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how to setup a User Link Feed solution in Wordpress 2.7+. Nice feature as it gives a blog dynamic content and it it may actually drive traffic

How to minify WordPress theme stylesheets properly

"Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially. It is now rare for a new website to not get comment spam within days of its release, even if it is not promoted at all."

"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."

Diferentes posibilidades para cambiar el fondo de páginas, o secciones de ellas, en wordpress.

"In celebration of Cyber Monday, today we're going to show you a technique for creating a custom "Splash Page" for your WordPress theme. You're probably seeing a lot of these around the net today, so you know that they're great for running quick promotions of products or events... but you can have fun with it and come up with creative ways to use a splash page such as advertising, donation button, radio pledge drives, highlight of an upcoming race, or highlight of a new product."

"Google Apps is one of the best email services. While having your email hosted on the same server as your website is convenient, in reality, it's not always the wise choice. The following are a few reasons to make the switch, and how to do it - if your host provides cPanel. "

"Have you ever came across a site that style their posts differently? Some sites have different sticky posts highlighted whereas others have each category post styled with a different color, or some may even have a totally unique outlook altogether. Well, that is exactly what we are going to cover in this article. We will share how you can style different WordPress posts in different ways. So what are we going to use? We will use a function called post_class. Post Class function prints out different post container classes which can be added, typically, in the index.php, single.php, and other template files featuring post content. Note: This tutorial requires that you are somewhat familiar with WordPress theming, and know fairbits of HTML / CSS. "

"How To Style Your Posts Based on Category, Tag or Custom Taxonomy in WordPress Style Posts by Taxonomy We heard this question many times and it's not as simple as it sounds, so we're dedicating a whole blog post to the solution. Today we'll talk about child themes, taxonomy (categories, tags and custom taxonomy), the post_class function, it's filter friend and their correct usage in WordPress themes. As simple as it sounds, adding the appropriate CSS rules to your theme stylesheet doesn't always work unless you're using default themes or very well written ones. Then again, even if it does, you might see it broken during the next update to the theme you're using, which brings us to child themes."

"In the previous tutorial I showed you how to style the posts on your main blog page according to their category, creating color coding by category. A lot of sites that use this technique also take it further by adding distinct styling to each section of their site, in a way that co-ordinates with the styling on the main blog page or home page. You can just use a simple color scheme or add completely different styling to each section, maybe with a different logo or branding for different parts of your organisation, or even a different layout. An example is the London Times website, which uses a different color for each section of its site. The front page uses these colors in a banner above each post, as shown in the screenshot:"

I recently wrote an article about how to use WordPress 3.0 multisite/network features. This feature is really cool but out of the box it only supports the multiple sites/blogs to be served on the same domain (networksite1.domain.com or www.domain.com/multisite1/). For some this may be fine but really most like you want to have unique domains for each individual site. In this article I provide a quick guide on how to set up multisite domain mapping in WordPress 3.0. Please note that you should not follow this tutorial if your WordPress 3.0 has not been configured to support multisites!