When it comes to adding extra functionality to a WordPress blog, WordPress users typically go and search for a plugin that might suit their needs. There are often plugins created for basic extended functionality, but what happens when you can’t find the perfect plugin for your needs? It might be easier to just create the plugin yourself.

This tutorial will guide you through every step of building a simple, widgetized WordPress plugin with settings.

Not only the design changed since version 2.5. Also the markup was changed immensely, so there might be changes in the editor area, if you use pluigns, which implements data there.

We’ve seen all A-list bloggers using Aweber for creating the mailing lists and that they are using the javascript pop-up boxes to display the signup information button for the first time visitor, so as to increase the signup rate. However, there are few who don’t like that at all. Anyway, I also want to increase the signup for my newsletter (not aweber one, I use the feedburner’s default service) and was thinking of a non-obtrusive way of displaying the signup box and here’s what I did!

One of the biggest advantages of using WordPress is the ability to use plugins to expand the capabilities of your blog or website. Since WordPress has such a large community of plugin developers, it means that you can make your WordPress website do pretty much anything you want it to. If you’ve ever thought about a feature that you wanted in WordPress, chances are that if you look around, you’ll find someone who has created a plugin to integrate that feature.

This is a very simple guide on which plugins you can install today to increase your blogs performance in the search engine rankings.

Depending on the type of WordPress blog you run, you may have an interest in building a small store into your blog.

Find the Flickr plugin that fits you with this individual review of some of the most used ones.

How to Write a WordPress Plugin, is an extensive, twelve entry series on the process of creating your own WordPress plugin