[tweetmeme]Below is a list of links to the very best reading out there on Hacking WordPress and building a better blog. I’ve also included a list of links to designers and others who are significantly advancing WordPress through innovative theme development and plugins. If you know of a post or resource that I have not included yet, please add it in the comments! I’ll constantly update this list as I find more of the good stuff.
Improve Your Blog
- How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog
- What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Categories
- The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs
- The Ultimate PageRank Sculpting Guide for WordPress SEO
- How to NoFollow a link
- How to Find and Fix 404 Errors
- What to do if a Plugin Deactivation Breaks Your Blog
- Integrating Forums Into A WordPress Blog
- How to Add Breadcrumbs To Your Site
- How to Add A Store to your WordPress Blog
- How to Make Your Old Posts New Again
- How to Turn Off Post Revisions in WP2.6+
- How to Set Up Your WordPress Permalink Structure
- How to Switch Your WordPress Permalink Structure
- How to Show Only A Post Excerpt In WordPress
- Why It’s Important to Always Remove The WordPress Version Code
- 7 Principals of Clean and Optimized CSS Code
- 30 Ways to Improve Readability
- How to Install DOMTabs on WordPress
- Should The Sidebar Go On The Left or the Right?
- 7 Elements To Make Your Blog Look Great
- Why It’s Important To Make Your Blog Unique
Theme Hacks
- Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
- How to Add Widget Support to Your WordPress Theme
- How to Display Your Comment Count To Readers
- How to Set Up A Side Blog
- How to Create a WordPress Login Form Overlay
- How to Add Del.icio.us Daily Blog Posting To Your WordPress Blog
- How to Add Gravatars to Your WordPress Theme
- How to Prevent WordPress Plugins From Breaking Your Blog
- How to Insert Ads Only After The First Post
- How to Add Google Search to Your Blog
- How to display Your RSS Count in Plain Text
- How to Add Edit Buttons To Your Theme
- How to Add WordPress Tags to Your Theme
- How to Make a Dynamic Search Bar Text With Javascript
- How to Setup RSS Feed Auto Discovery
- How to Use WordPress Conditional Tags
- How to Hide Your Subcategories (Children)
- How to Prevent Google From Indexing Your Images
- How to Create a Two-Tiered Navigation Menu
- How to Add Social Bookmark Links To Your Theme
- How to Add Multiple Feeds To Your WordPress Dashboard
- How to Make WordPress Function Like a CMS
- How to Add a Print Button To Your Theme
- How to Add an “Email This” Button To Your Theme
- WordPress Template Tags Reference Guide
- How to Burn Specialized WordPress Feeds For Your Readers
- How to Add a Styled Flickr Stream To Your Blog
- Creating A YouTube Video Tabber
Stylesheet Hacks
Post Hacks
- How to Add Daily Blog Posting via Del.icio.us
- How to Convert Your Author Links to Point Towards the Authors Site
- How to Show Only a Post Excerpt
- How to Put Blog Posts In Their Own Sub-directory
- How to Display a Last Modified Date on Your Posts
- How to Add Author Bio Information to Your Blog Posts
- How to Alternate Post Background Colors
- How to Add Author Gravatars to Authors Posts
Comment Hacks
- 10 best Plugins to Get More Comments
- How To Separate Comments and Trackbacks
- How To Add Numbers To Your Blog Comments
- How to Display Recent Comments First
- How to Style Author Comments Separately
Page Hacks
- How to Create a Custom Page Template
- How to Hide Individual WordPress Pages
- How to Add an Author Page To Your Theme
- How to Optimize Your 404 Error Page
Categories/Archives Hacks
- How to Create an Archives Page For Your WordPress Blog
- How to Limit How Many Archives are Displayed
- How to Remove Ads from Select Categories
- How to Display Recent Posts for Specific Categories
- How to Change the Author Archives Permalink
- How to Convert Your Categories to Display Post Titles
- 13 Tags to Delete From Your Theme
Blogroll Hacks
Best WordPress Plugins
- The 50 Best WordPress Plugins For Powerblogging
- e-Marketing & WordPress: 15 Top Plugins (Added 09/03/08)
Using WordPress As A CMS
- The “Get WordPressed” Blog (Added 9/5/2008)
Top Blogs On WordPress
- Blog Perfume
- BloggingPro
- Daily Blog Tips
- Easy WordPress
- Fun with WordPress
- HackWordpress
- Lorelle on WordPress
- PhotoMatt
- Theme Lab
- WordPress Expert
- Weblog Tools Collection
- We Love WordPress
- WordPress Garage
- WordPress Max
- WordPress Wank
- WP Candy
- WP Designer
- WP Guy
- WP Project
- WP Themes Gallery
- WP Themes Plugin
- WP Zoom
- WPMU Tutorials
Premium Theme Designers And Others Who Contribute To Advancing WordPress (Hat Tip To You, Ladies & Gentlemen!)
- Adii
- Adam Freetly
- Alex King
- Alister Cameron
- Armen Thomassian
- Blog Oh Blog
- Brian Gardner
- Ben Bleikamp
- Cal Coleman
- Chris Pearson
- Cory Miller
- Clazh
- Darren Hoyt
- David Airey
- Design Disease (added 9/16/2008)
- Jeff Chandler
- Justin Tadlock
- Nate Whitehill
- Magnus Jepson
- Mark Forrester
- Matthew Mullenweg
- Matt Blancarte
- Michael Pollock (Solostream)
- Nathan Rice
- Theme Shaper
- Robert Ellis
- Sunny
- Unique Blog Designs
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wow. great list, thanxs for making this big
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Great, love it when people shar something like this. thanks bro you are rock
Thanks Locjan. Hope you found this useful.
Its really a great resource on wordpress thanks a lot
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this is an extensive list and must have taken forever, gonna try this on my wordpress blog
Yep. This is the result of 6 months of reading and active bookmarking. :)
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Great post, really help me alot. Thanks.
Cheers,
sweethomeimprove.com
Glad it did.
Thank's for all the great resources.
You're welcome. It helped me too.
Thank's for all the great resources.
Glad it did.
You're welcome. It helped me too.