Use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to create an Apple-alike WordPress sidebar.
Every blog visitor has different habits, but many tend to ignore sidebars because they are always the same. Mixing things up and keeping the contents of the sidebar relevant to the post can make them a bit more likely to be noticed.
This plugin allows you to add highly customisable forms to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit posts.
Give you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages.
Extracts the title or alt attribute from images within your blog post and generates a neat caption directly underneath those images. Supports custom CSS styling for captions.
Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
Easily integrates the Google Syntax Highlighter by
Alex Gorbatchev into WordPress. Image below show how codes look like in WordPress with Google Syntax Highlighter.
FLIR allows you to convert text and title into images (better display quality) on the fly without hassle. Now this FLIR WordPress plugin make things even easier for bloggers.
del.icio.us for WordPress displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog.
Like the way how PopURL display contents? Now you can create similar inside WordPress.
2 ways to hide posts from certain categories to be displayed on the blog. You can either put this code inside
the loop - <?php
- if ( have_posts() ) : query_posts($query_string .'&cat=-1,-2'); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
- ?>
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Create a calendar view of your article post date.
Styling one post a little different from the rest with the use of the_ID.
Duplicated contents are pretty bad and they somehow affects how search engine weights your site. Here’s how you can avoid getting duplicated contents on your blog.
This template lets you specify a single URL as the page content, then as the page loads, the template automatically redirects the page to this new location, and that includes category or any tag pages you specify.
Add badges that encourage people to bookmark your website or blog
Give your website or blog visitors the option to submit your stories to Design Float and "Float" them
- <script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Your URL Here';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.designfloat.com/evb/button.php"></script>
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- <script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Your URL Here';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.designfloat.com/evb2/button.php"></script>
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Add a Stumble It! button to your site to make it easy for your visitors to submit your content to StumbleUpon.
Dynamic Highlight Menu
This allows you to theme/style and control the currently selected menu tab in CSS by adding aclass="current" on it.
- <ul id="nav">
- <li<?php if ( is_home() || is_category() || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single() || is_date() ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Gallery</a></li>
- <li<?php if ( is_page('about') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">About</a></li>
- <li<?php if ( is_page('submit') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Submit</a></li>
- </ul>
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If Home, or Category, or Archive, or Search or Single page is selected, class="current" will be included in <li>
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If Page with page slug about or submit is highlighted, class="current" is added.
If you are looking at putting categories as menu tabs, here’s how to make the menu dynamic:
- <ul id="nav">
- <li<?php if ( is_category('css') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">CSS</a></li>
- <li<?php if ( is_category(showcase) ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Showcase</a></li>
- </ul>
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If category with category slug of css or showcase, class="current" is added.
DZone Buttons
Let your website’s users vote for our links on DZone without leaving your site.
- <script type="text/javascript">var dzone_url = '[url]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_title = '[title]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_blurb = '[description]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '1';</script><script language="javascript" src="http://widgets.dzone.com/widgets/zoneit.js"></script>
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- <script type="text/javascript">var dzone_url = '[url]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_title = '[title]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_blurb = '[description]';</script><script type="text/javascript">var dzone_style = '2';</script><script language="javascript" src="http://widgets.dzone.com/widgets/zoneit.js"></script>
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Reddit Buttons
Similar to the rest, place a reddit button on your site to promote blog post.
- <script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=1"></script>
- <script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=2"></script>
- <script type='text/javascript'>reddit_url='[URL]'</script><script type='text/javascript'>reddit_title='[TITLE]'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/button.js?t=3"></script>
Noura of Noupe.com shows various ways you can style your WordPress Archive page. Techniques and guides includes:
- Listing all Posts
- Display monthly or Yearly Archive
- Archives Ordered By Category
Breadcrumb trails are a good supplementary navigation system that aid in site usability. This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.
When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific – often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog?
This WordPress plugin searches the files on your site for a few known strings sometimes used by hackers, and lists them with code fragments taken from the files. It also makes a few checks of the database, looking at the active_plugins blog option, the comments table, and the posts table.
Allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. Not something new, but worth knowing.
How to display feedburner subscriber count in text instead of using chiklets.
This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts.
Guide to setup Xampp and run WordPress locally on your machine. You can also install plugins, upgrade to the latest nightly and virtually anything else confident in the knowledge that if it goes wrong, there is no impact on your actual site.
Why not helping your visitors to find what they’re looking for on your blog, by using a cool auto-completion on your search field?
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