Popular Wordpress Tutorials: Part 3

In the first part I gave you the link of some tutorials related to Wordpress Basics, Plugins and The Backends and In the second part I gave you the link of some tutorials related to Wordpress Theme. Today, I am going to give you some other useful tutorial related to wordpress.

- Embedding WordPress into OS Commerce

OS Commerce is a popular open source ecommerce shopping script that many web developers use to sell goods. Here’s a tutorial on how to embed a WordPress blog into an OS Commerce installation.

- Creating An Automatic Sitemap

Sitemaps help users navigate the site, as well as allow search engines to have quick access to all of your blog’s pages. Here’s a tutorial on how to create an automatic sitemap for your WordPress installation.

- Build a Dynamic Design Portfolio

A terrific guide on how to utilize the query_posts tag to create a design portfolio with WordPress.

- Create a User Contributed Link Feed w/ WordPress Comments

If you’re wanting to add a Nettuts+ style link feed, Collis has an excellent tutorial on how to utilize WordPress comments to create the feed.

- A WordPress-Powered Membership Directory

WPDesigner shows us how to create a membership directory using a standard installation of WordPressand some customization.

- Remove Categories in the WordPress Loop

Sometimes excluding certain posts in categories from showing in the WordPress loop is important. Here’s a quick tutorial with sample code on how to exclude certain categories in your templates.

- Add a Twitter Field to your Form

How to install the twitip-id plugin to include a field for commenters to leave their Twitter ID.

- Enabling HTTPS for WordPress.com Blogs Screencast

The WordPress team has put together a how-to video on enabling HTTPS on WordPress.com blogs.

- How to Add Photo Captions

Good photo captions aren’t that something that WordPress themes usually come with out of the box. This screencast shows how to correctly add photo captions into your posts.

- Make a Random Post Button

Adding a random post button is only a SQL query and PHP snippet away.

- RSS-Only Posts

This tutorial shows you how to create posts that only appear in RSS feeds, in hopes to improve RSS subscriber counts.

- WordPress SEO

Yaost has a lengthy tutorial on how to squeeze the most SEO out of your WordPress blog.

- Learn How to Make Your Blog Accessible

Most blogs don’t conform to WAI/WCAG standards in terms of accessibility. Learn how to meet these standards with Bruce Lawson’s accessibility hacks.

- Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs

Although not strictly a WordPress tutorial, Chris Pearson’s guide to semantic web markup for blogs is a must-read for anyone wanting to maximize their results in search engines.

- Digg-proof Your WordPress

Learn how to configure MySQL, Apache and other things to keep your site humming when it lands on the front page of Digg.

Hope these will help you to build up your blog with wordpress.

Happy Blogging!

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