img#wpstats{width:0px;height:0px;padding:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden}

If you’re using THESIS, just head to custom.css and paste in;

.custom img#wpstats{width:0px;height:0px;padding:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden}

Thankfully, the recent release of JetPack addressed this issue. If you go to the configuration page for JetPack stats

http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack&configure=stats

you will now see an option to hide the smiley image.

Jetpack WordPress.com Stats Configuration

Top 20 Most Common WordPress Plugins for starters

01. Akismet

Akismet - Fight again the spam

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen. It works well since I've installed it.

02. All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack

Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). The author releases two version of All in One SEO Pack: Free and Pro. I used the Free version then I got the good price for plugin value.

03. WordPress.com Stats

WordPress.com Stats is a traffic statistics plugin that shows only the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track – such as page views, referrers, top posts & pages, search engine terms, and clicks – and provides them in a clear and concise interface.

WordPress.com Stats

There are hundreds of plugins and services which can offer statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn't really highlight what's most interesting to me as a writer. That's why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.
Installing this stats plugin is much like installing Akismet, all you need is to put in your API Key and the rest is automatic.

04. WordPress.com Popular Posts

WordPress.com Popular Posts

This plugin can show the most popular articles in your sidebar, using data collected by WordPress.com Stats plugin.
WordPress.com Popular Posts lists the most popular posts on a wordpress powered weblog. This list can be used in the sidebar to show an indication of which are the most visited pages.

05. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
If you value simplicity and flexibility, Contact Form 7 is a great choice. It allows you to flexibly design the form and mail. You can manage multiple contact forms as well.

06. NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a side-show option. Before I started writing the plugin I studied all the existing image and gallery plugins for WordPress. Some of them are really good and well designed, but the gap I filled was a simple administration system at the back-end which can also handle multiple galleries.

07. WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
The static html files will be served to the majority of your users, but because a user's details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by the legacy caching engine. Static files are served to:

1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

99% of your visitors will be served static html files. Those users who don't see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won't be as busy as before. This plugin will help your server cope with a front page appearance on Digg.com or other social networking site.

08. gTranslate

gTranslategTranslate

This module uses Google Translate automatic translation service to translate your web page with Google power. With 58 available languages your site will be available to more than 98% of internet users.

• Hides "Suggest better translation" pop-up
• Hides Google top frame after translation
• Mouse over effect
• Flags joined in one file to load faster
• Analytics
• Option to open translated page in new window
• Option to translate the page on fly
• Available styles Dropdown/Flags/flags with dropdown
• Valid XHTML

09. WP-PageNavi

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site. If you don’t want to display a certain part of the navigation, like the “previous page” link, you can simply go to the Page Navigation Text section, on the settings page, and clear that field.

10. Google Analytics for WordPress

Google Analytics for WordPress

Google Analytics for WordPress is the most complete Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. Of course, you could just copy the tracking code into your theme and be done with it, but then you'd miss a lot of features that this plugin has to offer you. All the extra data this plugin can add to your tracking is what makes Google Analytics for WordPress into the most powerful tracking tool you've ever seen.
Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and page views.

11. SexyBookmarks

Though the name may be a little "edgy" for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually send your articles to many social bookmarking sites.

SexyBookmarks

Our sole aim was to stray away from the "in the box" thinking behind most social bookmarking plugins, and add a little flair that would entice your readers, rather than deterring them with microscopic icons that get lost in pages heavy laden with content.

12. Exec-PHP

The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets. Some of the plugins evaluated the code after WordPress applied some filters like texture. So it also textured the PHP code and the plugins had to undo the texture just for the code part. For more complex code this can not be done correctly because of ambiguity and often led into parsing errors even if the code was syntactically correct.

13. WP Greet Box

WP Greet Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referred url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction. Best of all, this plugin is compatible with WPMU and various WordPress cache plugins (so you do not have to sacrifice speed).

14. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. An advanced and versatile algorithm that is using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, and categories, YARPP calculates a “match score” for each pair of posts on your blog. You choose the threshold limit for relevance and you get more related posts if there are more
related posts and less if there are less.

15. Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML site map which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

16. PollDaddy Polls & Ratings

PollDaddy Polls and Ratings

The PollDaddy Polls and Ratings plugin allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can create polls, choose from 20 different styles for your polls, and view all results for your polls as they come in. All PollDaddy polls are fully customizable, you can set a close date for your poll, create multiple choice polls, choose whether to display the results or keep them private. You can also create your own custom style for your poll. You can even embed the polls you create on other websites. You can collect unlimited votes and create unlimited polls. The new ratings menu allows you to embed ratings into your posts, pages or comments. The rating editor allows you to fully customize you rating. You can also avail of the 'Top Rated' widget that will allow you to place the widget in your sidebar. This widget will show you the top rated posts, pages and comments today, this week and this month.

17. Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. With its full set of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

18. Broken Link Checker

Broken Link Checker

Once installed, the plugin will begin parsing your posts, bookmarks (AKA blogroll) and other content and looking for links. Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few minutes up to an hour or more. When parsing is complete, the plugin will start checking each link to see if it works. Again, how long this takes depends on how big your site is and how many links there are.

19. WordPress Mobile Pack

WordPress Mobile Pack

The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site. It has a mobile switcher, themes, widgets, and mobile admin panel.
It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

20. podPress

podPress

podPress adds a lot of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.

Features:

• Full featured and automatic feed generation (RSS2, iTunes and ATOM and XSPF playlist)
• Podcast Download stats, with graphs.
• Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple
• View MP3 files ID3 tags when your Posting
• Control over where the player will display within your post and what it will look like.
• Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting
• Supports unlimited number of media files.
• Automatic Media player for MP3, RM, OGG, OGV, MP4, MOV, QT, FLV, ASF, WMV, AVI, and more, with inline and Popup Window support.
• Preview image for videos
• Support for separate Category podcasts
• Support for Premium Content (Pay Only)

20+ BackWPup

BackWPup

What’s On Your Must Have List?

There are, of course, too many plugins to list here, so in this article we’re just going to point out the essentials… what I consider to be the bare minimum "can’t live without" list of plugins that should be installed with just about any new WordPress installation. This is obviously just the beginning, as these are only a fraction of the seemingly limitless list of things you can do to customize and enhance your WordPress driven your new website.
Now, have you use some of this plugins? or do you know another who is better that one from the list. Any other you think should be on the list. I would like to hear from you, about your experiences in your comments below.

Make your own WordPress Drop-Down menu

To get started with this tutorial, you'll need to have a WordPress website up and running and a willingness to alter your theme files. Once that's squared away you're ready to rock!

The Standard WordPress navigation layout

Before we get into making drop downs, we need to take a look at the way WordPress layouts it’s navigation.

<ul id="nav">
	    <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
</ul>

You might also want to include a home link. You can add this manually like so:
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<ul id="nav">
	    <li><a href="<? bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>">Home</a></li>
	    <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
</ul>

Both wp_list_pages and wp_nav_menu lay out their menus pretty much exactly the same, besides different class names, so we’ll just take a look at wp_nav_menu's printed code:

<ul class="menu">
	<li class="cat-item cat-item-6"><a href="http://localhost/wordpress/category/long-category/" title="View all posts filed under Long Category">Long Category</a>
	<ul class='children'>
		<li class="cat-item cat-item-7"><a href="http://localhost/wordpress/category/long-category/sub-long-category/" title="View all posts filed under Sub Long Category">Sub Long Category</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li class="cat-item cat-item-1"><a href="http://localhost/wordpress/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts filed under Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a>
	<ul class='children'>
		<li class="cat-item cat-item-4"><a href="http://localhost/wordpress/category/uncategorized/subcategories/" title="View all posts filed under SubCategories">SubCategories</a></li>
	<li class="cat-item cat-item-3"><a href="http://localhost/wordpress/category/uncategorized/subcategorized/" title="View all posts filed under Subcategorized">Subcategorized</a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

As you can see, WordPress neatly (well neat besides all the classes) layouts out the menu in a nice semantic list, with the children of the navigation nested inside of it’s parent li. This allows us to use both CSS and/or jQuery to make our drop downs work!

Styling the Navigation

Now, let’s styling the navigator. We want our list items aligned horizontally, and of course centered in the middle of the page.

	ul.menu { list-style: none outside none; padding: 0; margin: 0 10px; float: left; font-size: 13px;}
	ul.menu li { float: left; margin: 0; padding: 0 15px 0 0; position: relative; }
	ul.menu li a { padding: 9px 5px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: block; text-decoration: none; float: left;  display: block;}
	ul.menu li:hover { background: #A6CB1B; }
	.current-cat { background: #8BBF47; }
	ul.menu li span { width: 11px; height: 10px; float: left; background: url('images/narga-sprites.png') -561px -78px no-repeat; margin: 11px 0 0 0;}
	ul.menu li ul.children {z-index:99; list-style: none outside none; position: absolute; left: 0; top: 31px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0; padding: 0; display: none; float: left; width: 170px;  border-bottom: 1px solid #F8C92D;}
	ul.menu li ul.children li { margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both; width: 170px; border-top: 1px solid #F8C92D;}
	html ul.menu li ul.children li a { float: left; width: 145px; background: url('images/narga-sprites.png') -578px -162px no-repeat #A6CB1B; padding-left: 20px; }
	html ul.menu li ul.children li a:hover { background: url('images/narga-sprites.png') -578px -162px no-repeat #7BAF36; }

jQuery Animation the Navigation

There’s also an easy way to make WordPress menus with jQuery drop downs. jQuery allows you to get a bit more fancy, by adding speeds and fades to the animation. It’s also useful if you’re still stuck supporting IE6.
There’s a tiny piece of jQuery required to show/hide the drop down menu’s. From an accessibility point of view, you can link the top-level navigation item so that if JS is disabled, the user will still be able to get around your site. Here’s the script.

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
//Dropdown Menu
	if(!jQuery.browser.msie){// IE  - 2nd level Fix
		jQuery("ul.topnav&quot.css({opacity:"0.95"});
	}
	jQuery(".topnav > li > ul&quot.css({display: "none"}); // Opera Fix
	jQuery("ul.children&quot.parent().append("<span></span>" //Only shows drop down trigger when js is enabled - Adds empty span tag after ul.subnav
	jQuery("ul.menu li a&quot.hover(function() { //When trigger is clicked...
		//Following events are applied to the subnav itself (moving subnav up and down)
		jQuery(this).parent().find("ul.children&quot.slideDown('fast').show(400); //Drop down the subnav on hover
		jQuery(this).parent().hover(function() {
		}, function(){
			jQuery(this).parent().find("ul.children&quot.slideUp('slow'); //When the mouse hovers out of the subnav, move it back up
		});
		//Following events are applied to the trigger (Hover events for the trigger)
		}).hover(function() {
			jQuery(this).addClass("subhover" //On hover over, add class "subhover"
		}, function(){	//On Hover Out
			jQuery(this).removeClass("subhover" //On hover out, remove class "subhover"
	});

})

WordPress Drop-Down menu with CSS and jQuery (View in Action)

Finally!! A Drop Down WordPress Navigation Menu using CSS and jQuery!

That's basically it, the example is about as stripped down as I could make it. Hopefully you'll have fun bending the code to your next project. Feel free to post comments if you have any questions about the tutorial. Happy coding!

Essential WordPress Plugins to Backing Up your Database

1. WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to back up your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

WP-DB-Backup

This one is probably the most popular WordPress backup plugin. Installation is relatively easy.

2. BackWPup

Also it is under heavy development but you can try it with their powerful functions.

• Database Backup
• Optimize Database
• CheckRepair Database
• File Backup
• Uses PCLZIP class of WordPress
• Store backup to Folder
• Store backup to FTP Server
• Store backup to Amazon S3
• Send Log/Backup by eMail

BackWPup

Besides database, BackWPup can also back up your WordPress installation files and optimize your database tables. The database backup will be saved in your blog server, and you can also download it manually or send it to your mail box automatically.

3. DBC Backup

DBC Backup, is a simple way to schedule daily database backups using the wp cron system. You can select when and where your backup will be generated. If your server has support you can select between three different compression formats: none, Gzip and Bzip2. The plugin will try to auto create the export directory, the .htaccess and an empty index.html file to protect your backups.

DBC Backup

The backup file is also protected by a small hash key which make it impossible for someone to guess the backup name and download it. During generation, a log will be generated which includes, the generation date, file, file size, status and the duration of the generation.
Except the cron backup, you have also the ability to take backups immediately. The backups are identical of what phpmyadmin produces because DBC Backup is using the key procedures of phpmyadmin.
DBC Backup was built to be fast, flexible and as simple as possible.

4. myEASYbackup

Backup, restore, migrate your WordPress installation, both code and MySQL tables, with a single click.

myEASYbackup

myEASYbackup comes handy before upgrading WordPress or one of the plugins you have installed.

5. WordPress EZ Backup

WordPress EZ Backup is A Administrators Plugin to allow the easiest most feature rich method for creating Backup Archives of your entire Site (not just WP Installations but Any part of your site or web space) & allows backup archives of any MySQL Database you choose & More.

6. Bei Fen

Bei Fen is the chinese translation for Backup, short, and easy to remember.

Bei Fen

Bei Fen lets you back up your blog database as well as your WordPress installation files to your server, you can back up manually or automatically, the database backup can be deleted or restored from your WordPress dashboard.

7. Sypex Dumper 2 for WordPress

Plugin integrates Sypex Dumper 2 in WordPress. Which can help you create a backup and restore of your MySQL database. Sypex Dumper, unlike many similar scripts (plugins), is optimized for most performance, as well as for working with large databases of hundreds or thousands of megabytes.

Sypex Dumper 2

Sypex Dumper can work independently of WordPress, just go to the wordpress/sxd/ and enter the MySQL Username and password.

8. WP-DBManager

Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, drop backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

WP-DBManager

With WP-DBManager, you can back up your blog database to the server, to your PC, or to your mail box, manually or automatically. You can optimize, repair, clean or even drop the database tables, you can also delete or restore the database saved in the server.

9. WP Migrate DB

WP Migrate DB exports your database as a MySQL data dump (much like phpMyAdmin), does a search and replace on URLs and file paths, then allows you to save it to your computer. It is perfect for developers who develop locally and need to move their WordPress site to a staging or production server.

WP Migrate DB

It even takes into account serialized data and updates the string length values.

10. Backup Content As Txt

Backup your posts and pages as txt files that will be packaged in one zip file.
Features:

• Specify categories/category to back up file format: [category name]/[post title].txt
• Backup all posts: Don’t check any categories. file format: [post title].txt
• Backup all pages: file format: [post title].txt
• Txt format has two option
  1. default: 1st line title, the rest is content
  2. Date : 1st line title, 2nd line date, the rest is content

10+. Automatic WordPress Backup

Using this plugin, you can easily and automatically backup important parts of your WordPress install to Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is an extremely cheap service that is easy to set up. For pennies a month, you can make sure that your important files will be kept safe.

Automatic WordPress Backup

Conclusion

Which WordPress plugin do you use for your blog’s database backup? Or do you have any other WordPress plugin for database backup? Please share with us by leaving a comment.

Highlighting Author Comments in WordPress

<?php wp_list_comments('type=comment&avatar_size=48'); ?>

View the HTML code:

<li class="comment byuser comment-author-Narga bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1013">
				<div id="div-comment-1013" class="comment-body">
				<div class="comment-author vcard">
		<img alt='' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/18d31a42990f0421bf83bf9c72bcd1b5?s=48&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-48 photo' height='48' width='48' />		<cite class="fn"><a href='http://www.narga.net' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Narga</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span>		</div>

		<div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><a href="http://www.narga.net/subscribe-then-get-1-month-free-rapidshare-premium-account/comment-page-1/#comment-1013">October 16, 2009 at 20:35</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="comment-edit-link" href="http://www.narga.net/wordpress/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&amp;c=1013" title="Edit comment">(Edit)</a></div>

		<p>I’ve saw 5 people who commented on this post. I’ll take random with they only.<br />
Those who Subscribed, write comments in here to get 1 Month FREE RapidShare Premium Account</p>

		<div class="reply">
				</div>

				</div>
		</li>

Open the “style.css” and near the bottom added these lines:

.authcomment {
       background-color: #B3FFCC !important;
}

And, that’s it! We hope that you find it useful!

Social Media Process v1.0

1. Bibsonomy

   http://www.bibsonomy.org/ShowBookmarkEntry?
   c=b&jump=yes&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&description=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

2. Blogmarks

    http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php? title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

3. Blinklist

   http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&Title=<?php the_title(); ?>

4. Delicious

   http://delicious.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&notes=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

5. Design Bump

   http://www.designbump.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

6. Design Float

   http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

7. Design Moo

   http://www.designmoo.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

8. Digg

   http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&bodytext=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

9. Diigo

   http://www.diigo.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

10. Dzone

    http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

11. Facebook

    http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

12. Fark

    http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/farkit.pl?h=<?php the_title(); ?>&u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

13. Friendfeed

    http://www.friendfeed.com/share?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&link=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

14. Folkd

    http://www.folkd.com/submit/<?php the_permalink(); ?>

15. Google Bookmarks

    http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&annotation=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

16. Hacker News

    http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

17. HaoHao

    http://www.haohaoreport.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

18. Identi.ca

    http://identi.ca/notice/new?status_textarea=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

19. IndianPad

    http://www.indianpad.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

20. Linked In

    http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&summary=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

21. Live Favorites

    https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?marklet=1&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

22. Mister Wong

    http://www.mister-wong.com/addurl/?bm_url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&bm_description=<?php the_title(); ?>

23. Mixx

    http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

24. MySpace

    http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

25. Netvibes

    http://www.netvibes.com/share?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

26. Newsvine

    http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&h=<?php the_title(); ?>

27. Ping.fm

    http://ping.fm/ref/?link=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&body=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

28. Posterous

    http://posterous.com/share?linkto=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&selection=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

29. Propeller

    http://www.propeller.com/submit/?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

30. Reddit

    http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

31. Scoopeo

    http://www.scoopeo.com/scoop/new?newurl=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

32. Simpy

    http://simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do? title=<?php the_title(); ?>&href=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

33. Slashdot

    http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

34. SocialNews

    http://www.socialnews.biz/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> ?>

35. Sphere

    http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

36. Sphinn

    http://sphinn.com/index.php?c=post&m=submit&link=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

37. Spurl

    http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php? url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

38. Squidoo

     http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/bookmark?<?php the_permalink(); ?>

39. StumbleUpon

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

40. Technorati

    http://technorati.com/faves?add=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

41. Tipd

    http://tipd.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

42. Tumblr

    http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>&s=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

43. Twitter

    http://twitter.com/home?status=<?php the_title(); ?> - <?php the_permalink(); ?>

44. Wink

     http://www.wink.com/_/tag? url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&doctitle=<?php the_title(); ?>

45. Yahoo Bookmarks

    http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/toolbar/savebm?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

46. Yahoo Buzz

    http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?targetUrl=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&headline=<?php the_title(); ?>&summary==<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

If you would rather avoid using plugins in your blog and have complete control for yourself, then you might prefer to code the links into your theme yourself.

On December 18th, 2009, WordPress Version 2.9, named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, was released to the public before the year ends. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade, or you can download from WordPress.org. The WordPress 2.9 requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater.
You can read the full list of new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the WordPress Codex. Following is our list of resources for more significant features/changes from developer’s point of view:

Post thumbnails

Developers have been using different techniques to add post thumbnail feature in their themes; but now with built-in post thumbnail feature things are going get easier and standardized. As blogs have evolved from journal form into entities that can be very magazine-like, the use of thumbnail images has also grown.
For whatever reason you first have to activate the feature with an entry in your theme’s functions.php file in order to get the Post Thumbnail box in the Editor.

if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) )
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

Basically all you have to do is to add this new template tag in your theme files where you want to display the post thumbnail, most certainly in your index.php file:

<?php the_post_thumbnail() ?>

Comment Meta

A new commentmeta table that allows arbitrary key/value pairs to be attached to comments, just like posts, so you can now expand greatly what you can do in the comment framework.

Custom post types

Custom post types have been upgraded with better API support so you can juggle more types than just post, page, and attachment. (More of this planned for 3.0.)
Technically, the only post_types that WordPress has supported have been post, page, revision and attachment. While it has technically been possible to add new post_types (like podcast, mp4, or tutorials – they could be anything, really), it has been a chore and required plugin developers to handle quite a few moving parts in order to make it all work properly.

Sidebar descriptions

This new feature allows you to add a description to each sidebar in your theme. If you like create themes with 10 or more sidebars, that really is a nice feature. It's very simple too, all you have to do is add a description value to the array you're using to declare sidebars:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
  register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'Complex Sidebar',
    'id' => 'complex',
    'description' => 'Here is some important considerations about Complex Sidebar',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => '</li>',
    'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h2>',
  ));
}

Enhancements User Features

• The Trash Can: In WordPress 2.9, everything is recoverable now with a new Trash feature. When you delete a post, page, category, comment, or any bit of content, it is moved to the Trash where you can decide whether to pull it back at a later date.
  Trash collection is done every 30 days by default, but it is possible to change this by editing your wp-config.php file. Add the following to your config file to change trash collection to every 7 days. Modify as needed.

  define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS',7);

• Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements. This isn’t Photoshop. And it only support basic functionality at this time.From the media library, you can edit images by clicking the Edit link under an image, and then clicking the Edit button on the individual image page.
• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
• oEmbed is a specification that allows media providers like Flickr, YouTube and others to provide data for consumer applications like WordPress about media. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
  The list of supported oEmbed sites in WordPress are as follows:
  • YouTube (via oEmbed)
  • Blip.tv (via oEmbed)
  • Flickr images and videos (via oEmbed)
  • Hulu (via oEmbed)
  • Viddler (via oEmbed)
  • Qik.com (via oEmbed) — never heard of this site, but it was listed on oEmbed’s website, so…
  • Revision3 (via oEmbed)
  • Google Video (via an internal handler)
  • PollDaddy (via an internal handler)
  • DailyMotion (via an internal handler)
• Automatic database optimization support, which you can enable in your wp-config.php file by adding

  define(’WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);

• Rel=canonical support for better SEO. What is rel=”canonical”?

I hope you found this post useful and timely, and remember to share any additional WordPress 2.9 resources for developers that I may have missed.

1. Encrypt your login
2. Stop brute force attack
3. Use a strong password
4. Protect your wp-admin folder
5. Remove WordPress version info, WordPress Error-Messages
6. Hide your plugins folder
7. Change your login name
8. Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and plugins
9. Do a regular security scan
10. Backup your WordPress database
11. Define user privilege

There are many WordPress Plugins which help you in securing your Blogs, I will share some tips, tricks and resources which will surely help you to secure and lock down your WordPress site and to fortify it from unwarranted attacks.

Scan security holes

The way to determine if your site is at risk is to use a plugin which can scans for weaknesses in your WordPress blog.

• WP Security Scan is very easy to use plugin will sort out some of the basic security issues with WordPress - it'll change your database's name and alert you to flaws in your installation's security, among other features.
• InspectorWordpress: Prevent possible attacks on your wordpress blog by monitoring each request to your wordpress blog and based on conditions you defined in the options panel it interrupts the attacker’s action and logs it.
• SecurePress Website Security Analyzer: SecurePress is a "Live" patent pending security system for WordPress.
  With the introduction of SecurePress, WordPress owners now have a clear choice in website protection. No more piece-meal security patches and plugins. The SecurePress widget installs enough free features to get you started towards securing your site. The ability to see and record your attacks is an excellent starting point. The free reports and statistics available in the dashboard help you to better understand the level and magnitude of these attacks. The free price tag is another good reason to download immediately and get started. When you are ready and after familiarizing yourself with the dashboard, you may want to upgrade to the full version to enable the vast blocking capabilities of SecurePress Pro and turn this application into a monster security shield.
• TTC WordPress Tripwire Tool: This is not a very useful security plugin indeed as it will only provide you with a list of all files changed on your WordPress site in the last 1-99 days. You need to choose how many days back in time you wish to go and it will list all files changed in that time frame for you.
• TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) This security plugin will scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. Currently, TAC searches the source files of every installed theme for signs of malicious code. If such code is found, TAC displays the path to the theme file, the line number, and a small snippet of the suspect code. Very useful if your site is hacked with hidden iFrame injection attack (Trojan Infection).
• Safer Cookies: Normally when you login to your blog WordPress will create a session cookie that is used to authenticate you. If someone was to steal the cookie they would be able to use it to get full access to your blog without having to know your password. This plugin prevents that from happening - it makes the cookie specific to your IP address, so it won't be usable from a different computer.

Back up your MySQL database regularly

Taking backup of database is always advisable. In the event of crash either by your fault or from hackers, you can restore your WordPress blog from the backup file. Perhaps for some of you, backing up a database could mean a troublesome technical chore but you can do it easily. "Make backups, and made it often"

• WP-DBManager allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

Limit login attempts to revert brute force attacks

Making smart choices that effectively lower the possible entry points available to a malicious person. WordPress passwords can be cracked with brute force password discovery method. To prevent that from happening, you can install the login lockdown plugin. This plugin records the IP address and timestamp of every failed WordPress login attempt. Once a certain number of failed attempts are detected, it will disable the login function for all requests from that range.

• The Login LockDown plugin will lock out users if they enter their password wrong too many times. You can choose how many times users can enter their password and how long they're locked out for via a neat options page. It's obvious that if your password is the name of your blog or something like "secret", brute force can easily find your password. The first thing to do is to use a very strong password, with tiny, capital letters, numbers and special characters. You can also rely on the generator password included in WP Security Scan.
• Limit Login Attempts blocks an Internet address from making further attempts after a specified limit on retried is reached, making a brute-force attack difficult or impossible.
• User Locker locks user account after given number of incorrect login attempts, and can be unlocked only by requesting new password (using Lost Password option) or asking Admin for help (he/she can do it too). This makes brute force and dictionary attacks nearly impossible.

Add a 2nd layer of security to your Dashboard

You can greatly enhance the security of your blog by adding more access control to your /wp-admin/ folder. This forces an attacker or bot to attack this 2nd layer of protection instead of your real admin files. Most of the time WordPress attacks are carried out autonomously by a malicious software bot.

• AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog. Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well. Imagine a HUGE brick wall protecting your frail .php scripts from the endless attacks of automated web robots and password-guessing exploit-serving virii. Forget spam, these millions of zombie bots are too outrageous to ignore, they are attempting known (but strangely outdated) exploits looking for known vulnerabilities against blogs and other Internet software. Sooner or later some poor blogger is going to miss an upgrade and become a victim to this type of video-game-like-attack.
• Restricted Site Access plugin limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specific IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message. A great solution for Extranets, publicly hosted Intranets, or parallel development sites.
• HTTP Authentication plugin allows you to use existing means of authenticating people to WordPress. This includes Apache's basic HTTP authentication module and many others.

Define user privilege for multi-authors blog

This will give you, the blog owner, the ability to control what users can and cannot do in the blog.

• If there is more than one author for your blog, you can install the Capability Manager plugin to define the capabilities for each user group. The Capability Manager plugin provides a simple way to manage role capabilities. Using it, you will be able to change the capabilities of any role, add new roles, copy existing roles into new ones, and add new capabilities to existing roles. You can also delegate capabilities management to other users. In this case, some restrictions apply to this users, as them can only set/unset the capabilities they have.
• WP Sentry allows WordPress authors to grant access to individual private posts to users and groups of users.
• With User Access Manager you can manage the access to your posts, pages and files. You only create a user group, put registered users to this and set up the rights for this group. From now on the post/page is only accessible and writable for the specified group. This plugin is useful if you need a member area or a private section at your blog or you want that other people can write at your blog but not everywhere.

Keep your WordPress and plugins updated

The WordPress developers do not maintain security patches for older WordPress versions. Once a new version has been released or the vulnerability has been fixed then the information required to exploit the vulnerability is almost certainly in the public domain making any old versions more open to attack by a simple script kiddie.

• Upgrading your plugins is nearly as important as upgrading WordPress itself, because just like WordPress, plugins are susceptible to their code being exploited for malicious purposes. Now, upgrading WordPress plugins is dead simple out of the box, but what if you could make somehow even simpler? That’s where One Click Plugin Updater comes in handy.
• Update Notifier:If you don't check your admin panel on your WordPress install very often (maybe because you prefer to use remote publishing) or you want to make sure that your clients' WordPress installations are updated, then this is the plugin for you. You don't have to login to your admin panel regularly, subscribe to an RSS feed, or do anything apart from installing this plugin will notified when an update to WordPress is released.
• WordPress/Plugin Upgrade Time Out Plugin allows you to change the files download time out value (mainly used for upgrade of WordPress and Plugins). No more requiring to change after every WordPress upgrade.

Install WordPress Security Suites Plugins

WordPress Security Suites is a collection of various administration, SEO, maintenance, backup and security related tools.

• Secure WordPress Little help to secure your WordPress installation: Remove Error information on login page; adds index.html to plugin directory; removes the wp-version, except in admin area.
• GD Press Tools: This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information. Plugin can also track posts and pages views for various popularity lists. Some of the features don't work with every version of the WordPress. If you have some suggestion about potential features for this plugin, please leave a message.
• WordPress Firewall plugin investigates web requests with simple WordPress-specific heuristics to identify and stop most obvious attacks. There exist a few powerful generic modules that do this; but they're not always installed on web servers, and difficult to configure.It intelligently white-list and blacklists pathological-looking phrases based on which field they appear within in a page request (unknown/numeric parameters vs. known post bodies, comment bodies, etc.). Its purpose is not to replace prompt and responsible upgrading, but rather to mitigate 0-day attacks and let bloggers sleep better at night.
• AntiVirus for WordPress is a smart and effective solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections.

Protects registration, login, cookies and comment forms

• Invisible Defender: The idea behind this plugin is simple: SPAMBOTs either fill every form field they find (generic spam bots) or fill WordPress-specific fields only (spam bots which will recognise WP or are targeting WP only). Therefore it is sufficient to add two extra text fields to form (one empty and one with predefined value), and check theirs values after form is submitted. 1st field (empty one) will be filled by generic spam bots, and 2nd one will not be filled by spam bots targeting WP only. With these two simple checks probably all spam bots can be easily detected, so WP can return error "403 Forbidden" for them.
• Absolute Privacy turns your WordPress blog into a fully private site where you control who has access. It's perfect for family blogs, private communities, and personal websites.
• No Disposable Email: This plugin prevent people from registering with a disposable email addresses like the ones provided by Mailinator. It protects your most important asset, your registered user base, by preventing contamination by fake accounts. This plugin working principle is similar to spam blacklists.
• WP-Dephorm protects your users from the prying eyes of phorm. This is achieved by setting a cookie to opt out of the phorm information mining. Your blog viewers will not have their information stored and used in marketing campaigns whilst viewing your site. The idea is based upon a system devised by Dephormation.

Encrypt your login information or Forces an HTTPS connection for security purposes

You can login to the WordPress Admin Panel through encrypted SSL connections. You need to see if your web host service gives you access to an SSL certificate first. Most likely, you won’t, but they’re cheap enough to have and worth spending a few bucks on.

• Admin SSL, and Force SSL secures login page, admin area, posts, pages - whatever you want - using Private or Shared SSL. Those is useful for those who with to enforce a higher level of security regarding the delivery of WordPress content to the browser.
• Semisecure Login Reimagined increases the security of the login process by using a combination of public and secret-key encryption to encrypt the password on the client-side when a user logs in. JavaScript is required to enable encryption. It is most useful for situations where SSL is not available, but the administrator wishes to have some additional security measures in place without sacrificing convenience.
• Chap Secure Login: Whenever you try to login into your website, you can use this plugin to trasmit your password encrypted. The encryption process is done by the Chap protocol; this is particularly useful when you can't use ssl or other kinds of secure protocols. By activating the ChapSecureLogin plugin, the only information transmitted unencrypted is the username; password is hided with a random number (nonce) generated by the session - and opportunely transformed by the md5 algorithm.

Block, street & building blog

Andi Saleh

3oneseven milo

La Lune Mauve

Binary Joy

The English guy

BitBox

Armadillo Studo

Boda

Mac OS X Login

The Pride of DeSoto Central High School

markfitzpatrick

Persian WordPress Login Page

JobSochi

La Botteghina Artigianato

Cuori Dell'est

MyBabyOurBaby

OneEyedGoldFish

EHK

Luma.se

Batofu

Under The Oak

Salumi Salcuno

Imperia Parla

Locanda Italia - Albergo, Ristorante, Enoteca alle porte del Gargano

archGFX

Chad Coleman

Citizen Wausau

Ben-Inside

Gidibao's Cafe

HeroesARG

My Simple Mind

I Caught Fire

Tecnografica

Union Rescue Mission

If you have a custom login page, please, leave a comment with the link and i will update this gallery with your works!

Pinky Kupy

Pink Kupy 1.0. A 2 column, fixed width theme, widgets not supported unfortunately. Download Pinky Kupy

Pink Kupy

Rounded Blue V2

Nice blue flowerish theme from Ghyslain Armand. Right sidebar, 2 columns, fluid width and widget ready.

ItCouldBeThisOne

HongKiat Rounded v2 Edition

Rounded v2 is created by Ghyslain of itcouldbethisone.com, Hongkiat make 5 edition with 5 color from Rounded v2 Blue edition. View more detail at Hongkiat blog.

HongKiat Rounded v2 Edition

Outdoorsy Theme

Outdoorsy Theme

Lady In Green

Lady In Green

Notepad Chaos

Notepad Chaos

The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins. The theme was designed by Evan Eckard.

Gossip City

Gossip City

Paisley

Paisley

Autumn

Autumn

Bus Full of Hippies

Bus Full of Hippies

PinkLove

PinkLove

Girl WordPress Theme

Girl WordPress Theme

Girls Fantasy-Land Wordpres Theme

Girls Fantasy-Land Wordpres Theme

compatible with WordPress 2.7.1 and comes with threaded comments right out of the box. It is tested on all major web browsers.

Too Much Stress

Too Much Stress