WordPress Hacks and Tips

As I find useful and practical WordPress hacks and tips, I’ll post them here. Bookmark this site, and I’ll keep adding more. Please comment if you have any to contribute.This list will be for items that fall outside the plugin box, mostly related to theme modification and styling:

WordPress Websites Using NextGen Gallery

I don’t think I could survive without Alex Rabe’s robust NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows for sophisticated management of photos and many options for displaying them on your WordPress blog or website.

Following are some sites on which I’ve used the plugin and taken advantage of the many display options, including:

Create Different RSS Feeds for Each WordPress Category

To create a different feed for each category of your blog, you can use WP built in codex to specify different feeds for different categories. For instructions, see http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds and scroll down to the text just before the heading Adding Feeds.

Following are couple plugins that automate this process:

Best WordPress Plugins

Following is a list of my most frequently used plugins. I almost always install the All in One SEO Pack, the TinyMCE Advanced Editor, Google Analytics, Exclude Pages, Category Posts, Search and Replace, and the Backup Database plugins. Let me know your favorites!

I’m only listing plugins that I think are used most frequently, and that I install time and again on various sites. I’ll post other, more specialized plugins in separate posts.

Website Business Tips

I love the blog at WebDistortion.com. I subscribe to it via my Google homepage and look forward to reading every post. Here are some recent posts from Paul, the author, a web designer in Ireland:

Website Testing Tips

Some great recent posts about checking and testing your website before going live:

A website checklist. 20 things to check before going live.

“As developers we all know the highs of launching a new site, but how many of us have went through a step by step list checking off all the to-do items.” — from http://blog.webdistortion.com/

WordPress Calendar Plugins and Event Registration Plugins

I’m searching today for a good WordPress calendar plugin and came across this great post:

http://wordpressgarage.com/plugins/wordpress-calendar-plugins/

Moving the Menu Div in Sadish's Floralia Theme to Below Header Image

Some friends who love Sadish’s themes would like to learn how to manipulate the Floralia theme to move the menu div to display below the header image. This is simple enough to do by selecting the menu div in the header.php and cutting and pasting it below the splash div.