WordPress links (September & October 2014)

News, tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress

that I found interesting and/or useful

• Customizing WordPress Archives For Categories, Tags And Other Taxonomies (smashingmagazine)
• Hide WordPress Usernames to Improve WordPress Security (wpwhitesecurity)
• Cool WordPress Snippets (webdesignblog)
• 14 Completely Free CDN Solutions for WordPress Users (wpcentury)
• 9 Most Useful .htaccess Tricks for WordPress (wpbeginner)
• How to Notify Users When Their Comment is Approved in WordPress (wpbeginner)
• How to Fix Fatal Error: Maximum Execution Time Exceeded in WordPress (wpbeginner)
• Optimizing Your WordPress Database – A Complete Guide (wpmudev)
• Resolving PHP Timeouts in WordPress (tommcfarlin)
• Set Up WordPress Like a Pro (wpmudev)
• How to Enforce Clean Image Filenames in WordPress ()
• How To Customize “Howdy” In WordPress Admin Bar (hongkiat)
• Using VVV Varying Vagrant Vagrants as a WordPress Local Development Environment (coolestguidesontheplanet)
• 27 WordPress Hacks Every Serious Blogger Needs to Know (boostblogtraffic)
• Organizing WordPress Meta Box Code (tommcfarlin)
• How to Generate RSS Feeds for Custom Post Types (wpmayor)
• How to Set Up Email Notifications in WordPress (wpmudev)
• Taking Control of the CSS/JS that WordPress Plugins Load (css-tricks)

Plugins

• VideoRobot: Powerful Plugin to Automate YouTube Video Posting to WordPress (wplift)
• Collecting Donations With WordPress: PayPal (tutsplus)
• 5 Free Lightbox Plugins (torquemag)
• How To: Easily Create Pricing Tables in WordPress (wplift)
• 7 Free WordPress Shortcode Plugins (torquemag)
• Plugin Handbook (wordpress.org)
• The best WordPress plugins revealed by 39 WordPress enthusiasts (psdtowp)