Noupe has a very large list of various WordPress hacks and techniques for all you coders out there. Topics include the Loop, categories, excerpts, navigation, trackbacks, custom fields, permalinks, and much more. The list is the first part of a four-part series to cover various aspects of WordPress.

Connor Wilson has published a tutorial on how to setup Gravatars on your WordPress blog without the use of a plugin. If you are comfortable editing theme files and don’t want the overhead of a plugin, then this technique should work for you. I’ve added in my input in the comment’s section on how to use his technique in the sidebar of a post as well, which should be useful for blogs with multiple authors.

WPTEX: Turn you wordpress blog into a pdf ebook using LaTeX Now I wrote my Masters Thesis in Microsoft Word and I would rather pull my hair out one at a time than do that again. However, I bring that up because I jealously watched as the other cohorts of my MS class put together their thesis with LaTeX with relative ease and perfect formatting. WPTeX will let you publish your blog as a PDF eBook using LaTeX and includes a lot of very cool features such as auto indexing and TOC generation. It is released under the GPL I will have to show this to my blogging dad who will love to have an eBook made out of his blog on research of health and wellness!