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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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How To Play Videos In Lightbox Overlay In WordPress?

Instead of embedding or oEmbedding videos inside your posts, pages, post types, widgets etc you can add video link or button and make your videos play inside a beautiful lightbox overlay on your website. There are various ways of displaying videos using lightbox overlay in WordPress.

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How To Use Custom Bullet Points In WordPress?

Both ordered and un-ordered lists can easily be inserted in WordPress posts and post types using visual editor. Default un-ordered list shows up old open and MS office days black pin points. In this tutorial we will show you how you can insert custom bullet (un-ordered list) points in custom colors on your WordPress site.

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How To Generate Sitemap For YouTube Videos In Your WordPress Site?

A sitemap is an XML page containing an hierarchical or un-hierarchical list of internal links of your website. These days sitemaps are only generated for search engines, to keep them updated about your website’s content like posts, pages, change in links, newly generated custom post types etc.

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How To View YouTube Analytics From WordPress Dasboard?

YouTube provides channel owners with analytics, stats and lets you monitor the performance of your channel, how your videos are performing, it gives you up-to-date metrics, reports and earnings data. The reports contains data for views, number of minutes watched, traffic sources, demographics and more.

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How To Auto Set Featured Images From Video Embeds In WordPress?

Specially when you are publishing video posts or running a video broadcasting website using WordPress. In general, you manually search related video thumbnails to set an image as featured post image. This tutorial is about an awesome WordPress plugin called Video Thumbnail. It  makes thing easier by automatically finding the first embedded or oEmbedded video in your post and generating a thumbnail from it.

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Best Modal Box Plugins For Your WordPress Site

Earlier we have discussed about the plugins to add modal box logins in your WordPress site. We ahve also posted a tutorial on showing your website members using a beautiful grid and modal box layout. Still there are more awesome things you can do by using modal boxes in your WordPress site.

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Top 10 Plugins For Customizing The New WordPress Admin Toolbar

New WordPress admin bar has new CSS, options and code. Hence all old abandoned plugins doesn’t works for it anymore. There are some useful hacks for customizing the behaviour of this new admin bar. For example: New versions (3.8+ versions) of WordPress provides you a new set of admin area themes and new visual changes. They provides you ability to select from eight different color schemes. However, the themes are not applicable on front end admin bar. Hence, by default the front end admin toolbar always shows its default color.

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Display Post Excerpts On Selected Page Types In WordPress

Posts excerpts are optional intro, summary or description of an article. It is a post summary added manually by post author. Post excerpts are generally shown on multi post pages like frontpage, blog page tags & categories archive pages etc. There are two ways of displaying post excerpts: Either you can add a more tag (<!–more–>) or use the Excerpts Metabox for displaying manually handcrafted excerpts.

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How To Stop Users From Accessing WordPress Dashboard?

You can easily disable all your website users (excluding the site administrators) from accessing your admin area dashboard. WP User Redirects is the new WordPress plugin which not only disables you website users from accessing the admin area dashboard but it also hides the admin toolbar and if a person tries entering the admin section by suffixing /wp-admin, the plugin automatically directs his to the home page.

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How To Export Commenters Email List From Your WordPress Site?

Whenever anyone comments on your website, the default WordPress comment forms ask him to fill-up his name, email and website link. This way your website automatically collects emails of your website commenters. In this tutorial we will show you how to export all those useful emails in a mailing list so that you can easily use them for promotional purposes.

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How To Mockup Device Images In WordPress?

‘Mockup’ term is generally used in manufacturing and designs, it is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, promotion etc. By mocking-up images in WordPress you can display them on poular computing devices, smartphones and tablets. For Example: You can generate an image showing the mobile version of your website inside Macbook Pro, Samsung Galaxy or Nexus.

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