63 Essential Wordpress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats

This is a fairly comprehensive list of the Best Wordpress Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheat Sheets (call it what you like).They are written to make life easier, to help us expand Wordpresses functionality, to give us a better understanding of Wordpress and how powerful a tool it is.

Make sure you thank all the authors of these Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheat Sheets…

Wordpress Tutorials/Hacks

1.WordPress Theme Hacks (Source: Web Designer Wall)

2. No More CSS Hacks (Source: Style Gala)

3. Create a Dynamic Sticky (Source: Maxpower)

4. Styling Individual Posts Using the_ID (Source: WP Designer)

5. Show Category Images (Source: JTPratt)

6. Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks (Source: Hack Wordpress)

7. Customize your WordPress Login (Source: David Airey)

8. Date Image Hack (Source: YugaTech)

9. How to place a login form in the sidebar (Source: WP Designer)

10. WP: KeyBoard Shortcuts (Source: Tip Monkies)

11. Making Better Use of Your Error “404″ Page (Source: Hack Wordpress)

12. Customize Your 404 Page (Source: Theme Playground)

13. WordPress accessibility hacks (Source: Bruce Lawson)

14. Reset your Lost WordPress Administrator Password (Source: Village Idiot)

15. The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs (Source: Pearsonified)

16. Do-It-Yourself WordPress Hover Menu (Pop-Up) (Source: WP Designer)

17. How to Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme (Source: Pearsonified)

18. WP Contact Manager (Source: Design Canopy)

19. Wordpress and the custom fields, a overlooked feature (Source: Gate 303)

20. DiggProof your Wordpress (Source: Circle Six Blog)

21. WordPress Ajax Commenting revisited (Source: Zeo)

22. Widgetizing Themes (Source: Automattic)

23. Cloaking to Stop Scraping (Source: Plagiarism Today)

24. Server load button for blogs (Source: Jesse Chilcott’s Journal)

25. Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page (Source: Wordpress Garage)

26. How to create overlapping tabs (Source: WP Designer)

27. How to Optimize Your WordPress Title (Source: Hack Wordpress)

28. Blocking Your WordPress Categories and Archives From Google (Source: Hack Wordpress)

29. Adding An Author Page To Your WordPress Blog (Source: Hack Wordpress)

30. Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader (Source: Digital Inspiration)

31. How to Use Wordpress as a Membership Directory (Source: WP Designer)

32. How to Format Images for Feed Readers (Source: Pearsonified)

33. Add Del.icio.us Daily Blog Posting To Your WordPress Blog (Source: Hack Wordpress)

34. Huge Compilation of WordPress Code (Source: Hack Wordpress)

35. 4 Simple ways to Speed up Wordpress (Source: WP Candy)

36. WordPress Date Button (Source: WP Designer)

37. Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step! (Source: Pearsonified)

38. Make Yourself Available to Readers with a Contact Form (Source: Hack Wordpress)

39. Wordpress as a CMS - Content Management System (Source: Graphic Design Blog)

40. Installing Xampp and WordPress (Locally) (Source: Tamba 2)

41. WordPress Category Page Hacks (Source: Jehiah)

42. 3 WordPress Hacks For SE-Friendly Blog Archives (Source: SEO Egghead)

43. Opening Links in New Windows (Source: Ajay)

44. WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack (Source: Lorelle on Wordpress)

45. Restore your Wordpress Database (Source: Tamba 2)

46. Validating Wordpress (Source: Wordpress Codex)

47. Backing Up Wordpress (Source: Lorelle on Wordpress)

48. Moving Your WordPress Blog to a New Directory (Source: Big Biz Blog)

49. Moving Your WordPress Blog to a New Directory (Source: Big Biz Blog)

Wordpress Video Tutorials

50. The Best Wordpress Plug-ins

51. How to embed YouTube Video in Wordpress

52. How to Upgrade Wordpress

53. Make Your Wordpress Blog Search Engine Friendly

54. WordPress.com - Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog

55. How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template

56. Wordpress tutorial–installing on a local server

57. Recover WordPress Password When You Have Forgotten It

58. WordPress Tutorial - Edit a Sidebar File Using a Text Editor

59. WordPress Tutorial - Make Menus of Links With the Blogroll 2

60. How-to: Use WordPress/PodPress to podcast to iTunes

61. How to Put Adsense on Your Wordpress Blog

Wordpress Podcasts

62. The Wordpress Podcast

63. The Wordpress Weekly

65 Comments so far

1. Miriam on March 9, 2008 12:00 am

   This is an amazing list! Thanks for putting it together, and thanks for including my tip for post thumbnails.

2. David Airey on March 9, 2008 5:31 am

   Hi Specky Boy,

   Nice logo, by the way, and thanks for mentioning my WordPRess login article.

   All the best.

3. niksy on March 9, 2008 6:32 am

   Thanks for the list!

4. CP on March 9, 2008 7:15 am

   Thanks Specky B. #9 was just what I needed for a project I’m working on.

5. Jeffro2pt0 on March 9, 2008 9:30 am

   Thanks for mentioning my podcast, that was pretty awesome of you. However, the link to the WordPress Podcast is wrong as it points to a YouTube video. Instead, it should be http://wp-community.org/

6. admin on March 9, 2008 9:35 am

   Sorry Jeff, Link is now fixed.
   (speckyboy)

7. Lorelle on March 9, 2008 12:05 pm

   Thank you for the inclusion, however, you’ll need to fix 48 and 49. Don’t you hate it when it screws up your number count. :D

   There are some great resources here. Wonderful.

8. admin on March 9, 2008 12:11 pm

   Thanks Lorelle, I suppose now the Post is going to be called ‘62′ Essential Wordpress…
   Thanks again.

9. Copes Flaviio on March 9, 2008 12:15 pm

   Great list! I think that most of this content is really valuable! Thanks a lot

10. Evert de Ruiter on March 9, 2008 11:44 pm

    Awesome list, probably the best list on WordPress I’ve ever seen.

11. Dejan Cancarevic on March 10, 2008 9:51 am

    very good resource thanks!

12. SticKer on March 12, 2008 2:11 am

    This is a gr8 list for wordpress users.

    Thanks for putting it together and sharing it with us.

    SticKer

13. Suzanne Langley on March 16, 2008 7:18 pm

    I have visited this site on many an occasion now but this post is the 1st one that I have ever commented on.

    Congratulations on such a fine article and site I have found it very helpful and informative - I only wish that there were more out there like this one.

    I never leave empty handed, sometimes I may even be a little disappointed that I may not agree with a post or reply that has been made. But hey! that is life and if every one agreed on the same thing what a boring old world we would live in.

    Keep up the good work and cheers.

14. Mark on March 22, 2008 7:58 pm

    Great list!

    Didn’t see anything for Adsense and Wordpress, so have a look at this plugin which makes it incredibly easy.

    http://www.ezadsensewordpress.com/ezwp/info.html

15. skilline on March 30, 2008 12:45 pm

    Easy
    perfect
    thx
    http://www.skilline.com

16. Ronak Shah on March 31, 2008 11:42 pm

    I had like to thank you for creating a great list of wordpress hacks and tut’s which is what I require at this point of time. Here’s why I had like to thank you:

    I had just ordered the wordpress theme design ebook and book but its unfortunate that it will be released in May 2008 whereas it was about to be delivered yesterday to my mailbox as well as postal address in a weeks time from today.

    So, I will have to slog hard to just create my own wordpress theme as I’m a novice programmer and designer. I dont know photoshop, PHP and dreamweaver, and I will learn to use them this month before I eventually get my ebook on wordpress theme design from packtpub.

    There aren’t any ebooks available in the market for wordpress theme design as of now and the only that was about to come out is delayed for publishing by a month as mentioned by me earlier.

    thanks-a-million :-)

17. kristarella on April 7, 2008 12:01 am

    Very good list.

    48 and 49 are the same :)

    Also found WpCandy cheat sheet and 480x theme and plugin cheat sheets.

18. Jermayn on April 10, 2008 5:46 pm

    Kewl list!
    However would what be even better is some tuts on how to edit and manipulate how to edit the back end of WP for clients etc.

19. tienpow on April 10, 2008 8:23 pm

    thank for your list, it helpful

20. JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes on May 6, 2008 6:03 am

    Very nice list! Thanks for the mention - glad to have made the cut! Since you put this list together, I now have an entire 30 Wordpress hacks in 30 Days Series!

21. rampantheart on May 12, 2008 4:08 am

    I am becoming increasingly addicted to your blog!Kudos!

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