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WordPress articles for 01.04.09

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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