45 Best WordPress Tips and Tutorials of April 2011

by Pippin Williamson
Almost every web design / development blog, and the majority of other blogs, like to display the number of people they have following their Twitter account. Their are a variety of ways to do this, and dozens of plugins that do it for you, but as a developer it is a really good if you know how to do it without relying on a plugin.

How To Add A Navigation Menu To Your WordPress Theme

by Kevin Muldoon
For me, wp nav menu is one of the best additions to WordPress over the last 3 years as it allows you to manage all of your menus from the one area using a drag and drop interface. Customising how menus are styled has also been made easier and creating a drop down menu only takes you a few seconds.

Fool Proof Tips to Styling WP Nav Menus

by Pippin Williamson
Kevin wrote a great introduction tutorial on using the WordPress 3.0+ nav menus. As Kevin mentioned in that post, styling your menus can be difficult at times, especially if you are migrating from a static nav menu and attempting to maintain the same styling. Having used the 3.0 nav menus in more than a dozen custom themes myself, I’m going to give you all a few tips on how best to attack the CSS.

Quick Tip: Increase Maximum Upload Size In WordPress

by Briley Kenney
Some blogs, that specialize in photography for example, would benefit from a much larger file size limit. However to increase the file size we need to edit important WordPress source files which could potentially harm the application (if the user is not careful), so it’s a good idea to backup the entire WordPress database before continuing just in case.

Customising The Default Search Box

by Kevin Muldoon
I therefore decided to move the search box to the top of the sidebar. WordPress makes this very easy. You can place a search box in your sidebar by simply adding this code to your sidebar.php template:

Get Adjacent Posts to Currently Viewed Post

by Pippin Williamson
There is a very useful function in WordPress called get_adjacent_posts() that allows us to retrieve either the previous post, or the next post, and all of it’s information, which is stored in a variable. This function is particularly useful for situations, such as portfolios, where you want to display a teaser of the previous or next post, such as the posts’ thumbnails.

Beginner’s Guide: Common sense WordPress SEO strategy

by Brian Krogsgard
It seems there is an epic, never-ending battle out there in the interwebs between those that argue Search Engine Optimization Matters and those that preach that Content is King. Of course, as in most things, the truth is likely somewhere in the middle.

Beginner’s Guide: How to utilize Google resources in WordPress

by Brian Krogsgard
There are many ways to utilize the seemingly endless resources of Google in WordPress. The following list includes what I consider to be the most important Google tools, some others nearly every web developer uses, and hopefully even some that you don’t know about yet.

Display Popular Posts by Day, Week, Month, and All Time in WordPress

by WPBeginner
So in this article, we will show you how to add a tabber with popular posts by day, week, month, and all time in your WordPress sidebar without editing a single line of code. We will also show you how to create a separate page that displays popular posts by day, week, month, and all time in your WordPress blog.

Why and How you should be using iFrames for Videos in WordPress?

by WPBeginner
By using the iFrame tag for your videos, you ensure that your videos are displayed for people on the computer, iPhone, iPad or any other device that may come in the near future. Traffic from mobile devices are increasing at a rapid rate, and this is something that we should all be prepared for.

Step by Step Guide to Creating a Slider in WordPress with SlideDeck

by WPBeginner
In this article, we will show you how you can create a slider in WordPress without editing a single line of code with the SlideDeck WordPress Plugin.

Why You Need a CDN for your WordPress Blog? [Infographic]

by WPBeginner
Many beginners still don’t understand what CDN is because we are constantly asked with the question, “Would I still need hosting if I get a CDN?”. This is partially our fault for not making things clear. It was brought to our attention that every time we have written about CDN, we always ignore the basics. So in this article, we will make an attempt to explain what is a CDN, and why you need a CDN for your WordPress blog.

How to Automatically Empty Your WordPress Trash

by WPBeginner
In WordPress 2.9, there was a new “Trash” feature added to the core. The bad part about this trash feature is that you have to empty the trash regularly. By default the trash empties itself every 30 days. But in this article, we will show you how you can automatically empty your trash daily, weekly, or however many days you want.

How to Change Font Size onClick in WordPress with JavaScript

by WPBeginner
Have you ever come across a site or blog that lets their visitors change the font size from some +/- button in the sidebar? Well in this article, we will show you how to give your users the ability change the font size in WordPress using a simple JavaScript function and some HTML.

Power User Tip: Custom Post Type Feeds & Google

by Joost de Valk
Not many people realize the power that WordPress gives them by making feeds for everything on the site. If you register a custom post type it gets a feed by default, so for my new WordPress Plugin Review section, which is built on a custom post type for plugin reviews, there’s a custom feed here:

Separating frontend and admin code

by The easiest way of separating frontend and backend code is having a set of classes, most of my plugins end up with at least three classes:

Daily Tip: How to Add Custom TwentyTen Headers for Each Category

by Sarah Gooding
f you’re using the TwentyTen theme for your WordPress site and utilizing custom headers, there’s a new plugin available that will allow you to assign different headers to each category.

Daily Tip: How to Reverse WordPress Comment Order to Show the Latest on Top

by Sarah Gooding
Here’s a handy little hack that I found over at iwebsource.net. It basically reverses your comment order to show the latest ones on top, so that you don’t have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find read the most recent comments.

5 Simple Ways to Improve a Boring WordPress Theme

by Sarah Gooding
Here are some simple updates you can apply to your theme to make things a a little more interesting and engaging.

How to Avoid Data Loss: Every Website’s Worst Nightmare

by Sarah Gooding
Data Loss – it’s every website manager’s worst nightmare and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. There is always the lurking possibility that you may receive an email like this:…

Speeding Up Your WordPress Website: 11 Ways to Improve Your Load Time

by Siobhan Ambrose
One of the questions that comes up fairly regularly in my weekly WPMU DEV chats is “how can I speed up my WordPress website?” It’s an important question, particularly for businesses who want to scale their website.

How to Embed Google Talk Chatback on Your WordPress Site for Live Support

by Sarah Goding
Making live chat available on your website is a strategy that has been shown to dramatically increase sales. Customers appreciate the ability to get in touch with you instantly.

Daily Tip: How to Add a Signature to Your WordPress Posts

by Sarah Goding
Adding a signature to your WordPress posts is one way to give your blog a more personal touch. The code below will automatically include your signature after the content of your blog posts so that you don’t have to manually add it every time.

Using the new Facebook ‘Send’ button with WordPress

by Ronnie Burt
It was only a year ago that Facebook introduced us to the now ubiquitous ‘like’ button. And now, they launched the new ‘send’ button so that we can all add to the list of sharing tools we have at the top or bottom of all of our posts.

The Complete Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Site for Sharing on Facebook

by Sarah Goding
In this article we’ll cover seven key ways to optimize your site for when people share it on Facebook. You don’t need to go overboard and implement all of the tips below.

10 Techniques for Customizing the WordPress Admin Panel

by Filip Stefansson
In the previous post, we removed a lot of clutter and things that we didn’t need. Now we’ll focus on things that happen behind the scene that can enhance the user experience.

Fine-Tuning WordPress for SEO

by Adam Heitzman
The following are some basic tips on how to fine-tune your WordPress site to attain improved search engine results ranking.

Add a jQuery DatePicker to Event Posts {WP}

by Michael Martin
Today, we want to improve the admin end of things. Instead of using custom fields, we’ll make a box for the event’s date, and use jQuery to let users pick the date from a calendar.

How to Bold First Few Words in Excerpt

by Reza – DynamicWP
The WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary or description of a post; in short, a post summary. It is used to truncate blog posts so that only part of the entry — the introduction or a summary of the post — is displayed, instead of the entire entry.

How to Limit Character in The Post Title

by Reza – DynamicWP
This little wordpress hack will allow you to limit the displayed post title by a defined number of characters on your blogs home page.

How to Create Drop Cap to WordPress Post without Plugin

by Reza – DynamicWP
A drop cap is the first letter of a paragraph that’s of a much bigger size than the rest that follow. The letter formatting is such that the letter “˜drops down’ to cover the few lines following the first one.

Uncluttering the post editing screen in WordPress

by Justin Tadlock
his week, I’ve been reconfiguring a lot stuff on the backend of this site. One of the things I done was disable quite a few meta boxes to make a cleaner post editing screen. Sure, I could simply click the “Screen Options” tab and hide the meta boxes. However, I have no need for these meta boxes at all. I just wanted them gone.

Designing a product page with WordPress

by Justin Tadlock
In this post, I’ll cover how I created a product page for Pro WP Plugin Development. This was my first real step into this area of Web design, so this is just as much as learning experience for me as it will be for you.

Add trash button to WordPress Admin Bar

by Frank
Since version 3.1 of WordPress you have an Admin Bar with several functions. It’s an easy task to add custom buttons to the Admin Bar. I will show you how with an example of a “trash” button. This will be another example how to extend your Admin Bar, as I did it in a previous post, where I added a search field to the Admin Bar.

Comment Form Hooks Visualized

by Latz
To give you an easy overview the following diagrams visualize the points where the various hooks are anchored. The number of available hooks depend on the discussion settings and the user’s capabilities.

View Blog ID in WordPress Multisite

by Frank
When you work quite a bit with WordPress Multisites, sometimes you need the IDs for some functions or Plugins. The easiest way is via the hover effect with your mouse or you use a little code snippet to add a column with the ID in the table view.

How to show an urgent message in the WordPress admin area

by Dan Harrison
This is a very short guide that shows you how to add a error or status message using the correct WordPress hooks.

Add custom links to WordPress admin bar

by Jeff Star
Introduced in WordPress 3.1, the Admin bar is a new feature that many users like. Today, I’m going to show how you can add custom links to WordPress admin bar.

Tumblr Links with Post Formats

by Jeff Star
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use WordPress’ new Post Formats to setup your own Tumblr-style Links in 3 easy steps.

What to do when Auto-Update Fails

by Jeff Star
The convenience of automatically updating the WordPress core, plugins, and themes is awesome, but things can go wrong once in awhile and auto-updates can fail. If this happens, getting back on track is a bit tricky, so here’s a quick guide to help restore site functionality and ensure a proper update.

Admin Bar Tricks

by Jeff Star
In this DigWP post, we round up a ton of tips, tricks, and plugins for ultimately mastering the WordPress Admin Bar.

How to Drastically Improve Your WordPress Blog’s Comments

by Mirko Humbert
The first step to creating this community is to attract high-quality comments. To help you do this, we’ve laid out some key factors to keep in mind.

9 Ways of Showing WordPress Plugin Authors our Gratitude

by Stéphanie Walter
In this article we will show 9 ways of saying thank you to those amazing plugin developers, show them our gratitude for the great work and help them to maintain their great creations.

Optimize WordPress For Heavy Traffic

by Alex Denning
As we go through this post, the methods we’re going to use will get increasingly complicated — start with the first and go as far as you can!

Different Size Post Thumbnails in your WordPress Themes

by Oli
Basically, adding featured image support to a theme allows you to upload an image which gets associated with that post and can then be displayed alongside it in your theme.

by WooThemes
Kaboodle is a trendy, pixel-perfect, customizable business theme with a clean layout, featured home page slider, and custom post types for testimonials, portfolio items, mini-features and slides. Every new business can do with a spiffy design like this!

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Saving Grace

by WooThemes
Saving Grace is a theme specifically for charities & non-profit organizations. Designed by Matthew Smith, the theme features stunning typography and attention to detail. We’ve also included donation functionality so you can accept donations through PayPal and let visitors see the progress of donations in the theme.

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MyCuisine WordPress Theme

by ElegantThemes
MyCuisine is delicious, offering up some eye-catching visuals wrapped in a Tuscan shell. It is a small-business theme built with Restaurants in mind, however, the theme can easily be adapted for any business that desires a cool, vintage aesthetic for the website.

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InReview WordPress Theme

by ElegantThemes
InReview is an advanced Review Theme that allows you to transform your WordPress blog into a fully-functional ratings website. The theme makes rating products easy with our custom options and integrated user-review system. The theme also includes affiliate integrated and custom widgets to help you increase conversions.

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Envisioned WordPress Theme

by ElegantThemes
Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

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Folioway – Premium Portfolio WordPress Theme

by addway
Clean and elegant, incredibly powerful and flexible, it’s just the best wordpress theme for your or your company’s work presentation.

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Edge – Professional Corporate and Portfolio WP

by unisphere
Edge is a WordPress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. The theme is also well suited for online portfolios and blogs.

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Celta Business – Modern Corporate WordPress Theme

by celtathemes
Celta Business is a modern corporate theme that features an unique design, suitable for any company. This theme is based on a solid WordPress framework, that includes several great features like visual shortcodes editor and a powerful admin panel. It’s ease of use makes it a template suitable for both WordPress experts and beginners.

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Duotive Three – Complete WordPress Template

by duotive
Our clients said that Duotive 2WO was a great template, Duotive Three is even better! Using the all new Duotive Admin Panel and all the features available makes working with WordPress easier than ever!

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Premium Pixels: Fancy Pants Blog / Magazine Theme

by OrmanClark
The Premium Pixels theme is perfect for the blogger which takes pride in their appearance. This theme has appeared in numerous design galleries while serving PremiumPixels.com and has gained countless ‘nods of approval’ from those in the know. Now it’s all yours.

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