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02. Bueno

03. Neutra

04. Fifty Fifth Street

05. The Seven Five

06. Glassical

07. Simpleblog

08. Jasov Theme

09. Satoshi

10. Manifest

11. Inuit Types

12. Ulap Theme

Artistic and Fancy Style WordPress Themes

13. Monkeypr

14. Hipsterist

15. Mystique

16. Furvious

17. Simplista

18. DailyNote

19. Stitchpress

20. Recipy

21. Zexee

22. CoolRetro

23. Sketch Ace

Magazine Style WordPress Themes

24. Good Theme

25. WpStream

26. Aparatus

27. Delighted Black

28. Obscure

29. Sucha Theme

30. Argentpress

31. deStyle

32. Mayumi

33. Bright Sky

34. Simple Magazine

Portfolio Style WordPress Themes

35. SimpleFolio

36. Foliopress

37. BlueBubble

News and Social Media Style WordPress Themes

38. Aggregator

39. Bureau News

40. Zada News

41. NEWSPRESS

42. Zinmag Tribune

43. LiveTwit

44. Gadgetizer

Showcase and Galleries Style WordPress Themes

45. Tasty Showcase

46. Mnml Galleria

47. ThemeMeme Aperio Prototype

48. Tanzaku

E-Commerce and Shopping Cart Style WordPress Themes

49. AppCloud

50. SimpleCart(js)

51. Vanilla Cart

52. Kelontong

Features Full Preview Download

Domain Parking, Coming Soon Style WordPress Themes

53. WP Blueprint

54. Ready2Launch!

55. UnderCon

56. ComingSoon

57. Ice Breaker

Features Full Preview Download

Other Quality WordPress Themes

58. GTD – private blog theme

59. Selecta

60. MiniCard

Features Full Preview Download

61. Debug Theme

62. Carrington Mobile

63. Notepad

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22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks

Anders Ross — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:27:17 +0000

WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or less similar, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you need to tweak it a little bit by using quality hacks.

As you all known that the new version v2.8 is arrived and most of you already updated your WordPress to v2.8. So, now there is a need of new working hacks which is compatible with latest version.

Of Course, WordPress Codex is always the best place to learn about WordPress and its tweaks. But unfortunately, it’s too much for a simple WordPress user. This the only reason we compiled this fairly comprehensive list of the Exceptional WordPress Hacks to unleash the power of your favorite blogging engine.

One of the greatest things about blogging is the immediate feedback a blogger can get from his or her readers. Still it’s often possible that your readers don’t give you a wink about their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, there is no way for you to find out about visitors thinking towards your blog or its design. It’s always essential to play safe and give others what they like. Out of many solutions the inspirational one is only promising and optimistic way to achieve desired changes. This article focuses on organized collection of some of the Most Wanted WordPress Hacks which will definitely make your blogging life easier.

You may be interested in the following tips and tricks related articles as well.

Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to other tips and tricks that our readers may like.

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General WordPress Related Hacks

01. How to Speed Up Your Blog’s Loading Speed

WordPress, by default, comes uncompressed and sends the uncompressed HTML to the visitor’s browser. With one line of code added to your header, you can compress WordPress’s output by up to 75%. By using zlib compression technology, you can harness the power of PHP and reduce your blog’s load time and increase the load speed!

First, place the following code in a file and call it “test.php” and then upload it to the root of your blog directory:

Make sure that “zlib” is enabled by your hosting provider.

Second, place the following code in your header (above the DOCTYPE):

You’re done! Check Port80Software.com to ensure you are compressing your output.

02. Allow More Time For Slow Servers to Upgrade Wordpress

WordPress auto download/install is a very nice feature, but sometimes a few problems can appear. One of them is that WordPress don’t manage to download the new version. This happens on slow servers. Here is how to solve it.

To apply this hack, you’ll have to edit one of WordPress core files. Keep in mind that it is never recommended. This hack should be applied only if you have problems while auto-upgrading WordPress.

Open the wp-admin/includes/files.php file and go to line 448. You’ll see the following:

$response = wp_remote_get($url, array('timeout' => 60));

To allow more downloading time, simply change the 60 with a greater value, as for example:

$response = wp_remote_get($url, array('timeout' => 120));

it’s all done!!

Pages Related Hacks

03. How to Get All Custom Fields From a Page or a Post

Sometimes you may need to get all custom fields from a specific post or page. Apply following function that do the job.

function all_my_customs($id = 0){
  //if we want to run this function on a page of our choosing them the next section is skipped.
  //if not it grabs the ID of the current page and uses it from now on.
  if ($id == 0) :
    global $wp_query;
    $content_array = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
    $id = $content_array->ID;
  endif;   

  //knocks the first 3 elements off the array as they are WP entries and i dont want them.
  $first_array = array_slice(get_post_custom_keys($id), 3);

  //first loop puts everything into an array, but its badly composed
  foreach ($first_array as $key => $value) :
    $second_array[$value] =  get_post_meta($id, $value, FALSE);

    //so the second loop puts the data into a associative array
    foreach($second_array as $second_key => $second_value) :
      $result[$second_key] = $second_value[0];
    endforeach;
  endforeach;

  //and returns the array.
  return $result;
}

Once done, you can use the function like this:

$result = all_my_customs();
echo $result['my_meta_key'];

04. How to Show Parent Page Title Regardless of What Subpage You Are On

This hack is useful for peoples who working with WordPress as a CMS and wanting to be easily able to display parent page title on a subpage.

Nothing hard at all: Just paste the following code where you’d like to display the parent page title:

post_parent) {
  $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
  echo $parent_title;
} else {
  wp_title('');
}
?>

That’s all! Quick and easy!!

05. Display Guest Author Name in The Front Page and Individual Posts

The first thing we need to do is to set a wordpress if statement to get the custom filed value. This way it will only show up when the custom file value is assigned. Open up your “index.php” and “single.php” and paste the following code where you want the author name to show up. It could be after date or after comments. For example after this code:

ID, 'guest_author_name', true) ) { ?>
// check to see if custom field guest author name exists
ID, "guest_author_name", $single = true); ?>

Once we put the if statement we just call it on whichever post we want the guest author name to show up. The guest author name should show up on the front page and for specified post only.

Post Related Hacks

06. How to Display Content in Multiple Columns

Printed magazines often display text in columns, so why blogs shouldn’t be able to do the same? here you can find out how to easily and automatically display your post content in columns.

This code is powerful but definitely easy to implement. Just paste it on your functions.php file and it will automatically output your post content in columns.
Your post content will be splitted on

tags.

function my_multi_col($content){
  $columns = explode('', $content);

  $i = 0;

    foreach ($columns as $column){
    if (($i % 2) == 0){
      $return .= '' . "\n";
      if ($i > 1){
        $return .= "";
      } else{
        $return .= '' . "\n ";
      }
      $return .= $column;
      $return .= '';
      $i++;
    }

    if(isset($columns[1])){
      $content = wpautop($return);
    }else{
      $content = wpautop($content);
    }
  echo $content;
  }
}
add_filter('the_content', 'my_multi_col');

Don’t forget to add the following styles to your style.css file :

.content_right, .content_left{
  float:left;
  width:45%;
}

.content_left{
  padding-right:5%;
}

07. How to Show WordPress Post Attachments

Since WordPress 2.5, attachments management in WordPress have been improved and is now very powerful. Today, we’re going to show you a simple code snippet that you can use in your WordPress theme to display post attachments.

To achieve this recipe, just paste the following code anywhere in your post.php file and attachments will be displayed.

$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'attachment',
  'numberposts' => null,
  'post_status' => null,
  'post_parent' => $post->ID
);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
  foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
    echo apply_filters('the_title', $attachment->post_title);
    the_attachment_link($attachment->ID, false);
  }
}

08. How to Set Post Expiration Date/Time on Your WordPress Blog

Sometimes (for example, if you’re running a contest), you want to be able to publish a post and then automatically stop displaying it after a certain date. This may seem quite hard to do but in fact is not, using the power of custom fields.

Edit your theme and replace your current WordPress loop with this “hacked” loop:


    $expirationtime = get_post_custom_values('expiration');
    if (is_array($expirationtime)) {
      $expirestring = implode($expirationtime);
    }

    $secondsbetween = strtotime($expirestring)-time();
    if ( $secondsbetween > 0 ) {
      // For example...
      the_title();
      the_excerpt();
    }
  endwhile;
endif;
?>

To create a post set to expire at a certain date and time, just create a custom field. Specify expiration as a key and your date and time as a value (with the format mm/dd/yyyy 00:00:00). The post will not show up after the time on that stamp.

Note that this code does not remove or unpublish your post, but just prevents it from being displayed in the loop.

09. How to Style Posts Individually

Your blog has a lot of posts, but the posts aren’t all of the same type. To give special styling to one or more of your posts, you can take advantage of both the post_class() function and the post ID.

To apply this trick, just open your single.php file, find the loop and replace it with the following:



 id="post-">

The important part is mostly in line 3. Here, we have added the PHP post_class() function. Introduced in WordPress 2.8, this function adds CSS classes to the post. For example, it can add:

.hentry
.sticky
.category-tutorials
.tag-wordpress

With these CSS classes now added, you can now give a custom style to all posts that have the sticky tag or those that belong to the tutorials category.

The other important piece of this code is id=”post-< ?php the_ID(); ?>“. By displaying the ID of the post here, we’re able to style a particular post. As an example:

#post-876{
	background:#ccc;
}

10. Display Content only to Registered Users in Your Wordpress Blog

As you probably know, WordPress lets you decide whether to allow readers to create accounts and sign in to your blog. If you want to increase your blog’s registered readers or would just like to reward existing readers, why not keep some content private, just for them?

To achieve this hack, we’ll use a shortcode. The first step is to create it. Open your functions.php file and paste the following code:

function member_check_shortcode($atts, $content = null) {
  if (is_user_logged_in() && !is_null($content) && !is_feed()) {
    return $content;
  } else {
    return 'Sorry, this part is only available to our members. Click here to become a member!';
  }

add_shortcode('member', 'member_check_shortcode');

Once that’s done, you can add the following to your posts to create a section or text (or any other content) that will be displayed only to registered users:

[member]
This text will be displayed only to registered users.
[/member]

That’s it. Registered users will see the text contained in the shortcode, while unregistered users will see a message asking them to register.

Comment Page Related Hacks

11. How to Disable Comments in Old Posts via PHP

In many situations like when you’re giving some alert to your readers or warning, and you don’t want to hear any feedback. Or you simply don’t want to have any comments, pingbacks, or trackbacks for respective event. For such situation you really want to know how to disable comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks via PHP in your WordPress blog.

The first step is to create it. Open your functions.php file and paste the following code:

post_date_gmt ) > ( 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) ) {
    $posts[0]->comment_status = 'closed';
    $posts[0]->ping_status    = 'closed';
  }
  return $posts;
}
add_filter( 'the_posts', 'close_comments' );
?>

You can run this script as a plugin, through your theme’s functions.php, or through a custom user-functions.php file. Simply set the desired number of days by changing the number “30” to whatever you would like. As is, this script will close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on all articles posted more than 30 days ago.

12. How to Display Registered Users Comment Count on Your Blog

If your blog is private or have lots of registered users, it may be interesting to be able to display the number of comments posted by registered users. This is the purpose of this code.

Simply paste the following code where you’d like the count to be displayed. Re-arrange the code as desired.

 0';
$comment_counts = (array) $wpdb->get_results("
    SELECT user_id, COUNT( * ) AS total
    FROM {$wpdb->comments}
    {$where}
    GROUP BY user_id
  ", object);
foreach ( $comment_counts as $count ) {
  $user = get_userdata($count->user_id);
  echo 'User ' . $user->display_name . ' comment count is ' . $count->total . '';
}
?>

That’s it! This will get approved comment count for each registered user.

13. Separating Trackbacks From Comments in WordPress 2.7+

Separating your trackbacks and comments requires a minimal amount of coding work to set up. First, you’ll want to make a backup of your comments.php file just in case something goes wrong. Next, follow these steps:

Access your comments.php file and locate the following code:

Immediately after the above code, you’ll want to place this code:

Next, you’ll want to scroll down a little bit and locate the following code:

Immediately before the above code, you’ll want to place this code:

This will filter out all of the trackbacks and pingbacks from your main comments loop. Now we need to create a second comments loop to display the trackbacks and pingbacks. Now, Almost immediately below the code from last step you should find this code:

Immediately before the above code, you’ll want to place this code:

Trackbacks

Once you’ve got the comments successfully separated from the trackbacks, there are a couple additional tweaks you may want to do to clean up how things look (it really depends on preference I suppose). The first is to clean up your trackbacks/pingbacks by only displaying the title instead of an excerpt and everything else. In order to do this, you’ll need to find the following code in your comments.php file:

Now replace that code with the following:

Lastly, you’ll need to add the following code to your functions.php file (which can be created if you don’t already have one):

That should clean up the trackbacks/pingbacks section and you can also apply the same changes if you use a plugin to display tweetbacks.

The other thing you may want to do is fix the comment count to only show actual comments, filtering out the trackbacks/pingbacks which are included in your comment count by default. Simply add the following code to your functions.php file (which again can be created if you don’t already have one):

So there you go. Now you have succesfully separated trackbacks from comments!

Images Related Hacks

14. Automatically Resize Pictures on Your WordPress Blog

You know it, a picture is worth a thousand words. But pictures means that you have to resize it, which is alwyas boring.
Happilly, a very cool script called TimThumb can resize pictures for you. The function below create a WordPress shortcode that will make Timthumb use even easier.

function imageresizer( $atts, $content = null ) {
  return '';
}

add_shortcode('img', 'imageresizer');

Then, you can use the following syntax to add an automatically resized image to your blog post:

[img]http://www.yoursite.com/yourimage.jpg[/img]

Social Networking and Email Related Hacks

15. How to Create a Tweetmeme “Retweeet” Shortcode

Twitter is one of the best way to get quality traffic to your blog. In order to help people sharing your articles on Twitter, you should definitely implement a Tweetmeme button, which display how many time time people RT’d your blog posts.

Just paste the function below into your functions.php file.

function tweetmeme(){
  return '<div class="tweetmeme"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script></div>';
}
add_shortcode('tweet', 'tweetmeme');

Once you saved the file, you’ll be able to display the Tweetmeme “retweet” button anywhere on your posts. In WordPress editor, make sure you are in HTML mode and insert the following:

[tweet]

When your post will be published, the shortcode will be replaced by the TweetMeme button.

16. Send Article to a Friend by Email

In order to create more traffic on your blog, it can be a good idea to let your readers send your posts to their friends by email.

To apply this recipe to your blog, simply paste the following function into your functions.php file, and that’s all. Hard to do something simpler!

function direct_email($text="Send by email"){
  global $post;
  $title = htmlspecialchars($post->post_title);
  $subject = 'Sur '.htmlspecialchars(get_bloginfo('name')).' : '.$title;
  $body = 'I recommend this page : '.$title.'. You can read it on : '.get_permalink($post->ID);
  $link = '<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:?subject='.rawurlencode($subject).'&amp;body='.rawurlencode($body).'" title="'.$text.' : '.$title.'">'.$text.'</a>';
  return $link;
}

Author Related Hacks

17. Automatically Insert Author Bio on Each Post

When you’re owning a multi-writers blog, it is important to show who wrote the post. In case of guest bloggers, it is also a nice way to give credit.

Simply insert the following lines of code into your functions.php file, and that’s all. Author bio will be automatically displayed after each post.

function get_author_bio ($content=''){
  global $post;

  $post_author_name=get_the_author_meta("display_name");
  $post_author_description=get_the_author_meta("description");
  $html="
\n";
  $html.="\n";
  $html.="
\n";
  $html.="
Author: ".$post_author_name."

\n";
  $html.= $post_author_description."\n";
  $html.="

\n";
  $html.="


\n";
  $content .= $html;
  }
  return $content;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'get_author_bio');

Feeds Related Hacks

18. How to Fetch and Display RSS Feeds

Do you know that WordPress have a built-in RSS reader? And you can use this feed to utilize in many ways. Here we’ll tell how to import and display feeds in wordPress 2.8 and beyond.

Simply paste the following code where you want the feed to be displayed. Don’t forget to define feed url at line 4.

get_item_quantity(7); // specify number of items
  $items = $feed->get_items(0, $limit); // create an array of items

}
if ($limit == 0) echo 'The feed is either empty or unavailable.';
else foreach ($items as $item) : ?>

  
    
      get_title(); ?>
    
  
  
    get_description(), 0, 200); ?>
    [...]

Category and Tags Related Hacks

19. How to Change Excerpt Length Depending of the Category

Do you ever wished to be able to modify the excerpt length based on which category you are on, without modifying your theme files? If yes, we’re pretty sure you’ll be happy with this hack.

No need to modify your theme files. Simply paste the code into your functions.php file. Don’t forget to change the category ID on line 3!

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) {
  if(in_category(14)) {
    return 13;
  } else {
    return 60;
  }
}

20. Create a Function to Get Tags Related to Category

First, here is the function you have to paste in your functions.php file:

function get_category_tags($args) {
  global $wpdb;
  $tags = $wpdb->get_results
  ("
    SELECT DISTINCT terms2.term_id as tag_id, terms2.name as tag_name, null as tag_link
    FROM
      wp_posts as p1
      LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships as r1 ON p1.ID = r1.object_ID
      LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy as t1 ON r1.term_taxonomy_id = t1.term_taxonomy_id
      LEFT JOIN wp_terms as terms1 ON t1.term_id = terms1.term_id,
      wp_posts as p2
      LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships as r2 ON p2.ID = r2.object_ID
      LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy as t2 ON r2.term_taxonomy_id = t2.term_taxonomy_id
      LEFT JOIN wp_terms as terms2 ON t2.term_id = terms2.term_id
    WHERE
      t1.taxonomy = 'category' AND p1.post_status = 'publish' AND terms1.term_id IN (".$args['categories'].") AND
      t2.taxonomy = 'post_tag' AND p2.post_status = 'publish'
      AND p1.ID = p2.ID
    ORDER by tag_name
  ");
  $count = 0;
  foreach ($tags as $tag) {
    $tags[$count]->tag_link = get_tag_link($tag->tag_id);
    $count++;
  }
  return $tags;
}

Once you have pasted the function, you can use it in your theme:

$args = array('categories' => '12,13,14');
$tags = get_category_tags($args);

Plugin Related Hacks

21. How to Create an Anti-IE6 Plugin

With this amazing code created by Nathan Rice, you’ll be able to serve IE6 users the default WordPress theme. After all, those idiots don’t deserve anything better

Just paste the following in a new file and save it as ie6.php. Upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it on your WordPress dashboard.

22. How to Check if a Plugin is Active or Not

When working with lots and lots of plugins, it can be useful for developers to be able to check if a particular WordPress plugin is active or not. If you want to check if a WordPress plugin is active, just use the is_plugin_active() function. The function takes a single parameter, which is the path to the plugin, as shown in below:

Other Resources

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45+ Excellent Fresh Free Wordpress Themes Around

Dkumar M — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:18:10 +0000

Wordpress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Wordpress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, Wordpress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

There are hundreds of Wordpress themes online waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. Just because many of our followers decided to stay with Premium themes, that doesn’t mean Free Themes are ugly, cluttered, and boring.

In this showcase below, you’ll find a Excellent Collection of Fresh Free Wordpress Themes Around because We all know that we’re going to use our blog as a tool to promote our business, so we need to have a clean, professional, corporate look.

This is not the traditional long list with all the available Wordpress themes on the internet but its an refined collection of best handpicked fresh free Wordpress themes which was created with the online professional in mind as we also know that Personal blogs reflects the identity of each of us on the Internet.

Please visit their authors’ sites, available at the “Features” Link, to learn more about each of these themes in terms of various features including good usability, organization, attractive use of graphics, cross-genre appropriateness and even search engine optimization. Just make sure to read the license agreements and installation instruction carefully as they can change from time to time.

Also please Notice that these themes is not arranged in any particular order so just scroll down and find your inspiration.

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Excellent Fresh Free Wordpress Themes Around

01. Magazeen

02. Milano

03. Smashing Multimedia

04. Creative by Nature

05. Compositio

06. Meta-Morphosis

07. Zinfolio

08. The Clam Shell

09. IsoTherm

10. Imagination

11. WordPress Vintage

12. Paper Wall

13. Gallery

14. Evidens

15. Scarlett

16. Mobipress

17. Vodpod

18. Galleria

19. WordPress Blues

20. Mainstream

21. Imprezz

22. Urban View

23. Epsilon

24. Folio Element

25. Berita Business

26. I can watch movies

27. Keep it Simple

28. Irresistible

29. FreeStyle

30. PhotoView

31. Zinmag Tribune

32. BlackPower

33. Grunge Style

34. Versatility Lite

35. Zen Gins

36. Old School

37. Zherald

38. WP Fholio

39. BlueDiamond

40. Vector Flower

41. Travelogue

42. ZinePress

43. Chara Theme

44. Cypher

45. PhotoMadness

46. Changing Room

Resources References Worth Mentioning

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22 Mixed Quality Wordpress Hacks

Anders Ross — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:15:30 +0000

You all must’ve known that the new version v2.8 is already arrived and most of you going to update your WordPress to v2.8 anyway. So, it’s a right time to implement some new hacks also.

Of Course, WordPress Codex is always the best place to learn about WordPress and its tweaks. But unfortunately, it’s too much for a simple WordPress user. This the only reason we compiled this fairly comprehensive list of the Quality WordPress Hacks to unleash the power of your favorite blogging engine.

You may be interested in the following tips and tricks related articles as well.

Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to other tips and tricks that our readers may like.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates.

Post Related Hacks

01. How to List Your Upcoming Posts

If you want to display your schedule posts in a list which can often help readers to give them heads up about what you’re going to publish in upcoming days. This can also help you to get new visitors and some more RSS subscribers. It’s not very hard to implement this functionality as it seems. You just need to simply paste this code where you’d like your future posts to be displayed.



  

Future events
  

 
  
  
  

 
  

 

No future events scheduled.

02. How to List Your Most Popular Posts

There are many ways by which you can show popular posts to your readers. It’s been quite a simple to install a plugin to display your most popular posts. But if you want to avoid plugins and want to create a list for your most popular post then you just need to paste the following code anywhere in your theme files. If you want to show popular posts in your sidebar section then simply go to sidebar.php and paste the code.

NOTE: Just change the “5″ in line 3 to change the number of displayed popular posts.


Popular Posts
  
  get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5");
  foreach ($result as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post);
    $postid = $post->ID;
    $title = $post->post_title;
    $commentcount = $post->comment_count;
    if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>


     {}

03. How to Display Related Posts

Related posts are often helpful to make your readers stay much longer on your website as they offer them to easily navigate related content via simple clicks.

To implement this hack you just need to open the single.php file in your theme and pasted following code within the loop. This code will display related posts based on the current post tag(s).

ID);  
if ($tags) {  
  echo 'Related Posts';  
  $first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;  
  $args=array(  
    'tag__in' => array($first_tag),  
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),  
    'showposts'=>5,      'caller_get_posts'=>1 
  );  
  $my_query = new WP_Query($args);  
  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {  
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

Comment Page Related Hacks

04. Displaying Recent Comments

Recent comments are very helpful for readers to comment on any topic about any ongoing discussion. To display your most recent comments, you will have to modify your functions.php file from the theme folder. If the functions.php file is not present, make a new text file, name it functions.php and add it to your theme folder. Add the following code to it and save the file.

', $post_HTML='') {
global $wpdb;
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,
SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,$src_length) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password = '' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC
LIMIT $src_count";
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
$output = $pre_HTML;
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
$output .= "ID) . "#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on " . $comment->post_title . "\">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt) ."...";
}
$output .= $post_HTML;
echo $output;
}
?>

Now, wherever you want to show the list of recent comments, just add this code.

05. How to Display The Most Commented Posts in Specific Period

Many time it’s rather helpful to show most commented posts on your blog to make things easy for readers in selecting the most controversial or popular posts.

To display a list of your 10 most commented posts from some specific period, simply paste the following code on your blog sidebar, or anywhere on your theme.

NOTE: just change the “2008-01-01″ and “2008-12-31″ in line 4 to your desired starting and end date respectively to display the desired posts.


Most commented posts from 2008

get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_date BETWEEN '2008-01-01' AND '2008-12-31' ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10");

foreach ($result as $topten) {
  $postid = $topten->ID;
  $title = $topten->post_title;
  $commentcount = $topten->comment_count;
  if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>

06. How to Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks

Trackbacks are the messages displayed in the comments list whenever another blog links back to one of your posts. If you use trackbacks on your blog, it is best if they are not mixed with the comments. The comments are a conversation between real people. Having machine-generated links in the middle of that will only serve to disrupt the conversations.

In order to separate the comments and trackbacks, you just need to follow these steps.

Open comments.php, and search for the following line

After it, paste the following

Now look for

And before it, paste

Now your list of comments will continue to display as normal, but without any trackbacks or pingbacks. Now we will add a second comments loop for the trackbacks.

Look for the following line

And before it, paste this: (The “Trackbacks” title line can be deleted if you don’t want a heading to be shown)


  Trackbacks

Images Related Hacks

07. Automatically Retrieve The First Image From Posts On Your Home Page

Traditionally, Most of the WordPress users using custom field to show the thumbs on the posts at their blog homepage. It’s easy to implement the custom field practice too but what if your blog automatically grab the first image from the post and you don’t need to worry about post main thumbnail. Sounds good idea to me at least.

To implement this hack open the functions.php file in your theme and paste this code in. Also, Don’t forget to specify a default image on line 10 (in case a post of yours does not have any single image).


function catch_that_image() {
  global $post, $posts;
  $first_img = '';
  ob_start();
  ob_end_clean();
  $output = preg_match_all('//i', $post->post_content, $matches);
  $first_img = $matches [1] [0];

 if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
  $first_img = "/images/default.jpg";
  }
  return $first_img;
}

Now, you can simply call the function within the loop to display the first image from the post.

08. Automatically Get Images on Post Content

As i explained in earlier hack that the custom fields are one of the best options around to show images in your post, But it would be wonderful if there is some way to retrieving images embedded in the post’s content itself. Today is your lucky day as we have something to help you with.

To use this hack you just need to paste the following piece of code anywhere in your theme.



  

post_content;
  $szSearchPattern = '~]*\ />~';

// Run preg_match_all to grab all the images and save the results in $aPics
  preg_match_all( $szSearchPattern, $szPostContent, $aPics );

// Check to see if we have at least 1 image
  $iNumberOfPics = count($aPics[0]);

if ( $iNumberOfPics > 0 ) {
  // Now here you would do whatever you need to do with the images
  // For this example the images are just displayed
  for ( $i=0; $i < $iNumberOfPics ; $i++ ) {
  echo $aPics[0][$i];
  };
  };

endwhile;
endif;
?>

09. How to Display a Random Header Image on Your WordPress Blog

It’s kind of ironic, if your header image changes automatically on every refresh. A lot of WordPress users seem to be very interested to keep the ability to show a random header image.

It’s not hard, it’s just very simple then you think. You just have to follow these simple steps.

Select some images which you want to display on header and name them 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg and so on. There is no limit on number of images. select as many as you want.
Upload aa of your images into “wp-content/themes/yourtheme/images” directory of your WordPress.
Paste the following code in to your “header.php”

$num = rand(1,10); //Get a random number between 1 and 10, assuming 10 is the total number of header images you have

10. How to Create Image Gallery in WordPress

Using Image gallery to display images associated with your blog is definitely a great idea, Even WordPress 2.5+ have inbuilt Image Gallery function where you can upload your images in a set and then insert the gallery either into your post or a new page. But what about the themes which working on older version then 2.5 or even some new themes which needs a good gallery to display the images.

In order to create a image gallery in your existing theme you need to do some modifications. First open the “single.php” in your theme folder and save it as “image.php” in same folder. Now open “image.php” and search the line which displays the post content. It should be somewhat in the following form. It can differ a bit but the function is called by the_content like this

Now insert the following code above the aforementioned code (the_content).


  ID, 'medium' ); ?>


  post_excerpt) ) the_excerpt(); // this is the "caption" ?>

Also insert the following code below the aforementioned code (the_content).

Now, add this CSS to your theme’s style.css file

/****************Image Gallery *********************/
.gallery {
      text-align: center;
}
.gallery img {
      padding: 2px;
      height: 100px;
      width: 100px;
}
.gallery a: hover {
      background-color: #ffffff;
}
.attachment {
      text-align: center;
}
.attachment img {
      padding: 2px;
      border: 1px solid #999999;
}
.attachment a: hover {
      background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.imgnav {
      text-align: center;
}
.imgleft {
      float: left;
}
.imgleft a: hover {
      background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.imgleft img {
      padding: 2px;
      border: 1px solid #999999;
      height: 100px;
      width: 100px;
}
.imgright {
      float: right;
}
.imgright a: hover {
      background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.imgright img {
      padding: 2px;
      border: 1px solid #999999;
      height: 100px;
      width: 100px;
}

Now to use this gallery, just upload your images in a post or a page, go to the gallery option (after you have finished uploading all your images) and insert gallery into your post/page.

11. How to Add a Print Button to Your Blog Posts

It’s a good practice to give your users a facility to print your blog posts. Of course user can print it directly via browser or keyboard shortcuts, but you can make this process easy to provide them a direct print button on the blog.

Just open up your single.php file (for individual posts) from the theme folder and add the following code wherever you want to have the Print option.

Print this Article

Social Networking Related Hacks

12. How to Create A “Send To Facebook” Button

Everyone knows Facebook. No into needed. facebook is a very popular website to share the webpages you like with your friends. In order to increase your blog traffic, you should definitely add a “Share on Facebook” link to your blog.

To add this link, open the single.php file in your theme. And add the following code in the loop.

Share on Facebook

Else, you could use the getTinyUrl() function to send a short URL to Facebook.

ID)); ?>
Share on Facebook

13. How to Create a “Send to Twitter” Button

It’s also very simple to create a link that send your links to twitter where you can share your link with millions of users. Simply paste the following code on your single.php file, within the loop.

Share on Twitter

14. How to Automatically Post Daily Links from Del.icio.us to WordPress

There is a trick by which you can get more daily post on your blog than usual. Instead of simply posting every cool link you find onto your blog, you just need to do some tweaks by follow some simple steps from following article which can help you to have all your del.icio.us links automatically posted on your blog everyday.

Author Related Hacks

15. Highlighting Author Comments in WordPress

It takes a bit of tweaking in order to separate the author’s comments from the readers’ comments. Usually it can be done by changing the color or style of the author’s comments. The trick is simple: instead of checking the author’s email address, check their user id to see if it’s the user id of the blog owner. Pretty smart. After that, it was a simple matter of times to see the result.

Open the “style.css” and near the bottom added these lines.

.authcomment {
      background-color: #B3FFCC !important;
}

Open up the comments.php file from your theme folder and try to locate the following code.

id="comment-">

Replace the above code with this.

16. Add Author Info With Every Blog post

Displaying author bio inside a post is a great idea. Specially, for the guest authors which seriously want to spread their words around. You might not found this useful for single user blogs. But for multi-authored blogs, It’s often useful to put author description in the end of the respective post so the readers can know who that person is without having to refer to an about me page.

So let’s see how it goes. Inside of an every user profile there is this section where you can place information about yourself. Just add the author info you want to display in it.

Open your Style sheet and add this to it.

.postauthor {
}

Now browse to your themes “index.php” file and look for something like this.

Just place following code below the above function.

It’ll do the trick and you have author bio in place. Now you can style it with different combination from your Style sheet. Here’s one example.

.postauthor {
      color: #222222;
      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size: 14px;
      font-weight: normal;
      background: #EAEAEA;
      border-top: 2px solid #000000;
      border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
      width: 640px;
      padding: 3px;
      margin-bottom:5px;
}

17. Listing All the Authors from Your Blog

Just as we mentioned above that for multi-authored blogs, It’s often useful to put authors description in the end of the respective post. And it’s even more useful for readers to put the list of all the blog authors on your WordPress blog if anyone wants to follow any specific author. You just need to place following code anywhere you want to display the list.

You also can tweak the parameters to adjust the display.

exclude_admin: 0 (include the admin’s name in the authors list) / 1 (exclude the admin’s name from the list)
optioncount : 0 (No post count against the author’s name) / 1 (display post count against the author’s name)
show_fullname : 0 (display first name only) / 1 (display full name of the author)
hide_empty : 0 (display authors with no posts) / 1 (display authors who have one or more posts)

Feeds Related Hacks

18. Display the Feedburner Subscriber Count in Text

Are you using feedburner? Probably yes, Most of us do. If you don’t like the chicklet dedicated to display your feedburner count, just read this hack which is a new method to get your feedburner count in text mode.

Copy paste the following code into your theme, for example sidebar.php. Replace feedburner-id with your Feedbuner username. This script will grab you the feed count in numbers.


//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);

//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);

//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
//end get cool feedburner count

Now paste this anywhere you want and it’ll display a Feedburner subscriber count in text.

echo $fb;

19. Control When you want Your Posts to Be Available via RSS

Most of you must of faced this problem when you published a post and immediately noticed an error and then you edit it as soon as you can. But the problem is the post already been published in your RSS feed and your error been quite a visible to your feed readers. The smart solution to this problem is to have an ability to control the way your posts going to available for RSS readers. You just need to create a delay between the publication of a post and its availability in your RSS feed.

Now open the “function.php” file and paste the following code into it. If your theme doesn’t have “function.php” file then just create it.


function publish_later_on_feed($where) {
  global $wpdb;

 if ( is_feed() ) {
    // timestamp in WP-format
    $now = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');

    // value for wait; + device
    $wait = '5'; // integer

   // http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_timestampdiff
    $device = 'MINUTE'; //MINUTE, HOUR, DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR

   // add SQL-sytax to default $where
    $where .= " AND TIMESTAMPDIFF($device, $wpdb->posts.post_date_gmt, '$now') > $wait ";
  }
  return $where;
}

add_filter('posts_where', 'publish_later_on_feed');

Now applying this, your feed will be published always 5 minutes later. Of course you can adjust the time, also the units, if you need it in a special case.

20. How to Exclude Categories from Your RSS Feed

There is no point of using one of your blog categories to let readers know about your blog’s news, or your blog feature a category that has nothing to do with the rest of your content? Depending to your blog structure, it may be interesting to exclude some categories from your RSS feeds.

Just follow these steps to get rid of one of the categories in your RSS feed.

In orser to start, You’ll have to know the numeric ID of the categories you want to exclude. If you dont know how to identify the numeric ID the just logged in your WordPress dashboard, and browse the Categories section. Simply put your mouse cursor on the “edit” link related to the category you want to know the ID and look on your browser’s status bar the numeric value which appear at the very last of respective url and comes just after “cat_ID=”.
Once you have the ID of the category you want to exclude from your RSS feed, Open the “function.php” file and paste the following code into it and save it. If your theme doesn’t have “function.php” file then just create it.


function myFilter($query) {
  if ($query->is_feed) {
    $query->set('cat','-5'); //Don't forget to change the category ID =^o^=
  }
  return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','myFilter');

21. How to Create User-Defined RSS Feeds in WordPress

It’s no secret that RSS feed are very useful for blogs. There is no harm in using WordPress created feeds as they are very effective. But if you want to create your own custom RSS feed, in which you have ability to control everything starting from feed categories to feeds display then simply follow these steps.

copy and paste the following code in a new file, save it under the name custom-feed.php and upload it on your theme directory.
Now, Create a new page in WordPress Dashboard (Don’t type any text it in), and select custom-feed.php as a page template.


 $length)
  return (preg_match('/^(.*)\W.*$/', substr($string, 0, $length+1), $matches) ? $matches[1] : substr($string, 0, $length)) . $replacer;
  return $string;
  }

$posts = query_posts('showposts='.$numposts);

$lastpost = $numposts - 1;

header("Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8");
  echo '';
  ?>
  
  Yoast E-mail Update
  http://yoast.com/
  The latest blog posts from Yoast.com.
  en-us
  post_date_gmt) ); ?>
  post_date_gmt) ); ?>
  joost@yoast.com
  
    
    <?php echo get_the_title($post->ID); ?>
    ID); ?>
    post_content, 500).'

Keep on reading: '.get_the_title($post->ID).''.']]>';  ?>
    post_date_gmt) ); ?>
    ID); ?>

22. Adding a “Subscribe to Feed” Message After Every Post

As we described above that RSS feed are very popular and powerful tool for your blogs readers. It’s very useful to keep remind the readers to subscribe to your blogs. There is no harm in it, Infect readers love to subscribe your RSS feed if it’s more visible and clearly aiming towards point.

If you want the message “Subscribe to Feed” to display under all your posts on the homepage then open “index.php” and just where your content finishes (the_content), add this code.


  If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS Feed

If you also want to display this message in your every post then open “single.php” file in the theme folder and add the above code.

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10 Twitter Hacks For Your Wordpress Blog

Anders Ross — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:51:18 +0000

Twitter has grown exponentially in the past few months and Still, It’s growing like crazy. Twitter has surpassed Facebook and others to become the fastest-growing site in the “Member Communities” category. Twitter is a powerful marketing and promotion tool that no active blogger can ignore.

The “Twitter effect” is on the rise day by day. For all those who haven’t yet heard of it, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read “updates” (otherwise known as tweets) to their webpage using SMS,IM or other 3rd part applications, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

In this article, we have compiled 10 most useful Twitter hacks and tips for your WordPress blog to help you get the most out of Twitter.

You may be interested in the following 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 that our readers may like.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates.

10 Twitter Hacks For Your WordPress Blog

01. Create a “Twitter This” Button for WordPress Posts

Creating a “Tweet This” button for your blog posts are fairly very easy. Use this following code on your single.php file, within the loop to create a button. This is the basic code for a typical “Twitter This” Button, you can use some images or CSS styling to make it more attractive. Possibilities are endless.

Spread on Twitter

02. Automatically Create TinyUrls for Your Tweets

You have to use a URL shortening services when tweeting URLs because of 140 characters restriction in Twitter. For that purpose you can use tinyurls, because tinyurl provides an API, which takes over this task easily and generates unique tinyurls for your blog posts automatically.

To use tinyurl API, edit your functions.php file and paste the following function code:

function getTinyUrl($url) {
  $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);
  return $tinyurl;
}

Now in your single.php file, paste the following within the loop:

ID));
  echo 'Tiny Url for this post: '.$turl.''
?>

03. Displaying Total Number Twitter Followers on WordPress

You are actively using Twitter from last few weeks and the numbers of followers are increasing regularly. So you are looking for way to display total number of your Twitter followers on your blog and update automatically. You can use this piece of code to display your followers anywhere you want, may be you want to display this number in author info in your blog posts.

Open functions.php and paste this php function there.

function string_getInsertedString($long_string,$short_string,$is_html=false){
  if($short_string>=strlen($long_string))return false;
  $insertion_length=strlen($long_string)-strlen($short_string);
  for($i=0;$isaveHTML();
  $element->parentNode->removeChild($element);
  $html2=$document->saveHTML();
  return string_getInsertedString($html,$html2,true);
}

function getFollowers($username){
  $x = file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/".$username);
  $doc = new DomDocument;
  @$doc->loadHTML($x);
  $ele = $doc->getElementById('follower_count');
  $innerHTML=preg_replace('/^< [^>]*>(.*)< [^>]*>$/',"\\1",DOMElement_getOuterHTML($doc,$ele));
  return $innerHTML;
}

Now simply use this code to display total number of your Twitter followers. Just replace our username (instantshift) with yours.

Of course you can further style it with CSS. You can also try some fancy background images or twitter bird. For example.

Proudly Followed by  Followers

04. Use Twitter Avatars in Comments

Thousands of blogs show avatars next to their user’s comments. The avatars are a great way to make things more personal and create some variety between the different comments. You can display Twitter avatars in your WordPress comments, instead of gravatars. Smashing Magazine provided fairly easy way to integrates Twitter avatars on your comments.

The first thing you need to do is to get the functions file here. Once you downloaded the file, unzip the archive and open the twittar.php file. Select all its content and paste it into functions.php. Finally you will need to enable Twitter avatars in your comments.php file. Edit comments.php and past this code in comments loop. Now you are ready with Twitter avatars.

05. Display Your Most Recent Twitter Entry

Here is a small script for WordPress blog that allows us to pull the latest tweet from a Twitter user via the RSS feed that is produced by Twitter. We are also able to set a prefix and a suffix for the tweet for further customization.

", $feed);
$stepTwo = explode("", $stepOne[1]);
$tweet = $stepTwo[0];
$tweet = str_replace("<", "<", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(">", ">", $tweet);
return $tweet;
}

$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);
?>

06. Display X Number of Your Latest Twitter Entries

Now we are going to introduce the ability to pull numerous tweets. With limits set in the Twitter API, we can pull anywhere from 1 to 100. Though it is nice to be able to pull so many, we have to remember that the more we pull, the longer it will take for this script to generate its content.

"; // Tweet Suffix - some text you want displayed after each tweet.

$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=" . $limit;

function parse_feed($feed, $prefix, $tweetprefix, $tweetsuffix, $suffix) {

$feed = str_replace("<", "<", $feed);
$feed = str_replace(">", ">", $feed);
$clean = explode("", $feed);

$amount = count($clean) - 1;

echo $prefix;

for ($i = 1; $i <= $amount; $i++) {
$cleaner = explode("", $clean[$i]);
echo $tweetprefix;
echo $cleaner[0];
echo $tweetsuffix;
}

echo $suffix;
}

$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
parse_feed($twitterFeed, $prefix, $tweetprefix, $tweetsuffix, $suffix);
?>

07. Display Tweets From Multiple Users

Now what you are looking for? Maybe you want to pull multiple tweets from multiple user accounts and display them. With the code below, you are able to define what you want before the Twitter block, after the Twitter block, before and after each individual tweet, and after the displayed user name. You can also turn off the displayed user names if you are looking to show all of your own personal tweets from multiple accounts!

"; // This comes after each tweet on the feed.
$suffix = ""; // This comes after the entire block of tweets.

function parse_feed($usernames, $limit, $show, $prefix_sub, $wedge, $suffix_sub) {

$usernames = str_replace(" ", "+OR+from%3A", $usernames);
$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3A" . $usernames . "&rpp=" . $limit;
$feed = file_get_contents($feed);
$feed = str_replace("&", "&", $feed);
$feed = str_replace("<", "<", $feed);
$feed = str_replace(">", ">", $feed);
$clean = explode("", $feed);
$amount = count($clean) - 1;

for ($i = 1; $i <= $amount; $i++) {

$entry_close = explode("", $clean[$i]);
$clean_content_1 = explode("", $entry_close[0]);
$clean_content = explode("", $clean_content_1[1]);
$clean_name_2 = explode("", $entry_close[0]);
$clean_name_1 = explode("(", $clean_name_2[1]);
$clean_name = explode(")", $clean_name_1[1]);
$clean_uri_1 = explode("", $entry_close[0]);
$clean_uri = explode("", $clean_uri_1[1]);

echo $prefix_sub;
if ($show == 1) { echo "" . $clean_name[0] . "" . $wedge; }
echo $clean_content[0];
echo $suffix_sub;

}
}
echo $prefix;
parse_feed($usernames, $limit, $show, $prefix_sub, $wedge, $suffix_sub);
echo $suffix;
?>

08. Display Latest Tweet as an Image

TwitSig is a twitter signature service provider that allows you to get an auto-updating image that displays your latest Twitter entry. You can use this image as your forum signatures, in WordPress posts, in blog sidebars or may be even in emails.

Go to Twitsig.com and enter your Twitter username. And you are good to go with your Twitsig image displaying your latest tweet. The image is automatically updated when you update your Twitter status. Now you can show your latest tweet using following code wherever you want.

09. Detect Visitors From Twitter

If you have significant visitor base from Twitter then will it not be a great idea to detect Twitter visitors and offer them a warm welcome, remind them that their re-tweets are appreciated. You might also want them to point towards some specific blog posts or some freebies that they might interested in.

For that you can add following code in your single.php file and add your welcome message.

10. Your Twitter Feed on a Separate WordPress Page

You might want to create a separate page on your WordPress blog for displaying your latest tweets and updates. For that Smashing Magazine suggested a solution using “Page template” feature in WordPress. First you will need to create a Twitter page template “twitter-page.php” (you can use different name) to display Twitter feed, paste the following code and add it to your blog. Simple enough, huh!

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25+ Reliable Sources to Get Commercial WordPress Themes

Dkumar M — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:45:20 +0000

WordPress is the favorite blogging software on the Web. It is an excellent open source, freely available content management system for your website. Simply, yet elegantly, giving you access to write, update or delete pages and blog articles through a backend system, controlling your entire website. There are many great blogs around the Web but most of them use only default designs, very functional but not exclusive in appearance. This means many blogs look similar nowadays.

There are hundreds of WordPress themes online waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. Here in this compilation we present you some of the Best reliable sources to get commercial premium WordPress themes around which can help you save your time searching them online.

You may be interested in the following 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 that our readers may like.

Reliable Sources to Get Paid Premium WordPress Themes

01. WooThemes

WooThemes provides you the most cutting edge WordPress templates, packed full of features, presented beautifully with clean layouts, slick color palettes and neat typography. All their themes are available for purchase individually or you can join the theme club and have access to all our masterpieces.
With your WooThemes purchase you will receive full access to their ever-growing support forums where their experienced forum ninjas will help answer any of your theme-related queries.

02. ThemeForest

If you ever been at any Tuts+ site then you must have known about Envato. ThemeForest is an Envato Marketplace. At ThemeForest you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to sign up for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.

Most of the WordPress themes are very straight forward and it’s a simple installation with the ability to make the minor changes in headers, footers and style sheets that I demonstrate on this site. So if tweaking CSS leaves you cold and you don’t have a local web developer with whom you can barter services, consider picking up a professional theme with support for the cost of a movie or dinner for 2 at McDonald’s.

03. StudioPress

StudioPress is a place to get professionally designed themes for your business website. If you are a small business or an individual looking to establish your online presence, you must need to visit right places like StudioPress. They offer professional services for marketing, search engine optimization, content management web design and general website and blog design at a very affordable price and can also be hired for customization or consulting.

04. ElegantThemes

Elegant Themes is a premium theme shop of variety of WordPress designs. Managed by Nick Roach, a talented and professional web designer/WordPress developer.

Elegant Themes created to provide WordPress themes of quality and integrity. They craft their themes with a goal of simplicity and professionalism and strive to inject each design with a dose modest elegance. Each of Elegant Themes’s WordPress themes come widget ready and coded in valid xhtml 1.0 transitional and CSS. Every theme is made in compliance with the latest version of WordPress, and are compatible with Firefox 3.0, Internet Explorer 7/6, Safari, Opera, and Netscape. They believe that your website is not just a tool, it is an integral part of your identity. Elegant Themes’s job is to respect each customer by providing attractive and user-friendly templates that will help you achieve your online goals.

05. Press75

press75.com is WordPress based Online theme club with an amazing new look and feel which is even more simplistic than ever. Each WordPress theme made by Press75 comes expertly coded in valid XHTML and CSS, and all are made compatible with the latest version of WordPress for various browsers. These folks have a good collection for variety of widget-enable themes.

06. TemplateMonster

Template Monster WordPress themes and other products are ready-made web designs, that can be used as a basis for fast and high-quality website. They having one of the largest collections of WordPress themes over web.

Template Monster provides their customers with high-quality designs, great functionality and easy installation of WordPress Templates perfectly made for any kind of online blog. Impressive and professionally designed, WordPress Templates are simple to customize and are guaranteed to give you a pleasant blogging experience!

07. GraphPaperPress

Graph Paper Press is a repository for WordPress themes created by photographer and multimedia producer Thad Allender. Graph Paper Press pedals minimalistic modular designs that can transform your blog from a tubular list of posts into an aesthetically-pleasing news magazine website.

08. WPremix

WP Remix a WordPress powered master theme, is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many layout options that helps everyone create custom websites in minutes saves weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards – compliant quality. WP Remix 2.0 is the only theme on the net that offers WYSIWYG page template editing. Over 50 page templates to choose from. Web standards, Color schemes, Usability, grid, typography… you ask for it, it has all in it! Bundled with more than 50 strategically designed & coded custom static page templates, the theme enables everyone to publish a small sites in minutes saving weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards-compliant quality.

09. NattyWP

NattyWP premium WordPress themes Club offers to its members access to quality and professional templates, which you can find in NattyWP premium themes section. They also provide a prompt and cheap service for setting up, adjustment and customization of their themes.

10. iThemes

wpbest.com! Featuring the very best Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins available. Where you’ll find ratings, reviews and honest opinions from real users. If you’re in the market for that perfect premium theme, paid plugin or even WordPress hosting then you’re in the right place. If you’re going to pay for it you’d better do your research! Take a look around.

11. BlogOhBlog

If you want to sizzle up your WordPress blog then you need to visit BlogOhBlog premium theme club. Founded by by Bob Jiwakacau, a Malay amateur blogger living in small town (Malacca) on the south of Malaysia. Now owned by Jai, a Web Developer based in New Delhi, India, who purchased Blogohblog.com on November 05, 2007 at a Sitepoint auction. Providing a splendid solution if you want to give your weblog an attractive and elegant look.

12. ThemeGalaxy

Theme Galaxy crafts beautiful WordPress Themes that are not only professionally designed but are also affordable. Their themes make us of cutting edge WordPress features at peaces which they think are out of this world. Currently they have 4 themes available to buy, but plan to add more in time. But don’t expect to see a starship load of themes flowing into their cosmos immediately – their focus is on quality not quantity. However, if you feel you have a fantastic theme idea, you’re free to contact them and share your idea.

13. ThemeSpinner

Theme Spinner offers a wide range of attractive widget-ready, customizable and AdSense integrated WordPress themes at affordable prices starting at around US$30 for the standard version (Also they’re offering a 35% discount sale on their entire collection). The Theme Spinner themes give a professional look to everything from a blog-style site to high-end product or service site with a couple news/media-styled themes. Most of the WordPress themes offer a basic version and one with advanced features like gravatar support for slightly higher rate.

14. WordPress-Designers

WordPress Designers is a small team of talented developers and creative designers. They pride themselves on their intimate knowledge or WordPress and their ability to push it to its limits. Since discovering the WordPress platform several years ago, they have strived to learn as much as they could about it so that they could bring us some of the most creative and well coded themes on the market.

They pride themselves on being creative. If you are looking for a boring, cookie cutter portal site or a dull business website, you should probably keep looking. They let their creative juices flow 1005 of the time. As such, they can create WordPress themes that are sure to attract attention to your website.

15. Zidalgo

Zidalgo is a premium WordPress theme vendor and ’small but wholesome’ blog design studio. Based out of Seattle, they’ve been designing successful, beautiful websites for over 9 years. They try to help you make your WordPress site the best it can be. They offer premium WordPress themes, custom design services, and a blog to help you stay up to date with all things WordPress. At Zidalgo, everything is created in-house, and with the utmost attention to detail. Designers, developers, or casual bloggers alike planning to customize their WordPress theme will fall in love with Zidalgo’s straight-forward framework. Easily customizable designs, built from the ground up with clean, documented code.

Other Sources to Get Paid Premium WordPress Themes

16. Quommunication
17. ColorLabsProject
18. PremiumThemes
19. GabfireThemes
20. WPdesigner
21. Themehybrid
22. StyleWP
23. SoloStream
24. ShutterThemes – Only for Online Photo Galleries
25. ThemeSphere
26. PremiumThemes
27. WordPressThemesMarket

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135+ Ultimate Round-Up of Wordpress Tutorials

Dkumar M — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:40:07 +0000

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.

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

Resources and Guides

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140+ Brilliant Free Wordpress Themes Around

Dkumar M — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:38:22 +0000

We all know that we’re going to use our blog as a tool to promote our business, so we need to have a clean, professional, corporate look. Therefore, we present this List of Brilliant Free Wordpress Themes Around which help you to take your website to a whole new level!

This is not the traditional long list with all the available Wordpress themes on the internet but its an refined collection of Best handpicked free Wordpress themes which was created with the online professional in mind as we also know that Personal blogs reflects the identity of each of us on the Internet.

Please visit their authors’ sites, available at the “Official Link”, to learn more about each of these themes in terms of various features including good usability, organization, attractive use of graphics, cross-genre appropriateness and even search engine optimization. Just make sure to read the license agreements and installation instruction carefully as they can change from time to time.

Also please Notice that these themes is not arranged in any particular order so just scroll down and find your inspiration.

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Clean and Creative Style WordPress Themes

01. FREEmium Theme

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02. Typebased

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03. DarkForest

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04. Blog Theme

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05. Review Theme

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06. Blue Grace

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07. Librio

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08. CryBook

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09. hijriah Theme

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10. Mimbo 3.0 Free Theme

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11. Wp-Themes Blogger Theme

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12. TealZine Theme

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13. Magasin Uno

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14. SuperFresh

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15. Firebug

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16. Ashford

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17. Sp142 theme

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18. Simple Balance 2.0

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19. BlueGrey Wordpress Theme

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20. Statement

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Artistic Style WordPress Themes

21. Wordpress Fun

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22. Notepad Chaos

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23. Infinity

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24. MysticGrunge Theme

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25. Color Paper Theme

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26. Seabreeze Theme

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27. CreativeArt Theme

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28. Deskspace Theme

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29. WordPress Vintage

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30. WordPress Blues

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31. Desk Mess

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32. Cellar Heat

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33. WildDreams

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34. BlakMagik

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35. Outdoorsy Theme

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36. BizTheme

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37. SCRUFFY

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38. Aspire

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39. Absynthe

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40. Love Letter

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41. Intaglio

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Fancey Style WordPress Themes

42. Irresistible

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43. Agregado Lifestream Theme

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44. Simply Ornate

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45. iTheme

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46. Curious

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47. Pixeled

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48. WP CODA

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49. Illacrimo

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50. Mahiwaga

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51. Colourise

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52. Jynxed Theme

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53. Pellucid Dashed

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Magazine Style WordPress Themes

54. WordPress Christmas V1.1

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55. Mimbo 2

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56. Small Magazine

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57. DailyPress

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58. Wordpress Magazine theme

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59. WP Premium

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60. ComFy Magazine

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61. Magasin Free Theme

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62. Arthemia

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63. True Elegance

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64. WP NewsMag

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65. simpliSIMO

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66. ZinePress

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67. Remedy

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68. Zinmag Futura

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69. Magaling

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70. Equilibrium

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71. Transparency Theme

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72. SmartTouch Theme

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73. Maasahan

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74. Magazine Basic

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75. BranfordMagazine

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76. The Pinnacle Theme

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77. Grungezine

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78. oMagazine

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News Style WordPress Themes

79. NewsTheme

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80. The Web News Theme

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81. Alpha Theme

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82. The Original Premium News

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83. Max Magazine

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84. Google Gmail

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85. Skyye News Theme

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86. Zinmag Tribune

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Portfolio Style WordPress Themes

87. Fhi-Zin

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88. Portfolio

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89. Sharpfolio

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90. Portfolio Press

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91. f8 lite

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92. Portfolio WPESP Theme

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Galleries Style WordPress Themes

93. Snapshot

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94. Viewport

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95. Photo Clip

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96. Nishita

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97. A CSS Gallery Wordpress theme

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98. Spotless

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99. The Unstandard

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100. Css Gallery Theme 2.0

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101. iQ2

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102. Reflection

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Gaming Style WordPress Themes

103. Gamezine

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104. Poker Dreams

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105. Super Mario Land

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106. Counter Force

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Business Style WordPress Themes

107. Massivepress

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108. The MMOZINE Theme

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109. Business Mag

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110. Blue Business

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E-Commerce Style WordPress Themes

111. Crafty Wordpress Theme

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112. Shopping Cart Lover

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113. Wordpress e-Commerce Plugin

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Domain Parking Style WordPress Themes

114. LaunchPad

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Other Quality WordPress Themes

115. The Azure Hut

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116. The Twilight Theme

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117. Rewire Theme

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118. Grid Focus

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119. Elite

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120. Several3

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121. Gluttony

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122. Elements of SEO

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123. WP Imagination

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124. Lorem Ipsum

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125. Journalized Theme

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126. WP DashboardLike

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127. Google Chrome

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128. Shiva

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129. Zoxengen

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130. Monezine Theme

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131. Androida

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132. Forexpress

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133. Going Pro

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134. BoldLines Theme

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135. Radioactive

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136. Masinop

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137. StudioWordpress

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138. TravelGrunge

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139. ModernOak

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140. Quantum

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141. Zinmag redux

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142. Dailyplanet Theme

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30 Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks

Daniel Adams — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:15:43 +0000

WordPress needs no introduction in designing field. It usually known as a synonym for blogging. When working on a WordPress blog, your posts often take the important place. However, the comments on the posts are often just as important as they create quality and valuable discussion. on the other hand if you have default WordPress comment box then there is no fun in commenting for readers as well as writers.

It really helpful for you and your visitors if your blog have well managed comment space. In which a reader can find various details about past and present comments which can improve the appearance of comments, and add more value to your posts.

This article focuses on organized collection of Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks which helps you to create a user-friendly interchange between you and your readers.

One of the greatest things about blogging is the immediate feedback a blogger can get from his or her readers. Still it’s often possible that your readers don’t give you a wink about their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, there is no way for you to find out about visitors thinking towards your blog or its design. It always essential to play safe and give others what they like. Out of many solutions the inspirational one is only promising and optimistic way to achieve desired changes. Below we present over 30 excellent WordPress Comments Page Hacks which will definitely make your blogging life easier.

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Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks

01. Styling Your Wordpress Comments

A fun part of customizing WordPress themes is designing a comments format which complements the rest of the site. Darrenhoyt has shared his three examples from recent projects, including code samples and downloads to the original .PSDs on ‘Styling Your WordPress Comments’. All of them looks stunning, are you ready to customize your comments template now?

02. Alternating Colors For Comments

You might want to have alternating row colors for your comments, to make a clearer separation. Alternating rows make it easier to distinguish different comments. Doing this is relatively very easy.

03. Styling Author Comments

An often-used feature in WordPress blogs is the ability to style comments made by the post’s author differently from the others – helping replies to stand out. Here, are few example of editing the default WordPress to add some subtle styling to author comments.

04. Highlighting Multiple Author Comments

Have you noticed while visiting some of your favorite blogs that many author comments are styled differently to help the authors comments to stand out? This is something that isn’t overly difficult to implement on your WordPress blog. Kyle at wphacks shows a quick how-to explaining how you can easily adjust your WordPress theme to display different styles for each author.

05. Numbering Your Comments

If your blog posts receive lots of comments then it can be really useful for both you and your readers to number it. Jean-Baptiste shows a simple solution to count comments easily and efficiently.

06. Displaying The Most Recent Comment First

By default, a typical WordPress blog will display the very first comment at the top of the comments template. But if you would like your WordPress blog to display the most recent comment to be right on top instead of the usual at the bottom of a page, Moses of WPThemesPlugin.com suggested a tricky solution to display recent comments on top.

07. Displaying Total Number Of Comments On Your Blog

If you have a popular WordPress blog with good number of comments everyday, then wouldn’t it be nice to be able to display the total number of comments published on your WordPress blog since your blog launch? The kind of stuff advertisers totally enjoy.

08. Displaying The Total Number Of Trackbacks On WordPress

Would you like to display the total number of trackbacks you received on your blog. Here is the code that can make it happen. It’s fair very simple and easy to implement.

09. Disable Commenting On Older Posts

Sometimes, it can be useful to automatically disable commenting on posts older than X days. In WordPress 2.7 it is a feature but older WordPress does not have any built-in function to do that, but if you still like to do it, here is little help.

10. Get Rid Of The Comment Section On Your WordPress Blog

Removing the comments section on a blog can sound weird at first because comments are an important part of a blog, but sometimes you just want to spread some news without getting any feedback.

11. Changing The Default WordPress Gravatar

Thousands of blogs show avatars next to their user’s comments. The avatars are a great way to make things more personal and create some variety between the different comments. Over at Pro Blog Design, Michael has written a great tutorial explaining exactly how to add your own default Gravatar image, as well as provide some tips on how to make a good Gravatar default image.

12. Use Twitter Avatars In Comments

Do you enjoy Twitter? Yes, so what about displaying Twitter avatars in your comments, instead of gravatars? It’s fairly easy to integrates Twitter avatars on your comments.

13. Editing Comments

It displays a link to edit the current comment, if the user is logged in and allowed to edit the comment. It must be within The Loop, and within a comment loop.

14. Paginated Comments

Paginated Comments is a WordPress Plugin that gives you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages. You can create pages based on size of comments (so that no page of comments is greater than a certain file size) or you can create pages based on number of comments per page (100 for example). Although Wordpress 2.7 have built-in function to do that.

15. WP Ajax Edit Comments for WP 2.5+

WP Ajax Edit Comments allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments. It’s a pretty nice feature for a community website or a blog.

16. Improve Comment Follow-Up With The Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plugin

Subscribe to Comments is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.

17. Display The Most Commented Posts Of 2008

Do you want to display a list of the 10 most commented posts of 2008 to your readers? That’s obviously a great way to give a second life to your old posts.

18. Comment Validation Hack

Comment Validation Hack is first step against spam. The system uses what’s known as a Turing number, named after the mathematician Alan Turing. If you have ever signed up for an e-mail account at yahoo or gone to e-gold’s website, you know what I’m talking about. More info here.

19. Preventing Direct Access To Comments.php

comments.php is meant to be included in a post page, not separately. You could consider this a security measure. Inside the statement, you could insert any message you’d want to be displayed to the person viewing the comments.php file, preferably a die statement.

20. Identify Authors With Gravatars

As title says you can use gravatars to identify your authors. Many blogs have a couple of authors and many times the blogs link and present the author of the respective contribution. Now with this feature you can do a lot more.

21. Adding Form Validation To Comments Using jQuery

When it comes to simpler user experience, having your form validation happen instantly on the same page is a lot cleaner than reloading pages and possibly losing some form content. This tutorial at NetTuts, shows how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.

22. Styling Individual Comment/Posts Using the_ID

How many times have you typed up a post and published it, only to wish that you could style that post just a little differently than the others. With the help of post IDs and comment IDs you can style any specific post or comment.

23. Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks

Trackbacks are the messages displayed in the comments list whenever another blog links back to one of your posts. If you use trackbacks on your blog, it is best if they are not mixed with the comments. The comments are a conversation between real people. Having machine-generated links in the middle of that will only serve to disrupt the conversations.

24. Prevent Author Impersonation In WordPress Comments

This modification to WordPress prevents unregistered comment authors from using the names or email addresses of the registered authors on your site. It does this by first checking to see if the comment author is logged in. If they are not, it compares their name and email address to the registered author data. If there is a match, the comment is blocked and a custom message is displayed.

25. jQuery Reply To Comment

Add “reply” and “quote” features on each comment list. If you have jQuery installed on you blog, this Plugin add two link in each comments list (on single page). This plugin can auto include jQuery from Google Ajax API repository.

26. Displaying The Allowed Tags

Gilles Maes at NetTut shows how to display the code that visitors are allowed to use in their comments. It takes only one line of code in comments.php and you’ll simply get a list of the tags that are allowed in your comment.

27. Comments RSS Link

When a post have lots and lots of comment, it can be hard for your readers to stay on the conversation. Most WordPress users don’t know it, but WordPress have a built-in function for providing rss feed for the comments of a specific post.

28. How to Remove rel=’external nofollow’ from Comments

For those of you who wish to join the I-Follow Movement and have WordPress blogs on your own domains, good news is that the rel=”nofollow” attribute can easily be removed without the need for additional plugins or software. In fact, it only takes about 5 minutes and one line of code but keep in mind that this can result in increased spam attempts.

29. User Contributed Link Feed with WordPress Comments

Collis shows how to built a link feed with just WordPress comments contributed by visitors. This is a cool feature to offer blog users to submit links and to create a public link feed out of it.

30. Full-featured comments.php Template For Wordpress

Christian shares his fully featured and well commented comments.php file (with some modifications to make it even more flexible). This comment.php have lots of hacks already applied which can save a lot of your time.