WordPress Testers list provides you the news about latest beta version of WordPress. There are two ways of testing new beta releases, the first and hard way is backing-up your website database then downloading the zip file and then unzipping it and using it on your website via FTP. The easy way is doing the same thing from backend i.e. from admin area dashboard with WordPress Beta Tester plugin.
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Many website owners doesn’t know that WordPress now already provides you a built in audio player. Yes, you can use it without installing any addon, you can either insert the URL of your audio file (one on a line) and the oEmbed will work itself or you can upload and insert audio file just like any other image file from your media library and the WordPress will add appropriate shortcodes by itself.
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In this tutorial we will explain you blocking Pinterest on your WordPress based site. You can block it on all or selected posts or the home page, frontpage etc as per your requirement and disallow you posts from getting pinned by your website visitors or registered users.
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Resetting WordPress installation simply means resetting your website’s database back to its defaults. Great features for technology bloggers and web-developers who everyday tests new plugins and themes. By resetting database from the admin area doesn’t require any editing via phpMyadmin etc. You can safely delete all customizations and content without disturbing the plugins, themes and all other WP core files which you have on your server.
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In our last tutorial, we discussed about a plugin that lets you show off image galleries from Pinterest profile or from a Pin-board. Now here we have selected 5 plugins that lets you do same thing but can grab images from other popular image sharing community websites like Flickr, Google Plus & Picasa, Tumblr, Instagram and we have also included Pinterest too in this tutorial. So what you can do with following plugins is embed a stylish in-post photo gallery from popular image sharing networks, you can do this via shortcode generator or use a sidebar widget.
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The Alpine PhotoTile for Pinterest allows WordPress users to show up photos from any Pinterest user profile or from a specific pin board. The images can also be linked to the your Pinterest page or to a custom URL or you can showcase them inside a Lightbox slideshow. The best feature of the plugin is its easy Shortcode Generator which simply allows you to insert its widget inside your posts. The plugin uses WordPress’s in-built JQuery scripts and creates a sleek presentation.
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Audio books are similar to radio old shows and new podcasts where you listen to stories. Amazon’s Audible app provides you a gateway for its audio book service, drawing you in with free tasters of some of its best sellers. It’s worth downloading if you don’t have much time for reading books which you want to read or may be if you are on a long drive with tried eyes. With Audible for Android app and you can listen to audio books on the go without any kindle.
Audible.com is an Amazon company and with this app you get access to a range of 150,000+ titles from your Android device and start browsing from best sellers, classics and other categories. You can navigate through chapters, add bookmarks, enable sleep mode, variable narration speed, button-free mode. It has multitasking features for running download in the background and listening to the book at the same-time. It also lets you lets you transfer books to your devices via wifi.
Amazon Kindle device users can use this app and switch between reading-&-listening with Whispersync for Voice. Other app features enables you to:
A few months ago we discussed about using your Ubuntu laptop as a wifi router. In other words, creating a hotspot with your Ubuntu Linux. Default Ubuntu Wifi network is not visible for Android devices, specially for devices using Android 4.1.2 versions like Samsung Galaxy etc. In that case you may give a try to ap-hotspot from the webupd8 repository for creating an infrastructure AP but here a much better universal solution who need creating detectable hotspot with Ubuntu Linux.
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We have discussed about the plugins that lets you show menus and widgets on the basis of post, pages and taxonomies etc. But now you can use similar feature for showing up a custom title on some specific webpages of your WordPress site. Flexible Blogtitle is the new very lightweight plugin which enables you to set conditions for displaying custom titles on selected areas of your website.
Life360 – Family Locator +more is a powerful Android app that lets you locate all your family members and friends near your vicinity. The app works with latest GPS tracking technology, you can create groups, called as “Circles” of your family & friends and then you can easily track their locations on a private map, You can know about their safety or when they need your help. The application also allows you to chat one-on-one or with everyone within each of your circles and chatting is all free.
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Social Butterfly is new simple, sleek and very attractive social media sharing plugin for WordPress users. The plugin is lightweight and easily gets integration before or after post. Its position can be customized sitewide from its options page or you can define its position from top, bottom, both top & bottom or completely hide it from an individual post.
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Callout Bar by ContactUs is a customizable toolbar you can float at the top or bottom of your WordPress site and grab your visitor’s attention very easily. The Callout Bar is designed to be used for three main purposes: You can grow your emailing list, generate your sales leads or simply enable general contact enquiries.
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The feature is increasingly popular in weight loss websites. In this tutorial we will show you how you can show off image differences by automatically keeping two images side by side inside your content. The feature is very easy to use and you can enable it in seconds and start using it inside your posts, pages and other manually generated post types etc.
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Face Switch is a fun app designed for switching two faces in order to create new ones. The app is really entertaining and gives you a great bit of fun but the fun only comes if you spend some time playing on the app. It is not very easy but if you start evolving the app it will certainly lets you crate some exciting stuff. What actually this app lets you do is swap and morph between any two faces instantly in seconds.
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The most popular PC web browser is also available for Android users. The browser provides all web browsing features which you get with classic chrome browser like faster web browsing for Android phones and tablets. User can sign in to Chrome and keep everything on sync so that you can share your web browsing experience and all important information, app and settings etc between your devices. And all other Google Chrome web browsing features including private web browsing via incognito mode. The only problem you might encounter with Chrome is that it might freeze on some devices. The same problem is experienced by many Linux users, Chrome repeatedly freezes on OS like Ubuntu Linux also.
As said by one of its users, this web browser is popular for its speed & dependability. It uses high-end compression technology rendered by a server in order to provide faster web browsing and less data usage. Its main features are:
Main Features:
Download Management – It can be used as a downloading tool. You can download multiple files, download also works in the background like Firefox and Chrome. Gives automatic reconnection if the download is interrupted etc.
Add-ons – Add-on plugins are also available for enhancing Android’s web browsing experience like add-ons for Photo Uploading to Facebook, Gesture Controller, Webpage Translator and there are more.
Auto Pager – For scrolling up on for infinite scroll pages like on Facebook, Twitter, Google and more.
Themes – You can decorate your web browser by downloading themes and wallpapers from the UC Theme Center just like you do for Chrome & Firefox or even you can use your own pictures which you have on your hard drive.
Web Application Center – You can add your favorite web apps to UC Browser.
New Image Viewer which enables you to view all photos attached on current web page are into a photo album style view.
Cloud Sync – Sync works here too. You can sync bookmarks and tabs between various devices using your Google, Facebook or UC account.
Fastest download speed of any mobile browser – Download 15% faster on 3G and Wi-Fi. Performance on 2G networks has also been accelerated.
The most popular web browser among free software users is also available for Android. This free web browser gives the power of the free web in your hands and unlike to Google Chrome it doesn’t freezes on some Android devices. But that doesn’t mean it has no bugs like if you save your passwords, it would get permanently saved and deleting the web browsing history and cookies etc is of no use if you are doing that for removing your password. Instead, if you need removing you saved password first type any wring password and then click update password button visible in a pop-up. Otherwise the official Firefox for Android is fast, easy to use, & customizable web browser.
Dolphin also gives a very good web browsing experience with Android devices. It doesn’t shows freezing & saved password bugs like Chrome & Firefox. It has gives easy web browsing experience and provides you web surfing via personalized home screen, gives you voice and gesture control features and the web browser is increasingly getting popular among Android users. At present it has over 100,000,000 downloads on Android and iOS.
Opera is a popular smartphone web browser from a long time. The browser is specially been designed for the smartphones. You can set all your favourite websites on the home screen (just like speed dial add-on available for Chrome & Firefox and there is no limit to the number of website speed dial entries you add. Other traditional Opera features works same like you can know what’s happening with Smart Page. It delivers instant updates from Facebook, Twitter and the latest news. You can save web pages and read them later or for times you’re not connected to the internet. Better download manager and Opera Mobile Classic browser is also available for Android users.
In general there is a question that what utmost benefit the people of India may derive from this Loksabha election? In India not only the ruling party INC constantly failed despite ruling India since independence but the so-called opposition of BJP also failed after winning three elections in a row. Even seasonal outfits like AAP emerged and failed many times before also in the formats of Janata Party, Jan Morcha and Janata Dal. Therefore e-merging India should vote for a change by opting all open options wisely since it is the engine of a real revolution instead of any Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi or Arvind Kejriwal.
The particular question is that how could you contribute your utmost in to this Loksabha election? The new thing this time is a NOTA (none of the above) button on voting machine. Pushing that vote poses a true threat to corrupt mechanism of incompetent representation. Not any politician but the upcoming Internet class is the engine of revolution everywhere. Internet Growth Engine is focusing to constantly increase its numbers everywhere so that people across all countries may stop now repeatedly losing their elections.
Tasker is not a single purpose app. instead it enables you to automate many different things. Tasker can perform from over 200 inbuilt actions all automatically and if perhaps 200 is not enough for you then you can install its addon plugins as well. Tasker brings total automation starting from setting up configuration options to sending SMS and much more like Triggers: App, Time, Day, Location, Hard/Soft State, Event, Shortcut, Widget, Timer, Plugins. Tasks: loops, variables, conditions, designing your own screen overlays, creating your own standalone apps to share or even sell etc.
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Default ‘Read More’ links opens up post in a fresh web page. As soon ‘Read More’ link is clicked, the page opens up with a refresh. In this tutorial we will explain you how you can open up the post in same window in a AJAXified popup which instantly comes visible without any page refresh.
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Everybody likes proper citation of their links but in general other website owners simply insert links instead of giving a proper citation. Here’s the solution, you can encourage your readers and help them know how to cite your articles correctly on their websites. Cite is the new WordPress plugin that lets you display a box at the bottom of each article showing the reference information. The box can be inserting using the shortcode [cite] inside your posts, pages and other custom post types. See it live working here.
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Visual Icon fonts, also knows as genricons and vector icons are used as font icons popularly among web designers, the icons are lightweight and looks much better than simple bitmap images. There are many advantages like the icons can be resized without losing the quality and can be styled with CSS which cannot be done with image icons. This tutorial explains how you can use these iconic fonts using default WordPress visual editor present in add new & edit content pages, and the best thing is that you don’t need any HTML or CSS coding as everything is done visually.
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While completely moving WordPress installation (including the database, files and plugins), widgets settings automatically moves and the website automatically starts working like before. This procedure is good for moving large websites but sometimes you might need need to reuse only widget settings, if there are only one or two widgets then that can be moved manually. However, if there are many widgets, widget areas in multiple sidebars then a better, fats and more easy solution is needed. This tutorial explains you how you can import & export widget settings across WordPress installations.
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