70+ Useful Wordpress Tricks & Hacks

Have you ever came across a Wordpress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that’, ‘is that a plugin or hack’ Well, for this article we’ve finding out what hacks and plugins for to enhance blog in any aspect. Including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.the updated WordPress tips and tricks and plugins that are interesting and useful.

1. Antivirus for Wordpress
   AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks.
2. Digg/bury blog comments like Digg.com
   This plugin will allow users to digg / bury every thread of your comments, thus find out the most valuable comments as well as the human-spammers.
3. Spell, Style and Grammer check with After the Deadline
   Smart plugin that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.
4. Detect Adblocker and display alternative
   Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin detects if a regular visitor to your blog (10 visits by default) has AdBlock software enabled. If so, it will display a floating notification message on the 11th visit to your visitor.
5. Insert anything into Wordpress Blog Post – WP-Insert
   An allrounder wordpress plugin which takes care of it all be it your ads, your feeds, your tracking codes even the way you edit your posts!
6. Improved web typography in WordPress – WP-typography
   A one stop shop for improved web typography in WordPress. Ability includes:
• Hyphenation
• Spacing control, including: gluing values to units, widow protection, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses.
• Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks ( "foo" ), dashes ( foo - bar ), ellipses ( … ), trademarks ( ™ ), math symbols ( 1024×768 ), fractions ( 12/23 ), and ordinal suffixes ( 3rd )
• CSS hooks for styling: ampersands (class "amp"), acronyms (class "caps"), numbers (class "numbers"), initial single quotes (class "quo"), and initial double quotes & guillemets (class "dquo").
7. Improve page load time – WP Minify
   Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.
8. Disable Comments in Old Posts via PHP
   Simply set the desired number of days by changing the number “30” to whatever you would like. As is, this script will close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on all articles posted more than 30 days ago.
9. Custom ‘Read More’ and Thumbnailed Recent Posts
   Display a customized Read More message and display related post in Thumbnails by manipulating Wordpress custom fields.
10. Add shadows to a range of objects
    Wordpress Shadows plugin is a plugin to add shadows to a range of objects. Currently supported are images, divs and blockquotes.
11. Implement E-Commerce Shopping Cart – WP e-Commerce
    State-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. Similar plugin: MiniCart
12. Alternative way to display dates – WP-RelativeDate
    Change date displays to ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago‘, ‘2 Weeks Ago‘, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago‘, ‘2 Minutes Ago‘, ‘2 Hours Ago‘.
13. Vote Post Up/Down
    This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. This function is similar to Reddit or Digg, in that visitors can vote for and against.
14. Wordpress Thread Comment
    An enhancement for Wordpress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.
15. Add private notes to Wordpress blog post
    How to leave admin-visible notes on a public visible blog posts.
16. Customized Greeting Messages – WP Greet Box
    This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Similar plugin: Referrer Detector
17. Allow users to upload and share photos at ease – PhotoSmash Galleries
    PhotoSmash Galleries makes it easy to create photo galleries in posts or pages that your users can upload images to. Click here for a demo.
18. Thank your commentators with Thank Me Later
    Automatically sends out thank you emails to readers after they post a comment. By default, it will send emails out after 1 day to remind readers of their comments and to get them engaged with future discussion and your blog. Comment Relish is another similar plugin worth a mention.
19. Paginated Comments
    Plugin that gives you the ability to break your comments into a number of search engine optimized pages. Particulary useful if you have a lot of comments on blog posts.
20. Check for Broken Links
    This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. It also works for images.
21. Manage who sees the ads
    Advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, depending on user defined conditions. Click here to see a demo.
22. Wordpress Download Counter
    Shows the current download count and even refreshes the count every 15 seconds automatically.
23. Add Post Thumbnails with ease – Simple Post Thumbnails
    With the Simple Post Thumbnails plugin, adding thumbnail images to your posts is as easy as uploading any image (no editing required) and clicking the “Update Post” button. Upon upload, the plugin will re-size and crop the selected image according to whatever parameters you specify within the plugin configuration.
24. Display Thumbnails for Related Post
    How to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and Wordpress custom fields.  
25. Link Codes to 33 Social Bookmarking Sites
    If you prefer to manage and control your own blog posts’ permalinks to their respective social bookmarking sites instead of using plugins, these Wordpress link codes will come in handy.
26. Display Random Posts from Category
    List random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title.
27. Mass manage Wordpress custom fields
    Useful plugin to help people who use WordPress to manage their post’s custom fields with ease.
28. Create beautiful blogroll down-drop (without Javascripts)
    Title says it all. Click here for a demo.
29. Automatically insert content after each post
    If you have something you’d like to insert in every blog post, this trick will save you from manually inserting them to each post one by one.
30. Better commenting functions and management with Intense Debate
    A great commenting module that makes the default Wordpress module looks really dumb. Read more about what Intense Debate can do.
31. Better Wordpress Search Page
    By using a template file you can completely control the look and feel of the search results page.
32. Filter content by country
    This plugins allows you to control the visibility of Wordpress elements depending on the users country of origin. You can hide or show certain elements of a page or some sections of a post from users browsing from a particular country.
33. Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress
    Turn your Wordpress blog into Twitter alike site.
34. Display categories in horizontal Drop-Down menu
    Instead of using your categories in sidebar, you can put them up on the navigation bar, dropping down the sub categories in second-level drop down.
35. Add Gravatar for post author
    How about adding Gravatar to your post titles to highlight the comment author?
36. Using custom page as homepage
    Instead of showing recent entries as main page on your blog, customize it!
37. Add author bio on every blog post
    For multi-authored blogs, adding the bio info of each author at the bottom of their respective posts is a good way to give props to the author as well as providing information to the readers as to who that person is without having to refer to an about me page.
38. Display recent post from specific category
    Control recent post of any categories you want to display.
39. Highlight author’s comments
    This helps differenciate the author’s comments away from the rest. Useful for commentators to spot which are comments made by the author.
40. Create thumbnails for each blog post and displays them
    How to create thumbnails for each blog post, use them anywhere you want, make your post more interesting.
41. Create and show categories image
    How to add some simple PHP code to your Wordpress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts.
42. Format images for feed readers
    Get your blog content to display properly, even in feeds.
43. Create really cool Wordpress date button
    Display your blot post’s date in the form of button.
44. Hiding Advertisements For Single Posts
    Quick and easy way to hide advertisements for any particular post by making some minor changes to your theme.
45. Creating a dynamic sticky
    There are some news you just want them to stay on top.
46. Customize Error 404 page
    Create a new Error 404 page of your own.
47. Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme
    Implementing a custom stylesheet that simply overrides the styles defined in the theme’s original stylesheet
48. Make your blog Digg proof
    Tweaks and settings to add to your blog to take the Digg effect.
49. Using Wordpress as Membership Directory
    Create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information.
50. 4 Ways to speed up your wordpress blog
    Some quick tips on how to speed up your self-hosted WordPress site.
51. Create mobile version of your blog
    Create a mobile version of the website within clicks with Mofuse.
52. Open links in new windows (by default)
    Title’s pretty self-explainatory, make all links open in new window.
53. Turn Wordpress blog into CMS (Content Management System)
    Your Wordpress blog don’t have to look like a typical blog display. It can be something more fun.
54. WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack
    Don’t like the default thumbnail JPEG quality? Change it.
55. Automatically post Del.icio.us daily link to Wordpress
    Get more daily post on blog, from del.icio.us
56. Create a peel away effect on blog
    Very effective way to market products and bring more attention to pages you want visitors to focus.
57. Seperate Comments from Trackbacks/Pingbacks
    Get a clear view on what are comments, what’s not.
58. Blog Alone or Together with Writely
    Writely is one of my favorte Web 2.0 apps. It’s a full-fledged web-based word processor that you can access from anywhere. Think of it as Microsoft Word for the Web.
59. Embed Google Ad in first wordpress post
    The leading SEO (Search Engine Optimization) sites will tell you that placing an ad after the first post in your blog’s home page is particularly effective.
60. Creating multiple single posts for different categories
    Fast and simple way to assign a specific stylesheet for only one category of blog posts in a WordPress blog.
61. Using WordPress Custom Fields
    You can do pretty much anything you want with custom fields. Your imagination is your limit.
62. Creating an Archive Index
    Create single page with links to all your archived entries, arranged just so to form the main gateway into your blog’s past.
63. Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step
    Provide specialized archive views that place a premium on scannability.
64. Place a login form in the sidebar
    Put a login on the front page of your Wordpress blog.
65. Protect Wordpress post against hot-linking
    Plugin for Wordpress that helps prevent image hotlinking as easy as installing and activating it.
66. Moving a Static HTML Site to WordPress
    how you retain the old URLs after moving static HTML to Wordpress.
67. Build a Techmeme River of News Clone
    Building something similar to Techmeme with Wordpress.
68. Custom login page
    This is more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients.
69. How to Put Your Best Content Forward
    Don’t let your best content get lost in the archives.
70. Display Twitter messages in Wordpress
    Customize the Twitter message display on your Wordpress blog.
71. Add Stripe Ad to boost response / earnings
    A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog
72. How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog
    Put your Facebook statuses directly on your wordpress blog. Works for both self-host Wordpress and Wordpress.com bloggers.
73. Post text and image count
    Counts and display number of words and images (leaving the default Wordpress smilies out)
74. Place content only in RSS Feed
    Ever wonder how some bloggers control some content to be shown only in RSS feed but not the blog. Here’s the plugin to do that – RSS Footer.