24 Sep 09 30+ Tricks And Hack For Wordpress

Most of the Wordpress blogs look more or less similar these days, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you have got to tweak it. And by tweaking, we mean really getting your hands dirty down on the blog theme and PHP codes. We’ve previously showcased more than 40 Wordpress tricks and hacks you can perform on your blog but we quickly realized there are still a lot of impressive Wordpress tricks, hacks and plugins out there that we thought are really great.

So as a sequel, here’s another30+Wordpresstricks and hack. If you are wondering how some bloggers add those cool functions, mods or displays on theirWordpressblog, be sure to run through our list. You might just find the solution in here.

1. Apple Flashy Accordion Sidebar

   Use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to create an Apple-alikeWordpresssidebar.

   

2. Adding Tabs To Sidebar

   Creating tabs onWordpresssidebar withYahoo! UI Library

   

3. 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.

4. 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.

   

5. Paginated Comments

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

   

6. 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.

   

7. Random Redirect

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

8. 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.

   

9. 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.

10. Del.Icio.Us For WordPress

    del.icio.us forWordPressdisplays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in yourWordPressblog.

11. Create Your Own PopURLs Within Wordpress

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

    

12. 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 insidethe loop

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    1. <?php
    2. if ( have_posts() ) : query_posts($query_string .’&cat=-1,-2’while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
    3. ?>

    or you can useAdvanced Category Excluder.

13. Another Date Image Hack
    

14. Create a calendar view of your article post date.

    

15. Styling Individual Posts

    Styling one post a little different fromthe restwith the use ofthe_ID.

16. 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 onyour blog.

17. 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.

18. Delicious Save Buttons

    Add badges that encourage people to bookmark your website or blog

19. DesignFloat Buttons, Website & Blog Integration

    Giveyour websiteor blog visitors the option tosubmityour stories to Design Float and "Float" them

    

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

    

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

    Read herefor more.

20. StumbleUpon Buttons & Tools

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

    

21. Dynamic Highlight Menu

    This allows you to theme/style and control thecurrently selectedmenu tab in CSS by adding aclass="current"on it.

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    1. <ul id="nav">
    2. <li<?php if ( is_home() || is_category() || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single() || is_date() ) { echo’ class="current"’; } ?>><a href="#">Gallery</a></li>
    3. <li<?php if ( is_page(’about’) ) { echo’ class="current"’; } ?>><a href="#">About</a></li>
    4. <li<?php if ( is_page(’submit’) ) { echo’ class="current"’; } ?>><a href="#">Submit</a></li>
    5. </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 slugaboutorsubmitis highlighted,class="current"is added.

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

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    1. <ul id="nav">
    2. <li<?php if ( is_category(’css’) ) { echo’ class="current"’; } ?>><a href="#">CSS</a></li>
    3. <li<?php if ( is_category(showcase) ) { echo’ class="current"’; } ?>><a href="#">Showcase</a></li>
    4. </ul>

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    If category with category slug ofcssorshowcase,class="current"is added.

22. DZone Buttons

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

    

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    1. <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>

    

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    1. <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

23. Reddit Buttons

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

    

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    1. <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>

    

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    1. <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>

    

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    1. <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.

24. Archive ThatWorks

    Noura ofNoupe.comshows 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.

25. 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.

    

26. 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?

27. 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.

28. Buy Me A Beer

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

    

29. Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text

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

    

30. 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.

31. 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.

    

32. 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?

    

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