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












