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.
In WordPress featured images are used for representing contents like posts, pages, and other custom post types, etc. You can easily assign a featured image (also called post thumbnail) to posts and pages of your website, it is used by many themes and plugins for enhancing the presentation of your content.
Gravatars are the globally recognized avatars, it is an image assigned to email addresses which automatically shows up on gravatar enabled websites. For Exmaple: Suppose you have created a WordPress site and invited your friends to join-in, now if they have a gravatar profile and they registers on your website using the same email address, their profile picture and names will automatically start showing up on your website. Gravatar service was created by Tom Preston-Werner. Since 2007, it has been owned by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.
Earlier we have discussed about writing your first blog post. In this tutorial we will explain you how to enable hidden features of WordPress post edit screen and customize it. Post edit screen is an admin page from where you write new blog posts (Dashboard -> Posts -> Add New) or edit old ones. Default post edit screen consists of post editor and meta boxes like publish, format, tags, categories and featured image.
Instead of showing default scroll bar with top and bottom scrolling buttons you can enable a custom iOS style scroll bar with custom colors as per your website’s theme and colors, you can also use a custom border and custom scroll bar dimensions in your WordPress site. WordPress Nicescroll is the new plugin which upon activation transforms default scroll bar with its custom jQuery scroll compatible with destkops, tablets and smartphone devices.
In general, most WordPress website owners use software and online apps for resizing their high resolution images before uploading and using them inside their website content. Earlier we have discussed about WP Smush.it plugin which compresses images in WordPress in-order to improve your website’s performance without affecting the image quality. Today in this tutorial we will show you how to extend default WordPress image uploading functionality and make it auto resize your images to a size defined by you.
There are many syntax highlighter plugins out there in WordPress plugin repository and WordPress also provides you a simple feature for highlighting code inside your posts and pages. All you have to do is switch from ‘Visual’ to ‘Text’ mode, select the syntax and click ‘code’ button. In this tutorial we will show you how to use a more beautiful option i.e. using crayons for highlighting syntax in WordPress.
