There are many a WordPress theme. How to choose one that will enhance the quality of your links and the propensity of people to buy is a task you need to undertake if you want to make money online.

WordPress’ powerful action-hook system makes it possible to insert functionality at any point in your theme. Most WordPress themes include some of the built-in WordPress hooks by default. For example, most of us are aware of the two most common WordPress hooks: wp_head() and wp_footer(), which generally appear in the theme’s header and footer sections. These two hooks provide WordPress a location at which to execute various scripts and functions. For example, the wp_head() hook is where WordPress generates a variety of and | Report Broken Link

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Recently I’ve become more and more interested in the .htaccess file as a way to speed up and protect your site. Previously here on WPShout I’ve written an “A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks”, which has been a very popular post, and today we’re going to look at ten easy methods to speed up WordPress with the .htaccess file. Not all of these apply specifically to WordPress; you could easily apply most of these to any other site.

A bit of copy & paste code that will make your WordPress tag clouds better looking and better performing.

I know I’m not alone in this either because on almost every blog about marketing, blogging, and tutorials you find that the owners have added all of the extra plug-ins for their comments section, they’ve added in the “top commentators” and “most commented” plug-ins and sometimes use the LinkLove plug-in that will remove the nofollow attribute on commentators names after X amount of posts. So, what else is there that almost all blogs are overlooking that could help put them one step closer to creating the perfect user interaction?

Many times, I get requests from my clients who want to implement a Sliding Login Panel at the top of their WordPress blogs. With jQuery and the WordPress default login code, its very easy to build. Here is what it will look like :-

In this article tripwire magazine provides a mini-tutorial on how to setup a User Link/News Feed solution in WordPress 2.7+. I really think it is a nice feature as it gives a blog dynamic content and it it may actually drive traffic from bloggers looking for sources to get some easy and free traffic for their own site. You may also yourself find useful ressources by follwoing the links that your users submit.

WordPress has an internal cache, also for extensions can be used. There are various functions available and you don’t have to create something new, you can easily use the cache functionality of WordPress.
To get to know and understand the features a little bit, I use a small example, therefore I cache in the following tutorial a feed, which should be displayed in the frontend.

Making HTTP requests in PHP is not difficult, and a variety of methods exists: using fopen(), using cURL extension, using file streams with fsockopen() and fwrite() for instance. The problem is: depending on server setup, this might or might not work on another server. The good new is: once again, WordPress has a no-brainer API that makes it dead easy and compatible with all environments.

So you’ve completed your next great WordPress theme. You’ve tested them day and night, squashing bugs and CSS inconsistencies along the way. Your fingers are trembling, waiting for the time to release that theme to the wild.