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Adding Twitter Registration to a Buddypress powered website

wpin.me — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:25:20 +0000

So I know this is a Wordpress community site granted however, I thought I would share a little trick I have just learned to allow Twitter users to sign into your Buddypress powered website. Firstly how do you attract people to register on your proud new buddypress powered website? Make it as simple as possible and what better signin/registration method than Twitter!read more

How to Insert Ad Anywhere In Your Wordpress Posts

shzad1 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:41:49 +0000

This is the simplest trick to guide you how to Insert Ad Anywhere In Your Wordpress Posts. You may can put any advertise banner or google adsense using this small Wordpress Hack without a plugin.

10 awesome .htaccess hacks for WordPress

storm — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:43:22 +0000

.htaccess, the file which control the Apache webserver, is very useful and allows you to do a lot of things. In this article, let's see how .htaccess can help you with your WordPress blog, for both security,functionnality and usability.

Get Images Attached to a Post

Stuart — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:32:14 +0000

When you upload an image (or other media file) through the Write Post or Write Page panel, WordPress remembers which post that file is attached to. This is a great feature if you want to pull some of the attached images for use as thumbnails on your blog’s homepage for instance – similar to the way the Tutorials and Blog indexes are set up on this site.

30 Twitter Hacks and Plugins to Spice Up Your Wordpress Blog

Themeflash — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:11:20 +0000

Twitter has grown exponentially in the past few months and Still, It’s growing like crazy. Twitter has surpassed Facebook and others to become the fastest-growing site in the “Member Communities” category. Twitter is a powerful marketing and promotion tool that no active blogger can ignore.

35 Most Essential Wordpress Tricks and Hacks

Stuart — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0000

Wordpress certainly doesn’t need any kind of introduction amongst bloggers and designers. Today there are hundreds of wordpress blogs around the web. To stand out among these is in itself one of the most difficult task a blogger would find itself in.read more

Speed Up Wordpress With Better Permalink Rewrite Code

Stuart — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:38:11 +0000

Wordpress generates an .htaccess file when the permalinks are changed that contains the rewrite directives. It sometimes happens that the file cannot be created or written which would then mean that the user would need to create and edit the htaccess file manually. The Wordpress code that is used is not optimized. It does not prevent for instance unnecessary file and directory checks.read more

The Nice Way To Mention Your Recent Articles in WordPress SideBar

fluxpattern — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:22:29 +0000

People asked me how I mention my recent articles in WordPress sidebar by display post thumbnails and titles with a well-styled. Today, I would like to response their request. This way is being used in some blogs. I’m not sure if they are using the same method as mine, but at least we will get the same result.

10 WordPress dashboard hacks

storm — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:01:57 +0000

The dashboard is a very important part of a WordPress blog. In fact, it allows you to control your posts, your blog design, and many more things. When building a site for a client, it is especially important to be able to control WP’s dashboard. In this article, let’s have a look at 10 extremely useful hacks for WordPress’ dashboard.

WordPress hack : How to display ads on old posts only

SunSeth — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:08 +0000

It is a well known fact that your regular visitors don’t click on your ads. In order to monetize your blog without annoying your loyal readers, what about displaying ads only when posts are older than 15 days?

Top WordPress hacks of 2009

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:50:21 +0000

2009 has been a very prolific year for WordPress hacks. In this article, I’ll show you the most useful hacks I came across during the whole year. Enjoy!

How to define your own dashboard logo

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:02:07 +0000

By default, the “W” WordPress logo is displayed on the top left side of the dashboard. If for some reason, you’”d like to add your own logo, just read this recipe.

Customize WordPress login logo without a plugin

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:54:08 +0000

WordPress login logo looks nice, but sometimes you may want to change it, for example when building a site for a client. In that case, you can use a plugin, or simply take advantage of this cool hack.

Limit Wordpress Posts Text Length Without The Use Of Plugins

Stuart — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:11:57 +0000

Sometimes when creating wordpress themes you might want to automatically limit the length of post text that is displayed in the main page post teaser view to make things easier for clients when writing articles. You could use a plugin like limit-post etc but I always find it much easier to contain all these type of modifications within the themes own functions.php file.read more

Cool Little Wordpress Hack To Help Protect Your Blog From Comment Spam

Stuart — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:34:33 +0000

Askimet is a great plugin that has worked pretty successfully for me on all wordrpess sites that I own or administer. This little wordpress comment hack adds another layer of protection though by looking for the HTTP referrer (the page where the request comes from) and automatically blocks the comment if the referrer is incorrect or not defined.

Stupid WordPress Customization and Development Tricks

Stuart — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:09:47 +0000

If you are one of the millions of people who use WordPress, this article will help you improve the appearance, functionality, and performance of your WordPress-powered websites. Each of these “stupid WordPress tricks” is presented as clearly and succinctly as possible, including as many notes, instructions, and pointers as needed for successful implementation.read more

10 hacks for the Thesis WordPress theme

Stuart — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:10:22 +0000

Thesis is a very cool WordPress Theme and it have many built in options. But as you know, I really love to tweak WordPress to make my blogger life easier. This is why, when I started to use the Thesis theme here on Cats Who Blog, I searched the internet for hacks and played a lot with the theme.read more

How to Style WordPress comments of every roles

Stuart — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:23:08 +0000

When you have lots of comments on your WordPress blog, it is a good thing to give a special style to admin comments, like I do on CatsWhoBlog.com. But what about being able to give special styles to editors, contributors and subscribers comments?

Display the number of tweets for each page or post

Stuart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:57:52 +0000

Twitter is a very cool tool, especially if you’re a blogger. Using some php it is easy to display how many times a specific blog post has been tweeted. This is what you’re going to learn in this recipe.

How to show WordPress post attachments

fluxpattern — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:18:20 +0000

Since WordPress 2.5, attachments management in WordPress have been improved and is now very powerful. Today, I’m going to show you a simple code snippet that you can use in your WordPress theme to display post attachments.