Using a lot of plugins isn’t recommended if you’re going to boost your blog performance. Also, if you build your needs yourself as much as possible, you will have more control on what you are looking for.
In this post, we have featured 12 practical Wordpress solutions that you won’t need any plugins to implement them.
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1. Showing Popular Posts Without A Plugin
When it comes to usability, or when you’d like to increase your pageviews, it’s really recommended to have a section somewhere on your theme to feature your bests post. In the following tutorial you will learn how to display popular posts on you sidebar on anywhere else without a plugin.
2. Showing Related Posts Without A Plugin
Showing related posts will increase the number of pageviews. You can show related posts with thumbnails either without thumbnails easily by a few lines of PHP. Let’s try.
WP Shortcode for displaying related posts
How to: Show related posts without a plugin
Add Related Posts, with Images, to WordPress without a Plugin
3. Specifying a Featured Post Without Plugins
Learn how to add a featured section to your homepage.
Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress
How To Create A Featured Post (And Get Pagination To Work)
4. Making A Contact Form That Works
You will definitely have more control on your contact page if you create it personally.
WordPress & jQuery Contact Form without a Plugin
5. Displaying Random Posts
“If your Wordpress blog uses a homepage or a landing page of some kind, featuring a random post on that page can serve a couple useful purposes.”
Wordpress: Random Posts Without a Plugin
6. Displaying latest tweets
Learn how to show recent tweets of yours without a plugin as well as how to add “tweet this” button to your posts.
Display your tweets without a plugin
Tweet This Using TinyURL and NO Plugin v2.0
7. Insert Social Media Icons Without A Plugin
Adding social media icons to your posts, will allow visitors to easily submit the current article to social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter and Facebook.
8. Add Bread Crumbs to Your Wordpress Themes
Using bread crumbs specially for business/portfolio themes boost the usability of your theme. Why don’t you build it yourself without any help of plugins?
9. Displaying Ads in Your RSS Feeds
Using this quick trick, you will be able to modify your RSS content and add some ads to your feeds.
10. Display Author Information
“Many multi-author blogs have an ‘About This Author’ section attached to the bottom of each post – containing a link to the author’s site and a short Bio about them. In this post, we’ll be creating this, and also an ‘Authors Archive’ page.”
11. Recent Comments Without Plugins/Widgets
A short piece of code that you can use wherever you like to display the recent comments of your blog.
12. Custom Write Panel
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This is excellent. Great list. I think that as much as possible, we should avoid using plugins to features that we can easily implement ourselves.
Believe me,
It’s so great
thatnk you so much for this trips
Awesome list. I prefer doing a small bit of PHP coding versus having to find, download and install some bulky piece of plugin that needs to be upgraded every week.
wow:)Nice tutorials collection,and I use wordpress.
Excellent collection. Tweeted. All solutions are useful.
Thanks
thanks for your retweet
Great content…my blog is down being redesigned for the new year but I am gunna put these startegies in action.
Good Stuff.
Heres to a great 2010
Beth
Thanks Beth. Happy new year!
Good ideas, but what’s so bad about using plugins?
wow this is such a useful tutorial, thanks for sharing on your blog! I know good tutorials aren’t easy to come by these days, but following this was so easy and it’ll be useful on my website
Great list! I use alot of these features but depend on plug ins to achieve the results. Im gonna have to put these tutorials to work over my christmas break. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome. This helps with understanding what’s going on behind the scenes. Love the way you include the images with the article and “Visit Solution”.
Thanks Bill!
for 5. Displaying Random Posts:
be very careful with google. I tried and it penalized me…
Cool Wordpress list. Thanks for sharing.
These are great solutions for wordpress.com users.
Thanks!
Great tutorials and very useful. If you have too many posts like on my website
you will need absolutely one of this ones.
These are some great resources here! Thanks for linking to my blog, too.
Great and usefull tutorijals
Nice plugins list, thanks for sharing mate, another page to bookmard, have a nice week
These are Great tips, Thank you very much for all the valuable information. I was looking for ways to personalize and customize one of my websites in WordPress.