Top 10 Blogs for the WordPress Community
Published in WordPressOne of the great things about the WordPress platform is the excellent community surrounding it. Whether you are looking for help with a specific problem or if you’re just interested in finding some blogs to follow for occasional tutorials, there are plenty of resources available. Here is a look at 10 of the best sites for WordPress users and theme designers.
Weblog Tools Collection
There is probably no better resource for staying up-to-date with theme and plugin releases than Weblog Tools Collection. Whether you want to find new themes and plugins from others or get some exposure for your own, Weblog Tools Collection is a great resource. In addition, it’s a great resource for general WP news.
WPCandy
WPCandy is one of my favorite sources of WordPress-related content. The blog publishes a lot of content that’s helpful for WordPress designers and users, and the site also includes a gallery of WordPress-powered sites, and a place for readers to submit news. You can also find reviews of new themes and plugins.
NETTUTS
NETTUTS is not specifically a WordPress-focused site, but if you’re looking for high-quality tutorials for WP development, this is the place to go. Not all of the content is WordPress-related, but NETTUTS provides some of the best, and most detailed, tutorials for building or customizing WordPress themes.
Daily Blog Tips
Daily Blog Tips is one of the leading blogs about blogging, and Daniel consistently publishes content for WordPress users. In addition to WP-related blog posts, Daily Blog Tips occasionally releases a free theme.
Cats Who Code
Cats Who Code is another excellent blog for finding tutorials for WP designers and users. The blog is updated frequently and the quality of content is high.
Pro Blog Design
Michael Martin of Pro Blog Design writes some of the best articles and tutorials for WP theme designers. The archives at Pro Blog Design provide plenty of content on a number of important issues for WordPress designers and developers.
WPZOOM
WPZOOM is a blog that focuses on all things WordPress. You’ll find collections of themes, theme announcements and reviews, and other information that WordPress users and designers can appreciate.
The WordPress Podcast
The WordPress Podcast is not updated extremely frequently, but for WP-related news it’s a good resource to have in your your feed reader.
WpRecipes
WpRecipes provides a lot of tips and brief tutorials for working with the WordPress platform. This site is only a few months old, but posts are published on a daily basis.
WordPress Hacks
WordPress Hacks publishes frequently, with an archive full of useful content. The posts focus on WordPress news, tips, tutorials, and reviews.
Other Great Resources for the WordPress Community:
Aside from blogs, these resources are excellent resources for both users and designers working with WordPress.
We Love WP
We Love WP is an excellent design gallery that showcases only websites powered by WordPress. If you design WordPress themes of any kind (free, premium, custom), you certainly could benefit from seeing what others are doing on the WordPress platform.
WPscoop
WPscoop is a social media site that focuses exclusively on WordPress-related news and content. Like any niche social media site, the audience is considerably smaller than major social news sites; however, if you’re looking to find the best WordPress tutorials, news, theme and plugin announcements, try WPscoop.
The Official WordPress Forums
If you’re having an issue with a WordPress theme or just have a general question about the platform, the WP forums should be one of your first stops. Often you’ll be able to find what you’re looking for just by searching the existing threads, and if that doesn’t produce an answer you can always post your question. The community at the forums is very active and you’re likely to get a quick and helpful response.
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Thank’s a lot for including my website in this list
I really appreciate that!
You’re welcome Pavel.
Thanks for including both my sites here! I’m honored to be featured with such great websites.
Nice list!
Believe it or not, I’ve never heard of Nettuts. Going to go subscribe to it now.
@Kyle, you must be kidding
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Jean-Baptiste,
You’re welcome!
Kyle,
If you’re serious you must be very busy with work to keep you away from NETTUTS for this long.
Thanks for the list! The only one of these sites I had ever heard of before is Daily Blog Tips. This gives me nine new Word Press blogs to check out.
Thanks for adding WPCandy to the list
A few other of my favorite Ian Stewart’s and Justin Tadlock’s blog.
Mike
Sadly, I am very serious.
And yes, I have been VERY busy lately trying to finish up a few projects, but I’m not going to use that as an excuse.
Great list! Always good to know you’re following the same sites as everyone else
Thanks for including WPscoop on your list, behind the scenes we have been working really hard on making the site stable and implementing our spam filters for submitted content. We have also been working on and testing some new features which we will be introducing in the coming weeks like more advanced profiles, groups and a dynamic external voting buttons for websites and blogs.
Thanks again for the mention.
I love this blog. Keep up the good work.
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Nice man great article awesome tools very handy reference.
An ok list… lol. What about Lorelle? She often talks a lot about WordPress.com, but a lot of her content is pertinent to WordPress.org users.
Only gotten around to reading through my feeds now, sorry I didn’t see this before! Thanks for the complement Steven; it means a lot coming from you!
(Your blog is one of the few I’m bothering to read as I clear my reader today!)
You’re welcome Michael. Thanks for reading, I appreciate it.
Great compilation! Hope we will also make it in your Top 10 List next time
Woha! Hohoho! thats like heaven for a new blogger named Andrew
All are nice blog I would visit these websites
WPCandy is always my first port of call if I need to find something out about a plugin. It’s a great resource.
Most of them are my daily visited sites, some are really new. Thanks for making the list.
Really nice list. They contain a lot of stuff that’s interesting for people who have their own wordpress blog.
Great list of blogs. I am new to this blog stuff so I am looking forward to reading these blogs. I will also be following yours. Thanks Again!
You guys have been providing very useful information. I’m new to word press and thinking to develop my own web with this platform.
This is a great list. My site is still “new” but I would like you to consider it.
Great ! WordPress has an excellent design gallery that is being shared only by WordPress. If you design WordPress themes of any kind certainly any one could benefit from seeing what others are doing on the WordPress platform. very good information about themes nice post many thanks.
I am developing a site built on wordpress and am documenting that process in a standard wordpress blog. Thanks for this listing. It is very infomative and the sites should be helpful in my development process.
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You would not believe how long ive been looking for something like this. Through 10 pages of Google results and couldnt find anything. First page of bing. There you are!…. Really have to start using it more often!
Useful post. Can i repost it on my blog with your link?
Winthrop,
Sorry, the content cannot be re-published.
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Great excellent resource. Thanks so much for sharing
Some great info here – big thanks