WordPress Archive Template

Our archives allow for an overall easier experience for our readers, by giving them simple access to the content they are looking for. Or more to the point, the information that they do not know they are looking for.

1. Creating a Template
2. Posts by Date
3. Posts by Category
4. Most Popular Posts
5. Most Commented Posts
6. Highlight Your Favorite Posts
7. A Search Box
8. Wrap Up Template

Original Source: CREATING HELPFUL AND EFFECTIVE WORDPRESS ARCHIVES

9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity

In this post we’ll look at nine different things you can do to your WordPress theme to add the possibility of some type of interaction. Some involves comments, social media, and other ways of getting readers involved.

In my opinion this is pretty important for every blogger to see that somebody is reading yours blog posts, stats didn’t tell you anything about your readers.

1. Show Most Recent Comments
2. Allow Visitors to Email Posts to Their Friends
3. Add a “Share on Facebook” Link
4. Add Custom Bookmark Links
5. Rearrange the Comments to Show Most Recent Comments First
6. Add a User-Submitted News Section
7. Add Translation Links
8. Google Custom Search
9. Display Facebook Status on Your Blog

9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity

After implementing those tips you probably see some movement on your blog, is it really important to get opinions from your readers.

Speed up Wordpress – Tips & Tricks

The speed of you website is very important factor, everybody should know this.

This time I want to present you this post: Speed up Wordpress – Tips & Tricks. Maybe, I hope so it will help you to work harder on your blog platform (WordPress) and the result will be faster bog for your visitors.

Here are the main factors in my opinion:

* fast hosting server
* use newest WordPress version
* use cache system
* optimize images
* optimize css

But those are the main factors only, as always the details are the most important part.

So don’t wait a minute longer and visit my blog to read how to speed up your blog platform.

20 Fresh & New Design Galleries

In this post, we’ll feature 20 new galleries that may provide just the inspiration you have been looking for.

So many galleries, so many places to find great inspiration or just browse and admire new desings… Even i own my personal CSS gallery called CSSBloom.

This time Six Revisions prepare best 20 new galleries to match your design taste.

Fell free to visit them and enjoy good designs from them,
20 Fresh & New Design Galleries .

Creative by Nature

As an experienced WordPress user, we keep ourselves updated with the development of the core, plugin releases and useful WordPress tips and tricks shared by developers and enthusiasts.

My favorites hack is:

Improve Page Load Time – WP Minify

Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

If you have time to play around with your WordPress don’t hesitate and visit website below:

30+ New Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks

WordPress XML Sitemap kills posting

To create dynamic Google XML Sitemap for my WP websites I use this plugin Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress.

Today I have this strange problem with one of my sites. When I wrote new posts MySQL goes crazy after published them. I saw in MySQL error page some strange line about XML Sitemap that contains more that 2500 posts. This was the problem that made WordPress MySQL base goes crazy. WordPress published new post but then he tried to update xml sitemap and it was too big for him.

It was quite annoying because it happened after each post. I found simple solution to solve this, works perfect for me.

In WordPress admin panel i go to ‘Options’ -> ‘XML-Sitemap’ and then focus on ‘Advanced options’:

WordPress XML Sitemap options

Try to increase the memory limit to: (e.g. “4M”, “16M”)

By default is is empty, I setup it to ‘64M’ and my problem was fixed.

Change Your Blog’s Permalinks

I recently did the unthinkable. I changed the URL structure of my blog’s URLs. Long considered a scary territory, along with moving domains, due to the SEO implications and potential for losing traffic, I was convinced by Bruce Keener to give it a shot

This post will help you alot when you decide to change your WordPress permalinks structure. From old times SEO tips for permalinks was to use date and then post title. Now it changes and in my personal opinion the best way is to use simple post title in permalink structure.

If you have wrong permalinks and you are thinking about change this post is ideal for you. You can read how to make this work without SEO problems.

Link: WordPress How To: Change Your Blog’s Permalinks.

More Memory For WordPress

WordPress is growing and growing, with the growing of WordPress the demand of memory is also growing. The standard use is WordPress 32MByte (see settings.php ), which is not even provided by every hoster today. This is a problem – therefore: Lovely Hoster, give users more memory!

Now with those two plugins you can monitor your website usage in WordPress dashboard. I use console to monitor my whole VPS server but this is also very good to see how your WP blog works.

Link: More Memory For WordPress – More Information About WordPress

I check this on Wordpress 2.8 and it works smooth.

10 Useful WordPress Loop Hack

The loop is a very important aspect of WordPress blogs. In fact, the loop is what allows you to get posts from your WordPress database and print them on the screen. A set of useful and user-friendly functions, the loop is incredibly powerful.

Now let talk about benefits from using WordPress loops. For example take this one “Insert Ads After The First Post“, you can download and use plugin for this. There are many plugins for using ads in WordPress.

But this will be another plugin that your WordPress instalation need to handle. More plugins, your site will be slower, more complicated and all that bad stuff. So why use plugin, just find proper tip for loop and use this simple loop hacks.

1. Get Posts Published Between Two Dates

2. Use More Than One Loop On A Page, Without Printing Duplicate Posts

3. Insert Ads After The First Post

4. Get Posts With A Specific Custom Field And Specific Value

5. List Upcoming Posts

6. Display Posts Published One Year Ago

7. Use The Loop To Create An “Archive” Page Template

8. Create Your Own WordPress Loops Using The WP_Query Object

9. Get Only The Latest Sticky Posts

10. Create A Loop Of Images

Read this post using original source Smashing Magazine.

In this post we’re going to look at 26 .htaccess hacks, from A to Z.

I know it takes time to implement .htaccess tricks but i am pretty sure it’s worth to do it.In many cases you don’t need to use WordPress plugins, just simple .htaccess tricks.

A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks post presents 26 .htaccess hacks and those are my favorites :

1. C – WP-Config Protection
2. H – Disable hotlinking
3. L – Limiting number of simultaneous connections
4. M – Maintenance
5. P – Protect your .htaccess file.
6. U – Remove /category/ from your category URL
7. W – Redirect from http://www.whatever to http://whatever

I hope you find some free time to implement some of those hacks… as you can see there are many security tips also. Before you start your tests remember to have working backup !

Link to full post: A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks.