Highlight author’s comments

This helps differenciate the author’s comments away from the rest. Useful for commentators to spot which are comments made by the author.

Allow Users To Submit Blog Post

This plugin allows you to add highly customisable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit posts.

Digg/bury blog comments like Digg.com

This plugin will allow users to digg / bury every thread of your comments, thus find out the most valuable comments as well as the human-spammers.

Place content only in RSS Feed

Ever wonder how some bloggers control some content to be shown only in RSS feed but not the blog. Here’s the plugin to do that – RSS Footer.

Create Your Own PopURLs Within Wordpress

Like the way how PopURL display contents? Now you can create similar inside Wordpress.

Paginated Comments

Give you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages.

Insert anything into Wordpress Blog Post – WP-Insert

An allrounder wordpress plugin which takes care of it all be it your ads, your feeds, your tracking codes even the way you edit your posts!

Custom login page

This is more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients.

How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

Put your Facebook statuses directly on your wordpress blog. Works for both self-host Wordpress and Wordpress.com bloggers.

Add shadows to a range of objects

Wordpress Shadows plugin is a plugin to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes.

Alternative way to display dates – WP-RelativeDate

Change date displays to ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago‘, ‘2 Weeks Ago‘, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago‘, ‘2 Minutes Ago‘, ‘2 Hours Ago‘.

Customized Greeting Messages – WP Greet Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Similar plugin: Referrer Detector

Exclude certain categories from being displayed

2 ways to hide posts from certain categories to be displayed on the blog. You can either put this code inside the loop

<?php
if ( have_posts() ) : query_posts($query_string .'&cat=-1,-2'); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>

or you can use Advanced Category Excluder.

Add Stripe Ad to boost response / earnings

A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog

Display Twitter messages in Wordpress

Customize the Twitter message display on your Wordpress blog.

How to Put Your Best Content Forward

Don’t let your best content get lost in the archives.

Build a Techmeme River of News Clone

Building something similar to Techmeme with Wordpress.

Moving a Static HTML Site to WordPress

how you retain the old URLs after moving static HTML to Wordpress.

Using WordPress Custom Fields

You can do pretty much anything you want with custom fields. Your imagination is your limit.

Creating multiple single posts for different categories

Fast and simple way to assign a specific stylesheet for only one category of blog posts in a WordPress blog.

Blog Alone or Together with Writely

Writely is one of my favorte Web 2.0 apps. It’s a full-fledged web-based word processor that you can access from anywhere. Think of it as Microsoft Word for the Web.

Wordpress Thread Comment

An enhancement for Wordpress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

Vote Post Up/Down

This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. This function is similar to Reddit or Digg, in that visitors can vote for and against.

Allow users to upload and share photos at ease – PhotoSmash Galleries

PhotoSmash Galleries makes it easy to create photo galleries in posts or pages that your users can upload images to. Click here for a demo.

Thank your commentators with Thank Me Later

Automatically sends out thank you emails to readers after they post a comment. By default, it will send emails out after 1 day to remind readers of their comments and to get them engaged with future discussion and your blog. Comment Relish is another similar plugin worth a mention.

Add private notes to Wordpress blog post

How to leave admin-visible notes on a public visible blog posts.

Paginated Comments

Plugin that gives you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages. Particulary useful if you have a lot of comments on blog posts.

Manage who sees the ads

Advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, depending on user defined conditions. Click here to see a demo.

Check for Broken Links

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. It also works for images.

Wordpress Download Counter

Shows the current download count and even refreshes the count every 15 seconds automatically.

Add Post Thumbnails with ease – Simple Post Thumbnails

With the Simple Post Thumbnails plugin, adding thumbnail images to your posts is as easy as uploading any image (no editing required) and clicking the “Update Post” button. Upon upload, the plugin will re-size and crop the selected image according to whatever parameters you specify within the plugin configuration.

Link Codes to 33 Social Bookmarking Sites

If you prefer to manage and control your own blog posts’ permalinks to their respective social bookmarking sites instead of using plugins, these Wordpress link codes will come in handy.

Display Thumbnails for Related Post

How to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and Wordpress custom fields.

Display Random Posts from Category

List random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title.

Mass manage Wordpress custom fields

Useful plugin to help people who use WordPress to manage their post’s custom fields with ease.

Create beautiful blogroll down-drop (without Javascripts)

Title says it all. Click here for a demo.

Better commenting functions and management with Intense Debate

A great commenting module that makes the default Wordpress module looks really dumb. Read more about what Intense Debate can do.

Automatically insert content after each post

If you have something you’d like to insert in every blog post, this trick will save you from manually inserting them to each post one by one.

Better Wordpress Search Page

By using a template file you can completely control the look and feel of the search results page.

Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress

Turn your Wordpress blog into Twitter alike site.

Filter content by country

This plugins allows you to control the visibility of Wordpress elements depending on the users country of origin. You can hide or show certain elements of a page or some sections of a post from users browsing from a particular country.

Antivirus for Wordpress

AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks.

Spell, Style and Grammar check with After the Deadline

Smart plugin that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.

Detect Adblocker and display alternative

Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin detects if a regular visitor to your blog (10 visits by default) has AdBlock software enabled. If so, it will display a floating notification message on the 11th visit to your visitor.

Improved web typography in WordPress – WP-typography

A one stop shop for improved web typography in WordPress. Ability includes:

• Hyphenation
• Spacing control, including: gluing values to units, widow protection, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses.
• Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks ( “foo” ), dashes ( foo - bar ), ellipses ( … ), trademarks ( ™ ), math symbols ( 1024×768 ), fractions ( 12/23 ), and ordinal suffixes ( 3rd )
• CSS hooks for styling: ampersands (class “amp”), acronyms (class “caps”), numbers (class “numbers”), initial single quotes (class “quo”), and initial double quotes & guillemets (class “dquo”).

Improve page load time – WP Minify

Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

Disable Comments in Old Posts via PHP

Simply set the desired number of days by changing the number “30” to whatever you would like. As is, this script will close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on all articles posted more than 30 days ago.

Custom ‘Read More’ and Thumbnailed Recent Posts

Display a customized Read More message and display related post in Thumbnails by manipulating Wordpress custom fields.

Implement E-Commerce Shopping Cart – WP e-Commerce

State-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. Similar plugin: MiniCart

Apple Flashy Accordion Sidebar

Use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to create an Apple-alike Wordpress sidebar.

Adding Tabs to Sidebar

Creating tabs on Wordpress sidebar with Yahoo! UI Library

Sidebar With Dynamic Contents

Every blog visitor has different habits, but many tend to ignore sidebars because they are always the same. Mixing things up and keeping the contents of the sidebar relevant to the post can make them a bit more likely to be noticed.

Image Caption

Extracts the title or alt attribute from images within your blog post and generates a neat caption directly underneath those images. Supports custom CSS styling for captions.

Random Redirect

Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.

Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress

Easily integrates the Google Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev into WordPress. Image below show how codes look like in Wordpress with Google Syntax Highlighter.

Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for Wordpress

FLIR allows you to convert text and title into images (better display quality) on the fly without hassle. Now this FLIR Wordpress plugin make things even easier for bloggers.

del.icio.us for WordPress

del.icio.us for WordPress displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog.

Create a calendar view of your article post date.

Styling Individual Posts

Styling one post a little different from the rest with the use of the_ID.

How To Avoid Duplicate Posts

Duplicated contents are pretty bad and they somehow affects how search engine weights your site. Here’s how you can avoid getting duplicated contents on your blog.

Wordpress ‘Page Redirect‘ template

This template lets you specify a single URL as the page content, then as the page loads, the template automatically redirects the page to this new location, and that includes category or any tag pages you specify.

Delicious Save Buttons

Add badges that encourage people to bookmark your website or blog

DesignFloat Buttons, Website & Blog Integration

Give your website or blog visitors the option to submit your stories to Design Float and “Float” them

<script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Your URL Here';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.designfloat.com/evb/button.php"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Your URL Here';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.designfloat.com/evb2/button.php"></script>

Read here for more.

Dynamic Highlight Menu

This allows you to theme/style and control the currently selected menu tab in CSS by adding a class="current" on it.

<ul id="nav">
  <li<?php if ( is_home() || is_category() || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single() || is_date() ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Gallery</a></li>

  <li<?php if ( is_page('about') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">About</a></li>
  <li<?php if ( is_page('submit') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Submit</a></li>

</ul>

Line 2:

If Home, or Category, or Archive, or Search or Single page is selected, class="current" will be included in <li>

Line 3,4:

If Page with page slug about or submit is highlighted, class="current" is added.

If you are looking at putting categories as menu tabs, here’s how to make the menu dynamic:

<ul id="nav">
  <li<?php if ( is_category('css') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">CSS</a></li>

  <li<?php if ( is_category(showcase) ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Showcase</a></li>
</ul>

Line 2,3

If category with category slug of css or showcase, class="current" is added.

StumbleUpon Buttons & Tools

Add a Stumble It! button to your site to make it easy for your visitors to submit your content to StumbleUpon.

DZone Buttons

Let your website’s users vote for our links on DZone without leaving your site.

<script type="text/javascript">var dzone_url = '[url]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_title = '[title]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_blurb = '[description]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '1';</script><script language="javascript" src="http://widgets.dzone.com/widgets/zoneit.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">var dzone_url = '[url]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_title = '[title]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_blurb = '[description]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '2';</script><script language="javascript" src="http://widgets.dzone.com/widgets/zoneit.js"></script>

More on DZone Buttons, Tools and Widgets

Reddit Buttons

Similar to the rest, place a reddit button on your site to promote blog post.

<script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1"></script>

<script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=2"></script>

<script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=3"></script>

Source.

Archive that works

Noura of Noupe.com shows various ways you can style your Wordpress Archive page. Techniques and guides includes:

• Listing all Posts
• Display monthly or Yearly Archive
• Archives Ordered By Category

Read this entry.

Add Breadcrumbs to Your WordPress Blog

Breadcrumb trails are a good supplementary navigation system that aid in site usability. This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.

Landing Sites / Pages

When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific – often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog?

WordPress Exploit Scanner

This WordPress plugin searches the files on your site for a few known strings sometimes used by hackers, and lists them with code fragments taken from the files. It also makes a few checks of the database, looking at the active_plugins blog option, the comments table, and the posts table.

Buy Me a Beer

Allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. Not something new, but worth knowing.

Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text

How to display feedburner subscriber count in text instead of using chiklets.

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Notifixious – Notify Users via IM

This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts.

Installing Xampp and WordPress

Guide to setup Xampp and run Wordpress locally on your machine. You can also install plugins, upgrade to the latest nightly and virtually anything else confident in the knowledge that if it goes wrong, there is no impact on your actual site.

Create an Ajax-based Auto-completing Search Field

Why not helping your visitors to find what they’re looking for on your blog, by using a cool auto-completion on your search field?

Display categories in horizontal Drop-Down menu

Instead of using your categories in sidebar, you can put them up on the navigation bar, dropping down the sub categories in second-level drop down.

Add Gravatar for post author

How about adding Gravatar to your post titles to highlight the comment author?

Using custom page as homepage

Instead of showing recent entries as main page on your blog, customize it!

Add author bio on every blog post

For multi-authored blogs, adding the bio info of each author at the bottom of their respective posts is a good way to give props to the author as well as providing information to the readers as to who that person is without having to refer to an about me page.

Display recent post from specific category

Control recent post of any categories you want to display.

Create thumbnails for each blog post and displays them

How to create thumbnails for each blog post, use them anywhere you want, make your post more interesting.

Create and show categories image

How to add some simple PHP code to your Wordpress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts.

Format images for feed readers

Get your blog content to display properly, even in feeds.

Create really cool Wordpress date button

Display your blot post’s date in the form of button.

Hiding Advertisements For Single Posts

Quick and easy way to hide advertisements for any particular post by making some minor changes to your theme.

Creating a dynamic sticky

There are some news you just want them to stay on top.

Customize Error 404 page

Create a new Error 404 page of your own.

Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme

Implementing a custom stylesheet that simply overrides the styles defined in the theme’s original stylesheet<

Make your blog Digg proof

Tweaks and settings to add to your blog to take the Digg effect.

Using Wordpress as Membership Directory

Create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information.

4 Ways to speed up your wordpress blog

Some quick tips on how to speed up your self-hosted WordPress site.

Create mobile version of your blog

Create a mobile version of the website within clicks with Mofuse.

Open links in new windows (by default)

Title’s pretty self-explainatory, make all links open in new window.

Turn Wordpress blog into CMS (Content Management System)

Your Wordpress blog don’t have to look like a typical blog display. It can be something more fun.

WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack

Don’t like the default thumbnail JPEG quality? Change it.

Automatically post Del.icio.us daily link to Wordpress

Get more daily post on blog, from del.icio.us

Create a peel away effect on blog

Very effective way to market products and bring more attention to pages you want visitors to focus.

Seperate Comments from Trackbacks/Pingbacks

Get a clear view on what are comments, what’s not.

Embed Google Ad in first wordpress post

The leading SEO (Search Engine Optimization) sites will tell you that placing an ad after the first post in your blog’s home page is particularly effective.

Creating an Archive Index

Create single page with links to all your archived entries, arranged just so to form the main gateway into your blog’s past.

Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step

Provide specialized archive views that place a premium on scannability.

Place a login form in the sidebar

Put a login on the front page of your Wordpress blog.

Protect Wordpress post against hot-linking

Plugin for Wordpress that helps prevent image hotlinking as easy as installing and activating it.

Found something missing in this post?

While compiling this stuff on this post, it’s possible that we miss some other great wordpress hacks. Do not hesitate to share it with us in Comments so that we can add instantly.

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