In your WordPress theme folder, there lays the most powerful theme file known as functions.php. As the name suggests, this file adds unique functions to your WordPress installation. This file works just like a plugin within your theme. In this article, we will share some of the most incredible and most wanted tricks for the WordPress functions.php file.

We showed you how you can create a short URL using TinyURL and use it in the retweet text. But tinyurl is not the best solution for numerous reasons. They are not as tiny as bit.ly, and they do not provide the awesome stats that bit.ly has to offer. In this article, we will show you how to automatically shorten your WordPress Posts URLs using Bit.ly API.

We have previously written about a code that lets you display twitter followers count which was contributed by Rarst. In this article, we will be sharing a more advanced and more elegant code which lets you display twitter followers count in WordPress. Once again this script was also contributed by Rarst.

Writing your own Wordpress plugin is not that difficult if you are a web developer with basic PHP skills. The only thing you will need, coupled with your PHP skills, is some direction, some resources, a little information on how WordPress expects your plugin to behave, and most importantly a great idea.

In our earlier tutorial, we showed you how you can add post thumbnails in WordPress. The sad truth is that even if you enable the post thumbnails, it will not show up in your RSS feeds. But we have a solution for that. In this article, we will show you how you can add post thumbnails to your WordPress RSS feeds with a simple function.