Although Digg has its share of problems, it is an undeniably useful service that they provide. More often than not the best stories will make their way to the front page.

Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t really fit in very well on Digg, as they have many users that are not bloggers, and the site is more geared towards reporting news.

If you are looking for a good WordPress Theme, I recommend checking out WP Themez. This site was inspired by Digg, and allows users to submit and vote for their favorite WordPress themes. The idea is that the best themes make their way to the top with the most votes.

So far, the site is just getting started, so its hard to gauge how useful of a resource it will develop into. The other problem is see is that most WordPress users want to find a theme that isn’t heavily used, so they will probably avoid the most popular themes.

In addition to the stuff you’ll find here at Hack WordPress, there are all sorts of things being discussed around the blogosphere about WordPress. Here are a few things I’ve collected that I hope people will find useful:

• Webware has posted about Matt Mullenweg and his thoughts on the future of blogging. Included is quite a bit of talk about the development of WordPress and his hopes for the future of the internet being open source.
• JohnTP features a WordPress plugin called Feed Count. This plugin helps the user display their Feedburner subscriber numbers in a convenient text format.
• WordPress Garage explains how to give each comment a link in your WordPress theme.  This might be something people would want to do for certain types of blogs where comments are cited regularly.

A couple weeks ago I took a look at the Related Posts WordPress plugin, which is one of my favorite plugins available to WordPress users. It can be quite a chore to setup, but once done, the plugin will make your blog a whole lot better. Unfortunately, this plugin will not actually add these related posts to your WordPress feed.

There is, however, a different plugin that will do this for you called Add Related Posts to Your Feed. In order to setup the plugin, you just need to go through the standard setup process of uploading and activating it. The only catch is that you need to already be using the Related Posts plugin, or be using the Ultimate Tagging Warrior plugin, for this plugin to properly add related posts to your feed.

If you are setting up a WordPress blog to work with a variety of authors, it is probably a good idea to also set up the author display to actually be a link to the bloggers website.

For whatever reason, many themes are created to simply display the author’s name using text by default instead of converting it to a link to the author’s website. Fortunately, this is an easy change to make with a minimal amount of coding adjustments required.

Here is what you need to do. When editing your theme, you’ll want to look for the following code:

<?php the_author() ?>

Remove that code and replace it with the following:

<?php the_author_link(); ?>

Now test it out! It will automatically display a link to the author’s site, as specified in the users profile.

Have you ever noticed blogs that feature some of their top posts using a thumbnail (picture), rather than simply displaying a link to the post?  This is a popular trend around the blogosphere, and the use of images seems to help attract traffic to these posts.

WordPress Garage recently wrote a post explaining how any WordPress user can do this entitled Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the homepage.  I recommend checking this out if you are interested in setting something like this up on your WordPress blog.