Compilation of WordPress Hacks

By Kyle Eslick on July 14th, 2008 | Filed Under Hacks
Tag(s): WordPress Guides, WordPress Hacks, WordPress How-To

At the time when WordPress Hacks was created close to a year ago, there were only two sites that were completely dedicated to WordPress (Weblog Tools Collection and Lorelle on WordPress), and both focused a lot of their time covering WordPress news and the community that surrounds it.

The original intention when building this site was to feature a number of WordPress plugins, hacks, tips, and/or how-to guides each week to kind of fill the gaps and provide resources for WordPress users. Over time, I feel this site has branched out to become much more, but the core of this site is still focused on providing WordPress theme hacks. In addition to the ones I’ve written, we’ve also had some great hacks contributed from a number of different WordPress enthusiasts.

Because I felt that our archives are not as focused as was originally intended, I have decided to create a place to strictly collect links to our posts providing WordPress hacks, WordPress tips, and WordPress guides. This will replace the Archives link in our menu.

There are a number of new WordPress hacks planned for the future, so the plan is to update this post every time a new hack is published!

Note: These hacks worked at the time they were published, but as new versions of WordPress are released, some may no longer work. Please backup your theme before attempting any hacks so you can restore things if something goes wrong.

WordPress Theme Hacks

WordPress Stylesheet Hacks

WordPress Post Hacks

WordPress Comment Hacks

WordPress Page Hacks

WordPress Categories/Archives Hacks

WordPress Blogroll Hacks

How to Separate Your Blogroll Categories

WordPress Search Hacks

How to Create an AJAX-Based Auto-Completing Search Field

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There Are 34 Responses So Far. »

1 Neowster
Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 6:57 am

Superb list. Appreciate your great effort.
2 Zhu
Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Great! I have been tweaking WordPress for a while and I still found two hacks I could use. Thanks and… keep on hacking!
3 jbj
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 10:33 am

Wow, that’s a very great list! Thank you Kyle.
4 Rachel Lyle
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

Thank you Kyle that is a very informative post, actually I been reading articles the same kind that you post today but you post it all lol . Thanks and I will bookmark this as my reference.
5 Miriam Schwab
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

This is a really handy post!

A year ago WordPress Garage also existed, and I only write there about WordPress.
6 Abdo
Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 8:18 am

Great hackes but I don’t know if it’s work with diffrent styles. I tried to use one of these hack
How To Separate Comments and Trackbacks
but it didn’t work.
7 GG89
Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

How can you hack you hits counter and change it
8 Ted
Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 5:08 am

Great time-saver collection. Thanks you.
9 Anthony
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 at 5:55 am

Great lost and esp. gonna try the single out author comment hack. Awesome site, def added to my RSS reader
10 Busy SEO Test
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am

I’ve been tweaking my WordPress blog for a while and I found your source of wordpress hack. Great list dude.
11 EEng
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm

wow, i don’t know what have to i say. I use wordpress, and this is a right place for learning wordpress hacks.
12 Coffee City
Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at 9:00 am

i’m noob in WP, i’ll learn much from your list provided, thank’s
13 Kabon
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 12:38 am

this is good list. thanks for sharing…
14 Dev
Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 4:22 am

Nice one lots of data.. thanxx
15 Sony Cybershot
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am

Thank you Kyle that is a very informative post, actually I been reading articles the same kind that you post today but you post it all lol . Thanks and I will bookmark this as my reference.
16 Piilolinssit
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 9:45 am

Nice list indeed! Have to try one of them. Will bookmark this!
17 Alex Schleber
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 9:30 am

Not to self-congratulate, but I would think this (completely free) Wordpress “Theme” hack qualifies/deserves mention here…

Building your own Tinyurl using Wordpress in < 45 minutes:

http://3on.us/your-own-tinyurl

Why would you want to do this?

You completely control the link appearance, the custom domain gets people curious on 1st encounter, higher click-through for semi-sensical url extensions, avoidance of public services’ bugs/annoyances, and you retain all your click stats/data.

That’s for starters… there’s more.