Category Archives: WordPress

How To Sync Your Social Accounts To BuddyPress Activity Stream?

BuddyStream provides you a powerful synchronization for all popular social networking websites to BuddyPress activity stream. With free version of BuddyStream you can synchronize – Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Last.fm & Flickr social streams whereas as its premium version lets you include more social networks like Facebook, Google+, Vimeo, RSS, LinkedIn and SoundCloud.

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How To Add YouTube Style Page Loader Bar In WordPress?

Google+, YouTube and there are various other services which shows up a slim page loader bar on the top of the page. The bar simply displays a loading color fields which starts when you open a new page and goes away as soon the the page loads completely.

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How To Display YouTube Videos On WordPress Dashboard?

YouTube videos can now be embedded in WordPress dashboard’s home screen, the admin area page where users are automatically directed as soon they logins to your WordPress site. Video Dashboard is the new WordPress plugin by Brian Johnson, it allows you to display YouTube videos using a dashboard widget which can be dragged repositioned and edited.

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Top 3 WordPress Plugins To Auto Generate Post Tags

Instead of manually adding tags to your WordPress posts, you can automatically generate them from post title,excerpt and content. Great for multi author and multi-blog WordPress sites where you have a lot of members and you want them all to tag their content before publishing it online. In this tutorial we are sharing a list of some good and tested automatic tagger plugins.

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How To Leave Sticky Notes For Other Users In Your WordPress Site?

You can leave sticky notes anywhere on the frontend of your WordPress site, you can tag other users and communicate with them by means of these sticky notes, you can leave your suggestion (tagging author) for improving any post or page, you can add notes for bettering the website’s layout, content and theme etc. WordPress Sticky Notes simply allows logged in website users to compose and stick notes anywhere in WordPress, the notes are only visible to logged in users and yes, site admin can set the capabilities for the user roles to create, view and edit these sticky notes.

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How To Display Animated Percent Infographics In WordPress?

With Percent Infographs you can represent simple percent (%) into infographs with some animated effects. Percent to Infograph is the new WordPress plugin which provides you [percent_to_graph] shortcode you can use with custom values and parameters to show or compare percent of anything inside your posts, pages and other custom post types. You can easily start using its shortcode by copying and placing values from : [percent_to_graph data_percent="70" data_text="70%"] to your post content box.

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Top 5 Cloud Apps To Create Amazing Websites In Minutes

WordPress is the most popular website building & publishing platform and SANGKRIT.net provides you a powerful cloud infrastructure with Apache, MySQL & PHP support and makes it possible for you to self-host your WordPress site with all those plugins you want. It also provides you various other cloud applications you may use for creating other kinds of websites in minutes (without any coding knowledge). In this tutorial we are listing some powerful, free and premium applications you can use on SANGKRIT.net to bring your website online in minutes.

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How To Display Accordion Based Archives In WordPress?

Instead of displaying long list of post archives in your WordPress site you can display them in a AJAX powered accordion widget so that you visitors can easily browse them by clicking the year and then month accordions. Clicking the year and month drops down the sub lists instantly with AJAX, without any page refresh.

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How To Display Randomly Rotating Ads In WordPress?

You can display multiple auto-rotating image advertisements using widgets in your WordPress site. Meks Easy Ads Widget is a lightweight, simple and easy to use WordPress widget plugin. The plugin upon activation provides you a widget for displaying unlimited number of image advertisements in custom size. You can enable auto-rotation, randomize them, set the maximum number of ads to be displayed in one view and more.

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How To Create Beautiful Drop Caps In WordPress?

A Drop cap is the first enlarged letter of an article or paragraph which drops up to two or more lines. These are often seen at the beginning of magazines, novels and some newpapers where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of the first sentence and drops down to the fourth or fifth sentence. WordPress users can use dropcaps in their posts, pages and other custom post types with shortcodes.

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How To Automatically Promote Your Old WordPress Posts On Facebook?

There are many ways of promoting your old blog posts like you can automatically post them on Facebook or you can tweet them or randomly bump a post to the top of your homepage etc. Earlier we have discussed about some easy ways of promoting old WordPress posts. In this tutorial we will explain you how you can automatically promote your old posts on Facebook.

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Top 3 Drag & Drop Static Page Builders For WordPress

Now you know how to install WordPress and create your website or a blog with it. A few days back we have discussed about creating static WP websites, although SANGKRIT.net provides you a powerful static website builder app and it is a good option if you are building your own website. For creating static websites for your clients, WordPress is a better choice because with WordPress you can run unlimited websites on your ultimate web-hosting plan which is the best hosting plan to start your website designing business.

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How To Migrate Websites From Wix To WordPress Hosting?

Now you can easily migrate your website from Wix to SANGKRIT.net’s WordPress Hosting. For migrating your Wix website to WordPress, first bring your WordPress site online, you may use SANGKRIT.net’s one click WordPress install for starting your WordPress site in minutes. After WordPress is setup, install and activate CMS2CMS: Wix to WordPress Migrator plugin and connect it to Wix from Dashboard -> Plugins -> Wix to WordPress page (You will need to login to your CMS2CMS account before connecting to Wix).

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How To Beautifully Animate The Twenty Thirteen WordPress Theme?

Twenty Thirteen is a colourful WordPress blogging theme designed by Automattic. The theme features a full range of post formats, each displayed in their own unique way. It has a vibrant color scheme, matching header images, good typography, icons, and a flexible responsive layout which works for all small and big screen devices.

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Easily Customize The Scrollbar Of Your WordPress Site

Using CSS you can customize the scroll bar or any website but it is not easy for everyone and also there are some browser compatibility issues. This tutorial is about a WordPress plugin which provides website a customizable, stylish & responsive scrollbar. See it live working here. Dewdrop Custom Scrollbar allows you to customize the frontend scroll bar and use you own custom colors, width, height, border, radius etc and it supports all major web browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Opera etc.

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Top 10 Awesome Ways Of Displaying Social Sharing Buttons In WordPress

Social sharing buttons gives more exposure to your website, they encourages visitors to share your content and now search engines also includes social media sharing counts in their algorithm for counting the strength of links. In general website owners display sharing buttons before or after their post content or by using a floating bar with share buttons etc. In this tutorial we are sharing some more good ways of displaying social media sharing buttons in WordPress.

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How To Remove Unwanted Admin Area Menus in WordPress?

WordPress admin menus arethe links visible on the left side navigation in your admin area dashboard i.e /wp-admin screens. There are various ways of customizing these admin menus and we have discussed about them here. Now what is the need of removing admin menus? It entirely depends on the user, everyday many searches are made on removing unwanted menus from WordPress dashboard.

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How To Use High Contrast Login Screen In WordPress?

Today one of our reader emailed us asking how he can use a high contrast color style in his website’s login page. Black Login Screen plugin automatically changes WordPress login screen to black color and makes it more contrast. It provides you a simple WordPress hack which you can manually edit (or use inside your theme’s function.php file) to activate a custom background color on your website’s login page.

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How To Clone & Replace Posts In WordPress?

Clone & Replace plugin provides you a useful post forking and merging tool. It simply allows you to clone published posts, then edit those clones (as any other draft can be) and finally replace the original posts with your updated post clones. All features can be used both individually and in combined state like a fork and merge model.

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How To Wrap WordPress Login Screen With Your Website’s Theme?

You can create a simple WordPress page and use it for displaying the login form. You can either completely wrap login with your active WordPress theme or fully customize the default login page adding your own logo, style and colors etc. WPF-Login enables you to use all these functions and create a new custom login page or simply insert the default login form into currently activated theme of your website.

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How To Enable Header & Footer On WordPresss Login Page?

WordPress’s default login page looks fine if you are running a personal weblog. But if you are designing your client’s website then it will certainly appear to be odd to your client. The reason is it promotes WordPress whereas everybody likes professionally designed websites and not the websites promoting some other brand, logo or company.

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