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If you are looking to add new design features and functionality to your Wordpress blog, odds are there is probably someone who has already done it and shared the code on how to do it. There are a number of great resources you can use to find outstanding hacks, customizations, and tips to make your Wordpress blog more unique, user-friendly, and engaging.
Over the years I have collected a number of great resources across the web that I thought would be a great idea to organize and share. I would encourage everyone to leave their favorite Wordpress Hack in the comments below.
Displaying Author & Bio Information
- How To Display Author Photo and Bio in Wordpress
- Optimise Your WordPress Themes With Better Author Pages
- WordPress hack: Automatically insert author bio on each post
- How to Add an Author Info Box in WordPress Posts
- How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress
- How To Add Bio Info To Your WordPress Blog Posts
Adding Social Media Aspects
- Display The Total Number Of Registered Users
- WordPress hack: Show your top contributors without a plugin
- WordPress tip: Create a Tweetmeme “Retweeet” Shortcode
- Add Google Buzz Button To Wordpress Blog
- Nice And Simple Toolbar For Your Website With CSS3 And jQuery
- Show Your Latest Tweet In 5 Lines of Code
- Show Latest Twitter Tweets On Wordpress
- How to show your latest tweets on your WordPress site without a plugin
- Display your tweets without a plugin
- Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress
- How To Display Your Latest Twitter Entries on WordPress
- How To Display Twitter counter in Text
- Social Bookmarking Link Codes for 33 of the Biggest
Displaying Archive Posts
- Creating Helpful and Effective Wordpress Archives
- “How to list ALL posts on a page?”
- Create a Simple Site Map of All of Your Pages
- WordPress Archive that *works*: StepxStep Guide and Plugins
- Code: Display Categories and Archives in WordPress
- Drop(down) the Monthly Archives
Comment Features
- 10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks
- Advanced Wordpress Comment Styles and Tricks
- How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks
- How To: AJAXify WordPress Comment Posting
- How to add an Option to Hybrid News Options Page
- Separating Trackbacks from Comments
Custom Post/Categories Features
- Custom CSS Per Post
- Custom Fields Hacks For WordPress
- List Posts by Category In Navigation
- Sort Posts With The Help Of Custom Fields
- Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers
- List Categories Next to Their Description
Adding RSS Features
- WordPress tip : Fetch and display RSS feeds
- Adding a CSS StyleSheet to your RSS Feed
- 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress
- WordPress hack: Display Posts Only to RSS Subscribers
- 9 Extremely Useful RSS Tricks and Snippets for WordPress
Adding Community Features
- Build an Awesome Community News Feature for Your Wordpress Blog
- How to Allow Users to Submit News / Posts to Your WordPress Site
- 9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity
- Display Your Tags in a Dropdown Menu
- Display the Total Number of Users of Your WordPress Blog
- The Right Way To Build WordPress As A Community News
- How To Set Up a Sideblog
- Create Your Own Popular Posts Page
Wordpress Hacks Roundups
- 63 Essential Wordpress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats
- 55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
- 40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks And Hacks
- 15 Killer Hacks for WordPress that Are Extremely Useful
- 9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity
- 10 Exceptional WordPress Hacks
- 10 WordPress Hacks to Make your Life Easy
- 30 Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks
- 20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)
- 22 Mixed Quality Wordpress Hacks
- 15 Killing Wordpress Tricks and Hacks
- Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
- Huge List of Wordpress Codes / Hacks, Tricks
- 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress
- 10 Twitter Hacks For Your Wordpress Blog
- 10 NEW WordPress Wanted Hacks and Powerful Techniques
- Wordpress hacks you can actually use
- Very Useful 65 Wordpress Hacks
- 10 Must Have Hacks For WordPress Development
- 37 Cool Wordpress Hacks And Tutorials You Should Try
- 135+ Ultimate Round-Up of Wordpress Tutorials
- Very Useful 65 Wordpress Hacks
- 35+ Most Essential Wordpress Tricks and Hacks
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wow what a great post this is going to take a while to checkout all of the links lol but it should be worth it. Some of these I had seen before but a lot of new stuff too.
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The collection of resources are great. Thanks for the share. Will work on the hacks.
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What a great list. Thanks for the work on that – almost everything on one page – Respect.
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Great round up! Though, it’s a shame to see links to Wpbeginnr, a blog well known for stealing content from other blogs.
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This post was not edited by me. Our Editor in Chief wasn’t aware of this thing. I am editing the post right now Jean. Thanks for your comment.:)
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really outstanding collection..amazing list..keep it up!
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What a massive list… I’ll have to spend some time digging through.
Thanks.
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Very helpful post, thx a lot for this hacks! I’ll bookmark for sure!
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Great round up.. I always prefer hacks rather than plugins.. thanx for including “http://artatm.com/2010/02/35-most-essential-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks/”
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Excellent roundup….now this is useful. Bookmarked for future reference.
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Fantastic resource guys!
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great list, thank you very much.
Awesome collection, just in time as I just started a wordpress project that will likely make use of a couple of the hacks mentioned.
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This is a great roundup of ways to customize your WordPress for better user functionality. Great job! I like that listing every post on one page – might have to try that for my archives.
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This is a great list both in size and quality, and is just in time for me. I have been thinking about turning off a few of the plugins and making something that is more customized.
Thank you very much!
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Fantastic list. Retweeted :)
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What an awesome list. Thank you so much for putting this together.
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A new blog for WordPress developers was launched recently, I think it would be a nice idea to put a link into the resources: http://www.wphardcore.com/
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One of the feature I’ve always made by hand, it’s to list all post one page. It’s a shame, Wordpress didn’t thought of that before.
You can never have enough hacks & customizations, to replace your plugins…thanks for the round up!
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