Learn How To Customize Wordpress With WordPress Modder
By admin on Apr 11, 2008 in Blog Reviews
I tend to learn things when they need learning, which results in me not being much of a WordPress genius, but I know enough to know that it would be helpful if I knew more. This is why I’m glad Adam Warner ordered up this review on Bloggging Fingers.
After a few seconds on WordPress Modder I found a very useful tutorail for adding an Amazon Associates Store to a Wordpress blog which I will put to use immediately on a couple of niche blogs of mine to replace the ‘home-made’ store that I knocked together. (see screen-shot of the store in action on WordPress Modder below)
On blogs that are about WordPress there are two common mistakes the authors make.
The first is assuming everyone who reads it is a PHP programmer and so make their posts barely understandable to most of us. The second is the opposite, writing extremely lengthly posts filled with waffle. On WordPress Modder Adam has the balance is just right and is a quality teacher of using WordPress. See this post on How to Split a Post or Page into Many, which is one of his simple and useful tutorials.
Video producers will find WordPress Modder’s series on WordPress Themes for displaying videos especially useful. The video producer series is described below:
“The Video Producer theme series will feature WordPress themes that are designed from the ground up to break the “blog diary” format and allow video creators to display their work differently from what is usually seen on most blogs”
WordPress modder is only 4 months old but you wouldn’t know it from the already well filled-out categories. A wide range of topics such as WordPress news, mods, themes, plugins, blogging and SEO are covered in some detail. If I were to add to WordPress Modder I would choose to write more tutorials because they provide the most value to the visitors. On a blog about WordPress the site should be packed full of them. I’m sure Adam has plans to add more tutorials as the site grows.
Conclusion
As a blogger, learning how to modify WordPress themes is a very useful skill. WordPress modder makes leaning how to customize WordPress easy and I strongly recommend joining the WordPress modder community by subscribing to its RSS feed.
Thanks for the head’s up about the Wordpress Modder website. I have dreading putting together my Amazon affiliate store. This should definitely save me time.
really amazing post
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I have more than one blog. The blogspot one is my first baby and I’m having a hard time letting it go,working on the Wordpress ones building up content on what I know will be my dominating blogs. What should I do? Is it ok to continue of blogspot awhile since I’m a newbie or should I be going over to Wordpress more?
I strongly recommend completely making the move to Wordpress and your own domain. I spend 3 months on a blogspot domain and I will always regret not changing over sooner.
I’ve been looking for something to help me make an ebay or amazon store for a wordpress site lately, looks like I’m sorted now!
Cool! Another one of these sites to help WP users
-Mike
I tend to learn things about WP as I need them too. I guess I’m lucky over time that I remember them and can keep using what I’ve learned.
I guess I use each of my blogs as an “external memory” where I refer back to them as I’m implementing something new on a different blog.
I’m definitely going to checkout WordPress Modder.
Thanks!
It is cool to learn about amazon store on your blog but I don’t think many people care about buying from them much anymore do you think?
It really depends on the niche, it would work well in a product base niche.
Something can sell very good online, while others not. Just like Matt Jones said, depend on the niche.
Hi folks,
Adam here, the person behind WordPress Modder. I just noticed all of your comments here and wanted to jump in to give a big thanks for reading Matt’s post about my site and also for the visits and comments I’ve received from some of you.
I also wanted to let you know that I’m planning some further step by step tutorials and other features that are designed to benefit other WP users, and I encourage you to become part of the WPM community.
Have a great day and happy developing!
Modder
Just another brilliant idea. I appreciate the WP community who never stops thinking of new updates for the convenience of the users.
-Jan
i host 5 of my blogs on Blogspot and it is really good for beginners. but if you want something with more features, nothing beats wordpress-*,
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