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WordPress finally introduced a Post Thumbnail feature in version 2.9 which has made life quite a bit easier for WordPress theme developers that love to integrate thumbnails into their themes. There are many different ways to dress up post thumbnail images, but for this tutorial we are going focus on a simple 5 minute technique using CSS.

This post describes ho to add a Flickr gallery to your WordPress theme by parsing the Flickr RSS feed using the fetch_feed() function already built into WordPress.

There have been a few projects I have worked on recently that required an author image and a short biography. This is actually a fairly quick process and this post will guide you through the steps of implementing this onto your site.

Sometimes it’s the subtle things that count in regards to making your site stand out from the rest, and with that in mind… jQuery can be your best friend. There are a few light weight jQuery based scripts I tend to use over and over again when developing new WordPress themes. These are very simple techniques that can be applied in under five minutes to just about any theme.

WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet is the new document, of the Visual Cheat Sheet family, that contains a practical reference guide to WordPress 2.8.

This post presents a roundup of 9 essential and really useful plugin that help you improve your WordPress theme making just some simple changes to the PHP code. For each plugin I’ve provided a description you can follow to quickly implement it on your pages.