Category Archives: Free Press

Organize Your Portfolio Projects In WordPress With Jetpack Custom Post Type Module

Now Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin provides you a new custom post type module called ‘Portfolio Projects’. The module is automatically enabled after Jetpack is updated. It allows you to use a unique portfolio content type so that you can organize your portfolio projects from a special section of your admin area dashboard.

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Give Unique Styles To Individual WordPress Posts & Custom Post Types

In this tutorial we will be showing you how you can easily use different template styles (like you theme’s page templates and other manually designed templates) with your single posts, custom post types and pages etc.

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Best E-commerce, Paypal Donation and Payment Plugins For WordPress

A part from popular eCommerce plugins like WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce and WP eCommerce which empowers you to sell anything online, beautifully and easily from your WordPress site. There are several other similar purpose plugins you can use for accepting payments, donations via PayPal etc, specially when you want to accept payments on a few products without transforming your complete WordPress site into an online store.

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Easily Extend Common WordPress Admin Functions

Slash Admin allows you to manage some common admin functions that every website owner probably needs in his website. The plugin allows you to add favicon, insert Google Analytics code, insert custom web fonts, add a login screen logo, fix login page links, enable home page redirect after login, exclude various admin menus for non-admin users.

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How To Use bbPress (WordPress Forums Plugin)?

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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How To Hide Sticky Footer Of Jetpack Infinite Scroll In WordPress?

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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How To Highlight New Posts For Returning Visitors In WordPress?

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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How To Edit Subdirectory Plugins & Theme Files From WordPress Admin Area?

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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How To Use Twitter Bootstrap Panel Widgets In WordPress?

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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How To Display Featured Videos In Place Of Featured Images In WordPress?

“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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How To Enable Under Construction Mode For Logged In WordPress Users?

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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Best WordPress Plugins To Add Responsive Mobile Menu

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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How To Use Background Music On WordPress Posts & Pages?

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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How To Use 3D Carousel Photo & Video Galleries In WordPress?

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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