As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing 'Wordpress' as an area of expertise. Of course, unless you want to bluff your way through jobs, you'd better have the skill to back-up that claim. This collection will help.
Wordpress Basics
1. Unraveling the Secrets of the comments.php File
Nettuts+ author Gilles Maes has written an in-depth overview of the comments.php file and how to make the most of the template.
2. How to Become a Wordpress Developer
iThemes has a tutorial on how to become a Wordpress developer. The article covers development tools, best plugins, suggestions for getting clients, and more.
3. Multiple Wordpress Installations Using a Single Database
Streamline your Wordpress set-up by installing multiple instances of Wordpress on the same database.
Theme Tutorials
4. How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch
Nettuts+ author Sam Parkinson gives a thorough overview of how to make your own custom theme from scratch, complete with source code.
5. So You Want to Create Wordpress Themes, Huh?
A lengthy and thorough series of tutorials covering nearly every aspect of Wordpress theme development. A must-read for beginners.
6. WordPress for Designers: Video Series
Drew Douglass will teach us, using easy to understand screencasts, exactly how to design for WordPress.
7. Wordpress Theme Hacks
A collection of simple Wordpress hacks that you'll find yourself reusing all the time when working with themes.
8. Designing for Wordpress Screencast
CSSTricks has an excellent 3-step screencast that starts with the basics of solid theme design (step 2 and step 3).
9. Turning a Web Template Into a Wordpress Theme
Instead of using one of the many standard Wordpress themes, you could convert a web template into a Wordpress theme with this video tutorial.
10. Wordpress CSS Guides
A slightly-dated but still useful guide on how to alter the CSS on default themes to create your own personalized theme.
11. How to Create a Wordpress Theme in 5 Minutes
Bothack has a quick-n-dirty rundown on how to create your own Wordpress theme in 5 minutes.
12. Mastering Wordpress Theme Hacks and Techniques
Nuope has a 4-part series on Mastering CSS, one of which is how to master Wordpress theme hacks.
13. Blog Posts in Different Columns
If you're wanting a little more advanced look and feel to your blog, try setting the posts to display in different columns.
14. Adding Tabs to Your Theme's Sidebar
Here's a quick hack that adds tabs to your sidebar using Yahoo! Tab View.
15. Category Styling
This tutorial shows how to add messages in the theme for posts in a certain category using CSS.
16. Multiple Page Layouts in a Single Template
If you're looking for a more diversified template for sub-pages in a template, check out this quick tutorial for mutiple page layouts in a single template.
17. Rounded Corner Tab Menus
Rubique has a quick tutorial on how to use CSS to make rounded corners for your Wordpress menus.
18. Dynamic Classes or ID's
Elliot Jay Stocks as a useful tutorial on how to apply a dynamic body class or ID to your templates, for styling purposes.
19. Formatting Images for Feed Readers
How to make sure your images are looking good in many of your blog follower's favorite medium: the feed reader.
20. How to Highlight Author Comments in Wordpress
Google blogger Matt Cutts offers some advice on how to style your author comments differently than the rest of the reader comments.
21. Customizing Widgets Using CSS
Widgets are a great way to quickly add information to your layout (namely the sidebar). Here's a tutorial on how to style the widgets using CSS.
22. Using Sliding Doors with Wordpress Navigation
The Sliding Doors technique is a great way to utilize CSS and background images to make tabbed navigation. WPHacks shows us how to utilize Sliding Doors to enhance Wordpress navigation.
23. Wordpress Categories in a Horizontal Drop-down Menu
How to use CSS and Javascript to make a horizontal drop-down menubar.
24. Separate Comments from Trackbacks
It's a good idea to separate trackbacks from your comments.
25. Creating a Widget Ready Footer
There's a trend for blogs to have footers that feature columns of extra information. Learn how to create a widget-ready Wordpress footer.
26. Make a Featured Post Carousel
Many blogs use a featured post carousel to show recent posts or flagship content. Learn how to create this nifty feature with Nettuts+ author James Lao.
27. How to Lay Text Over Images
Add a little flair to your blog and add some text to your flagship images by only using Wordpress custom fields.
28. The Date/Image Hack
Interesting tutorial on how to combine a combination of images, CSS and Wordpress hooks in order to graphically display the date of the published post.
29. Dynamic Sticky Pages
Learn how to dynamically make posts stay on top longer in category and archive listings using multiple loops.
Plugins
30. Your First WP Plugin
Mark Jaquith has a short-and-sweet screencast on how to create your first Wordpress plugin in under 5 minutes.
31. How to Write a Simple Wordpress Plugin
A step-by-step guide to a simple and fun Wordpress plugin.
32. Screencast on Writing a Wordpress Plugins
If you're rather see a visual demonstration of how to write a Wordpress plugin, look no further than the Weblog Tools Collection screencast.
The Backend
33. Custom Write Panels in the Wordpress Backend
Design blog WeFunction shows us how to create extra write panels for adding extra bits to the "Write" page of the admin area.
34. Wordpress as a CMS
Wordpress isn't just a blogging tool, it can also be a CMS with the help of some plugins and theme retooling.
35. Exporting Wordpress Data
Learn how to import and export your Wordpress posts and comments with this handy screencast.
Miscellaneous
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. Build a Dynamic Design Portfolio
A terrific guide on how to utilize the query_posts tag to create a design portfolio with Wordpress.
39. 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.
40. A Wordpress-Powered Membership Directory
WPDesigner shows us how to create a membership directory using a standard installation of Wordpress and some customization.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. Enabling HTTPS for Wordpress.com Blogs Screencast
The Wordpress team has put together a how-to video on enabling HTTPS on Wordpress.com blogs.
44. 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.
45. Make a Random Post Button
Adding a random post button is only a SQL query and PHP snippet away.
46. RSS-Only Posts
This tutorial shows you how to create posts that only appear in RSS feeds, in hopes to improve RSS subscriber counts.
47. Wordpress SEO
Yaost has a lengthy tutorial on how to squeeze the most SEO out of your Wordpress blog.
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. 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.
If you found this post useful, please vote for it on Digg. Thanks!
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )M.A.Yoosuf February 23rd
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( )Will February 23rd
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Great List!!!!
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( )Amir February 23rd
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awesome list! i have been thinking about learning to make wordpress themes for a while now. this should definitely help me get started
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( )Serkan Gürkan February 23rd
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( )Adrian | Rubiqube February 24th
Glen, this roundup is definitely a place to come back for inspiration. Great job and thanks for including 3 of mine!
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Everything you need to make a good wp web site!
( )Good job.
xQlusive February 24th
Wow, that’s a lot to read
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( )Thanx for this great WP article.
Shane February 24th
There’s an issue with the 3rd link. It seems to keep redirecting to itself. Whatever it’s doing, it ain’t going anywhere.
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Nice collection.
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Great list!
( )Daniel GILLES - Créations du Net February 24th
yeah! a great roundup! lots of useful infos out there! thanks a lot!
( )Jeff Hui February 24th
Thanks, just want I needed!
Now I can go ahead and improve my wp site … when I get the time.
( )Martin Majling February 24th
Perfect tutorial pack. Thanxs
( )Patternhead February 24th
Great resource. Bookmarked for future ref.
Thanks
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A very good one.
I am working on my first WP project and it is going help me a lot.
Thanks for this.
( )Creamy CSS February 24th
Really helpful list, thanks a lot!
( )crypta February 24th
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thx
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Great post! I always wanted to upgrade my knowledge about WP and this will come in very handy!
( )Martyn February 24th
This is a brilliant list of resources, straight in my bookmarks! A Great way to learn how to fully customize wordpress.
( )Bilal February 24th
Thnx a lot..i really need this kind of list..
( )Sean Delaney February 24th
Very informative.
Thanks.
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Thank you for this post I am just getting into WordPress and I am amazed at all that it can do. This article will be a place that I come back to often.
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Gr8 post, very helpful.
( )BTW, it is Yoast and not Yaost,just in case.
Sune February 24th
Great great stuff
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Wonderful list, this will help a lot!
( )Andris February 24th
Great list. Thanx a lot.
( )Samantha Armacost February 24th
Wow, between NetTuts and the ThemeForest Blog, I’m getting quite the education. So many thanks to you all over at Envato.
( )Chris Cagle February 24th
Glen, great list. The WP Directory link is a little out of date… this is probably a little better (2.7 version)
http://www.cagintranet.com/archive/the-new-improved-way-to-turn-wordpress-27-into-a-membership-communit/
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That is a very nice list of tutorials and helpful items.
I recently made my blog and used a framework to help with coding the PHP portion.
( )Kevin February 24th
Nice post!
( )Naveed February 24th
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( )WebDesigner February 24th
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( )rob February 24th
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( )Rodrigo Teixeira February 24th
The best complilation about Wordpress!
( )Thank you!
Jason February 24th
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( )Eneza February 24th
A keeper!!!
( )Chase February 24th
Amazing list, thanks a bunch!
Tons of great information here for Wordpress developers of all skill levels.
( )Mark Penix February 24th
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It is lists like these that make WP incomparable. Thanks.
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( )themisfit February 25th
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( )Meshach February 25th
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( )hostsniper February 25th
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( )Lorelle February 25th
As usual, very informative. Thank you for all you do to help the WordPress community’s pool of knowledge increase.
And don’t forget, it’s a capital “P” in the spelling.
( )Sergio Forés February 26th
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( )Shane Waite February 26th
Has anyone been able to get “13. Blog Posts in Different Columns” to work for wordpress 2.7?
( )Rahul Chowdhury February 27th
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( )Nikolas Schrader February 28th
Nice list – thanks for sharing
( )Yudhi March 1st
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( )cnlogger March 1st
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100 million thanks.
( )LiliekS March 1st
A very useful tutorials, especially those theme tutorials! Now i know how to create my own theme
So thank you.
( )JonnyT March 2nd
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( )Can Erdoğan March 4th
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( )Eligio March 4th
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( )Deven March 4th
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( )Marcelo March 6th
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( )Bill March 9th
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( )Jason W March 10th
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( )saurabh shah March 11th
nice one.. i have to start reading more now…. thanx for posting..
( )Windows Boy March 13th
Amazing list. Reading all the content may take my whole day..Thank you.
( )Hezi March 13th
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@heziabrass
( )sendmail April 5th
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Regards,
( )NumninquigO April 16th
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( )Adam Winogrodzki April 19th
Thanks for the Awesome list !
This place is great for people who use WP.
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( )Vikas N May 13th
Great Roundup of Wordpress Tutorials. Its Very useful for All the wordpress users like me
( )Muhammad Adnan May 23rd
nice stuff ..!
( )Jonathan Wold May 23rd
I humbly suggest a tutorial of my own for consideration:
How To Create A WordPress Theme
( )http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/
Lis June 10th
THIS IS A PHENOMENAL LIST!!!
( )James July 10th
Awesome, will take some days to go through
( )Justin (jnashdesign) Nash July 14th
This is an excellent list. Thanks for putting all these together!
( )milano July 16th
Would be great if there would be some TEXTPATTERN tutorials on Nettuts.
( )Some people even recommend it over Wordpress.
pom website design July 18th
the first 5 tips is what we all should go through, great tutorial
( )Hunter Gillane July 24th
30 and 32 are the same vid fyi
( )polo July 27th
Nice…!!!!!!!!!!!! very nice..!!!!!!!!
( )Joltivan July 30th
Thanks for the list..nice collection
( )venue finder August 16th
good collection, really useful especially the widget tips.
( )Website design August 22nd
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Thanks
( )Michael August 24th
Great collection of wordpress tutorial. Will come back soon.
( )shaunjudy August 28th
This list is a must for all wordpress users…. Thanks
( )smgl August 31st
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( )nomi September 14th
Awesome tutorial details.
( )Chris Stephens September 17th
Spent ages reading stuff on this site……superb.
Sharing knowledge in this way is what makes up for all the crap that floats around the web.
Keep up the great work.
You have a new fan.
( )Solfilm October 6th
Excellent list with all the information I have been looking for! Thanks!
( )Web Designers October 16th
After several years of sticking to standard CMS Systems such as Joomla & Mambo, I recently adapted to using Wordpress and without tutorials, it’s quite a handful indeed.
This is a fantastic resource post for anyone looking to brush up on their Wordpress know-how.
( )SWP November 2nd
amazing list of tutorials. Just what I was looking for.
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