While browsing through the WordPress forums, I came across a very nice site suggested by notthatugly (I dont know if notthatugly is the owner or not) but it deserves a mention on here. Web Design Tutorials has well written, lucid, versatile tutorials covering a variety of subjects, including HTML CSS JavaScript PHP Photoshop Illustrator ImageReady Paint Shop Pro Flash Miscellaneous And has a download section which includes Fonts Scans Templates: Buttons & Avatars Patterns Layouts Most of the stuff on there is very high class and is centered around code (which makes it a source for blog-friendly web design help) Thank them profusely if you use anything from on there.

I really liked the “Top 10 Posts” on Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog and wanted it for mine as well. So I wrote a small hack which keeps track of the number of times a particular post is clicked on (using the database) and then makes a list of these posts with the number of clickthroughs. You can see it in work on the sidebar. Here is a link to the hack instructions. This is WordPress 0.72 and 1.0+ compatible.

I was looking for a nice way to show how many people are looking at my site at a given time and I found a couple of different solutions, the easiest of which was not going to work in my case (because of caching and php accelerator). So I wrote a little hack for WordPress and other php based sites (using MySql) to tell “Who is Online right now?” Download the hack instructions here.

WordPress 1.01 Release Candidate is out. Get it here. It incorporates a lot of bugfixes and it addresses a lot of the installation and upgrade issues brought up in the last couple of weeks (since release of 1.0) Any help in testing this release candidate will be greatly appreciated.

Most of the WordPress hacks that Alex had written have been upgraded by him to support WordPress 1.0 Platinum (and later releases). These include: WordPress Mobile Edition – A PDA friendly interface for your blog. It’s (almost) XHTML compliant. Since Last Visit – Shows the number of new posts and comments (including indicators showing what posts and comments are new) since a visitor last came to your blog. WP Photos – This hack automates including photos with your blog posts. WP Group – This hack is lets you group a selection of posts on a single page. This hack is compatible with WordPress .72 as well. Send him a thank you if you use his work.

Matt (another Matt) has created a Photolog Hack for WordPress That gives MT another run for its’ money!

Glenn Slaven has a way to add RSS feeds directly to your FeedDemon installation through Internet Explorer. Good work and very useful. In case you havent checked out the 1.0 version of FeedDemon, download the trial. I LOVE the program but I cannot afford to buy it. (I was a beta tester, so I know)

Chris Cemper’s blog has a very detailed article on Performace Tuning Moveable Type. I was referred to this by Kevin Donahue So if you are an MT fan and would like your installation of MT to work a little harder and a little better, head over to Chris’ site. He has a lot of really good info to explore.