Category Archives: Free Press

Google Ventures Startup Has Chosen WordPress For Website

Netizens often make mistake of classifying WordPress as blogging platform or just content management system. While you can still use one click WordPress install to start your own website or go for Managed WordPress hosting, now it can be programmed to work as fully functional startup system or smartphone app.

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Best WordPress WooCommerce Plugins To Customize Payment Options & Related Features

WooCommerce is a free plugin to transform any WordPress website into eCommerce based online store with all important features such as product browsing, payment options and shopping cart etc.

Since it is the most popular eCommerce WordPress plugin so there are tons of addon plugins available to extend its default functionality.

In this article we have handpicked some of the best WooCommerce plugin that will enable you to extend and customize payment options and other related features on your WordPress WooCommerce website.

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How To Modify YouTube oEmbed URLs In WordPress?

With oEmbed you can automatically embed any YouTube video simply by pasting its URL in post content. Unlike to default iframe embed code, oEmbed is easy, responsive but there are no visual options to reset custom values such as hiding YouTube logo, show info etc.

In this lesson you will learn about assigning custom parameters to YouTube video oEmbeds in WordPress.

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How To Pass Default Value For Any Custom Field Across All WordPress Posts?

WordPress provides ability to post authors for assigning custom fields to any post, page or custom post type. This arbitrary additional information is called meta-data which may include bits of information.

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How To Fix Image Gallery From Appearing Below Related Posts Column In Rowling WordPress Theme?

Rowling is a popular WordPress theme with is a clean, simple and elegant magazine layout for WordPress websites. Theme features a responsive design, great typography, two menu locations, social menu support, custom accent color support, custom logo support, gallery post format support, editor style support, a Flickr widget and recent posts and recent comments widgets with thumbnails.

The problem comes when you embed image galleries inside your post content, by default they show up after related posts section column leaving empty space on the top.

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How To Display Videos Using Grid Layout In WordPress?

Video Grid provides you a new beautiful and responsive way of displaying videos on your WordPress site with lightbox overlay effect.

You can add any number of videos from admin panel then display them anywhere inside your posts, pages and other cutom post types via shortcodes.

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How To Scan Your WordPress Themes For Threats?

Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) allows you to easily scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. The plugin searches source files of every installed theme for any signs of hidden malicious code or injection etc.

And if such code is present on your WordPress theme, the plugin will display you the path to that specific theme file, the line number, and snippet of the suspected code to be removed.

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What Are WordPress Transients? How To Manage Them?

WordPress Transients works like a basic built-in cache system used by WordPress core and theme. Transients API is used by theme developers, it offers a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a time-frame after which it will expire and be deleted.

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How To Add BuddyPress Menus On WordPress Navigation?

By default BuddyPress menus such as personal activity, notifications, profile, settings and messages are automatically added to WordPress admin bar.

But now there is no need to stick with WordPress admin tool bar on frontend just because it shows BuddyPress networking menus. Because now you can easily add BuddyPress’s personal and account menu items to any menu location using built-in WordPress navigation settings.

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Enable Gmail Hotkeys & Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Gmail is now the most used emailing service but custom keyboard shortcut and hotkeys support is rather an unknown feature of Gmail.

This is because by default Gmail keeps it disabled. But if you spend most of your time in reading and writing emails then you can easily enable it for quicker navigation between inbox, drafts, contacts, tasks and other important sections on Gmail.

You can not only activate keyboard shortcuts but also create your own custom ones to compose, send, search emails and much more.

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Configuring WP Super Cache Plugin To Speedup Your WordPress Website

WP Super Cache is a popular and featured cache plugin, officially developed by WordPress core programmers and Automattic team. The plugin can be used everywhere such as on shared hosting plans, VPS and dedicated servers.

It powers WordPress with a very fast caching engine that produces static HTML files to better your loading time and reduce resource usage.

When HTML files are generated, your webserver starts to serve those files instead of processing PHP queries. Hence, less resources are used and website loads faster than before.

These static files are served to majority of your visitors, but when a user’s details are shown in the comment form, as they leave a comment then in that case requests are handled by the legacy caching engine.

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Limit Users Access To Their Respective Website In WordPress

A few hours back, we have discussed about automatically redirecting users to their specific website, as soon they login to your WordPress multisite network.

But once a successful login is made, it won’t get called again with that code and thereafter if any user attempts to get access to other’s website, he will easily get it.

So how to enforce redirection to logged-in user’s respective website? In this lesson you will learn about getting this job done with an easy PHP function.

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How To Login Redirect WordPress Users To Their Subsite?

You can automatically redirect users to their respective sub-site after login in your WordPress multisite network. This can easily be done either by adding some code in your theme’s function.php file or via Code Snippets plugin.

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