Lorelle chimes in on an article by Jim Westergren who has created a tutorial on the various ways of making a site map for your blog. We are not talking about the XML sitemaps, but instead a list of posts and pages throughout the site.
Jim lists the benefits (which I have included below) as well [...]

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Ben Bleikamp has put up a how-to guide on setting WordPress up locally on your Mac OS X machine using a one-click install package called MAMP, or Mac + Apache + mySQL, and PHP.
Here is the point form version. He goes through each of these steps with a bit more description, but overall, it is [...]

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Many of use stopped using our anti-comment spam tools when Automattic, the WordPress folks, came out with their service, Akismet. It works well, it seems to learn how to defend our blogs against new types of spam comments, and has been stopping millions of spam for those using it.
The problem is, we have really [...]

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Everything you have ever wanted to know about headlines and titles, Lorelle has mentioned in her recent post entitled “Creating Effective, Attention-Getting Headlines and Titles“.
While the title might sound a bit wordy, it really allows you to understand the broad scope of what she has written. The article seriously feels like it goes on [...]

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The Javascript on page pop-ups are great for showing images full size and whatnot, and one of the lightweight options for that is iBox. Over on MacStansbury, there is a quick tutorial on how to integrate iBox with WordPress.
First, you get the files from the iBox site, then upload the ibox.js and ibox.css files to [...]

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Over on BlogHelper there is a great article that summarizes all the resources that someone would need to integrate various forum software with WordPress. They touch on Simple Machines Forum (SMF), Vanilla, bbPress, phpBB, and PunBB. This does not mean they have instructions on integrating each one, but they do have help, plugins and [...]

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Bradley Charbonneau of Likoma Design has posted the first in what will hopefully be many great video tutorials from him.
As I mentioned at WordCamp, I have created some help videos (using screencasts with audio) that walk through some of the features of WordPress (version 2.0.4).
The video touches on:

adding a category
adding a post
pasting content (as Plain [...]

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Max Limpag shares a comprehensive guide about converting any web template into a WordPress theme.
Converting a web template is fairly easy if you take the time to learn how to do it. I wrote this guide for someone like me a few months back — eager to use a great looking web design and yet [...]

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ZMAng sent in a great article to go along with the series he has on blogHelper relating to WordPress as a CMS.
If you are an experienced user of WordPress (WP) and want to setup a non-blog website - perhaps a portfolio site, news/magazine site or even an e-commerce site - you might just want to [...]

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Max Limpag has posted about his work converting WordPress to run a magazine/news website.
WordPress, however, is an extensible website content management system that can be used to run magazine-type websites. Here are steps I took to turn this online magazine on Cebu from a blog into its current presentation. I’m still working on it, though, [...]

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Lorelle has a great post up that goes over what you should be doing after you have created a WordPress.com blog. With two different ways to tackle starting your site, Lorelle goes over the typical approach and a longer, but more practical appoach.
If you choose the practical approach to starting your Wordpress.com Blog, and you [...]

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Lorelle has a great article on Tagging and Tags, what they mean and what they do for you the blogger. There is also a great list of resources in the article.
1. A Tag is a Keyword in a Link
A tag is a keyword. It is created by adding the attribute rel=”tag” in any link going [...]

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Lorelle on WordPress has an article up that talks about the technical side of publishing a series of blog posts on your blog. Lorelle talks about the WordPress plugins used, and how to set them up to work effectively.
While I did put on my wish list for a WordPress Plugin that would automatically recognize [...]

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Over at The Undersigned a nice tutorial was written up called WordPress and SEO. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. In the tutorial, there are some tips, tricks, and plugins you can use to help search engines find you, and index your pages better.
There is a big bunch of resources on optimizing your blog for [...]

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One of the things I get asked most often by people looking to set up their first WordPress site, is how to do it. WordPress has one of the easiest set-up processes you can ask for, but it does take a fair bit of computer knowledge to get through it the first time. You have [...]

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Leon Kilat at The Cybercafe Experiments has instructions on how to edit a WordPress theme using Dreamweaver.
WordPress, like most PHP-MySQL CMS, use template files to control the appearance of websites. The webpage is assembled from several PHP files controlling specific aspects of the site like the header, sidebar, main content and footer.
To use Dreamweaver to [...]

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Kristin Pishdadi created a cool tutorial on how to make your links page look like the 9rules communities page.
It looks like an easy to follow set of instructions, and she includes files on how to make it happen, and seems to be willing to help support those that attempt it.
So check it out, and see [...]

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One thing that I don’t think enough people are taking advantage of is the multitude of Technorati tagging plugins for WordPress. Tagging your blog entries is like yelling out to the world “I have a story about this!” and so it brings in a few more people to that post than you would have had [...]

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Darren Rowse of Problogger.net fame, just recently put up a list of his active plugins in a post called I’ll Show you Mine if You Show me Yours (WP Plugins)
Currently he is using only a few plugins, but they are pretty important for the types of sites he has.
In his list he includes:

Spam Karma 2 [...]

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S.E.O. is on the mind of many bloggers these days. What can I do better to make it so my entries rank higher on Google, and are filled with the information that people are looking for? Usually it is just changing a few things, and voila, you have a blog that is a little better [...]

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