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WordPress

The home of WordPress blogging software

WordPress Codex

Fight comment spam, how to design your layout, WordPress lessons, developer documentation and more - you'll find it all here.

WordPress FAQ

Information about WordPress, how to install, troubleshooting and more (found on the WordPress codex).

WordPress Theme Browser

New WordPress designs being added to the list almost weekly, hundreds listed.

WordPress Plugin Wiki

Find all kinds of plugins listed on this wiki.

WordPress Plugins

The WordPress codex list of plugins.

WordPress Lessons

Introduction to blogging, first steps with WordPress, WordPress design - it's all found here on the WordPress Lessons codex.

WordPress Theme Guide

Excellent resource walking you through your own WordPress theme development

WP Hooks List

A directory of all of WordPress hooks. Very much a work in progress!

Installing WordPress on your own Windows computer

A very easy to follow tutorial on how to install and run WordPress from your computer.

Create Your Own Quicktags

Quicktags are those useful 'one-click' buttons that insert code for you. Here's how to make your own.

WordPress Cheatsheet (pdf file)

Andy Wibbels has created a WordPress cheatsheet to help you remember where a certain feature is at.

Combat Comment Spam

Information, plugins and tips to combat comment spam on WordPress.

WordPress Help - Podz @ Tamba2

Various WordPress guides with screenshots and easy to follow help. Covers resetting your password, CSS, moving your database, custom installs, personalised help and more.

Custom 404 Pages For WordPress

Custom 404 page redirects and .htaccess not working? Here's what I did.

Putting WordPress on a USB stick

Now how cool is that? :)

Converting a HTML Site To WordPress ? The Affiliate Marketing Blog

Converting your tired old html pages to WordPress? Steps you won't want to miss from .htaccess to Favicon.

Earning Money With WordPress 

A few bookmarks for using a WP Blog to make money

The Poor Man's eBay RSS to WordPress Hack

You can easily add eBay auctions to your posts in WordPress, here's how to do that.

18 WordPress Plugins For Affiliate Marketers

Here are a list of plugins you can add to WordPress that will help generate an income from your WP blog.

WordPress Optimization 

SEO Plugins & Tips

Optimal Title Plugin

Optimal Title is a WordPress plugin that mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the 'separator' to after the title rather than before. This allows you to have your blog name tacked on to the end of the page title instead of having it appear first.

Jerome's Keywords Plugin

Jerome's Keywords is a plugin for WordPress 1.5 to associate keywords with your posts.

Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips

This simple, easy to follow article will outline many WordPress SEO tips which people often forget to implement (even the most famous bloggers), or haven't yet arrived at for some reason or another.

Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress

To maintain your WordPress site's optimal friendliness towards search engine spiders and crawlers, here are a few tips.

SEO Your Wordpress Blog

Documented the steps to help and assist others who'd like to improve their blog's SEO.

Google Sitemap Generator

This plugin generates a Google Sitemaps compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.

Add Meta Keyword Tag

Output a default set of keywords, except on single posts. On single posts it creates a list of keywords based on the categories assigned to that post and any tags assigned to it.

Head Meta Description

Provides an automatic meta description tag for your blog, inserting a dynamic description depending on the query-type (i.e. page you're on).

Count inbound links: backlinks wordpress plugin

Backlinks draws a nice graph that shows how your number of inbound links develop over time using the MSN Search API together with nuSOAP to count the backlinks.

WordPress Plugins Top Ten 

Referrer Karma

Got the referrer spam blues? This is the tool to try.

Condensed Content for Date and Category Archives

Date and category archive pages are typically lenghty depending on the number of posts within an archive. This plugin is used to filter the_content() to return a condensed version of a post when viewed as a date (i.e., monthly, yearly, or weekly) or category archive.

Wordpress Contact Form

WP-ContactForm is a simple drop in way for users to get in touch with you. Its easy for any WordPress user to add this functionality to their site. Just upload two files and change a few options in your admin panel and you're set.

Spam Karma 2.0

Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.

Customizable Post Listings

Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner.

Smart Archives for WordPress

Smart Archives is a rather simple WordPress plugin that will allow you to display your archives in a much "cleaner" format. *Awesome to use on your custom 404.php error pages ;).

Subscribe Me

The subscribe me plugin for WordPress adds buttons at the end of your sidebar so your visitors can subscribe to your blog via services such as Bloglines and MyYahoo!.

Miniblog

Create miniature blogs, links, notes, asides, or whatever. It's actually quite easy to use for anything from a small link blog on your side bar to a block of site code.

Bunny's Technorati Tags

Bunny's Technorati Tags provides you with template function to easily display Technorati tags for your posts. The tags are stored in a Custom Field, so this plugin does not require any modifications of the database structure. The plugin adds a text input for that custom field in the appropriate admin pages.

Amazon Media Manager 1.5

The Amazon Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon's catalogue to your wordpress blog. It keeps a list of things you've added, too, so you can choose what to display, how to display it and more!