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10 Essential WordPress resources you should read

JortK — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:35 +0000

1. Create Your Own WordPress Theme from an HTML Template
WordPress has become the most widely used blogging platform in the world, estimated to be used on a quarter of a billion websites online today. WordPress works as a blog, but also as a straightforward content management system, ready to use with search-engine-friendly URLs and fully valid HTML and CSS.
In this article, I’ll show you how to take an existing HTML and CSS site template and convert it into a theme for WordPress. Of course, WordPress theming is much too vast a topic to cover entirely in a single article, so I’ll provide you with some resources at the end to further your learning. It’s hoped, though, that this article will serve as a good introduction and give you a solid foundation to start learning about creating your own WordPress themes.

2. Step by Step Guide to Setup FeedBurner for WordPress
Every major blog is using FeedBurner to burn their RSS feeds because it is a free feature rich system that you cannot turn down. FeedBurner provides statistics, feed optimization option, feed publication option and much more. Integrating FeedBurner and Google Analytics is a must for every WordPress blog. In this article, we will show you how you can setup your WordPress blog feeds with FeedBurner and use it to help take your blog to the next level.

3. 14 Effective Practical Security Tips for WordPress
WordPress is the most user friendly expandable blog platform around. “With power comes more responsibilities”, says Spiderman’s uncle. So what if your valuable WordPress blog get hacked? You will be literally devastated, violated and humiliated. Now you need to know how a attacker or cracker hack or exploit your site.

4. 20+ Awesome Non-Blogging Websites Using WordPress as CMS
The features, maturity, and huge active community making WordPress so popular for bloggers actually makes WordPress a serious candidate for a quite large segment of traditional business websites. If you’re not already aware of it I can tell you that WordPress is silently serving a lot of websites that I would not categorize as blogs. Of cause there are types of websites having loads of special and complex requirements WordPress will never be supporting well but if you don’t have these needs WordPress is worth considering… it’s free, the most popular open source platform to date, easy to use, fast to set up, there are thousands of good looking themes available… This post show you more than 20 websites using WordPress for Non-Blogging purposes – hope this will inspire you!

5. 26 High Quality Premium WordPress Themes Released in 2010
OK there are endless numbers of free themes for WordPress. This may be one of the main reasons why WordPress has become so popular. While there are plenty free WordPress Themes to choose from this approach may not be the best option for everyone. Some of the best designers have decided to create and sell top quality Premium Themes for WordPress and by spending typically less than $100 you can give your site a significant facelift. Most Premium Theme developers put a great effort in making their themes simple to adjust and provide more than one colour style. This makes it possible to have a unique look and feel even if you’re not a experienced web developer. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of 26 awesome WordPress Themes all released in 2010.

6. How to Change WordPress Permalinks without affecting Google
Handy tutorial which shows you how to change your permalinks in WordPress without affecting your Google search rankings.

7. 8 Essential WordPress Plugins Improving Management of Multi Author Blogs
Most blogs is started by individuals working hard to produce quality content to attract readers. This is not an easy job for one person why successful bloggers quite often invite gust authors to contribute. This is not a bad idea at all and may significantly improve the quality and potential of a blog as new ideas, more knowledge, more writing muscles will attract more readers. Starting of with guest authors most bloggers simply receive the articles by mail and publish them. This works OK and full control is maintained. On the other hand it is not the most efficient way to get things done. WordPress allow you to invite other authors into the back end and still keep things under control and with the right plugins in place managing multiple authors become easy and almost fun.. Having authors in your WordPress system provides several advantages for you, your authors and your readers. Let’s see why and what plugins can do for you.

8. How to – Add Facebook LIKE button to WordPress Posts
Facebook introduced more social interactions with their new “Like” or “Recommend” Button. This Facebook button enables the user to interact with a site or page. Additionally share it with his/her friends at their own Facebook profile.
Well, Facebook does made it pretty easy to Implement the “Like” button code on your site. The complexity comes when it is not a single page website. How about a blog Post? This is where you will need this hack to make it work!

9. WordPress SEO – The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog
I started writing my beginner’s guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It’s time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO.

10. 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog
As one of the leading open source blogging platforms, WordPress has inspired hundreds (if not thousands) of plugins and tools to customize your blog. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of more than 300 of our favorites.

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The best WordPress plugins for autoblogging!

JortK — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:06:22 +0000

Autoblogging WordPress Plugins can make a blogger life easy. These autoblogging plugins post articles based on the keyword and niche the blogger configures

Awesome things you can do with WordPress shortcode!

JortK — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:38:11 +0000

Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are a very easy way to display lot of things on your blog posts by inserting a very simple code. In this article, I’m going to show 10 incredible things shortcodes can do.

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The best WordPress theme frameworks around!

JortK — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:25:41 +0000

If you often build WordPress themes on a regular basis, you probably have your own solution to make the process faster and more efficient. Many designers and developers create their own solution for that, and some even share their work with the world. The following blank WordPress themes will help you to create WordPress themes faster, so take a good look at it.

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Bug in trashed posts: Update to WordPress 2.9.2

JortK — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:55:04 +0000

Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. As always, you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade.

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23 articles and resources to improve your WordPress life!

JortK — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:25:18 +0000

I’ve collected some cool articles which will give you tips to make better use of WordPress
01. Preventing your site from being indexed, the right way
Useful article which shows the correct way of preventing your site from being indexed by a search engine.

02. 14 security tips for your WordPress installation
Practical tips to secure your WordPress installation.

03. How to protect WordPress from spam?
Tutorial which give you useful tips to stop spam on your wordpress blog

04. 20+ Awesome Non-Blogging Websites Using WordPress as CMS
Examples of websites which are using WordPress as a CMS, very cool!

05. How to Create Multiple Dynamic Sidebars for WordPress Widgets
Tutorial which allows you to create multiple synamic sidebard for WordPress widgets.

06. Use jQuery 1.4 by default on your WordPress blog
Great WordPress hack to enable jQuery by default on your site.

07. Tips and hacks for creating your own WordPress theme
Great tips and tricks for all theme designers, and those who want to tweak their theme!

08. How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress
Now that Gravatar support is part of the WordPress core adding them into your WordPress theme is easy. Adding them to your comments has been documented. How about adding them to your post titles to highlight the comment author? Within the loop? That’s fairly easy too.

09. 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.

10. How to Get Short Branded Urls with WordPress
With social media marketing on its peak, and URL shortening service at it’s highest demand, bloggers are turning to services like tr.im, bit.ly, or even ekey.us. There are two disadvantages of using these services. First they are not brandable, and second they are not reliable as tr.im said they will be closing down. Much thanks to a powerful script like WordPress, we can now use it to create short URLs and have our brand in it.

11. Automatically resize pictures on your WordPress blog
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!

12. How to List Recent Posts from One Category
WordPress hack which give you the power to list recent posts from one category

How to Separate Comments and Trackbacks
Most wordpress themes out there (by default) combine both comments and trackbacks / pingbacks together and display under the same list. But why bother separating them? Simply to make things looks more organize so your blog commenters have a clearer picture what are the comments, what’s not. Doing it is not hard, but you need toe be using independentWordPress blog (not the wordpress.com), provided with access to change comments.php. Prepare your favorite editor, and here we go.

13. Protect your WordPress blog using .htaccess
The .htaccess file have lots of possibilities. Today, let’s see how we can protect our WordPress blog from scripts injection, and unwanted modification of _REQUEST and/or GLOBALS.

14. A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks
The .htaccess file allows you to easily improve your blog’s security, reduce bandwith and increase usability. In this post we’re going to look at 26 .htaccess hacks, from A to Z.

15. 4 Contact Form Solutions For WordPress
The contact form is a simple thing and often overlooked both in adding one and styling it. This post will address that with a number of options for creating a contact form that can be added to a WordPress blog site.

16. Best Practices for Creating Unique Blog Posts
Some golden rules you should follow when creating blog posts.

17. Hide Individual WordPress Pages
If you’ve downloaded a WordPress theme that has been made available to the general public, it is likely that, by default, it has some code that automatically inserts your WordPress pages directly into your theme without any manual coding. This is a really great feature most of the time, but sometimes there are certain pages you’d like to not display in your menu or not display at all (search results page comes to mind).

18. How To Add Bio Info To Your WordPress Blog Posts
Add your blog Bio info to your blogposts.

19. How To Set Up a Sideblog
Great article about creating your own side blog.

20. How to Create a WordPress Login Form Overlay
WordPress is more than just a blogging tool. It can be used as a Content Management System (CMS) for many different purposes. It has a built in system for most things you would have to code yourself, or pay for an expensive custom application. With a little creativity, you can use basic features to power almost anything you want.

21. Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress
Everyone knows that WordPress is one of the most, if not the most, popular blogging systems on the internet today. With its out of the box features, plugins, and great theming community, its no wonder WordPress has been accepted as today’s standard. However, sometimes you just want to add a little more.

22. Page Sensitive Multi-Level Navigation
While most sites don’t need incredibly deep page navigation there are situations that justify a hierarchy beyond the typical 2 – 3 levels. Unfortunately that can be cumbersome for top navigation drop-downs (more than 1 level of drop down is too much IMHO) so another solution needs to be found.

23. Add a favicon to your WordPress blog using a hook

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JortK — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:01:44 +0000

It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site. Not only am I excited about the things that will happen under the auspices of the Foundation, I’m excited to see a site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called 2010. Go check it out for yourself.

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JortK — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:28:02 +0000

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