This WordPress theme was designed to allow the creation, and tracking, of tickets. It was kept simple, and packaged lightly, allowing the user to use it however he/she wants. Just the essentials have been added, and the rest is up to you.

Please note, that since this is the initial release, it’s sure to be riddled with bugs, and lack some functionality. There are also some design elements I’m not satisfied with, and the CSS could use with a bit of a clean up.

via Quality Control → About the Theme.

Cheat Sheets are always a valuable and useful resource for every designer and developers , as they can be used as future reference and sheets to help in remember things quickly.

via 12 Valuable WordPress Cheat Sheets You Must Know.

Yes, users can often self-install via Fantastico or similar programs, but what guarantee do you have that they’ll upgrade as soon as new releases become available? Letting users run old versions of web software is a great way to get hacked. This kit lets you take control of users’ installations by checking them out via svn and upgrading them en masse.

Learn more: WordPress Mass Management Tools.

Kicking things off, let’s take a look at the first version(s) 1.0 of WordPress. As I’ve always said and stood behind, I think of WordPress as one of the most SEO sound platforms. Even back in January 3, 2004 when this version was released, you could alter the permalinks to be more SEO friendly. Thought that was worth noting. Also, as you can see, there’s the only the option to create posts.

via Evolution of WordPress.

via FTP Information in wp-config.php.

For many sites this is ideal, but if you want to just give people the file, and avoid having to create these attachment templates, then here’s a neat trick I cooked up on a recent project.

via Image/Attachment Templates for WordPress.

With the imminent release of the next series of 4G blacklist articles here at Perishable Press, now is the perfect time to examine eight of the most commonly employed blacklisting methods achieved with Apache’s incredible rewrite module, mod_rewrite. In addition to facilitating site security, the techniques presented in this article will improve your understanding of the different rewrite methods available with mod_rewrite.

via Eight Ways to Blacklist with Apache’s mod_rewrite.

Inside of WordPress are several of JavaScript libraries available, you can use them easily and you don’t need an extra Theme or Plugins. Also, this is the recommended approach to enable libraries , so they won’t be loaded more than once. Some notes on these two topics can be found in the article Use JavaScript Libraries In And Of WordPress.

via Small Tips Using WordPress and jQuery – head, jQuery.

Hybrid 0.8 was made to work with WordPress 3.0, so a few extra days were needed to get everything perfect.

Let’s take a look at what version 0.8 has to offer. Skip to the end if you just want to get the download link for the new version.

via Hybrid 0.8 theme release.

The ability to create custom post types was a great feature added in WordPress 2.9 and then expanded in 3.0. It allows us to create completely different types of content than the standard “Pages” and “Posts” we’re all used to.

To get started with custom post types…

via Custom Post Types in WordPress.