The WordPress hacking community is alive and well. It seems that there’s nothing you can’t achieve with WordPress by making a few changes to a template or core file. Today I would like to share with you 35 great tutorials that developers have written over the last 5 months.
* Note: Tutorials are not listed in date order.
WordPress Admin Bar Tutorials
Tutorials that help you you modify the new WordPress admin bar:
- Add trash button to WordPress Admin Bar (WP Engineer)
- Move WordPress Admin Bar to the Bottom (WP Engineer)
- Admin Bar Tricks (Digging Into WordPress)
- Take Control of your WordPress Admin Bar (Do It With WordPress)
- How to show an urgent message in the WordPress admin area (WP Recipes)
- Add custom links to WordPress admin bar (WP Recipes)
Dashboard
Tutorials that show you how to enhance your WordPress dashboard:
- Adding a Custom Dashboard Logo in WordPress for Branding (WP Beginner)
- How to Hide the WordPress Upgrade Message in the Dashboard (WP Beginner)
Admin Area
Tutorials that show you how to add additional functionality to your admin area:
- Control Capabilities with Custom User Roles (WP Mods)
- Disabling WordPress plugin deactivation and theme changing (Steve Taylor)
- How to change WordPress editor font (WP Recipes)
- Disable submenus from Admin Panel (WP Snippets)
- Removing WordPress update notifications (SitePoint)
Posts & Pages
Tutorials that help you modify your posts and pages in some way:
- Excluding Posts and Pages from Search (WP Mods)
- Change Your WordPress Posts Into Pages (WP Mods)
- Indispensable MySQL queries for custom fields in WordPress (The Customize Windows)
- Automatically add Twitter and Facebook buttons to your posts
- Simple WordPress Post Thumbnails with Regular Expressions (Binary Moon)
Htaccess Tutorials
Tutorials that require you to edit your .htaccess file:
- Htaccess WordPress SEO Security (Digging Into WordPress)
- Simpler Login URL (Digging Into WordPress)
- 6 .htaccess Tricks for Better WordPress SEO & Security (Digging Into WordPress)
Tips & Tricks
A range of tips and tricks that help you get more out of WordPress:
- Automatically Replace words by Affiliate Links (WP Kube)
- Customising The Default Search Box (WP Mods)
- WordPress shortcode snippet to display external files (Vladimir Prelovac)
- How To Add A Navigation Menu To Your WordPress Theme (WP Mods)
- Display number Facebook Fans (WP Snippets)
- Display search terms from Google users (WP Snippets)
- Optimizing WordPress 404′s (Binary Moon)
- Adding Multiple Sidebars To Your Theme (WP Mods)
- Serve IE6 Visitors the Default WordPress Theme (WP Kube)
- WordPress title custom length (Orange Dev Design)
- Four Very Useful WordPress Snippets (WP Mods)
- 14 Amazing WordPress SQL Queries (What Niche)
- Adding Input Fields To Comment Form (WP Engineer)
- Modifying pluggable.php – How To Disable Emails (Binary Moon)
If I have missed any great tutorials from 2011, please feel free to share them in the comment area.
Thanks,
Kevin






Wonderful collection. Thanx for sharing...
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