35 Useful WordPress Tutorials From 2011

The WordPress hacking community is alive and well. It seems that there’s nothing you can’t achieve with WordPress by making a few changes to a template or core file. Today I would like to share with you 35 great tutorials that developers have written over the last 5 months.

* Note: Tutorials are not listed in date order.

WordPress Admin Bar Tutorials

Tutorials that help you you modify the new WordPress admin bar:

• Add trash button to WordPress Admin Bar (WP Engineer)
• Move WordPress Admin Bar to the Bottom (WP Engineer)
• Admin Bar Tricks (Digging Into WordPress)
• Take Control of your WordPress Admin Bar (Do It With WordPress)
• How to show an urgent message in the WordPress admin area (WP Recipes)
• Add custom links to WordPress admin bar (WP Recipes)

Dashboard

Tutorials that show you how to enhance your WordPress dashboard:

• Adding a Custom Dashboard Logo in WordPress for Branding (WP Beginner)
• How to Hide the WordPress Upgrade Message in the Dashboard (WP Beginner)

Admin Area

Tutorials that show you how to add additional functionality to your admin area:

• Control Capabilities with Custom User Roles (WP Mods)
• Disabling WordPress plugin deactivation and theme changing (Steve Taylor)
• How to change WordPress editor font (WP Recipes)
• Disable submenus from Admin Panel (WP Snippets)
• Removing WordPress update notifications (SitePoint)

Posts & Pages

Tutorials that help you modify your posts and pages in some way:

• Excluding Posts and Pages from Search (WP Mods)
• Change Your WordPress Posts Into Pages (WP Mods)
• Indispensable MySQL queries for custom fields in WordPress (The Customize Windows)
• Automatically add Twitter and Facebook buttons to your posts
• Simple WordPress Post Thumbnails with Regular Expressions (Binary Moon)

Htaccess Tutorials

Tutorials that require you to edit your .htaccess file:

• Htaccess WordPress SEO Security (Digging Into WordPress)
• Simpler Login URL (Digging Into WordPress)
• 6 .htaccess Tricks for Better WordPress SEO & Security (Digging Into WordPress)

Tips & Tricks

A range of tips and tricks that help you get more out of WordPress:

• Automatically Replace words by Affiliate Links (WP Kube)
• Customising The Default Search Box (WP Mods)
• WordPress shortcode snippet to display external files (Vladimir Prelovac)
• How To Add A Navigation Menu To Your WordPress Theme (WP Mods)
• Display number Facebook Fans (WP Snippets)
• Display search terms from Google users (WP Snippets)
• Optimizing WordPress 404â€Â²s (Binary Moon)
• Serve IE6 Visitors the Default WordPress Theme (WP Kube)
• WordPress title custom length (Orange Dev Design)
• Four Very Useful WordPress Snippets (WP Mods)
• 14 Amazing WordPress SQL Queries (What Niche)
• Adding Input Fields To Comment Form (WP Engineer)
• Modifying pluggable.php – How To Disable Emails (Binary Moon)

If I have missed any great tutorials from 2011, please feel free to share them in the comment area.

Thanks,
Kevin