So last week I’ve started sharing a lot more of what I read on a day to day basis on Twitter, and I decided I had to share these links here on yoast.com as well. Below is a quite extensive list of links that I found interesting, ordered by topic. I’ll try to do these on a weekly basis from now on.
WordPress
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Code Snippets and Examples
- The only proper way of adding a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress blog
- An article I wrote recently for Smashing Magazine: Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In
- Gravity Forms PayPal integration
- 16 Vital Checks Before Releasing a WordPress Theme
- How to Display Human Readable Post Dates in WordPress
- Control WordPress Content via Userrights or Time
- A good Beginner’s Guide to the Thematic Framework
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Plugins
- BuddyPress Courseware beta; a very cool plugin for schools & other educational institutions.
- Post to post; nice plugin for creating relations between posts.
- Press This Reloaded; pretty useful if you need to, for instance, adapt the SEO title of a post.
- WPMU.org features my WordPress Salesforce CRM plugin.
- Custom Post Permalinks; I seriously think this should be in WordPress core, but as long as it’s not, this’ll do.
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News
- Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions
- Top 10 WordPress News Blogs
- When is the Best Time to Post a Blog Post? Not enough people think about this.
SEO
- Without any work from me, my Google Analytics plugin now helps you verify your Google Webmaster Tools account.
- I’m seeing similar stuff to this: Google Webmaster Tools Link data – a case study by Dave Naylor, my favourite UK SEO.
- Want an SEO job? Check out the Daily Mail’s robots.txt file
Analytics
- Qualitative Web Analytics: Heuristic Evaluations Rock! another great post by Avinash Kaushik
- The new Management API for Google Analytics rocks; check out the docs
Web design / web development
- Practical? No. Cool? Yes. Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images
- What a surprise: Steve Jobs was right, Flash fails on Android
- HTML5 for Web Designers: Book Review at Nettuts+ – I’ve read it too, it’s amazing
- Good Help is Hard to Find is another A List Apart classic. Wonder how to apply this to my plugins…
- A very concise explanation of the viewport metatag by David B. Calhoun
- A pretty awesome example of what can be reached with CSS3 now
- I’d almost start using Typekit: Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web.
- MathML is now part of WebKit nightlies, go forth and play, all you math lovers out there!
- Delay loading of print CSS (in WordPress, but useful for everyone)
- Debugging Tools – jQuery for Designers
- This would work perfectly for WordPress plugin developers: Readme Driven Development
Online Marketing / Social media
- Daring Fireball – Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom – listen to this, seriously.
- What’s this thing called Buzz that Leo talks about? :)
- Facebook Tabs: What They Are & How to Use Them – Good writeup on RWW
- Quite curious how many people will do this: German Homes Can Now Opt Out Of Google – TechCrunch
Science
- Experts are usually wrong
- Everyone looks better after you’ve tipped back a pint or two, and now we know why
- A nice infographic on the history of the Internet
- Freakonomics: loved the book, looking forward to the movie, check out the trailer.
- Wonder what my wife does? Read her latest paper on the Intergenerational Transmission of Convictions.
Fun
- (Fake) Lady Gaga sings about Java programming with some hilarious quotes
- Gonna have to try this on my son in about 2 years: 4 Tools for Teaching Kids to Code
- Basically, you can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, because too many other people did it before you
- You know you’re a geek when you think this is funny
Thanks for all the links, there’s some great stuff in here.
A great list of helpful links, especially about social media and marketing.
Do you use any particular tool to keep track of links you mentioned on Twitter?
bit.ly, as you can see in basically all the links above too ;)
Science -> Experts Are Usually Wrong
… doesn’t sound very scientific :) but really interesting reading! Thanks.
Thanks for the useful link list !
Excellent stuff, I look forward to the weekly updates.
A great and very useful list of helpful links thanks for sharing with us especially the links about social media and marketing.
Thanks for the list, there are a number of interesting reads above.
This is great, thank you. If you plan to do these kind of posts on a regular basis, i would suggest two things:
1. Do the list a bit more dense, or rank the list in sections with top quality links at top and descending
2. I’d love to have a RSS feed for only these kind of posts