1. First up, ‘10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks‘ on Smashing Magazine by Jean-Baptiste Jung of WP Recipes fame.
2. Next, a post on Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr’s Digging into WordPress caught my eye: ‘Include jQuery in WordPress (the right way)‘. In this post, as you might have guessed, Chris shows how to include jQuery the right way – using the copy of jQuery built into WordPress.
3. Third, a post on WPWebHost in two parts – ‘Securing your WordPress Install the Foolproof Way’ – parts one and two. A couple of tips in there that you might not have thought of.
4. Another post that caught my eye was ‘Multiple WordPress Loops Explained‘. I would say more, but it’s pretty self explanatory.
5. A post that has been around a while, but is worth mentioning anyway – WPCandy presents ’10 Things You Can Do With WordPress Besides Blogging‘. Again, pretty self explanatory, but definately worth a look.
6. And finally, a little plug for a post I wrote the other day – ‘10 Tips to Improve Your WordPress Theme‘. Check it out. Some rather nice tips in there.

And there we have it. Six links of note!  Add your own in the comments.

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• WordPress Optimization Bible -The WordPress Optimization Bible is a collection of useful tips and tutorials on how to speed up your WordPress site. If you ever experienced slow WordPress admin panel, “MySQL server has gone away” message, pages taking forever to load or you want to prepare your site for a major increase in traffic (for example Digg front page) this is the guide for you.
• What’s in Store for WordPress Themes in 2009? – Justin Tadlock shares his thoughts on what he expects out of WordPress themes in 2009.   In my opinion, you’ll see many more premium WordPress themes, as well as a shift towards theme frameworks and child theme releases.   Click over to see what Justin is expecting!
• 135+ WordPress Tutorials – Instant Shift has compiled another large collection, this time featuring a number of our WordPress Tutorials and our WordPress code page.
• The A to Z of .htaccess – Alex of Nometech has published an excellent post covering a bunch of information about the .htaccess file.    Useful resource to bookmark for any webmaster!

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• Price Reduction at Theme Hybrid – The theme club by Justin Tadlock, Theme Hybrid, is currently offering a $10.00 membership to his theme club for the first 100 members.  You can read more about the club here.
• How to Integrate Pagination into your WordPress Theme – Jean-Baptiste Jung has explained how to build PageNavi plugin functionality directly into your WordPress theme.
• 15 Premium Quality Free WordPress Themes – Noupe is at it again, this time with a collection of free WordPress themes that they consider to be premium quality.  I think they did a pretty good job narrowing this down to 15 quality themes.
• How to Add PollDaddy Polls on Your WordPress Blog – Leland of Theme Lab has written a detailed write up explaining how to add PollDaddy polls to your WordPress blog.
• Building a Control Panel for Your WordPress Theme – Custom Theme Design has published a great post about building a control panel into your WordPress theme.  The example even includes code snippets.
• How to Exclude Categories from your RSS Feed – Have a few categories on your blog that you don’t want your feed readers to see?   Web Kreation has written a great post explaining how to prevent certain categories from showing up in your feed.

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• 13 WordPress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should – This is an interesting post that covers some nice WordPress plugins that most people aren’t aware of.
• 6 Tricks to Creating a Magazine WordPress theme – Jean-Baptiste Jung of Cats Who Code shares some tips for creating a magazine WordPress theme.  Because creating one of these is a lot different than building a standard WordPress theme, this is a good read if you plan on attempting to make your own magazine theme.
• What Makes a Perfect WordPress Theme? – Joost de Valk has written a terrific post about what makes a perfect WordPress theme.   Some of it is common sense stuff, but there is a few things people don’t always think about and it is a lot of information collected into one post.
• Interview with 4 Premium Theme Authors – Vandelay Design has published an interview with 4 premium theme companies, including iThemes and Woo Themes.   I think this is a good post for someone to read that is considering going into this market.   It talks about the support, tutorials, and other factors you need to consider before you start selling themes.

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• WordPress Developer’s Toolbox – Smashing Magazine is at it again, this time providing a useful toolbox for WordPress developers.   We were fortunate enough to have about 5 of our posts featured here.
• WordPress for iPhone Downloaded 100,000+ Times – If you think about how many iPhones are in circulation after only a couple years in existence, this is truly an amazing statistic and a great sign for WordPress.
• Feed Pauser WordPress Plugin – Keith of Techie-Buzz (also Weblog Tools Collection) has released an awesome new WordPress plugin that pauses a post from being made available through RSS.  Click over to get a more detailed description.
• Different Ways to Display Content in WordPress – Devito Design does a great job of sharing a bunch of different ways to display your blogs content in WordPress.

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• 10 Social WordPress Plugins – The WAHM Blog shares 10 different WordPress plugins that any social networking junkies may want to check out.
• 10 WordPress Statistics Tools – Mashable has collected a bunch of tools for collecting WordPress statistics.
• The Ethics of Premium WordPress Themes and Open Source – This is an interesting post that examines the ethics of using open source code in your theme and then selling it as a premium WordPress theme.

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• 100+ Killer WordPress Resources – Steffan Antonas, who has been a big supporter of this site, has published a huge list of WordPress resources.   If you are looking for additional tweaks you can do on your blog this is a great place to start.
• When to Use a Magazine-Style Theme – Smashing Magazine recently took a look at magazine/news WordPress themes and tried to determine when you should or shouldn’t consider using one.   This is a very detailed and well researched write up that i recommend to anyone considering making the switch for their blog.
• Stop Blaming the WordPress Team – Are you to quick to blame the WordPress team for problems with your WordPress installation?   Jeff Chandler basically took my thoughts on this matter and wrote it down into an incredible post.   A HUGE portion of the problems people experience with WordPress are usually due to an issue with a WordPress plugin made by someone that isn’t on or affiliated with a WordPress team.
• First Look at WordPress 2.7 – Another great post by Jeff at Weblog Tools Collection.   This one offers a very detailed early look at what to expect for WordPress 2.7.

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• Using Actions in WordPress Themes – Joost De Valk explains how he used actions to build his current WordPress theme.
• Free WordPress Theme: Purity – Maigret over at Cats Who Code has posted a new free WordPress theme.
• How to Add Google Reader Subscriptions to a WordPress Page – Emil explains how he managed to import his Google Reader subscriptions and build this list into their own WordPress page.
• 10 New Useful WordPress Plugins – Blog oh Blog has published a list of their favorite new WordPress plugins.   In fact, they are so new that I hadn’t heard of a single one!
• How to Build Breadcrumbs Into Your Blog – Jean-Baptiste Jung explains how to build breadcrumbs into your WordPress blog without the need of a WordPress plugin.
• 30 Free Quality WordPress Themes – Smashing Magazine has posted another great WordPress themes post, this time featuring their favorite 30 quality WordPress themes.   These are definitely some of the best artistic themes I have seen available for free and plan to add a few of them to our WordPress themes page.

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• How to Display Page Children on the Parent Page – WPLover provides some code you can use to place links to your page children on the parent page.   This is a nice idea for your themes sidebar.
• 5 Plugins to Secure Your WordPress Blog – Our friend Jean of Cats Who Code who published a great list of WordPress plugins that help you secure your WordPress installation.
• Links in a WordPress Sidebar Text Widget – This post by WordPress Max provides the code and explains how to create a sidebar text widget.
• How To Build a Featured Post Section in WordPress – Net Tuts has written a great tutorial explaining how you can build a featured post section into your WordPress blog.
• Theme Hybrid – Justin Tadlock releases his much anticipated “free” themes club with an option for an exclusive membership for $25.00.

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• How To Display Code in WordPress Posts – Leland of Theme Lab has posted some tips/plugins you can use to help you display code in your WordPress posts.
• 40+ WordPress Tricks and Hacks – Hongkiat has another good collection of WordPress hacks and other guides, including a few of ours.
• WordPress 2.6 Disabling XML-RPC By Default? – James Mowery of Performancing takes a look at the effects of WordPress 2.6 coming with XML-RPC disabled by default, which will hopefully reduce security risks.  Unfortunately, this will also pose a problem for people that write their posts in 3rd party blogging software such as Windows Live Writer and will have to be manually enabled.
• 20+ Must Have WordPress 2.5 Compatible Plugins – Mashable has posted over 20 WordPress plugins that are compatible with WordPress 2.5.

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