Lucinda shares 10 plugins that’ll crank up the functionality of your WordPress blog.

That most people will probably find your website through a search engine is a given; but how quickly will they leave if they don’t find what they came for in the first place?

Designing a dream WordPress theme? Anyway, what do you believe in designs? We believe that great designs are designs that speak and function. They were developed through insightful inspirations and born to convey an important message to the viewers. Although designs are always eye-candies, we do believe that awesomeness lies beyond.
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ICanLocalize offers a collection of plugins that can make it easier to use WordPress as a CMS, including translation mechanism and menu tools. Dustin takes a look.

Are you addicted to plugins, extensions, addons, or whatever they’re called for your CMS? Then you should keep the Plugin Rule in mind. After all, it is way to easy to clutter our sites with additional functionality that hogs load speed and whatnot these days…

Have you looked at the Sandbox Theme, but decided not to use it after all? Or perhaps never heard of it? Then maybe you should rethink your position. Dustin tells you why.

Let’s play some more with WordPress 2.7 and the new post class options it offers. This time, let’s create an asides functionality without the need of either a plugin nor any changes to the loop.

There’s a new way to spit out the class="post" in WordPress 2.7, and it’s really great for those of us who like to style our posts. Here’s how you use it.

WordPress 2.7 is due in November, and actually out in Beta 1 already. One of the new features it brings is the ability to pin posts at the top. So let’s get our themes ready and style those sticky posts, shall we?

There’s always a risk of bloating your application, no matter if it is a web app, or traditional software, especially over time. This column talks about what you need to think about when developing and maintaining a large software project.

Automattic’s acquisition of IntenseDebate brings up the discussion as to wether it is a good idea to use hosted comment solutions in the first place. What do you think?

If you’re using WordPress, you can group your posts in listings using the_date tag. That’s a great way to put a little emphasis on how often you update, if you’re a frequent updater, and a way to avoid littering your posts listings with the same date over and over again.