Domain Registrars

If you’re starting up on the web, then you’re gonna need an address where people can reach you:

1. Namecheap – $8.88 per year with free WhoisGuard
2. GoDaddy – $8.95 per year (and lower)
3. 1&1 – $5.99 per year with free private domain registration
4. MyDomain – $8.25 per year

Hosting
Once you’ve got yourself an address, you’re gonna need a house to store all of your juicy blog posts – so grab yourself some server space:

1. Dreamhost – Great plans, great prices with loads of bandwidth and diskspace.
2. Frozen Webhost – Small company but only $5/month and very reliable.
3. Media Temple – Awesome recommendations, grid and dedicated hosting.
4. Rackspace – Managed, dedicated and scalable web hosting for businesses
5. Hostgator – Shared hosting at $6.95 per month
6. Bluehost – Affordable, Reliable, Web Hosting Solutions

Content Management Systems
These babies are the core of your blog, so choose carefully. Take pricing, customisation and aesthetics into account for this one:

1. Wordpress – The industry standard and most widely used – and its FREE!
2. Blogger – quick blog creation, but FTP can be slow and you don’t have full control
3. Typepad – another blogging platform, but pricing from $4.95/month
4. Joomla – CMS and Web Application Framework and free
5. Drupal – Full-featured content management/discussion engine suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site
6. SquareSpace – Publishing system for managing websites and blogs
7. Movable Type – Weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart

Communication
If you want to be a proper blogger, you’ve gotta communicate with your fans. Instant Messaging and Email are the quickest and easiest ways to do so:

1. Gmail – Free web-based email service that includes over 2 GB of storage (and growing)
2. Hotmail – Free web-based e-mail with 2GB e-mail storage
3. Yahoo Mail – Free web-based email with unlimited mail storage
4. Outlook – Email manager which can be used with MS Exchange Server for shared mailboxes
5. Windows Live Messenger – Instant messaging program, talk to Yahoo contacts as well!
6. AIM – AOL Instant Messenger, free online chat service
7. Gtalk – Instant communication in conjunction with Gmail
8. Yahoo Messenger – Free instant messaging with file sharing
9. Basecamp – Project collaboration, management and task software
10. Campfire – Real-time group chat for businesses
11. GoToMeeting – Web conferencing and online meetings service
12. Thunderbird – Open source cross platform email from Mozilla
13. Meebo – IM service which supports MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk and Jabber
14. Twitter – Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface
15. Skype – Free internet calling from PC to PC

Research
To be the best, you’ve got to overcome the rest, so find out what your competitors are doing, and beat their blogs at their own game:

1. Whois – Domain and registration name lookup
2. Overture – Keyword selector and traffic analysis tool
3. Google Bid Analysis – Keyword Bid Tool in conjunction with Adwords
4. Wordze – Keyword research tool from $35/month
5. Firefox Search Status Extension – see how any and every website is performing
6. SEO for Firefox – Useful research and data, with loads of other tools

Customisation
Standing out from the crowd is very important in this growing blogosphere. Take a look at these tools to help you and your blog look fine:

1. Wordpress Themes – Collection of free Wordpress themes with graphical and textual preview
2. Template Monster – Premium Wordpress themes from $50
3. Dreamweaver – Web development and streamlined coding environment
4. Adobe Photoshop CS3 – Image editing software from $649
5. iStockPhoto – Royalty free images
6. FlashDen – Buy stock flash, video, audio and fonts for as little as 50 cents
7. FamFamFam – Sets of icons available for use free of charge
8. Adobe Illustrator – Leading vector-graphics software
9. Filezilla – Fast and reliable FTP client
10. Cyberduck – Secure FTP for MAC OS X
12. psd2html – Online conversion service – does what it says on the tin!

Statistics
Track your blog’s every move with these statistics packages so you know what you’re doing right and what you should be spending some more time on:

1. AWStats – Free log analyser, normally already in your Hosting Cpanel
2. Statcounter – Free yet reliable web tracker and hit counter
3. Sitemeter – Free basic counter and site statistics tracker
4. Google Analytics – Trendy interface with detailed site statistics, integratable with Adwords campaigns
5. Feedburner – Manage and track RSS Feed Readership
6. Mint – Extensible website analytics program, all on 1 page!
7. 103Bees – Search engine traffic analysis and statistics tool
8. pMetrics – The new Performancing Metrics with detailed visitor information and clean interface

Creating Posts
Your articles are the things that will matter the most above all else. So take the time to spell-check and to make sure that they look presentable:

1. ScribeFire – full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser
2. Spellbound Spell Checker – Firefox extension that enables spell-checking
3. Microsoft Word – Industry standard word processor
4. Adobe Reader – PDF file reader
5. SlimTimer – Time tracking
6. Ta-Da Lists – Simple list making and tracking
7. BlogDesk – Free offline weblog client for creating and publishing posts

Ranking
When it comes down to the crunch, you’ve gotta be the best. So find out if you are with the following ranking tools:

1. Technorati - The Internet Search Engine for blogs, provides popularity and authority ranks
2. BlogTopSites – Directory of the Best Blog sites
3. Alexa – Traffic rankings and graphs (sometimes can be inaccurate)
4. Live PageRank – Displays current Pagerank Value in Google index

Feedreaders
In order to build a solid readership, you’re gonna have to do some reading yourself. Using a feedreader can cut down on the time you spend going from site to site, and you can have one place where all the latest articles will appear:

1. Google Reader/Homepage – Web-based RSS and News Aggregator
2. Bloglines – A web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client
3. Newsgator – Free online RSS reader
4. NetNewsWire – Award winning RSS Reader for MAC
5. Socialist – Social bookmark manager that works with del.icio.us and RSS feeds
6. FeedDemon – RSS Reader for Windows Desktop
7. NetVibes – Personal news aggregator with RSS and Atom support
8. NewsFire – MAC RSS with style
9. Omeo Pro – All-in-one feed reader

Social Media
Using social networking can help market your site to a big audience which is essential for your blog’s growth. Spend some time networking yourself and submit your best articles to find more readers:

1. Digg – Stories and submitted and voted to the front page by the community
2. Del.icio.us – A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them
3. StumbleUpon – Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar, can be a huge source of traffic
4. Reddit – User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page
5. MyBlogLog – Free site stats, and a cool widget to find out who’s been visiting your site
6. LinkedIn – Online network of 11 million experienced professionals (including bloggers)
7. Facebook – One of the fastest growing social networking sites on the net
8. Myspace – Free social networking which has blogging capabilities and ability to attract a lot of friends!
9. Squidoo – Set up your own lense (sub-site) and spread the word about your blog
10. Ning – Create your own Social Networks

Monetization and Advertising
Whether you want to or don’t, blogs can be a fantastic way to make a bit of dosh, so check out the following ways you can earn yourself some cash online:

1. Google Adsense and Adwords – Contextual advertising solution and make money through Pay-Per-Clicking
2. Adbrite – Webmasters can buy and sell text ads based on their site’s topic area
3. Yahoo Publishers Network – Contextual advertising with PPC online revenue stream
4. Text Link Ads – Sell static HTML links on your blog sidebar and post for $$/month
5. Kontera – In-Text Advertising on Cost-Per-Click basis
6. Chitika – CPC Revenue due to displaying of related products
7. BlogAds – Image and Text Ads for set prices per month
8. Amazon Associates – Link to Amazon products and earn a commission from 10% per product
9. Commission Junction – An online advertising and internet marketing company that specializes in performance-based affiliate programs
10. ReviewMe – Review products/websites and receive a flat-fee. Reviews must be nonbiased and stated as sponsored
11. Feedvertising – Sell links in your RSS Feed for set price per month

Blogs and Forums
These blogs are forums are must-reads for every aspiring blogger, so take some time to browse through the archives and read some threads to make sure that you’ve got all the knowledge about your field and your blog:

1. Problogger – the No.1 site about blogging
2. Daily Blog Tips – Focusing on blog promotion, monetization and optimization
3. Blog Herald – Premium source of blog and blogging related news for bloggers
4. John Chow – This guy makes a lot of money through his blog online. Articles especially on monetization
5. Digital Point – Sub-forum related to blogging with other areas on SEO and Optimization
6. Namepros – Buy, sell and discuss domain names
7. Sitepoint – Web design tutorials and a buzzing community and marketplace
8. Earners Forum – Full of online earners and blogging money makers
9. DoshDosh – A blog about making money online through affiliate marketing and advertising and social media
10. QuickOnlineTips – Technology news, blogging tips, useful computer software and web services.
11. Lorelle on Wordpress – The Wordpress Blogger!

Miscellaneous
And finally, here’s all the other tools that wouldn’t in any of the above categories:

1. Paypal – The best way to send and receive money online
2. Nochex – UK Based online payment company
3. Escrow – Third party which protects buyer and seller in larger transactions (blog sales?!)
4. WorldPay – Offers a range of e-payment and e-commerce solutions
5. CreativeCommons – You need to protect your articles!
6. Ezine Articles – Article submission website for PR and authority
7. ArticlePR – Article submission tools
8. PRWeb – Press Release Distribution for small business
9. Six Figure Blogging – Blogging course made by Problogger Darren Rowse himself and Andy Wibbels
10. SEO Book – Aaron Wall’s famous Search Engine Optimization book
11. Blog Mastermind – Yaro Starak’s blog mentoring program
12. Flickr – Online photo management and sharing application
13. Blog Profits Blueprint – Free ebook in PDF format about making money with blogs from Yaro Starak

1. Permalink Redirect – A very nice plugin that supplies a 301 redirect if the requested URL is different from the post’s permalink. For example, if you were to type in this address into your web browser, http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wordpress/the-best-way-to-move-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress, it will automatically be changed to include an ending “/” after the post name. This ensures that there is only one URL for each blog post entry and avoids duplicate content issues. Download Permalink Redirect

2. WWW Redirect - This plugin is used to avoid having different PageRanks for www and non-www versions of your site. Using WWW Redirect, you can either redirect everything to the www or non-www version depending on how your site is setup. This avoids the same pages being indexed under various forms of of the same domain. Download WWW Redirect

3. Add Meta Tags – Unfortunately, WordPress does not automatically put meta tags into your post pages for you. However, it is quite essential to have meta tags for search engines and for the tags to be unique for each post. Add Meta Tags adds XHTML Description and Keywords tags to your blog’s front page as well as to each post, static page, and category archive. Download Add Meta Tags

4. SEO Title Tag – This plugin is similar to Optimal Title, but has a few extra features. This plugin will change the order in which your blog name and post name are displayed in the title. It is considered better for search engines to have your unique post name first followed by your blog name. It can also be used with Ultimate Tag Warrior to put the tag name in the title for tag pages. Download SEO Title Tag

5. Similar Posts – A plugin that displays a list of posts that are similar or closely related to the current post. This is good for search engines, especially Google, because internal link structure of your blog is very important when it comes to getting a higher PageRank. The more pages that are interlinked, the more PageRank they will receive and the higher those pages will be in the Google search results. Download Similar Posts

6. Google Sitemap Generator – One of my favorite plugins so far! It’s painless to install and generates an XML compliant sitemap for you and automatically updates Google every time you publish a new post. And it generates a sitemap not only posts, but also static pages, categories and archive pages. It also gives a priority to each post based on the number of comments. Download Google Sitemap Generator

7. NoIndex Feed – A simple little plugin that will prevent Google and Yahoo from indexing your WordPress feed by adding a META tag to the feed. You can also use a robots.txt file to do this, but this plugin can take care of it for you easily. Download NoIndex Feed

8. Duplicate Content Cure – If you are using the default settings for WordPress, a single post on your blog can be indexed numerous times through archives, categories, built in search, and home page paging. Mostly it’s summaries or posts or exact copies of the same post. This plugin will ensure that the pages and posts are the only things that get indexed. Download Duplicate Content Cure

9. Link to Me Textbox – This plugin will hopefully give you more links and hence raise the number of backlinks to your blog post. More backlinks will give your posts a higher PageRank. Simple and yet useful way to get more links. Download Link to Me Textbox

10. Sociable or Submit It – Use these plugins to add social bookmarking sites to each of your posts. Readers can easily bookmark your post on Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, Furl, StubleUpon, and lots more. This will give you more backlinks and more traffic. Download Sociable or Submit It

11. SEO WordPress Plugin – This plugin is exactly what the name suggests, a smart plugin that creates a robots.txt file for you with the disallow statement to block certain directories from being indexed by the Google bot. I had not seen this plugin on most sites, but I currently also use a robots.txt file manually to block trackbacks, feeds, archives, and other directories from being indexed. I think this will be a very useful and effective SEO plugin. Download SEO WordPress Plugin

12. Permalinks Migration Plugin – This is another great plugin if you currently are not using an SEO friendly permalink structure on your blog, this plugin will redirect your old link to your new link without effecting your search engine rankings. It uses a 301 redirect in order to accomplish this and therefore you don’t lose any of your PageRank. Download Permalinks Migration Plugin

13. Simple Tagging – A simple, yet powerful, plugin that allows you to attach tags to each post so that you can create tag clouds, display lists of related posts, add tags as meta keywords in the header, add tags to your feed which will index your tags with Technorati, and embed tags directly into a post. Download Simple Tagging

Updated: July 24th, 2007

14. All-In-One SEO Pack – A great plugin mentioned by San Diego in the comments. It fixes, the Home Title, Home Description, Home Keywords, rewrites titles, uses noindex tag for Category and Archive pages to avoid duplicate content, and auto generates meta descriptions. Download All In One SEO Pack

Is there any blogger blogging about blogging that hasn’t posted a list of his favorite plugins yet? Well, since I’m now in it too, I might as well do it. But you won’t find a list of my favorite plugins here. I did much better! I compiled a true TOP 30 list of the most popular plugins in blogosphere

The list is based on the Lists of favorite Wordpress plugins, made by Lorelle last month. Lorelle found 48 lists with a total of 280 plugins that were recommended by other bloggers to their readers.

So I went through all those lists and compiled a spreadsheet of the mentioned plugins to see which of them were the most used in blogosphere. Here are the results:

1. The first place among Wordpress plugins goes to Akismet. 34 out of 48 bloggers are using this plugin. Obviously the spam is a very serious issue and Akismet is doing a great job combating it.
2. Google Sitemap Generator came in second with 27 votes. Looks like a lot of bloggers are starting to care about SEO and this plugin is the best tool to tell Google how it should crawl your blog and where to find everything you want found.
3. Related posts by Wasabi takes the third place. As the name suggests, this plugin generates a list of related posts based on the text of blog entry. It is a great tool to increase the stickiness of your blog by showing your readers similar posts that you’ve written on the subject. Although since I started using Chitika RPU’s on my tech blogs, I don’t use this plugin there. 19 out 48 bloggers have used this plugin on their blogs.
4. Wp-Contact form. This plugin developed by Ryan Duff is used by 17 of 48 bloggers. It creates a contact form on your blog, through which your readers can contact you. However at the moment of this writing, Ryans website seemed to be down. Another good plugin to generate contact forms is here. Update: You can download Spam protected Wp-contact form from Doug Carr blog here.
5. Wordpress database backup now maintained by Ilfilosofo and originally developed by Skippy is on 16 lists. It’s a “must use” plugin for every WP blogger and if you are not using it you might be in a lot of trouble eventually. Imagine that something goes wrong with you database and you loose all of your archives! The latest version of the plugin even lets you schedule automatic backups at a set frequency.
6. Feedburner Feed Replacement let’s you track your RSS subscribers and use a lot of other cool Feedburner services.
7. Ultimate Tag Warrior is a plugin does everything related with tagging. With this plugin you can tag your every post through a separate field, enter tags inside post text, use tags in external editors, etc. The tags then can be used to search your blog and are picked up by blog search engines like Technorati and can bring in new users. UTW was used by 14 of 48 bloggers.
8. Subscribe to comments plugin (13/48) allows your readers to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. This is a great plugin to grow your blog community by letting your readers stay up to date in the discussion that they already are interested in.
9. AdSense Deluxe (10/48) is a plugin that allows you to easily insert AdSense, YPN, Chitika ads inside your blog posts and provides for easy management when and where the ads appear. A must have if you want use ads inside a blog post.
10. Gravatars (9/48) Another community building plug-in. It let’s you place the small pictures (avatars) of your readers next to their comments on your blog. Makes the comment area and the discussion much more personal and lively. In order for the avatars to appear, reader has to register it with Gravatars service.
11. Jerome’s Keywords plugin. It’s another plugin for keywords/tags similar to Ultimate Tag Warrior. It has a little less options and functionality, but does tagging/keywords very well and is easier to use. JK plugin gets 11th place only conditionally, since 4 plugins were recommended by 8 bloggers. So the next 3 plugins (11-14 place) also have the same amount of votes and are ranked in alphabetical order.
12. Optimal title (8/48) is a SEO related plugin. It mirrors the function wp_title () on your blog, but moves the position of the separator to after the title rather then before. This way you can make blog post name, or category name appear in front of the blog name in he <title> tags (one of the most important elements of on page SEO). If you use the keywords you want to rank for in your blog post titles (which you should), this plugin can help you improve your position in search engines.
13. Sociable (8/48) You probably noticed small icons from various social bookmarking sites (like Digg, del.icio.us, reddit, etc;) under the posts on many blogs. Well, lot’s of them are done by this plugin. So if you want to help your users spread the word about your best posts, you may want to install this plugin.
14. WP-Cache 2.0 (8/48) is “… an extremely efficient Wordpress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Wordpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.” It is not that important if you have a low traffic blog, but if you get dugg it can make the difference between your site being up or down for several hours when all the traffic comes flooding in.
15. Popularity Contest (7/48) A very useful plugin that lets you automatically highlight your best posts to your readers. It keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. It can significantly increase the “stickiness” of your blog and help you convert first time visitors into a regular readers.
16. Sidebar Widgets (7/48) Plugin by Wordpress creators Automattic, that lets you add various cool widgets (small applications developed by others) into your sidebar without any HTML knowledge.
17. Wp_Notable (7/48) Another plugin for displaying icons for various social bookmarking sites, very similar to Sociable in functionality.
18. Simple Tags. (6/48) Another tagging plugin for generating Technorati Tags. This is the most basic and also the most easy to use tagging plugin, if all you are looking for are tags for Technorati and other blog search services. Just type in your keywords at the end of your post between [tags]..... [/tags] and they will appear as Technorati tags.
19. Adhesive (5/48) is a plugin that lets you make the posts “sticky”.These posts will remain at the top of the page no matter how many other posts you wrote later. Very useful for making announcements or giving directions to your readers.
20. Exec-php (5/48). This plugin allows <?php ?> tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files. Definitely not for the code shy, but if you want to insert php code inside your blog posts this is plugin to use.
21. Extended live archive (5/48) plugin creates dynamic and easily navigable archive page that helps your readers easily find what they are looking for in your archive. The posts there can be sorted by tags, categories, date and popularity.
22. No ping wait (5/48) Have you noticed sometimes, after you press “publish” on your posts, that it takes forever for this command to execute. Well, the reason is the “pinging” process, through which Wordpress tries to notify various blog search and monitoring services that new blog post is coming up, which can take some time. This plugin solves the problem by separating “pinging” and posting into two separate things.
23. PodPress (5/48) . If you are into podcasting, this plugin is a must have. It makes adding, managing and playing podcasts and other media files on your blog a breeze.
24. SRG Clean Archives (5/48) . Another plugin to generate Archive pages. It is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. It lists the Month / Year (links to that months archives), the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article (permalink to article), and the number of comments that have been made on each article. It also hides password protected articles from showing up in your archives list.
25. WP-Page Navi (5/48) is a plugin to improve page navigation on your blog. Instead of having to go through blog pages one by one, it adds better navigation functionality that can look like this: Pages (17): [1] 2 3 4 » … Last »
26. WP-Cron (5/48) If you want to schedule some tasks, like database backup on your blog, this plugin lets you do just that. In the words of the author “WP-Cron provides a rudimentary support for scheduled execution of actions; a sort of “delayed action” processing for Wordpress. It is nowhere near as robust as the actual UNIX cron facility, but should be good enough to “do stuff” on a fairly regular basis“
27. Wp-Shortstat (5/48) is the stats plugin for your blog. Install the plugin, go to your WP dashboard and you can see the stats you need. The plugin was written by Jeff Minard but now is maintained by Markus Kaemmerer.
28. Lightbox 2 (5/48) . Have you seen a neat trick on some websites, where you press on the image, the whole page dims into the background and the active window or image pops-up to the front? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just head to the plugin page and press on the images there. If you want such a trick on your blog, install the plugin.
29. del.icio.us cached (4/48) . Want to show-off what you have bookmarked on del.icio.us recently? Then this plugin is just what you need.
30. Get Recent Comments (4/48) does just what it’s name implies, it gets the excerpts of the latest comments on your blog and displays them on your sidebar

So there you have it. 30 most popular plugins in the blogosphere! If you liked it, help spread the news – do not forget to Digg it ]]> http://create-flash.com/2008/the-top-30-wordpress-plugins-list/feed/ 0 http://create-flash.com/2008/155-wordpress-resources-tutorials-plugins-themes-ajax-podcasting/ http://create-flash.com/2008/155-wordpress-resources-tutorials-plugins-themes-ajax-podcasting/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:26:26 +0000 admin http://create-flash.com/?p=55 Essential Requirements and Installation

1. Download Latest Version of Wordpress (currently WP2.5.1).
2. Or, you can download previuos versions of WP (from version 0.71 and upwards).
3. Choose a Web Host that can handle Wordpress, without paying a lot for it.
4. Here are the Wordpress Server Requirments….
5. Choose a Domain Name, check that it is available.
6. Now, lets install WP. How abut the Quick 5 Minute Installation?.
7. If you have a little more time, or need to take a little more care, try the longer Installation Process.
8. Step by Step WordPress Installation.
9. Click here to read a great article on Wordpress Installation.
10. Try this Screencast, if you are still having installation problems.

Install Wordpress Locally (this is the only real way you can test anything)

11. Install Wordpress Locally on Windows, with Xamplite.
12. Install Wordpress Locally on Mac OSX, with Mamp.
13. Install Wordpress Locally on Linux.
14. Try this screencast if you need to.

Lets get a Quality (FREE) Wordpress Theme, try these…

15. WP Theme Viewer.
16. If you have the time, try getting through these 980 (honestly) themes.
17. 100 Favourite Wordpress Themes, from Desperate Curiosity.
18. 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes, from Smashing Magazine.
19. Here are my Top 30 WP Themes.
20. WP Themez.
21. Tutorial on how to install your new theme.

What about all those free Magazine Style Themes I’ve been hearing about?

22. Free “WP Premium” Magazine Theme, from CSS ace .
23. The Morning After Magazine Theme.
24. A Minimalist Wordpress Magazine Theme – Modicus Remix.
25. Upstart Blogger Futurosity Magazine (all themes on this site are phenomenal).
26. Structure: WordPress Magazine Theme.
27. Visionary: WordPress Magazine Theme (from the same designer as ‘Structure’.
28. Jello Wala Mello WordPress Theme.

If you can, download themes from the authors own website.

We have a great looking site, now lets make it secure with some plugins

29. Try Akismet to stop SPAM.
30. WordPress Database Backup Plugin, better being safe than sorry.
31. Toughen up your login with Semisecure Login.
32. Scans your site for security issues

Lets get a decent Contact Form Plugin for your Contact Page

33. By far and away the best Contact Form Plugin.
34. TDO Mini Forms is another excellent plugin.

What about some Widgets for the Sidebar

35. If you are using a WP version below2.3, you will need to download this to install Widgets.
36. A massive list of Widgets.

Were else can I get Plugins?

37. Wordpress Official Plugin Site.
38. WordPress Plugin Repository.
39. Wordpress Plugin Database.
40. Blogginpros Plugin Archive is great for newly released plugins.
41. Top 30 Wordpress Plugins that are actually useful!.
42. 30 Free Resources for Photoblogging and Image Galleries (Wordpress).

What about Social Bookmarking?

43. Get an AddThis button for your site which links to all major social sites.
44. You could try this handy bookmarking plugin called Gregarious.
45. This is the bookmarking plugin I like to use, very simple to use and doesn’t ruin your sites theme.

Will I need to do something with my RSS feed?

46. Feedburner is a very useful tool to use for your feeds.
47. Read all about RSS validation here.
48. CopyFeed is an excellent plugin, that works in conjunction with RSS.

Podcasting and Wordpress

49. Read about Podcasting and Wordpress.
50. Download the Podpress Plugin.

Screencasting and Wordpress

51. Read about Screencasting.

Want to read more about Wordpress, try these…

52. WP Designer.
53. WP Candy.
54. Matt Mullenwegs personal blog (Wordpress Founder).
55. Lorelle on Wordpress.
56. Web Blog Tools Collection.
57. Solostream (excellent themes as well).
58. Lorelle on Wordpress.
59. Easy Wordpress.
60. Automattics blog.
61. Alex King.
62. Ryan on WordPress (WP developer).
63. Mark on Wordpress.

Some Ajax, anyone?

64. Read all about Wordpress and Ajax from the Codex.
65. AJAXed WordPress Because WordPress loves AJAX (great site).
66. Ryan on WordPress (WP developer).
67. AJAX WP Themes.
68. The AJAX Libraries.
69. 30 AJAX powered WP Plugins.

AJAX (Javascript) Frameworks, for the advanced WP designer

70. Prototype Homepage.
71. script.aculo.us Homepage, this works in conjunction with Prototype.
72. MooTools Homepage.
73. jQuery Homepage.

Here are some Ajax Scripts you can download

74. 20 Top Script.aculo.us Scripts you can’t live without.
75. 41 of the Best MooTools Ajax Example Downloads.
76. 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…).

Feel a need to cheat? Here are some cheat sheets.

77. WP Cheat Sheet from Andy Wibbels.
78. WP Cheat Sheet from WP Candy.

Pimp my WP Admin

79. WP Tiger Administration.
80. AFD WP2 Admin.
81. Js Style Admin + Drop Menus.
82. WP NiceAdmin.

Here are some advanced Wordpress Tutorials

83.WordPress Theme Hacks.
84. No More CSS Hacks.
85. Create a Dynamic Sticky.
86. Styling Individual Posts Using the_ID.
87. Show Category Images.
88. Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks.
89. Customize your WordPress Login.
90. Date Image Hack.
91. How to place a login form in the sidebar.
100. WP: KeyBoard Shortcuts.
101. Making Better Use of Your Error “404? Page.
102. Customize Your 404 Page.
103. WordPress accessibility hacks.
104. Reset your Lost WordPress Administrator Password.
105. The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs.
106. Do-It-Yourself WordPress Hover Menu (Pop-Up).
107. How to Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme.
108. WP Contact Manager.
109. Wordpress and the custom fields, a overlooked feature.
110. DiggProof your Wordpress.
111. WordPress Ajax Commenting revisited.
112. Widgetizing Themes. (Source: Automattic.)
113. Cloaking to Stop Scraping.
114. Server load button for blogs.
115. Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page.
116. How to create overlapping tabs.
117. How to Optimize Your WordPress Title.
118. Blocking Your WordPress Categories and Archives From Google.
119. Adding An Author Page To Your WordPress Blog.
120. Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader.121. How to Use Wordpress as a Membership Directory.
122. How to Format Images for Feed Readers.
123. Add Del.icio.us Daily Blog Posting To Your WordPress Blog.
124. Huge Compilation of WordPress Code.
125. 4 Simple ways to Speed up Wordpress.
126. WordPress Date Button. (Source: WP Designer.
127. Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step! .
128. Make Yourself Available to Readers with a Contact Form.
129. Wordpress as a CMS – Content Management System.
130. Installing Xampp and WordPress (Locally).
131. WordPress Category Page Hacks.
132. 3 WordPress Hacks For SE-Friendly Blog Archives.
133. Opening Links in New Windows.
134. WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack.
135. Restore your Wordpress Database.
136. Validating Wordpress.
137. Backing Up Wordpress.
138. Getting your feet wet inWP.
139. Importing Content from another blog.

Wordpress Video Tutorials

140. The Best Wordpress Plug-ins.
141. How to embed YouTube Video in Wordpress.
142. How to Upgrade Wordpress.
143. Make Your Wordpress Blog Search Engine Friendly.
144. WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog.
145. How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template.
146. Recover WordPress Password When You Have Forgotten It.
147. WordPress Tutorial – Edit a Sidebar File Using a Text Editor.
148. WordPress Tutorial – Make Menus of Links With the Blogroll2.
149. How-to: Use WordPress/PodPress to podcast to iTunes.
150. How to Put Adsense on Your Wordpress Blog.

Wordpress Podcasts

151. The Wordpress Podcast.
152. The Wordpress Weekly.

Wordpress Showcase

153. We Love WP.
154. Loop Press.

Wordpress Forums

155. Wordpress Official Forum.
155. Easy Wordpress Forum.