135+ Ultimate Round-Up of Wordpress Tutorials

Dkumar M

It’s certainly no secret that I think the WordPress platform is the way to go in developing a web presence for any design professional who wants to do it on their own and control the result. What sets Wordpress apart from other blogging software are the many free templates, tutorials and extensions available through plug-ins to help you to achieve your goals.

With so many blogging software programs available, its often difficult to choose which is the right one for you. It’s important to take into consideration not just the up-front cost but also your future needs for advertising, categorizing, updates etc.

For those who choose to design their blog via WordPress route, Here we present a Ultimate Round-up of Quality Wordpress Tutorials which helps you to enhance your blog design and features.

The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Various Sources of Popular, creative and most importantly Free Tutorials, Tips and Hacks to save your time searching them online.

You may be interested in the following Wordpress related articles as well.

Please feel free to join us as you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to Wordpress Tutorials, Tips, Tricks or Hacks that our readers may like.

Tutorials About Wordpress

01. The WordPress Tutorial: Easy Start
02. WordPress Tutorials: Complete set
03. WordPress for Designers: Video Series
04. How to Become a Wordpress Developer
05. The WordPress Help Sheet
06. The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet
07. WordPress Template Tag Reference Guide
08. Huge Compilation of WordPress Code
09. 48 Unique Ways to Use WordPress
10. Things you should know when displaying pages in Wordpress
11. WordPress: KeyBoard Shortcuts
12. How to Install WordPress Manually

Theme Related Tutorials

13. So You Want to Create Wordpress Themes, Huh?
14. WordPress Theme Hacks
15. How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch
16. How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch – Part 2
17. How to Create WordPress Themes from Scratch – Part 1
18. How to Create WordPress Themes from Scratch – Part 2
19. How to Create a Wordpress Theme in 5 Minutes
20. Turning a Web Template Into a Wordpress Theme
21. Designing for WordPress
22. Developing a WordPress Theme
23. Dissection of a WordPress Theme – Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
24. Designing for Wordpress Screencast – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
25. How to Widgetizing Themes
26. How to Create a WordPress Template or Theme

Navigation and Menu Related Tutorials

27. Display your WordPress Tags in a Drop-Down Menu
28. Using Sliding Doors with WordPress Navigation
29. Rounded Corner Tab Menus
30. Wordpress Categories in a Horizontal Drop-down Menu
31. Adding Private Pages to Your Blog’s Navigation

Post related Tutorials

32. The proper way to write code in your blog posts
33. Things you should know when using post excerpt
34. How to Take Full Advantage of Your Post Timestamp
35. Styling Individual Posts Using the_ID
36. How to Display the Thumbnail for Each Post on the Home Page
37. Adding Thumbnails to Your Posts in WordPress
38. Adding An Author Page To Your WordPress Blog

Comments Page Related Tutorials

39. 30 Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks
40. Unraveling the Secrets of WordPress’ comments.php File
41. Hack Together a User Contributed Link Feed with WordPress Comments
42. Comment Styling in Wordpress
43. How-to style WordPress author comments
44. How to Highlight Author Comments in Wordpress
45. Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks
46. WordPress Ajax Commenting revisited
47. Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments Using jQuery
48. How to Add Gravatars to WordPress Themes

XHTML/CSS & JavaScript Related Tutorials

49. From XHTML/CSS to WordPress
50. Wordpress CSS Guides
51. Customizing Widgets Using CSS
52. No More CSS Hacks
53. How to Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme
54. Category Styling
55. How to Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme
56. How to Apply a Dynamic Body Class or ID

Statistics Related Tutorials

57. Quick shooting stats of your Wordpress blog
58. Create a Statistics Page for Advertisers
59. How to Easily Make WordPress Archives that Rock

Design and Layout Related Tutorials

60. Multiple Page Layouts in a Single Template
61. Blog Posts in Different Columns
62. Creating a Widget Ready Footer
63. Simple Random Header Image for Your Blog
64. Customize Your 404 Page
65. Don’t Ignore Your WordPress Footer
66. Adding Tabs to Your Theme’s Sidebar
67. How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress
68. Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress
69. Build a Basic Newspaper style layout with Wordpress and jQuery
70. How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template
71. Client Friendly WordPress Themes: Header.php

Plugins Related Tutorials

72. How to Write a Simple Wordpress Plugin
73. The Ultimate Guide to Building a Wordpress Plugin
74. The Best Wordpress Plug-ins
75. How to Make a Wordpress Plugin
76. Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin
77. Your First WP Plugin
78. Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

Tips, Tricks and Hacks Related Tutorials

79. Wordpress Theme Hacks
80. Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques
81. Multiple Wordpress Installations Using a Single Database
82. Laying text over your lead graphic/Images
83. Creating a “Dynamic Sticky” Pages
84. How-to turn visitors into returning visitors
85. How to Show Category Images
86. WP Date Image Hack
87. Removing Several Categories from the Loop in WordPress
88. The Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
89. The Date/Image Hack
90. How to Add Photo Captions
91. How to make a random post button
92. How to place a login form in the sidebar
93. 4 Simple Ways To Speed Up WordPress
94. WordPress Category Page Hacks
95. WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack
96. How to embed YouTube Video in Wordpress
97. Hodgepodge of WordPress Tricks

RSS and Feed Related Tutorials

98. Creating Posts That Appear Only In RSS
99. How to Format Images for Feed Readers
100. Mashing Up Feeds Using Yahoo Pipes
101. Publishing External RSS Headlines to Your WordPress Site

Backend Related Tutorials

102. Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress
103. Customize your WordPress Login
104. Create a Tabbed Featured Post Area in WordPress
105. Moving your Blog, changing your domain name
106. How to Make a Control Panel for Your WordPress Theme
107. Wordpress as a CMS
108. Using WordPress Custom Fields: Introduction
109. WordPress Custom Fields: Laying Text Over Your Lead Graphic
110. How to setup PrettyURLs on WordPress
111. Setting up a member/user directory in WordPress
112. Import and Export WordPress Data
113. Lost Password, Update User Info
114. WordPress blog admin settings
115. How to Enable HTTPS

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While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some cool resource links. Feel free to share it with us.

Author : DKumar M.

Hello, iShift was accidentally founded by a group of professionals. One of them is me, DKumar M., an Asian freelancer who is still single. My work covers advertising, consultation, programming and web design areas.

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John (Human3rror) April 5, 2009

hot dog. that’s a lot of links.
Marc Kuiper April 5, 2009

Great list!
Robert April 5, 2009

WOW great stuff man. Lot’s of great links for WP knowledge.
Thanks
Kyle April 5, 2009

I wanted to thank-you for making the list (and including one or our tutorials in it). I passed a message on to our visitors to check out this very comprehensive resource. Just wanted to say thanks.
lawrence77 April 5, 2009

Wow, thanks!
Soon I’m going to study!
Nik April 5, 2009

This post is yet another act of divine intervention . . .

. . . so where is your “donate” button?
Kevin April 5, 2009

Fantastic list/
Michael Martin April 5, 2009

Wow, massive collection there! Well gathered, you have some great links! Thanks for the mention.
Dre April 6, 2009

This is an outstanding aggregation of Wordpress Magic! Thanks for the post.

~Dre
Dre April 6, 2009

I wonderful aggregation of Wordpress Magic. Thank you for the post!

~Dre
http://www.armeda.com
JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes April 6, 2009

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Create a Custom Wordpress Search Results Page
Johnson Koh April 6, 2009

What a huge list. Thanks for compiling them
Rahul April 6, 2009

You know what the say it. The right thing at the right time.

Ha ha… just the right article for me.
Nadine Amore April 7, 2009

Great list. I really didnt know this much info was available. Thanks for putting this together. Real time saver.
wha whattt? April 7, 2009

this is really crazy!!
ha ha haaaa!
Livia April 7, 2009

Great list of links. It’s good to have them all in one place. Thanks.
fas April 7, 2009

That is one amazing list, will take 10+ hours just reading it and a few days implementing it
Danh ba web 2.0 April 8, 2009

Great list. Thanks you very much
My blog built in Wordpress, see more: http://tr.im/hUiB
praveen April 8, 2009

wow! jackpot!! Now I have everything about wordpress here
George Plumley April 10, 2009

Thanks for putting together this list – nicely organized too. I’ll be adding it to my WP resources list.

For your next update, I’ve created a WP video tutorials site at http://seehowtwo.com/category/wordpress/
T-Law April 11, 2009

Amazing list, thanks.
Roseli A. Bakar April 13, 2009

Great list. Great info.

Thanks.
Sanjeev Bhadresa April 13, 2009

What a fantastic list, thank you!
hieudt April 13, 2009

Very useful information.

Thanks so much!
adek April 13, 2009

Wooow….great job
saurabh shah April 14, 2009

Gr8 ! post i have ever found on wordpress… thanx for sharing …
Bart April 15, 2009

WOW, Great Stuff – Thanks Man
ne_o May 15, 2009

Great links thanks
MikeHTS May 17, 2009

Outstanding collection of Wordpress info. Many thanks. Lots to read and digest.
Jonathan Wold May 24, 2009

Under, “Theme Related”, I humbly suggest a tutorial of my own:

How To Create A WordPress Theme
http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/
Anthony Alexander May 30, 2009

Oh humans, I love you to death. Now die.

Every technology that comes out to simplify something eventually gets complicated. How do I install Magneto, Wordpress and Joomla together in the same directory? Don’t ask why. How do you do it?

I’m just being s-assy. Great list of links, bookmarked for future complaining.
Shelly June 2, 2009

Nice list! There’s a lot I haven’ seen here – definitely bookmarked (and stumbled) this!

(and thanks for including one of my tutes in there too – I’m all excited )
instantshit August 7, 2009

hasnt anyone else noticed instant shift just round up eveyrone elses work .
none of this content is thiers , you shuold at least have an equal number of tuts that are yours

Also the intros grammer is always wrong and taken from wikpedia

and they get loads of cash for this wtf
Ryan August 14, 2009

I did some wordpress tutorials too. Hopefully they’re helpful to some people.
uneekGrafix September 4, 2009

WOW. This is the ultimate list of WP tuts. Bookmarked and Stumbled.
Perfect for all my new clients.
Thanks
uneekGrafix
sandwichescorner September 25, 2009

Superb collection of tuts, just goes to show how there’s always new tricks you can pick up to separate a Wordpress blog from the crowd. Thanks very much
Eddi Hughes December 10, 2009

WordPress Otaku!
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