Over on Noupe there is a great post that goes over some of the millions of ways you can effect major changes on your WordPress theme. Some are difficult, others are very easy, and almost all of them are powerful to bloggers looking to add customizations to their blogs.
It includes links to dozens of tutorials […]

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Ozh has put up a tutorial on how everyone can change the colour schemes of the WordPress 2.5 administration panel. It seems to be relatively simple, if you understand how to make a plugin.
WordPress 2.5 introduces a neat option: per user Admin Color Scheme. This means that each user can select a stylesheet they like […]

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WordPress 2.5 isn’t even out yet, and already we have a theme to replace the default WordPress administration panel theme that has taken a fair bit of flack.
The theme, Fluency, replaces many of the graphics and navigational item placements in the WordPress admin. It strips the colours back to a black, gray, and white mix, […]

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Love the Prologue theme, but not the minimalist post box it includes? Raj Dash on Performancing has heard your cries and gone ahead and created a tutorial on adding the TinyMCE editor to the theme.
Twitter-like microbloggging functionality. But out of the box, the theme has a very plain edit area (see image below), and adding […]

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Over on Performancing there is a great post which discusses the many ways in which WordPress can be used as a starting platform for all sorts of different web based applications. This was also talked about at Northern Voice while I was there in a session called More than Cat Blogs.
It seems that there are […]

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I am a little “anti-plugin”. I try to avoid adding plugins to my blog if I can avoid it. Mostly because I don’t always know what they are doing and you never know what people are doing to your blog once you click Activate, and so I really enjoyed a post I found thanks to […]

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Ben of Binary Moon has taken the custom WordPress login a step further as one of his series of WordPress Tricks and Tips.
He created a plugin as well as an image template for the custom WordPress login.

The plugin itself sits in the plugins folder alongside the images - which you can change as required. […]

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David Airey has a great little tutorial up on how to modify your WordPress login page, so that it fits more in line with the style of your site.
Even better, it is basically just the modification of two image files. So check it out. He seems to be using this as a way to […]

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Before I say anything else, I wish that Chris J. Davis would make my life easier and roll this into a stand alone package for non-WordPress users to use and modify, as it would be perfect for a site I am working on, and I don’t want to try to make it work, I just […]

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Here is something completely different, Jack Slocum has gone ahead and used Yahoo UI and YAHOO.ext to modify how comments are handled in WordPress. While it is not all that practical for most people, it is still a very interesting modification.
For quite some time I have wanted to upgrade my WordPress comments system. I […]

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A feature that I have wanted for some time now is a way to merge some of my WordPress blogs into one super blog, as I have started a blog and stopped writing on a blog, and let it die. Its old entries could bolster my current blog a bit more, and make it a […]

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Now even plugins are getting plugins, as Richard Boakes adds onto Akismet, a powerful and popular anti-comment spam plugin for WordPress and other software.
The extension, allows for users to easily see and delete mass groupings of spam easily. It shows you the worst offenders, IP Addresses of computers sending you the most spam, and allows […]

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Here’s a short tutorial on using dynamic images to replace the date entries in your WordPress 1.5 blog.

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Multiply is a plugin for WordPress 1.5.x which allows multiple blogs from within the one administration interface. Includes one-click creation of new blogs, with per-blog user permissions, plugins, themes etc.

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This hack adds a top navigation bar to the default Kubrick theme.

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This is a very simple hit counter that counts unique IP addresses and displays the total count on your page somewhere. This process requires you to create your own MySQL table so be aware.

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Have you ever needed to have certain articles stay at the top of your blog longer than others? Sometimes the good stuff you write gets bogged down and indistinguishable from the other stuff. This WordPress hack and tutorial shows you how to focus your front page to feature the good stuff, but not loose […]

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WordPress sidebar login form hack adds a login form in the sidebar and once you’re logged in, will display your user name and user controls.
r0×0rz has modified the hack to work with the Blix theme.

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Search Meta is a WordPress 1.5 hack that makes search queries look at custom field values in addition to post content. It is compatible with the authors Search Pages plugin. Please note that this requires you to edit core WordPress files.

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GaMerZ has quite a few plugins/hacks/mods for WordPress version 1.5. I’m currently using WordPress 1.5 Stats and you can see it in action here. The stats mod is not a plugin but a stand alone script that you drop into your WordPress root. I wanted the script linked from my list of pages so I […]

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