By default BuddyPress shows you notifications on top admin bar. In this lesson we will be showing how to notify your website members about new private messages using notification text: “You have a new message.” Continue reading Notify Users About New Messages On BuddyPress Networking Website
You can easily add users and assign them specific roles in your WordPress site, simply login to the admin panel of your WordPress site then visit Users -> All Users page.
Click the ‘Add User’ button, enter the username, real name, email address, you may select to automatically send the username and password to the newly added member or deselect the checkbox to manually send the username and password to your site member.
Once you have added all-important details of the user, simply click the ‘Add User’ button and the user would be able to login to your website.
In this lesson you will learn how to automatically validate all incoming trackbacks on your WordPress site and check whether they are genuine or spams. Continue reading Validate Incoming Trackbacks On Your WordPress Site
By default only in-post images are send to RSS feed. In this lesson you will learn how to send featured post images i.e. post thumbnails in RSS feed of your WordPress based website or blog. Continue reading Easily Send Featured Images In WordPress RSS Feed
Now you can easily transform your WordPress native commenting functionality into AJAX based live discussion system.
WP Dialogue is the new WordPress plugin that uses all native features of WordPress commenting system and converts it to live and hence there are minimal chances of breaking on theme updates. See it live working here. Continue reading Convert Native WordPress Commenting System Into Live Discussion Functionality
By default trackbacks and pingbacks are automatically shown with the comments after your WordPress blog posts. There are some WordPress themes that allow you to separate trackbacks, pingbacks from comments and there is also a method from Pro Blog Design that allows you to do so on any WordPress site. In this lesson, you will learn how to simply hide trackbacks and pingbacks from showing up on your WordPress posts.
Hide Trackbacks is a free WordPress plugin that prevents trackbacks and pingbacks from showing up as comments on your posts.
Simply install and activate it. Once the plugin is activated, trackbacks and pingbacks are no longer shown on your posts and comment count is automatically updated to reflect this in your comment’s section. The plugin doesn’t delete your trackbacks and pingbacks, you can still manage them from your WordPress admin area dashboard.
WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam provides you a powerful, user-friendly, all-in-one anti-spam system that eliminates your WordPress site comment and registration spams without CAPTCHA. The plugin also includes spam-blocking contact form.
It works like a firewall of your WordPress site and recognizes spam bots crawling and stops them to spam your website. Continue reading Eliminate Comment & Registration Spam With WordPress SpamShield
BuddyPress Activity Plus is a popular BuddyPress plugin that allows members to share videos, phones and links on their activity stream. The plugin works good but earlier there were problems regarding its small photo embed size on activity stream.
But now no worries, the latest version of this plugin allows you to set a custom thumbnail image size which is shown when a user posts any photo or video file on BuddyPress activity stream. Continue reading Set Custom Thumbnail And oEmbed Size On BuddyPress Activity Plus Stream
By default WordPress organizes your media files in ‘uploads’ folder located in wp-content directory of your website. WordPress provides you option to organize all uploads in month and year based folders but in this lesson you will learn how to organize them in file types or username based folders. Continue reading Easily Organize File Uploads By File Types (mov, gif, png, mp3…) Or Usernames In WordPress
In this lesson you will learn how to show category, tag and author descriptions on appropriate archive pages in your WordPress site.
Show Archive Descriptions is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display description for category on that category’s first i.e. main archive page. The plugin does same for tags and author archive pages too. It also allows you to create custom titles. Continue reading Display Category, Tag And Author Descriptions On Appropriate WordPress Archive Pages
You can show or hide certain post, page or post type sections by specific date and time characteristics in your WordPress site.
Timed Content is a WordPress plugin that allows users to specify whether a portion of a Page or Post should appear or disappear based on given time characteristics via shortcode in WordPress visual editor. Continue reading Show/Hide Certain Post Sections By Date And Time In WordPress
Not everyone has a Gravatar account and not every user uploads avatar on your BuddyPress community website.
In this lesson you will learn how to say good bye to mystery man and automatically use first alphabet of user’s name as profile picture in your BuddyPress powered WordPress site or regular WordPress site. Continue reading Set First Name Letter As Profile Picture On BuddyPress/WordPress Sites
Tiny Bootstrap Elements Light is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to add Bootstrap elements using TinyMCE buttons from WordPress visual editor present on ADD NEW / EDIT content screens of your WordPress site.
The plugin works for posts, pages and other custom post types. It is compatible with most WordPress themes and allows you to selectively enable Bootstrap TinyMCE buttons on visual editor. It also provides you option to either add default or use custom Bootstrap CSS, including only needed elements. Continue reading Tiny Bootstrap Elements Light – Add Bootstrap Elements From WordPress Visual Editor
You can now pull your Facebook group feed to your WordPress site. Facebook Group to WordPress is a WordPress plugin that allows you to imports posts from public Facebook groups to your WordPress blog, every half hour. Continue reading Easily Pull Your Facebook Group Feed In WordPress
In this lesson you will learn about using any post’s content inside any other post, page or custom post type with the help of shortcode in your WordPress site.
Many times bloggers create some intro text about anything and use it multiple times while composing other articles in WordPress.
For instance: If you write articles about WordPress plugins then in that case you must have published a general article about installing plugins in WordPress.
Now every time while writing tutorial on some new WordPress plugin you can use post content of article say “How to install a plugin in WordPress” with inside the content of your new plugin’s tutorial in order to show first basic steps of installing a plugin. Continue reading Show Any WordPress Post Content Via Shortcode
Earlier we have discussed about removing dashboard access on WordPress and BuddyPress powered websites and easily disallow either all or selected user roles from accessing your site’s admin area dashboard.
We ave also discussed about hiding admin toolbar and directing users to home whenever they attempt to access admin section of your WordPress site by suffixing /wp-admin after your website’s address.
Now today in this lesson you will learn how to increase the security of your website by only enabling one IP addresss to access admin area dashboard. Continue reading Limit WordPress Admin Access To One IP Address
Earlier we have discussed how to prevent your client’s from changing themes on their WordPress sites and keep using the theme you have designed for them.
We have also discussed about disabling plugin and theme installation/update functionality in WordPress and customizing admin area user interface. In this lesson you will learn how to remove deactivate links on plugins list.
Continue reading Prevent Your Clients From Deactivating Plugins In WordPress
Webmasters probably spent lots of time in customizing, creating and adding more specific features to theme for their client’s website and if by mistake your client switches to a new theme, deletes the old one could result in disaster.
So if you are also a website designer using WordPress to create client websites then here is a code snippet to remove “Themes” menu from “Appearances” section in your admin area dashboard. Continue reading Easily Disable Theme Changing In WordPress
qTranslate X is a popular WordPress plugin that allows you to add user-friendly multilingual content management and translation support in your WordPress site. The plugin is an up-to-date fork of qTranslate, it comes packed with many more additional features.
Whereas All in One SEO Pack is another plugin that provides you SEO functions to automatically optimize your WordPress based website for various popular search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo etc.
In this lesson you will see how to use both of these plugins together to optimize your multilingual website for Google and other popular search engines. Continue reading Enable qTranslate X Multilingual Framework For WordPress All In One SEO Pack
Sometimes when you or someone else submits your article to Reddit, the discussion goes on and one and the link gets more Reddit comments than comments on main article’s page on your website.
In this lesson you will learn how to easily embed any Reddit discussion in your WordPress site so that your users would be able to join Reddit conversations directly from your WordPress site. Continue reading Embed Any Reddit Discussion Inside Your WordPress Post
When moving away from a theme or plugin that utilizes a lot of shortcodes in your WordPress site leaves broken shortcodes inside your content.
So when deactivating a shortcode plugin or switching to a new WordPress theme requires you to make sure none of your posts, pages and other custom post types have no outdated shortcodes to break in process. Continue reading Locate What And Where Shortcodes Are Being Used In WordPress
