Category Archives: WordPress

How To Give Manual Handcrafted Excerpts To Posts In WordPress?

December 19, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

Manual WordPress Excerpts are the hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used in your theme. It is unlike to automatic excerpt or you can say teaser which is actually the part of your post used before more tag. Manual excerpts have some advantages over automatic excerpts and the biggest advantage is that here you get full control of explaining what is your post is all about and that becomes very useful specially in the search results.

Most WordPres themes provides you functionality of manual excerpts. By default Manual Excerpt meta box is hidden from Add New & Edit post pages. So if you want to give manual excerpts to your blog posts then first visit your admin area Dashboard -> Posts -> Add New page.

Now second step is to click ‘Screen Options’ present in the top right corner, just below the Howdy text. Now tick ‘Excerpt’ checkbox present in ‘Show on screen’ section.

That’s all. Close ‘Screen Options’ and scroll down, you will be seeing a new meta box for the excerpt is added. Use this metabox for writing manual excerpts for your posts.

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Redirecting Image Attachment Pages To Parent Posts In WordPress

December 18, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

A new page is created by WordPress for each file attachment (like images, videos, audio, PDFs etc) you have on your WordPress site. The feature is good for some but not for all site site owners. Sometimes accidentally bloggers link images to attachment pages and then they don’t like the layout and look of the attachment page. Here we are discussing how you can easily disable the image attachment pages in your WordPress site.

WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin users can do this by visiting Dashboard -> SEO -> Permalinks page and then under the Permalink Settings section, tick ‘Redirect attachment URL’s to parent post URL.’ and save the new settings.

Alternatively, you can disable image attachment pages and redirect them to their parent post pages using another plugin called Attachment Pages Redirect. Simply install and activate the plugin. After activation the plugin automatically starts its work and if in-case no parent post is found the the attachment page is directed to home.

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Bump BuddyPresss Activity Streams To Top After New Comments

December 18, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

Like in Facebook as soon any new comment is made, the activity automatically comes to top on the homepage of your friends. Here, we will be doing similar thing by making BuddyPress activity stream bump to top as soon any new comment reply is made.

Buddypress Bump Activity Streams To Top is a BuddyPress plugin by Gladwinput.com originally based on the OLD BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top plugin which has been left unsupported. So what all you need to do is install, activate and forget Buddypress Bump Activity Streams To Top.

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Integrating BuddyPress Pages & Profile With WordPress Menus

December 18, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

By default WordPress menus are not compatible with BuddyPress account menus but now you can add real menu items and make them go directly to Buddypress pages. You can add a profile dropdown with avatar, message counts, and more- fully customizable.

BP Direct Menus is an awesome plugin that completely integrates with the WordPress menu system so your theme’s menu menu styling is used.

It provides you awesome custom menu item type that lets you link to any page that requires the username as part of the url (example.com/members//messages).

The meta box in nav menu admin page

An example of a custom profile menu

The admin view of the above profile menu

Tons of tags can be used to customize the menu text: * User Info: username, firstname, lastname, displayname * BuddyPress counts: unreadmessagecount, friendcount, groupcount * BuddyPress counts that hide when zero: (unreadmessagecount), (friendcount), (groupcount) * BuddyPress/WordPress avatar: avatar, avatar-thumb, avatar-mini.

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Easily Enable Facebook Style Notifications In BuddyPress

December 18, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

FB like notification for buddypress plugin simply updates notifications list and browser window title in BuddyPress powered network while user is away. Install and activate it. Upon activation the plugin repeatedly checks for new notifications for the logged-in user and if any new notification is found, it does 2 things:

1) Updates the browser window title( e.g: ‘members|mydomain.com’ becomes ‘(2) members|mydomain.com’ ) and blinks/switches repeatedly between the old and new title

2) Updates the notification menu: Adds new notification(if any) items to the list and updates the existing ones(if any). E.g: from ‘You have 1 new message’ to ‘You have 2 new messages’

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Enable Facebook Style On Profile Private Messages In BuddyPress

December 16, 2013 Sangkrit 1 Comment

Like in Facebook, when you click ‘Message’ button present on the profile page, a pop-up appears from where you can message to the person without leaving his/her profile. Whereas by default in BuddyPress as soon you click ‘Message’ button you get redirected to your message compose box for creating and sending message to the person.

This tutorial explains you how you can easily replaces the functionality for Public Message and Private Message buttons on profile pages so that you can send messages without leaving the profile page.

BP Profile Message UX Free plugin lets you replace the functionality for those message buttons. Using this plugin you can make things go fast, you can stay on a profile page and send private or public messages to member.

This plugin uses default WordPress ‘thickbox’ code, so it is very difficult to style. In-case you need ability to style the overlay or adjust the javascript then checkout its premium version: http://www.philopress.com/products/buddymessageux/

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Randomly Change WordPress Admin With Various Colors Schemes

December 16, 2013 Sangkrit 2 Comments

From 3.8 update WordPress provides you six awesome admin area color schemes and now Admin Color Schemes plugin has also been updated so you get many extra color schemes for your WordPress dashboard. Now this tutorial is on new, light weight but very interesting free plugin called Color Schemes Roulette, the plugin is made for changing your admin colors in random and yes it is compatible with Admin Color Schemes plugin.

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Adding Some More Admin Area Color Schemes In WordPress

December 15, 2013 Sangkrit 2 Comments

Admin Color Schemes, the plugin that brings new extra color schemes in WordPress admin area dashboard has been updated for new 3.8 update of WordPress. Likewise now WordPress already provides you six different admin color schems, now you can add up some more simply by using this WordPress plugin.

Aubergine, by Kate Whitley & Kelly Dwan

Flat, by Mel Choyce

Vineyard, by Kate & Dave Whitley

All your awesome color choices

So first of all install and activate Admin Color Schemes plugin. Upon activation the plugin adds new color schemes which can be managed from same old user profile page using the color scheme selector radio buttons.

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Shortcode To Easily Embed Facebook Posts In WordPress

December 15, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

Earlier we discussed about embedding any Facebook post on any website, weblog or simple HTML page. Just like YouTube, Twitter and Flickr etc, Facebook also provides you an embed code which can be copied from Facebook post drop down options itself, the code simply embeds that specific Facebook post with all its like and comments into your website.

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Best Plugins For Uploading Avatars Locally In WordPress

December 13, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

Unlike to Gravatar which works universally on all WordPress sites showing one common avatar by email address you can add avatars of your choice for your WordPress site authors, editors and subscribers etc. There are several good WordPress plugins that allows you to upload avatars locally on your blog right from the user profile page. Following are some free plugins ordered by their popularity and downloads.

Add Local Avatar

WP User Avatar

Simple Local Avatars

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How To Visually Modify Any WordPress Theme Colors?

December 13, 2013 Sangkrit 1 Comment

Theme Tweaker grabs all your existing theme colors and allows you to modify them either by typing the color codes or by using color picker. The plugin offers you another feature to change theme colors in bulk, like you can invert all colors, use grey scale, sepia style colors or you can generate random colors in a click etc.

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Automatically Display Targeted Amazon Products Related To Your WordPress Site Content

December 9, 2013 Sangkrit 3 Comments

StickyZon Lite is an awesome WordPress plugin that lets you add Amazon products related to your blog posts content. With this new plugin you can add targeted products without touching or adding any code snippet. Its a quick set and forget plugin which automatically adds most popular Amazon products to your blog posts related to your post topic.

This way the similar products increases the chance for your visitors to go and take a look over your products and buy them from Amazon. You can make easy commissions without any work.

Features:

Easy 3 mintue setup
Automatically searches Amazon products based on post tags, categories or preset keywords
Automatically adds Amazon products at the end on of post contents
Completely blends with site layout and post content
No code modification or extra coding required

Getting Started: Install and activate StickyZon Lite plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> StickyZon Lite page and set Amazon Affiliate ID, API Key (Access Key ID), Secret Access Key and choose your Amazon Product Category using the drop down box.

Other than this you can Use Post Tags to search products, Use Post Categories to search products, Set Default search keywords, Add Widget Title, Edit Buy Now Link Text and Show sponsor link etc.

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WP Curtain: Hiding Your WordPress Site From General Public & Search Engines

December 9, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

WP Curtain is the new highly customizable WordPress plugin that lets you hide your website from general visitors and search engines like Google, Yahoo and all others. The plugin allows you to enable access for logged in users having a specified access level like Editor, they can can view website but all other visitors will get directed to a friendly error page showing a message or a beautiful countdown timer (FlipClock) or a log in section, its up to you. You can easily customize its settings.

Simply install and activate WP Curtain plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Plugins -> WP Curtain Settings page and here you can:

You can add Title, Heading and Description to show on the page where your visitors are directed.
You can enable or disable countdown timer. It shows when will your website be online by asking you to enter expected site’s online date, hours, minutes and seconds.
You can set enable or disable login box, You can add Redirect URL where your users will be sent here after login. Leave it empty to send them to the page that they tried to access. Finally the third sections lets you set minimum access level required to view your website.

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Easily Create Facebook Ads Right From WordPress Admin

December 8, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

Facebook Ads Tool lets you create cool Facebook ads directly from your WordPress admin interface. It provides you an easy user-friendly interface and you can quickly start in seconds creating your own Facebook ads that drives new traffic and promote your web pages. You can know more about its awesome features on its download page at WordPress.org here.

To start simply install and activate Facebook Ads Tool and follow the given steps:

Step-1 Creating your Facebook Add

Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Facebook Ads Tool -> Create An Add page
Choose your Ad Destination, Type Headline and Ad Text, Upload image (It shows real time add preview) and click Next button

Step-3 Specify the people (audience) who will be shown your Ad. How old they are, what their interests are, etc.

Add countries you like targeting
Enter amount you like spending on this add
Set Start & End Date and then click Done button

Step-3 Time to enter your Billing Information

Enter your Full Name, Card Number, CSV Security Code, Expiry Date then click Submit button and follow the steps.

The plugin also activates Facebook Ads Dashboard (Dashboard ->Facebook Ads Tool -> Ads Dashboard) where you can keep track of your Facebook Ads, Clicks, Conversions and other useful information. Following screenshots will certainly make you better understand this useful tool that works from WordPress admin section:

Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 1)

Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 2)

Creating a Facebook Ad directly from a wordpress page

Your Ad on Facebook

Live Social Contests & Promotions

Creating a Sweepstakes in your WordPress Admin

Email Automation Campaigns

Contact Database

Campaign Analytics

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New Admin Screen Shortcode Lister For WordPress

December 5, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

It is ofcourse not easy to remember all shortcodes you have active in your WordPress installation unless they provides you shortcode generator etc. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that simply displays a list of all the shortcodes available for use on the post and page edit screens.

Install and activate Edit Screen Shortcode Lister plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically starts displaying all active shortcodes your WordPress site has.It produces a clean, easily accessible list of all the custom/third party added, and WordPress default shortcodes that you are able to use inside your posts and pages. This way you can easily use your shotocodes by copying them right from the post edit screens. Now it is no more difficult to remember them all.

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WPMS Admin Reports: New Reporting Tool For WordPress Multisite Administrators

December 5, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

WPMS Admin Reports is the brand new WordPress plugin made for multisite networks. It provides you a reporting tool accessible by multisite administrators. It gives you three reports and a dashboard that gives you a quick snapshot view of the health of your WordPress Multisite installation. All of the tables are client-side sortable using jQuery and tablesorter. It includes graphical indicators (smiley faces) to help easily identify problem sites, users and plugins.

Install and activate WPMS Admin Reports. After activation you may access the reports from network admin dashboard.

Dashboard

Site Report

User Report

Plugin Report

Help Tab

Dashboard – provides charts displaying multiple factors from the other three reports in a graphical way using radar and pie charts.

Site Report – Detailed information about each site in your installation like Errors, ID, Status (Up/Down), Last Post, Last Update, When Created, Current Template, Number of Users and lists the Primary Administrator.

User Report – Gives you detailed information about each user in your installation.

Plugin Report – Lists all installed plugins and provides information about each one. Includes information such as Name, Upgradeability, Status, Activation Site-wide, Total Number of Blogs that use it and a list of those blogs.

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New Restaurant Menu Manager Loaded With jQuery Accordion & Tabs For WordPress

December 5, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

Restaurant Menu Manager is the brand new WordPress plugin you can use for creating beautiful restaurant menu in your WordPress site, you can easily group different menu items like Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Desserts, etc. You can also group entries with entry tags or Vegetarian, Sandwiches, Salad, Soups, etc. and then finally display them using a list or jQuery based accordions or tabs.

The plugin uses default WordPress functionality of custom post types, taxonomies, and custom meta fields and lets you easily import and export all your data. The plugin provides you following main features:

Add images or even a full gallery for each of your menu entries.
Set a featured image or entry thumbnail.
Allow visitors to leave comments below each entry.
Use other WordPress plugins with your Restaurant Menu Entries.
Translation Ready.

Install and activate Restaurant Menu Manager. After activation the plugin adds a new post type in WordPress admin section. Using this new post type you can create your restaurant menu entries, types and add tags etc.

Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery accordion tabs.

Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery tabs.

Restaurant menu displayed in simple list.

Add New Restaurant Menu Entry screen.

All Restaurant Menu Entries Screen.

How to display the menu on your site in simple list?

[rm-menu]

Displaying restaurant menu in a jQuery accordion with collapsible tabs for different menu types, use

[rm-menu display=’accordion’]

For displaying your menu in jQuery tabs, then add this shortcode:

[rm-menu display=’tabs’] Learn more about shortcode usage.

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How To Create An RSSJS Feed For WordPress?

December 5, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

RSS, or “Really Simple Syndication” is a format for distributing and gathering dynamically generated content from sources across the Internet, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. RSSJS, or “RSS To Javascript“, allows you to display this content within your own web pages and to do so without having to possess any XML knowledge or skills. RSSJS will take ANY RSS feed and create a very simple Javascript that can be coded into ANY HTML document. The resulting Javascript output can be manipulated using CSS and even scrolled as we have done in the “News Headlines” example. – Source

Recently WordPress.org has launched a new plugin called RSSJS. The new lightweight WordPress plugin simply creates an RSSJS feed for your WordPress site. All you will be needing to do is install and activate it.

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Amplify: Icebreaker For WordPress User Engagement

December 4, 2013 Sangkrit Leave a comment

Amplify is the brand new WordPress plugin that lets you presents your human face to your website users. The plugin is designed to encourage visitors to engage with you.

[quote cite=”Getamplify.com” url=”http://www.getamplify.com”]

People want to connect with real people and not brands. Brands are not people. But brands are made by people. So why not use a real person from your company to represent your brand.

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Install and activate Amplify plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Amplify admin page and enter your API key. You can easily obtain your free API key by registering your account at Getamplify.com

Amplify -Feedback widgets, contact us forms etc are seen by your users as one-way conversations. Users after filling up a form are not even sure if they will receive a reply. But with Amplify Connect these feedbacks are turned into conversations and stored in a personalised user-inbox for every user.

Pro-active User Engagement-Less than 0.5% users on any site submits a feedback or fill up a contact form. So instead of waiting for users to contact you, why not greet them with a custom message when then pay you a visit.

Easy and yet powerful customer support-Easily assign these conversations and support requests to team members. Use email forwarding to centralised your support queries via Amplify Connect.

additional marketing channel-An additional marketing channel

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Optimizing Your Image Size Via TinyPNG API In WordPress

December 4, 2013 Sangkrit 1 Comment

TinyPNG for WordPress lets you connect your WordPress site with Tinypng.com API so that you can easily optimize/reduce size of your PNG files on the go. TinyPNG uses a smart lossy compression techniques for reducing PNG file size by selectively decreasing the number of colours in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. Effect made by the service is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference optimizing your PNG files.

[quote cite=”TinyPNG” url=”https://tinypng.com/”]

PNG is useful because it’s the only widely supported format that can store partially transparent images. The format uses compression, but the files can still be large. Use TinyPNG to shrink images for your apps and sites. It will use less bandwidth and load faster.

How does it work? When you upload a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file, similar colours in your image are combined. This technique is called “quantisation”. Because the number of colours is reduced, 24-bit PNG files can be converted to much smaller 8-bit indexed colour images. All unnecessary metadata is stripped too. The result: tiny PNG files with 100% support for transparency. Have your cake and eat it too!

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Installation & Usage:

Install and activate TinyPNG for WordPress plugin. Upon activation visit your Dashboard -> TinyPNG admin page and enter your email and API key to connect with TinyPNG.

Now you can upload the PNG file using its uploader. As soon as the uploading finishes, the plugin will connect to the TinyPNG API and get you the Optimized image. (The files uploaded and optimized are saved in the TInyPNG folder in the main WP media folder. For eg – /wp-content/TinyPNG )

How to obtain your API key?

If you haven’t made one yet, you can visit this link to make one – https://tinypng.com/developers

Step-1 Creating your Facebook Add

Step-3 Specify the people (audience) who will be shown your Ad. How old they are, what their interests are, etc.

Step-3 Time to enter your Billing Information

Features

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