bbPress is forum (also called message boards, bulletin board) plugin designed for using with WordPress sites. A few days back a SANGKRIT.net hosting owner emailed us asking how he can easily start using bbPress, most bbPress tutorials on Internet are very long and confusing. All he wanted to do is create a few message boards in his WordPress site.
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Instead of making your visitors having to click a link view older posts or navigate to next page in WordPress you can use Jetpack’s infinite scrolling module which automatically pulls the next posts into view when the reader approaches the bottom of the page. It is now compatible with Google Analytics, now its options page on dashboard Settings -> Reading allows you to track each Infinite Scroll post load as a page view in Google Analytics.
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You can highlight new blog posts for returning visitors in your WordPress site. For Example: When a visitor returns to your website, he will be seeing the new posts (that were published after his most recent visit) in highlight. All highlighted posts displays a ‘NEW’ label appended to their title.
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Sticky Popup is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to add a popup on fixed position (like bottom, left or right side) in your website using CSS3 effects.
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Many a times it happens when you want to link any post or page to some external URL. There may be various reasons why you would want the title of any of your post or page to be linked to an external URL.
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Default WordPress theme and plugin editor doesn’t provides you access to inner plugin/theme directory files. It only provides you access to main files from Appearance -> Editor & Plugins -> Editor page. In this tutorial we will be showing you how you can easily get access to each and every file of any plugin/theme directly from your admin area dashboard.
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Most WordPress themes displays the featured images when they are set on content editing screen and hides when the user unset the featured image i.e. post thumbnail.
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After reading our tutorial on changing default font size of HTML text editor, a user at SANGKRIT.net asked how he can do same for WordPress visual editor.
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Earlier we have discussed about replacing default WordPress text widgets to use javascript and flash etc. We have also discussed about using a TinyMCE visual editor based text widget, executing PHP code inside a sidebar widget. Now even you can use all kinds of shortcodes inside a widget with Shortcodes Ultimate plugin. It has tons of useful features and also provides you a simple shortcode widget (similar to text widget) where you can use any type of shortcode or use its built-in shortcode generator.
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“A picture is worth a thousand words. How many words is a video worth?” says Alexander Hoereth, developer of Featured Video Plus, a WordPress plugin. He has programmed an awesome WordPress plugin that allows you to display featured videos in place of featured images i.e. post thumbnails.
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Joomla is a free and open source content management and portal application you can easily install in your SANGKRIT.net hosting account. In 2005, Joomla forked from Mambo and today is a widely used used application having been downloaded more over 25 million times.
There are many WordPress users who run private blogs and websites which means content comes visible only for logged in users. Same is with BuddyPress, it is now used by various companies, organisations etc for running private networking websites.
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Multilevel fluid responsive menus enables your visitors to browse your website more easily on smartphones, tablets and other small screen devices. Regular multilevel navigation menus doesn’t works on touch screen devices, the reason is they need a mouse hover to show sub navigation items but when using touch screen devices you can only give a click. That is why all mobile menus are click-open menus.
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You play a background music/soundtrack while displaying any post or page in WordPress. You can have a home page or any other custom page playing some music file automatically, you can choose music in adequacy with your website content or you can use it on pages showing photo galleries and slideshows etc.
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Just like Bit.ly and Goo.gl, you can start your own URL shortening service using your own domain name. Sometime back we have discussed about creating short URLs of your website on your own domain. Now today in this tutorial we will show how you can start your own URL shortener service and make it public like Google URL Shortener.
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With an spectacular interface, Matrix 3D enables WordPress users to create image & video galleries and then display them via shortcode. The plugin automatically generates galleries in a click and then you can edit them, change the gallery images and publish them on your website. It is a very different gallery plugin built using ActionScript 3.0 and 3d technologies. See it live working here.
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Default functionality of WordPress uploads all images with their real sizes and then generates new custom sizes like a thumbnail size image, medium size image, large size image and keeps a copy of original image with its real size. Suppose your website’s maximum width is 1200px and you have a 300 px sidebar then all content space you have is 900px, now what is need of keeping images larger than 900px when you don’t have space to show them. It increases unnecessary weight on your server and also posts with large images makes your webpages slow and heavy.
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By default WordPress uses some default settings like image alignment, image size and link etc whenever any image is uploaded from ‘Add Media’ button. Although, it allows users to use custom settings each time when an image is inserted inside a post or post type in WordPress but it doesn’t allows admins to change the default image settings. In this tutorial we will be showing you how you can change the default image settings sitewide in WordPress.
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When images are uploaded to WordPress media library, they are saved into multiple copies of various resolutions and hence downloading them automatically saves their copies too. This tutorial is not about backing up your media library files so that you can use them during troubles and data loss (for restoring your website). That can be done by visiting your website’s public_html via FTP or file manager and then downloading the ‘Uploads’ directory present in ‘wp-contents’ folder of your website’s root. OR if you are a SANGKRIT.net hosting user then you can use easily backup your complete website from cPanel.
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Music-player.co is free web service that allows you to watch all videos of your favorite artist or band in one easy click. It provides you two search options: Only & Similar. Clicking ‘Similar’ displays a right sidebar showing you similar artists you are searching for. It shows you a list of artists and bands commonly searched alongside and commonly listened to before and after the selected artist.
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You can now very easily create and customize beautiful sticky notes in your WordPress dashboard home (Dashboard -> Home). Unlike to old one color sticky notes, these notes are HTML and shortcodes compatible, you can compose them just just like you create new posts, you can include images, formatting tags etc and then finally publish them. As soon a note is published it automatically appears on the top of your admin area Dashboard -> Home with top most priority.
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