Trackback Patch (1.22) by Elliott Back prevents botnets from placing trackback onto your blog. The code checks the trackback for any URLs, and makes sure that at least one of them matches the IP address of the sender. This is a hack and requires changes to a core WordPress file.

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Comment Bubble is a cool way to show how many comments a post has. Check it out.

Thanks Weblog Tools Collection

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While we’re on the subject of opening links in new windows here is another option allowing the target attribute to be changed only for specified links. This hack allows you to open links in a new window using Quick Tags.
A few points of this hack are:

Requires the editing of only one file quicktags.js.
It is integrated […]

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Here’s a tutorial for making WordPress open links in a new window. It would be nice if the user could set the link attribute in the options page but until that option is available, Paladin has the hack. This tutorial does include altering core files so unless having links open in the same window […]

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Wordpress JabberBot lets you post directly from your IM.
Features list:

Clones protection [only one instance of script is allowed]
Posting notes from multiple jabber accounts
Simple cron installation [GET http://blog_url/wp-jabber-bot.php]
Configuration directly from WP-admin
Compatible with Jabberd2 servers
Custom posting category
Simple & Quick installation

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phpied.com shows how to disable smart quotes in WordPress 1.5. For the average blogger this isn’t necessary, but if you display a lot of code that people will be copying and pasting from, you may want to take a look.

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Here’s a hack for enabling apache authentication in WordPress 1.5.

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I know this is minor but pixies.ca has a nice tip to make the title tag of your blog more search engine friendly. By default WordPress outputs the blog title when on the home page. Then blog name plus post title for individual entries. This small hack displays the blog name and blog description […]

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If you’re using Spam Karma here is a hack to have your spam saved in the database rather then deleted. Why?
The benefits of this are twofold. First, if a legitimate comment gets caught by Spam Karma, you can easily restore it, as it is still in the database. Second, future versions of Spam Karma or […]

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You may or may not of noticed that the WordPress 1.5 search feature does not return results from pages, only posts. I’m not sure why but I’m sure it will be addressed in future versions. Until then you can implement Kwebble’s Searching Pages hack. It’s a pretty simple hack but does require editing core WordPress […]

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This is a short hack to add some color to your WordPress 1.5 calendar. You can see an example on the bottom left hand side of this page. The hack does require modification of WordPress core files.
Thanks NickM

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Apparently the foreign language version of WordPress 1.5 is slower then the English version. MEX Blog has a hacked version of gettext.php available that will supposedly bring your foreign language version of WordPress up to speed.

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Priyadi found a bug in WordPress 1.5: ampersands in blogroll URLs don’t get properly escaped. Thus, blogrolls that contains a URL with an ampersand in it don’t validate. He’s got the fix if not validating keeps you up at night.

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Brainwagon talks about a hack he uses in WordPress 1.5 to make his Podcast links stand out better. WordPress does a good job of handling enclosures but needs a little kick to make your Podcast links stand out.
Wordpress 1.5 handles things a bit differently: it will scan the post for links to urls which appear […]

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Simmons Consulting has a fix for Windows 2000 (IIS 5) users who are having problems logging into WordPress 1.5 after installation. It appears there is a problem setting a cookie and sending header redirection (a “location:” header) from the same Php file on a Windows 2000 Server (IIS 5).

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Here are a few RSS patch’s to the WordPress 1.2.2 wp-rss2.php file.
1. Display the author and HTML/Image content in the RSS feed excerpts.
2. Display the raw XML file with “pretty formatting� when viewed with a non-RSS application.

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This hack shows how to display private entries when the admin (you) are logged in.

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WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress hack for page caching. It can serve hundreds of times more pages per second, and can reduce the response time from several tenths of a second to less than a millisecond.

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For those of you who like to Separate Trackbacks & Pingbacks here’s how to do that in WordPress 1.5 (1.3). I can’t figure out why WordPress default doesn’t have this option. BTW, this is a hack and not a plugin.

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This tutorial demonstrates how to create a dynamic signature for your blog which you can leave behind when commenting in forums.

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