Protect WordPress Blog against Image Theft /Hotlinking

I guess no bloggers like to see their images being hotlink in other spam blogs, forums, etc without their authorization. To fight against these image hotlinking, we can set rules in .htaccess but the drawback here is, it would also block images to appear in feeds. Although its solvable, but writing htaccess codes can look

Keeping Private Notes In WordPress Dashboard

Maxpower came out with a WordPress plug-in that allows you to keep notes inside the wp-admin

WordPress New T-Shirts Going International Shipping

WordPress shop is now officially shipping overseas, good news for those who want a piece of their design and not staying inside United States. The first WordPress product that will ship overseas is this red color short sleeve jersey t-shirt, with the WordPress logo right in the middle.

Adding Nice WordPress Pagination

Take a look at the bottom of your wordpress blog, you should see 2 hyperlink respectively “previous” and “next“. This 2 hyperlinks keep your neighboring content connected, thus making it easier for readers to navigate through your older entries.
It also helps bots crawl your content better, therefore the more comprehensive these links are they better.

Performancing PhotoPress WordPress Theme for Photo Blogs

If you are running a photo based blog using WordPress and hate ugly sidebar that takes up 30%-40% of your page, here is something from Performancing – PhotoPress Theme.

This theme focus on giving maximum exposure to photos; a display as big as 640×480 landscape size for

NuffNang WordPress Plugin

If you are are publisher of Nuffnang Ads, here’s a nice WordPress Plugin created by Zeo for your Nuffnang ad unit.

Bartelme Dark theme for WordPress

Here’s a really nice 3 column theme that definitely worth to take a look – Dark Theme from Bartelme. I’m personally not a fan of dark color themes but Bartelme’s Dark Theme looks pretty neat. Maybe I’ll tweak it into a white (bright) based for my own use in the future.

49 Most Downloaded WordPress Themes

At least five new WordPress themes are introduced everyday on this free Net and that gives us a few good thousands of free Wordpres themes floating around the internet. Have you ever wondered which amongst are all time most downloaded themes? You will be surprised they are not as nice as you expected them to be, but check out this fact – The #1 most downloaded theme I’ve compiled here have got 47,000+ (and counting) downloads and #49 still maintain 6500+ (and counting) downloads. They are not overrated, I believe they are few of the best when they were firstly introduced and as time goes, they still pickup some downloads here and there.

Increase traffic with Landing Sites

Landing sites are the immediate page you see after clicking in from a SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Here’s a better definition of Landing Sites.

Update: Rounded WordPress Theme – 5 More Colors

Rounded v2 is originally created by Ghyslain of itcouldbethisone.com, but I liked it so much that I decided to give more colors to the original Rounded v2 Blue edition. I’ve previously did one for chingling.net and now here’s 5 more Rounded v2 in different colors – Cyan, Purple, Green, Orange and Pink.

WordPress Theme Rounded v2 specification: 2 columns, Orange, Fixed width, Widget ready, Rounded corners, Right sidebar.

Change WordPress Permalinks without affecting Google Index

You want to remove particular prefix (Dates, for example) in the URL on all your permalinks but you can’t bear the cost as your entries are either indexed by Google, hyperlink-ed by bloggers or bookmarked by other websites.

• (a) http://www.domain.com/blog/2007/01/11/name-of-your-entry/ (long url)
• (b) http://www.domain.com/blog/name-of-your-entry/ (short url)

How to Widgetize non-widget WordPress theme

Consider this – If you found a WordPress theme that you like so much but it is not widget-supported, don’t give up just yet. Methods below helps you to widgetize non-widget theme to a drag-drop widget theme. Download Widget plugin from Automattic, upload them accordingly and follow the 2 steps below.

Execute PHP in WordPress post, page and Widget Sidebar

If you are still struggling on how to insert PHP Codes inside particular blog post, page or a widget sidebar for execution; the following tutorial is for you.

Digg.com alike wordpress theme

For you guys who like mainstream news site Digg.com, here’s a nice WordPress theme that look almost like Digg.com. This theme is the extended version of the author’s Digg alike 2 column WordPress theme.


This is a 3 column theme (left sidebar, content, right sidebar), fixed width, widget supported (only the right sidebar)