WPStart.org

April 24, 2009

Bookmark this article: del.icio.us | Digg it | reddit | StumbleUpon

WordPress Articles for 24/04/09

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

Blogging and WordPress Links for 4/23/09
- By Mark Ghosh on Weblog Tools Collection
Four Free Wordpress Hosts Compared
Wordpress is an open source blog publishing software that makes blogging life more simple. Many people, including me, prefer Self-hosted Wordpress blog. But hosting will surely make your wallet lighter.
- By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues
Interview with Jeffrey Way of ThemeForest (Plus a Giveaway)
Many designers and developers are looking to earn an income from several different sources, and theme/template sales are an increasingly popular option. Within the past year ThemeForest has quickly become one the leaders in the industry, both in terms of providing designers with a place to sell their work, and also by providing buyers with great selection and prices.
- By Steven Snell on DesignM.ag

WordPress Tips/Tutorials/How to’s

How to: Automatically get tr.im urls for your blog posts
Some time ago, I shown you how to automatically get tinyurls for your WordPress blog posts. Today, let’s use tr.im, another (and better) url shortening service.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
Know The Proper Roles Of WordPress Users
For most WordPress bloggers there is probably only one user which is you the sole owner and blogger. Recently a client asked if they could keep the entire WordPress site password protected only allowing those with the password access to the content.
- By WordPress Max
Display the total number of your Twitter followers on your WordPress blog
If you’re on Twitter, you probably display the number of your followers on your blog, using the chicklet from TwitterCounter.com. Today, I’m going to show you how to display your followers in full text mode.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
Wordpress How-To: Displaying Post Counts
Ever wanted to display the number of posts your blog has achieved for your blog readers or perhaps just for yourself? Or, what about the number of posts in a specific category?
- By Christopher Hennis on JungleJar
Change Admin Pagination on Posts, Pages and Comments
One or the other users in the backend of WordPress find it quite disturbing that not more than 20 articles, pages and comments per page gets listed. Especially if you work with many tables and you have a fast connection, then an increased number of listed articles, pages, comments is useful. How to adapt and with a little CSS getting the best presentation I will show now, here are some tips.
- By WP Engineer
How to: Display the latest author who modified a post
WordPress 2.8 will feature a new template tag, the_modified_author(), which allows you to display the latest author who modified the post. Here is how to recreate this function in WordPress 2.7.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
Seperating Trackbacks & Pingbacks
Hello, welcome to another tutorial by hv-designs. Today we’ll be diving into wordpress again looking at seperating our comments and our trackbacks.
- By hv-designs
How to exclude specific tag from query_posts
On the upcoming theme I’m working on I needed to have a featured section on the left side, and normal posts on the right.
- By Magnus Jepson
Blogger to Wordpress Migration without having to start over
This week I was in touch with 3 bloggers who had decided to move from Blogger to self hosted Wordpress. As a Wordpress Evangelist, it gives me immense pleasure when someone makes that decision.
- By Arun Basil Lal on Million Clues

WordPress Plugins

wpTweety: Twitterwall With #WordPress As Focal Point
With the growing popularity of Twitter, the diversity of applications increases around the popular micro blogging service. wpTweety expands the range of available applications and sees itself as Twitterwall – as virtual bulletin board – for the latest Tweets about WordPress.
- By WP Engineer
WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/22
- By Weblog Tools Collection
Plugin: Let Your Visitors Submit Posts & Kept in “Draft”
TDO Mini Forms plugin allows you to add highly customisable forms that work with your Theme to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit posts. The posts are kept in “draft” until an admin can publish them (also configurable).
- By Blog Perfume

WordPress Themes

Eventina Premium Theme: Review + Giveaway
This time I want to review a new Premium WordPress Theme created by my good friend Brînzan Dumitru of Themes Closet.
- By Pavel Ciorici on WP Zoom
WordPress Theme Releases for 04/23
- By Weblog Tools Collection
WP Framework Now On The Repository
Ptah Dunbar has been working on his very own Theme Framework for quite some time now and today, after five revisions the framework has ended up on the theme repository for download.
- By WP Tavern
WordPress Theme Releases for 04/20
- By Weblog Tools Collection
40 Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free Wordpress Themes
What has happened to blogging, minimal design seems to be a forgotten style within blogging, everywhere you look the themes are graphically and content heavy and the basic premise of blogging is missing, a simple online diary.
- By Speckyboy

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