Blogging network like WordPress.com provides you sub-domain addresses like http://example.wordpress.com but you can register a new custom domain with us, such as yourdomain.com and then map it to your existing WordPress.com blog. So that when your website visitors arrive, they will see your own domain name in their browser instead of something prefixed with WordPress.com which is your original website address.
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Most websites provides you a PinIt button so that you can easily pin images to your pinboard but there are many websites which doesn’t provides you any PinIt option. For example: If you are willing to pin any theme from WordPress theme repository or may be if you like pinning a Flickr image and there are many other popular websites that doesn’t offers any pinit button. Pinterest’s pinit button is generally popular among the blogging websites and not on social media and networking services.
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A few months backs we have posted a list of Top 3 Tabbed Widget Plugins. In this tutorial we will be showing you the usage of a new awesome tabbed widget which is very much different from last three tabbed widget. Widgets In Tabs can group any number of widgets into one tabbed and light widget which works beautifully with most WordPress themes. Unlike to other tabbed widget plugins, Widgets In Tabs is not limited to specific widget types but it allows you to add any widget in its animated tabbed display.
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Earlier we have posed a tutorial on searching and inserting free creative commons images directly from add new/edit post pages in WordPress. Now this tutorial is about inserting dreamstime stock images inside your WordPress blog posts, pages and other post type using same old ‘Add Media’ thick box. Dreamstime Stock Photos is a WordPress plugin which enables you to search and insert images into your content from Dreamstime’s vast database of Royalty-Free stock photos & illustrations.
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Now you can instantly preview any links on any website simply by hovering over to it. Works great for social media and networking sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google+, where you generally see new links and short URLs and don’t know here it is going to take you, special while searching topics on Twitter hashtags and Facebook groups. It also works as a big time saver as you don’t need to do anything for previewing any link, simply hover it and it shows the preview in an instant bubble box. The bubble is as clear that you can read the content inside it or view images in larger resolutions without opening them on new tab.
SwiftPreview is a simple Google Chrome extension designed to view a customizable preview of any link on internet. You can see the website behind the link before you actually click. All previews are fast and dynamic.
It allows you to pin the preview using control key and scroll preview contents when pinned (link previews). Another good feature of the extension is that you can watch YouTube videos in preview, you can use internet wide photo zoom, Facebook photo zoom, also works in Gmail and it prevents common file types from downloading on mouse hover.
SwiftPreview extension is very-very easy to use. Simply add it in your Google Chrome browser. As soon the extension is added, it automatically starts working but it also provides you a button on the top right corner of Chrome, you can click that button for turning the extension ON or OFF.
You can brand your website better on social media by creating your own customized short URLs. Your own Short URLs simply means you would be able to create short URLs with your own domain name.
To start first Register a short domain with us. Bit.ly is a free short URL service so sign up a Bit.ly account then login and click on the ‘Settings‘ present on dropdown menu of your username. From the settings page, click the ‘Advanced‘ tab. Follow the instructions and add your new registered small domain name.
Now you will be needing to set A Record or say DNS Host for your domain to point to bit.ly’s IP address.
If you have registered Domain with us then you will find A record is located under the “Total DNS” tab, simply login and add DNS record and point it to the IP 69.58.188.49 (which is Bit.ly’s IP).
In-case if you are using a sub-domain name then in that case you will be needing to set a CNAME record and then point it to cname.bitly.com
It takes from 2 to 24 to 48 hours for DNS changes to propagate. You will get know about successful DNS setup at the time you would be able to set your custom short domain as default domain in your bit.ly account settings. Once the process is finished, any URL shorten from your website will automatically use your new domain name. That’s all.
WordPress users may also give a try to WP Bit.ly plugin with which you can auto create short URLs for your posts, pages and other content types right from the admin area (on post edit screen). Assuming you have already configured your bit.ly account, install and activate WP Bit.ly plugin then navigate to Dashboard -> Settings -> WP Bit.ly page. Type in your Bit.ly Username, the API Key, select post types and save the changes. That’s it, you can check it by opening any post for edit and clicking ‘Get Shortlink‘ button.
Also read our tutorial on easily creating your own URL shortner webservice.
WordPress has the power to hold various types of content. An example of a single content is known as ‘Post’, although you should know that post is nothing but a specific post type present by default in WordPress just like ‘Page’ which is another kind of post type. In general post types provides same interface you get in posts and pages but they can be customized with different fields and use them for different purposes. For Example: ‘Media’ is also a post type but it has completely different features. Internally in database, all post types are stored at the same place i.e. in wp_posts table and they are differentiated by a column called post_type.
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You must have noticed various old days websites offering a link (on homepage) titled as ‘Sitemap’. That link directs the visitor to a HTML page offering all important links present on that website. A sitemap generally contains a hierarchical or un-hierarchical list of all links but these days adding any sitemap link for visitors is not of much importance. Today sitemaps are mostly generated in XML (not HTML) and their target is search engines (not website visitors).
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In this tutorial we will show you how you can automatically set some specific websites to open in incognito mode as soon their web address hits your browser’s address bar. For those who don’t know anything about incognito: The times when you need browsing the web without saving any history and information like login credentials, autofills etc you can use incognito mode in Google Chrome by clicking the wrench menu (present on the top right corner) and selecting ‘New Incognito Window’.
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Browsing internet in dark is bad for your eyes as it makes your eyes strain. Sometimes it causes eye fatigue, your eyes gets tired and could make it temporarily harder to focus etc. Now-a-days most internet browsing devices like laptops, smartphones and tablets provides you very easy shortcuts for dimming the screenlight. For example: Android’s screen light dimming feature is accessible from top notification bar, simply drag it and you can dim the screenlight.
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Earlier we discussed about removing category base slug and removing tag base slug from WordPress permalinks structure. Now this tutorial explains you doing same with custom taxonomies.
What is a taxonomy? A taxonomy is a way for grouping things together like in WordPress you can use a taxonomy for grouping articles from same topic together. Tags and categories are default WordPress taxonomies, there are also various plugins and hacks which enables you to register custom taxonomies as well.
By default taxonomies uses a base slug like a taxonomy with name ‘Topics’ would be looking something like this: http://yourdomain.com/topics/topic-name. Removing any taxonomy’s base slug means making it look something like this: http://yourdomain.com/topic-name.
WP No Taxonomy Base removes the base slug for both custom taxonomies and also the default WordPress like category. All you have to do is install and activate the plugin and you’re done.
In this tutorial we will show you how to quickly add a simple, good-looking and powerful AJAX chat room in your WordPress site. Earlier we posted a tutorial for WordPress site administrators, they can easily start chat rooms (with type & enter functionality) for registered their users to participate in by following URL of any particular chat room. Now this tutorial explains you how to create similar chat room but for unregistered WordPress users.
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With in a few clicks you can convert your WordPress posts or pages to some other custom post types and also you can do opposite of same i.e. you can convert any custom post type to posts or pages. Convert Post Types provides you the functions for converting posts and post types in WordPress.
This is not just limited to conversion but the plugin also enables you to limit the conversion to posts from a single category or children of some specific pages and vice versa. You can also assign new taxonomy terms (like tags and categories), which will get automatically added to the posts’ existing terms. This way you can migrate any specific category to a new post type without disturbing any other content.
To start, first install and activate Convert Post Types plugin. Take backup of you database before you start playing with this plugin or if you are sure about what you are doing then visit your admin area Dashboard -> Tools -> Convert Post Types admin page and choose the ‘Convert from‘ and ‘Convert to‘ post type options.
Select a category if you want limiting this conversion. You can add taxonomies to get auto assigned to your content after the post type conversion process. Finally, click the ‘Convert‘ button and wait for the process to complete, process time depends entirely on the amount of content you are converting.
Earlier we have discussed about Automatically No Following All External Links In WordPress. But that’s not useful everytime, specially if you are reviewing or writing tutorials on some good websites and services. In this tutorial we will explain you a very easy procedure of getting control over follow/no-follow link relationships.
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Before migrating your Joomla website to WordPress, first make sure you have a self hosted WordPress site. We recommend you SANGKRIT.net’s WordPress Hosting as it provides you easy one click WordPress installation and free database backups, (free backup is a limited time offer). Assuming you have a WordPress site, install and activate FG Joomla to WordPress, a free WordPress plugin to migrate Joomla website categories, posts, tags, images, media and other content to a WordPress.
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Tooltips or infotips are used for showing hints when a mouse pointer is hovered over specified keyword or icon. Earlier we have discussed about displaying traditional tooltips in WordPress but now-a-days tooltips are not just limited to simple hint texts but various websites use them for showing HTML rich content containing images and links in them. Tooltips are not the popups, they only appear when mouse pointer is hovered over some icon or keyword and disappears as soon the pointer goes away.
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Earlier we discussed about Alligator Popup plugin which enables you to insert simple links which displays simple popup scrollable windows when clicked by the user. Now today we will how you how to insert an instant popup link in WordPress. Anything Popup is a free WordPress plugin to display custom text or HTML content in to unblockable popup window using default WP text editor. Popup appears by clicking the text or used image button.
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Shortcodes are the special tags like [a-shortcode-ex] which replaces the tag with some other content on the frontend. By default shortcode usage is only limited to WordPress posts, pages and custom post types but there is a very easy function in WordPress called do_shortcode() which enables you to use any shortcode with in your theme files, the PHP template files.
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Inserting custom content after each post can be done by adding a simple function in your theme’s function.php file or if you don’t like editing in your theme files and avoid feature lost after updates then use the Code Snippets plugin. In this tutorial we will explain you adding custom contnet after each post or after posts from some specific category in WordPress.
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You can brand videos which you have posted or iframed in your WordPress site using a branding cover or a custom image overlay. This is workable for videos from popular video broadcasting websites like YouTube, Vimeo and Sceenr enabling compatibility for embed suppliers as well. Video Overlayer, is a free WordPress plugin which provides you option to overlay an image on each and every video on your website.
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WordPress has many breadcrumb plugins and we discussed about them in a tutorial. Breadcrumbs are not just limited to blogging sites but you can also use it in your BuddyPress network. You can adds breadcrumb trail navigation to your BuddyPress site simply by adding a line of code to your template.
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