By default WordPress allows you to use only one image as post thumbnail i.e. featured post image. In this lesson you will learn how to use multiple images as featured on your WordPress site. Continue reading Keeping Multiple Featured Images On WordPress Posts & Post Types
Now you can upload media files like photos and videos etc directly from ZIP file to your WordPress media library and the use them inside your posts, pages and other custom post types.
The feature is great for photo blogging, portfolio websites uploading big amount of high quality images. It not only makes uploading faster but uses less amount of data, memory, resources and the very good thing is you can upload many images at once. Continue reading Automatically Add Images From ZIP File To Media Library In WordPress
Expire Passwords is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to automatically expire user account passwords after a set time interval. This way you can harden your WordPress site security and prevent unauthorized access of stale user accounts.
WordPress post formats is a post presentation feature introduced with WordPress version of 3.1. It is a block of meta information used by theme to customize the display of post.
Post Formats are set from post edit screen, you can easily select a post format using ‘Format’ metabox on ADD NEW/EDIT screen. It provides you a standardized list of formats that works on supported themes.
In this lesson you will learn how to easily convert post formats by category. For instance: Suppose you have a category VIDEO where you have posted all video posts on your website.
And now you want to make use of WordPress post formats and display your videos in a better way, using a good presentation indeed. So the problem is how to convert that video category’s general blog posts into posts in video post format.
Continue reading Bulk Converting Post Formats By Category In WordPress
Scroll to top buttons are header links used to allow website visitors to smoothly and instantly scroll back to the top of a website in a click. In this lesson we will show you how to add an elevator style scroll to top button in WordPress. Continue reading New Elevator Style Scroll To Top Button For WordPress
When an image is uploaded to a WordPress site, the system automatically creates multiple image sizes, but keeps the original image (no matter how big it is). Smart bloggers upload optimized, resized and lightweight images but atleast once in a lifetime all make mistake of uploading very large image files.
When large image files are hosted and used on a website, you get massive image embeds inside your content, which can drastically slow down your website.
In this lesson you will learn about correcting this mistake by bulk resizing all images on your website. There are two good plugin you can use in your WordPress installation.
When starting a new WordPress website, there are some default settings website owners likes to change. For instance: post name permalink structure is said to be more SEO friendly than default permalink structure of WordPress.
And there are more issues such as preferred domain address (with or with www), pre-installed hello dolly plugin, deactivated Akisment, unset timezone, media uploads directory, published sample post, comment and page etc.
Continue reading WP Quick Setup – Start WordPress Blog With Automatically Configured Settings
By default all external and internal links on a WordPress site works the same way. But you might have noticed various websites displaying and processing external links differently from internal links. For instance: Websites based on Mediawiki shows a small icon on external links, some websites open external links on a new window or tab etc etc.
In this lesson you will learn how to process external links i.e. outgoing links differently from the links interconnecting your website pages locally.
Continue reading Process Outgoing Links Differently From Internal Links In WordPress
Earlier we have discussed about deleting WordPress posts, page and other post type by using custom filters. Now in this lesson you will learn about deleting posts between some date range on your WordPress site.
Continue reading Easily Delete Posts By Date Range In WordPress
WordPress supports special characters and now its update of 4.2 has made writing in WordPress much better. It supports a host of new characters out-of-the-box, including native Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, musical and mathematical symbols, and hieroglyphs.
And even if you don’t make use of any of such characters then you can have fun with popular emoji, the ideograms and smileys 😃.
In this lesson you will learn about using special characters in your WordPress posts, pages and other custom post types using native visual editor of WordPress.
oEmbed is a format to enable embedded presentation of any URL on third party websites. It enables the website to display embedded content like photos and videos etc simply by pasting a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
Continue reading WordPress oEmbed Now Also Works With Tumblr, Kickstarter And More
Schedule Part Of Post Content To Publish Or Expire In WordPressThere are many plugins that allows you to extend native WordPress post scheduling functionality.
You can easily schedule any post using ‘Publish’ metabox present on post edit screen. All you have to do is click edit link on ‘Publish immediately‘ text and select the date-time when you want your post to be published. Earlier we have discussed about the plugin that allows you to expire posts after specified date and time in WordPress.
Now today in this lesson we will show you how to expire partial post content in your WordPress site.
Continue reading Schedule Part Of Post Content To Publish Or Expire In WordPress
It is impossible to prevent any content from being stolen online. But by following a few aggressive techniques you can make your users know that your content is copyrighted material and cannot be used without prior permission.
Continue reading Copy Protect Text, Source, Images, Video & Audio Files In WordPress
By default WordPress allows you to customize thumbnail. medium and large image size. In this lesson you will learn about enabling all other image size selection options on media size dropdown, which you use while inserting images inside content with ADD MEDIA button.
Continue reading Add All Available Image Size Options To WordPress Media Size Selection Drop Down
Now you can easily find images inside your post content and change their format size. Great tool when switching to a new WordPress theme or changing the layout of your website.
When an image is uploaded to WordPress, it generates several versions of that image in different sizes. The image is then inserted in content using ADD MEDIA button in visual editor and a custom image size format is selected.
But when you switch to new theme with different content area size, your old post images starts to look odd. Sometimes they overflow to sidebars or to other elements etc.
This happens because the images you insert in your content becomes the part of your content, they are hardcoded in posts and remains the same even when you switch to a new layout.
Hence, in result your images do not fit perfectly with the new design.
Continue reading Change Old Image Format Size In WordPress Posts And Custom Post Types
Gmail App like avatar shows you the initial letter of the user on a random background color. Earlier we have discussed about using first alphabet from the name as user avatar on WordPress site and BuddyPress networks.
In this lesson you will learn doing the same thing forcefully all over your website in Google style. You can display first letter of user avatar using a random background color every-time.
Continue reading Turn WordPress Gravatars Into Gmail App Like Alphabet Avatars
Earlier we have discussed about a WordPress plugin that allows you to office files, PDF and more in your website. Now today in this lesson you will learn embedding public Google spreadsheets inside your WordPress posts, pages and other custom post types using a simple handy shortcode.
Continue reading Embed Google Spreadsheet In WordPress Posts And Post Types
Sometimes Google search results page shows you the website name on some search results. This new feature was presented on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog (April 16, 2015 ), you can know more about it on Google Developers Website.
In this lesson you will learn about including your WordPress site name on SERP i.e. search engine results page.
Continue reading Include Your WordPress Site Name In Google Search Results
PopupPress Lite is the new WordPress plugin that lets you to create elegant popups and pop-overs. All popups are responsive and have many customization options.
Continue reading PopupPress Lite – Create Elegant Overlapping Windows In WordPress
In this lesson we will show you how to display any widget in context to another website on your WordPress multisite network.
In context to another website means you can run any widget displaying data not from the main website but from another website of your choice that belongs to your multisite network.
Continue reading Display Any Widget In Context To Another Website On WordPress Multisite Network
Sticky Recent Random Posts is the new WordPress plugin that provides you a beautiful customizable footer bar that displays recent posts randomly on your website.
The plugin allows you to customize display options like you can set custom background color, border color, opacity, title text color, use custom trending now text, trending now text color, open link in same or new window, number of posts to shuffle and select post type to include.
Continue reading Display Trending Now Posts On Elegnat Sticky Footer Bar In WordPress
