WordPress visual editor in Add New and Edit post pages provide you a fullscreen button called as Distraction Free Writing Mode. When you switch to fullscreen mode your preview post button disappears and because of this you have to switch back to normal mode for previewing the blog post you were writing.
Jetpack’s stats module shows you your most popular blog posts on your admin area dashboard. WordPress plugin’s repository has a new plugin Jetpack Post Views, this plugin simply allows you to dispplay your most popular blog posts as a sidebar widget on your WordPress site. But remember this only works if you have Jetpack by WordPress.Com plugin activated and its stats module is enabled on your website.
In last article we have discussed how you can Easily Display Your Github Repositories In WordPress And Also ShowThe Percentage Of Commits Made To Your Project. Now this post explains you ho you can display a list of contributors from a GitHub repository to your WordPress site.
You can automatically number your blog posts ordered by the post date. You can automatically put the post number in front ofyour blog post title. All you need is install and activate Auto Numbering Post. It needs no other configuration options to set.
WordPress posts already have a preview feature but many a time you have to open you WordPress site for previewingthe changes you have made. Suppose you have installed a new plugin and you want to know how its new features are looking in the front-end of your WordPress blog or when you activate a new theme or change your reading or discussion settings etc. You have to go through one or two click for previewing your website. Sometimes you like to open yourwebsite in new tab so that you can carry on with your changes in dashboard and refresh your webpage everytime after making new changes. This thing is a little bit time consuming and its not handy.
Here is a list of 20+ keyboardshortcutkeys you can use while writing your blog posts in WordPress, shortcutkeys are very useful sometimes while writing any long blog post and for the bloggers who are more active on their blogs and do a lot of posting and commenting activities.
Monitor.Us is the popular web monitoring service and now WordPress users has an option to use its new pluginfor monitoring their website‘s uptime and speed.
Social Media Tabs is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to display your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, RSS and more in beautiful tab format. You have option to use it as a widget showing tabs or you can slide it out from side.
As you website starts becoming popular on Internet, you start getting a lot of comments. Some visitors drop very useful comments that makes your articles more valuable, some just come for increasing their Page Rank, some drop comment for getting backlinks etc etc But whatsoever may be the reason comments and commenters are always valuable for yourwebsite, even those who just drop comments for increasing their PR because they come and spend time on your websiteand this is the most important thing a blogger need.
We all know that Jetpack by WordPress.Com is loaded with quite useful and better working features. Its sharing bar is popular among the bloggers, when a blogger get confused with wide range of sharing plugins; he switch to Jetpacksharing module. Before Jetpack sharing feature was not providing bloggers with Pinterest’s PinIt button but afterwardsJetpack added the feature of Pinning images and that was one of important update for a wide range of Jetpack user but it was not very useful for the bloggers who used to post many images or you can say more than one images in their blog posts because the main problem with Jetpack’s ‘Share on Pinterest’ button is that it automatically grabs an image attached with in your blog post for pinning and hence it doesn’t allows you to select an appropriate image you want to pin.
Sometimes you want your website member to get automatically redirected to a given page after he logs-in or out. For Example: If you don’t want to show WordPress login page after your user logs-out from your website. Whatsoever may be the reason, here we are discussing about a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to redirect your users to apage of your like as they login or logout. This plugin is powerful enough to satisfy all your wired demands.
WiziApp is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to publish your App as a native App to the App Store and Google Play Market. You can easily create your own free HTML5 mobile Apps for iPhone, Android and WP8 users.
There are many plugins that allows you to show your blog comments in various styles. Some allows you to display comments with avatars, some displays top commenters, featured comments etc etc. But there are very few plugins or might be this is the second one that allows you show your WordPress site’s Trackbacks and Pingbacks as sidebar widget.
Earlier we have discussed about WordPress widgets that allows you to display posts from selected tags or categories in your WordPress site. Now this posts is about a new WordPress widget that allows you to show recent blog posts from specific tag, category or anyother custom taxonomy by pulling them across your network and showing them on widget.
Jetpack by WordPress.Com provides you a mobile theme that you can activate from Jetpack’s main page in your WordPress admin area dashboard. By default most plugins that allows you to select positions for displaying ads like Google Adsense works only in main activated theme of your WordPress site. Hence, your blog readers who visit your site from their mobile devices get none of your ads displayed.
Now you can easily add the famous SubtlePatterns as backgrounds in your WordPress blog. WordPress has a new plugin called Subtle Background Patterns. Its very easy to use, even it provides you an option to activate live preview feature on the front-end of your website so that you can instantly check any background pattern simply by clicking on it.
BuddyPress allows its members to upload a custom avatar but WordPress doesn’t provides you any option to upload and use a custom avatar directly from your website, instead you have to use Gravatar.Com This is OK because provides you avatar that can be used globally in all WordPress sites simply by using your email address. But some site admins running a multi-user WordPress site face problems because they don’t get any option for uploading avatar image for the users who are not registered on Gravatar.Com
Twitter Bootstrap is getting more and more popular in blogging world. WordPress plugin’s repository has a new plugin called WP Bootstrap Menu, with this new plugin you can give your WordPress navigation menus a Twitter’s Bootstrap style.
You can allow your users to preview themes without activating them, this way you can setup a website providing different downloadable themes to your users and easily allow them to preview each theme.
WordPress plugin repository has a new plugin Jellyfish Counter Widget, it provides you an odometer type counter widget for displaying either a static value or animate it to a set of total. Great for tracking totals, not for counting jellyfish ;-)
Undo is popular feature of office suites, photo editors and many other apps. WordPress by default doesn’t provides you any undo button but sometimes you can use CTRL + Z to undo a line or character but thing is very limited because you cannot use us it for many undo steps like you do in other applications.