In this post, we will show you some awesome Wordpress tricks, hacks and plugins to make your Wordpress install standout.
1. How to: Integrate a pagination in your WordPress theme
When creating a premium WordPress theme, it is really better to use a pagination instead of the good old “previous page” and “next page” links. Sure, there’s plugins, but what about embedding a pagination without asking the user to install a plugin? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to directly integrate the Wp-PageNavi plugin in your WordPress theme.
2. Add Thumbnails to Wordpress with Custom Fields
You can easily add thumbnails, lead image, and other extras to individual posts in Wordpress. These images can be shown on the front page, archives, search pages, etc – but appear outside of the content, giving you full control of their placement and style.
3. How to Create Multiple Dynamic Sidebars for Wordpress Widgets
This tutorial explains how to create multiple dynamic sidebars to add various combinations of widgets to customize your wordpress theme even more.
4. How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress
5. Display Inline Ads With Custom Fields and WordPress
6. How to add videos to your WordPress sidebar
YouTube has become a bit of a phenomenon on the Internet, and everyone’s rushing to embed videos into their blogs. This is actually a fairly neat thing, especially if you blog a lot about videos or have videos that will emphasize the importance of your posts.
7. Compress WordPress output and speed your blog’s load speed
With one line of code added to your header, you can compress WordPress’s output by up to 75%. By using zlib compression technology, you can harness the power of PHP and reduce your blog’s load speed!
8. How to Add a Fixed Position Banner to a Website
In this post I’ll show you how you can add one to your site, and for WordPress users we’ll look at how you can change the banner depending upon the category of the post by using PHP.
9. How to Disable HTML in WordPress Comments
10. Top 10 ways to stop spam in WordPress
Spam is a nuisance, and as bloggers, we have all experienced a flood of spam every now and then. Not only is it a pain, but it can slow down your blog and use up your resources. In this post we’ll look at ten ways to combat spam.
11. How to Add a Custom Author Profile Page to Your WordPress
In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to add a custom author profile page to your WordPress blog.
12. 10 Important Tips to Optimize Wordpress for Search Engines
I made a list of 10 Important Changes which should be a part of your Wordpress blog.
13. Insert ads in your RSS feed
A simple way to insert ads in your RSS feed.
14. How to: Make your title tag SEO friendly
I’m going to show you how to optimise the title of your blog for a better SEO.
15. Automatically insert content after each post
Most blogs automatically displays some text after each post, for exemple to ask readers to subscribe to their rss feed. This text is very often hardcoded. Why not using function.php instead, and be able to keep the text when you’ll switch theme?
16. Display a Tweetmeme “Retweet” button where, and when you want
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.
17. Displaying recent Wordpress posts in Pligg
In this tutorial I will show you how to start integrating your Wordpress blog into your Pligg install by displaying your recent blog posts in your Pligg sidebar.
18. Show parent page title regardless of what subpage you are on
19. Automatically insert author bio on each post
20. Compress WordPress output and speed your blog’s load speed
With one line of code added to your header, you can compress WordPress’s output by up to 75%. By using zlib compression technology, you can harness the power of PHP and reduce your blog’s load speed!
21. How to Get Short Branded Urls with WordPress
This hack is very simple. All we are doing is instead of displaying our normal SEO Friendly URLs, we are displaying the original Post-ID URL which WordPress generates anyway with each post created.
22. Automatically resize pictures on your WordPress blog
23. Add a Custom Feedburner Count to your Wordpress Blog
24. Create a Tweetmeme “Retweeet” shortcode
25. Wordpress Security Tips and Hacks
10 security tips that you can easily implement on your WordPress blog.
26. How to Disable RSS Feeds in WordPress
27. How to Add a Live Facebook Share Button to Your WordPress
In this tutorial, we will show you how to add a facebook share button to your WordPress.
28. How to disable scripts and styles
Many plugins and themes add JavaScript and CSS files to your site. While this alone isn’t necessarily a bad thing, using several plugins that do this can bog down your site with loads of requests for these files.
29. Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress
30. 3 Awesome Custom Field Tricks
Here are 3 awesome ways to use Wordpress’s custom fields.
31. Get the first image from the post and display it
32. How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery
A neat way to spice up your WordPress search page is to highlight search terms within your search results.
33. Latest Posts by Category Archive
This tutorial will help you build a ‘Latest Posts by Category Archive‘ in a very easy way.
34. How to Only Show Posts With a Specific Custom Field
Sometimes you only want to show posts that you’ve added a specific custom field to.
35. How to List Recent Posts from One Category
36. Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page
You may encounter situations where you need to automatically.
37. Show Category Images
I’m going to show you how to add some simple PHP code to your Wordpress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts.
38. Customize Your 404 Page
The importance of setting a 404 page.
39. Create A Peel Away Effect On Your Blog / Website
If you are wondering how some webmasters or bloggers create this little peel away effect on the top right corner of their website, that means it is successfully getting your attention and we assume that’ll make visitors curiously wanting to peel it off and see what’s in store.
40. How to Separate Comments and Trackbacks
41. Embed Google Ad in First WordPress Post
To place an ad after the first post in your WordPress blog main page.
42. How to place a login form in the sidebar
43. Protect Wordpress Blog against Image Theft /Hotlinking
To fight against these image hotlinking, we can set rules in .htaccess but the drawback here is, it would also block images to appear in feeds.
44. Display Twitter messages in Wordpress
45. How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog
The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for that.
46. Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel built with jQuery
47. How to Display Most Commented Posts in Your WordPress Sidebar
In this article we are sharing a plugin called Most Commented which displays a list of most commented posts in your sidebar.
48. How To Backup and Restore WordPress Database
How can you backup and restore your WordPress blog database? If you’ve been blogging long enough, you might have heard the words “Backup Your WordPress Database Regularly!”
49. The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog
50. Wordpress SEO for Beginners – The Blog Oh! Blog Way
51. Add Twitter Id field to comment form in 5 easy steps
52. How To Hide WordPress Subcategories From Display
This article will deal with how to hide certain categories and subcategories from displaying in your navigation menus.
53. How To Display A User Welcome Message
54. Extremely Simple Way To Display Delicious Counts For Wordpress Users
Today we are going to show you how to use Delicious API together with Wordpress custom field to save and display the Delicious saved counts.
55. How To Integrate a jQuery Fading Picture Effect In Wordpress
56. How to add featured sliding content to Wordpress
I’ll show you how to add a sliding content region to your Wordpress site. You can download the source code for the tutorial, which contains everything you need to put this little thingy on your site in 5 minutes max.
57. How To Highlight Search Terms With jQuery
Make a better search experience for the user by highlighting any search terms with jQuery.
58. Add Social Bookmarks to your WordPress Theme
59. How to Display Related Posts in WordPress
60. Preventing Widows in Post Titles
Widows, typographically speaking, are single words that awkwardly break down onto their own line.
61. Build a ‘WordBurner’ Email Newsletter Manager using WordPress and FeedBurner
62. How to detect the visitor browser within WordPress
To ensure maximum cross-browser compatibility on your blog theme, you have to be able to detect the browser used by the visitor. Sure, you can use conditionnal comments, but WordPress itself can detect client browser.
63. Disable Wordpress posts auto saving
64. WordPress Hook for Entire Page Using Output Buffering
This article describes a method that can be used to create a ‘virtual’ hook which allows processing of everything between the end of the header section, and the footer of the theme, using the output buffering feature of PHP.
65. 15 Useful Wordpress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better
Here are only a few of the many great snippets of code that will take your current theme creation and make it that much better.
66. 12 Essential Security Tips and Hacks for WordPress
This article highlights several tips and hacks that you can use to secure and lock down your WordPress site and to fortify it from attacks.
67. How to include JQuery on your WordPress theme
68. Insert Adsense after the first post
Many bloggers likes to add an Adsense advertisment on their homepage, after the first post. Here’s a very easy way to do it by using a simple php variable as a counter.
69. How to Add an Announcement Box to Your Wordpress Theme
70. List future posts
This can be very useful for exemple if you’re using WordPress for a band website and like to list your future shows.
71. Get the latest sticky posts in WordPress
72. 10 Ways to Install Accordion Menus in Your Wordpress Theme
You will also see different ways to implement them, from plugins, to theme hacks, or by using special libraries. Hopefully you’ll have a ‘lightbulb’ moment and one will catch your eye!
73. AJAX Post Pagination in MooTools
In this tutorial, I will show you how to do that using the ever popular JavaScript framework; MooTools on a typical 2 column WordPress theme.
74. Display Inline Ads With Custom Fields and WordPress
I know there may be WordPress plugins that are able to do this for you, but this tutorial will go over how to do it manually by editing your WordPress theme.
75. Speeding Up Wordpress
I’ve been doing a lot of research and this article is what I came up with on how to best increase the speed of a Wordpress blog.
76. Set post expiration date/time on your WordPress blog
Here is a very nice code that you can use in your WordPress theme, to enable the possibility of creating post expiration based on date and time.
77. How to: redirect WordPress RSS feeds to feedburner with .htaccess
Feedburner is a very nice service, allowing you to know how many people suscribed to your rss feeds. The only problem is that you must edit your theme files to manually change the rss url. Happilly, there’s a nice hack, using .htaccess, which will make you save a lot of time!
78. 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance
Here are a few things to try if you find that your WordPress site is not performing as well as it could be due to high traffic or hidden issues you don’t know about.
79. How to greet visitors depending on referrer
80. How to Install Facebook Connect Comments on WordPress
Now, if you would like to easily get Facebook Connect set up on your WordPress blog, you can easily do it with these simple steps.
81. Display the Total Number of Comments on Your WordPress Blog
In this tutorial we will learn how to show total number of comments at your blog using the $wpdb object.
82. How to: Get rid of the nofollow attribute on your Wordpress blog
Wordpress, like many other blog engines, uses the rel=”nofollow” attribute in comments for the so-called fight against spam. If this was a good idea, it is totally ineffective, and in addition, a link with this attribute will not receive any credit by Google when they rank websites. It is therefore clearly in the interest of bloggers to get rid of rel=”nofollow” attribute.
83. Create an Ajax-based Auto-completing Search Field for your Wordpress Theme
84. Use jQuery to Enhance your WordPress Comment Form
Example of using a simple jQuery script to enhance functionality. This example will be about the comment form on a WordPress powered site.
85. Create Your Own Popular Posts Page
Highlighting the most popular posts on your site is a great way to send new visitors to your very best content and win them over.
86. Setting Up Your WordPress Permalink Structure
The permalink structure is one of these that you can easily set up when creating your blog and then forget about it.
87. Create a Latest Tweets Box
88. Add Post Images to Your Homepage
A simple way to add images to your posts on the homepage.
89. .htaccess Commands Every Webmaster or Blogger Should Use
I am sharing some of htaccess commands which I am using and I think everyone of you should know about them.
90. How to highlight author comments in WordPress
The trick is simple: instead of checking the author’s email address, check their user id to see if it’s the user id of the blog owner.
91. Create dynamic WordPress sidebars using conditional tags
Dynamic sidebars help bring your blog to life. They can showcase the important stuff when and where it is needed.
92. What Settings to use in All-in-one-SEO-Pack for Wordpress?
For those who don’t know what All in one SEO Plugin does for your wordpress this is for you. This plugin optimizes your blog for search engine. It allows you to select how the page titles of your blog will be generated, it gives you an option to have unique meta description, meta keywords, and title for all your posts and pages.
93. Highlight Wordpress Category when on a Single Post
By adding a small piece of code to the plug-in I could achieve this, follow the steps below and you should be able to get your categories highlighted too when on a single post.
94. Integrate a pagination in your WordPress theme
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to directly integrate the Wp-PageNavi plugin in your WordPress theme.
95. Add Thumbnails to Wordpress with Custom Fields
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily add thumbnails, lead image, and other extras to individual posts in Wordpress.
96. How to make an Archive page for your blog
How to make an Archive page for your blog
97. Add Breadcrumbs to Your WordPress Blog
Breadcrumbs are great for improving both reader navigation of your website while at the same time assisting the search engines with determining the structure of your website.
98. Create Custom Single Post Templates for Specific Posts or Sections in WordPress
In this tutorial we will share how you can create a custom single post template for each specific post, specific author, or a specific category.
99. How to make an automatic Wordpress thumbnail without a custom field
This post will show you how to make your theme generate thumbnails automatically, based on your post’s first image.
100. How to Show Recent Posts with NewsTicker Effect in WordPress Sidebar
With this little tutorial I want to illustrate the way in order to show recent articles with newsticker effect on the sidebar of your wordpress blog.
Whew...ok, thats our 100 top Wordpress hacks and tutorials from some of the best Wordpress coders going.
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