WordPress has been a hot topic around the blogosphere, with all sorts of people doing a lot of great work. I try to make at least one post a month that highlights some of the great stuff others have done, so feel free to check these out if they sound interesting to you:

• Daily Blog Tips has posted 11 Tips For Choosing a WordPress Theme. This list has some good stuff to consider when you are WordPresss theme shopping.
• Lunarpages is having a WordPress theme design contest over on their website with some pretty good prizes.  The catch?  You have to upload the theme to their site.

In addition to the stuff you’ll find here at Hack WordPress, there are all sorts of things being discussed around the blogosphere about WordPress. Here are a few things I’ve collected that I hope people will find useful:

• Webware has posted about Matt Mullenweg and his thoughts on the future of blogging. Included is quite a bit of talk about the development of WordPress and his hopes for the future of the internet being open source.
• JohnTP features a WordPress plugin called Feed Count. This plugin helps the user display their Feedburner subscriber numbers in a convenient text format.
• WordPress Garage explains how to give each comment a link in your WordPress theme.  This might be something people would want to do for certain types of blogs where comments are cited regularly.

Today marks the one month anniversary of the registration of HackWordPress,com.   The following day, this blog was launched.  It has been quite an adventure so far, and I’ve got a lot of great stuff scheduled to be posted over the coming days and weeks.  

In case you are new to Hack WordPress, here are my most popular posts from October 2007:

1. How To: Seperate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks
2. Best 3-column WordPress Themes
3. Best K2 WordPress Theme Mods and Styles
4. How To: Separating Your Author Comments
5. How To: Add Del.icio.us Daily Blog Posting To Your WordPress Blog
6. Best 2-Column WordPress Themes
7. Best Google AdSense Optimized WordPress Themes
8. How To: Prevent WordPress Plugins From Breaking Your Blog

Looks like you enjoy the “How To” stuff the best, so I’ll keep my general focus in that direction going forward.   Thanks to everyone for supporting Hack WordPress through reading, comments, and inbound links!

In addition to the stuff you’ll find here at Hack WordPress, there are all sorts of things being discussed around the blogosphere about WordPress. Here are a few things I’ve collected that I hope people will find useful:

• Keith over at Techie Buzz is WordPress theme and plugin designer, and has a lot of knowledge about PHP. He has a couple useful posts explaining how to create SEO friendly URL’s using mod rewrite and PHP and how to get rid of errors after upgrading to WordPress 2.3.
• Web Designer Wall has listed some plugins they find useful. There are a few I haven’t covered here yet, so you may want to check it out.
• Aseem has published a great guest post at JohnTP.com explaining how to increase your WordPress blogs load time.  Even the little things can go a long way towards improving your blogs load time.