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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.

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

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?

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.

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

WordPress hack: Choose the sidebar to use, post by post

Stuart — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:56:27 +0000

Who said a blog always have to display the same boring sidebar on each page? Just create a few sidebar files, upload it to your theme directory. This cool code will do the rest!

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.

WordPress hack: Automatically insert author bio on each post

Stuart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:40:50 +0000

Using WordPress hooks, it can be very easy to modify WordPress variables to fit your needs. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to use hooks to automatically insert the author bio after each post.

Display registered users comment count on your WordPress blog

SunSeth — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:12:21 +0000

If your blog is private or have lots of registered users, it may be interesting to be able to display the number of comments posted by registered users. This is the purpose of this code.

WordPress tip: Create a Tweetmeme “Retweeet” shortcode

SunSeth — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:14:08 +0000

Tweetmeme is a popular service that allow you to display “Retweet” button on your blog posts. Even if the code is easy to integrate on your single.php file, it can be very cool to create a shortcode that you can insert anywhere in your posts.

Automatically resize pictures on your WordPress blog With TimThumb

DFalcon — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:37:00 +0000

While it is very cool to add pictures to your blog posts, dealing with image sizes can be a bit tricky sometimes, especially if you have no skills about image resizing. The solution to this problem is to use Timthumb and WordPress shortcode API. Just read on to find out!

10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks Developer's Toolbox

Stuart — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:52:34 +0000

Hooks are very useful in WordPress. They allow you to “hook” a custom function to an existing function, which allows you to modify WordPress’ functionality without editing core files. In this article, we have compiled 10 extremely useful ready-to-use WordPress hooks, along with examples and coding explanations.

10 useful Wordpress theme hacks

Mirko — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:48:55 +0000

The following Wordpress hacks teach you how to do some commonly wanted theming features.

HOW TO: Create a jQuery Carousel with WordPress Posts

premiumgal — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:15:45 +0000

A tutorial on how to easily integrate the jFlow jQuery plugin into your WP theme to run a featured content slider.

Wordpress post related hacks to improve your template

designstrike — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:24:21 +0000

In this article you will find various ways of improving your theme by adding various wordpress post hacks like showing related posts, setting up and showing scheduled posts or showing a featured post.

How to Build a Top Sliding Login Panel

premiumgal — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:28:23 +0000

A tutorial which shows how to easily add a javascript sliding login panel to your wordpress theme.

11 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area

Stuart — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:17:39 +0000

As we continued to emphasize the security of your WordPress admin panel due to the recent attack on our site, we have compiled a fully detailed article that will highlight some of the must have security measures for your WordPress Admin Area.

30 New Useful WordPress Tricks

Stuart — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:38:09 +0000

As an experienced WordPress user, we keep ourselves updated with the development of the core, plugin releases and useful WordPress tips and tricks shared by developers and enthusiasts. In today’s post, we’d like to share with you updated WordPress tips and tricks and plugins that are interesting and useful. Without further ado, here’s another 30 More Useful WordPress Tricks