Add Unique “Per Category” RSS Feeds – WordPress

A client came to me the other day with a neat request. He wanted the ability to offer unique RSS feeds for each of his WordPress blog’s categories. His site uses a custom permalink strategy, but I wanted to develop…
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Essential WordPress Plugin – Advanced Excerpt

So, you’ve been working on your WordPress-based website or blog for quite some time now, developed excellent content, and gathered a following. Now you need a way to show snippets of blog posts for a given category, but you need…
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Weekly Theme Spotlight – Melitus (FREE!)

Melitus is a visually attractive, widget-ready WordPress theme. The blog home page features dyanamic display of 2 posts per row, lending a unique, and cutting-edge look and feel. This theme is ideal for a content creator who doesn’t want…
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Exciting New Features of WordPress 3.0

Excerpted from a list at BlogPerfume

  • Wordpress.org and Wordpress MU Become One
  • Choose Username and Password while Installing
  • New Default Theme (which is awesomely functional)
  • Custom Background
  • Custom Post Types
  • Navigation Menu
  • Author Templates

Link: http://www.blogperfume.com/exciting-new-features-of-wordpress-3-0/

Weekly Theme Spotlight – LightWord (FREE!)

LightWord is a free WordPress theme that features multiple layout options, has support for multiple languages, and is just downright attractive! It also has built-in support for Google’s AdSense advertisement service.

Link: http://www.lightwordtheme.net/

List Recent Posts on Page or Sidebar – WordPress

Want to list recent posts on a page? Use the code below.

To use it in your sidebar, just make sure your wrap the entire chunk of code in <li class="widget"></li> tags so that it is recognized as an element…
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List Categories in Sidebar – WordPress

The code below will list categories in the appropriate format for your WordPress sidebar.
For this example, we exclude items from category 10. If you don’t want to exclude any categories, just remove &exclude=10. To exclude a different category,…
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