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"Recently, reader Luke Knowles asked how to customize the sort order of his posts in WordPress. Looking into a solution to this question proved quite enlightening. Within moments I was able to discern 4 methods for modifying post order, and then several days later I discovered 2 additional custom sorting techniques. After updating the reply to Luke's comment, it seemed like some good information that other WordPressers may find useful. So, here are six ways to customize the sort order of posts in WordPress."

Control widget display on your WordPress website without knowing any code, or use conditional tags (for advanced users)

Social media has made a profound impact on the way businesses market their products and services. Did you think Facebook and Twitter wouldn't last when they first came out? Many of us did but boy were we wrong! 

"Mute Screamer uses PHPIDS to detect attacks on your WordPress site and react in a way that you choose."

"Yes, WordPress theme development. That is an easy process for experienced hands who knows the capabilities of the application and familiar with its functions and "not too hard" for others. To simplify developing new themes, there are awesome WordPress theme frameworks and starter themes that you can use as a base for skipping the repetitive steps and begin with an optimized playground. Here are the 34 free and good-quality ones that will save your time from searching them. And, in the bottom, you can find a comparison table for these WordPress theme frameworks."

"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."

"See which plugins are slowing down your site. This plugin creates a performance report for your site. This plugin creates a profile of your WordPress site's plugins' performance by measuring their impact on your site's load time. Often times, WordPress sites load slowly because of poorly configured plugins or because there are so many of them. By using the P3 plugin, you can narrow down anything causing slowness on your site."

"Today I'd like to show you the best options available to you for delivering your articles to readers and analysing your traffic. I'm sure you'll find it useful. I've divided the resources into different sections such as feed services, newsletter solutions and WordPress plugins. Most of the resources offer similar features; I have simply categorised the options in this way to make it easier for you to make comparisons."

fancy tools! You have quite a help on these. I'd definitely want to try some of these as I do content marketing.

"Ever since WordPress 3.0 there has been the hidden option of turning your blog into a Multi-Site WordPress installation. It's not something most blogs really require and it's certainly not for the faint of heart. It is however, something that can be truly useful for websites that want to split their content into individual channels."

"Earn more with affiliate marketing using ThirstyAffiliates - the professional affiliate link management & link cloaking tool for affiliates. "

"Social Networks Auto Poster {SNAP} - Free plugin for WordPress SNAP can publish nicely formatted messages to your Facebook, Twitter, Google+(Google Plus), Blogger, LiveJournal, Delicious, Diigo, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Plurk, VKontakte(VK.com), WordPress, and Tumblr accounts. You can reach the most audience and let all your friends, readers and followers about your new post automatically. Plugin works with profiles, business pages, community pages, groups, etc. Plugin makes 100% White Labeled Posts. The main idea behind the plugin is to give you the ability to promote only yourself. Plugin uses your own apps and all posts to all networks come only from you. No "Shared via NextScripts.com" or "Posted by SNAP for WordPress" messages."

"In this article, I'll show you in a few short steps how to get started with modifying the login screen so that users experience a customized, branded look and feel. I went over the top with this design just to show how dramatically the login form can be stylized using a simple mod to the functions.php file and some CSS."

"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."

"Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface. Want to replace the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links with some page links? This plugin provides the wp_pagenavi() template tag which generates fancy pagination links. See the installation instructions for using it in your theme."

WordPress shortcodes are used frequently in plugins and themes as a way to achieve extra functionality, without the need to modify template files. You just type the shortcode word right into your post.

"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."

"Duplicate Post Clone posts and pages. This plugin allows to clone a post or page, or edit it as a new draft. If you find this useful, please consider donating whatever sum you choose, even just 10 cents. It's been downloaded thousands of times: just a few cents from every user would help me develop the plugin and improve support."

"Freelancing with WordPress in today's world is a demanding but rewarding experience. Being your own boss or being a contract professional is becoming more and more popular in the website industry. What works for some freelancers might not work for others. It is wise to use tools that help you get your work completed in the most efficient way possible. This, in return, will benefit both you and your clients!"