Category Archives: WordPress

How To Enable Live Preview For Links In WordPress?

Just like Facebook and Google+, you can enable live preview feature for links in WordPress. WP Live Preview Links is the new WordPress plugin that enables a live scaled preview of website you are linking to prior to clicking on it. The preview goes of as soon the user stop hovering the link. See it live working here.

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IG PageBuilder For Designing A New WordPress Site In Minutes

IG PageBuilder provides you a user friendly way to build a complete WordPress site in a few minutes. By default WordPress provides you with Visual and Text Editor present in Add New/Edit content pages. Now this new plugin adds a new Page Builder Tab in default WordPress visual editor and it is accessible for all pages, posts, even on custom post types. Using this new Page Builder tab you can design stylish pages with convenient drag and drop functionality and its intuitive interface which is simple and extremely easy to use.

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Enable 3 Menu Locations In New WordPress Admin Toolbar

Admin Toolbar Menus, a new WordPress plugin add 3 new menu locations to the WP toolbar and you can easily create your own custom toolbar menus with default WordPress menus functionality present in Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus page. It supports multi level navigation and works seamlessly with existing toolbar menus.

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Sticky Container Of Social Media Icons In Your Favorite Colors For WordPress

Sticky Social Icon is a simple sticky container of social media icons glued on the right side of your website. The container provides you animated social icons with css3 transitions and transform rules with different color code. To start, install and activate the plugin in your WordPress installation.

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How To Set Default Admin Color Scheme For All Users In WordPress?

Now there are many plugins you can use for transforming your WordPress admin section in your own colors. Now you know how to create your own color scheme, you know how to change frontend admin bar color as per admin color scheme selected in backend, you know how to randomly change color schemes as soon any new post is published or an old post updated and there are a lot more tips, tricks and plugin.

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How To Enable Any Shortcode In WordPress Comment Form?

The tutorial is on activating WordPress shortcodes functionality in comment’s form so that you can enable your commenters to use some shortcodes (assigned by you) while writing any comments on your website. Shortcode in Comment is a handy plugin for this. The plugin lets enable decide which shortcodes you would like to enable in the comment form.

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Displaying Author List With Bubble Of Total Posts In WordPress

New Author List by buffercode.com lets you display your blog author list with an hover effect that displays a bubble showing number of posts they have written on your website. Author List is a WordPress widget plugin with following features:

  • You can show the Author list through widget.
  • On hover displays author image, the total number of post, user name and gravatar image will be displayed.
  • Site admin can set the limit of authors to display, Gravatar image size to be 24×24, 48×48 or 96×96 pixel and customize the widget title name.

So what all you have to do is install and activate this new WordPress plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page, drag ‘Author List’ widget to sidebar and set Custom Name, Number of Authors to show, Set Author Image Size.

Enable Website Visitors To Listen Radio Of Country Selected By You In WordPress

Now very easily you can add a simple widget in your WordPress site and enable your website visitors to listed to the radio of country selected by you. You select the country and your website visitors can themselves change to various radio stations and listed to music on your website. The widget is fast and loads up very fast.

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How To Create Your Own WordPress Admin Color Scheme?

Every week new plugin for admin color schemes are populating WordPress plugin repo. Today we are discussing about another interesting plugin that lets you create your own admin color schemes. The plugin is an official WordPress.Org release which enable you to visually create new color schemes with easy color picker.

Creating new color scheme of your favorite colors:

First install and activate Admin Color Schemer plugin, upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Tools -> Admin Colors page and selet colors

You can select color for Base, Icon, Highlight and Notification. You can also click ‘ Show Advance Options‘ link present in there to customize every admin color like: Button, Text (over Base), Body background, Link, Link interaction, Checked form controls, Menu background, Menu text, Menu icon, Menu highlight background, Menu highlight text, Menu highlight icon, Menu current background, Menu current text, Menu current icon, Submenu background, Submenu text, Submenu alt, background, Submenu text interaction, Submenu current text, Bubble background, Bubble text, Bubble current background, Bubble current text, Menu collapse text, Menu collapse icon, Menu collapse text interaction, Menu collapse, icon interaction, Toolbar avatar frame, Toolbar input background.

New Twenty Fourteen Child Theme To Visually Customize Each Element Color

Few days back we discussed about Tweaking Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme, Making It Full Width, Center Aligned, Etc Etc. Now this tutorial is on new WordPress theme. Anjirai, is new child theme for new Twenty Fourteen. Anjirai is a Tamil word which means a beautiful Wing. With this new awesome WordPress theme you can customize every element’s color of your Twenty Fourteen WordPress theme.

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Automatically Check For Duplicate Post Titles In WordPress

Keeping similar title in more than one blog post is not good for SEO. Duplicate titles, WordPress allows them by default and that is why many a times it happens that by mistake you give same title to multiple posts and you are not aware of that. The functionality is good because you can keep multiple posts with same title and WordPress will automatically generate unique URLs for duplicate posts which is very useful for hobby bloggers but not for pro-bloggers.
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How To Export Featured Images (Post Thumbnails) In WordPress?

A big headache when exporting your WordPress site content is to take along your site’s featured images. Earlier we discussed about exporting your site menus and now this tutorial is on how you can easily export featured images. By default WordPress allows you to export all text content but there is no option for exporting featured images assigned to your blog post, pages and custom post types etc.

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Using Infogeek Admin Themes With New WordPress Color Schemes

Infogeek Admin Themes, another new admin area theme plugin that provides you three new color schemes based on WordPress 3.8 update. Simply install and activate the plugin, then visit your admin area profile page from dashboard user’s menu and you will be seeing three new color schemes: Infogeek Clear, Infogeek High Contrast and XTND ( Extend ).

Infogeek Clear:

Has the white as main color and blue as highlight. Is very clear theme for you backend, if you don\’ like so much the high contrast.

XTND ( Extend ):

A theme very close to the default theme but uses magenta instead of blue! Very nice looking variation!

Infogeek High Contrast:

Has a main color of green-blue ( like the sea ), secondary highlight colors of blue and black. Clear and helps much with distinction amount the different sections of the backend user interface.

Hello Pinky: Symbolize Childhood & Formative Years Of 90’s Generation In WordPress

Hello Pinky, another Hello Dolly style plugin that ymbolizes the childhood and formative years of an entire generation that grew up in the 90’s. The plugin shows up conversations between our heroes, WB’s Pinky and the Brain, appear in the admin notices section of the WP Dashboard – on every page.

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Fast Elegant On Hover Social Sharing Buttons For WordPress

AR Simple Social Share, the new social sharing plugin for WordPress provides you a new style of social sharing buttons. Unlike to other sharing buttons, AR Simple Social Share shows up its sharing buttons when someone hovers the customizable message ‘Share On Social Networks’ or whatever you write there.

This new lightweight social sharing plugin comes packed with various visibility control options you can use for showing sharing buttons in posts, pages, excerpts etc. The plugin also provides you a Shortcode [ar-simple-social-share] for displaying sharing buttons manually anywhere you like.

Simply install and activate the plugin, upon activation the plugin automatically displays sharing buttons on single post pages. You can control visibility, select font, text, icons etc by visiting its settings page (Dashboard -> AR Social Share).

Classic Grey WordPress Admin Color Schemes For Everyday Use

New Grey Admin Color Schemes for WordPress 3.8’s admin area from Toolstack.com gives your WordPress site admin new classic grey color schemes that will not make your bored after few days like other colorful schemes. Install and activate Grey Admin Color Schemes plugin. upon activation the plugin adds four new color schemes you can change from Dashboard -> Users -> Your Profile page.

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Changing Frontend Admin Bar Color As Per New Admin Color Schemes In WordPress

Now new WordPress version provides you 8 different color schemes, few days back we have also discussed about Adding Some More Admin Area Color Schemes and how you can Randomly Change WordPress Admin With Various Colors Schemes. You can select your favorite color scheme from Dashboard -> Users -> Your Profile page but that doesn’t changes the color of admin barin the front-end, it remains same on all color schemes. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that one thing automatically, it simply changes the color of admin bar in front-end on the basis of selected color scheme.

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Tweak Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme, Make It Full Width, Center Aligned, Change Colors And Much More

The new default WordPress theme, Twenty Fourteen has an awesome layout but there are few things some bloggers are not liking. For example: Twenty Fourteen theme floats to left by deafult and in big screens it shows some empty space on the right side. The theme is left align so the background color shows up only next to right sidebar. Theme’s primary menu floats to right, you cannot modify all theme colors by default etc etc.

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Enable Facebook Style Activity Privacy Settings In BuddyPress

With BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin you can add Facebook type activity privacy options in BuddyPress so that while posting anything new or while updating status your network users can set the privacy and make that content available for limited users. Just like Facebook’s ‘Who can see’ small icon you can add ability to restrict who can see individual activity posts shared by your BuddyPress community site members.

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How To Hide Selected Posts From Home Page In WordPress?

Hidden Posts, a new WordPress plugin from Automattic lets you hide a limited number of posts from home page. The plugin is lightweight and very easy to use. Simply install and activate the plugin and upon activation the plugin adds a hide post check box in ‘Publish; metabox present in add new and edit post page.

Hidden WordPress Posts

You simply need to tick that ‘Hide Post’ check box and your post will be kept hidden from the home page.