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• 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