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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.

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.

Thumbnails in WordPress themes are a critical part of relaying the topic or aspect of the article/post you've written. With some simple tricks you can add your own to your theme, and there are even plugins out there to do it for you. The fact of the matter is that these systems you have in place have faults, so here's a video detailing how to create an advanced WordPress Thumbnail generator in your own theme.

Wordpress' conditional tags are by far one of the most useful and unglorified tools for theme and plugin development. Here's a list of all the tags.

The Conditional Tags can be used in your Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions that page matches. For example, you might want to display a snippet of text above the series of posts, but only on the main page of your blog. With the is_home() Conditional Tag, that task is made easy.

Hi Everyone,

I've created a very short screencast today, to walk you through installing WordPress.

I can do other CMS's and Scripts if you reply to the post with a comment for me with the CMS/Script name and a URL to their website.

The screencast goes for about 6 or so Minutes, and explains basically the simple steps to install wordpress such as downloading, adding in the database information and so on. I haven't included uploading or extracting the wordpress files, as it may be the topic for another screencast.