Since posting the DiW tutorial on designing a Tumblelog theme for WordPress, several readers have asked for a tutorial on how to setup just the Tumblr/tumblelog-style post links …without having to implement the entire theme.

We are going to use a plugin called Twitter Tools by Alex King to auto publish twitter tweets as New WordPress Posts. This plugin creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Popurls is a ultimate source for the latest web buzz and news, with news from sites like DIGG, Technorati, Delicious and many more.You can create something similar with recent posts from your favorite blogs.

A step by step blog integration tutorial that shows how to customize wordpress
default theme to match an existing website.

While working on the redesign of my website I realized I was using a very inefficient method of displaying my latest Twitter post (”Tweet”). Currently I’m using a script I found online that uses two functions that are just over 20 lines of code total. Here I’ll show you how to use WordPress’ built in RSS parser to display your latest tweet in 5 lines of code.

It appears that Yahoo! has integrated some applications in the their Mail program. To my delight, as I was scanning the (short) list of apps, and the oh so familiar WordPress logo seemed to call right to me. Could it be? WordPress inside my Yahoo! Mail!?

Teaches you how to create and monetize automated content sites

Teaches you how to create and monetise a automated video site

Allowing clients to create and edit their own web forms is a problem I’m constantly running into. For some businesses, your standard contact form is enough, but I’m getting more requests to manage web forms on their own. Obviously this is no small task and there isn’t any easy way to do it currently in WordPress. There for combining Wufoo and WordPress is the best solutin for this problem.

Today, we will cover some unique ideas and tutorials to help you incorporate some php functionality into your themes.