Post Thumbnails are getting more popular every day. Many magazine themes associate an image with a specific post which they later display on either homepage or on the post page. We display a thumbnail with our posts on both the post page and the category page. In older versions, this functionality was obtained with the use of custom-field method which was not very user friendly. Thanks to WordPress Core Developers along with many notable features in WordPress 2.9, this function was also added to the core.

There are many email newsletter solutions like Aweber, one of the most recommended one, but they all charge money. The solution we are going to mention in here by no means can compare to the features provided by the premium service like Aweber, and it must not be considered as the better system. Our solution is rather to give bloggers an affordable and functional method to create newsletter by using the open source software that we all love, WordPress.

You will see that many sites add a digg button within their post content. Some new users simply open single.php and add the digg script which will cause a digg button to show on all blog posts. But what if you want to display digg button on only specific posts? You can add it manually on each post when writing a post, but that is not the most efficient way. In this article we will show you, how you can add a digg button on specific posts by simply using Custom fields.

WordPress has this very cool feature called stick posts. When you make a post sticky, it shows up above your new posts, but only if your theme is set to be that way. In this tutorial we will show you a trick that will let you display latest sticky posts anywhere in your WordPress theme.

In this article we will share a tutorial that will give you the option to choose a different sidebar to be displayed for each post and page for WordPress. This is an excellent snippet to bookmark for all WordPress theme designer and other users who would like to add this functionality.

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.

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+

In blog posts that generate high amount of discussion, it often becomes hard for users to track the author’s comment. Specially when the discussion is heated, it is very interesting to see author’s thoughts. In this tutorial we will share one of the easiest and simplest way to highlight author’s comments in WordPress.

Rearranging comments to display the latest one on top is becoming a new trend that more and more top bloggers are implementing on their site. If your blog has a lot of user interaction, then this option should be your choice because often the recent comments get buried on the last pages or at the very bottom. In this article we will show you how you can rearrange your comments and display the most recent one on top.