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Do you need to separate your comments from your trackbacks? This hack from Scriptygoddess will do just that. Now you can have your trackbacks listed first and then your comments.

This is a very easy way to add static pages to your WordPress installation.

This hack returns the number of months, weeks or days that you have blogged in a row. So if you have posted for eight days straight you can say something like, current posting streak: 1 week and 1 day.

Markku Seguerra has a short tutorial on disabling wptexturize() formatting for an inline sentence or phrase. If you need to disable wptexturize for an entire post then you can install wp-unformatted plugin from Alex King which allow you to disable auto-formatting and/or auto-smart-quote conversion.

Create a dropdown archives menu using this code example found on the WP support forums.

If you would like to experiment with a new admin UI for WP and are adventurous follow along with Chris J. Davis as he goes on a quest to reinvent the admin area.

WordPress Hack: AuthImage

This plugin will add an image with random text the visitor leaving a comment must enter to be validated. If you are being hit with comment spam and have tried some of the other options this is a sound technique, although it does add an additional step when leaving a comment.

Weblog Tools Collection has an advanced contextual search hack which provides an intelligent search engine for your WP weblog. This hack features text based “fuzzy” searches within WordPress, a nice Google like interface which is very customizable, search results with decreasing relevance to search topic, a trap for words which are less than four letters [...]

From Kitten’s Project Blog, a WP hack to convert your calendar week to begin on Monday.

This WP hack, once installed will give you the option to style any single comment.
The result is simple elegance: on on the edit page for each comment, you have a checkbox to set its Hilite status. If you check the box and save your changes, the comment will be enclosed in a
that you can [...]

WP Hack: Photos

Need a quick and easy way to incorporate photos into your posts? This hack will get you set up.
Some of the features:
Compatible with WordPress 1.0+.
Display a preview thumbnail image along with the post on the main page or category/archive pages.
Display all thumbnails when viewing the individual post.
Display the full size version of the photo.
Select [...]

Need threaded comments? Get the WP 1.2 hack here.

Need a website up and running quickly? Aaron Ogle posted this turotial on how to run WordPress 1.2 as a non-blog website. Here is his personal website that is powered by WP 1.2. It’s great to see people get outside the box and use current technology to work for them.

Kitten points out a bug in WordPress 1.2 that will give you unexpected results if you leave a line space at the bottom of the Spam Words list under Options — Discussion — Comment Moderation. Be sure to either implement this hack, download the latest copy of WordPress from the nightly builds or be sure [...]

This WordPress 1.2 hack allows you to list Amazon books, DVDs, music, games or any combination in your WP installation using your associate code. Supports Amazon.com .ca .co.uk .de .fr and .co.jp.

Email Notification hack for WP with a subscribe and unsubscribe feature. Found via here.

WP Hack: CG-AMAZON

CG-Amazon can access products throughout most every area of Amazon, including Books, DVDs, Music, Apparel, Electronics, Computers, Video Games, and more! Populates your database with Amazon items using your referral code and then displays items in your index page.

WP Hack: Nicer Archives

Mark at Weblog Tools Collection has a WP archives hack to give you a sortable list of archives. You can sort on date and category and filter by author and year. I have it in use here at Blogging Pro.

WP Hack: Random Message

Soto has a Random Message WP hack that allows you to display random quotes, phrases, words or whatever message you’d like. I have it installed on another blog of mine and it works great.

WP Hack: Related Posts

This Related Post hack looks for keywords in a single post and grabs links to other posts with some of the same keywords. This is a hack and thus you need to add the code into your my-hacks.php file.

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