WordPress How-to — Tips and Tricks to Work with WordPress

A user of various content management systems and web publishing platforms for quite some time, I’ve found that WordPress is the easiest to manage of all, bar none. However, newbies who are new to the idea of installing their own web applications and learn how to publish online find it challenging still.

This is why this section comes into existence. I created this to share my experience on hacking WordPress in order to make it more usable from the publisher standpoint. Of course, it has to be beneficial to the visitors too, or otherwise the point in it is moot.

This WordPress How-to page is created similar to a list to help you locate what you want quickly and easily. If there’s nothing in here that addresses what you need, consider visiting a blog forum or ask the WordPress community (either through the site or via IRC channel. Here’s some tips to increase your chance of getting WordPress help.

Broken Link Checker — A WordPress Plugin to Clean Broken Links in Your Posts and Pages
Ever wondered how do you weed out those broken links in your blog? It’s like trying to find needle in a haystack, isn’t it? Not so if you have this WordPress plugin handy. It will do that automatically for you.

BBU List of Must-Have WordPress Plugins (and Why)
WordPress plugins allow you to extend functionalities of the core web publishing platform. This article lists tens of must-have WordPress plugins and why.

Search Everything — A WordPress Plugin to Search Pages, Comments, and More
The title says it all, really. WordPress by default doesn’t allow users to search pages, categories, excerpts and other content except posts. This may or may not be the behavior that you want. Search Everything plugin is a solution for you if you want to modify this.

6 Free Advertising Server Plugins for WordPress — Setup, Manage and Track Banner Ads
Many bloggers started a WordPress blog to sell advertising space as a way to monetize their blogs. If you want an easy way to setup, manage and track ads on your blog, this article has 6 advertising server plugins for you to pick from.

WordPress Search Engine Redirect Hack: The Symptoms and How to Fix It
This so called hack works just like a simple cloaking script, but this time it covers its appearance from the owner and repeat visitors. Those who have cookie set for that domain by the browser will see the blog as if nothing has happened.

Which ping server should you notify each time you update your blog?
The false misconception is to ping as many as you possibly can. It may cause delay in the publishing time. But if you are able to reach more blog related services, is it worth your time?

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