From 3.8 update WordPress provides you six awesome admin area color schemes and now Admin Color Schemes plugin has also been updated so you get many extra color schemes for your WordPress dashboard. Now this tutorial is on new, light weight but very interesting free plugin called Color Schemes Roulette, the plugin is made for changing your admin colors in random and yes it is compatible with Admin Color Schemes plugin.
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Admin Color Schemes, the plugin that brings new extra color schemes in WordPress admin area dashboard has been updated for new 3.8 update of WordPress. Likewise now WordPress already provides you six different admin color schems, now you can add up some more simply by using this WordPress plugin.
Aubergine, by Kate Whitley & Kelly Dwan
Flat, by Mel Choyce
Vineyard, by Kate & Dave Whitley
All your awesome color choices
So first of all install and activate Admin Color Schemes plugin. Upon activation the plugin adds new color schemes which can be managed from same old user profile page using the color scheme selector radio buttons.
Earlier we discussed about embedding any Facebook post on any website, weblog or simple HTML page. Just like YouTube, Twitter and Flickr etc, Facebook also provides you an embed code which can be copied from Facebook post drop down options itself, the code simply embeds that specific Facebook post with all its like and comments into your website.
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Bandofthedayapp.com, a free web service that delivers a new artist every single day with free full-play songs, videos, and more. It displays bands from a range of music genres and locations world-wide are carefully selected and arranged by a team of expert music geeks working for this free web service. They sift through the sludge to uncover the hidden gems and deliver them daily.
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VIEWSTER is a free cloud video on demand service that provides you an awesome selection of up-to-date movies, series and also star interviews. Everything is easily viewable from anywhere at any time on up to five different devices of your choice. You can also login to VIEWSTER.com right from your internet connected TV, BluRay, Tablet or from your smart phone and then choose a movie and and press the play button.
Unlike to Gravatar which works universally on all WordPress sites showing one common avatar by email address you can add avatars of your choice for your WordPress site authors, editors and subscribers etc. There are several good WordPress plugins that allows you to upload avatars locally on your blog right from the user profile page. Following are some free plugins ordered by their popularity and downloads.
Theme Tweaker grabs all your existing theme colors and allows you to modify them either by typing the color codes or by using color picker. The plugin offers you another feature to change theme colors in bulk, like you can invert all colors, use grey scale, sepia style colors or you can generate random colors in a click etc.
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Many new Ubuntu users spend hours in look up for settings to change default Ubuntu programs. For example: Suppose you want to change default video player from ‘Movie Player’ to ‘VLC Player’. For setting up default running programs in Ubuntu 12.04, first thing you need to do is click the settings icon present on the top left corner and select ‘System Settings’ option.
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Colorblendy is an offline Google Chrome extension which quickly installs in your Chrome browser and lets you mix two different colors and obtain the code of third color just like you do in Photoshop but here the app is made only for mixing up two different colors and nothing else.
To start simply add Colorblendy app in your Chrome. As soon it installs, the extension adds a new icon in Chrome’s App’s home. You just need to click that icon and Colorblendy opens up its page where you can very easily mix up colors both by codes or color picker.
Speed Dial [FVD] – 3D New Tab Page is a speedial app for Chrome that also syncs between your Chrome and Firebox browsers. The extension transforms Chrome’s New Tab with new FVD Speed Dial which is a beautiful bookmarking manager, you can add the URLs and it will automatically retrieve the thumbnails and beautifully organizes your bookmarks, with Custom backgrounds, custom dials, organized groups, and most visited websites. It transforms the Apps page into a sidebar which you can manually show or hide on new tab’s speed dial page.
The app is easy to use and configure. Simply add it in your Chrome browser and as soon you add it, it itself transforms everything and your get a whole new ‘New Tab’ page with faster web browsing experience. Note: Your Chrome might restart several times after this app is installed. If you also use Mozilla Firefox the you can install FVD Speed Dial with Full Online Syn and do online synchronization between Google Chrome & Firefox. Other than this you can change background color, image, use Widgets for FVD Speed Dial, Themes for FVD Speed Dial and more.
Session Manager: Sometimes bookmarks are not enough specially when you need a website or webpage exactly as you left like when you need back your half-written post/article with your account logged in. Here your can use Session Manager, a powerful Google Chrome extension. Add it in your Chrome browser and then for using it simply hit cardboard box icon next to chrome’s web address bar. Now Session Manager will ask you to Save the web page you’re running. All webpages you save are time stamped so that your can easily return to the version of your work in-progress at any time. All login screens and configuration menus are skipped and you get to your page exactly as you left it before. It sounds trivial, but for those of us that bounce between multiple web apps and interfaces. It is a big time-saver.
SearchPreview: All what this Google Chrome extension does is, it simply adds a thumbnail screenshot at the left side of all Google search results showing. The screenshot shows the snapshot of the website listed in your search results. It becomes more useful if you are finding the website you accessed before but did not bookmarked, the thumbnail of that website will help you jog your memory.
Stop Autoplay for YouTube: Its name makes everything pretty much clear. Yes, the extension stops YouTube videos from playing automatically. There are various other extensions that allows you to do same but we have chosen this extension because it is a bit different and straight forward. This extension not only stops autoplay but it still pre-buffers the YouTube video. This thing makes the extension more useful for the users with slow internet connection.
Send from Gmail: By default Ubuntu uses Thunderbird, Windows uses Outlook, it depends what operating system you are using.The extension is for Gmail users. After you add this extension in your Google Chrome browser it will open all email links on internet in your Gmail not on Thunderbird or Outlook etc and hence there is no need of copy-pasting email addresses between webpages and your Gmail compose box. Other than this, the extension also adds a button for creating email message when clicked, it uses the page title as the subject and selected webpage text and link address as the message.
AdBlock – Yes it block ads on web pages. The extension strips out most of the advertisements from majority of website and provides you a clean, faster web browsing experience with less data usage.
If you also know about any good Google Chrome extension that offers a better browsing experience then feel free to mention it in the following comments.
HackerTray, a free Linux app programmed with Python2 (inspired from Hacker Bar) simply brings Hacker News to your Linux menu bar. It is yet not compatible with all Linux systems but works really nice with Ubuntu. Following screenshot explains everything pretty well about how it works on your Ubuntu desktop. So now we are starting with its installation and upgrade process etc.
Open your Linux Terminal and use the following commands to install:
sudo pip install hackertray OR sudo easy_install hackertray OR #Download Source and cd to it sudo python setup.py install
Now you can run hackertray from anywhere. Other than this you can now add it to your OS dependent session autostart method.
If you are a Ubuntu user then you can access it from:
Depending upon your Ubuntu Linux Version. Or simply put it in ~/.config/openbox/autostart if you are running OpenBox. Here you can see how the configuration should look like in Ubuntu and its derivatives.
The latest stable version is always available on pip. You can check which version you have installed with pip freeze | grep hackertray.
To upgrade, run pip install -U hackertray.
In some cases (Ubuntu), you might need to clear the pip cache before upgrading:
sudo rm -rf /tmp/pip-build-root/hackertray
StickyZon Lite is an awesome WordPress plugin that lets you add Amazon products related to your blog posts content. With this new plugin you can add targeted products without touching or adding any code snippet. Its a quick set and forget plugin which automatically adds most popular Amazon products to your blog posts related to your post topic.
This way the similar products increases the chance for your visitors to go and take a look over your products and buy them from Amazon. You can make easy commissions without any work.
Features:
Getting Started: Install and activate StickyZon Lite plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> StickyZon Lite page and set Amazon Affiliate ID, API Key (Access Key ID), Secret Access Key and choose your Amazon Product Category using the drop down box.
Other than this you can Use Post Tags to search products, Use Post Categories to search products, Set Default search keywords, Add Widget Title, Edit Buy Now Link Text and Show sponsor link etc.
WP Curtain is the new highly customizable WordPress plugin that lets you hide your website from general visitors and search engines like Google, Yahoo and all others. The plugin allows you to enable access for logged in users having a specified access level like Editor, they can can view website but all other visitors will get directed to a friendly error page showing a message or a beautiful countdown timer (FlipClock) or a log in section, its up to you. You can easily customize its settings.
Simply install and activate WP Curtain plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Plugins -> WP Curtain Settings page and here you can:
Facebook Ads Tool lets you create cool Facebook ads directly from your WordPress admin interface. It provides you an easy user-friendly interface and you can quickly start in seconds creating your own Facebook ads that drives new traffic and promote your web pages. You can know more about its awesome features on its download page at WordPress.org here.
To start simply install and activate Facebook Ads Tool and follow the given steps:
The plugin also activates Facebook Ads Dashboard (Dashboard ->Facebook Ads Tool -> Ads Dashboard) where you can keep track of your Facebook Ads, Clicks, Conversions and other useful information. Following screenshots will certainly make you better understand this useful tool that works from WordPress admin section:
Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 1)
Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 2)
Creating a Facebook Ad directly from a wordpress page
Your Ad on Facebook
Live Social Contests & Promotions
Creating a Sweepstakes in your WordPress Admin
Email Automation Campaigns
Contact Database
Campaign Analytics
HS Social Media Buttons provides you sticky metro style social media buttons with four different button effects. The buttons allows you to add Facebook URL, Linkedin URL, Twitter URL, Youtube URL, Google+ URL, Pintrest URL. You can set their position to left or right and set their top margin in pixels.
Simply install and activate HS Social Media Buttons plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> HS Social Media Buttons page and add your social profile/page URLs and save changes.
Littlealchemy.com is an online free game where you start with four basic elements, then mix and match them to create more and more new awesome things. At the beginning of the game you get have only four basic elements in your library but then you can mix and create new ones. You can easily combine them simply by dragging and dropping on each other.
You can start by visiting Littlealchemy.com and start playing with so many surprising combination.
Rollip.com is a free cloud service that allows you to give quick and easy photo effects. Simply visit its website rollip.com/start/ upload your photos and start giving effect in easy clicks. You can easily give any digital photo a complete new look and feel by using the high-quality filters ranging from 70’s vintage to other modern ones.
You can easily try it with one image and then you will probably be ending up processing your entire photo collection. The application works like your own private Instagram but with many more effects. You can easily start with it in just a minute and all your images look more interesting and cool.
It is ofcourse not easy to remember all shortcodes you have active in your WordPress installation unless they provides you shortcode generator etc. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that simply displays a list of all the shortcodes available for use on the post and page edit screens.
Install and activate Edit Screen Shortcode Lister plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically starts displaying all active shortcodes your WordPress site has.It produces a clean, easily accessible list of all the custom/third party added, and WordPress default shortcodes that you are able to use inside your posts and pages. This way you can easily use your shotocodes by copying them right from the post edit screens. Now it is no more difficult to remember them all.
WPMS Admin Reports is the brand new WordPress plugin made for multisite networks. It provides you a reporting tool accessible by multisite administrators. It gives you three reports and a dashboard that gives you a quick snapshot view of the health of your WordPress Multisite installation. All of the tables are client-side sortable using jQuery and tablesorter. It includes graphical indicators (smiley faces) to help easily identify problem sites, users and plugins.
Install and activate WPMS Admin Reports. After activation you may access the reports from network admin dashboard.
Dashboard
Site Report
User Report
Plugin Report
Help Tab
Dashboard – provides charts displaying multiple factors from the other three reports in a graphical way using radar and pie charts.
Site Report – Detailed information about each site in your installation like Errors, ID, Status (Up/Down), Last Post, Last Update, When Created, Current Template, Number of Users and lists the Primary Administrator.
User Report – Gives you detailed information about each user in your installation.
Plugin Report – Lists all installed plugins and provides information about each one. Includes information such as Name, Upgradeability, Status, Activation Site-wide, Total Number of Blogs that use it and a list of those blogs.
Restaurant Menu Manager is the brand new WordPress plugin you can use for creating beautiful restaurant menu in your WordPress site, you can easily group different menu items like Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Desserts, etc. You can also group entries with entry tags or Vegetarian, Sandwiches, Salad, Soups, etc. and then finally display them using a list or jQuery based accordions or tabs.
The plugin uses default WordPress functionality of custom post types, taxonomies, and custom meta fields and lets you easily import and export all your data. The plugin provides you following main features:
Install and activate Restaurant Menu Manager. After activation the plugin adds a new post type in WordPress admin section. Using this new post type you can create your restaurant menu entries, types and add tags etc.
Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery accordion tabs.
Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery tabs.
Restaurant menu displayed in simple list.
Add New Restaurant Menu Entry screen.
All Restaurant Menu Entries Screen.
How to display the menu on your site in simple list?
Displaying restaurant menu in a jQuery accordion with collapsible tabs for different menu types, use
[rm-menu display=’accordion’]For displaying your menu in jQuery tabs, then add this shortcode:
[rm-menu display=’tabs’] Learn more about shortcode usage.
