WordPress as a Blogging tool has come a Long way since its install in 2003 By Matt Mullenweg.Now almost 15% of top 1000 websites of the world uses WordPress,which is the most in the CMS’s available!.So for this very  Reason we thought of sharing Some quite Useful WordPress tips which has helped us gain High in this Short Span of time and hope so you also achieve that.This are 101 WordPress tips to help you increase your wordpress productivity

Note:-While Writing about this 101 Post,the post became almost 6000Words long so we have breaked this post into 4Parts of 25Each+1.

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1) Use Gravatar to encourage participation on WordPress blog

By using Gravatar you are helping yourself and encouraging user participation. If posters will have a distinct photo it makes them look more like individuals, and their posts will be easily recognized, and they’ll get due credit on their insight. It will also help you discover the usage statistics visually.

2) Install TTF Titles

You want to start a WordPress blog, but you only have a limited amount of themes and there’s a limit to how much you can change quickly and easily. But you can use what you already have – text, and change the fonts in order to make the blog your own.

3) Use Drop Caps

Drop Caps allows you to make your blog posts seem more like a news article. People are familiar with that format and feel more comfortable reading text that is formatted that way. The capitalized letters allow the user to instantly focus his attention at the beginning of a post.

4) Display your categories like a website

Websites display their pages and categories in a horizontal line. There isn’t any excuse to not doing this. It will give your blog a much more professional and orderly look, and it will allow you to vacate the already cluttered side bar for more important links.

 5) Venture outside of WordPress for themes-Best wordpress tip

Everyone and their mother uses the same themes that WordPress offers. It gives a slapdhash and unprofessional feeling to your website. You need to venture to website where wordpress themes are offered for free or for a small sum. If you opt to use the regular ones, at least change the colors – personalize it.

By placing an anti-virus plugin you are ensuring that your posts and files won’t get infected with a virus. If you get infected with a virus and

people download it, you will receive a bad reputation and be flagged as a harmful website by various programs and search engines.

 7) Keep your readers informed on your future plans

By keeping your readers informed you are asking them to give you advice and to be part of the website. They will be able to dictate – to a certain extant – the direction of the website. They will be able to ask for posts on certain days, or for certain posts.

 8) Host a month long posting marathon

You can increase user participation by stating that you are going to hold a month long writing marathon. Make sure to start during the first day of a month, rather than just choosing 30/31 days. Your users will expect those posts and will participate more – you can also take suggestions of posts.

 9) Take care of your weekly routine

You need to write and write a lot. Make sure you write the things that aren’t timely, or that will still be timely a month later. You can post them in WordPress using a future posting date, which means it’ll get posted a while after you wrote it, leaving you room to take care of immediate posts.

 10) Use a plugin that mails you your posts & comments

By mailing you your posts you are automatically creating a backup copy of it on a professionally kept server, which in itself backs up the material on it, without your intervention. That way you know that users’ comments and your posts are safe, no matter what happens.

By adding co-authors you are allowing your blog to be populated at all times. That way you can avoid having big gaps, and your users can enjoy a different focus and viewpoint. If you’re hesitant you can always proofread the posts. Plus – you can get a co-author for free from your users.

12) Have a submission week every month

- where your users can send you posts and you will choose one and post it to your blog, with the credit going to the user who wrote it. It will encourage users to provide you with good free content and to keep reading your blog.

 13) Sign up to a service that keeps track of logins

By keeping track of which people visited your website, from where they visited it, what link referred them to your website, and how much time they spent on each post, etc, you can direct your attention to improving the less visited posts, and you can reward a user that refers people to your blog on a constant basis.

 14) Don’t mix trackbacks and comments

A trackback isn’t important for the users. It helps you by advertising your blog and a certain post in it, and helps you spread the word about your blog, but your users don’t care. They just want to comment on comments, not be bogged down with dozens of trackback links.

 15) Use an accordion sidebar

You need to place an emphasis on design and ease of use. Having all of the links available to a user isn’t very helpful, especially if you have a lot of links. Bundle links under certain descriptive categories, which the user will click on for those links.

Tabs are an easy and recognizable method for people to surf your website. They will be able to easily reach certain locations, without having to reload the page. Use tabs for the more important and often updating things such as user comments, or for popular or recent posts.

 17) Use a plugin to reduce the amount of comments per page

When new users see a long list of comments and comments on comments, they get a headache and opt to not participate. You can avoid the clutter – instead of loading all those comments, place a small amount of them with the original post – it keeps the focus on the post itself.

 18) Allow a hierarchy of posts

By allowing for people to comment on other people’s comments, you are encouraging discussion. By using a hierarchy of posts you are allowing people to quickly distinguish between a discussion and a comment about the original post, and users get to pick and choose what to read.

 19) Use the Simple Pull Quote plugin

The Simple Pull Quote is another way for you to both attract people to your posts, and to allow you to maintain a fluidity in your posts. It allows you to post quotes in a noticeable newspaper way, and gives your blog a much more professional look that way.

 20) Allow people to resize your posts

Some web browsers already offer that feature to users, but some don’t. Plus the web browsers that offer that feature sometimes hide it or make it hard to use. You can cut the middleman and allow people to resize the font size, making your posts accessible to people with eye problems.

You can use the “voice of the masses” to your advantage. If you opt to publish anything that reaches your blog, in order to allow a timely discussion, you might let trolls and spam in. You’re not monitoring your blog 24/7, but your users are – they can flag posts or bury them.

22) Add a spell-checker plugin

By adding a plugin that checks your spelling you can easily write for a different crowd, or you can maintain a level of professionalism. By

writing for a different crowd I mean English speakers from different parts of the world, who have different spelling. You can also address people that speak a language you’re a beginner in.

 23) Place an image captcha on posting

By using an image captcha you are sifting the bots and spam that usually arrives with a popular blog or website. An image capthca isn’t like a textual captcha – it shows a picture of something like a dog, and the user needs to write what it is. Using OCR to decipher it is almost impossible.

 24) Use colors to highlight portions of text

It might sound simple, but by using colors to highlight certain portions of your text you allow for greater readability. They especially help if you post code examples or script examples. It allows your users to quickly read and understand them, and to keep track of who says what and why.

 25) Add social networks links

By adding a plugin that adds a preprepared link to social networks in all of your posts, users can recommend them and share them more easily. It also takes care of the hassle of posting links in social websites, and eliminates any excuses people might have. It is also a subtle hint for your users to share and support your blog.

Conclusion:-Though wordpress has a Lot more then many CMS’s available but extending the features of WordPress sometime becomes tough,hope so this Part 1 of wordpress Tips helps you!.