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
- How to Add a Store to Your WordPress Blog
- How to Add Widget Support to Your WordPress Theme
- How to Prevent WordPress Plugins From Breaking Your Blog
- How to Add Edit Buttons To Your Theme
- How to Add WordPress Tags to Your Theme
- How to Setup RSS Feed Auto Discovery
- How to Use WordPress Conditional Tags
- How to Hide Your Subcategories (Children)
- How to Prevent Google From Indexing Your Images
- How to Create a Two-Tiered Navigation Menu
- How to Make WordPress Function Like a CMS
- How to Add a Print Button To Your Theme
- How to Add an Email Button To Your Theme
- How to Add Breadcrumbs to Your WordPress Blog
- How to Add Social Bookmarking Links to Your Theme
- How to Insert Ads After Only the First WordPress Post
- How to Add a “Tweet This” (Twitter) Button to Your Blog
- How to Display Most Recent Twitter Entry on Your Blog
- How to Add External RSS Feeds to Your WordPress Blog
WordPress Stylesheet Hacks
- How to Create a Print Stylesheet
- How to Create a Maximum Size for Your Images
- How to Use Multiple Stylesheets
WordPress Post Hacks
- How to Add Daily Blog Posting via Del.icio.us
- How to Convert Your Author Links to Point Towards the Authors Site
- How to Show Only a Post Excerpt
- How to Display a Last Modified Date on Your Posts
- How to Add Bio Information to Your Blog Posts
- How to Alternate Post Background Colors
- How to Add Author Gravatars to Authors Posts
- How to Add a Featured (Sticky) Post
WordPress Comment Hacks
- How To Separate Comments and Trackbacks
- How To Single Out Author Comments
- How To Add Numbers To Your Blog Comments
- How to Display Recent Comments First
- How to Change the Default WordPress Gravatar
- How to Display Your Most Commented Posts
- How to Add Spam and Delete Buttons to Your Comments
WordPress Page Hacks
- How to Create a Custom Page Template
- How to Hide Individual WordPress Pages
- How to Add an Author Page To Your Theme
- How to Optimize Your 404 Error Page
WordPress Categories/Archives Hacks
- How to Create an Archive Page for Your WordPress Blog
- How to Limit How Many Archives are Displayed
- How to Remove Ads from Select Categories
- How to Display Recent Posts for Specific Categories
- How to Change the Author Archives Permalink
- How to Convert Your Categories to Display Post Titles
- How to Build a Category and Archive Drop-down Menu
WordPress Blogroll Hacks
WordPress Search Hacks
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. You can learn more about him by following his personal tweets here.
I am looking forward to using the ScribeSEO tool with my wordpress site. Thanks. 
Thanks a Lot. It was really very helpful for me :) 
How to make the posts section of the WP static? 
reaally excelent job. thanks 
Thanks I have been trying to figure this out for awhile now. I knew it wasn't that hard I ...
Thanks for your effort. Nice work. Keep posting such thing. 
Superb list. Appreciate your great effort.
Great! I have been tweaking WordPress for a while and I still found two hacks I could use. Thanks and… keep on hacking!
Wow, that’s a very great list! Thank you Kyle.
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.
This is a really handy post!
A year ago WordPress Garage also existed, and I only write there about WordPress.
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.
How can you hack you hits counter and change it
Great time-saver collection. Thanks you.
Great lost and esp. gonna try the single out author comment hack. Awesome site, def added to my RSS reader
I’ve been tweaking my WordPress blog for a while and I found your source of wordpress hack. Great list dude.
wow, i don’t know what have to i say. I use wordpress, and this is a right place for learning wordpress hacks.
i’m noob in WP, i’ll learn much from your list provided, thank’s
Nice one lots of data.. thanxx
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.
Nice list indeed! Have to try one of them. Will bookmark this!
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.
Where do I copy the code?
Great collection. Enjoy using it…
this is a great website,
i have seen many blogs and sites about wordpress hacks, themes and downloads but admin your site is valuable and really having a good material in it.
and all credit goes to admin of-course.