Another advantage of this fabulous CMS is that is loved by Google and the other search engines, and , with some modifications and the use of the rights plugins, your blog will be really good indexed in the various search engines, bringing you more users and traffic.

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.

One of the most important part of setting up a blog is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO for a WordPress blog is different than SEO for static websites, mainly because of the social nature of blogging technology. It is less about buying links or tricking inadequate search technology. SEO for WordPress blogs is more focused on the technical infrastructure of your site, and your ability to write creative articles that are noteworthy for others to read and link to. This SEO guide should be your reference point for all WordPress blogs because in here we will mention some of the tips that has been proven to work. These techniques does not require heavy investment except for few bits of your time. Don’t make this to do list a chore, you can do these trick one per day and not feel stressed out about it.

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

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.

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?

In this article we will show you how you can display the correct comment count through a small snippet which will filter out trackbacks and pings and only display the actual comment count to your users.

In this article we will show you how you can separate trackbacks from comments in WordPress. This hack will only work for version 2.7+

I hate editing my WordPress theme files—and I’m a theme developer! It makes it a pain to update the theme when a new, better version comes out. And if you ever change your theme you’re either going to forget about some crucial edit you’ve made, or spend wasted hours hunting down all your customizations. Didn’t we decide to use WordPress because it was so simple to use?

Make a better search experience for the user by highlighting any search terms with jQuery.