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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Great starting lace for anyone trying to learn the ropes. Thanks for the mention!
My pleasure, Sunny. Btw, love the new design of Headsetoptions. Very slick.
Steffan, great list. I'll go through them.
Btw, thanks for them mention! :D
Great, great list Steffan. If you don't mind, thought I'd add my another list?
Marketing & Wordpress: 15 Top Wordpress plugins @ http://www.carbongraffiti.com/2008/08/12/market...
Cheers!
Thanks for the addition, Jon.
Jon, great post. Added it to the list. Thanks for your input!
@all - I'll add them as they come!
danm a great post… Will surely be del.i.ciused by me… thanks a lot, and great blog design..
Thanks (on both counts), Brian.
Great list; thanks for putting it together. I shall bookmark it for future reference — there's quite a lot in there I want to come back to.
Steffan - great list. I also use getwordpressed.com by Scott Hendison. Taught me a great deal about using WordPress as a CMS for websites - and I do that successfully now.
Andrea,
Thanks for the pointer. I've added it to the list.
Great list….. You done a good research in listing all of this…. Appreciate it, lots of help for me.
Hi Steffan,
First - thanks for the post. I'll consider this my WP resource page from now on.
Second - I hate to admit to being such a nube, but I can't seem to find this answer anywhere else. My posts display on my home page but in order to leave a comment, you have to click the post title, which then takes you to the “post” with the “add a comment” feature at the bottom. How do I set up so that when I post, the “add a comment” section shows on the bottom of the post on my main page? It seems like everywhere else I stumble to, this is the case.
Thanks for your help with this. I appreciate any words of wisdom or links you could provide.
George,
Thanks for the kind words.
The “problem” you're having, isn't actually a problem at all. It's just the
WP theme you're using is coded that way - it's designed so that people use
the comment count link at the top. Don't worry. Bloggers are savvy. If they
want to comment, they'll find the link. If you really want people to always
see it, I suggest using the “more” function when you're typing posts. Insert
it somewhere after the first paragraph of your post so that people who want
to keep reading have to click through to the post. Having excerpts on your
front page is good practice. It makes your content scannable, and it has SEO
benefits. Good luck.
Awesome post. Thank you so much for the long list of resources. You just made my life a whole lot easier =)
Thanks for the kind words - if you find any of your own, add it in the
comments!
These are great! Thanks for the list ill be using some on my blog.
thanks for putting this up, i am pretty new to wordpress, i found this to be very helpful
That's the most complete wordpress resource list I've ever seen on the web. It serves as a great tutorial for beginners and advanced wp users as well. Thanks for great job!
Thanks for the kind words. If you find any new resources, please send them
along and I'll include them here.
this was really great, thanks for posting
Whoa! Loads of great information. Thanks :)
Great list! I'll be using this a lot, I'm sure. I'd like to add Net Tuts (tutorials) - Great video tutorials, and they cover a lot of cool WordPress things: http://nettuts.com/category/tutorials/
Thanks! I'll be re-tweeting this, too.
Woow….The best list for tutorial wordpress in the Net. This is information make easy to find source of tutorial for wordpress. I am glad to you sharing this information :)
Wow, great list! This is a huge amount of resources, that's helpful to beginners and more advanced users. Great job! I'll be passing this onto my brother, who I have convinced to start learning WordPress. Thanks!
If the ladies are under-represented, it's only because I haven't found them
yet! If you know of any who deserve credit, include them in the comments and
I'll update the list. :)
i really appreciate the resources listed.
however i'm sad that the female web developers, coders and WP hackers continually get passed up in posts like this.
You could also add WPThemesNews (http://www.wpthemesnews.com) to the Top Blogs On Wordpress
This is a good reference! Thanks for making this list.
Nice list…
What a huge list of resources, good job on listing this things…simply bookmarked.
Nice collection… Thanks for including my blog WP Zoom ;)
@jesse - Hope you find it useful.
@Richard - Thanks for the link, I'll add it to the list.
I was searching for good wordpress plugins. I appreciate your thoroughness in creating this list.
@Thanks Lori. I hope this helps. If you find good plugins, please add them
here in the comments and help me continue to build the list out.
Great resources. Thanks
Thanks so much for this list, I've only just started my blog and its helping loads :)
@Sean - Glad it helps Good luck with your new blog.
100 that's a lot ! I've bookmarked this page ! Thanks !
wow. great list, thanxs for making this big
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
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. :)