Category Archives: Free Press

How To View Google Analytics From WordPress Dashboard?

You can easily view your Google Analytics Reports and Real-Time Statistics from your WordPress admin area Dashboard. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP provides you a dashboard widget you can set up in seconds and access Google Analytics data from your dashboard’s home section.

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How To Limit BuddyPress Group Creation To Site Admins?

By default all BuddyPress site users can create and manage groups. But many network administartions, specially those running social networks of small company, college or school don’t want members on their website to be able to create their own groups, but rather just participate in the ones created by the admin or superadmin.

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Why Your BuddyPress Site Network Is Showing 404 Error On ‘Create A Site’ Option?

BuddyPress default theme (BP-Defaut) is retired. Hence all its child themes are abandoned by the developers. Today one of our reader emailed us asking that his frontend ‘Create a Site’ option present on his BuddyPress based multisite network is showing page not found error.

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Top 5 Currency Converter Plugins For WordPress

When you start doing business online through you website, you have to deal with different countries. Specially while doing business online many a times your product’s cost confuses your customers. Every country has its own currency and not all people are familiar with online currency convertors and they also increases unnecessary steps.

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How To Use Images Uploaded Via FTP In WordPress?

WordPress media library allows you to upload and insert images from your computer’s hard drive. Or from your media library, the images which you have saved in media library thru ‘Add Media’ button. But by default it doesn’t allows you to use or access any images uploaded manually to your server’s hosting directory.

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Enable Users To Join Groups From Registration Page In BuddyPress

You can easily enable your site visitors to select and join groups (from the areas of their interest) at the time of registration. This way you can easily classify your users into different groups and build better group discussion forums etc. BuddyPress Registration Groups is a free plugin that enables you to allows new BuddyPress users to select groups to join during the registration process.

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How To Hide Entire Media Library Menu From WordPress Admin Area Dashboard?

WordPress media library contains all images, videos, recordings and files which you have uploaded and used inside your posts, pages, post types etc. Media is typically uploaded and inserted at the time of creating/editing content and the admin media menu (Dashboard -> Media) lets to access those files in bulk, it also allows you to upload media files through Dashboard -> Media -> Add New page but that is hardly used by bloggers.

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How To Move WordPress Comments Between Posts?

Tako Movable Comments lets you easily move comments between posts in your WordPress site. It allows you to move comments from one post, or page to another. The plugin also works across custom post types. So now admins no longer needs to manually insert the content ID number for moving comments.

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How To Schedule Themes In Your WordPress Site?

Till now we have only discussed about scheduling posts and other post types in WordPress. In this tutorial we will show you how you can schedule themes by adding their activation and deactivation dates from the admin area. WP Scheduled Themes is a free WordPress plugin that enables you to schedule themes to display on the live site. The plugin can be used for holidays or special events.

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How To Use & Extend WordPress Visual Editor?

WordPress provides you two kinds of editors (Visual & Text)  can be used for creating or editing content inside your posts, pages and other custom post types. Text editor works like a normal HTML editor, with text editor you can manually insert formatting tags, paste content from other websites and no formatting will be included.

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How To Create & Assign Nutrition Charts In WordPress?

You must have seen various recipes and food blogs out there on web showing up nutrition level and vitamins chart. In this tutorial we will show you how you can easily create nutrition facts labels that includes vitamins and use them inside your posts, pages and other custom post types via shortcode.

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How To Redact Text In Your WordPress Site?

Redacting text means to black out some text or words for other purposes like in law, when legally protected sections of text are obscured in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process or whatever. In WordPress post, it simply means you are blacking out a word which you don’t want to write or may be your want your visitors to use their brains and guess at word’s identity etc.

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How To Block Comments On Site By Site Basis In WordPress Multisite Network?

There are many ways of disabling comments in WordPress like you can enable the option (in Settings -> Discussions page) that users must be registered and logged in to comment on your website. Another option in Settings -> Discussions page allows you to automatically close comments on articles older than ‘x’ number of days.

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How To Remove Default Dashboard Widgets In WordPress?

WordPress dasboard shows you a lot of information about your website and WordPress news, plugins etc. The information is divided into various dashboard widgets which a user can drag, reorder or hide using screen options button. Many a times people like hiding the dashboard widgets (specially the news and welcome panel) from their websites. In this tutorial we will show you how you can easily disable the dashboard widgets globally for all users on your website.

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How To Manage Pending Account Activations In BuddyPress?

Now you know how to disable the email activation step in BuddyPress. Sometime back we have also discussed about resending the user activation links or manually activating the user accounts in WordPress/BuddyPress multisite networks. This tutorial is about a similar plugin called BuddyPress Pending Activations plugin.

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Top 5 Plugins To Create Hidden Premium Content In WordPress

WordPress core function allows you to password protect a post, page or any custom post type. You can easily do so from the ‘Publish’ metabox visible at the time of writing new or editing any WordPress post. From post edit screen just click ‘Edit’ from the ‘Visibility’ section of ‘Publish’ metabox and that will show you up options to make private content. You can either password protect the post or make it visible only for logged-in users etc.

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How To Use Built-In WordPress Video Player?

WordPress 3.6+ versions provides you built-in video feature that enables you to embed video files and play them. It provides you a shortcode you can use for embedding videos uploaded to your website’s media library. You can control the player size, set initial image, enable autoplaying, loop video and more.

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How To Set Up Forums In BuddyPress?

BuddyPress Forums are retired by its core team developers but that doesn’t mean you cannot use it. You can easily enable the group forums or the sitewide forums in your BuddyPress powered WordPress site. In this tutorial we will show you step by step instructions for enabling forums in BudyPress.

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How To Use BP-Default Theme In New BuddyPress Updates?

With the successful rollout of ‘Theme Compatibility’ in BP 1.7, the BuddyPress core development team has taken a decision to officially retire default bundled theme from the core application. And now BP 1.9 users are noticing that listing of default BuddyPress theme (bp-default) has been removed from the dashboard’s Appearance -> Themes screen (although it will still appear if you currently use the theme and updated the BuddyPress from the older version)

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How To Separate Media Uploads By Users In WordPress?

By default, all uploads and media files are accessible to all registered users on a WordPress site. This sometime creates copyright issues on multi-author websites. The reason is when any author uploads any image file, it becomes accessible for all other authors and they can easily reuse it from ‘Add Media’ button.

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