Category Archives: WordPress

How To Make Your BuddyPress Site Full Of Content & Activity In One Click?

Yes, you can automatically generate lots of users, messages, friends connections, groups, topics, activity items – useful for testing purpose in your BuddyPress powered WordPress site. BuddyPress Default Data not only generates data for making BuddyPress look content full website but all imported users will have their avatars, displayed via Gravatar. All auto generated data can be removed in one click.

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How To Add Menu Locations On WordPress Admin Bar?

Not only on your theme’s header and sidebar but now you can use custom menus on your WordPress admin toolbar. Sometime back we have discussed about adding custom links to WordPress admin toolbar and now you can make things more easy by adding custom menus to your admin toolbar in a click.

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How To Show WordPress Admin Toolbar On Per User Basis?

Now WordPress provides you option to set frontend admin bar visibility on per user basis and also your users can themselves decide that whether they want to see admin bar on frontend or not. In this tutorial we will be explaining two things: First, how your users can set the admin bar visibility themselves and second, how you can enable or disable admin bar on per user basis.

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How To Show First Name & Last Name In BuddyPress Profile Above @username?

Today Canadadre, a SANGKRIT.net user asked us how to display first and last name in BuddyPress profile, above the @username as by default the profiles only shows @username. In this tutorial we will show you how to do so by following a few simple steps give here.

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How To Display Present Day Posts On Custom Areas In WordPress?

Today’s Posts is a free WordPress plugin that lets you display current day posts wherever you like in WordPress. You can either display posts vertically or horizontally with or without thumbnail, excerpt on your website. The plugin also enables you to limit the number of posts to display and display from specific category/categories.

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How To Use A Custom Background Image On WordPress Admin Bar?

In this tutorial we will show you how to set a custom background image on your WordPress admin bar. There are a lot of plugins available for customizing WordPress admin bar, new WordPress admin bar is also loaded with various color schemes you can choose from user profile page and also enforce it on the frontend of your website. Even you can set a default user color scheme for all users of your website:

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How To Switch Between WordPress Multisite Network Types (From Subdirectory To Subdomain)?

A subdomain based WordPress multisite network uses a prefix in conjunction with the domain name whereas a subdirectory based uses a suffix. For example, SANGKRIT.net is domain name where as System.SANGKRIT.net is a subdomain and SANGKRIT.net/System is a sub directory name.

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How To Add A Local Time Clock In WordPress?

If you are running a business or an online service where you provide live support everyday but for a limited period of time. Suppose you provide online support from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm (as per your location’s timezone) the you can display your support time with a local clock of your timezone which will display the same to all your website visitors.

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How To Batch Delete Spam Comments In WordPress?

Popular WordPress sites receive a large number of spam comments but most of them are stopped from getting published by plugins like Akismet and CAPTCHA. In this tutorial, we will show you how to quickly and easily batch delete spam comments in your WordPress site.

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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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