Ben Bleikamp “I’ve been designing and building WordPress blogs for a few years now and I’ve noticed that I always seem to get a relatively high PageRank without much effort. I also notice that I get a decent amount of Google traffic, even when I’m not writing, for terms I never intended to rank well for. I’m not an SEO expert, so I attribute this to the SEO-friendly WordPress habits I tend to practice. Here are my big secrets – and seriously, it’s nothing special.”

Use this technique to pimp your website, making it a bit more funny and attractive for your visitors.
First things first: You’ll need an account at Feedburner to make this work. If you don’t have an account, register now and make sure your RSS is now directed through Feedburner

One of our primary goals as designers is to constantly improve the usability of our websites and blogs.  Content, while very important, doesn’t help readers if they can’t easily get to it.  In this post, I’d like to outline several ways to quickly improve a blogs usability.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily add thumbnails, lead image, and other extras to individual posts in Wordpress. These images can be shown on the front page, archives, search pages, etc – but appear outside of the content, giving you full control of their placement and style.

In this tutorial, we’ll assume your web host doesn’t have a one-click installer. Maybe you’ve got a bare-bones host, you’ve decided to host your own site, or you’re simply setting up a local installation to see what WordPress can do. At any rate, fear not — getting WordPress working on your server only takes a few minutes. Of course, you’ll need a few skills in the bag first, like a knowledge of PHP and a comfortable working relationship with MySQL databases.

Creating a WordPress Theme, The Homepage Following on from the recent article on “PSD to HTML”, this tutorial will look at taking a HTML/CSS template and turning it into a functioning WordPress theme. There is so much you can do when creating your own theme we couldn’t nearly cover it all. So, we’re going to look at how themes are structured, creation of the core files and splitting up that index.html file.

I was recently contacted by a reader of this blog who needed help with installing the MyBlogLog widget that displays on this site, into his own blog. So, I decided to write it up as a blog post to explain to him and anyone else that might be wondering.

An often-used feature on WordPress blogs is the ability to style comments made by the post’s author differently from the others – helping replies to stand out. Here, we will edit the default WordPress to add some subtle styling to author comments.

WP_Query is a powerful tool to control what comes out of your loop. Learn how to use it by making a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category. Using the 960 CSS framework for the basic layout and reset of our theme.

Learn how to increase your inbound links number without paying for any campaigns. For the ones who don’t know Inbound links are links form high rated web sites/domains that link to yours.