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One of the most common features on any blog or website is category highlighting showing you which category you're in or the page is in. Wordpress, by default, does not have a function to do this. Thus it's up to us developers to write our own custom functions to do this, and that's exactly what's I'm going to be teaching you in this tutorial.

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With an ever increasing amount of content building on your Wordpress site, your users will inevitably need to search your site to find that specific helpful article from way back. To help narrow the search results, I’m going to show you how to code a plugin that allows the user to search based on category.

This is a Nettuts +Tut.

While reading though some twitter updates this morning, I stumbled across one that was asking if anyone knew a way to exclude a specific category in Wordpress from the loop, unless it was certian page template. After a quick minute of thinking, I came up with this small function that will do just that.

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When I first got into coding, I started out making themes for Invision Power Board 1.3 using primarily CSS. I then branched out and started making some free HTML templates (I was shocked at my coding honestly). I've since gone back and updated everything to standards and made it fully cross-browser compatible and am now offering it up as a free Wordpress theme for you guys!

Abstraction is a simple typography based theme with some decorative elements thrown in to class it up a bit.

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Search by Category allows your visitor to select which category they want to search your blog inside of. This allows visitors to find the exact article they're looking for and helps increase viewer loyalty.

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Not that long ago I released my Wordpress Plugin Templates and they were greatly received by you all. Through this wide spread attraction, it was inevitable that a flaw would be found and some improvements be suggested. So I took these suggestions and an idea I had, and updated these templates to allow for less editing of the template files and faster plugin development all around.

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About 3 weeks ago I did a screencast on how to build a dynamic thumbnail selector for Wordpress. When I wrote that function, I noticed that if the post was in more than 1 of the specified categories, then it choose the first one (alphabetically). This bothered me enough that today I devised a system that will select the category based on a hierarchy we give to the options.

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Wordpress plugins have become my new addiction in the WP environment, thus I've noticed that I'm using the same few beginning steps every time. This led me to create a template file so that I just open, edit, and continue on my merry way of coding my plugin. I'm posting these templates for free use no matter what you're working on. I'll even be a nice guy and let you repost them as your own.

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Google Syntax Highlighter may be Wordpress' most popular syntax highlighter plugin, but it's not the most efficient. With plenty of extra JavaScript and sloppy PHP writing, it's quite the bloat-ware if left unchecked. So here's 2 fixes showing how to put GSH on a diet and still get all the features of the plugin.

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No Wordpress blog is complete (or even fully functional) with a healthy arsenal of plugins in it's repertoire. So here are 9 ultra-useful plugins to use on every blog setup you configure.

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