You must have observed this type of feature on many websites. By default, WordPress allows you to select taxonomy terms one by one, even if you select any parent taxonomy, you have to select other child taxonomy terms one by one. This is good for most WordPress users but sometimes you need more options.
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Now you can add a fast and responsive launcher bar similar to application launcher buttons in various operating systems. WP Start bar automatically add a Windows like launcher bar with a start button you can use for visiting various sections of your website. This way you can control your website just like you control your operating system.
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Now you can easily set up Chrome to fetch and show you the news on topics you like. There is no need to visit Google News and click same Filters every time when you can read them in just one click right from your Chrome’s home.
Step-1 First thing you need to do is visit Google Web Store and add News You Like app in your Chromebook or on simple Chrome web-browser.
Step-2 As soon it installs, you will see its icon on your Apps page and also on your desktop app launcher (if you are using it). Click the icon and it will redirect you to a news on various topics with tabs as filters. By default it shows you news on some predefined topics including your country, Google and Chrome etc. NEXT step is to add your favourite news topics.
Step-3 Click the ‘Settings’ button, you will see a lightbox over lay with various text fields. Now type names of news categories you like and click the ‘Save’ button.
That’s all. Now you can read your favourite news anytime by clicking News you like icon from the apps page or directly from your desktop app launcher.
Quick Notes provides you the easiest & quickest way for taking notes in Chrome. Great for Chromebook users. it is as quick and slick as the best desktop note-app. It is designed for lightweight note-taking. You can use it as a simple notepad, scratchpad, clipboard or for making your Todo lists.
Its very easy. Add Quick Notes in your Chrome browser. It will automatically add its launch icon on Chrome.s app page. As soon you click that icon, you will see you note page where you can type your notes. You can add notes from any web page by using its right click menu option.
Kindle Cloud Reader allows you to read Kindle books right inside you Google Chrome browser.Great for Chromebook as also programmed to work offline. It is an official web app from Amazon that lets you read your Kindle books, instantly. Not only this much but customize the look font and also you can write notes, make highlights and add bookmarks. Then you can view all of your notes etc from other Kindle reader apps too.
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Zoho Docs is an online cloud based document management web service provides you all features and services you get in other online and offline office suites like MS Office, Libre Office and cloud based Google Docs etc. You can start using the service for creating documents in seconds.
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By default, for switching any video to HD mode you have to click settings icon (present at the right bottom side of playing video) and then you can set video Quality to HD. This tutorial shows you you how to turn all YouTube videos to play automatically in HD mode.
Step-1 Install Auto HD For YouTube™, a Google Chrome app.
Step-2 Now a small HD icon will come visible in the address bar on YouTube video pages where the extension can act.
Step-3 Check it by playing any YouTube video.
That’s all about its working. Auto HD For YouTube™ is one of the best ways to make video watching experience awesome. It also allows you to customize the video quality and size of playing video to ensures that you get the right settings on all your YouTube videos.
Faster Video Loading: Videos stream faster because you will no longer need to change quality settings.
Auto HD: All videos viewed on YouTube will automatically load in HD. No need to manually change it every time you watch a video.
Auto Widening of video: Videos load automatically in in the wide mode settings, making it easier to watch videos on larger screens.
Completely Customizable: You can set the quality of video to load in and the size settings and it will be loaded accordingly each time.
Google Tasks Offline is a Chrome app that allows Chromebook and general Chrome users to use a cool offline task manager that syncs up with Google Tasks. It works both offline and online as a Google Task Client which is unaffiliated with Google.
Hotkeys: For scrolling and editing
Autosyncing: All your actions are auto-synced to your Google Tasks.
Provides Subtasks: Works just like Google tasks, tab and untab to set the level.
Manual One Click Sync: You can press sync once only to force a sync manually.
Multiple List With Easy Management: You can create multiple to do list on the same page. Filter system on the lower left will allow you to concentrate on one list
Access Everything Without Active Connection: There is no need of internet connection to edit your tasks, you can do so offline and they will get synced next time you are connected to Internet.
Install its Chrome Extension here, it will automatically adds a new bookmark on your Chrome’s App Page which when clicked directs you to the Offline Task Manager.
You can automatically set and display a default Post Thumbnail image (featured image) either the first image attached to a post or you can set default images as thumbnails for specific categories, tags, custom taxonomies etc. Also you can exclude certain posts. Supports custom fields to ease upgrading.
First install and activate Default Thumbnail Plus plugin then follow the given steps:
Step-1 After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Default Thumb Plus page.
Step-2 Now first it will ask to set default thumbnail that will be loaded if the post has no featured image set.
Step-3 Now click ‘Add Filter‘ button, upload image and use dropdown to set selected image as featured thumbnail of posts from any specific category, tag posts etc.
Use image attachment if available: Automatically use the post’s first available image attachment for the thumbnail. This is useful for older posts that haven’t got a featured image set.
Automatically use first embedded image, use embedded image if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded image for the thumbnail. This is useful if you embed external images.
Automatically use first embedded video, use embedded video thumbnail if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded video for the thumbnail (YouTube only).
Custom field: Enter a custom field key here, it’s value if set will become the default post thumbnail for that post. The custom field value can either be an Attachment ID, or a link to an image.
Excluded posts: List of posts to be ignored by this plugin. Comma separated e.g. 10, 2, 7, 14
Cache and resize external images: Automatically resize, crop and cache external images & video thumbnails. Recommended option, however doesn’t work with some server configurations.
Enable or disable plugin hooks (for developers only): Filter post_thumbnail_html    Filter get_post_metadata
Google teamed up with nGenx for launching a solution for Chromebook & Chrome OS users to access any desktop app still requiring Windows through the web. nFinity Browser provides you an IE8 user experience, settings, & accessibility; browsing without any limitations.
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Facebook Quick Links and YouTube Quick Links are two popular webpages people use for quickly accessing various features and sections of Facebook and YouTube. You can set these pages as home page, new tab page, default page in order to get  to news feed, messages, calendar, events, photos, search, pages and videos etc in just one click. In the same way YouTube Quick Links page provides you direct links to popular videos, news, music, sport, games, movies, tv shows etc.
Facebook links to news feed, messages, calendar, events, photos, search, pages and videos. One click Facebook links right from your web browser.
Youtube links to popular videos, news, music, sport, games, movies, TV shows. Facebook and twitter.
You can change text color of your WordPress site to whatever you like, few months back we discussed how you can change text selection color by editing style.css or by adding the css to Jetpack’s Edit CSS editor etc. But now you can do this more easy, without digging inside your theme files etc. Now you can do this with an easy to use WordPress plugin.
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WordPress 3.7 release is set to update its installation automatically without any user input. Soon after its release, many new plugins came in the free market and we have already discussed about them earlier:
This article explains you how you can turn-off WordPress automatic updater without using any plugin.
All what you have to do is open your website’s wp-config.php file and add the following code:
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );
wp-config.php file is located in your WordPress site’s root directory. This file cannot be accessed or edited from the admin area dashboard. For editing wp-config.php file you will need to visit your site’s file manager via cPanel or FTP.
There are many admin area themes but only a few gives your dashboard a clean classic style that can be used for a longer duration of time. This article list three WordPress plugin that enables a beautiful dashboard themes as soon you activate them. Following are the most popular and best admin area themes you must give try.
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With brand new WordPress Canvas Shortcodes plugin you can quickly insert Accordion, Tabs, Toggle, Columns, Testimonials, Borders, Buttons, Full Width, Notifications, Google Maps, Social Icons, Progress Bars, Pricing, Highlights, Custom HTML, Code etc in your website pages using its fast shortcode generator.
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Muki Tag Cloud is the new new WordPress tag cloud plugin that allows you to display creative, beautiful and colourful tag cloud. Install and activate Muki Tag Cloud plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Muki Tag Cloud page.
Now from the options page you can set you tag cloud widget’s width, height in percent or pixel. You can set Tag Cloud to display random or order them by article, you can set smallest & largest font size and color scheme. It shows you real time tag cloud preview.
Finally, you can add the widget to sidebar or any other widget area from Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page.
Yes now you can easily convert your Google Chrome home (i.e. new/empty) into an iOS 7 home by following few simple steps given here:
Step- 1 First of all open your Google Chrome browser, click wrench (customzie & control) menu present on the top right corner of Chrome, now click ‘Settings’
Step-2 On settings page scroll to ‘On Start Up’ sub-section and select radio button: Open a specific page or set of pages.
Step-3 Now click ‘Set pages’ button and add this URL – http://www.ios7home.com/
This is an awesome fun website that brings IOS 7 to your chrome, a customizable website with IOS 7 having style, App Store, Games, and a lot more. It gives you a feeling like you are using one of Apple devices not just a Chrome browser or Chromebook.
Looks even more nice when your Chrome is on fullscreen mode, Press F11 for fullscreen and enjoy working new Apple environ. As a starter, simply click and hold on a second on any app icon then let the fun begin.
You can also try IOS 7 Home Chrome App
It lets you enjoy all what you used to do on IOS 7 devices. Like you get multiple screens and you can navigate through them using keypad or mouse, you can enter app edit mode, you can activate apps by clicking, hold on and move apps between screen pages, reorganize or delete any app then double click or ESC and deactivate edit mode.
It also offers you customization options and settings, click the settings icon and explore IOS 7 home settings, change wallpaper, export and import settings and also you can add any website you want to your iOS7 Home.
IOS 7 Home also offers you an App Store where you can find all popular sites from all categories like games, social, news and others.
Using the app store you can install whatever apps you like adding to your iOS Home.
Snippez is a website snippet collector that a lets you save website snippets and organize them. You can use the service by logging in with your Google account (no seperate Registration). The website will ask you to login with your Google Account. Click the button ‘Login with Google’ allow permissions. This will login you to Snippez dashboard where you can add, edit & organize your collections.
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You can display any feed content as your own post content in your WordPress site. Virtual Posts is the new plugin that can publish virtual posts from any feed and instead of creating post copies it creates it’s own “virtual” posts and shows the feed content as a post.
First install and activate Virtual Posts plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings->Virtual Posts and add your feeds. You can set maximum number of items to show for each feed.
From the ‘General’ tab you can set minutes between cron jobs to fetch feeds. Default fetch interval time is 20 minutes.The plugin also provides you a widget for displaying virtual posts in your sidebar.
MFS Campaigns is the powerful, easy and till now best WordPress plugin for randomly displaying campaigns with custom links on the top of your WordPress site. It provides you the best way of creating multiple campaigns from admin area dashboard and that’s all. Rest is done buy the plugin itself. It will be displaying campaigns randomly on your website. It gives a neat display and is not at all disturbing, your visitors may hide the campaign box by clicking small x button. Just like old Wikipedia’s begging messages.
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Easy Media Download provides you the easiest way to add downloadable media file buttons. This is the new WordPress plugin that activates an easy shortcode button that offers file download to your readers, your readers can download digital media files from your website. It instantly starts the download once the button is clicked.
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