A few days back we have discussed about designing an easy admin area interface on your client websites. Today in this tutorial we are sharing some more good plugins that lets you simplify your admin area’s user interface. For example: Posts is a popular word in blogosphere but website owners who just migrated from old days 5 or 6 or whatever pages websites to WordPress and who don’t know the difference between posts and pages find it very confusing. Hence you can make things easy by changing the term ‘Posts’ to ‘Articles’ or ‘Blog’. Similarly there are various other plugin you can use to simplify WordPress admin UI.
Default WordPres post editor has a preview button on publish metabox but that opens up the post in a new tab. You can make this thing instant and then preview, edit or customize post very easily from an awesome preview screen that shows up on post admin page with a close button. Everything works very fast, you simply write your content then click ‘Preview’ button and it opens up a preview screen (without any page refresh) very much like WordPress theme customizer. It allows you to set featured image, add excerpt, edit your post content, use visual formatting buttons, all from its live post customizer screen.
If you are running a professional weblog or if you pay your authors for page views of if you write about your own products and you want to know what posts are performing better then here a good solution for you. You can now automatically get calculated amount on per post view and you can know the totals by date.
There are many ways of displaying your website authors, staff or team members in WordPress and we have discussed about them earlier also. Grid and modal layout is a cool new style of displaying your team/staff members. Great if you have a big team working for you and you want to display all members in a single page.
Now you know how to run chained quizes in your WordPress site. We have also talked about WPQuiz plugin which lets you create a quiz of one or more questions/answers and then display it on a post/page via shortcode. Still you can do much more, there are various other free quiz plugin in WordPress plugins repository which lets you run various other kinds of quizes from your website.
Now you know the difference between WordPress posts and pages. And we have already posted tutorial on writing your first blog post. Now let us create pages for showing up your timeless content. Just think what you want your visitors to know and access easily anywhere from your website, what static information you have. A page can be used for publishing your biography, your life story, about your website, information about the authors of your blogging site, contact information, résumé or CV, links to other websites you own etc.
There are many auto-sharing WordPress plugins but Jetpack plugin works best in auto-sharing your posts to all popular social networks. The best thing about the plugin is enables you to add custom hashtags and customize sharing text for each post you write. Publicize feature of Jetpack allows you to connect your website to your social accounts like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Path. Let us see how it works.
Suppose if we take a newspaper or magazine as a website then all of its articles are blog posts, advertisements are the Google Adsense, date & classified ads are the widgets where as editor’s note, table of contents and cover pages are the static WordPress pages. WordPress provides you both posts and pages you can publish from admin dashboard.
Chained Quiz means a quiz where the next question depends on the given answer to the previous question. You can run it into your WordPress site, you can chain the questions together in your style using Chained Quiz WordPress plugin. For Example: Suppose, Option-A is the right answer to a given question. So if the user selects Option-A, then you can set the next question of higher level. And if the user selects Option-B which is the wrong answer then you can set the next question of same level.
WordPress post editing screen provides you a category metabox showing a hierarchy list of your website categories. But when you have a large number of categories then it it becomes very difficult to scroll and assign categories in post edit screen. In this tutorial we will show you how to make make this process more easy by adding some useful features to category selection metabox present in ADD NEW/ EDIT post pages.
Earlier we have discussed about restoring posts using WordPress posts revisions and now today will will show you how to quickly restore those revisions with an undo button. Default WordPress installation doesn’t provides you any undo button, it only provides you the saved/auto-saved revisions which are the backup copies of your posts, they get automatically saved and also everytime you click ‘Save Draft’ or ‘Update’ buttons. Using post revisions you will be able to look back at the recent changes you’ve made and revert to an earlier version if required.
Default WordPress admin area is user-friendly but it turns complicated when you start installing plugins and it becomes very complicated and messy when you try to add all wired features you client has asked you to put into his website. In this tutorial we will show you how to provide an easy and user-friendly admin area i.e. dashboard environ to your clients and make site management easy for them.
From 2.5 version of WordPress, the content IDs on all admin area screens have been removed but there are various plugins, widgets and themes that requires post IDs for some specific features. For Example: Some WordPress themes like Atahualpa enables you to show/hide sidebars on specific pages and for that they asks you to enter page IDs.
In general all WordPress plugins are visible for all logged-in users and they can see it from admin area’s plugin page. This tutorial is about new WordPress plugin (by kvcodes.com) that simply lets you hide a particular plugin from logged-in users of your website. After activation the plugin allows you to select and hide individual plugins. It doesn’t affects the plugin’s functionality.
WP Super Cache is the most popular and fast caching engine for WordPress sites. But new users sometimes find it difficult to setup, in this post we will provide you a quick tutorial on how to setup this plugin in your WordPress site. The plugin produces static HTML files of your website’s pages like posts and custom post types. After the HTML files are generated, your webserver starts serving those files on client requests instead of processing heavier PHP scripts and database queries everytime. Hence it makes your website fast and less resources are used.
With WordPress Team Manager you will be able to display team or staff members via shortcodes on WordPress pages. You can display your staff/team members with their pictures, social links, vcard etc without registering them on your website. The plugin enables a new post type from where you can add new team members, their details and social media links etc.
Bootstrap Glpyhicons are the 12×12 icons you can use for your business projects, inside your blog posts, you can use them as visuals for your website’s sidebar navigation, on a purely icon-driven navigation, they fits better next to h2 headings tags, with links etc. Essentially, anywhere you can put current <i> tag icons. Bootstrap Glyphicons uses the same Bootstrap structure (<i> tag for all icons), for using larger Glyphicons you can use an additional icon-large: <i class=”icon-large icon-search”></i>.
By default all Gravatar information is public and it automatically appears on hovercards enabled websites. But if you don’t want to show up your information on websites you have commented on then you can make your gravatar profile private. Simply Log in to your Gravatar account. At the top of your web browser’s screen, click My Account, then click on View My Profile and from the lower right corner of your profile, click Hide My Profile option.
Tabs Shortcode and Widget is a completely new way of inserting tabs in WordPress. The plugin provides you both shortcode generator and sidebar widget for creating beautiful tabs using its nice and easy interface. With this new plugin you can insert tabbed content anywhere on your website like inside your pages, posts & custom post types, widget area and template files.
Replacing image files means you can replace attachment files simply uploading another new file in its place in media library without having to delete, rename and then re-upload files in WordPress. Enable Media Replace works as a big time saver, it enables you to replace images. Using this plugin you can would be able to replace any uploaded media file both from WordPress media library page or Add New/Edit post screens.
