There is no doubt that their combination of WordPress themes and WordPress plugins gives WordPress.org users a variety of options, but WordPress.com does not give its users nearly as much functionality. That is where Greasemonkey steps in, allowing users to control WordPress’ behavior locally within your web browser.Below you will find a list of what I consider to be the best and most useful WordPress Greasemonkey scripts. Most are for WordPress.com users, but some work for both. In order to use them, you will first need to install the Greasemonkey Extension in your Firefox Web Browser.

WordPress Greasemonkey Scripts

• Akismet Auntie Spam - This script re-skins the Akismet spambox page for WordPress admins. Download all spam at once, compress spam to make it more scanable and completely compresses obvious spam. Turns checking spam into a 10 minute per week activity.
• Find Images That Are Wide - This script scans your blog for images that are to big in Firefox, IE6, and IE7. Great for checking IE6 image compatibility and for blogs using fixed width templates.
• WordPress.com: Add Technorati Tags - This is not for the self-hosted version of WordPress, but it is to good not to list! This script adds a Tag button to allow users to easily add Technorati Tags to their posts.
• WordPress.com Stats Pages - Adds the missing stats links to the WordPress.com edit pages admin panel.
• WordPress Category Resizer - Ideal for people with 25+ categories on their blog. This script moves the category checkbox list from the right sidebar to underneath the edit post windows and makes it three columns wide instead of one column wide. Works with any version of WordPress or WordPress Multi-User (including WordPress.com).
• WordPress Comment Ninja - Respond to comments directly by post and/or email from inside your WordPress dashboard.
• Yahoo Pipe Cleaner - Removes most of the HTML markup from Yahoo Pipe run output so that it can be cut-and-pasted into WordPress blogs.

Unfortunately, this list is a little shorter than most of my Greasemonkey lists due to the lack of scripts available. If you know of some really useful ones I missed, please let me know in the comments below!

Back in early November I wrote about a great WordPress help sheet released by WPCandy that primarily focused on a bunch of PHP snippets for WordPress developers. You can download the PDF and have quick and easy access to these code snippets when you need it.

Today I noticed that Michael has followed this up with yet another great free PDF designed to be a more advanced WordPress help sheet. This one is similar to the WordPress code compilation that I created awhile ago, but his help sheet covers a few more advanced code snippets while still mixing in a lot of basic code that theme developers might use.

If you spend any amount of time working with WordPress themes, I recommend you click over and grab a copy of this PDF so that you have it when you need it!

Previously I talked a bit about How To: Add Widget Support To Your WordPress Theme.  Since WordPress 2.2 was released, offering widget support has become a basic requirement for any WordPress theme to become successfully received by the WordPress community. 

Recently I ran across a great post by Quick Online Tips which also does a great job of showing you how to widget-enable WordPress themes in 3 easy steps.  They’ve taken the time to break it down so anyone can easily update their theme to include widgets.  I recommend checking it out if you’d like to update your theme to support widgets.

If you aren’t a person that is fairly concious of Search Engine Optimization when blogging, you probably having given much thought to the Post Slug field in your WordPress write panel. 

Creating a post slug basically allows you to create the post URL of your choice after your blog’s name, depending on the permalink structure that your blog uses.     By default, the post slug will be the blog post’s title.  For example, by default, this would post having the following URL:

http://hackwordpress.com/wordpress-tip-use-the-wordpress-post-slug

Unfortunately, this is not a very search engine friendly URL, as many of the keywords are at the end of the URL.   By setting my own custom post slug, I am able to create a better URL for my post:

http://hackwordpress.com/wordpress-post-slug

In this case, my post title focuses on the keywords for this post, creating more emphasis on them.  The great thing about this tip is it takes a very minimal amount of time to do and will become second nature once you’ve turned it into a habit.