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WordPress auto download/install is a very nice feature, but sometimes a few problems can appear. One of them is that WordPress don’t manage to download the new version. This happens on slow servers. Here is how to solve it.

Using WordPress hooks, it can be very easy to modify WordPress variables to fit your needs. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to use hooks to automatically insert the author bio after each post.

WordPress, by default, comes uncompressed and sends the uncompressed HTML to the visitor’s browser. With one line of code added to your header, you can compress WordPress’s output by up to 75%. By using zlib compression technology, you can harness the power of PHP and reduce your blog’s load speed!

If your blog is private or have lots of registered users, it may be interesting to be able to display the number of comments posted by registered users. This is the purpose of this code.

While it is very cool to add pictures to your blog posts, dealing with image sizes can be a bit tricky sometimes, especially if you have no skills about image resizing. The solution to this problem is to use Timthumb and WordPress shortcode API. Just read on to find out!

Tweetmeme is a popular service that allow you to display “Retweet” button on your blog posts. Even if the code is easy to integrate on your single.php file, it can be very cool to create a shortcode that you can insert anywhere in your posts.

Do you ever wanted to be able to get tags related to one (or more) specific category? If yes, I’m pretty sure you’ll be delighted with this very cool tip.