular than ever, it will only be at its best when raised in the proper conditions. Here are a few things to try if you find that your WordPress site is not performing as well as it could be due to high traffic or hidden issues you don’t know about.
- By Noupe

WordPress themes

22 Professional WordPress Themes And Resources:Less Is More

This article actually should be considered as less is more. At first I thought I should create massive list full of newest WordPress themes, but then I thought again, how much actually of these themes I would want to use myself. Number was a lot lesser than I thought. So in this article I listed only very well designed,feature rich and truly impressive themes.
- By Dainis Graveris on 1stwebdesigner

WordPress plugins

31 Wordpress Plugins To Enhance Your Blog and Life

It’s 2009. Every business needs a corporate blog to accompany their corporate website, and every individual needs a personal blog to share their thoughts – or portfolio – with the world.
- By Andrew Lennon on The Daily Anchor
WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/23

- By Ajay on Weblog Tools Collection
Top 10 Tips for WordPress Plugin Developers

WordPress has become one of the most widely spread blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today. With the huge number of existing WordPress powered sites, from personal blogs to corporate solutions, the demand for WordPress plugin developers has increased largely over the past year and is still strong despite the economic crisis.
- By Vladimir Prelovac on Mashable
Template Tag Shortcodes: WordPress Plugin

What I’ve always thought would be a neat plugin would be something that gave users the ability to insert WordPress template tags from within the Write Post/Page screen. I’ve also gotten a few requests for this type of functionality.
- By Justin Tadlock

Pro blogging

How to write blog headlines that make people click

I have worked with several bloggers through my blogging consultancy service and one of the things I have noticed is that many bloggers do not utilize the power of self-promotion.
- By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog
Create Effective Search Result Pages

Search is usually the primary or secondary means of navigating a website. Because of it’s wide use, it makes sense to allocate some time to designing a user friendly search. In this post, I discuss what makes search results effective and include popular examples to reinforce the ideas presented.
- By David Leggett on The UX Booth

WebDevelopment/Design

Common Mistakes in Web Design

Many rejected templates here on Themeforest suffer from the same few common mistakes: typography (font, line-height, letter-spacing, color), alignment (grid), and spacing (padding). In this tutorial, we are going to take a closer look at how to avoid these common errors.
- By Marko on In the Woods
10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

Web developers these days are often expected to know and work in multiple languages. As a result, it’s tricky to learn everything a language has to offer and easy to find yourself not utilizing the full potential of some more specialized but very useful tags.
- By Glen Stansberry on Nettuts
How To: Use a jQuery Plugin to Display a Post Carousel

This post is directed mainly to people that are somewhat new to working with and developing Wordpress themes. I know when I first started out, tutorials and articles like this one were extremely useful to me. I remember I didn’t even know what the hell a “jQuery” was just a few months ago. Now, because of posts like this, I like to think I know how to use jQuery and all of the amazing plugins that are created with it to enhance the power of the themes I develop.
- By Ralph on For the Lose
Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices

As a general rule, most Web developers, especially usability enthusiasts, say it is bad practice to use drop-down menus because they are confusing, annoying and oftentimes dysfunctional. From a design standpoint, however, drop-down menus are an excellent feature because they help clean up a busy layout. If structured correctly, drop-down menus can be a great navigation tool, while still being a usable and attractive design feature.
- By Matt Cronin on Smashing Magazine

Freebies

Spring Awakening: A Free Stock Photo Set

With spring officially here, we thought it would be a treat to release a set of free, high resolution stock images in the theme of spring. Today, we would like to share with you Spring Awakening, a 20-piece stock image set containing various high-res stock photos portraying spring time in different large-scale dimensions.
- By Jacob Gube on Six Revisions