Most of the Wordpress blogs look more or less similar these days, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you have got to tweak it. And by tweaking, we mean really getting your hands dirty down on the blog theme and PHP codes. We’ve previously showcased more than 40 Wordpress tricks and hacks you can perform on your blog but we quickly realized there are still a lot of impressive Wordpress tricks, hacks and plugins out there that we thought are really great.
So as a sequel, here’s another 30+ Wordpress tricks and hack. If you are wondering how some bloggers add those cool functions, mods or displays on their Wordpress blog, be sure to run through our list. You might just find the solution in here.
More Wordpress related articles we’ve previously written:
- Most Wanted Wordpress tricks and hacks
- 49 Most downloaded Wordpress themes
- Wordpress themes for Video Blogging
- 16 Wordpress premium themes that don’t suck
- 20 Desktop blogging clients
- You’ve Installed Wordpress, So What’s Next?
Full list after jump.
-
Apple Flashy Accordion Sidebar
Use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to create an Apple-alike Wordpress sidebar.
-
Adding Tabs to Sidebar
Creating tabs on Wordpress sidebar with Yahoo! UI Library
-
Sidebar With Dynamic Contents
Every blog visitor has different habits, but many tend to ignore sidebars because they are always the same. Mixing things up and keeping the contents of the sidebar relevant to the post can make them a bit more likely to be noticed.
-
Allow Users To Submit Blog Post
This plugin allows you to add highly customisable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit posts.
-
Paginated Comments
Give you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages.
-
Image Caption
Extracts the
titleoraltattribute from images within your blog post and generates a neat caption directly underneath those images. Supports custom CSS styling for captions.
-
Random Redirect
Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
-
Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress
Easily integrates the Google Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev into WordPress. Image below show how codes look like in Wordpress with Google Syntax Highlighter.
-
Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR) for Wordpress
FLIR allows you to convert text and title into images (better display quality) on the fly without hassle. Now this FLIR Wordpress plugin make things even easier for bloggers.
-
del.icio.us for WordPress
del.icio.us for WordPress displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog.
-
Create Your Own PopURLs Within Wordpress
Like the way how PopURL display contents? Now you can create similar inside Wordpress.
-
Exclude certain categories from being displayed
2 ways to hide posts from certain categories to be displayed on the blog. You can either put this code inside the loop
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : query_posts($query_string .'&cat=-1,-2'); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>or you can use Advanced Category Excluder.
-
Another Date Image Hack
-
Create a calendar view of your article post date.
-
Styling Individual Posts
Styling one post a little different from the rest with the use of
the_ID. -
How To Avoid Duplicate Posts
Duplicated contents are pretty bad and they somehow affects how search engine weights your site. Here’s how you can avoid getting duplicated contents on your blog.
-
Wordpress ‘Page Redirect‘ template
This template lets you specify a single URL as the page content, then as the page loads, the template automatically redirects the page to this new location, and that includes category or any tag pages you specify.
-
Delicious Save Buttons
Add badges that encourage people to bookmark your website or blog
-
DesignFloat Buttons, Website & Blog Integration
Give your website or blog visitors the option to submit your stories to Design Float and "Float" them
<script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Your URL Here';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.designfloat.com/evb/button.php"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Your URL Here';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.designfloat.com/evb2/button.php"></script>Read here for more.
-
StumbleUpon Buttons & Tools
Add a Stumble It! button to your site to make it easy for your visitors to submit your content to StumbleUpon.
-
Dynamic Highlight Menu
This allows you to theme/style and control the currently selected menu tab in CSS by adding a
class="current"on it.<ul id="nav"> <li<?php if ( is_home() || is_category() || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single() || is_date() ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Gallery</a></li> <li<?php if ( is_page('about') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">About</a></li> <li<?php if ( is_page('submit') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Submit</a></li> </ul>Line 2:
If Home, or Category, or Archive, or Search or Single page is selected,
class="current"will be included in<li>Line 3,4:
If Page with page slug about or submit is highlighted,
class="current"is added.If you are looking at putting categories as menu tabs, here’s how to make the menu dynamic:
<ul id="nav"> <li<?php if ( is_category('css') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">CSS</a></li> <li<?php if ( is_category(showcase) ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Showcase</a></li> </ul>Line 2,3
If category with category slug of css or showcase,
class="current"is added. -
DZone Buttons
Let your website’s users vote for our links on DZone without leaving your site.
<script type="text/javascript">var dzone_url = '[url]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_title = '[title]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_blurb = '[description]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '1';</script><script language="javascript" src="http://widgets.dzone.com/widgets/zoneit.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">var dzone_url = '[url]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_title = '[title]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_blurb = '[description]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '2';</script><script language="javascript" src="http://widgets.dzone.com/widgets/zoneit.js"></script> -
Reddit Buttons
Similar to the rest, place a reddit button on your site to promote blog post.
<script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1"></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=2"></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=3"></script>
-
Archive that works
Noura of Noupe.com shows various ways you can style your Wordpress Archive page. Techniques and guides includes:
- Listing all Posts
- Display monthly or Yearly Archive
- Archives Ordered By Category
-
Add Breadcrumbs to Your WordPress Blog
Breadcrumb trails are a good supplementary navigation system that aid in site usability. This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.
-
Landing Sites / Pages
When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific – often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog?
-
WordPress Exploit Scanner
This WordPress plugin searches the files on your site for a few known strings sometimes used by hackers, and lists them with code fragments taken from the files. It also makes a few checks of the database, looking at the active_plugins blog option, the comments table, and the posts table.
-
Buy Me a Beer
Allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. Not something new, but worth knowing.
-
Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text
How to display feedburner subscriber count in text instead of using chiklets.
-
Notifixious – Notify Users via IM
This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts.
-
Installing Xampp and WordPress
Guide to setup Xampp and run Wordpress locally on your machine. You can also install plugins, upgrade to the latest nightly and virtually anything else confident in the knowledge that if it goes wrong, there is no impact on your actual site.
-
Create an Ajax-based Auto-completing Search Field
Why not helping your visitors to find what they’re looking for on your blog, by using a cool auto-completion on your search field?
More Resources
- WordPress Theme Hacks | Web Designer Wall
- 4 Simple Ways To Speed Up WordPress | WPCandy
- Reset your lost WordPress administrator password | village-idiot
- Optimize Your WordPress Title | hackwordpress.com
- Huge Compilation of WordPress Code | hackwordpress.com
- Backing Up WordPress | Lorelle
- Buttons, Bows and Badges for Your Blog | Lorelle
- Optimizing Wordpress and LAMP to survive the Digg effect | vallery.net
- 5 Golden Tips For WordPress Performance Optimization | taragana
Related Contents |
Sponsors |
|
|
|
|
Posted by hongkiat in Wordpress, Wordpress Tips Tricks , at 10.04.08 |
|
Comments
Wendy October 4th, 2008
Wow, this is cool, I can apply to one of my wordpress blog at school.
Replymmuurrllyy October 4th, 2008
wow..great compilation HongKiat
ReplyFachia October 4th, 2008
I think it is a great compilation of very useful Wordpress tips tricks and hacks. Absolutely I’ll bookmark it in my browser.. thanks Hongkiat.. you are rawk…
ReplyDavid Coveney October 4th, 2008
I suspect the most useful there, for a pro, is actually the lost password reset tool you mention at the bottom. We get quite a few new clients come to us because they’re locked out of a professionally developed blog. So long as you can get server access, this tool really helps you out.
Paginated comments are also damn useful for busy, frequently commented on blogs.
ReplyWakkos October 4th, 2008
Compilation that helps, I found must of them useafull – didn’t know about the “Buy me a beer” thing, I liked it a lot xD -
ReplyRamy October 4th, 2008
Nice list. I like the “buy me a beer/coffee”-button, even though it’s just a simple donation.
ReplyMayur October 4th, 2008
what a nice post with amazing and new things :D
ReplyThanks
Noura Yehia October 4th, 2008
Thank you for this wonderful post, there are couple of tricks i didn’t know about.
ReplyThanks for featuring my post among those great ones.
Avinash October 4th, 2008
Thanks for including my post in the compilation,your compilations are really helpful.
ReplyAmrit Hallan - Content Writer October 5th, 2008
One of the best lists of WP-hacks I’ve ever come across. This is the sort of stuff one can really use. Thanks!
ReplyRahul October 5th, 2008
Thanks for this gr8 list. Wordpress rocks.
ReplySascha Vogt October 5th, 2008
Thank you for the comprehensive list. Allthough I prefer the Social Dropdown plugin for all that social-bookmarking stuff.
ReplySangesh October 5th, 2008
Nice compilation of wp pluggin list. Well I like the “Buy me a beer/coffee” button. May be I could also use in sometime. :)
ReplydevSoft.Mobi October 5th, 2008
Cool Wordpress Tips, Tricks and Hacks, some of them i didnt use yet, and will use to see the result, thank for share~
ReplyLivecrunch October 5th, 2008
Amazing compilation of great things to do for wordpress. I just linked from my twitter @Livecrunch
Thanks for sharing.
ReplyTotok Purwanta October 5th, 2008
Woow, Nice article, thank’s for knowledge sharing.
Replyhttp;://170869.com
shyboy October 5th, 2008
very cool article, i try your hacks now!
ReplyEndodontist October 5th, 2008
Thank you for the nice tips list.
ReplyCalev October 5th, 2008
Hey
I am currently building an organizational blog (www.reut-blog.org) and found this really helpful – thank you
ReplySEO/SEM blog October 5th, 2008
Thanks for the great article. I found some really interesting plugins here i didnt know before and i will give them a try. Thx
ReplyJiff Flipper October 5th, 2008
I dunno guys, it all makes sense to me.
Jiff
Replyhttp://www.privacy-center.ru.tc
Blograzy October 5th, 2008
Thanks, i have been searching these for my blog. Most of your tips u had helped me. :) http://www.blograzy.com
ReplyTop Flash Websites October 6th, 2008
Nice! I plan to add the Buy Me A “?” Donation plugin to my blog. Great list!
ReplySalmen October 6th, 2008
Great job
Replymkjones October 6th, 2008
These are really nice. Cheers :) The pop urls rip off will come in handy.
Replybharadwaj October 6th, 2008
Nice of you to include such a vast list. Thanks, you helped me make my blog better.
Can somebody help me integrate a digg button? Does not seem to work with latest wordpress!!
ReplyAri Rochmann October 6th, 2008
This is awesome! I’m going to have to try this out on my blog, I didn’t even realize that you could do this much stuff to customize everything.
The accordion sidebar would look great!
Great resource, really :)
ReplySaad October 6th, 2008
Awesome list :) Thanks for sharing.
Replymaverick October 6th, 2008
wonderful and useful list :) thanks!
ReplyHarley Alexander October 6th, 2008
Sweet list! It’s great to see my work in the list… Especially at #1!
Replymichi October 6th, 2008
Great list! I’ll try some of the tips here.
ReplyKelly October 7th, 2008
Anyone here know how this site: http://timothysykes.com/ made those slides on the main homepage (top center) – is that a wordpress plugin? Anyone?
ReplyKeith October 7th, 2008
Great 30 Wordpress tricks! Some of them might be not-so-useful, but I suppose they can be still be utilised these days. More of tweaks rather than hacks :)
Replymobiles October 7th, 2008
I personally like the AJAX based auto-complete search field one…I love this functionality since the time Google added it to Google Suggest.
I appreciate your efforts in compiling this list.
Replyweb October 7th, 2008
A worth read for anybody who’s using Wordpress. Definitely.
ReplyJay October 7th, 2008
Thanks, these are some really great tips and tricks that I will be sure to use on my blog.
ReplyRishi October 9th, 2008
Ah just finished my first wordpress site, wished i stumbled across this sooner! great tips, will have to back and make good use of these.
Thanks
Replymiccy October 9th, 2008
Thanks mate, this wordpress tweaks are really useful for my blog http://www.japanesegravureidol.net hope u can post more :p
ReplyJarodYv October 10th, 2008
It’s greatly useful! Thank you!
ReplyOffice Rental Space October 14th, 2008
The Random Redirector and The Highlighter syntax are the 2 tools I use in my own blogs. Those coupled with some of the other tools you discussed really aid not only in pushing blogs, but in easing the use of wordpress in general. Thank you for posting this: It’s a wealth of useful information for all of us. Take care.
Replyathkaserve October 15th, 2008
nice
ReplyDaniel Dumas :: Mr Night Man October 19th, 2008
amazing tools man thanks alot for this! :)
ReplyEvan October 22nd, 2008
It is really helpful…. thanks
ReplyWordpress Tips November 3rd, 2008
it is helped me
ReplyDemoGeek November 19th, 2008
Nice list of tips for Wordpress…I was looking for the tabbed sidebar thing and I’m going try with your tip.
ReplyBayuy November 19th, 2008
great tips hongkiat, im now using the wordpress templates, and i like to test those sidebar also..thanks!
ReplyKINGS YOUNG November 22nd, 2008
i tryed to do the Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text
How to display feedburner subscriber count in text instead of using chiklets.
but no go for it wont work ?
ReplyAddy November 30th, 2008
hoho It is really helpful..thanks :)
ReplyAddy December 1st, 2008
Buy me a coffee not beer
Replyhahaaa..
Andrey December 13th, 2008
Thanx
ReplyAndrew Jones December 17th, 2008
The Google Syntax Highlighter is actually nothing to do with Google, just hosted on Googe Code (like many other open source projects).
Apart from that, useful post :)
Reply生活健康网 December 17th, 2008
^_^欢迎访问我的小站。生活健康网的小站
ReplyOffshore Website Development January 24th, 2009
Thanx for sharing these amazing tips and tricks :).
ReplyJamiel Sharief January 28th, 2009
Excellent, I have digged it! Also is the Spread (promote) this post a plugin available to all, or is that something you put together your website ? Its really nice.
Replyapple510 February 6th, 2009
Rs2server.com is a professional company.Selling runescape gold(also called rs gold,rs money,rs gp),runescape item,runescape powerleveling,and doing the rs member quest or free quest,Buying or Selling runescape account
ReplyEleonora February 8th, 2009
Your blog is super. So are your photographies. They make me hungry. I have spent a nice moment when seeing them. Thanks a lot.
ReplyYuli Andriansyah February 14th, 2009
Thanks for tips. Helpfull……..
ReplyJohar February 18th, 2009
Perfect tips and artikel thanks
Replyjaehdoe March 2nd, 2009
Thanks for tips!
ReplyBen March 9th, 2009
Great List
ReplyThanks
ozzie March 11th, 2009
Thanks for the post. I just purchased a couple domain names and looking for a host for my 1st blog. There is a ton of information out there. I’m definitely going with WP, anybody have suggestions on a good website to refer to as a beginner? Thanks in advance!
Replyedi April 11th, 2009
Useful tips. Thx
ReplyAndrej April 13th, 2009
Very amazing tips , thx :D . Love it
ReplyParis Koutroumanos April 20th, 2009
Thanks. Very nice Tips
ReplyHarsh Agrawal April 23rd, 2009
Thanks for great tips man
ReplyDev April 29th, 2009
Very good tips and certainly will be using these tips on the next blog I setup. If mod allows, I would like to recommend usage of excerpts. It is by far the best method I have discovered/tweaked to avoid duplication of content. Use excerpts for all but for Single Post pages using this simple code ..
<div class=”entrybody”>
<?php if (is_singular()) : ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); _e(‘<p><a href=”‘.get_permalink().’”>
Continue reading about ‘); the_title(); _e(‘</a></p>’); ?>
<?php the_tags( ‘<p>Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘</p>’); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
This ensures that no matter what page you see, you will see only the excerpts. You will see the complete post only on Single Post pages.
Dev.
ReplyNenaBuena May 6th, 2009
great article! I will use advices in my blog, thank you!
ReplyFranz König May 7th, 2009
nice articel – i should try the tabs…
ReplyAboutTricks.com May 21st, 2009
wow .. it’s really nice thanks for the great tips
ReplyV.C May 26th, 2009
Thank for this tips. It’s very informative.
ReplyI was wondering if you can show us all plugins that you use :)
Jad May 28th, 2009
really great collection :D
ReplyV.C June 5th, 2009
I tried to add tab on sidebar but it was no point.
Replyhaily July 12th, 2009
nice post ! thanks !
ReplyRaluca Sofian July 23rd, 2009
In mare parte sunt de acord dar totusi nu cred ca asta e adevarata problema.
ReplyDinesh July 25th, 2009
Thanks for such tips, apple theme is working, check out my blog
ReplyMTG August 3rd, 2009
You saved my day! I was searching for some tricks to optimize my site. First thing that I wanted to do was reduce the use of plugins. Thanks for the tips, tricks and hacks, I will implement some of them in my site.
Replyfan August 5th, 2009
good tips….thx for info..
ReplyAcha August 9th, 2009
wow.. bagus sekali… terima kasih ya…
Reply_salam anget_
Annhagen August 11th, 2009
Great !!! Thanks
ReplyLuigi Velasco August 20th, 2009
hmm nice., can you tell me to arrange a category like when i click your WORDPRESS then it displays w column category with image can you tell me how to do that?
ReplyJackson Guitars August 22nd, 2009
Sweet, I’m going to implement the Image Caption on my site jackson guitars
ReplyAndrej August 22nd, 2009
Wow! Nice Tips, very useful, thanks a lot ;)
Replyfuture gadgets August 26th, 2009
Whoa, so many tips/tricks, hard to remember to do them all!
Reply-Jack
fushar August 27th, 2009
good job! you collected and compiled them all! very useful info… thx
ReplyWeb Tasarim - Grafik Tasarim September 1st, 2009
this, very thank..
ReplyYour site full professional…
Honey Singh September 9th, 2009
I was looking for few things listed above in this list.
ReplyThanks for the awesome resources and information’s.
Gsm Tamircisi September 27th, 2009
this is thank you..
very good..
ReplyThemescope September 29th, 2009
Thanks for the post, very useful indeed.
ReplyMark K October 14th, 2009
Bookmarking straight away.I always find useful info on your site
ReplyAlsen de Bak Eğlence Merkezi October 26th, 2009
this very thank you..
your web site very good..
ReplyJaxov October 26th, 2009
This is how you can remove read more link
http://jaxov.com/2009/10/remove-read-more-link-from-wordpress-homepage-easily/
Replyfred October 31st, 2009
you saved me about 15 minutes so far… that is… finding the best tips all in one place!
Replymktanny November 5th, 2009
well that’s a huge list-but for a beginner like its a good place to start
Replythnx
elliot condon November 8th, 2009
nice wordpress stuff. I’m off to use that yahoo tabed sidebar thingy.
Replycheers
Arjuna November 13th, 2009
Valuable post, I will learn it soon. Thanks
Replylearning graphics November 20th, 2009
this is great help us thanks.
ReplyJ. Hendrix November 22nd, 2009
Great collection! I recently started creating my own wp themes and these tips will come in handy.
Replyfree wordpress theme December 6th, 2009
woww,,, great tips, i want try it now
Replyaks December 10th, 2009
nice post and very useful for the beginner.
Replyankara boyacı December 19th, 2009
güzel bilgiler
ReplyWPExplorer December 23rd, 2009
Wow great list. thank you very much.
Replyrakesh January 5th, 2010
nice and workable tricks, thanks for this lovely and tricky post
Replyajay January 5th, 2010
AWESOME TIPS AND TRICKS … THANK U VERY MUCH.
ReplyMobilcin, Mobil Ödeme Sistemi. January 9th, 2010
this is thank you.
your web site very good and your web site professional..
ReplyFauzi January 13th, 2010
Nice article……… lets a work …do the best…..
Replylinks london January 21st, 2010
your web site very good and your web site professional..
Replydhany January 27th, 2010
thank..your url top blog
ReplyNitesh Patel @techmadly January 31st, 2010
very true man!! even i am using one of these but was not aware of all of these..
Replythanks mate for sharing such a useful compilation.
Camilla February 2nd, 2010
Nice list.
Thanks for sharing.
ReplySaqib February 10th, 2010
Wow..these tips are really awesome. Now lets start working for applying this hacks.
Replysesli sohbet seslichat February 10th, 2010
good super admin thanks the end
ReplyProjektowanie February 12th, 2010
owesome! lets get this started…
ReplyFandy Wordpress February 18th, 2010
very good tips… i hope it’ll help me for god result
Replypandora beads February 22nd, 2010
I love this post and I will do follow your update
ReplyBrent March 6th, 2010
Thanks for the list!
ReplyClub Penguin March 7th, 2010
Great advice! I found some neat changes to make to my blog.
ReplyPraveen March 8th, 2010
Wow!!! It was very useful for my new site
Replysatukata March 17th, 2010
wow, good job
i like your post
ReplySubaru March 18th, 2010
Thanks for the article it really helped me out!
Replywaiting for more!
xiaowen March 19th, 2010
good!!
Replyhey March 20th, 2010
nice
Replyhey March 20th, 2010
thanks
Replyblu March 20th, 2010
bless
ReplyTrackbacks