15 Blogs for WordPress Designers and Developers to Follow
By Steven Snell | Published January 27th, 2010 in ResourcesOne of the major benefits of using WordPress is the large, active community of users. You can find just about anything you need by doing a search. Chances are, someone else has already provided answers to your question on a website, blog, or forum. In this post we’ll feature 15 blogs that produce excellent content that is highly relevant to WordPress theme designers. If you do a lot of work with WordPress, either for your own site or for clients, I recommend that you bookmark these blogs or subscribe to their feeds.
WpRecipes
At WpRecipes Jean-Baptiste Jung publishes short posts that include code snippets for accomplishing specific things with WordPress.
WPBeginner
WPBeginner has some excellent tutorials and guides for working with WordPress and developing themes.
Digging Into WordPress
This blog by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr provides some helpful tutorials, and they recently released a book, Digging into WordPress.
Weblog Tools Collection
A highly-popular blog that covers a lot of WordPress news, plus plugin and theme release announcements.
WPHacks
WPHacks is a multi-author blog that includes a lot of tutorials and resources for WordPress development.
Justin Tadlock
Justin Tadlock’s blog includes some very useful tutorials for theme development and general articles and new related to WordPress, themes and plugins.
ThemeShaper
Ian Stewart is the creator of the Thematic framework for WordPress, and his blog has a lot of great WordPress-related content.
Pro Blog Design
Pro Blog Design doesn’t post WordPress-related content exclusively, but Michael Martin and the other authors frequently post helpful tutorials and articles focused on WP.
WP Engineer
WP Engineer publishes a lot of tutorials and articles that are helpful for theme designers and developers.
Cats Who Code
Another blog by Jean-Baptiste Jung, Cats Who Code publishes content related to various aspects of web design and development, but much of it is focused on WordPress.
Yoast
Joost de Valk publsihes articles and tips, plus he develops plugins and tools that are released through his site.
WP Tavern
The home of a weekly WordPress podcast plus other WordPress-related news and articles.
wplover
wplover posts WordPress-related tutorials and other articles that are relevant to theme designers and developers.
Theme Lab
Theme Lab publishes WordPress-related content, offers some free themes, and provides custom theme design services.
WPArena -
WPArena is a relatively new blog (launched in August ‘09) but it provides some helpful tutorials in addition to roundups and inspiration posts.
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Thanks a lot for including Theme Lab, looks like I’m in great company.
Great resources, thank you.
nice list, I seem to be following or subscribing to all those sites
Don’t forget http://justintadlock.com
One of my favourite blogs, the creator of the Hybrid Theme Framework. Awesome articles on all WP related stuff.
Mathias,
Justin Tadlock is on the list.
Great list. I’ve already been following most of the blogs mentioned, but a few of them are new to me, such as WPArena, WP Tavern and Digging Into WordPress, but I’m going bookmark them as well. thank you very much.
Great list! I would suggest http://www.blogperfume.com
I know some already, but there are also new I know. Thank you for this resource…
Always learn and practice
Great list! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Steven for including WPBeginner
Great list all around because all these sites have a lot of useful information.
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thanks for the lovely list.
will surely check these sites.
Could add too: http://wpgarage.com/
brilliantly put together list, added a few more sites to my rss feed.
Thanks for including PBD in the list Steven! All of the sites there are awesome, it’s amazing how many great WordPress resources there are now!
Great roundup. Thanks for sharing.
great job, I love wordpress and improve the skills to work with that cms is a good idea
Just bookmarked some. thanks for the list of websites.
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Always handy to have some WP code tips/tricks to hand.
WPBeginner, Weblog Tools Collection, & Yoast are my preferred resource
Great list ..
i would recommend http://www.websenselogic.com too
good site for WP hacks
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Great collection. I have visited easily half of these blogs for ideas, guidance and tutorials just while working on my most recent client website!
I would also recommend Perishable Press as an invaluable resource for Wordpress designers and developers.
Nice collection it’s very useful. Thanks.
Great collection of blogs, can’t wait to look through them.
My favorites are WPRecipes and WP Hacks
tnk you
Thank you for this post, it was really helpful as we are trying to improve awareness of our new plugin – Facebook Like for Tags.
As a startup with limited budget, it is important to know what channels can provide the most effective visibility for your products. We got a great writeup by Justin Germino of DragonBlogger recently. It can be read here: http://www.dragonblogger.com/facebook-like-for-tags-wordpress-plugin
We need more of this!
Thanks again!