Now visitors can easily record videos on your website, you can enable your visitors to send you video reviews or whatever. Adding a video recording button in WordPress is now very-very easy. The button when clicked asks your readers to allows their webcam and then by clicking the record button they can record videos, play it, re-record the video and finally when they are satisfied with the video they can submit it to your website and then the site admin can download and play the video.
Nick Halsey is a WordPress core contributor, plugin developer, and a classical composer & arranger. He has developed many WordPress plugins, in this tutorial we are discussing about two color manager plugins (Thirteen Colors & Fourteen Colors) he made for customizing the colors of Twenty Thirteen & Twenty Fourteen themes.
WordPress blogs running on multiple authors can restrict authors from posting to some specific category that admin configures in their profile. Restrict Author Posting is the new WordPress plugin made for single category restrict function for authors user roles. You can very easily assign restrict category for authors by editing their profile and the plugin will show a warning message to them whenever they try posting to the restricted category.
Creating a backend admin page and adding custom things there is easy. WP Admin Custom Page lets you create a custom page in your admin dashboard and there you can show HTML code to editors. You can place anything in there and even add a menu item that appears in the Dashboard menu section of WordPress admin area at the top left side of the page. Great for your client websites as you could put the help and instructions. The plugin lets yoy edit the HTML text directly in a box showing up in option page with a WYSIWYG editor. It supports all HTML, JavaScript & CSS etc and also you can insert YouTube videos and images.
Here an awesome plugin for the websites that allows guest posting. Default WordPress feature provides you authorship i.e. displaying author’s name with link to all posts he posted on your website but what then when you want to publish some posts without registering any new author in your WordPress site.
Sometimes you like displaying an author name on a post without register any new user and sometimes when you delete any registered author and WordPress assigns all his posts to someone else but you want to display his name for the posts he made on your website. Here’s your solution.
Enabling Authorship For Unregistered Users:
Simply install and activate the new Post Authorship plugin. After activation the plugin adds a new metabox (for entering custom author name) on your add new & edit post screens. The metabox provides you a simple text field to enter a custom author name.
Now if you leave it to blank, the plugin will display original author’s name but if you type any name there then plugin will change the default author name to the name you just typed. Another good thing about the plugin is that it displays the author’s name with link (just like WP default) which directs the users to a page showing archive of posts made by that particular author and hence the registered and unregistered authors on the frontend looks the same.
Very few WordPress users know that it allows you to edit your images like you can crop your image, you can flip them, scale them, rotate them and more without using any additional plugin. There are many plugins for cropping images but there’s no need as you can easily do basic cropping and scaling of images right from your media library image editor.
While sharing your blog posts and other content on social networks, you must have noticed that most of the social sharing websites fetches the link details, like thumbnail, title and description and this is not just limited to social websites but also with Google and other search results. In this tutorial we are discussing how you can improve the appearance & ranking of your blog Posts, Pages, and also your eCommerce Products in Google Search and Social Website shares.
You can sell audio files like music, speeches, narratives, MP3 and more using your WordPress site and your PayPal account. Music Store is an awesome online store plugin which enables WordPress users for selling audio files: music, speeches, narratives, everything that is audio, you can receive secure payments with PayPal.
Mashshare Share Buttons is an awesome social sharing plugin with a high-performance sharing functionality inspired by the popular weblog Mashable. The plugin also displays the total share counts of Facebook and Twitter at a glance. (View Demo). The plugin uses the sharedcount.com webservice and periodically checks for the total count of sharing made on Facebook and Twitter. It then calculates and shows the total count beside the Share buttons.
You can easily enable a good feature that simply allows your website visitors to add their favorite posts. The WP Favorite Posts is a free WordPress plugin that uses cookies for saving data and hence the unregistered users can favorite any post they like.
There hundreds of plugins that allows you to register new custom post types, some plugins automatically provides you post types made for specific purposes like news, blog and events etc and some plugins enables you to manually register your own custom post types but there is no custom post type plugin that lets you manually edit the post type icon that appears in dashboard’s side menu. In this tutorial we will show you how you can assign or edit post types icons, the best thing is you can edit all custom post type icons no matter if that post type is registered by a plugin, a PHP hack or you have manully registered it.
Earlier we discussed about Ultimate Landing Page and Coming Soon Page plugin which is the most popular landing page builder plugin with which you can not only create a good landing or coming soon page but also you can collect emails of visitors, the plugin provides you tons of other useful features. Now here in this new tutorial we have are posting a list of three more landing page builder plugins, we have created this list after downloading and testing many landing page builder plugins, following three and the above one are the best.
Fast & Easy Social Sharing is a simple, easy to use and very fast social media sharing plugin. It’s social sharing buttons are loaded as fonts which makes its loading very fast and can scale as large as you want them to be. It uses no JavaScript from any of the social networks, it works simply by making only two requests, first for the fonts and second for the stylesheet, that’s all, the buttons are displayed after your blog posts.
Rocket Lazy Load is a simple but powerful plugin with a tiny (less than 2kb) lazy load script without any jQuery and others libraries. What all this script does is, it displays images on pages only when they are visible to your user’s eyes i.e. only when show up on screen with down scroll. Hence, this trick reduces the number of HTTP requests mechanism and improves your website’s loading time.
Here are some of the best plugins with user management features like user activation, confirming users after they register on your website, enabling site admins to automatically add existing users to their websites or blogs, allowing super admin to instantly switching between users.
When working on a WordPress- BuddyPress membership website, the biggest administrative headaches come from the user activation process as there are many a times when activation emails get caught by spam filters or they are deleted unwillingly by the person or simply not understood. Yet by default, WordPress & BuddyPress has no user interface for viewing and managing unactivated users. Here’s a solution for you.
Multisite Enhancements is a free WordPress plugin that provides multisite networks with many multisite enhancements functions. Sometimes while working with many sub sites admins need more details and menu items. Multisite Enhancements plugin is designed to enhance the network area with different useful functions for super admins.
Interaction between super admins and other individual site admins is very important. There are many reasons like may be you want sending them link to new terms and conditions, you want them to provide all important blog and profile details or you personally invite them for an event or whatever.
Organizational Message Notifier is a multisite WordPress pluin the enables network admin or you can say super admins to send organizational messages to blog admins. The plugin includes read confirmation which means whenever you send out any message, each blog admin will see its notification until he marks the message as read and that’s not all but super admins can also view who has read and who has not read any particular message.
WordPress Review Site Builder is an awesome free plugin that enables you to create your own review website in few simple clicks. With this plugin you can create any kind of affiliate or review website. The plugin is compatible with all WordPress themes so there is no need of additional modifications. It uses custom post type feature with all SEO features that you use with your posts and pages etc. Also, if you like using a professional theme specially for this plugin then refer to WordPress Review Theme.
By default WordPress uses Twenty Fourteen as default theme for subsites in a multisite network. There many users who simply delete Twenty Fourteen theme and then rename the theme they want making default as Twenty Fourteen. This is an easy way but it has some limitations like the next update will wash all your theme files to new updated version of default WordPress theme. So here is a more easy and right way to set up default theme in WordPress multisite networks.
