The process is relatively simple:

- Grab all the months and years from the database
- Loop through the list of dates and grab the posts from each month, displaying them as you go

Easy right? Now just copy this into functions.php

function bm_displayArchives() {
	global $month, $wpdb, $wp_version;

	// a mysql query to get the list of distinct years and months that posts have been created
	$sql = 'SELECT
			DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) AS year,
			MONTH(post_date) AS month,
			count(ID) as posts
		FROM ' . $wpdb->posts . '
		WHERE post_status="publish"
			AND post_type="post"
			AND post_password=""
		GROUP BY YEAR(post_date),
			MONTH(post_date)
		ORDER BY post_date DESC';

	// use get_results to do a query directly on the database
	$archiveSummary = $wpdb->get_results($sql);

	// if there are any posts
	if ($archiveSummary) {
		// loop through the posts
		foreach ($archiveSummary as $date) {
			// reset the query variable
			unset ($bmWp);
			// create a new query variable for the current month and year combination
			$bmWp = new WP_Query('year=' . $date->year . '&monthnum=' . zeroise($date->month, 2) . '&posts_per_page=-1');

			// if there are any posts for that month display them
			if ($bmWp->have_posts()) {
				// display the archives heading
				$url = get_month_link($date->year, $date->month);
				$text = $month[zeroise($date->month, 2)] . ' ' . $date->year;

				echo get_archives_link($url, $text, '', '<h3>', '</h3>');
				echo '<ul>';

				// display an unordered list of posts for the current month
				while ($bmWp->have_posts()) {
					$bmWp->the_post();
					echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($bmWp->post) . '" title="' . wp_specialchars($text, 1) . '">' . wptexturize($bmWp->post->post_title) . '</a></li>';
				}

				echo '</ul>';
			}
		}
	}
}

and now insert this in your page to list the sitemap.

<? php bm_displayArchives() ?>

Display WordPress Permalinks outside of the loop

<!-- external permalink via post ID -->
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(16); ?>">Permalink</a>

<!-- external permalink via global $post variable -->
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?>">Permalink</a>

Make a list with all of your site’s posts

wp_get_archives(type=postbypost&limit=)

and if this function doesn’t provide enough flexibility to meet your needs, here is another way

<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<ul>
	<?php $allposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&offset=0'); foreach($allposts as $post) : ?>
	<li><?php the_time('d/m/y'); ?>: <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Create a custom CSS for recent posts

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	$currentdate = date('Y-m-d',mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d'),date('Y')));
	$postdate = get_the_time('Y-m-d');
	if ($postdate == $currentdate) {
		echo '<div>';
	} else {
		echo '<div>';
	} ?>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
	</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

and css style:

.post {
	/* styles for all posts */
}
.post.new {
	/* styles for new posts */
}

Diasble or to limit WordPress post revisions

To disable just add the following line to the wp-config.php file

/* disable post-revisioning nonsense */
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', FALSE);

or to limit post revision

/* limit number of post revisions */
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 3);

Create a good Meta Description, without any plugin

<meta name="description" content="
<?php if ((is_home()) || (is_front_page())) {
	echo ('Your main description goes here');
} elseif(is_category()) {
	echo category_description();
} elseif(is_tag()) {
	echo 'Tag archive page for this blog - ' . single_tag_title();
} elseif(is_month()) {
	echo 'Archive page for this blog - ' . the_time('F, Y');
} else {
	echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'metadescription', true);
} ?>" />

Access post data outside the loop

First, you need to insert this into functions.php

function get_post_data($postId) {
	global $wpdb;
	return $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID=$postId");
}

and after, add this code to the desired location outside of the loop

<?php $data = get_post_data(85);
	echo $data->post_date;     // post date
	echo $data->post_title;    // post title
	echo $data->post_content;  // post content
	echo $data->comment_count; // comments number
?>

Display performance Statistics for WordPress pages

Everyone knows what that means

<!-- 24 queries in 0.333 seconds -->

This information is generated by including the following code in your footer.php or any page you would like

<!-- <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(3); ?> seconds -->

Display most commented posts without a plugin

<ul>
<?php
$result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count, ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10"); // NUMBER OF POSTS
foreach ($result as $topten) {
	$postid = $topten->ID;
	$title = $topten->post_title;
	$commentcount = $topten->comment_count;
	if ($commentcount != 0) {
?>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>"><?php echo $title ?></a></li>
<?php } } ?>
</ul>

Display a Custom Message on a specific day

<?php
if ((date('m') == 4) && (date('d') == 16)) { ?>
	<p>Today is <a href="http://www.template-tuners.com/about-me">my birthday</a>!</p>
<?php } ?>

or probably you want to remove a script or a stylesheet on a specific day

<?php
if ((date('m') !== 5) && (date('d') !== 19)) { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<?php } ?>

Display the total number of users from your WordPress blog

$users = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM $wpdb->users");
echo $users." registered users.";

Display automatic  Tynyurls for your posts

Add this into functions.php

function getTinyUrl($url) {
	$tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);
	return $tinyurl;
}

Then, call the function and display the URL by placing this code into your single.php file in the desired location within the loop

<?php $turl = getTinyUrl(get_permalink($post->ID));
echo 'TinyURL for this post: <a href="'.$turl.'">'.$turl.'</a>'; ?>

Display first image for every post

Add this into functions.php

function catch_that_image() {
	global $post, $posts;
	$first_img = '';
	ob_start();
	ob_end_clean();
	$output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
	$first_img = $matches [1] [0];

	if(empty($first_img)){
		$first_img = "/images/default.jpg"; // default image
	}
	return $first_img;
}

Then, to call the function and display the images as thumbnails, place the following code into the desired location within your loop

<?php echo catch_that_image(); ?>

Display Popular Posts without a plugin

<ul>
<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("
	SELECT comment_count, ID, post_title
	FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 7
	");
foreach ($result as $post) {
	setup_postdata($post);
	$postid = $post->ID;
	$title = $post->post_title;
	$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
	if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
	<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>">
	<?php echo $title; ?></a> [<?php echo $commentcount ?>]</li>
	<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>
</ul>

Display Ads only on first 2 posts

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<?php if ($wp_query->current_post < 2) { ?>
	<!-- ads here -->
	<?php } ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Add aditional link pages to wp-list-pages

Add this into functions.php

function add_bookmarks_to_menu($output) {
	$bookmarks = (array) get_bookmarks('hide_invisible=0&category_name=wp_list_pages');
	foreach ($bookmarks as $bookmark) {
		$output .= "<li><a href='{$bookmark->link_url}'  title='{$bookmark->link_name}'>{$bookmark->link_name}</a></li>\n";        

	}
	return $output;
}
add_filter('wp_list_pages', 'add_bookmarks_to_menu');

Once this code is in place, login to your WordPress Admin and follow these steps for each link that you would like to add to the page list:

- In the Admin, go to Links > Add New
- Enter a name and URL for your link
- Add the link to a new category called "wp_list_pages"
- select "Keep this link private"
- Click "Add Link"
- Done.

I hope these tricks will help someone!

If you want to make it easier I guess All-in-One SEO Pack is a good plugin. But as I have mentioned previously All-in-One SEO Pack cannot fix messed up H1 tags that are in your theme. And these tags is important in SEO.

The following is a step-by-step method on how to check if your WordPress theme is SEO Optimized:

1. Install the Web Developer Plugin for Firefox, this only works in Firefox so if you dont have it you better install it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

2. Visit your site after you enabled the theme.

4. Click on CSS > Disable Styles > All Styles on the Web Developer Toolbar or simply press Ctrl-Shift-S.

What this does is strip out all the javasript and css styling in your website. Something like what a google bot will do when it crawls your site.

Now to know if that theme is SEO Optimized, the Title or your main keyword should be at the very top of the webpage after you disabled styling. Some themes will show your logo first with no keyword. But in my opinion its better if your main keyword is the first one up there. And as much as possible your main content should go before the sidebar and the footer.

H1 Tags

From my knowledge in SEO there should only be one H1 tag occuring in any given page. This is where most themes mess up your SEO. In past I used for a blog 6 H1 tags in the home page, the Blog Title and the recent posts were all tagged with H1. I tried searching my post through google and the first result that came up was from my homepage and did not direct me to where the actual post was, this was pretty weird and messed up till I found out about the H1 tags.

To check this just press Ctrl + U on your browser and then Ctrl + F and find how many H1 tags there are in the page your viewing.

In the homepage the H1 should be your main keyword, while on the post page the post title should be wrapped in H1 tag.

Well I guess that’s it. Also dont forget about the meta description, and meta keywords tag on your header, as this is a pretty big factor in SEO, but talk about this next time

WordPress Plugin: HeadSpace2 SEO
HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: Seo Watcher
Briefly said, Seo Watcher checks your daily Google rankings directly inside of WordPress. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: SEO No Duplicate
This simple plugin helps you easily tell the search engine bots the preferred version of a page by specifying the canonical properly within your head tag. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: SEO Friendly Images
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes if your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: SEO Title Tag
SEO Title Tag makes is dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. Not just your posts, not just your home page, but any and every title tag on your site. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: Permalinks Moved Permanently
If you just migrated your WordPress blog from one permalink structure to another, and you don’t want to lose Pagerank or traffic that accesses your blog through the old permalinks, this is for you. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: WP Chiclets
This sidebar widget provides a set of RSS chiclets for users to add your blog to their RSS reader. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: KB Robots.txt
This plugin should work with most versions of WordPress, but it is particularly intended for WP-MU installations, since it allows each WPMU blog to have a unique robots.txt file. Download the latest plugin version here ».

WordPress Plugin: Ultimate Google Analytics
Plugin to add Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog without making any changes to your template. The plugin can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links. Download the latest plugin version here ».

Code for AS2:

function rightclickMenu(){}
function clickMenu2(){
    getURL("http://www.template-tuners.com", _blank);
}
function clickMenu3(){
    getURL("http://www.template-tuners.com/iblog/", _blank);
}

MENU = new ContextMenu();
MENU.hideBuiltInItems();

Functioned = new ContextMenuItem("© Template Tuners 2010", clickMenu);
Functioned2 = new ContextMenuItem("Tutorial By Template Tuners", clickMenu2);
Functioned3 = new ContextMenuItem("Template Tuners Blog", clickMenu3);

MENU.customItems.push(Functioned);
MENU.customItems.push(Functioned2);
MENU.customItems.push(Functioned3);

_root.menu = MENU;

Code for AS3:
AS3: – org > addons > CustomMenu.as

package org.addons{
    import flash.display.*;
    import flash.events.*;
    import flash.net.*;
    import flash.ui.*;

    dynamic public class CustomMenu extends Sprite{;
        public static var menuItem2:ContextMenuItem=new ContextMenuItem("Go Fullscreen");
        public static var menuItem3:ContextMenuItem=new ContextMenuItem("Exit Fullscreen");
        public static var cm:ContextMenu=new ContextMenu;
        public static var year:Date=new Date;
        public static var menuItem1:ContextMenuItem=new ContextMenuItem(year.getFullYear() + "Template Tuners");

        public function CustomMenu() {
            // la la la
        }

        public static function goToMainSite(param1:ContextMenuEvent):void {
            var _loc_2:URLRequest;
            _loc_2=new URLRequest("http://www.template-tuners.com");
            navigateToURL(_loc_2,"_blank");
        }

        public static function buildMenu(stage:Object):CustomMenu {
            var _loc_2:CustomMenu;
            _loc_2=new CustomMenu ;
            Global.data._game.addChild(_loc_2);
            trace("RIGHT CLICK MENU ENABLED");
            menuItem3.separatorBefore=true;
            menuItem3.enabled=false;
            menuItem1.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,goToMainSite);
            menuItem2.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,goFullScreen);
            menuItem3.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,exitFullScreen);
            cm.hideBuiltInItems();
            cm.customItems.push(menuItem1,menuItem2,menuItem3);
            Global.data._game.contextMenu=cm;
            return _loc_2;
        }

        public static function goFullScreen(param1:ContextMenuEvent):void {
            Global.data._game.displayState=StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
            menuItem2.enabled=false;
            menuItem3.enabled=true;
            return;
        }

        public static function exitFullScreen(param1:ContextMenuEvent):void {
            Global.data._game.displayState=StageDisplayState.NORMAL;
            menuItem2.enabled=true;
            menuItem3.enabled=false;
            return;
        }
    }
}

The entire script is fully automatized, you only have to upload it in public_html. Easy ha!?

< ?php require('wp-blog-header.php');
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=' . get_settings('blog_charset'), true); ?>
< ?php echo ''; ?>


            < ?php bloginfo('url') ?>
            < ?php echo mysql2date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z', get_lastpostmodified('GMT'), false); ?>
            always
1.0

        < ?php $sitemap = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' ORDER by post_modified DESC"); ?>
        < ?php foreach ($sitemap as $sitemap) { ?>

            < ?php echo get_permalink($sitemap->ID); ?>
            < ?php echo mysql2date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z', $sitemap->post_modified, false); ?>
            daily
0.8

< ?php } ?>

Adsense Deluxe – offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.

Adsense Injection – inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages.

Adsense Inline – inserts Google adsense in blog posts.

Shylock Adsense WordPress plugin – allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. Set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then ‘n’ days. E.g. insert a 468×60 ad at the bottom of a new article for regular readers, and replace with higher paying 336×280 ad after 7 days for the search engine visitors.

Adsense Beautifier – makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings. (May not be compliant with Adsense TOS now)

AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar – Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.

AdRotator WordPress Plugin – rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.

Adsense Earnings WordPress Plugin – displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.

AdSense Manager – is a WordPress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.

AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.

Author Adsense WordPress Plugin – allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author’s ads to admin ads.

Author Adsense MU Plugin – Webmasters of WordPress MU sites can generate adsense revenue from hosted blogs as this script allows you to set an admin ID and the ratio of admin ad’s to blogger’s ads.

Google Ad Wrap – wraps posts and comments inside Section Targeting tags for better targeted ads.