40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks : ThemeFlash : The Quality Web Resources

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Have you ever came across a Wordpress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 Wordpress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.