Extreme Trix

WordPress has been all time favourite blogging tool of all because of its user-friendly style and it is an open source. As it is an open source so we can do many tweaks in it without any restrictions or license problem. Today I am going to share a list of the WordPress tricks and hacks. Hope you will like it and may use in your own blog.

List of Tips, Tricks & Hacks

1. Change theme programmatically: Changing the default theme of a WordPress  blog is very easy, but changing it programmatically is not so. Jean-Baptiste Jung of WP Recipes posted a trick to make it easy. Visit
2. Add a Google style MP3 player: If you own a music or film blog, then do implement this trick in your blog. This trick will add to Google’s Mail type MP3 player to your blog. Visit
3. Prevent Adsense robot to index comments: With this trick you can easily select the comments that should be indexed by the Google Adsense robot. Visit
4. Create an E-mail newsletter service by WordPress: why to depend on other sources when you can create a free email newsletter service by your own WordPress powered blog. This trick posted by Editorial Staff of the WP Beginners shows how to do that. Visit
5. Show thumbnail with excerpts of post: Usually normal bloggers don’t show excerpts on the home page. They add “Read more..” link by adding tag, which is not good to use as it creates a http://url.net/post#more tag to the post URL that is not good for SEO as it creates a duplicate of the same post. Moreover, adding read more increases the link on home page and makes it look ugly. This hack is a must implement trick which will show excerpts on home page with thumbnails too. Visit
6. Add a horizontal drop down menu: Navigation of a blog matters a lot if we talk about the site’s traffic. If you will have a great navigation bar I’m sure most of the visitors would like to scroll down to other pages and check your content, which would help you in getting a good traffic. Here is a tutorial to magazine style navigation to your current theme. Visit
7. Add a jQuery based Author box: If you have a multiple author blog, then instead of giving link backs at the end or each and every post add a good looking author box, which would save your a lot of time and give them credit too. Visit
8. WordPress security tips: Security is the main thing of which we should take care of, like my bro Aditya never took care of anything so finally he lost his site (his site was hacked). This post posted on Directory Press gives 11 tips to secure your WordPress blog. Visit
9. Disable comments on old posts: If you feel that there is no use of getting comments on your old posts, then you can easily block them by this trick. Visit
10. Who sees your ads?: If you have faced the invalid click issue with your advertisement network, then you must read this post. It explains how to how to enable to advertisement to be shown to particular type of reader only. Visit

This is the complete list of the best WordPress hack, tips and tricks, which I found on Internet. Hope you liked the list. Please do let me know that which trick you found the best one.

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