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I’ve been using WordPress since June 2004, and I love it. It’s a powerful open-source content management system, and a modder’s dream. Let me just say that it did all those things right out of the box, which would, otherwise, require a lot of effort on other similar software. I’d highly recommend it to anyone.

Articles

1. Roll out your own (blog) site—A short guide to setting-up your own blog site.
2. Archives for dummies—A simple guide to creating a dynamic archives page for your weblog entries.
3. Turning address bar into a WordPress command line—A WordPress powered site or a blog is perfectly searchable and browsable entirely by command line. This guide shows how.
4. Feeding on categories—This post provides a simple guide to subscribing to specific categories for sites powered by WordPress.
5. Adding voice to your blog—All weblog posts on this site are converted to mp3, to aid the visually impaired. This accessibility feature is powered by Talkr. This post provides details about how to setup one for your weblog or a site.
6. Turn comments and pingbacks on or off in your Wordpress database with simple one line commands within PhpMyAdmin console. A nifty admin trick that would help you go on a peaceful vacation, without worrying about comment spam entering your blog and database.
7. Upgrading via Subversion: It’s a lot simpler, and way cooler. Try it once, and you’ll wonder how you managed to live without it.
8. Running a local version on Ubuntu: For use as a test site, a local archive or even if you don’t have a public site.

Themes

1. Plain Vanilla—A simple and clean theme.

Code and Plugins

1. Extract blockquote info—A WordPress plugin (based on Dunstan Orchard’s Blockquotes), which extracts cite="" and title="" details from blockquote to display with attribution and link below the quote.
2. Subdomain redirect using a WordPress plugin (based on Matt Mullenweg’s No-www plugin). Read the post and then modify your plugin code to suit.
3. Code transform is based on Dunstan Orchard’s tag transformations, this plugin can pull and list code snippets from flat .txt files. (The plugin code is derived from Mathias Bynens’s plugin.)
4. A simple method, and optionally a plugin to make your blog go mobile.
5. Transforms capitalized words into small caps within the content.
6. Make the dateline usable by linking it to date-wise archives.
7. Browser related: Firefox search plugin for a WordPress powered site—This post helps you create plugin for searching a Wordpress powered site or a weblog directly in Firefox.