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Every so often you come across a site that makes you wonder why you never found it before, and Andy Gongea's GraphicRating site is one of those for me. This collection of favorite WordPress Tutorials and Resources is extremely helpful, as is his WordPress Cheat Sheet. I often gauge the quality of sites by who they link to, who they cite as authorities, and who they admire. Andy's heros are my heros: Zeldman, Molly, Meyer, Shea, Moll, Croft, Snook are some he specifically names in his Ten Things a Web Designer Should Consider article. In this Tutorials and Resources article, he links to quality tutorials from other designers I know and respect, like Chris Coyier's CSS-Tricks and Ian Stewart's ThemeShaper.com among many others. In other words, if I hadn't already found a lot of these great sites, this one post would have set me up really nicely! I look forward, therefore, to exploring all the great tutorials and resources I haven't yet discovered on my own that he lists.

"Unless you've been hiding under a (presumably delightfully comfortable) rock for the past few years, you will have noticed the extraordinary rise in the popularity of podcasting (one billion podcast subscriptions was passed way back in 2013). And being the enterprising type, you're ready to wade in and grab the opportunity that podcasting presents with both hands. As a WordPress site owner, you'll be delighted to hear that podcasting and WordPress go hand in hand. To save you the unnecessary hassle and effort that can be involved with integrating podcasts with your WordPress site, we've rounded up seven of the top podcasting plugins out there for you to consider below. By the end of the piece, you're sure to have found a solution to suit your needs. Before we crack on to the list though, let's cover some background on podcasting itself. A Brief Overview of Podcasting Podcasting's history goes back further than blogging itself. Although its roots lie in the 1980s indie radio boom, the modern format become popular in 2004 through platforms such as Odeo. During that time, the iPod was the dominant force in online media consumption. Developers and radio enthusiasts were on the lookout for a way to easily add their programs to the device and Apple's 2005 integration of podcasts in iTunes set the ball rolling in earnest. Since then, podcasts have been created by every conceivable media outlet and organization on earth and opened the door for many individual voices. Some of the most popular podcasts have been entertainment-based. The Ricky Gervais Show, for example, started life as an incredibly popular podcast with roots in traditional radio. Due to its success, the show grew into an HBO series with multiple spinoff shows starring various cast members. Other popular podcasts explore a diverse range of topics with standout examples including This American Life, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Nerdist, and Radiolab. The more technically inclined amongs

"I explained in the previous post on How to Install a WordPress Blog from cPanel. You can easily install a WordPress blog by following that tutorial. By default, you will receive two free themes, Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve in the latest version of WordPress. You can carry on your WordPress blog with the default theme. Even so, you might have a purpose to create a blog, which may not come with the default theme. In that case, you must want to install your chosen theme, but don't know how doing that? Nothing to worry, in this tutorial, I will explain you how to establish a theme of your choice by removing the default WordPress theme."

"I wanted to use widgets in the footer of my WordPress theme but my wordpress theme didn't come with a footer-sidebar by default. I didn't really wanted to change the theme just because of that. So I hacked the wordpress theme to introduce footer-sidebars. If you are looking for a tutorial that explains how you can add sidebars/widgets to the footer of your WordPress theme then keep reading."

This article can serve as either a primer for the beginning Wordpress Theme Author, or it can serve as a checklist for those of us who have been writing these themes for awhile. Either way, it should be beneficial to the community.

In this article I'll give you a few tips that have helped me over a bit of time to save a bit of time. The fact that running a website and writing for it as well can require quite a bit of time and dedication, we all need new ways to help us publish and promote our articles quicker. While this tutorial was written with a focus on the Wordpress CMS, I think any webmaster will be able to take something away with them from it.

Good tutorial for how to use this terrific, new total SEO plugin by Yoast. I was attracted to the tips you get while writing the title and the post.

quote from site: "WPCandy was created on October 1st, 2007, as a blog on everything about WordPress, from the latest themes and plugins to tutorials and tips. Already on it's 3rd redesign, WPCandy is one of the top sites about WordPress and still kickin' ass."

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"WordPress has a built-in feature Post Thumbnails aka Featured Images. There is also a built-in function add_image_size() which lets you specify image sizes and give you the option to crop. Using these core functions in your theme can essentially eliminate the need of a third party script like TimThumb in most cases."

Ever wanted to display the number of posts your blog has achieved for your blog readers or perhaps just for yourself? Or, what about the number of posts in a specific category? If so, I'll show you a quick and easy way to do just that, and we'll style up the output with a bit of CSS Level 2.1 the standard way.

a PHP script that helps you easily implement multiple meta boxes in editing pages in WordPress. It works with custom post types and supports various field types

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