45+ Fresh Wordpress Tutorials, Techniques and Hacks

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The growth and popularity of Wordpress continues to spiral to a seemingly endless end. It continually proves itself time time and again that it has very few limitations, and is rapidly pushing itself to being, if not the best, but certainly the most versatile CMS available. Out of the box it is certainly not perfect, but in the hands of the huge WP community, it might just be.

In this article we have collected 45 fresh Wordpress tutorials and techniques, with some hacks, guides and best practices thrown in for good measure. Everyone, not just developers, should take something from this round-up.

Complete Theme Design Tutorials

How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial

Mar

5 Essential Wordpress Plugins & Services for Business Blogs

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Wordpress

online service, Plugin, Wordpress

Creating a Wordpress blog for your business can be a great way to keep in touch with your customers and increase interest in your product(s). For some people, their blog is their whole business.

Making a successful blog may seem like a daunting task. There are millions of blogs out there and it may seem impossible at first to stand out. The major thing that will help your blog stand out is the content you provide. It needs to be useful for your visitors. But besides that, there are free services and business plugins for Wordpress to help you along the way.

We’ll take a look at five of the essentials for Wordpress business blogs.

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Mar

How to Customize fonts in WordPress blog with CSS3

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Wordpress

css3, font, free, howto, tutorial, Wordpress

Fonts type that can be used for Safari, Chrome and Firefox3.1+ are .ttf(True Type Font) and.otf(open type font). Both support the @font-face rule that allows stylesheet to point to a .ttf or .otf on server. IE has little problem with .otf. After declaring the @font-face rule give reference to your required font-family property in your stylesheet as following:

  @font-face {
   font-family: MEgalopolis Extra; src: url(‘MEgalopolis-Extra.otf');
   }
  h3 { font-family: MEgalopolis Extra, sans-serif; }

Reference:
@font-face {
 font-family: MEgalopolis Extra;
 src: url('MEgalopolis-Extra.otf');
}

Example:

MEgalopolis Extra

The drawback of embedding fonts in stylesheet is again licensing and infringement issues which you can handle with the sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) method. There is a well explained article on sIFR implementing the core method, you can find it at Mike Industries’s Blog “sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses“.
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Mar

Tracking Statistics Tools for Websites

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Plugin, Tools, Wordpress Tags

javascript, jQuery, statistics, tool

Original article from http://wparena.com/how-to/tracking-statistics-and-bringing-in-visitors-for-websites.

By knowing and understanding your site visitor numbers, one can get help how to increase them. WordPress offers many tools for doing just that. Getting someone to visit your blog is half the battle; helping them get the most out of it is the other half.

You might want—and you can get—many alternatives for statistics for your blog. The built-in statistics in WordPress are probably the best quick overview you’re likely to get. If you also pay much attention to blog site statistics, though, it really does become a full-time job. That’s because increasing—let alone truly maximizing—traffic to your site is like running a rapid-response room in politics. You need to be working on an hour-by-hour basis to see what’s happening in the world, the response on blogs similar to yours, and how you can make your voice heard in the fray.

Just for your convince i have compiled a best resources, these are scripts, hacks, JQuery Plugins, WordPress Plugins, a list of Websites providing web stats included in this article. If you know any other, mention it in comment.

1. Google Analytics Extensive Tracking Analysis of Websites

Feb

Creative Illustration on WordPress Themes

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Inspire, Wordpress Tags

showcase, theme, Wordpress, 个人, 作品

Original article from wparena.com.

天知道这么多的网站都是怎么收集来的！越来越多的创意工作者在用WordPress平台展示他们的个人作品。

Well known art director, brand manager, graphics coordinator, digital artist, illustrator, Web designer, multimedia developer, and new media designers are using WordPress to present their creativity , the Illustrators are flaunt on WordPress.