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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometime back we discussed about transforming your WordPress installation into a Questions & Answers website similar to Quora, Yahoo Answers etc. Now in this article we are posting a list of some good free WordPress plugin you can use for easily creating a Questions & Answers website.
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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.
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Add to home screen WP Plugin invites your blog readers to add your website as an icon or you can say web app on home screen of their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It uses Add to home screen’s Cubiq script for enabling and placing a floating balloon which invites the user to add website to their home screen as an iOS app. This is a good way to retain your visitors coming to your web address especially if you don’t like wasting your time and money on developing an expensive app just for letting your readers to read your website’s articles.
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In general most WordPress themes uses “Leave A Reply” as comment form title which is good but sometimes bloggers like using some other custom titles and for that they dig into their theme files. You can better engage your website visitors and initiate their discussions with more meaningful titles in default WordPress comment forms, created on a post-by-post basis! This tutorial is on two good WordPress plugin with which you can edit comment form title more easily with better options.
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Everybody who watched the film “The Social Network” knows about Mark Zuckerberg’s and the concept of Hot or Not website for rating images. Creating this type of website you can very easily host various popularity contests. You can use your WordPress installation for hosting image contests, your visitors can rate their favorite things, they can easily explore and rate the images as shown here in this demo. Owen Cutajar & Hyder Jaffari have creates am easy WordPress plugin called Hot Or Not, the plugin does it all and engages your visitors attention and hooks them on your website, as long as you have fun content to serve them.
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Sometime after leabing comment on any website you must have felt the need of editing your comment, maybe due to some grammar or spelling mistake or regret of posting something idiotic. But unfortunately, most WordPress sites doesn’t provides the ability for anonymous users to edit their comments. The reason is, by default WordPress only provides this ability to site admins. In this tutorial, you will see how in a few clicks you can enable your anonymous and unregistered users to edit their comment.
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Cue, a free and powerful WordPress plugin that provides you ability to use your website as a music website. With this awesome plugin, you can easily create stylish playlists (as many you want, you can host audio files on your website, you can upload new audio files, you can reuse existing files from your media library or add audio from links to other external remote sources and then easily display them anywhere on your website like on widgets, inside your posts and page or by using the shortcode and template tag.
Install and activate Cue plugin. After activation the plugin adds ‘Playlists’ a new post type in left side admin menu.
Visit your Dashboard -> Playlists -> Add New page, give your playlist a title and upload songs by clicking ‘Add Tracks’ button. After uploading songs you can drag-drop and reorder them.
Click the arrow on the right of each item to reveal more configuration options. Also you can set a featured image for your playlist and for each song. When you’re done, click ‘Publish’ button and copy the shortcode showing up on left below publish metabox.
Finally, place the copied shortcode into a post or page to embed this playlist.
The plugin also provides you a widget (Appearance -> Widgets page) with which you can display playlist on your sidebar and other widgets area simply by placing the widgets and selecting a playlist from the drop down.
For more fine-grained control over where the playlist appears, you can use its template tag: <?php cue_playlist( $id ); ?>
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Selfish Fresh Start is a simple WordPress plugin that removed unused & crappy dashboard, post & page widgets, it fixes formatted curly quote problems, checks for and nukes Hello Dolly, removes junk header tags, the generator tag, hide update notifications for non-admins, removes old user profile fields like aim, prevents self pinging, removes smilies and trackbacks, and a few other settings that no one needs. The is very generalized and works with all WordPress sites as a good clean-up fresh start and helps you to keep your clients out from the confusing stuff and edit menus.
Each user has its own capabilities like author can only publish and edit its own posts where as an editor gets the charge of all published content, subscribers can only comment and administrators have the complete charge of website. However, if you are working on your client’s website then in that sometimes you like removing and adding certain permissions to user roles, create new user roles etc as per the demand of your client. Other than this website owners running a multi-author blogging site, also sometimes require editing capabilities of certain user roles or create some new user roles with custom capabilities. Whatsoever may be the reason. In this tutorial we are providing you a list of three cool plugin you can use for creating and editing user roles. All plugins are good and tested on recent WordPress release of 3.8.1.
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Stream is a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you track all logged-in user activity, monitors each and every change made on to your WordPress website and provides every detail in beautifully organized way. But note that it requires PHP 5.3 or higher to be activated and used, otherwise it doesn’t shows up any stream page and displays a message that your hosting doesn’t supports PHP5.3
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Few weeks back we discussed about a plugin that changes WordPress posts labels to articles. Now in this tutorial we will learn how you can edit and use your own names in WordPress post labels. By saying admin post labels we mean the ext post(s) present anywhere in admin area like Dashboard -> Posts, Posts -> All Posts, and Add New Post, Edit Posts etc etc.
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While creating any new photo gallery in WordPress, you can set all its image links either to attachment page or their media file location but there is no default feature to specify custom links for each image showing up on the gallery which you have created. This tutorial explains how you can easily specify custom links for images in gallery.
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Masking, the bullets that generally appear whenever you type any password on any website is a general practice you can find on most websites and applications. This was just designed to prevent other people from looking and memorizing your passwords from your screen.
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I welcome you Subin at SANGKRIT.net, please tell our netizens about yourself.
My name is Subin. I am a programmer, blogger and a web enthusiast. I blog about programming related subjects, code solutions and the latest tech news. PHP is my favourite language and is a big fan of jQuery JavaScript library. WordPress is my favourite CMS and MySQL is my favourite Database. I create projects, play with code and blog about the problems and solutions I faced in creating projects whether it’s a bug or something else.
At what age what actually brought you up to programming and consequently programming WordPress? Why do you enjoy it?
I started programming when I was 11 years old. I only got into WordPress in 2013 and I created and published my first plugin “Blogger 2 WordPress” in 2014. I enjoy programming, because it relaxes my mind. When I code, I enter into a new world. A world where I forget all my problems in life and focus on the task in hand. Coding makes errors and I try and try to find solutions to those errors. When I find the solution, it is stuck on my mind and I’ll never forget it. Programming is a lot like Maths. You won’t like it first, but when you get around it you will find it enjoyable.
Tell us about the plugins and apps you have created so far?
By far, I have created 2 WordPress Plugins – Blogger 2 WordPress & Code Blocks. Blogger 2 WordPress makes it easy to set redirections from old blogger posts to new WP posts (and pages) after you moved your blog to WP. I have created a lot of web apps. Some of them are online and some of them in localhost. My first online app was Subins which I made it online in 2012. It was just a test app of mine. Nothing serious. I didn’t know much about hacking & cracking when I created it. So, it was vulnerable to Cracking. Soon after 1 year, my friend (Facebook) cracked it. I deleted the data on Subins just a day after it was cracked. Now I’m working on my blog (subinsb.com) and an open source social network called Open (open.subinsb.com). I’m also working on a new project which I can’t say about it now.
Suppose if you were reviewing any new plugin then what are the most important things you look for that indicate a well-designed program?
The most important thing is that the plugin shouldn’t contain any errors. A simple semicolon (;) can make a big error in plugins. Syntax Errors is the main error, plugin developers must notice. Also, plugin developers must make sure the plugin work on almost every versions of the language and server. A well designed plugin will work flawlessly at great speed. If you are running the plugin even on low memory CPUs, it should work well. So there are 3 main factors (maybe more) in a well designed executed plugin :
Your website shows a project section with links to Open & Demos? Tell us about them?
Open is an Open Source Social Network. Anyone can edit the source code of the site. There are no ads, no tracking stuff and anything else on Open. It’s clean, simple and have the ability to post to Facebook & Twitter at one place. Demos is the sub site of my blog. This site contains the demos of the tutorials, code or projects seen on the blog.
You have no Advertisements on your blog? Do you have any plans to go pro in blogging and earn money?
When I started blogging, all I could think about was money ! I placed ads at first. But when I went through the blogging, programming and contributing to Open Source Softwares, I understood that Ads are a distraction to the users. Ads make the site slow too. No one likes ads. So Why put it in a info blog ? Information should be passed free of charge. So, I removed the ads and put on the “Donate” button (subinsb.com/donate). If people really like my content, they will donate. Also, the revenue from ads are low. Google Adsense rejected my application when I had 2 $. That made me angry and it’s also a reason why I’m not putting ads anymore.
How much time you spend working on your domain and writing programs? What philosophy drives you doing this?
When I return home from school and after I finish all the home works and stuff, I turn on the computer and start coding. I make up ideas of posts and projects on the free periods of my school and write it down. Then I do it when I reach home. On holidays, I use the computer from morning to noon (about 2 PM) and from evening (6.30 PM) to night (11.30 or more if I got an error). WP plugins help users to do big tasks with just a plugin. Open Source minded programmers always help people. I’m an open source minded person. WP philosophy “Code Is Poetry” and StackOverflow (http://goo.gl/kCKBGs) helped me into doing this.
How about your parents? Is either of them involved in programming fields?
My parents are normal Kerala persons. My dad is the “Assistant Secretary” of Ayiloor Panchayat, Palakkad, Kerala and my mom is an house wife. She worked as a computer teacher before teaching Windows 98 and stuff. I’m sure that the coding & computer stuff came from my mom. My dad always supported in coding and always made me walk through the right path. He scolds me when I say “I hacked someone / website”. Hacking is wrong and he made me understand about it.
What are you working on today? Any new plugin?
I’m now working on a project like WordPress, but not entirely like it. I can’t say more about it now. When I release my new project, I will certainly invite you. I created about 5-6 plugins. 2 of them WP and others jQuery & PHP. It’s hard to maintain all of them. I’m very very busy in maintaining blog, plugins and school stuff. I will improve my existing plugins and when I get a new idea, I will make another plugin.
Tell us something about your city and your favorite hangout spots there?
I’m from Kerala , a state in India. I’m living in Kunnamkulam, a town (muncipality). Nothing big here. I don’t go out much. But my favourite places are the paddy fields and the streets where I could walk or ride a bicycle peacefully.
What is your ultimate message for netizens?
Never stop working hard. If you work hard, you will certainly accomplish your task. Never copy content from others. Always make your own stuff. Don’t hack / harass any person on the Internet. Always be a good netizen and speak up when you find something illegal or bad behaviour. Never fear. There are millions of nice people in this world who can help you. Don’t hesitate to ask for answers on disucssion forums and Q & A sites (stackexchange.com). Stay safe and simple.
On WordPress multi-author websites, there are a lot of things you need to keep eye one. Like if you want to allow limited number of external links, you have various conditions on productivity and content you want your authors to write etc etc. Keeping an eye on new posts is easy and that you can do without installing any additional plugin or adding any PHP hack etc but when it comes to the edits made of old blog posts then what to do? Here’s easy way of monitoring post changes made on your website.
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Sometimes, specially while working on client websites and when installing many plugins for testing purposes to see which one works best for you, it becomes very irritating to again and again visit plugins admin page for deactivating plugins. This tutorial is on a plugin that makes this job easy by enabling you to quickly toggle plugin activation status from the WordPress toolbar. Best for developers.
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