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Here at FreelancerMagazine, we’re trying to do more then general advice for our fellow freelancers. We’re trying to give you some tutorials, resources, and actual tools that you can use in “the field.” Wordpress is quite popular and getting more popular by the day! I myself work with wordpress on a daily basis and enjoy the experience as it provides a really simple but elegant way to publish content on the web. It can do a bit more then one might think with a little ingenuity and know-how. It has done everything from Marketplaces to a Twitter-Clone.

Here at FreelancerMagazine we can also be pretty lazy (I prefer to say busy). So instead of writing up a giant list of our own hacks, that are already out on the web somewhere, we compiled a list of other lists of hacks. Silly? maybe, Good idea? Definitely!

Amazing Wordpress Hacks Part 1!

StylizedWeb, which also runs off of wordpress (who would of thunk it?), provides the following hacks for wordpress development:

• Forwarding section pages to their first sub-page
• Grabs the textual content of a Post and style it
• Loads a stylesheet with dynamic values dependent on the Page view
• Post Expiration time and date

Amazing Wordpress Hacks Part 2!

Supposedly part 1 just wasn’t enough. StylizedWeb followed up with these supplemental wordpress hacks:

• Wordpress post expiration code (option two)
• Secure your wp-includes folder
• Wordpress Static HTML Template

Mastering Your Wordpress Theme Hacks and Techniques

The fellows over at Noupe seem to work hard when it comes to link-bait driven articles. This one is no different. There are quite a bit of hacks and techniques listed and some of which are included are:

• Embed Google Ad in First WordPress Post
• Displaying single post pages differently in specific category
• Dynamic file content
• Exclude Categories From Your Home Page
• Getting Custom Field Values

Wordpress Theme Hacks

Nick La is a busy guy (I can relate!). Over at WebDesignerWall he has comprised one of my favorite lists of wordpress theme hacks. Some of which include:

• Dynamic Highlight Menu
• Feature post highlighting
• Custom Frontpage
• Page Templates

40 Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks

Over at Hongkiat they compiled a list of wordpress tricks and hacks from other sources as well. Definitely worth checking out. Some of the tricks and hacks are:

• Turn Wordpress blog into CMS (Content Management System)
• Display recent post from specific category
• Create thumbnails for each blog post and displays them
• Format images for feed readers
• Create mobile version of your blog

Wordpress Themes, Plugins, Hacks…

Whats better than a single page full of WP hacks? A whole site dedicated to the subject! HackWordpress has made it a goal to document and provide many hacks and other related information concerning Wordpress. Too many to list here, so go check it out!

Scriptygoddess: Wordpress Hacks

ScriptyGoddess has quite a few of their own little hacks tucked away in their archives. You can find such things as:

• Get Wordpress to use sendmail instead of mail()
• Pulling in post content from a separate blog install
• Forget User Info

Wordpress Core Hacks

Perishable Press has a few tricks up their sleves as well. Some of these hacks include:

• Customize password-protected posts
• Customize default links for individual post-comment feeds
• Enhance parse_url Functionality
• Limit PHP memory for cache.php

Conclusion

Well I believe that about wraps it up. Maybe it’s not so “giant” in retrospect but it just about covers all the bases! If you know of any other hacks or tips you’d like to share just drop us a comment below! I’m sure the readers would enjoy it