Most Wanted WordPress Hacks and Tricks

1. How to Display Facebook Statuses on WordPress Blog

Put your Facebook statuses directly on your wordpress blog. Works for both self-host WordPress and WordPress.com bloggers

2. Display recent post from specific category

Control recent post of any categories you want to display.

3. Highlight author’s comments

This helps differenciate the author’s comments away from the rest. Useful for commentators to spot which are comments made by the author.

4. Post text and image count

Counts and display number of words and images (leaving the default WordPress smilies out)

5. Add Stripe Ad to boost response / earnings

A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog

6. Custom login page

This is more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients.

7. Moving a Static HTML Site to WordPress
how you retain the old URLs after moving static HTML to WordPress.

8. Embed Google Ad in first wordpress post
The leading SEO (Search Engine Optimization) sites will tell you that placing an ad after the first post in your blog’s home page is particularly effective.

9. Create a peel away effect on blog
Very effective way to market products and bring more attention to pages you want visitors to focus.

10. WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack
Don’t like the default thumbnail JPEG quality? Change it.

11. Antivirus for WordPress
AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks.

12. Add shadows to a range of objects
WordPress Shadows plugin is a plugin to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes.

13. Display Thumbnails for Related Post
How to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and WordPress custom fields.

14. Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress
Turn your WordPress blog into Twitter alike site.