
As an experienced WordPress user, we keep ourselves updated with the development of the core, plugin releases and useful WordPress tips and tricks shared by developers and enthusiasts. In today’s post, we’d like to share with you updated WordPress tips and tricks and plugins that are interesting and useful. Without further ado, here’s another 30+ More Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks.
Full list after jump.
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Antivirus for Wordpress
AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks.
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Digg/bury blog comments like Digg.com
This plugin will allow users to digg / bury every thread of your comments, thus find out the most valuable comments as well as the human-spammers.
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Spell, Style and Grammar check with After the Deadline
Smart plugin that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.
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Detect Adblocker and display alternative
Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin detects if a regular visitor to your blog (10 visits by default) has AdBlock software enabled. If so, it will display a floating notification message on the 11th visit to your visitor.
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Insert anything into Wordpress Blog Post – WP-Insert
An allrounder wordpress plugin which takes care of it all be it your ads, your feeds, your tracking codes even the way you edit your posts!
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Improved web typography in WordPress – WP-typography
A one stop shop for improved web typography in WordPress. Ability includes:
- Hyphenation
- Spacing control, including: gluing values to units, widow protection, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses.
- Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks ( "foo" ), dashes ( foo - bar ), ellipses ( … ), trademarks ( ™ ), math symbols ( 1024×768 ), fractions ( 12/23 ), and ordinal suffixes ( 3rd )
- CSS hooks for styling: ampersands (class "amp"), acronyms (class "caps"), numbers (class "numbers"), initial single quotes (class "quo"), and initial double quotes & guillemets (class "dquo").
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Improve page load time – WP Minify
Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.
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Disable Comments in Old Posts via PHP
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.
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Custom ‘Read More’ and Thumbnailed Recent Posts
Display a customized Read More message and display related post in Thumbnails by manipulating Wordpress custom fields.
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Add shadows to a range of objects
Wordpress Shadows plugin is a plugin to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes.
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Implement E-Commerce Shopping Cart – WP e-Commerce
State-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. Similar plugin: MiniCart
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Alternative way to display dates – WP-RelativeDate
Change date displays to ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago‘, ‘2 Weeks Ago‘, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago‘, ‘2 Minutes Ago‘, ‘2 Hours Ago‘.
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Vote Post Up/Down
This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. This function is similar to Reddit or Digg, in that visitors can vote for and against.
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Wordpress Thread Comment
An enhancement for Wordpress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.
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Add private notes to Wordpress blog post
How to leave admin-visible notes on a public visible blog posts.
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Customized Greeting Messages – WP Greet Box
This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Similar plugin: Referrer Detector
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Allow users to upload and share photos at ease – PhotoSmash Galleries
PhotoSmash Galleries makes it easy to create photo galleries in posts or pages that your users can upload images to. Click here for a demo.
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Thank your commentators with Thank Me Later
Automatically sends out thank you emails to readers after they post a comment. By default, it will send emails out after 1 day to remind readers of their comments and to get them engaged with future discussion and your blog. Comment Relish is another similar plugin worth a mention.
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Paginated Comments
Plugin that gives you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages. Particulary useful if you have a lot of comments on blog posts.
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Check for Broken Links
This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. It also works for images.
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Manage who sees the ads
Advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, depending on user defined conditions. Click here to see a demo.
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Wordpress Download Counter
Shows the current download count and even refreshes the count every 15 seconds automatically.
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Add Post Thumbnails with ease – Simple Post Thumbnails
With the Simple Post Thumbnails plugin, adding thumbnail images to your posts is as easy as uploading any image (no editing required) and clicking the “Update Post” button. Upon upload, the plugin will re-size and crop the selected image according to whatever parameters you specify within the plugin configuration.
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Display Thumbnails for Related Post
How to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and Wordpress custom fields.
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Link Codes to 33 Social Bookmarking Sites
If you prefer to manage and control your own blog posts’ permalinks to their respective social bookmarking sites instead of using plugins, these Wordpress link codes will come in handy.
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Display Random Posts from Category
List random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title.
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Mass manage Wordpress custom fields
Useful plugin to help people who use WordPress to manage their post’s custom fields with ease.
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Create beautiful blogroll down-drop (without Javascripts)
Title says it all. Click here for a demo.
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Automatically insert content after each post
If you have something you’d like to insert in every blog post, this trick will save you from manually inserting them to each post one by one.
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Better commenting functions and management with Intense Debate
A great commenting module that makes the default Wordpress module looks really dumb. Read more about what Intense Debate can do.
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Better Wordpress Search Page
By using a template file you can completely control the look and feel of the search results page.
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Filter content by country
This plugins allows you to control the visibility of Wordpress elements depending on the users country of origin. You can hide or show certain elements of a page or some sections of a post from users browsing from a particular country.
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Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress
Turn your Wordpress blog into Twitter alike site.
More Useful Tricks & Hacks
Here are more useful Wordpress tricks and hacks related articles we’ve previously published. If you come across any good one that we’ve missed, please let us know :-)
- Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks & Hacks – Part I
- Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks & Hacks – Part II
- How To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs
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Comments
Jay Philips August 12th, 2009
Great list. Thank you for putting this collection together.
Replydavid August 12th, 2009
Thanks, it was awesome!
ReplyDesktop-walls August 12th, 2009
Hey Those are Some new Ones,
ReplyI am going to Try all comment related tricks and plugins
Trendy Wordpress Themes August 12th, 2009
Thanks, good tricks here
Replyteys August 12th, 2009
great post! will give these a try… thanks!
ReplyStefan (Webdesigner) August 12th, 2009
Very nice collection, but most aren’t that hold. What you might add is a Cheat Sheet for Wordpress. That’s not THAT new, but it’s basics for all that Tricks. ;-)
Replytownguyz August 12th, 2009
awesome tips, im new for wordpress. Trick looks tricky..
ReplyZach Dunn August 13th, 2009
This is a great starting point for taking themes up a level. Thanks for including one of Build Internet’s tutorials!
ReplyAkshay August 13th, 2009
Very well combined, you can find some hacks over here http://softloads.in/wordpress/wordpress-tricks-and-hacks/
ReplyMia August 13th, 2009
The “Filter content by Country” plugin section of this article has the wrong link :(
ReplyMezanul August 13th, 2009
Great list of hacks and plugins! But as Stefan suggests a Cheat sheet for Wordpress is much appreciated. Thanks.
ReplyWeb Hosting Reviews August 13th, 2009
Wow!This is a new kind of idea that was shared in this article.
This is really an informative article which gives much more knowledge and tricks on hacks.
This is really interesting!
Replyiphoneholic August 13th, 2009
great post and collections hk
ReplyFriedbeef August 13th, 2009
SUper!!! I’m gonna do the related thumbnails one…
Replyhongkiat August 13th, 2009
@Mia We are so sorry, it’s now fixed :-)
ReplyJoanne August 13th, 2009
Hi,
Thanks for putting together useful Wordpress plugins that I never know about. I will explore them one by one.
ReplyCreativePics August 13th, 2009
Some of them I already read them somewhere and some of them are cool since I never know such tricks/hacks exist.
Great work.
ReplyJohn Hoff - WpBlogHost August 13th, 2009
Excellent list. I love these kinds of posts. I also like the Bluetrait Event Viewer plugin so you can see what all your WordPress install is doing, who logs in and out, etc.
ReplyLuis Lopez August 13th, 2009
What an excellent post I’ll try some fo these because they look really helpful for getting more visitor time visit.
Replythanks Hongkiat
Wallpapers August 13th, 2009
Thanks for sharing new stuff , all these are really cool and useful
ReplyTraffic Schools August 13th, 2009
Great list you have put together! My all time favorite should be Detect Adblocker and display alternative – It becomes very handy if you have sources of revenue other than ads.
ReplyVim August 13th, 2009
Thanks for the post, great post i must add, i using wordpress and was finding ways of how to implement thumbnails into the recent posts, thanks again because you have a tool in this post which i can use!
Replydaren August 13th, 2009
Tks again HongKiat for the great plug-ins suggested. Awesome list!
I am looking for a plug-in that can help convert my site for mobile users…. do u know of any good plug-ins for suggestion?
Tks again!
ReplyEnemy of Average August 13th, 2009
Brilliant list!! Thanks!
ReplySilver Firefly August 13th, 2009
Thanks for the list! Bookmarked and tweeted!
ReplyPjan August 13th, 2009
great is the only word i can say. This will be really usefull tips for me as a newbie.
ReplyPeter August 14th, 2009
Spelling of “grammer” must be changed to “grammar”
ReplyMarcell August 14th, 2009
Very good post! These are some good hack!
ReplyAjay August 14th, 2009
Thanks for recommending Better Search :)
ReplyRahul August 14th, 2009
Word Press rocks. Awesome compilation of tools for WordPress.
Replyabdullah August 14th, 2009
great collection , thanks :) ..
ReplyFreelance Jobs August 14th, 2009
Wow… Nice WordPress collections…
Replylightdes August 14th, 2009
Cool, I like the antivirus and thumbnail related post the most, but your list is more to plugin than hack…
ReplyV.C August 14th, 2009
I used to use wp-minify but it compressed my file and made my site look very simple.
ReplyI have a question: How can I prevent ddos? I’m really care about that.
Rakesh Juyal August 14th, 2009
very nice collection, please write a post for Blogspot tricks as well.
Thanks
ReplyRichard Castera August 15th, 2009
Great list! Thanks!
ReplyCindy Bruce August 15th, 2009
Great list and very helpful to us newbies – thank you.
ReplyJosh Stauffer August 16th, 2009
Great list! I enjoyed reading “Automatically insert content after each post.”
ReplyFeby August 17th, 2009
thanks a lot, that’s a good information.
ReplyLeather Furniture Indonesia August 17th, 2009
Great tools compilation.
ReplyAltis Lo (Beaulife) August 19th, 2009
This compilation is really an eye-opener to me as a supporter of WordPress. Thank you for the cool recommendations.
Replyjason August 21st, 2009
This is the best site ever…
ReplyMJ Stapleford Corporate Identity August 21st, 2009
The broken link checker is a nice idea. Will look more into this one. Thank you for the helpful list.
ReplyDavid Leonhardt SEO consultant August 22nd, 2009
Thanks for the list and the explanations. There are a couple I’ll have to check out for my blogs.
ReplyRei August 22nd, 2009
Awesome
ReplyStefan August 22nd, 2009
Really great and comprehensive roundup. I’m going to save some of the, so thank you.
ReplyJackson Guitars August 22nd, 2009
Why would you want to disable comments on older posts? (re: Disable Comments in Old Posts via PHP)
I figure new comments on older posts would keep that old post alive…thoughts?
Replyzoe4everf August 23rd, 2009
thanks
ReplySuperMario290 August 26th, 2009
Another reason why I love this site! Keep up the amazing lists, and thanks a million you guys! :D
Replythaidigg August 27th, 2009
i find Awesome Thumbnailed Recent Posts plug in so long time
ReplyThanks lot!
Suneel August 28th, 2009
No word to thank you for writing this awesome post. I am working on customizing a theme and I am going to use some of these plugins for sure.
Some were unknown to me even after this long time. Thanks again.
ReplyMaiTiano August 29th, 2009
Your post content are always awesome. Thanks guys.
Replyjtop September 5th, 2009
Nice :P
ReplyGary September 26th, 2009
great list, have downloaded most of the plugins
ReplyMuhammad Faisal Jawaid Attari October 6th, 2009
u guys are really very helpful for new comers in IT field. i like ur all post specially beautiful and enticing blog post..
keep it up :)
ReplyThailandblog October 10th, 2009
I like the anti adblock plugin
Replygatelband October 15th, 2009
Thank’s
Replylearning graphics November 20th, 2009
very nice sharing us thanks
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