WordPress Admin Toolbar Bookmarklet is a JavaScript bookmarklet for WordPress site administrators and designers.

Using jQuery, it appends the default WordPress admin menu to whatever page you’re currently on and styles it with CSS, fixing it to the top right corner. Assuming you’re on a site that’s running WordPress, you now have instant access to the entire administrative back end from the front end.

Pricing: FREE
Requirements: WordPress
Source: http://iamnotagoodartist.com/other/wordpress-admin…

Joost released a WordPress plugin for Google Analytics that adds a tracking code and dozens of various pieces of meta data to blogs. Since the release of version 4, he has updated it 6 times, to the point where it’s now at version 4.0.6. In this article: Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In, he would like to share with you his experiences in maintaining this and other WordPress plug-ins and common good practices that he has distilled from that work.

The updates that Joost released had a couple of purposes, ranging from bug fixes to new features and fixes in documentation. While all of these are nice to talk about, the bug fixes are the ones you’ll learn the most from.

Source: Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In

How to Build a Successful Blog Business is a straight forward guide to building a publishing business online that covers everything from choosing a niche to hiring staff, registering a business to selling it, finding traffic to monetizing it.

Collis is a web veteran with a wealth of experience and an easy to read style. He has founded sites such as the Tuts+ network, the Envato Marketplaces, FreelanceSwitch and AppStorm which combined serve up over 50 million pageviews a month.

In How to Build a Successful Blog Business Collis shares tips from his years of operating kick ass blogs, and reveals stats, graphs, revenue figures and inside details from three real world case studies.

Nowhere else will you be able to find information like this. Step behind the scenes of Envato’s wildly successful sites and find out how you build blogs that are both profitable and popular. This is the must-read book on blogging business.

Source: The Complete Handbook on Building a Blog Business

WordPress and jQuery are both very famous for their plugins. In the case of jQuery, plugins allow developers to extend the library’s capacities in order to create beautiful effects. In WordPress, they allow anyone to benefit from the work of others, as they come under the form of a module that you can easily activate from within the administration interface, and start using right away.

Creating one of those modules is not that difficult, but if you are not familiar with their syntax, it could end up being a headache. There are many jQuery plugins that have been transferred into a WordPress one already, but what can you do when it is not the case? How do you do when you have found the perfect jQuery plugin for your latest site, but it is not yet available as a WordPress plugin?

In this tutorial: How to turn any jQuery plugin into a WordPress one, we’ll see how you can easily create a WordPress plugin from a jQuery one. We’ll review what a jQuery, or a WordPress plugin is actually made of, so we’ll find the elements they both have in common. From there, we’ll show how it leads us to perform some simple operations to allow us to benefit from our jQuery plugins in a WordPress template.

Source: How to turn any jQuery plugin into a WordPress one

WordPress has become the most widely used blogging platform in the world, estimated to be used on a quarter of a billion websites online today. WordPress works as a blog, but also as a straightforward content management system, ready to use with search-engine-friendly URLs and fully valid HTML and CSS.

With so many sites using WordPress and only about 1,200 themes listed on WordPress.org, there are inevitably lots of sites looking exactly the same. You and your clients need to stand out, or end up being branded as “just another WordPress blog.”

In  the article: Create Your Own WordPress Theme from an HTML Template, Matthew Higgins will show you how to take an existing HTML and CSS site template and convert it into a theme for WordPress. Of course, WordPress theming is much too vast a topic to cover entirely in a single article, so he will provide you with some resources at the end to further your learning. This article serves as a good introduction and give you a solid foundation to start learning about creating your own WordPress themes.

Source: Create Your Own WordPress Theme from an HTML Template

Since 2003, WordPress has been demonstrating the power of community development as it becomes the dominant open source Web site platform on the Internet. It’s popularity has been propelled not only by its price (free), but by its quality. From an austere beginning, the platform has become one of the most full-featured, flexible platforms available on the Web today, but it continues to evolve. As WordPress nears its next major revision, many people are wondering where WordPress is headed. Here are five ways the WordPress may evolve in the future, many of which can be observed in current trends.

1. Beyond Blogging

Users around the globe are waking up to the fact that WordPress is much more than a blogging platform: it is a Web content management system (CMS) with the power to support Web presence in a variety of formats. Already, many plugins exist that help adapt WordPress into a CMS with a powerful backend. In the future, look for more CMS features to be native to WordPress, and the blogger features moderated to fit with the more general purpose. Already, WordPress is considered to be second only to Drupal in the market for open source CMS.

2. Premium Plugins, Themes and Enhancements

Casual bloggers probably won’t get very excited about premium WordPress items, but enthusiasts and professionals probably will. Premium features will serve two primary purposes: first, they will spur more innovation, something that is needed to keep WordPress from becoming stale. Secondly (more…)

Great web publishing platforms like WordPress have made it easy for just about anyone to publish information and have it seen by the world, but as Google starts favoring sites that have the resources and knowledge to optimize page load time, some publishers’ messages may not have the reach they once did.

Exacerbating this problem is that information on website optimization is somewhat complicated and assumes a considerable amount of technical knowledge. David Kadavy is very kind to share his experience with improving the page load time of his WordPress site on WordPress Optimization: How I Reduced Page Load Time by 75%.

Source: WordPress Optimization: How I Reduced Page Load Time by 75%

Wordpress 3.0 is all set release on May 1st 2010 with lots of breathtaking improvements and exciting new features which will surely bring this platform one step ahead. So, what actually we can expect to bundle up with this release? Wordpress 3.0 Features Walk Through from WPCookies can give you some ideas.

Wordpress.org and Wordpress MU Wedding

Wordpress MU and Wordpress.org are all set to tie up with each other. This feature will come handy specially for large blog networks. It is an add-on for the existing users which means it won’t hurt them if they don’t want to use it. The upgrade process will be smooth and won’t cause any difficulties to existing users.

Choose Username and Password while Installing

Earlier when you do new installation Wordpress automatically choose ‘admin‘ as default username and generate a random password, however in 3.0 it allows you to choose custom username and password while installing Wordpress.

New Default Theme

Wordpress 3 has been packaged with a new theme called ‘Twenty Ten’. This new theme is really outstanding and minimalist at the same time. Twenty Ten has some outstanding features such as Custom Background, Custom Header, Simple and Clean Look, Multi Widget Areas Supported, Two-Columns and Drop Down Menu.

Custom Background

Wordpress 3.0 now adds support for custom background for themes. It enables ‘Background’ option in Wordpress admin ‘Appearance’ tab.

Custom Post Types

This feature is due since Wordpress 2.9 it allows you create different post types such as Portfolio, Products, Reviews etc.

Navigation Menu

This feature allows you to create different menu items containing Categories, Pages, External or Internal Link. It also support a widget so that you can place these menus in your sidebar as widget.

Author Templates

Earlier we had category specific templates which we use to develop category based templates using category-slug.php now Wordpress 3 brings the same functionality for author based templates now you can create author based template files such as ‘author-chef.php’.

Source: http://www.wpcookies.com/wordpress-3-0-features/

I am sure most of you have downloaded Free Blogging Icons designed by Blog Perfume. Recently, Web Icon Set has released a set of free icons for blogger as well. This New Blogging Icon Set contains 10 high quality blogging icons in PNG format.

You can use these icons on your blog for both personal and commercial projects. Cute Blogging Icon Set inclides Design, Download, Freelance, Part-time, Hire Me, Not Available, About Me, Services, My Blog, Contact. You can also download other pretty web icons for free there.

Source: Cute Blogging Icon Set

WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Software (CMS) systems out there. It’s relatively easy to use, but can be made even simpler when you include an administration panel for users. Rather than having to open up the PHP template files and fiddling with the code, users can directly use the options panel to interact with your WordPress theme.

Nettus is going to guide you through the entire process of creating and enhancing a WordPress admin panel page. This isn’t your standard options panel. This one doesn’t use tables, it’s jQuery enhanced, uses awesome CSS, and is extremely easy to use.

Source: How to Create a Better WordPress Options Panel