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.
- 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.
- How about adding Gravatar to your post titles to highlight the comment author?
- Instead of showing recent entries as main page on your blog, customize it!
- 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.
- Control recent post of any categories you want to display.
- This helps differenciate the author’s comments away from the rest. Useful for commentators to spot which are comments made by the author.
- How to create thumbnails for each blog post, use them anywhere you want, make your post more interesting.
- How to add some simple PHP code to your Wordpress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts.
- Get your blog content to display properly, even in feeds.
- Display your blot post’s date in the form of button.
- Quick and easy way to hide advertisements for any particular post by making some minor changes to your theme.
- There are some news you just want them to stay on top.
- Create a new Error 404 page of your own.
- Implementing a custom stylesheet that simply overrides the styles defined in the theme’s original stylesheet
- Tweaks and settings to add to your blog to take the Digg effect.
- Create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information.
- Some quick tips on how to speed up your self-hosted WordPress site.
- Create a mobile version of the website within clicks with Mofuse.
- Title’s pretty self-explainatory, make all links open in new window.
- Your Wordpress blog don’t have to look like a typical blog display. It can be something more fun.
- Don’t like the default thumbnail JPEG quality? Change it.
- Get more daily post on blog, from del.icio.us
- Very effective way to market products and bring more attention to pages you want visitors to focus.
- Get a clear view on what are comments, what’s not.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fast and simple way to assign a specific stylesheet for only one category of blog posts in a WordPress blog.
- You can do pretty much anything you want with custom fields. Your imagination is your limit.
- Create single page with links to all your archived entries, arranged just so to form the main gateway into your blog’s past.
- Provide specialized archive views that place a premium on scannability.
- Put a login on the front page of your Wordpress blog.
- Plugin for Wordpress that helps prevent image hotlinking as easy as installing and activating it.
- how you retain the old URLs after moving static HTML to Wordpress.
- Building something similar to Techmeme with Wordpress.
- This is more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients.
- Don’t let your best content get lost in the archives.
- Customize the Twitter message display on your Wordpress blog.
- 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
- Put your Facebook statuses directly on your wordpress blog. Works for both self-host Wordpress and Wordpress.com bloggers.
- Counts and display number of words and images (leaving the default Wordpress smilies out)
- 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.
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