Blog engine or CMS, call it whatever you want but WordPress is a great tool for web designers. It just get a little hard to use sometimes when you want to do some more advanced things in your theme and you are not a coder. Here are 8 snippets of code that have helped me in recent projects.

The eight snippets they share show how to include:

• Include post thumbnail in RSS feed
• Next & Previous Post Titles With Thumbnails
• Search Specific Category in WordPress
• List top 10 authors of the blog with their last post
• Automatically insert content in your RSS feed
• Display a Comment's Number in a List
• Display your most commented posts in your blog sidebar
• Excluding Posts from Your WordPress Feed

Each item links back to the full recipe it came from.

This is a very good book, actually one of the best recipe books I've read period. You can tell that the authors are still actively writing code - you can feel it as you read the chapters.

The review also lists out some of the contents of the book including sample recipes and the "quick hits" section.