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March 6, 2009

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WPLookup

This is a very simple tool with one function: quickly find Wordpress Codex documentation for a function or template tag.
- By WPLookup
Interview with Nick Roach of Elegant Themes

Premium WordPress themes are obviously very popular right now. One of the premium theme marketplaces that is very interesting to me is Elegant Themes.
- By Steven Snell DesignM.ag

Ubiquity and WordPress

The following in an excerpt from WordPress Plugin Development (Beginner’s Guide) book, explaining how to use Ubiquity to speed up WordPress development.
- By Vladimir Prelovac
Info: Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks

When working on a WordPress blog, your posts often take the important place. However, the comments on the posts are often just as important as they create quality and valuable discussion. on the other hand if you have default WordPress comment box then there is no fun in commenting for readers as well as writers.
- By Blog Perfume
How to: Avoid duplicate content in paged comments

Introduced in WordPress 2.7, paged comments are great, especially when you have lots of comments. Thought, if your tag isn’t optimized, your blog could produce some duplicate content, which is bad for SEO. Here’s how to avoid it.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes

WordPress Plugins for More Productive Development

Coders using WordPress, this post is for you. Here are a few plugins that should make your WordPress hacking life faster, happier, and more productive. What a promise, heh? :)
- By Ozh on planetOzh
Top Wordpress Mobile Plugins

Lately i had to develop a wap version for a website of one of my clients. on the way i bumped into some great plugins for mobile use. here’s a list of the top wordpress mobile plugins.
- By WP Feed

5 Ways to Make Money Blogging (Once You Have Traffic)

While it is possible to make some money with a blog of any size – your chances of earning income from a blog do generally increase as you increase your readership numbers.
- By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
To feature guest posts on your blog or not to?

As your blog grows and the readership increases, you will get people contacting you asking to write guest posts for your blog.
- By Marko Saric on How To Make My Blog
Do You Attract Readers to Your Blog that Are Like You?

A couple of months ago we ran a reader survey over at my Photography site that asked readers a few demographical questions, a few questions about their photography and a few questions about how they’d like to see the site develop. We had thousands of responses which meant we had a good sample of data to work with which gave us both insight into our readership and how we could serve them better.
- By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger
10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS

Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly de?ned set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?
- By Paul Boag on Smashing Magazine

Open Links in New Windows or Tabs Without Target=”Blank”

Though it’s not considered good practice to go around opening new windows on people, it still is something that there are practical uses for. There are legitimate reasons to open new windows, other than trying to open all of your external links in new windows, such as popping a window with a Google Map or Flash game, etc.
- By Matt on Webmaster-Source
All the jQuery resources you’ll ever need

Hi, today i will show a monster collection of jQuery resources you’ll ever need to create that amazing site for one of your clients or for one of your personal projects.
- By Hein Maas
10 Fixes That Solve IE6 Problems

We know IE is likely to be around for some time, but can we still support the browser and avoid hacks and conditional CSS? Here are 10 fixes to solve the majority of IE6 problems with valid HTML and CSS code…
- By Craig Buckler on SitePoint
When to Separate Style Sheets

Three factors influence whether or not it makes sense to use separate style sheets: Probability, meaning (aka semantics), and granularity. As I’m a bit thinking aloud, and as this is yet another guerrilla post ™, refinement of these thoughts might be pending.
- By Jens Meiert