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.

Over the past 10 years, the MySQL database has become incredibly popular on the Web. Every WordPress blog is driven by a MySQL database, which contains the blog’s posts, settings, comments and much more.

While plug-ins and even coding hacks can solve some problems and achieve some tasks, sometimes you don’t have any other choice than to execute SQL commands in phpMyAdmin or directly to the database via SSH. Let’s take a look at 8 useful SQL hacks for WordPress. Each section of this post presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides an explanation to help you understand the solution.

Source: 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks

We have just published a post about the release of WordPress 2.7 few days ago. Significant features and redesigns was added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging on the new Dashboard Panel more valuable than ever.

You may find your Themes no longer work the way you are used to. It could be that they might be broken, because something in WordPress that was fundamental to them changed, but it’s also possible that you can get them working again by updating some settings, or maybe just a small edit.

Noupe has published a post of “Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks“. The post will highlight WordPress 2.7 HOW-TO get your theme working again by updating some settings and represent some of the best and significant features added to your Administration Panel.

Source: Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks