Shoutem has shared us 10 Ways to Build Your Blog Community with Twitter. Every blogger, no matter how ambitious or dedicated to his or her blog – wants a community around it. There are 3 Reasons Why Twitter Rocks for Your Community.

1. It’s less tedious than forums. As any other type of website, forums have a specific organization scheme that users need to learn. What if you have both article comments and a forum – what will the user choose to do? With too many choice, he may just end up staying quiet.

2. It’s more effective than e-mail because you’re communicating to the community. While e-mail is personal, what happens when you get to much e-mail? What happens when you stop responding to people?

3. Accessible everywhere – browser, desktop, mobile,… With all the tools and ways to access both Twitter or your own microblogging network, you choose the way you want to engage your readers.

We all know that Twitter is good for our community. So how do we empower our community with Twitter?

Source: 10 Ways to Build Your Blog Community with Twitter

Speeding up the time it takes you to develop new Wordpress themes can become a very critical habit that will help you as you continue on in this business. When most freelancers start out, they usually are sure to take on one client at a time.

As you get more comfortable and know your limits, you may become a little daring and take on two, maybe three clients at the same time. If you respect yourself enough to deliver quality work in a timely fashion to these clients that put their faith into you, you better hope you have sharp time-management skills.

The production of a well-developed Wordpress theme can take 20-25 hours. 11 Tips for Speeding Up Wordpress Theme Development will help you speed up the production of your theme projects. Try to implement these next time you work on a theme and notice the increase in motivation and how much time you’ll save.

Source: 11 Tips for Speeding Up Wordpress Theme Development

Chris Brogan has a mindset for framing posts that is useful to blogger. He wrote 20 Blog Topics To Get You Unstuck. You might not like all 20 ideas. The goal might be to look at what he has written for ideas and come up with your own list. In fact, it might even spur you to write 20 blog topics for your industry or community. The followings are the 5 out of 20 questions you might answer.

1. What challenges are my potential customers facing. Do I have any advice for them?
2. What have I read lately? What points were interesting? Can I add more to it?
3. What bugs me? Can I write about another way to approach it?
4. Who do I admire? Can I write something about them that explains how to emulate those traits?
5. What has the potential of helping (hurting) me or my community in the coming months? Are there possible ways out of it?
6. ……

Source: 20 Blog Topics To Get You Unstuck

The WordPress Design Award is held by WpWebHost. The winners will get a badge which links back to the page stating the winners. Also, the winner of each category can get $200 cash (via PayPal) plus a life-time hosting sponsorship as well.

The WordPress Design Award is divided into 5 separate categories. Your website must be WordPress powered with an original design or a completely original modification of a free or premium theme design. Simply write a blog post about joining the Best WordPress Design Award and submit your URL in the comment form in WpWebHost Blog in order to join the contest.

Source: Best WordPress Design Award

When working on a WordPress blog, your posts often take the important place. However, the comments on the posts are often just as important as they create quality and valuable discussion. on the other hand if you have default WordPress comment box then there is no fun in commenting for readers as well as writers.

It really helpful for you and your visitors if your blog have well managed comment space. In which a reader can find various details about past and present comments which can improve the appearance of comments, and add more value to your posts.

Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks helps you to create a user-friendly interchange between you and your readers.

Source: 30 Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks

Wordpress is a very powerful Content Management System. It has tons of capability and can be extremely powerful. No matter how many awesome features such as threaded comments or breadcrumb navigation or even an “edit” link beside each post are added, you’re limited by your theme that you are using. If you theme isn’t “smart” enough to use these features, well, quite frankly, you can’t use them.

15 Useful Wordpress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better is a post for all the Wordpress theme developers out there. There are many great snippets of code that will take your current theme creation and make it that much better.

Source: 15 Useful Wordpress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better

WP WebHost is a web hosting for WordPress Users. They tailor made the servers and configuration for WordPress. Now you can get the best compatibility and maximum performance for every of your WordPress-powered site hosted with them. WP WebHost differs from other hosting companies by providing WordPress-related issues support. They will help you on any WordPress installation, configuration, plugins and themes issue.

You can install new WordPress on your site with just a click of your mouse through their Control Panel. They also invest heavily in ensuring our servers are not overloaded, have the fastest network connections, and guarantee 99.9% of network uptime. If you are not, within 100 days from when your initial order was placed, you’ll get your money back.

WP WebHost seemed new and too good to be true. Are you sure are not one of those ‘overnight hosting companies’? They can assure you – they are not. WP WebHost started in 2007 and backed by a reputable international hosting company – Exabytes Network. They are an award-winning hosting company, having been in the industry for more than 7 years with more than 20,000 satisfied customer.

With only $5/month, you can get 50GBs of web space, 500GBs of monthly bandwidth and host up to 50 domain names. Would you like to give it a try?

Source: Sign Up Now

2008 was a very good year for the WordPress community. The software was updated numerous times, leading to the recent release of version 2.7, and many new blogs dedicated to WordPress were created. Of course, tons of new hacks were discovered, which helped lots of bloggers enhance their blogs.

SmashingMagazine has shown you 10 new useful killer WordPress hacks to unleash the power of your favorite blogging engine. Each hack has an accompanying explanation, so you’ll not only unleash the power of WordPress but also understand how it works.

Source: 10 Killer WordPress Hacks

You have the ability to have threaded (nested) comments up to 10 levels deep in Wordpress 2.7. While viewing comments on this – or any Wordpress 2.7-powered – site, you’ll notice a Reply button (assuming nested discussions are enabled). Clicking that will enable you to reply directly to that comment, keeping discussions in context.

This is probably not all inclusive, but here is the basic structure for ol.commentlist as it exists in the Default theme’s comments.php. To take advantage of the new discussion features, Chris Harrison copied this file over to his theme. (You’re more than welcome to roll your own.) For many of the elements, more than one class is used with it. Where applicable, he has chosen the most descriptive class (e.g. li.comment instead of li.alt) as the parent for child formatting.

Source: Stylizing Threaded/Nested Comments in Wordpress 2.7

UPDATE: Please check out our Latest Social Media Icons Pack v2.0

After a huge success of Blogging Icons Set, we are really happy that Eli Burford has created this amazing Social Media Icons Pack for Blog Perfume. These icons come in really handy when integrating social media sites to your blog.

Download: Social Media Icons Pack (.rar), Social Media Icons Pack (.zip)

UPDATE: Please check out our Latest Social Media Icons Pack v2.0

About the icons:

I was motivated to put these icons together after I scoured the web in search for a circular social media icons set and couldn’t find any decent options. Of the two options I found, one was very low quality and the other was in .ico format. What are we meant to do with social media icons in .ico format?

The zip file includes 3 sizes for 17 icons: 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32. There is an icon for the following: Blogger, Delicious, DesignFloat, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, a heart icon that will work for anything (such as bookmark), MySpace, Reddit, an RSS icon, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo! and YouTube.

Please feel free to use Social Media Icons Pack on both personal and commercial projects.

About the designer:

Eli is a young and aspiring web designer from South Australia.