100+ Killer WordPress Resources

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

• How to Create a Print Stylesheet
• How to Use Multiple Stylesheets For Different Browsers
  

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

• How to Separate Your Blogroll Categories

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