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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

• How To Find A Good Web-Host For Your Website
  Cheap web site hosting is easy to find, but good quality hosting at a cheap price is not so easy. Whatever type of hosting plan you are looking for, cheap or not, we have it covered in this post. If you are not sure about what type of hosting you need then read this post. We have included the most common questions along with facts that can help you decide. We have covered up few points which will help you decide your hosting plan.
  - By AntsMagazine
• Living the pro-blogger lifestyle by selling you the blogging dream
  Reader Rick Henderson had an interesting comment to my how not to make money with your blog post.
  - By How to make my blog

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