Commanding 2% of the websites globally, WordPress produces a lot to write about.  Subtract the junk, ad-bait and plagiarism and you’re left with only a few quality articles each day.  I sorted through the latest WordPress articles and identified the quality, helpful posts.  I hope you enjoy.

18 WordPress Plugins for RSS Management and Tweaks

What’s Coming in WordPress 3.1

A New Home for the WordPress Trademark

Tips for Your WordPress Comment Page

All Killer WordPress Websites are Built Around These Concepts

This excellent tutorial was put together by Jared over at Design Juices.  As a key feature in WordPress 3.0, custom post types have the potential to turn your blog inside-out. (In a good way)

Custom post types promise to bring WordPress one step closer to being a real CMS, not just a blog platform.  Check out this tutorial on custom post types to see what’s involved in custom post types.

Want to see what our readers are interested in?  We ask readers to submit their favorite, new content and resources so we can share them with you.  Without further delay, here are some of the best recent submissions for your enjoyment.

50 Striking Typography Tutorials Using Photoshop

In the broadest sense, typography is the design and use of typefaces as a means of visual communication from calligraphy to the ever-developing use of digital type. we creating list of striking techniques of typography tutorials using Photoshop. Typography is sometimes seen as encompassing many separate fields from the type designer who creates letterforms to the graphic designer who selects typefaces and arranges them on the page. We hope you all like these stunning typography graphics and also can share your own typefaces.

50 Stunning Poster Advertisement Ideas

Poster designing is one of the most creative part of graphic designing and helping for brand advertisements, now web designers also like to draw advertisement posters for web promotions and we have some awesome collection of Poster designs in this creative post. Creative Posters always attract users whether they graphical posters accumulate to the side of roads, in the paper flayers, wall posters, telephone cabin and even when distribute on the way, they always grab the viewers attention and invite them to take some immediate action. This is my favorite alternatives for inspiration is poster design, by looking at great posters, you can learn a lot about composition, typography, and use of colors…

40 Stunning Tutorials about 3D Text

Adobe Photoshop is powerful tool for create any kind of professional designs and effects for both categories like Print Media and Web Designs, we’re proudly present beautiful listing 3D Text Effect Tutorials Using Photoshop, We have collected 40 best ever cool 3D typography text effect trainings. you’ll find all these beautiful, high-quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials from top tutorial sites and designers, they did excellent work in all trainings and sharing helping techniques about Photoshop.

50 Ultimate Useful Free MAC Applications

Apple always produces most powerful products, one of those are Mac Machines and we presenting “50 Ultimate Useful Free MAC Applications” we dug up from famous resources all over the web and arrange on our platform for you Mac lovers. Each of listed are free to download and use as you required in your field, one of the greatest things about Mac Computers are wealth of extremely talented developers that are willing to share their amazing creations without asking for a single cent, because everyone loves to get free Applications.The following list may come in handy too. In this weekend, we’d like to showcase you a list of really useful yet free Mac Software’s you can install for your Mac, we create our list in 3 category: Free MAC Applications for Freelancers, Music and Video MAC Applications, Free MAC Productivity Applications, File Sharing and Transfer Applications and MAC Apps for Web Designers.

30+ Useful Jquery Tutorials Using Advance Techniques

Although there are many great techniques already but hopefully these listed jquery tutorials will help you too and it will also give you a more professional feel and you will get latest techniques for modern design requirements of Web Developers.In this our first jQuery Tutorials article, we will presenting some really useful trainings about how to learn jquery techniques step by step and also will productive in your websites developments.Hope you will like these listed tutorials and leave your comments.

20 Articles and Tutorials About Using Negative Space

Negative space, also referred to as ‘whitespace’ in design, can dramatically improve your designs and help them breathe more and have a much better flow. Today we have collected 20 articles and tutorials to get you started understanding negative space and effectively applying those principles in your designs.Whether you’re a graphic designer or you design solely for the web, I am certain you will learn quite a lot from those articles. Some of them are geared more towards web-design but some also refer to drawing and painting or simply talk about how to effective use whitespace to craft more interesting designs.

This question was asked in the WordPress forum here.  Since nobody had answered Michael at press time, I thought it might be helpful to find the answer and publish it here.

Solution:

Option 1) Use robots.txt to prohibit search engines form indexing a page.  Simply add this to your robots.txt file.  If you don’t have a robots.txt file, simply create one in your go-to text editor.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /category/page-title

These two lines will a) let search engines know this rule applies to all robots and b) tell them they cannot index the page located at “category/page-title”.

Option 2) Use this handy plugin.  The Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Plugin by Jonathan Kemp.  With this plugin you can choose pages that the plugin will identifying as non-indexable in the robots.txt file.  There are many other options with this plugin including adding the rel=”nofollow” tag to various places in your WordPress code.

Option 3) Use a meta tag to order search engines to not index a particular page. The meta tag looks like this:

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>

This tutorial assumes you know how to install a self-hosted WordPress site.  Let’s say you’ve got a wordpress powered blog that you’d like to transfer.  Here’s how to do it in just a couple quick steps:

1. Log into the dashboard of the old site and under “tools” click “export”.  WordPress will export all of the posts, pages, comments and even images into an XML file.
2. Log into the dashboard of the new site and under “tools” click “import”.  Select that xml file that you saved in your last step and begin the import.  Voila! Your WordPress site has now been duplicated on the new site.

Remember that this does not affect the theme or any customizations or plugins you were using.  Is that easy or what?

I like to play around with vector art from time to time. I have made a few sets of icons and I have a site where I share vectors that I and other people have created. Check it out: Free Vector Art. Here are some great tutorials that will help you on your way if you are interested in vector design, and Adobe Illustrator.

Thug Bunny Vector Tutorial

Ninjas Vector Tutorial

Cow Vector Tutorial

Killer Bunny with chainsaw Vector Tutorial

Sports Car Vector Tutorial

Fish Cartoon Vector Tutorial

Fox Drawing Vector Tutorial

Graffiti Text Vector Tutorial

Groovy Vector Tutorial

Master Painting Vector Tutorial

Torn Wallpaper Vector Tutorial

Mini Vector Tutorial

Product Ad Vector Tutorial

Wood Grain Vector Tutorial

Vintage Shirt Vector Tutorial

Bitmap to Vector Tutorial

Simple Banners Vector Tutorial

Character Shading Vector Tutorial

Snowboarding Vector Tutorial

Bar of Soap Vector Tutorial

Stamp Vector Tutorial

Swirls Vector Tutorial

Creating Characters Vector Tutorial

Tree Vector Tutorial

Retro Emblem Vector Tutorial

Deviant Art is an amazing resource for digital artists and designers. There is a wealth of free tutorials and resources available, here is just a few of them.

hair drawing tutorial by Abuze

Digital Painting Tutorial by Dianae

Photoshop Inking Tutorial by Spirallin

Mini Painting Tutorial by jdillon82

Blending Tutorial by acidlullaby

Bubbles Tutorial by B1nd1

Wonder Woman Painting Tutorial by UdonCrew

+ How to do the LineArt + by Arehandora

Tutorial: Painting Sky in PS by Foxbane

Magic Swirl tutorial by danzr4ever

Blumen walkthrough by janaschi

Tutorial: Painting Embroidery by kay-ness

tree tutorial part 2 by calisto-lynn

Apple tutorial by michan

Masking Tutorial by One-Vox

For more Photoshop stuff check out my new Photoshop Brushes site.