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Technology, WordPress

How To Add A Cool Header Navigation Menu In P2 Theme Of Your WordPress Blog ?

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P2 is a group blog theme for short update messages, inspired by Twitter only for WordPress users. It doesn’t give you a header navigation by default but if you like adding a cool minimalist header navigation menu the you can do it very easily. Just follow simple steps mentioned here.

Following image shows how your navigation will look like after following given steps. You can easily change its look by editing CSS.

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BuddyPress, Technology, WordPress

Ultimate Video Gallery Plugin For Your WordPress Site

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It has become much easy to create a nice gallery of videos (youtube and/or flv ) in your WordPress site.

ULTIMATE VIDEO GALLERY plugin creates a beautiful gallery of videos for your site with youtube and flv videos. Thumbnails get automatically created. You can add titles on the videos and choose your own colors, number of columns and rows of thumbnails, video size in proportion to the module, the size of the thumbnails in proportion to the plugin, and a lot of things more. Also you can use it as a sidebar widget.

Installation & Usage:

  1. Install and activate the plugin.
  2. Configure and create new video gallery in your Dashboard-> Settings-> Ultimate video. Place [ultimate ID /] inside your Posts, where ID is your gallery ID. For example: [ultimate 1/] Where 1 is the gallery ID

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Technology, WordPress

Give Professional Look To Embedded YouTube Videos In Your WordPress Site

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Using WP YouTube Player Customizer you can customize the appearance of any embedded video in your WordPress site very easily, just with a few clicks. You can give a professional look to embedded video by removing YouTube link, title, description and the related videos that YouTube shows after the video completes. You can make video auto play as soon you open its page without clicking the play button and also you can add your own title and description in any YouTube video which you choose for embedding in your site.

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Technology, WordPress

How To Add Custom CSS to WordPress Admin Bar Without Disturbing Core Or Using Hack ?

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You can customize WordPress admin bar. You can change its color, size and other style  by adding some custom CSS. Generally this is done by adding a function to your theme’s function.php file. Second method includes editing siteroot-> wp-includes->css-> admin-bar.css file but I would not recommend you changing the core css files. As far I know there are no plugins available that allows you add custom color to wp admin bar.  Here I am discussing another method which easily customizes your wp admin bar without disturbing anything on your site.

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Technology, WordPress

How To Add TechCrunch Type Retweet Button In WordPress And Allow Tweets As Individual Comments ?

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Add a Twitter retweet button (similar to techcrunch) for your WordPress posts and archives that shows all tweets and enables retweeting. If you want you can also add adds tweets as comments and trackbacks.

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GNU/Linux, Google+, Social Media, Technology

Learn How To Use Google Plus. Complete Video Tutorials For Newbie Google Plus Users

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A collection of video tutorials on Google Plus. Easily learn more about everything on Google Plus like setting up your Profile, Sharing, exploring, about circles, reading and responding, broadcast your hangout to the world, hangouts on air, events, getting together, sharing your albums, content visibility, notifications, mentions, +1s, settings, tagging and much more.

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Technology, WordPress

Allow WordPress Commenters To Select Comment Avatar Manually Or Use Custom Avatars Stored In Your Website

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Some people don’t use Gravatar, some don’t use Twitter and there are some who don’t use Facebook also and when they leave comment on your blog they leave a mystery man image (or your site’s default avatar) in their comment which sometimes does’t look nice. But you can allow them to choose their comment avatars manually by selecting a avatar from their social profile, email or choosing it from a list of your site’s custom avatars. I know about few plugins that allows you to do so.

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Technology, WordPress

Bring More Traffic With More Comments By Auto-Syncing Your WordPress Blog Posts To Newsgrape

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Newsgrape Sync, a WP Plugin automatically syncs your WordPress posts to your Newsgrape.com account. Editing or deleting of any post also replicated and it also allows you to crosspost all existing posts to Newsgrape.com, Not only this much but the best part of this plugin is it also integrates the Newsgrape comments inside your WordPress posts.

Connecting to Newsgrape is good, it drives more traffic and engagement to your blog. It provides smart filtering and helps to find better content to its readers through charts, social media observation and subscriptions.

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Give Better Look To Your Food Recipes In WordPress. Automatically Create Google Recipe View

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If you are running a recipe blog, posting your food recipes in WordPress is easy now. You can get them automatically formatted in a better recipe and as per Google Recipe View.

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How You Can Hide Theme Editor From WordPress Dashboard ?

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If you like hiding WordPress theme editor from dashboard then all you need to is add a function in your theme function file.  Copy and paste the following code in your theme’s function.php file editing the username given in the following code to you own. Changing the username in the following code will make theme editor visible to that admin who’s username is written in the code:

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Technology, WordPress

Best WordPress Plugins For Maximizing Your Blog’s SEO

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SEO plays crucial role for online business websites as well blogs. SEO helps to get more traffic. Here are the best plugins for improving WordPress blog’s SEO. Other ways include like link exchange, subscribe RSS Feed that are more crucial parts under SEO. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a key tool to get more website visitors. The main goal for blog owner & SEO is to get traffic and appear in the first 5 pages of the search engine and maintain online posting and also repetitive visitors.

Check out the following WordPress plugins for improving your blog’s SEO. If you also know about any good SEO plugin for WordPress then feel free to mention it here.

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How To Display A ThankYou Button With Counter After Your WordPress Blog Posts ?

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Allow your readers to say thank you for your posts. You can add a ‘Thank You’ button to each of your post/page, counts and shows a total number of visitors ‘thanks’ (i.e. thank you counter) for post/page.

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Finally You Can Add WordPress.Com’s Like Button In Your Self Hosted WordPress Blog

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UPDATE: NOW JETPACK BY WORDPRESS.COM PLUGIN ALREADY PROVIDES YOU OFFICIAL WORDPRESS.COM LIKES MODULE SO THERE IS NO NEED OF USING THIS PLUGIN. 

You might have noticed a content like feature at the bottom of most WordPress.com’s blog posts. There is a “Like” button, which when clicked, displays a Gravatar image of the bloggers who liked that post. JetPack by WordPress doesn’t provide you with this feature but still you can have it for your self hosted WordPress blog.

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Encourage Comments By Rewarding Commenters To Build Backlinks More Effectively In Your WordPress Site

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Reward your WordPress site commenters by automatically adding a link to their latest post at the end of the comment they have posted. It Encourages a community and discover new posts.

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Android/Linux, Technology, WordPress

Free Ultimate Mobile Pack Plugins For Your WordPress Site

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Make your WordPress site mobile friendly so that your visitors from most popular mobile devices like iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre/Pixi and BlackBerry OS6 etc browse your site easily on their devices. Now no need to check each mobile plugin present in the WordPress Plugin Repository because here are the best plugins that convert your normal WordPress site in to a handset friendly site. Each plugin mentioned here has its own importance and unique features. If you also know about any cool mobile plugin for WordPress then feel free to mention it here.

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5 Best AuthorBox WordPress Plugins For Displaying Author’s Bio, Custom & Social Links After Posts

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Author box plugins expands user profile page by adding social media fields and makes it easier for readers to follow author on social media networks. Here is a list of top 5 WordPress plugins for displaying Author Box after posts, pages, widget areas etc wherever you like. If you only want to add a perfect cool author box after your posts then try Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup or read this tutorial for knowing about more plugins providing different types of customization.

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GNU/Linux, Google+, Technology, WordPress

Now Display Google’s Verified Authorship Using WordPress Plugin

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In one of my post, I discussed about how you can display your image and Google+ profile link in Google’s search results using WordPress hack. Here also I am discussing the same but suggesting you a more easy option for that, yes you can do same by using a plugin now.

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