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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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Tiled gallery is the an elegant way of displaying photo galleries in WordPress, the good thing about tiled galleries is, they automatically organizes all photos a responsive way that they appear all fixed inside your post without leaving any blank space.
Default WordPress galleries shows up images in columns, suppose you have five images assigned to three columns then it would be showing three images in first line and two in the second line leaving a blank whitespace in third column which doesn’t appears to be good. But this is not with tiled galleries. Tiled galleries automatically fixes up all images in a mosaic view that they don’t show up any blank space.
Posting YouTube videos in WordPress is easy whereas keeping them upto date is difficult. One can easily embed a YouTube video in WordPress simply by pasting its URL in a fresh line, you can also use the iframe embed and now a days there are many plugins that provides you responsive video embeds. But many a times it happens that the video which you have embedded years ago on your website gets deleted or removed by its admin. In such cases the video embeds present on other websites displays a black screen with message that the video is unavailable.
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Sticky parts of a WordPress site means the sections which sticks to their place and remains on their position even when the user scrolls. Sticky posts are different from sticky headers, footers, widgets and sharing buttons etc. Sticky posts sticks to the top of a multi posts page and remains on the top, no matter how many new post entries are made by other website users. In this tutorial we are sharing a list of some good plugins which you can use for making your website sections sticky and featured.
Creating premium content means creating the posts (or a part of it) and requiring your website visitors to pay in-order to read it. Content For Money is a free WordPress plugin that enables you to hide a section or entire content of your posts and pages to make them premium. The premium content can only be seen by website members whereas non members can read the hidden content only if they pay the set amount through PayPal.
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Swifty Page Manager is great option for WordPress sites having a lot of pages. With this new plugin you can very quickly and easily manage all your website pages using a powerful and user friendly AJAX interface. It displays how the pages in your website are positioned and related with each other so called page tree view of parent and child pages. You can create, edit, delete and manage other page settings like page name, status and more in a very intuitive way.
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By the late 19th century, “With the Season’s Greetings” and “The Season’s Greetings” quotes began appearing. Whereas by 1920s it had been shortened to “Season’s Greetings,” and has been used as a greeting card fixture. Now-a-days season’s websites are being used as online greetings, these websites exist in all known human cultures, helps people to come in contact and feel more close to each other on special occasions.
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