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New jQuery Based Horizontal Timeline For WordPress

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Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin provides you a simple and handy shortcode that displays jQuery powered horizontal timeline in your WordPress site. Timeline displays dates and time which when clicked shows the posts with excerpts (under the timeline) published on that particular date without page any refresh.

How To Use Horizontal Timeline Shortcode?

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Install and activate Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin. After activation the plugin enables a shortcode you can use inside your posts, pages, text widgets and other shortocde supported areas of WordPress.

[ml_timeline] is the default shortcode that will display all posts.

category_name=”Your-category-slug” -> [ml-timeline category_name=”Your-category-slug”] will display posts from a specific category.

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How To Set Featured Image From WordPress Admin All Posts View?

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Now you can view and edit your post’s thumbnails directly from All Posts list (Dashboard -> Posts -> All Posts) present in WordPress admin area dashboard. Featured Image Admin Thumb lets you do this in a very handy way. Install and activate this new WordPress plugin and then follow few simple steps.

featured-image-admin-thumb-fiat screenshot 1Screenshot shows the Thumb column in the All Pages/Posts admin view and in this case a thumbnail is available and shown. There would be a blank space if no thumbnail was found for the post or page.

featured-image-admin-thumb-fiat screenshot 2If the column is not showing in your All Posts/Pages view this shows you where you can check to see that the “Thumb” column is selected to be displayed

Upon activation the plugin automatically adds a new column in admin section’s ‘All Posts’ & ‘All Pages’ view. This new column shows featured thumbnail image attached to the Post/Page. Other than this the posts which don’t have any thumbnail attached, the plugin displays ‘Set Thumbnail’ button you can use for adding thumbnail to your post in admin post list view.

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Evolution Social Sharing For WordPress: An Alternative To Popular Digg Digg Plugin

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Digg Digg is among the most popular free social sharing plugins available for WordPress sites. The plugin adds a floating bar with sharing buttons to your WordPress blog, just like Mashable. Now this tutorial is on another new WordPress plugin called Evolution Social Share. It is advertised that theb plugin is an alternative to Digg Digg that uses less code and loads much faster. Provides you fixed social share toolbar that is SEO friendly and customizable.

The plugin is designed for the bloggers who don’t like to use the content heavy and slow Digg Digg bar. This new bar only has the code required to create the fixed bar having sharing to increase page speed and less code. It contains only the necessary JavaScript for the buttons which is added to the Footer, not inside the content and hence gives you high performance and loading.

Install and activate Evolution Social Share plugin. Upon activation you can control its options, features and make customization from your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Evolution Social Share page.

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BuddyPress Blog Avatar: Enable Site Admins To Upload Avatars For Their Blogs

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BuddyPress site owners now can easily enables their site admins site to upload and use custom avatars for their blogs. BuddyPress Blog Avatar is the new BuddyPress plugin by BuddyDev developers. The plugin simply activates a new admin section feature where site admins can upload blog avatar using backend settings options.

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Install and activate the BuddyPress Blog Avatar plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Blog Avatar page and upload blog avatar, crop it and save the changes.

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New Science Blog Helper WordPress App For Science Writers

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Science Blog Helper is the new WordPress plugin designed specially for science blog writer. Currently it provides you functions like LaTeX supporting and post outline generation. Simply install and activate it. Upon activation the plugin adds a new menu in admin sidebar. Visit Dashboard ->  SciBloger and choose your configuration mode and other options.

LaTeX Support

This function is realised by importing copy of MathJax, an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers, from their CDN Service.

Simply use \(…\) to wrap your in-line math or \[…\] to wrap your equations. For more info, please visit MathJax Homepage or Documents.

Outline Generation

Posts on science usually are long works. SciBloger will help you generate a useful outline as long as headers were set properly: making h3 the top level in your post; h4s, h5s, h6s follows by order.

Shortcode is also supported to generate outline more flexible:

[scibloger_outline show=”yes” right=”10px” top=”20%”]
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How To Add Subtitles To Your WordPress Site Widgets?

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Yes you can easily enable subtitles in all WordPress widgets like default WP widgets, widgets your theme provides you and widgets provided by plugins, hacks etc. Widget Subtitle is the new WordPress plugin that provides you easiest way of adding widget subtitles.

Simply install and activate the plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically adds a new subtitle field in all widgets. Visit Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page and use subtitle text field and add subtitles to your widgets.

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All your website widgets keeps working in old way, the plugin doesn’t adds any subtitle to any widget by itself upon activation.

Widget Subtitle

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Easily Enable Selected Text Snippet Sharing In WordPress

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DX Share Selection is the new fork of WP Selected Text Sharer which is not updated since long. DX Share Selection simply activates snippet sharing feature that allows your visitors to share/search selected text from your site. They may select a snippet, search for it or share it on various popular social networks.

Install and activate the plugin then visit Dashboard -> Settings -> DX Share Selection and select your options like you can add Widget Title, Share Items, add custom buttons,set Border Color, Background Color, Title Background color, Hover Color, Text Color, Extra Class, Grep Element and other options including Bitly Settings etc.

How selected sharing works?

As soon your reader selects a text snippet in your website’s content like a post, page or custom post type, a popup comes from where sharing is done. Shared snippet also includes to that page thus increases site visibility and traffic.

Apart from sharing buttons you can also add custom buttons and search engines like Google, Yahoo etc or simply your site’s to the popup.

Features

  • Light weight, 4KB jquery plugin is required.
  • Various color/style and option arguments.
  • Automatic selected text truncation for Twitter.
  • Shorten the post link using Bitly.
  • Load the scripts either in header or footer.
  • Simple and light interface.
  • Template system for adding links to the popup.
  • No knowledge of coding required.
  • Integration with WP Socializer plugin
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Moving Posts From One Category To Another In WordPress

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Here’s a quick and handy style of moving your WordPress blog posts from one category to another. Move Posts is a very simple and lightweight plugin that lets you move all posts from one category to another. In other words we can say its like moving categories.

First of all install and activate Move Posts plugin and then follow the steps:

  1. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Move Posts page
  2. Use dropdown ‘From Category’ to choose the category you like to move
  3. Now use second dropdown ‘To Category’ and select category you like moving first category posts to.
  4. Finally click ‘Submit’ button and you are done.
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News Headline Ticker With Typing Style Slider For WordPress

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News Headline Ticker is the new typing style text slider for WordPress. It allows you to display your recent news headline as typing style slider on your website. The plugin is designed for online news websites. It adds a new post type you can use for creating news posts and then you can show them in a sliding typing style.

Install and activate the plugin then follow the given steps:

  1. Visit admin area dashboard and you will see a new post type is added.
  2. Click on the new menu item “News Headline” and create your head line news.
  3. Just copy and paste ” if(function_exists('newsHeadLineTkr')){headLinePost();} in the template code or [News-Ticker] in the post/page” where you want to display news head line.
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Create Special Content With New WordPress Light Shortcode Generator

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Light Shortcode is the new TinyMCE shortcode generator for WordPress sites. The plugin provides you shortcodes for Button, Icon, Box, Highlight, Divider, Toggle, Google Map, Accordion, Pricing Table, Tabs, and Grid etc.

light-shortcode screenshot 1Light Shortcode button

light-shortcode screenshot 2Example shortcode (Price Tables)

Simply install and activate Light Shortcode plugin. Upon activation it adds a new TinyMCE button in WordPress visual editor. You may use the button and insert special looking content while creating new or editing an old blog post, page or any other custom post type etc without painful of manual coding. Check out its Live Demo & Documentation.

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Easily Add Expand & Collapse Functionality To Any WordPress Theme

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Expand + Collapse Funk is the brand new WordPress application the allows you to easily add expand and collapse functionality to any WordPress theme. The plugin is beautifully simple UI. It simply saves your space by generating hidden content.

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  1. Beautifully simple UI
  2. Easily integrate images and YouTube video
  3. Direct link to images/YouTube videos
  4. Quick placement of expand+collapse items
  5. Use on pages or posts (or copy and paste the code to use in theme templates)
  6. Use HTML markup inside the hidden content area

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With this new plugin you can easily place hidden content and a link that reveals the content. The functionality is widely used across world wide web to free up space on a page or to place semi-important content into posts. There is no limit to the length of the hidden content. You can include images, YouTube & Vimeo videos or anything else you like.

expandcollapse-funk screenshot 1Expand+Collapse Funk creates a custom tinyMCE icon in the visual editor for very easy use.

expandcollapse-funk screenshot 2The Expand+Collapse Funk modal

expandcollapse-funk screenshot 3Example of very simple YouTube video integration

expandcollapse-funk screenshot 4Example of generated links on a page

expandcollapse-funk screenshot 5Example of expandedl inks showing hidden content.

Simply install and activate the plugin. Upon activation the plugin adds a new TinyMCE button in WordPress visual editor. You may create or edit a page or post to access the ‘Expand Collapse Funk’ tinyMCE button then input the necessary fields, click insert and you are done.

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Exporting Jetpack’s Contact Form Feedback Data To CSV File

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By default WordPress doesn’t provides you option to export Jetpack’s feedback data to CSV. Butby using Jetpack Feedback Exporter you can export Jetpack Contact Form Feedback data to a csv file. It enables you to select the form you like exporting, then click export, that’s all. The plugin is addon for Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin.

Plugin Features:

  • Export all data
  • Export into CSV
  • Opens easily in excel
  • Contains header tags
  • Optional Date

Exporting FeedBack Forms:

For exporting your Jetpack Feedback forms visit your admin area Dashboard -> Tools -> Feedback Exporter and choose desired form to export, you can include date, then finally click export and you are done.

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Bring Facebook POKE Feature To Your BuddyPress Network

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You must have observed this feature on Facebook. Facebook Poke is an old feature of Facebook. Now you can enable Poke in your BuddyPress site too. BuddyPress Poke is the new plugin by Anu Sharma. The plugin simply activates Poke in BuddyPress that enables your community members to poke other members, just like Facebook.

bp-poke screenshot 1Other user profile

bp-poke screenshot 2Poke screen

bp-poke screenshot 3Error message

bp-poke screenshot 4Poke back screen

Simply install and activate the plugin. Upon activate your logged in members will be able to poke by visiting other users profile and using poke button.

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New Quick Way Of WordPress Admin Area Post Navigation

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Quick Navigation provides you new fast and easy way of admin section post navigation. There many ways of editing your blog posts by generally bloggers use Dashboard -> Posts -> All Posts page. Now what this new plugin does is it add a filter on ‘All posts’ list admin page and  you can open any post for editing by using this dropdown showing all post on that admin page list.

Quick Post Navigation

Second thing Quick Navigation does is it also adds a dropdown box is edit post page from where you can directly open any post for editing soon after editing or publishing content.

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Easily Turn Any WordPress Page InTo A Beautiful Resume

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You can turn any simple WordPress page into a Resume Page by using the new easy WordPress plugin called Resume Page. The plugin provides you all inbuilt basics for all what a resume page needs. The plugin follows traditional resume layout and is completely customizable with in-built design options and also you can add your custom CSS.

It provides you power to turn any page of your website into a different resume page. It also has a smart templating feature that enables developers to easily override the template simply by dropping it into child theme.

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Resume Page with stacked corners.

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Resume page with flat view and background image

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Github and Portfolio integration

How to use Resume Page Plugin?

Install and activate Resume Page. Upon activation the plugin automatically adds various metaboxes in Add New/Edit Pages. For creating a new resume page all you have to do is create a new page from Dashboard -> Pages -> Add New and tick ‘Make this page a Resume Page’ option in Resume Page metabox, you can also select your resume page theme, layout and manage its sections right from the page admin section.

See it live working here.

Main Features:

  1. Portfolio:Integrated lightbox portfolio
  2. Github: Integrated Github activity stream
  3. Themes: Choose from a flat setup or stacked paper corners with CSS3
  4. Reusable: Use it on every page of your site and each resume can be completely different
  5. Templating: Themers can copy the template from /templates/resume-page-template.php into a child theme and mod away safely
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Github Style Easy Headline Parser For WordPress Blogs

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If you like writing long articles with multiple headings, ONet Auto Headline Anchor will allows you to add a link next to your headings so that your readers can easily share posts pointing to specific parts, you might have noticed this feature in GitHub and on some websites running on Mediawiki. The feature is also loaded with a smooth scroll script.

Install and activate ONet Auto Headline Anchor then follow the given steps:

  1. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading
  2. Scroll down to ONet Auto Headline Anchor settings section and select your settings
  3. It allows you to set the options like Enable parse, Choose Linkify style, Linkify style, Smooth scroll, Use cache, Select Tags to parse from H1 to H6, Add support for posts & pages

Also you can get a TOC of content by using ONetAutoHeadlineAnchor::get_toc([content],[optional: return hierarchical or raw list]).

The plugin contains a predefined style for Git-like link display but it is hardly recommend to change the style to fit your needs (and your design).

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Improve WordPress Pagination With Extra Input (Jump To) Number

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You can improve your WordPress site pagination by adding enabling extra input number that simply allows users to jump to any (x) page. There are various pagination plugins that changes default ‘Older Posts’ & ‘Newer Posts’ option to page number, now this tutorial explains you to add one extra function that enables users to jump to some page number directly.

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Creating Beautiful & Responsive YouTube Video Albums In WordPress

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You can fetch yours or someone else’s YouTube video (uploads or favorites) from YouTube channels to create beautiful albums with retrieved info into your WordPress site. Srizon Responsive Youtube Album is the new WordPress plugin by srizon.com. Using this new plugin you can create video albums, the play video on a responsive lightbox, you can add as many albums as you want and display them using shortcodes which are generated automatically, you can copy/paste them into your blog post, page or any other custom post type etc.

Install and activate Srizon Responsive Youtube Album. Upon activation the plugin adds a new menu ‘YouTube Album’ in WordPress admin area. Follow the given steps:

  1. From Dashboard -> YouTube Albums menu click on the Albums submenu
  2. Click “Add New” button to add a new album. (or click on an existing album title to edit that)
  3. Fill-up or modify the form and save that
  4. Your albums will be listed along with the shortcodes. Use the shortcodes into your page/post to show the video album
  5. Try out different options to suit your need
srizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 1Thumb with description layout – wide view
srizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 2Thumb Grid layout – wide view
srizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 3Video in responsive lightbox – wide view
srizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 4Video in responsive lightbox – small screen
srizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 5Thumb Grid layout – small screen
srizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 6Admin View – Adding album – basic
srizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 7Admin View – Adding album – layout related optionssrizon-responsive-youtube-album screenshot 8
Admin View – Album list with shortcodes

Pro Version:

There is also a pro version of this plugin having following more features:

  • you can sync as many videos as you want (assuming that your connection and server’s memory can handle the data)
  • playlist is also supported besides channel uploads and favorites
  • 3 layouts available (one additional responsive slider besides 2 free layouts)
  • pagination is available for 2 layouts
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Generate Favicon From Any Image In One Click From WordPress Admin Section

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FavHero – Favicon Generator is a quick one-click favicon generator for WordPress sites. With this new plugin you can instantly in just one click generate favion from any image you have in your WordPress media library. Install and activate FavHero – Favicon Generator plugin, after activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> FavHero Favicons page, click ‘Select Faviocn‘ button to select an image from your media library to make it your website’s favicon. Also you can upload any image from your local hardrive and make it your site’s favicon.

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Use Jetpack Sharing Feature Without Installing Whole Jetpack Package In WordPress

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Jetpack is a popular WordPress plugin that provides you a package of various cool features designed by WordPress.Com. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that installs only sharing module of Jetpack into your WordPress site. Useful for the users interested in only sharing feature of Jetpack, now there is no need of installing whole package.

Jetpack Sharing is the new WordPress plugin by Anas H. Sulaiman. The plugin contains Jetpack’s sharing module and activates it in your WordPress site. Simply install and activate it the visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Sharing page and set the options.

Features: All what you get in Official Jetpack’s Sharing Module:

  • Choose social networks buttons you’d like to add.
  • Drag and drop style for button selection.
  • Hide some buttons behind a share button.
  • Add your own custom buttons.
  • Choose from 4 different buttons styles: icon only, text only, icon + text, or official buttons.
  • Custom sharing label. (displayed next to sharing buttons)
  • Open links in the same window, or in a new one.
  • Choose where the buttons show up.
  • Preview how the buttons will be appear on your website, right from the settings page.

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How To Disable WordPress Comments By Referers?

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You can disable your website comments by referers which means you can ban visitors from some websites from viewing or adding comments to your website’s posts, pages etc.

How to disable comments by referer?

Disable Comments By Referer is the new WordPress plugin that lets you selectively disable comments for visitors coming from certain websites (e.g. reddit).

Install and activate the plugin then follow the given steps:

  1. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion page
  2. Scroll down to ‘Referer Blacklist for Comments’ section (added at the very bottom of the page).
  3. Type the a comma-separated bare hostnames, (ex: www.reddit.com, news.ycombinator.com.) in the given text area as shown in following given screenshot:

That’s all. Save your settings and you are done. How it works?

If a visitor’s HTTP referer matches to one of the hosts you’ve blacklisted then the your post will look like as comments have been disabled on your website, neither existing comments nor the new comment form is displayed.