40+ Best WordPress Tips and Tutorials of May 2011

by WPBeginner
Recently, Facebook has announced a new addition to this like button known as the “Send button”. The send button allows your users to share your blog posts with their friends that are on Facebook as well those who are not on Facebook. In this article, we will show you how to add the Facebook Send Button in your WordPress blog.

How to Add Facebook Open Graph Meta Data in WordPress Themes

by WPBeginner
However recently, we have been hearing reports of Facebook not pulling the right thumbnail image when someone clicks Like, not pulling the right page title, etc. Well in this article, we will share how you can add facebook open graph meta information in WordPress themes which will solve all of those issues.

How to Add the Tumblr Share Button in WordPress

by WPBeginner
Tumblr, a micro-blogging service, has launched their very own share button. In this article, we will show you how to add the Tumblr Share Button in WordPress.

How to Modify the Help Dropdown Text in WordPress Admin Area

by WPBeginner
Each WordPress admin screen has a Help button. This area drop downs and contains text that helps the user understand the features of the specific page. In this article, we will show you how to modify the help dropdown text in WordPress admin area.

How to Add Warning Notices for your Clients in WordPress

by WPBeginner
By simply hooking into WordPress admin_notices hook, we can display a notice that may say “Warning – changing settings on this page may cause problem with your website’s design”.

How to create your own WordPress functionality plugin

by Ryan Imel
We’re going to create a very simple, very specific functionality plugin that you can (hopefully) use to replace your theme’s functions.php file.

How to Add Buttons and CSS Classes to TinyMCE

by Jean
As a developer you can easily code up the styles for that, but how do we make it easy for the clients to select the paragraph they want to style in this manner.

How to Publish a WordPress Plugin – Subversion

by Eric
Here is, step-by-step, a tutorial on how to get started using Subversion to track changes in and eventually publish your WordPress plugin.

WordPress SEO URL / Permalinks considerations

by Joost de Valk
What does the optimal WordPress SEO URL / Permalink structure look like? How should you use your URL’s, what should and shouldn’t you do with them.

WordPress SEO Theme Guidelines

by Joost de Valk
Ok so these guidelines will consist of WordPress SEO Theme “Do’s” and “Don’ts”.

How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox

by Sarah Gooding
Here’s how you can set up automatic backups of your WordPress site to Dropbox:

How to Add Post Thumbnails to the WordPress Post and Page Management Screens

by Sarah Gooding
If you’re producing a lot of content on your WordPress site, it can be handy to see the main image associated with each post when viewing the post or page listing screen.

Is Your WordPress Website Distributing Malware in Google Image Search?

by Siobhan Ambrose
A PHP injection into a WordPress site can generate spammy websites, hijack Google Image SERPs and result in your WordPress website tossing unsuspecting Google Image searchers to a FakeAV site.

How to Add Google’s New Site Speed Tracking to Your WordPress Site

by Sarah Gooding
If you want to take advantage of the new Site Speed tracking, you’ll need to update the tracking code that you already have on your WordPress site. It’s very easy and you can do it just a couple steps.

Think Twice Before You Upgrade That WordPress Plugin

by Sarah Gooding
Today we’re going to take a look at some tips and basic best practices for safely upgrading WordPress plugins.

Troubleshooting WordPress: Common Fatal Error Messages and How to Fix Them

by Siobhan Ambrose
Today we’re going to look at some of the common error messages that appear repeatedly on the WPMU DEV forums.

8 Tips to Secure a WordPress Site

by Michael Martin
The tips in this post are designed to help make your WordPress installation safer and less likely to be hacked or spammed. If you’re short on time, just start at the top and work down. I’ve (roughly) ordered them so that the most important tweaks come first.

4 Ways to Loop with WordPress

by Jeff Star
The default loop works perfectly well for most single-loop themes, but for more advanced designs with stuff like multiple and custom loops, more looping power is needed. Fortunately, WordPress provides plenty of flexibility with four ways to loop:

Leave the Visual Editor ON

by Jeff Star
So you can write your posts in HTML and then jump into the Visual Editor to take advantage of the new Linking tool, which makes adding links incredibly easy.

How To: Add post ratings to your WordPress blog

by Oli
One of the best (and free!) plugins for this purpose is WP Post Ratings, in this post I will show you how to install and setup this plugin.

How To: Add a forum to WordPress with the bbPress plugin

by Oli
It’s still currently in beta version but its functional and available to download from the repository now so I thought Id take a look at it and show you how to install in your site.

10 tips for creating high quality WordPress themes

by Jean Baptiste Jung
I’ve compiled a list of 10 tips every WordPress theme developer should know and apply in order to create top-notch quality themes.

Adding Input Fields To Comment Form

by Latz
This article explains how to add an input field, store the data in the database and how to display the additional data in your blog if your theme uses the comment_form() function provided by WordPress.

Localization with JavaScript in WordPress

by Frank
The following little example should show the realization and the easy output of strings demonstrates it. Wether strings for multilanguage or providing options values, it doesn’t matter.

How to easily disable theme changing

by Steve Taylor
When creating a WordPress based website for a client, you may need to make sure that he can’t switch themes. This is what I’m going to show you in today’s recipe.

Get how many posts are returned by a custom loop

by WP Lover
Do you need to know how many posts are returned by a custom query? It is pretty easy to do. Just read on, this is what I’m going to show you today.

WordPress tip: Quick maintenance mode

by Skyje
When you need to do some maintenance on your WordPress blog, you should always make sure that visitors aren’t able to visit your site. Today, I’m going to show you how to easily implement a maintenance mode on your WordPress blog.

How to Display Posts only from Current User

by Reza
When a contributor in a multi-user site see the post list in the admin page, he could see not only his posts, but also posts from other contributors. How about displaying his post only? This snippet will show how to do it.

How to Get URL for Blog Page When Using Static Homepage

by Reza
Once your WP site has been set up to use a static front page, You maybe need the URL of the page that has been designated as the blog page.
Here’s the code to get the link:

How to Remove Links Tab from Admin Panel

by Reza
Link tab is to add a new link, edit existing links or create link categories. Links create in here will be display in the blogroll section of your blog. Often, people doesn’t use this tab at all, so simplifying the admin panel by removing the tab can be done.

How to Display Specific Category Only In Search Result

by Reza
While customizing a WordPress site, sometimes We also need to configure, how our WordPress site display the search result. This tutorial will be the reserve, display the posts from specific category only in search result.

How To Quickly Remove Inactive Widgets

by Kevin Muldoon
If you later decide to delete all of your inactive widgets then you may want to consider installing the Remove Inactive Widgets plugin from Kenzo Media. The plugin adds a small button to your inactive widgets area that allows you to remove all of your inactive widgets at the click of a button.

Display the Number of Comments by Author

by Pippin Williamson
A really cool feature that some sites, such as Pro Blog Design, utilize is showing the number of comments an author has posted next to their name and gravatar in a post’s comment list.

Make a Recently Commented Posts Short Code

by Pippin Williamson
A popular way for sites to display their most-talked-about posts, or those with recent commentary, is to have a widget that displays a list of the 5 or ten latest comments, and the posts that received the comments.

Create A Printer Friendly Style Sheet

by Briley Kenney
Most sites allow visitors the option to print content easily and efficiently. The reason not to use a plugin is because you can style and customize the print template to match your personal preferences.

New WordPress Power Tips For Template Developers And Consultants

by Jacob Goldman
To celebrate WordPress’s progress, let’s review some new tips that can help template developers and consultants up their game even further.

Deploy your WordPress Blog to the Cloud

by Jarkko Laine
For the last decade, hosting a large scale web application has been a daunting task, reserved only for experts. Not anymore; when Amazon opened its server architecture, everything changed. Computer hardware moved to the cloud, and became available to any and all developers. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress in the cloud.

A Guide to WordPress SEO with Relevant Plugins

by Keenan Payne
When it comes to WordPress and search engine optimization, the content management system does a pretty good job at being prepared out of the box, but with the use of some very useful plugins, as well as some hacks and some good blogging techniques, you could get your blog’s posts and pages higher in the search engines thus attracting more potential visitors.

Create a Multi-Layout Portfolio with WordPress

by Sumeet Chawla
In this tutorial, we are going to extensively use powerful features of WordPress, such as custom posts, custom taxonomies, and we’ll also write a function to fetch our own custom excerpts.

Create WordPress Plugins with OOP Techniques

by Muhammad Haris
Object-oriented code, among other things, can help organize and add reusability to your code. In this tutorial, I will teach you the basics of writing a WordPress plugin using object oriented techniques. We’ll be using Dribbble’s API as an example for this tutorial. Ready?

How to convert WordPress theme to HTML5?

by Skyje
HTML5 offers many improvements and cool features that can be useful while using WordPress.
In this tutorial you will learn How to convert WordPress theme to HTML5. Enjoy!

20 WordPress Code Snippets for Constructive Web Developers

by Snoggle Media
Below I’ve collected a set of 20 awesome WordPress code snippets for all users to enjoy. Web developers will especially enjoy the collection as customizing WordPress has never been easier!

by peerapong
Accent is the WordPress theme for Business, Portfolio, Corporate built with latest WordPress 3.1 features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors, Extensive admin panel etc.

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Eptonic – Beyond the Limits

by jvanoel
Eptonic – Beyond the Limits is a clean minimalistic theme that brings all the features that you are expecting from us like our other themes. It comes with a bunch of features to make your website incredible flexible so you can make every page unique if you want. All features are optional.

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The Cotton – Powerful Minimalistic WordPress Theme

by pexeto
The Cotton is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme designed in a minimalistic style. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Cotton theme is highly flexible, so customizing the theme or simply changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.

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Gridlocked: Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme

by OrmanClark
Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system.
A truly versatile theme, Gridlocked can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

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ECOBIZ – Modern Business WordPress Theme

by imediapixel
ECOBIZ is clean,elegant and modern corporate and business WordPress theme that can be switched as eco/green business and portfolio theme. There’s many page templates available,6 pre-defined skins, unlimited colors, 3 slideshow types, Portfolio and Product post type with categories filter, User friendly shortcodes and more. Please explore demo site or follow below features.

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Envision – Modern Corporate WP Theme

by ThemeFuse
Try our most complex wp theme to date. It has shortcodes, 5 different sliders and a bunch of awesome features. You name it, we’ve got it!

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Welcome Inn – Hotel and Spa WordPress Theme

by ThemeFuse
If you need a hotel oriented wp theme, you have to try our latest project. It comes in 2 additional flavors: ski resort and spa. Enjoy!

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Aggregate WordPress Theme

by Elegant Themes
Aggregates comes packed with tons of content and widget-ready areas, and manages to display everything in a clear and readable manner. We have also added some handy new widgets, as well as many new advertisement areas. If you have been searching for a feature-rich Magazine-style theme for your blog, then look no further!
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Chameleon WordPress Theme

by Elegant Themes
Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different! Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.
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Briefed WordPress Theme

by WooThemes
Designed by Cameron Moll, Briefed is for all types of designers & creatives thanks to it’s modular layout and clean, minimal design. The home page is completely customizable with a portfolio powered by custom post types, optional Dribbble feed, and jsMasonry for an adaptive layout.

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