As 2008 closes out and we welcome 2009, I figured what better way to close out the year than with a quick ”year in review” post featuring our best work during 2008.
I’ve always felt reviewing was a good process as it allows us to both learn from our mistakes and appreciate the progress we’ve made through the past year. This is a good way to stay motivated and loving what we do each day!
Here are the top WordPress Hacks posts, according to our internal analytics (based upon traffic/popularity):
- How to Add an Author Page to Your WordPress Blog (January 2008)
- How to Add Biography Info to Your WordPress Blog Posts (February 2008)
- How to Tell WordPress to Function Like a CMS (March 2008)
- How to Use WordPress as a Static Site (April 2008)
- Best Free WordPress Themes Gallery (May 2008)
- CSS Techniques: Using Sliding Doors with WordPress Navigation (June 2008)
- Huge Compliation of WordPress Hacks (July 2008)
- How to Add a Store to Your WordPress Blog (August 2008)
- How to Create an AJAX-based Auto-Completing Search Field for Your WordPress Theme (September 2008)
- How to Move WordPress Blog to a New Domain (October 2008)
- WordPress Review Site: Premium Theme and Plugin (November 2008)
- Free and Premium WordPress Themes Gallery (December 2008)
I’d also like to take a moment to thank those that helped contribute to the growth of WordPress Hacks in 2008. Your guest posts, inbound links, and comments help make the site the WordPress resource it has become today.
Happy New Year!
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.
These are all reasons why I have my blog on Wordpress. I really like how versatile it is and ...
Hi Kyle,
I had the exact problem you stated, my author archive went to
/author/Jordan%20Godbey
and my nicename in the database was "Jordan ...
Liked the "SimpleWP Theme". Neat and clean. Over all good collection of themes. 
The new download link for the wordpress help sheet:
http://wpcandy.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/WordPress-Help-Sheet.pdf 
really nice theme.thanks a lot 
Open php.ini file and increase the size. 
Interesting to see these ordered as such.
Thanks for all the hacks and happy new year
Well, another excuse to not work this AM. Just what I needed. Goes well with coffee.
i wait for good news at 2009..
happy new year brother..
2008 is a good year,2009 is going to be better for us all!
Interesting list. I personally love looking at “year in review”s because it’s nice to see accomplishments and successes laid out in order. Another 2008 accomplishment I found particularly interesting was included in a article I just read about hot skills for 2008. It shows that wordpress trends having steadily increased by 4 times that of the previous year. I think that’s incredible, especially in this economy.