Amazing WordPress Tricks and Hacks
Have you ever came across a WordPress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 WordPress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted WordPress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.
While you are at it, here’s few more WordPress related articles we’ve previously written:
- 49 Most downloaded WordPress themes
- WordPress themes for Video Blogging
- 20 Desktop blogging clients
- 16 WordPress premium themes that don’t suck
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Display categories in horizontal Drop-Down menu
Instead of using your categories in sidebar, you can put them up on the navigation bar, dropping down the sub categories in second-level drop down.
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Add Gravatar for post author
How about adding Gravatar to your post titles to highlight the comment author?
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Using custom page as homepage
Instead of showing recent entries as main page on your blog, customize it!
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Add author bio on every blog post
For multi-authored blogs, adding the bio info of each author at the bottom of their respective posts is a good way to give props to the author as well as providing information to the readers as to who that person is without having to refer to an about me page.
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Display recent post from specific category
Control recent post of any categories you want to display.
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Highlight author’s comments
This helps differenciate the author’s comments away from the rest. Useful for commentators to spot which are comments made by the author.
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Create thumbnails for each blog post and displays them
How to create thumbnails for each blog post, use them anywhere you want, make your post more interesting.
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Create and show categories image
How to add some simple PHP code to your WordPress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts.
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Format images for feed readers
Get your blog content to display properly, even in feeds.
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Create really cool WordPress date button
Display your blot post’s date in the form of button.
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Hiding Advertisements For Single Posts
Quick and easy way to hide advertisements for any particular post by making some minor changes to your theme.
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