In the first part of Project WP, we installed WordPress and set it up for our convenience to improve visibility and attract more visitors. Today, we’re going to look at 8 absolutely essential plugins that significantly contribute to our efforts of creating a successful WordPress blog.

Part 2: Eight dead essential WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a fantastic platform for bloggers. If you’ve been thinking about getting into blogging, but you don’t know what awaits you, rest assured, for we are here to help. In the course of this series, we’ll take it step by step and explain how to create your own blog - with your very own custom theme. This involves the design part as well as the part working with PHP and CSS. Read on…

Project WordPress is a series of in-depth tutorials on creating a custom blog - step by step, and from scratch. Read about how to tweak WordPress to your liking, about useful and must-be plugins, working with PHP and CSS, and using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator professionally to create beautiful results: your very own, brand new WordPress Theme.

Part 1: WordPress Install, Setup, and Basic Optimization

In this first step of creating a whole new blog, we’ll take a look at wonderful WordPress and how we can set it up do do what we want. The standard install of WordPress is rather rudimentary, thus requires us to do a couple of adjustments, which, in our opinion, are crucial to creating a professional WordPress blog. Read on…

Yet another download: Free Vector Badges saying “NEW”.

While we were working on a print ad for one of our clients who wanted a web 2.0ish design (yes, yes, we know…), we came up with a few vector badges stating the word “new”. We ended up using a quite colorful, yet simplistic version of the badge which represented the style our client wanted.

So what should we do with the other badges? Keep them for future “new” badges? Keep them for possible mutation into other badges or logos? Well, no sir! We decided to add a few more and post them here. Read on…

In this tutorial, you learn how to enhance the link appearance on your WordPress blog. Using simple CSS, this post covers what you need to know in order to pretty up your blog in 4 simple steps.

Have you noticed the little “8″ gracing every link on our site? We styled our links this way in order to distinguish them from the other content. It’s also a branding issue - our mark appears with every link on the page ;)

We did this using simple CSS. You also need to have the image (or icon) to use this feature. You can easily apply this “enhancement” to your own blog, too.

As we’re running a WordPress powered blog, we will show you how we added this feature to Vibr8bros.com.
This is how we did it: Read on…