At the time when Hack WordPress was created close to a year ago, there were only two sites that were completely dedicated to WordPress (Weblog Tools Collection and Lorelle on WordPress), and both focused a lot of their time covering WordPress news and the community that surrounds it.
The original intention when building this site was to feature a number of WordPress hacks, tips, and/or how-to guides each week to kind of fill the gaps and provide resources for WordPress users. Over time, I feel this site has branched out to become much more, but the core of this site is still focused on providing WordPress theme hacks. In addition to the ones I’ve written, we’ve also had some great hacks contributed from a number of different WordPress enthusiasts.
Because I felt that our archives are not as focused as was originally intended, I have decided to create a place to strictly collect links to our posts providing WordPress hacks, WordPress tips, and WordPress guides. This will replace the Archives link in our menu.
There are a number of new WordPress hacks planned for the future, so the plan is to update this post every time a new hack is published!
Theme Hacks
- How to Add Widget Support to Your WordPress Theme
- How to Prevent WordPress Plugins From Breaking Your Blog
- How to Add Edit Buttons To Your Theme
- How to Add WordPress Tags to Your Theme
- How to Setup RSS Feed Auto Discovery
- How to Use WordPress Conditional Tags
- How to Hide Your Subcategories (Children)
- How to Prevent Google From Indexing Your Images
- How to Create a Two-Tiered Navigation Menu
- How to Make WordPress Function Like a CMS
- How to Add a Print Button To Your Theme
- How to Add an Email Button To Your Theme
Stylesheet Hacks
Post Hacks
- How to Add Daily Blog Posting via Del.icio.us
- How to Convert Your Author Links to Point Towards the Authors Site
- How to Show Only a Post Excerpt
- How to Display a Last Modified Date on Your Posts
- How to Add Bio Information to Your Blog Posts
- How to Alternate Post Background Colors
- How to Add Author Gravatars to Authors Posts
Comment Hacks
- How To Separate Comments and Trackbacks
- How To Single Out Author Comments
- How To Add Numbers To Your Blog Comments
- How to Display Recent Comments First
Page Hacks
- How to Create a Custom Page Template
- How to Hide Individual WordPress Pages
- How to Add an Author Page To Your Theme
- How to Optimize Your 404 Error Page
Categories/Archives Hacks
- How to Limit How Many Archives are Displayed
- How to Remove Ads from Select Categories
- How to Display Recent Posts for Specific Categories
- How to Change the Author Archives Permalink
- How to Convert Your Categories to Display Post Titles












Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Superb list. Appreciate your great effort.
Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Great! I have been tweaking WordPress for a while and I still found two hacks I could use. Thanks and… keep on hacking!
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Wow, that’s a very great list! Thank you Kyle.
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Thank you Kyle that is a very informative post, actually I been reading articles the same kind that you post today but you post it all lol . Thanks and I will bookmark this as my reference.
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
This is a really handy post!
A year ago WordPress Garage also existed, and I only write there about WordPress.