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WordPress

New Admin Screen Shortcode Lister For WordPress

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It is ofcourse not easy to remember all shortcodes you have active in your WordPress installation unless they provides you shortcode generator etc. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that simply displays a list of all the shortcodes available for use on the post and page edit screens.

Install and activate Edit Screen Shortcode Lister plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically starts displaying all active shortcodes your WordPress site has.It produces a clean, easily accessible list of all the custom/third party added, and WordPress default shortcodes that you are able to use inside your posts and pages. This way you can easily use your shotocodes by copying them right from the post edit screens. Now it is no more  difficult to remember them all.

WordPress

WPMS Admin Reports: New Reporting Tool For WordPress Multisite Administrators

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WPMS Admin Reports is the brand new WordPress plugin made for multisite networks. It provides you a reporting tool accessible by multisite administrators. It gives you three reports and a dashboard that gives you a quick snapshot view of the health of your WordPress Multisite installation. All of the tables are client-side sortable using jQuery and tablesorter. It includes graphical indicators (smiley faces) to help easily identify problem sites, users and plugins.

Install and activate WPMS Admin Reports. After activation you may access the reports from network admin dashboard.

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 1Dashboardwpms-admin-reports screenshot 2Site Reportwpms-admin-reports screenshot 3User Report

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 4Plugin Report

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 5Help Tab

Dashboard – provides charts displaying multiple factors from the other three reports in a graphical way using radar and pie charts.

Site Report – Detailed information about each site in your installation like Errors, ID, Status (Up/Down), Last Post, Last Update, When Created, Current Template, Number of Users and lists the Primary Administrator.

User Report – Gives you detailed information about each user in your installation.

Plugin Report – Lists all installed plugins and provides information about each one. Includes information such as Name, Upgradeability, Status, Activation Site-wide, Total Number of Blogs that use it and a list of those blogs.

WordPress

New Restaurant Menu Manager Loaded With jQuery Accordion & Tabs For WordPress

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Restaurant Menu Manager is the brand new WordPress plugin you can use for creating beautiful restaurant menu in your WordPress site, you can easily group different menu items like Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Desserts, etc. You can also group entries with entry tags or Vegetarian, Sandwiches, Salad, Soups, etc. and then finally display them using a list or jQuery based accordions or tabs.

The plugin uses default WordPress functionality of custom post types, taxonomies, and custom meta fields and lets you easily import and export all your data. The plugin provides you following main features:

  • Add images or even a full gallery for each of your menu entries.
  • Set a featured image or entry thumbnail.
  • Allow visitors to leave comments below each entry.
  • Use other WordPress plugins with your Restaurant Menu Entries.
  • Translation Ready.

Install and activate Restaurant Menu Manager. After activation the plugin adds a new post type in WordPress admin section. Using this new post type you can create your restaurant menu entries, types and add tags etc.

restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 1Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery accordion tabs.restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 2Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery tabs.restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 3Restaurant menu displayed in simple list.restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 4Add New Restaurant Menu Entry screen.

restaurant-menu-manager screenshot 5All Restaurant Menu Entries Screen.

How to display the menu on your site in simple list?

[rm-menu]

Displaying restaurant menu in a jQuery accordion with collapsible tabs for different menu types, use

[rm-menu display=’accordion’]

For displaying your menu in jQuery tabs, then add this shortcode:

[rm-menu display=’tabs’] Learn more about shortcode usage.

WordPress

How To Create An RSSJS Feed For WordPress?

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RSS, or “Really Simple Syndication” is a format for distributing and gathering dynamically generated content from sources across the Internet, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. RSSJS, or “RSS To Javascript“, allows you to display this content within your own web pages and to do so without having to possess any XML knowledge or skills. RSSJS will take ANY RSS feed and create a very simple Javascript that can be coded into ANY HTML document. The resulting Javascript output can be manipulated using CSS and even scrolled as we have done in the “News Headlines” example. – Source

Recently WordPress.org has launched a new plugin called RSSJS. The new lightweight WordPress plugin simply creates an RSSJS feed for your WordPress site. All you will be needing to do is install and activate it.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Box: Another Web Service Providing 10GB Of FREE Cloud Storage

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Box provides you free 10 GB cloud storage and makes it easy for you to access and edit files, share content, and stay connected with your team from anywhere on any device. It works with your Google Account. You can install it its Chrome App from Web Store. First it asks you to provide required permissions and then you create your Box account passwords and you are redirected to your Box cloud accountwhere you can use your space, manage your files etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ZsF1xx2bc

Important Feature:

  1. Put any kind of file online, then share it with just a link
  2. Invite others to share an entire folder of files
  3. Collaborate via comments and task to get things done
  4. Get Box Sync to keep your computer files synced to the cloud
  5. Take your files on the go with Box for Mobile for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows
  6. Plus, Box OneCloud is our ecosystem of apps where you can annotate, e-sign and do more with your favorite productivity apps.
  7. With Box OneCloud apps, you can open and edit Box files with other apps installed on your device
  8. Save content directly to Box from more than 50+ compatible apps
WordPress

Amplify: Icebreaker For WordPress User Engagement

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Amplify is the brand new WordPress plugin that lets you presents your human face to your website users. The plugin is designed to encourage visitors to engage with you.

[quote cite=”Getamplify.com” url=”http://www.getamplify.com”]

People want to connect with real people and not brands. Brands are not people. But brands are made by people. So why not use a real person from your company to represent your brand.

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Install and activate Amplify plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Amplify admin page and enter your API key. You can easily obtain your free API key by registering your account at Getamplify.com

amplify screenshot 1

Amplify -Feedback widgets, contact us forms etc are seen by your users as one-way conversations. Users after filling up a form are not even sure if they will receive a reply. But with Amplify Connect these feedbacks are turned into conversations and stored in a personalised user-inbox for every user.

amplify screenshot 2

Pro-active User Engagement-Less than 0.5% users on any site submits a feedback or fill up a contact form. So instead of waiting for users to contact you, why not greet them with a custom message when then pay you a visit.

amplify screenshot 3

Easy and yet powerful customer support-Easily assign these conversations and support requests to team members. Use email forwarding to centralised your support queries via Amplify Connect.

amplify screenshot 4

additional marketing channel-An additional marketing channel

WordPress

Optimizing Your Image Size Via TinyPNG API In WordPress

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TinyPNG for WordPress lets you connect your WordPress site with Tinypng.com API so that you can easily optimize/reduce size of your PNG files on the go. TinyPNG uses a smart lossy compression techniques for reducing PNG file size by selectively decreasing the number of colours in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. Effect made by the service is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference optimizing your PNG files.

[quote cite=”TinyPNG” url=”https://tinypng.com/”]

PNG is useful because it’s the only widely supported format that can store partially transparent images. The format uses compression, but the files can still be large. Use TinyPNG to shrink images for your apps and sites. It will use less bandwidth and load faster.

How does it work? When you upload a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file, similar colours in your image are combined. This technique is called “quantisation”. Because the number of colours is reduced, 24-bit PNG files can be converted to much smaller 8-bit indexed colour images. All unnecessary metadata is stripped too. The result: tiny PNG files with 100% support for transparency. Have your cake and eat it too!

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 Installation & Usage:

Install and activate TinyPNG for WordPress plugin. Upon activation visit your Dashboard -> TinyPNG admin page and enter your email and API key to connect with TinyPNG.

Now you can upload the PNG file using its uploader. As soon as the uploading finishes, the plugin will connect to the TinyPNG API and get you the Optimized image. (The files uploaded and optimized are saved in the TInyPNG folder in the main WP media folder. For eg – /wp-content/TinyPNG )

How to obtain your API key?

If you haven’t made one yet, you can visit this link to make one – https://tinypng.com/developers

WordPress

New jQuery Based Horizontal Timeline For WordPress

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Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin provides you a simple and handy shortcode that displays jQuery powered horizontal timeline in your WordPress site. Timeline displays dates and time which when clicked shows the posts with excerpts (under the timeline) published on that particular date without page any refresh.

How To Use Horizontal Timeline Shortcode?

MLR-Timeline-screenshot

Install and activate Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin. After activation the plugin enables a shortcode you can use inside your posts, pages, text widgets and other shortocde supported areas of WordPress.

[ml_timeline] is the default shortcode that will display all posts.

category_name=”Your-category-slug” -> [ml-timeline category_name=”Your-category-slug”] will display posts from a specific category.

WordPress

How To Set Featured Image From WordPress Admin All Posts View?

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Now you can view and edit your post’s thumbnails directly from All Posts list (Dashboard -> Posts -> All Posts) present in WordPress admin area dashboard. Featured Image Admin Thumb lets you do this in a very handy way. Install and activate this new WordPress plugin and then follow few simple steps.

featured-image-admin-thumb-fiat screenshot 1Screenshot shows the Thumb column in the All Pages/Posts admin view and in this case a thumbnail is available and shown. There would be a blank space if no thumbnail was found for the post or page.

featured-image-admin-thumb-fiat screenshot 2If the column is not showing in your All Posts/Pages view this shows you where you can check to see that the “Thumb” column is selected to be displayed

Upon activation the plugin automatically adds a new column in admin section’s ‘All Posts’ & ‘All Pages’ view. This new column shows featured thumbnail image attached to the Post/Page. Other than this the posts which don’t have any thumbnail attached, the plugin displays ‘Set Thumbnail’ button you can use for adding thumbnail to your post in admin post list view.

WordPress

Evolution Social Sharing For WordPress: An Alternative To Popular Digg Digg Plugin

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Digg Digg is among the most popular free social sharing plugins available for WordPress sites. The plugin adds a floating bar with sharing buttons to your WordPress blog, just like Mashable. Now this tutorial is on another new WordPress plugin called Evolution Social Share. It is advertised that theb plugin is an alternative to Digg Digg that uses less code and loads much faster. Provides you fixed social share toolbar that is SEO friendly and customizable.

The plugin is designed for the bloggers who don’t like to use the content heavy and slow Digg Digg bar. This new bar only has the code required to create the fixed bar having sharing to increase page speed and less code. It contains only the necessary JavaScript for the buttons which is added to the Footer, not inside the content and hence gives you high performance and loading.

Install and activate Evolution Social Share plugin. Upon activation you can control its options, features and make customization from your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Evolution Social Share page.

BuddyPress, WordPress

BuddyPress Blog Avatar: Enable Site Admins To Upload Avatars For Their Blogs

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BuddyPress site owners now can easily enables their site admins site to upload and use custom avatars for their blogs. BuddyPress Blog Avatar is the new BuddyPress plugin by BuddyDev developers. The plugin simply activates a new admin section feature where site admins can upload blog avatar using backend settings options.

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This shows crop blog avatar screen screenshot-2.png

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Install and activate the BuddyPress Blog Avatar plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Blog Avatar page and upload blog avatar, crop it and save the changes.

WordPress

New Science Blog Helper WordPress App For Science Writers

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Science Blog Helper is the new WordPress plugin designed specially for science blog writer. Currently it provides you functions like LaTeX supporting and post outline generation. Simply install and activate it. Upon activation the plugin adds a new menu in admin sidebar. Visit Dashboard ->  SciBloger and choose your configuration mode and other options.

LaTeX Support

This function is realised by importing copy of MathJax, an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers, from their CDN Service.

Simply use \(…\) to wrap your in-line math or \[…\] to wrap your equations. For more info, please visit MathJax Homepage or Documents.

Outline Generation

Posts on science usually are long works. SciBloger will help you generate a useful outline as long as headers were set properly: making h3 the top level in your post; h4s, h5s, h6s follows by order.

Shortcode is also supported to generate outline more flexible:

[scibloger_outline show=”yes” right=”10px” top=”20%”]
Chromebook, Facebook, GNU/Linux, Homeschool

Facebook Chat Platinum: New Way Of Experiencing Facebook Chat In Chromebook

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Facebook Chat Platinum is a Chrome extension provides you a new cool way to experience Facebook Chat in Chrome or Chrome OS. As soon you install this extension, it adds a new bookmark in your Chrome Apps home from where you can access it. It provides you various chat themes and other features like:

  1. Facebook Chat Themes
  2. Boo the Dog
  3. Call of Duty
  4. Care Bears
  5. Cars: Audi, BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, Porsche
  6. Hello Kitty
  7. My Little Pony
  8. Obama: Forward
  9. Rilakkuma
  10. TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Facebook Platinum Chat 1

You can access options from Chrome’s extension settings (chrome://chrome/extensions/), in right-click menu from Facebook or in main Facebook Chat window settings menu.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Control All Your Web Privacy From One Dashboard In Chromebook

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Privacy Palette lets you control your online privacy to secure your web browsing experience. It is a Google Chrome extension created for Chrome and Chromebook to regain control over your web browser. Using this extension you can clear your private data stored on your computer or browser in just a second. Don’t let online firms to easily access your personal and private browsing habits.

Install the Privacy Palette extension from Web Store. Upon installation visit Chrome’s App Home, Click Privacy Palette button and you will see the one and only dashboard for protecting yourself against all unwanted tracking, malware and advertisements etc. It also speeds-up your browsing experience.

Present time extension update provides you control over following stuff:

Chromebook Privacy Dashboard

  1. Block Ads: Ads can be very annoying. Get rid of ALL online ads! enable
  2. AdChoices: Opt-out from online behavioral advertising. manage
  3. Browsing History: Remove the list of all your previously accessed websites. clear
  4. Cache: If you visit a website, Chrome stores it in the cache in case you come back later. Clear your cache to remove traces of that website. clear
  5. Cookies: Cookies are used to record your visits to a website. Delete cookies stored in your browser so companies cannot recall your previous activity. clear
  6. Data Storage: Clear other data that has been stored on your computer. clear
  7. Downloads: After finishing a browsing session, your download history remains on your computer. Clear this list now. clear
  8. Facebook Account: Manage your Facebook account settings and change Facebook’s ad settings, privacy settings and security settings manage
  9. Google Account: Manage your Google account settings and change Google’s ad settings, security settings and your data on Google manage
  10. Secure Browsing: Enable HTTPS for every website to browse more securely. enable
  11. PlugIn Data: PlugIns that you have installed might save data on your harddrive without you knowing this. Clear this data now. clear
  12. Tracking: Change Chrome’s privacy settings and tell advertisers that you do not want to be tracked manage
  13. Twitter Account: Manage your Twitter account settings. manage
WordPress

How To Add Subtitles To Your WordPress Site Widgets?

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Yes you can easily enable subtitles in all WordPress widgets like default WP widgets, widgets your theme provides you and widgets provided by plugins, hacks etc. Widget Subtitle is the new WordPress plugin that provides you easiest way of adding widget subtitles.

Simply install and activate the plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically adds a new subtitle field in all widgets. Visit Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page and use subtitle text field and add subtitles to your widgets.

widgets subtitle

All your website widgets keeps working in old way, the plugin doesn’t adds any subtitle to any widget by itself upon activation.

Widget Subtitle

WordPress

Easily Enable Selected Text Snippet Sharing In WordPress

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DX Share Selection is the new fork of WP Selected Text Sharer which is not updated since long. DX Share Selection simply activates snippet sharing feature that allows your visitors to share/search selected text from your site. They may select a snippet, search for it or share it on various popular social networks.

Install and activate the plugin then visit Dashboard -> Settings -> DX Share Selection and select your options like you can add Widget Title, Share Items, add custom buttons,set Border Color, Background Color, Title Background color, Hover Color, Text Color, Extra Class, Grep Element and other options including Bitly Settings etc.

How selected sharing works?

As soon your reader selects a text snippet in your website’s content like a post, page or custom post type, a popup comes from where sharing is done. Shared snippet also includes to that page thus increases site visibility and traffic.

Apart from sharing buttons you can also add custom buttons and search engines like Google, Yahoo etc or simply your site’s to the popup.

Features

  • Light weight, 4KB jquery plugin is required.
  • Various color/style and option arguments.
  • Automatic selected text truncation for Twitter.
  • Shorten the post link using Bitly.
  • Load the scripts either in header or footer.
  • Simple and light interface.
  • Template system for adding links to the popup.
  • No knowledge of coding required.
  • Integration with WP Socializer plugin
WordPress

Moving Posts From One Category To Another In WordPress

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Here’s a quick and handy style of moving your WordPress blog posts from one category to another. Move Posts is a very simple and lightweight plugin that lets you move all posts from one category to another. In other words we can say its like moving categories.

First of all install and activate Move Posts plugin and then follow the steps:

  1. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Move Posts page
  2. Use dropdown ‘From Category’ to choose the category you like to move
  3. Now use second dropdown ‘To Category’ and select category you like moving first category posts to.
  4. Finally click ‘Submit’ button and you are done.
Chromebook, Web Services

Easily Encode And Decode HTML Code On Cloud

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You can easily encode HTML on cloud to show it in the HTML pages a code instead of rendered HTML. You can decode HTML to convert it back to HTML code. Some had to convert HTML code to encoded HTML so that it can me shown as code in web page and it was difficult to convert to one by one thus this free cloud app.

Continue reading Easily Encode And Decode HTML Code On Cloud →

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Organize Your Web World By Creating Topics, Pages With Photos, Videos, Tweets, Documents & More

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Organize your world of web. Create categories and topic pages including photos, videos, sharings like tweets and also documents to keep your online life well organized and share anything with anyone at anytime.

This article is on a bookmarking cloud web service called Bundlr.com. You can start simply signing in with Facebook, Google or Twitter. Bundlr is build for online curation: clipping, aggregation and sharing web content easily. Using this cloud service you can cover real-time news, wrap up an event or build a page with the most relevant content on your favorite topic.

You may bookmark the service or install its chrome bookmarklet from web store. Other than from its homepage you can install other bookmarklets like may be if you are Android user or iTunes etc.

Using Bundlr browser button, you can clip content while web browsing and each bundle has its own public webpage which you can share with everyone.

WordPress

News Headline Ticker With Typing Style Slider For WordPress

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News Headline Ticker is the new typing style text slider for WordPress. It allows you to display your recent news headline as typing style slider on your website. The plugin is designed for online news websites. It adds a new post type you can use for creating news posts and then you can show them in a sliding typing style.

Install and activate the plugin then follow the given steps:

  1. Visit admin area dashboard and you will see a new post type is added.
  2. Click on the new menu item “News Headline” and create your head line news.
  3. Just copy and paste ” if(function_exists('newsHeadLineTkr')){headLinePost();} in the template code or [News-Ticker] in the post/page” where you want to display news head line.
WordPress

Create Special Content With New WordPress Light Shortcode Generator

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Light Shortcode is the new TinyMCE shortcode generator for WordPress sites. The plugin provides you shortcodes for Button, Icon, Box, Highlight, Divider, Toggle, Google Map, Accordion, Pricing Table, Tabs, and Grid etc.

light-shortcode screenshot 1Light Shortcode button

light-shortcode screenshot 2Example shortcode (Price Tables)

Simply install and activate Light Shortcode plugin. Upon activation it adds a new TinyMCE button in WordPress visual editor. You may use the button and insert special looking content while creating new or editing an old blog post, page or any other custom post type etc without painful of manual coding. Check out its Live Demo & Documentation.