Best WordPress Tips and Tutorials of September 2011

by George Gecewicz
Today, we’re going to look at using this process to generate some jQuery that pulls in images from a Flickr account. This particular widget is super simple and probably not something you’d release as a full WordPress plugin, but it’ll hopefully get you comfortable with the Widget API and the flexibility it has.

Using DISQUS Comments for Social Commenting on Your WordPress Site

by Connor Turnbull
Today, we’re going to take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of DISQUS, how to use it with WordPress (spoiler: it’s incredibly simple) and even some basic customization with CSS.

Quick Tip: Guidelines for Improving WordPress Themes

by Japh Thomson
There has been a lot of talk recently about standards, guidelines, and best practices when it comes to developing WordPress themes (and plugins too, for that matter). So I thought a quick post to help point to resources and further raise awareness wouldn’t go astray on WP.TutsPlus.

Customizing the WordPress Dashboard For Your Clients

by Harish Chouhan
Have you recently started using WordPress for your client’s project and want to further impress your client with better packaging? This article will focus on packaging WordPress so that, in just few minutes after completion of a project, it will feel more unique to the client and not have the generic feel.

10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

by Fouad Matin
WordPress is open source which means that everyone, including hackers with a malicious intent, can scour the source code looking for holes in its security. That is why I’m going to show you some good precautionary steps to take to protect you, your WordPress and most importantly, your users.

How to Use Shortcodes in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets

by WPBeginner
In this article, we will show you how to use shortcodes in your WordPress sidebar.

How to Create Additional Image Sizes in WordPress

by WPBeginner
Last month there was a huge vulnerability spotted in a famous image resizing script known as TimThumb. Since then the community has collaborated and fixed the issues. While TimThumb is a viable option, we believe that WordPress theme developers should focus on using the core functions rather than relying on third party scripts. In this article we will show you how to add additional image sizes in WordPress.

How to Create a Grid Display of Post Thumbnails in WordPress Themes

by WPBeginner
In this article, we will show you how to create a grid loop display of post thumbnails in your WordPress theme.

How to Add Google Search in a WordPress Site

by WPBeginner
In this tutorial we are going to show you how to replace WordPress built in search with Google custom search.

How to Add Rotating Testimonials in WordPress

by WPBeginner
In this article, we will show you how you can create a rotating testimonials area in WordPress where testimonials fade in and out automatically. You can use this technique for other uses as well such as quotes, fun facts, etc.

How To Highlight Content In a Feature Box For WordPress Posts Using CSS Code

by Brad Dalton
In this simple CSS tutorial i’ll show you how to manually create a feature box for any location in your posts or pages.

WordPress Shortcodes-What Are Short Codes and How Do i Create a Shortcode

by Brad Dalton
I’ll show you in more detail all the great functions you can insert into your posts and pages later on in this article by using this list of short codes.

How To Setup Google Analytics For WordPress – Beginners Guide To Installing Analytics

by Brad Dalton
In this guide to setting up & installing Google analytics in WordPress we’ll cover all steps including…

How To Setup WordPress After Installing WordPress – Beginners Guide

by Brad Dalton
This simple guide to setting up WordPress after installation will walk you through best practices.

What is a Hook? Basic Guide to WordPress Hooks – For Beginners

by Brad Dalton
Hooks are also known as Filters & Actions which are used by developers to make website changes without modifying the WordPress core files directly.

How to protect your WordPress site as hackers exploit TimThumb security hole

by Philip John
Thanks (or should that be “praise be”?) to the quick actions of Mark Maunder and the subsequent collaboration between him and TimThumb’s original author Ben Gillbanks, the hole has been patched up and the latest version of TimThumb is much more secure.

5 Innovative Uses of WordPress for Business Owners

by Tim Gregg
These are a few ways that you can extend the functionality of WordPress to help you manage your business independently.

Daily Tip: Set up a News Aggregator on Your WordPress Blog

by Tim Gregg
There are numerous plugins that allow you to syndicate RSS and Atom feeds from elsewhere on the web, and publish the content as posts inside your own WordPress blog.

WordPress Essentials: Interacting With The WordPress Database

by Daniel Pataki
In this article, I will show you how to get started with the $wpdb class, how to retrieve data from your WordPress database and how to run more advanced queries that update or delete something in the database.

Developing WordPress Locally With MAMP

by Ryan Olson
With application platforms such as WordPress, which require a server back end to work, you would normally be constrained to develop on a live server, with the headaches that go along with that. MAMP and its Windows counterpart, WAMP, are tools that allow you to locally develop applications that require a server on the back end.

WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin

by Daniel Pataki
Whereas themes modify the look of your website, plugins change how it functions. With plugins, you can create custom post types, add new tables to your database to track popular articles, automatically link your contents folder to a “CDN” server such as Amazon S3… you get the picture.

How To Create a Simple WordPress Blog Theme

by Chris Spooner
Now let’s take our static web page files and create a fully working WordPress theme by splitting up the code over the various template files and injecting the relevant WordPress PHP tags.

Add a Customizable Header image to your WordPress Theme

by Oli
WordPress 3.0 brought a host of new features with it and one was the ability to change your theme header from within the admin panel, under the “appearance” tab and was built into the TwentyTen theme. What if you want to add this functionality to your own theme ? Thankfully it’s pretty easy to do by adding some custom code to your theme’s functions.php file.

How To: Remove Encoded Footer Links from WordPress Themes

by Oli
If the theme is released under the GPL, then you are well within your rights to remove these links, no matter what the theme provider says. In this article Im going to show you how to decode the footer links and remove them.

How To: Enable Custom Backgrounds in Your WordPress Theme

by Oli
Another feature is allowing people to upload custom backgrounds for their theme. Another nice touch with gives the end user a bit more control over how their site looks. This one is really easy to add …

How to Make a Post Sticky in WordPress

by Lisa Forester
A popular feature in WordPress is the ability to make a blog post “sticky”. A sticky post is one that remains at the top of the blog post page long after it has been published. Typically, the newest blog post is added at the top but moves down as you post new articles. However, a sticky post will always stay at the top until you switch it out.

Build a multilingual site with WordPress

by Shannon Smith
Take your WordPress site to the world. Shannon Smith, founder of Café Noir Design, explains what components are needed for a successful multilingual WordPress site

Run a WordPress site on the cloud (part 2)

by Dan Forst
After part one’s introduction to cloud hosting, it’s time to step things up a notch. Now Dan Frost of 3EV (3ev.com) explains how to set up and run a WordPress site on the cloud, and looks at some advanced features to help improve your site’s performance

Change the Search-URL of WordPress

by Frank
With WordPress it is easy to activate readable URLs. Only the search page is not affected by the setting yet, it comes with the syntax ?s as default. But there is a solution to change the URL as you wish.

Disable password fields for non-admins

by Latz
So you’ve created a user and added a strong password because you care for your blog’s security? Unfortunately you can’t be sure that the user will keep this strong password since he/she can change it to a much weaker one on his profile page.
This problem can be solved by…

3 Ways to Reset the WordPress Loop

by Jeff Starr
In this DiW post, we’ll explore these techniques to get a better understanding of when and how to use them in your WordPress themes.

Where to Get Help with WordPress

by Jeff Starr
In this case, we’re focusing on one-to-one WordPress help, so feel free to shout out any names or resources you might know of (including your own).

A Guide to WordPress Post Formats

by Jean Galea
Post formats are one of the most interesting additions to WordPress 3.1.
They enable us to apply different styling to a particular post type (e.g. page or post) by choosing from one of the types provided by WordPress itself

Using Google search within a WordPress site

by Patrick Daly
This tutorial will show you how to use a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE ) to replace the WordPress search engine and integrate it seamlessly into your website.

I wanna be a theme designer: Theme setup

by Justin Tadlock
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your first WordPress theme.

Creating basic theme templates

by Justin Tadlock
Now that you’ve already learned how to set up a theme, you’ll need to learn how to structure a theme.

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