WordPress Tutorials

WordPress: How to insert data programmatically




Improving the Performance of your WordPress Site: Part 1




An Introduction to Split Testing in WordPress




Using Menus in WordPress 3.0




Randomized Grid of Posts




How to Edit the WordPress RSS Feed




The Ultimate Guide to WordPress 3.0 Comment Form Customization

WordPress Tips

How to Add Twitter’s Official Tweet Button in WordPress




Pimp your wp-config.php




Add a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress blog




Control WordPress Content via Userrights or Time




Post types and taxonomies: Linking terms to a specific post




Linking post published dates to their archives

About WordPress Themes

Building a Stylish Blog Design Layout in WordPress




16 Vital Checks Before Releasing a WordPress Theme




35 Beautiful and Free WordPress 3.0 Ready Themes




How to Build a Custom WP e-Commerce Theme (Part 1)




Create a Custom WordPress Design Using the Starkers Theme




Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography




8 useful recipes to improve your WordPress theme




Understand WordPress Child Theme




100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition




Frameworks? Parent, child, and grandchild themes?

About WordPress Plugins

6 Important Syntax Highlighter WordPress Plugins




How WordPress Plugins Affect Your Site’s Load Time




Post-Install Plugins to Enhance & Protect WordPress




Use Custom Post Types UI plugin to Manage Your WordPress Custom Post Type

Opinion about WordPress

Building The Community: WordPress 3.org




Reasons Why Big Corporates Should Go For WordPress

WordPress Resources

WordPress Ecommerce: 30+ Resources

I hope you enjoyed this post! Please share your other favorite wordpress tutorials and resources with us by leaving a comment below .

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In this post we will feature 11 sites that provide inspiration for magazine-style layouts, then tutorials for designing a Magazine Theme, and the end of the post includes free and premium magazine style themes for wordpress.

Showcase of Magazine-Style in WordPress

Here is a look at 11 well-designed wordpress site with a magazine-style.

offBeat

Unblogged

Sketchy Premise

Loodo

WSJ

National Geographic

MACLEANS.CA

Outreach

Monday By Noon

UGSMAG

TRUE/SLANT

Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme

Here several tutorials to learn about creating your own magazine theme.

Build a Newspaper Theme with WP_Query and the 960 CSS Framework

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to make a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category

How to Design a Layout in Magazine? tutorial and psd

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a magazine-style web layout

Build a Basic Newspaper Style Layout with WordPress and jQuery

This tutorial uses jQuery to create size-degrading headers that will keep your grid looking professional.

WordPress: “Magazine Style” Horizontal Dropdown Menu.

The tutorial for creating an effective navigation menu for your own magazine theme. You can learn how to create an advanced dropdown menu quickly.

Free and Premium Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress

Below several magazine style wordpress themes, either free and premium.

Free Simple Magazine Red

Free A Simple Magazine

EXPO – Showcase and Resource Site Theme ($32)

Noctis Theme ($27)

Zenith ($32)

Flowhub ($32)

Newscast 4 in 1 – WordPress Magazine and Blog ($37)

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2. Showcase: Typography in WordPress Blog Design & Resources
3. 35+ Fresh WordPress Tutorials and Resources of June 2010

Get to know Deposit Photos

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About the prize

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Remember, if you don’t win, registration at DepositPhotos.com is simple, and they even offer a free trial!

How to win the giveaway

It is fast and very simple to win this awesome giveaway.

1. Re-tweet this post by clicking on Tweetmeme button you see above, or you can just paste this status : “RT @dynamicwp Win Two Stock Photo Account worth $40 Each From Deposit Photos – http://su.pr/1e5AnN”
2. Leave a comment on this post (below) with telling us why you want to win this prize and your twitter account. Make sure to enter a valid email address in the Email address web form field so that we may contact you if you’ve won. Please only comment once.

This giveaway ends on August 22, 2010, after which the comments will be closed and you will no longer be able to participate. We will use random number generator to choose winner, and the winner will be contacted via email by DepositPhotos.com.

I wish you guys good luck and be sure to participate

[Update : we have two winners, Congratulations to Tzankov and Paul Hastings ]

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Free WordPress Themes and Plugins

1. WordPress Theme Frameworks: Options You Should Consider
WordPress theme frameworks–which are themes that you can use as a foundation for the creation of your own themes–can drastically boost your performance and efficiency.

2. 10 Free Clean and Minimal WordPress Themes
If you’ve been on the lookout for some nice minimal WordPress themes, then you’re in luck. Here are 10 free ones that you should find useful.

3. A Collection Of Photoblog And Gallery WordPress Themes
Here we bring you a collection of Photoblog and Gallery WordPress Themes that may suit for every photographer,designer and those people who love posting images. Feel free to check this list and choose your best pick.

4. Top 10 Free WordPress 3.0 Ready Themes
The WP community has been working hard to update all of there themes and plugins to make them WP3.0 ready and to make best use of all of the exciting and new features.
After some extensive research from todays author (Sven Salmonsson ) we have a list of his top ten favorite free WordPress 3.0 fully compatible themes.

5. 45 Free WordPress Themes with Appealing Designs
Today, we will be showcasing 45 Free WordPress Themes with Appealing Designs. This collection includes a wide variety of wordpress themes made with good looking designs and almost premium-like that can spice up your wordpress powered websites.

6. Top 10 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress
It has been almost two years since we last published a post on WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugins. What a difference that short period has had on user expectations, design trends and overall acceptance and popularity of social bookmarking. Many of the plugins from the previous post are now pretty much …

Selling WordPress Themes Guidelines

7. A Startup Guide to Selling Premium WordPress Themes
Whatever your reason to begin creating premium themes, this guide can help. In this post we’ll cover design styles that sell well, must-have development features, some tips on selling your first themes, and even a few business models for how to get started.

8. A Guide For Selling WordPress Themes
It’s a lot harder than you think to make a good, respectable theme; only about 10% of premium themes are actually any good.
“Good”, being a theme that’s well built, well supported and follows best practises. I’m of the view that the vast majority of themes don’t do this. Don’t let your new site join the ranks of other mediocre themes, follow my handy guide and you’ll be flying in no time.

9. A Guide to Premium WordPress Themes
Whether you’re a designer looking to put up a blog or portfolio, a developer looking for a quick way to get a client’s WordPress site up, or a WordPress theme developer wanting to know how to make your theme more attractive to theme buyers, this guide should help you see what makes a premium WordPress theme great.

WordPress Tips

10. WordPress Quick Tip: Highlight Author Comments Using CSS3
This is very straightforward to do and in this quick tip we’ll be using a little bit of CSS3 to add some nice styling to all comments made by authors.

11. Quick Tip: How to Recover Lost WordPress (Localhost) Password
If you design and develop WordPress theme, chances are you’ll have a local (localhost) copy in your machine for testing & debugging and preview purposes. Here’s a common mistake some of us may make – we tend to forget our admin password. If you’ve forgotten your password …

12. Show Top Commentators In WordPress Without A Plugin
Here is a simple code snippet for getting the top commentators listing in WordPress so you don’t have to use a plugin for that purpose.

13. How to Use Thumbnails for Previous/Next Navigation in WordPress
Almost every WordPress theme you’ll come across has support for going to the previous or next post. That’s all well and good, but in WordPress 2.9 we got the ability to have post thumbnails.

14. Styling WordPress Posts According To Category
Here is a small tutorial explaining on how you can achieve this rather easily using a small php if statement.

15. How To Protect Your Blog From Hacking Attempts
With wordpress being used as a CMS solution for most of the blogs out there, we present a comprehensive list of tips, tricks and measures that you should take so that you never get hacked.

WordPress Tutorials

16. Tutorial: Create A Sleek Web 2.0 WordPress Layout
Hello my friends. Today we will continue to create another nice web 2.0 wordpress theme. Designing wordpress themes is very easy because they does not require so many details like a game layout, or a restaurant layout for example. In this tutorial we will use the Graphstock framework.

17. Tutorial: Create A Trendy WordPress Layout In Photoshop
For today I will create a trendy and colorful wordpress layout in Photoshop. If you’re thinking to redesign your blog, you can follow this tutorial. I will try to explain step by step how you can create a similar wordpress layout in Photoshop.

18. Getting Started with WordPress Custom Menus
Perhaps one of the biggest holes in WordPress prior to version 3 was the lack of custom menu support. Menus often had to be hand coded into header.php and, whilst they could be ‘smart’, it often let the client needing a PHP savvy developer to make alterations to the setup.

19. The Ultimate Essential Guidelines For WordPress 404 Error Pages
You can imagine how frustrating it can be when you have clicked on a link from an article page or from a search result on Google, you’re in a bit of a hurry and want to see the content, but the page you’re waiting for couldn’t be found! Disaster! How can this be happening? We will discuss this in this article.

20. How To Write a Restricted Content Plugin
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you some of the basics of writing a WordPress plugin from scratch that will allow you to restrict content on your site to registered users. You will be able to restrict complete pages / posts by clicking a check box or just sections of content using WordPress shortcodes.

WordPress Trick, Customization and Optimization

21. 10 Wonderful Ways to Soup-Up WordPress
WordPress is great straight “out of the box” but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make it even better. There are other, sometimes more surprising ways to get more out of WordPress.

22. 14 Features You Need for Your WordPress Theme
To make sure your blog is performing at its best, make sure you have these fifteen features in your blog.

23. Better WordPress Custom Post Types
These are steps I followed to create my better custom post types:

24. SEO Optimization For WordPress
Today I did something I’ve never done before: I started to “SEO Optimize” my WPShout posts, seeing which posts were doing well in search results and how I can make these posts do better in search results. I also had a fiddle around with my theme to make sure it was all in fine optimised order.
I have no idea if it’s as a result of this, but after doing my optimization, WPShout has suddenly jumped to PR 5 (I believe it was last at PR 3).

25. Creating Custom Fields for Attachments in WordPress
Custom fields in WordPress make it easy to customize your theme in a variety of ways; plus, they are simple to implement for posts and pages. Attachments, on the other hand, take a bit more work to implement, requiring you to read through and decipher core source code in order to make them work. We’ll be walking through the use of a couple undocumented WordPress hooks in this tutorial to make this process much easier.

26. All Killer WordPress Websites are Built Around These Concepts
I’ve been coding with WordPress for a long time now. All the way back to when there was a my-hacks.php file. Shortly thereafter WordPress introduced plugins and widgets. Over all these years I find myself going back to a few key WordPress concepts that make blogs really functional.

27. 20 Steps to a Flexible and Secure WordPress Installation
A comprehensive WordPress installation, albeit simple to produce, often requires multiple steps — many of which can easily be omitted accidentally. How many times have you forgotten to customize your permalink structure? How about adding in a sitemap plugin? What about changing your timezone? If you’ve installed WordPress more than once, chances are you’ve missed something. Take the following steps and you’ll never miss anything again.

Opinion about WordPress

28. 10 Missing Features in WordPress
An opinion by Jacob Gube about some missing features in wordpress after released latest major version : WordPress 3.0 (dubbed “Thelonious”)

WordPress Resources List

29. 30 Grid-Based WordPress Themes
Grid based layout designs can be very useful for building structured, usable and content rich (not limited to) websites. Grid design certainly has some major benefits for developers (its really easy to to plan where things should go), but its real power lies in what it can do for your …

30. Our Favourite WordPress 3.0 Tutorials, Resources & Videos
With WordPress 3.0 being released only a few weeks ago, many great resources have been put together! With all major releases there were some minor teething problems but with this round-up of well written resources you will learn about what 3.0 has to offer, from WPMU integration to custom post thumbnails.

I hope you enjoyed this post! Please share your other favorite wordpress tutorials and resources with us by leaving a comment below .

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In this showcase you’ll find beautiful wordpress blog designs that feature creative illustrations, integrated properly to create a visually pleasing effect. We try to make our collection include many styles and unique ideas to make you stay up-to-date with trends and techniques. Also some resources, to help you create a good illustration.

Tutorials Resources

Let’s take a look some great resources to help you create a good illustration.

vector.tutsplus



Blog.Spoongraphics



Vector Illustration: 60+ Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices



Jurus Grafis (dalam bahasa Indonesia)



psd.tutsplus

The showcase

Below some wordpress blog that using illustration that are guaranteed to inspire you.

Hugs For Monsters



Blog Cafundo Estudio Criativo



Grzegorz Kozak



DKNG Studios



Orange Apple



Cherry Plus



Kid Koala



Raskulls



Small & Hip



Professa grafix



WOW Toys



appboy blog



The Button Post



Rawkes



BlackMoon Design Blog



FreelanceSwitch



CUOMA Blog



The Active Organic



DESIGNBOMBS



David Torondel Blog



Demain J’arrete Blog



Hugs For Monsters Blog



Designzillas Blog



Vunky Blog

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Below are 10 awesome jQuery tutorials will allow you to insert very interesting effects and help you to unite of one of the most popular social media networks : Twitter, in to your website.

Demo

In this tutorial we are going to create a pure jQuery & CSS twitter ticker which utilizes Twitter’s Search API. It will show your or your friends’ latest tweets, and will not require any server side code or databases. As a result, the ticker will be easily included into any web page and easily modified to your likings.

Demo

There are stacks of plugins out there that allow you to display your latest tweets on your website or blog. However sometimes, all you want is to quickly and simply display your latest Twitter updates, without wrestling with preset styling, or lengthly settings.

Demo

Twitters new search feature is great for finding interesting people and topics to follow. So i wrote a script to get search results from twitter and display them on your site. This could be integrated into an existing application or used standalone to follow a particular topic or keyword on twitter,

Demo

Majority of online services allow you to access some of their data through public API methods. Unfortunately most of the data formats served by these APIs can only be accessed using server side code. This is mainly due to JavaScript’s same origin policy, which restrict it from loading data from remote sites.

Demo

Today, I will make an entry to show you how to create a login drop down with Twitter style using jQuery. It’s really easy, it’ll help you save the space of your webpage and make visitors feel comfortable by the awesome toggle login form.

Demo

Time for another relatively simple jQuery tutorial, just like my previous jQuery quickie. At work, I’m currently working with Silverlight and implemented unlimited scroll. This is a great technique that could be used on loads of websites. Instead of the regular pagination, where the user has to click to see the next page, unlimited scroll automatically loads the next page when the user is at the bottom.

Demo

Both Twitter and the Apple App Store use a brilliant technique for loading more information; you click the link and fresh items magically appear on the screen. This tutorial teaches you to use AJAX, CSS, Javascript, JSON, PHP, and HTML to create that magic. This tutorial will also feature both jQuery and MooTools versions of the script.

Details

In this tutorial, we will look at using jQuery to call Twitterís API and then use the results to create a widget for a blog or personal website that shows what hours during the day we tweet at the most.

Details

This tutorial illustrates a very simple way to work with the Twitter API in order to implement a search in the Twitter public timeline and display search results with an animated stream of messages (tweets).

Demo

This tutorial shows a smarter way of dispalying login box in your web application. It is just similar to Twitter login box.

Conclussion

I hope you all love this collection If you have any sugestion or any thinks else, please feel free to say it!
Thanks…

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Below is the most downloaded image gallery plugins that we have choosen directly from the wordpress plugin directory. To make it even easier for you to choose, I also added live demo link under every image plugin! All of the resources in this post are categorized and hopefully you will find a number of new plugin that will be practical for your own work.

Using Lightbox, Thickbox, and Fancybox Effect

NextGEN Gallery


Demo | Download (Version 1.5.5 | Updated 2010-6-14 | Downloads 2,007,702)
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

Lightbox 2


Demo | Download (Version 2.9.2 | Updated 2010-2-10 | Downloads 385,160)
Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Now with better regular expressions, courtesy of Michael Tyson!

Shadowbox JS


Demo | Download (Version 3.0.3.2 | Updated 2010-4-6 | Downloads 175,656)
Shadowbox is an online media vieiwing application similar to Lightbox and Thickbox but with more functionality. Supports all types of media.

Lightbox Plus


Demo | Download (Version 2.0.5 | Updated 2010-7-2 | Downloads 112,323)
Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images, simple slide shows, videos and content all in an overlay.

Lightbox Gallery


Demo | Download (Version 0.6.2 | Updated 2009-12-20 | Downloads 87,964)
This plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.

jQuery Lightbox


Demo | Download (Version 0.10 | Updated 2010-6-29 | Downloads 69,992)
Used to overlay images on the current page.

Shutter Reloaded


Demo | Download (Version 2.4.1 | Updated 2009-12-17 | Downloads 64,557)
Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.

FancyBox for WordPress


Demo | Download (Version 2.7.2 | Updated 2009-12-20 | Downloads 58,120)
Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your blog: Upload, activate, and you’re done. No further configuration needed.

Lightview Plus


Demo | Download (Version 2.5 | Updated 2010-5-13 | Downloads 54,341)
Seamless integration of Lightview (similar to Lightbox, Thickbox, Floatbox, Thickbox, Fancybox) to create a nice overlay to display images and videos.

Using Flip Effect

Page Flip Image Gallery


Demo | Download (Version 0.5.11.1 | Updated 2010-6-25 | Downloads 469,854)
FlippingBook WordPress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your blog.

Simple Image Gallery

Post videos and photo galleries


Demo | Download (Version 1.67 | Updated 2010-6-30 | Downloads 341,511)
Post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds.

Yet Another Photoblog


Demo | Download (Version 1.9.24 | Updated 2009-12-27 | Downloads 109,879)
Convert your WordPress Blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.

WP-SimpleViewer


Demo | Download (Version 1.5.4 | Updated 2010-1-9 | Downloads 91,836)
Add SimpleViewer Flash image galleries to your posts and pages. Easy to use and several options to make it fit your needs.

WP Photo Album


Demo | Download (Version 1.5.1 | Updated 2008-9-25 | Downloads 54,185)
This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your WordPress site.

Lazyest Gallery


Demo | Download (Version 0.16.3 | Updated 2010-6-21 | Downloads 54,160)
Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation, comments on images, and a slide show.

Flickr Gallery

flickrRSS


Demo | Download (Version 5.1 | Updated 2009-4-29 | Downloads 184,471)
Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.

Flickr Photo Album


Demo | Download (Version 1.1 | Updated 2008-10-6 | Downloads 99,638)
This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.

Flickr Gallery


Release Page | Download (Version 1.4.0 | Updated 2010-7-4 | Downloads 62,143)
Quickly and easily add Flickr galleries, photos, and even custom search results into your WordPress pages and posts.

WordPress Flickr Manager


Demo | Download (Version 2.3 | Updated 2009-2-15 | Downloads 58,330)
Handles uploading, modifying images on Flickr, and insertion into posts.

Image Tools

Scissors


Demo | Download (Version 1.3.7 | Updated 2010-2-8 | Downloads 99,029)
Scissors enhances WordPress’ handling of images by introducing cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality.
For WordPress 2.9 – 3.0 please download here : http://dev.huiz.net/2010/01/03/wordpress-plugin-scissors-for-v2-9/

Using Flash

GRAND Flash Album Gallery


Demo | Download (Version 0.49 | Updated 2010-6-28 | Downloads 85,050)
GRAND Flash Album Gallery is a full integrated (flash skin based, slideshow) Image Gallery plugin with a powerfull admin back end.

NextGEN-FlashViewer


Demo | Download (Version 1.3 | Updated 2009-2-1 | Downloads 79,004)
The famous Adobe Flash Plugins from Airtight Interactive for NextGEN Gallery.
Other Demo :

• Simple Viewer
• Postcard Viewer
• Auto Viewer

Slideshow

Featured Content Gallery


Demo | Download (Version 3.2.0 | Updated 2009-3-9 | Downloads 212,344)
Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.

WP PicLens


Demo | Download (Version 1.0.5 | Updated 2008-1-29 | Downloads 72,379)
Creates an immersive, full-screen slideshow presentation of photos and images in your blog.

Dynamic Content Gallery


Demo | Download (Version 3.2.3 | Updated 2010-4-11 | Downloads 54,089)
Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content selected from one category, a mix of categories, or pages.

Conclusion

I hope you all love this collection If you have any sugestion or any thinks else, please feel free to say it!
Thanks…

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In this post we collect a wide selection of fresh wordpress resources from the month of June. All of the resources in this post are categorized and hopefully you will find a number of new resources that will be practical for your own work.

Tutorials

1. How to create a built-in contact form for your WordPress theme.
Many WordPress plugins can add a contact form to your blog, but a plugin is not necessary. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can create a built-in contact form for your WordPress theme.

2. How to create a side blog with WordPress 3.0.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a side blog listing products using the WordPress 3.0 custom post type feature.

3. How To Use, Style And Implement WordPress Shortcodes.
Wordpress shortcode API is a powerful function which was introduced from version 2.5, it’s just a simple set of functions for creating macro codes in post content. If you’ve developed a Vbulletin forum before, you would have been familiar with the shortcode (something called BBCode) but the WordPress users maybe not. In this article, I would like to show you how to create and use shortcodes, in addition, I will show you some creative examples of using shortcode in WordPress blog.

4. Show Number Of Retweets In WordPress Without A Plugin.
Social proof is a powerful thing. Showing how many people are talking about your article on Twitter can encourage more people to talk about it, that’s a fact. Humans are silly and trusting this way.
The way most people go about it is by installing some sort of a widget or plugin. Now you say, “But Matt, why wouldn’t I want to use a plugin!? Plugins are awesome!”

5. Create A Professional Portfolio Using WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types.
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make use of the new custom post functionality to create a portfolio for your WordPress site.

6. Create a Powerful jQuery-Powered Archives Page in WordPress.
Here you’ll learn how to add an archives page to WordPress that not only shows a monthly archive, but also your categories, every post you’ve written, your most popular posts, and even a search box, using jQuery to keep everything organized and easy to navigate.

7. How to Style Individual WordPress Posts in Seconds.
With art directed posts being all the rage now, everybody wants to style everything. There are plugins and custom fields and all sorts of ways to do this, but WordPress already has two not-so-popular functions that allow you to style specific posts or pages.

8. How to Create a Redirect Page Template in WordPress.
In this tutorial we will show you how you can create a redirect page template in WordPress using the custom page template snippet.

9. How To Code The Mockup Search Box Design from PSD to WordPress Theme.
A couple of weeks back we went through the process of creating a search box design concept in Photoshop. The tutorial covered the process of designing our search box in photshop to an inspiratian for creating more color schemes. Now, let’s take the design to apply a complete mockup in wordpress theme.

About WordPress 3.0

10. WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”
Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten.

11. WordPress 3.0 Upgrade: What to Expect
With virtually any WordPress release (or the release of any open-source software, for that matter), there are bound to be bugs. And in virtually every case, easy fixes have already been found. Of course, there are also a number of things you can do prior to upgrading to prevent problems. Read on for some tips, and some of the common bugs you might run into.

12. Highlights of WordPress 3.0!.
Wordpress 3.0 was released to the public June 17th with a mountain of changes to it’s previous version. I have compiled my personal favorites below. For those of you not fully aware of the recent changes to WordPress, check out my favorites below:

13. 8 New Exciting WordPress 3.0 Features.
This WordPress 3.0 release is packed with tons of exciting features, like custom post type, better menu management, editor style and many more. It also comes with a new default theme – TwentyTen, that is compatible with most of the new features. Below I will highlight some of the keys features and how to implement them.

14. The Essential Guide to WordPress 3.0 Custom Taxonomies.
In general, taxonomies are used to arrange, classify and group things. By default, Taxonomies in WordPress are tags and categories that WordPress is using for the posts. Apart from these two, WordPress makes it possible for theme developers to create their own taxonomies which are created within the functions.php theme file. This is what we are going to cover today. We will learn how to work with Custom WordPress taxonomies.

15. WordPress: From Kubrick to Twenty Ten.
Kubrick, the default theme for WordPress since 2005, got many Web and open-source enthusiasts through some pretty tough times. Developers have modified it, bloggers have learned HTML and CSS on it, and designers have made it their go-to template for designing blogs of all sizes for clients.
Enter “Twenty Ten” the new default theme for WordPress 3.0, which is scheduled for an imminent release. Not only does it address general changes in Web standards and style guides, it takes into account the clamoring of designers who love WordPress but have had a hard time applying new principles to an older theme.

16. WordPress 3.0 for Web Designers.
what’s new in the upcoming 3.0 release of WordPress and quizzes a number of web designers on their thoughts on the new features.

17. WordPress 3.0 Released: The Top 7 New Features.
WordPress 3.0 incorporates quite a few new features, including custom post types, a URL shortener, and a new theme. You’ll find plenty of lists like this across the web, not least of which being the official changelog at the WordPress codex. The problem is that most of these lists don’t explain how to use the new features, and many are not self-explanatory or enabled by default. This is my attempt to remedy that. Here’s a list of the top seven most compelling features that could change the way you blog.

18. WordPress 3.0 Features Every Theme Developer Should Know.
This release will mark a new milestone in WordPress history, with several exciting new features including: multiple sites, custom menus, custom post types and a new default theme. This article highlights important enhancements in WordPress 3.0 and provide links to some really useful resources.

Free Themes and Plugins

19. Free WordPress Theme : A Simple Magazine.
A Simple Magazine, is a free WordPress theme with magazine style. The theme packed with 5 color schemes, 2 unique page layout, 2 custom widget, and more customization option in theme option page, make your website more unique.

20. 60+ Excellent Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes.
There are some amazing and stunning Free WordPress Themes out there which are nicely designed. In this collection, you’ll find 60+ Excellent Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes that you can use for your website needs.

21. 100 Wildly Free WordPress Themes.
In this collection, we’ve rounded up 100 of the best free WordPress themes designed to make your content easy to get to and easy to read. We’ve included themes that use a wide variety of color palettes from dark to light and from colorful to muted. Whether you want some texture, bokeh, gradients, 3D elements or hand-stitching, it’s all here. Portfolio layout? Check. Magazine layout? Double-check. Enjoy!

22. 25+ Attractive Examples of Free WordPress Themes.
Another roundup of free wordpress themes with minimal design

23. 20 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Every Website.
I’ve reviewed several plugins before, but since I started using WordPress as the CMS for almost every site I do now, I’ve amassed some great and very essential plugins.

24. 45+ WordPress Plugins To Enhance Your Comments.
There are many WordPress plugins that can help you to boost your comment section and you can find many other articles talk about this topic by Google search, but in this article, I want to introduce to you the best and newest plugin that I always love

25. Top 15+ WordPress Plugins.
There are currently over 9,000 plugins available for WordPress but the question is which ones are the best ones to use. Every one has their own list of what to use and how to use them. Below is a list of plugins that I have found to be the most useful:

26. A Complete To-Do List & Plugins for WordPress Site Maintenance.
When it comes to WordPress site maintenance, it can be as easy as doing your housekeeping tasks through the WordPress Admin, to the extent of technical tweaks at the back of your WordPress site. It can also be tedious for less tech-savvy blog owners to complete the technical tweaks for your WordPress site. Hence, today I would like to share with you a to-do list of maintenance checks, tips, as well as plugins that can help enhance your maintenance tasks.

Opinions

27. On WordPress Podcast.
I got to be on the WordPress Podcast with Joost de Valk yesterday. It’s already out and you go to the blog post (with player and show notes), or snag it from iTunes.
We had fun talking about Digging into WordPress, WordPress 3.0, CSS-Tricks, and more. My voice is a little booming and heavy on bass (my bad) but I just turned the bass way down to listen to this track and it sounds fine.

28. WordPress Theme Development: Custom versus Commercial.
In this article, I will break down these two avenues of WordPress theme development and discuss how you, the designer/developer, might approach each situation differently.
For the sake of easy labeling, I’ll refer to each as follows:

• Custom Theme: Refers to a theme designed for a client or personal project.
• Public Theme: Refers to a theme designed for distribution as a commercial product or free download.

29. The 3 cardinal rules to selling WordPress Themes.
Selling WordPress themes has become an artform for the few that have mastered it, despite this, we are seeing more and more people making a full-time living from their theme profits. Thus far, it seems to be an exclusive club with few reaping the major rewards. In this article I hope to help you understand the 3 cardinal rules to selling WordPress themes.

30. Can Selling WordPress Themes Online Become A Full Time Job?.
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Here are a few of my thoughts and considerations regarding the selling of web resources in general.

31. The Most Important Features for Your Premium WordPress Theme.
I recently did a survey both here and on the Third Tribe forums in an attempt to figure out just what it is people want from a premium WordPress theme. We all keep creating but nobody ever really asks the question.

Tips

32. Useful WordPress Template Tags for Theme Development.
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33. Best Practices To Optimize Your WordPress Site.

34. WordPress Quick Tip: Display Posts With The Most Comments.
In this post we’re going to look at how you can easily display the posts on your site that have received the most comments. This can then be used as a section on your site where you can display your “Popular Posts”.

35. WordPress Quick Tip: Remove The Dashboard Update Message.
A particularly useful function of WordPress is that it informs you when a new update is available to download. This is displayed at the top of your WordPress admin panel and provides a link to the update page where you can automatically install the new available version. However, there are occasions where you might not want this message to displayed

36. Quick Tip : Make A Post Automatic Excerpt With Image Thumbnail on WordPress 2.9+.
Excerpt is a wordpress feature which will facilitate you to display a summary of the article on index pages automatically without requiring you to add a function readmore (more tag). However, this feature has a weakness, namely a picture in your article will not appear on index pages automatically.
Lucky, start from WordPress 2.9, theme authors can easily enable Post Thumbnail.

Resources

37. The Ultimate WordPress Shopping/Ecommerce Toolbox.
This fresh article brings all of the WP ecommerce solutions up to date with some new and powerful plugins (some older as well) and a collection of fully ecommerce ready themes (which were not even thought of when our original post was published).

38. The Ultimate Guide for An Online Portfolio Using WordPress.
Are you a designer, developer, an artist or even a photographer? If yes, then in these modern times, you have to start thinking about building an online portfolio. Doesn’t matter whether you’re working for a company or as a freelancer, you will need an online portfolio to manage and archive your work and also to showcase them to your clients.
In this article we will discuss the issues concerning online portfolios and how a blogging platform such WordPress is able to create a fantastic online portfolio for you!

39. 100 Beautiful WordPress Headers.
Decent and arrestingly visual Blog headers are not merely a way to show off how talented a designer is, of course they do showcase their talents. For me personally if someone has taken the time to design something truly unique then it compels me to read more.
Please see the collection below either click on the image or the link underneath to visit.

40. 10 Resources To Help You Create A Killer WordPress Options Page.
A theme options page is a necessity in your premium WordPress theme. Even free ones are popping up with them. It can be a big step to take, especially for someone with more of a design background than a development one but the benefits are extraordinary.
So without further ado, here are 10 resources to help you create a wordpress options page

41. 16 Beautiful and Inspiring sites using WordPress.
Take a peek at some truly beautiful blogs /sites using WordPress, stuck for inspiration?
Look no further below is a brief selection of truly pretty sites using WordPress. We have scoured the interweb like a rabid dog and came up with these beauties. Enjoy.

42. Showcase: Typography in WordPress Blog Design & Resources.
Typeface is the most important element used in a blog or website. When people come to your blog they don’t care much about background image, sound, or effect you use. First, they wanna see your title, then about what you wanna share, and then your content. So you should use the exact typeface in order to make people confort and stay in your blog.

I hope you enjoyed this post! Please share your other favorite wordpress tutorials and resources with us by leaving a comment below .

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Resources for Free Fonts

Here some free font that you can use for your web design :

Google Font API



Urban Fonts



Fonts2u

Resources for tools and tutorials

To help you improve the typography in your web designs, below here some useful how-to and resources articles related to typography.

6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography



Spice Up Your Web Typography with @Font-Face



The Essential Guide to @font-face



How to Use the New Google Font API



10 Great Tips For Improving Your Web Typography

Showcase for design inspiration

Here are some samples of typeface that people use in their wordpress blog :

Living Design



Drexler



Epic Agency



Jeroen Homan



Vecechiara



Cherished trinkets



DontTrustThisGuy



Get Inspired Magazine



Ink Byte



Typefaces



Fresh01



Morphix Blog



MondayByNoon



Fabrica de Caricaturas



El Movimiento Audiografico



Blissfully Aware



Joystick Generals



Web Is Love



Aaron Irizarry



Freehand Futurist



Tyler Termini



Cindy Sutton



Acidsmile



Mammut Medien

So.. that’s all. What do you think about it? do i miss something? If you have any sugestion or any thinks else, please feel free to say it!

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How To?

Step 1 Give the template name
You will begin creating a custom page by opening a blank file in your text editor and paste the following code at the very top:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Redirect
*/
?>

Save the page as : redirect.php or you can name it any other structure you like as long as it is a php file.
The above code is simply giving your template a name that you will later see that WordPress recognize, so we are calling our template ‘redirect’.

Step 2 Redirect function
Now directly below, add this code

<?php if (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php $URL = get_the_excerpt(); if (!preg_match('/^http:\/\//', $URL)) $URL = 'http://' . $URL; ?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=<?php echo $URL; ?&lgt;">
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

<?php endif; ?>

Here is an explanation for the code above :

1. <?php if (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   This code is to check whether or not there is content post.

2. <?php $URL = get_the_excerpt();

   This code is to call the actual link address in redirect page.

3. if (!preg_match('/^http:\/\//', $URL)) $URL = 'http://' . $URL; ?>

   Then this code will check, if the address link already have ‘http://’? if not it will automatically be added.

4. <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=<?php echo $URL; ?>">

   This code as the waiting time to go to actual link address, if the greater its value it will be the longer time required.

Below the complete code for redirect page template:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Redirect
*/
?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php $URL = get_the_excerpt(); if (!preg_match('/^http:\/\//', $URL)) $URL = 'http://' . $URL; ?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=<?php echo $URL; ?&lgt;">
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

<?php endif; ?>

Step 3 Save it!
Once you have completed editing this file save it and upload it in your theme directory (/wp-content/themes/yourthemedirectory/) where files like single.php and index.php are located.

[updated (07/19/2010) : For the other way without have to worry about SEO, please check the comment below]
Thanks to kucrut.

Using The Redirect Page

1. Now, login to your admin panel, write a new page. On the Page Template dropdown, select Redirect
2. Add a title to the page (e.g. Free Themes)
3. Add an URL to the content of the page (e.g. http://www.dynamicwp.net OR dynamicwp.net OR www.dynamicwp.net)
4. Publish!
5. Now the new link for http://www.dynamicwp.net (for example) will be http://yoursite.com/free-themes

Hope you liked this tutorial! Please let us know what you think, and make sure to either leave a comment below. We’d love to see it in action!

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