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38 WordPress Tutorials for Hacking Custom Functionality

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The WordPress core has been updated frequently by a team of well-educated developers. This has lead to many advances so even theme designers can greatly enhance the user interface. When searching in Google you can find a lot of tutorials related to WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress customization. In this post I’ve organized 38 niche-specific tutorials […]

27 WordPress Resources for Building Custom Projects

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Developing over WordPress has become so easy that anybody familiar with HTML/CSS could get started right away. PHP can seem daunting at first. But once you understand how everything works you’ll notice that WordPress is a well-oiled machine. Plugins, themes, widgets, taxonomies, shortcodes, and many other features can all be programmed using various WordPress APIs. […]

25 Beautiful Flat and Free WordPress Themes

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More open source WordPress themes are being released now than ever before. If you are just getting into WordPress then you already have a tremendous assemblage of resources at your disposal. Free tutorials, plugins, and most certainly themes are just some of the benefits to working with the WordPress platform. This gallery contains 25 creative […]

The 6 Coolest Features of the New WordPress 3.6

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On August 1st, 2013, WordPress rolled out its latest version, WordPress Version 3.6. We were excited to try it out, and we can say that we’re very impressed with it. With WordPress 3.6 came many much-needed features, which designers will also appreciate. Learn about some of them here: The pop-up login notification Have you ever […]

Deal of the Week: Lizatom WordPress Shortcodes Plugin over 80% Off!

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Even if you are just getting started using WordPress, most average users will know about shortcodes. These are the small bits of text which run PHP functions in your backend, only requiring a small tag in your post content. So you may run something like [greenbutton] or [redbutton] to include dynamic HTML elements right within […]

WordPress Security Attacks & Vulnerabilities for Admins

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Many users by now have already heard about the ongoing security attacks against WordPress CMS websites. To simplify the issue, a large number of IP addresses have been recorded with multiple login attempts for wp-login.php. This is usually the work of brute force bots attempting to crack into WordPress sites using weak passwords and common […]

26 New Freebie WordPress Themes Released in 2012

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There are tons of free WordPress themes released every month. Developers like to use WordPress because it’s an open source CMS which supports an active community. All these new themes can slip through the cracks if there is not enough publicity. That’s why I’ve collected another set of 26 outstanding freebie WordPress themes. These have […]

17 Time Saving Code Snippets for WordPress Developers

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The Wordpress blogging system has grown by leaps and bounds in just a few short years. Web developers familiar with JavaScript and PHP have flocked into the community. As such we have seen a tremendous surge in free code, plugins, and templates for Wordpress 3.2.

In the collection below you can find 17 amazingly helpful code snippets which you can implement into your blog. Wordpress makes it super-easy to build off their own framework and classes. All of these codes are simply cut-and-paste solutions for your theme’s functions.php – which just goes to show Wordpress’ creativity and novelty as a web CMS platform.