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In blogging, it is useful to be able to display your most popular posts. There’s WordPress plugins to do that, but you don’t need it: This code will display your most popular posts, accordoing to the comments count, without requiring you to use a plugin.

Many plugins are made of only *.php files and most of the time they do allow direct access. Depending on what’s in your files that might be a potential security hole. Today’s tip will show you how to prevent direct access to plugin files.

For some reason, you may want to be able to automatically display a custom text below each of your posts. You can hard-code it, but it will be way better to do so using a WordPress hook. Here’s how to do.

Twitter have a really cool built-in function that display time from now, like “3 days ago” or “more than a month ago”. Doing so with WordPress is not hard using some PHP. Here is a function to do so.

If you have contributors to your blog, you probably got annoyed to see that they can’t upload files and images while writing guest posts for you. Today’s recipe will solve the problem, allowing contributors to upload files to your blog.

Ever wished to be able to automatically number your posts (Like Article 1, Article 2, and so on) like sites such as A List Apart are doing? If yes, just read this recipe which will show you how to do it easily.

If like me, you often display some code on your blog, there’s a strong chance that you’ll enjoy today’s recipe: This handy piece of code will automatically replace all content within <pre> and </pre> tags by html entities.