21 WordPress tips, tutorials, techniques & resources
WordPress Optimization - 5 Ways to Clean up and Speed Up Your Blog
"There’s a lot we can do as individual bloggers to optimize the performance of our sites. Reevaluating the need for a particular plugin, inspecting server load times, and tossing out scattered database remnants helps to keep things humming along."
Top 10 Security and Protection Plugins for Wordpress
"With every site you build there are going to be security risks and issues, there is no way around this, it is going to happen. All we can do is minimize the damage, be ready for it and take action. Wordpress is now the most popular Blogging Engine, this will not mean an increase attacks, but it will have the highest potential of attacks."
5 Must Have SEO Plugins for WordPress
"When I first started building sites in WordPress a year ago I was disappointed in the quality of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugins available. During that time I put several plugins to the test, and here are the five I use exclusively to optimize my WordPress sites."
20 More Free First-Class Wordpress Themes
"In this article we present 20 fresh free high-quality WordPress themes. Unfortunately, over the last months they haven’t gained the popularity they deserve which is why they are now featured on Smashing Magazine. All themes can be downloaded, customized and used for free — in personal or/and commercial projects."
31 Professional WordPress Themes
"If you’re serious about blogging, and are trying to run a quality blog on a specific topic, you need a good design. Ideally, you want to have a unique design, built by a designer, though you can get away with a pre-made theme if you’re on a budget, or if you want to wait until the blog can pay for the design."
45+ Must See WordPress Themes
"We’ve selected minimalistic solutions, Elegant Themes, Artistic Themes, Photo Blog Themes, 2 and 3Column themes, Unique Theme Ideas, Mobile Theme and much more - all of them make use quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface."
Mastering Your WordPress - Theme Hacks and Techniques
"Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites."
10 Fresh, Elegant and Clean Wordpress Themes
"Let’s take a look at 5 fresh and elegant and 5 simple Wordpress themes you might be willing to use for your next project."
21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Wordpress Themes
"Let’s take a look at 23 fresh, usable, simple and and elegant WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months. Among other things, we’ve also selected some of the new minimalistic solutions - all of them make use of clear and precise typography. They’re definitely worth a look."
83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
"However, most Wordpress themes are either used too often or just have nothing to offer - particularly, if you are looking for a free, impressive and professional design. However, sometimes search is worth it. In the gallery below you’ll find 83 free Wordpress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet."
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
"In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects."
63 Essential Wordpress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats
"This is a fairly comprehensive list of the Best Wordpress Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheat Sheets (call it what you like).They are written to make life easier, to help us expand Wordpresses functionality, to give us a better understanding of Wordpress and how powerful a tool it is."
Useful WordPress Plugins
"Not all plugins are useful, in fact some are very bad written that will mess up your site or harm your WordPress installation. So how do you know which plugins are right for you? Well, here is a list of plugins that I have used or played around before."
How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site
"Now that we’re done with a large portion of the technical basics of Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS, let’s continue on with the next step: Using WP for a portfolio site."
48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress
"WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It's capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). WordPress' robustness never ceases to amaze me."
Top 30 Wordpress Plugins that are actually useful!
"The amount of Wordpress Plugins available for download are endless. This list contains plugins that I have tried and tested, and for the most part have used in a live site."
The Best Wordpress Admin Themes You Could Possibly Find
"Wordpress Administration can be a bland and boring thing. Time for a change, freshen things up. The availability of WP Admin themes is not great, so I have compiled a list of the best admin themes available."
WordPress Theme Hacks
"In this article, I’m going to share some of my WordPress tricks with you on how to make a better WordPress theme. I’m not a programmer nor developer, so I will focus more on the frontend development."
Developing a Wordpress Theme
"Instead of coming up with some more themes, we decided to write a tutorial on how to develop a wordpress theme which we are sure will help a lot of you to design as you wish and bring them out into WordPress."
Navigating WordPress source code
"If you really want to know how WordPress works, if you want to know what you can do with it and what you can’t, you have to look inside WordPress. Spend some time with its source code."
Wordpress Plugins & Tutorials: Your Pick
"In this post we'd like to give you an opportunity to share your knowledge and help us to create the essential list of Wordpress life-savers - plug-ins, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready to hand developing web-sites upon Wordpress."