Split testing simply means a straight forward test that compares one version to other. This post contains some powerful WordPress plugins that lets you split test different stuff of your WordPress site.
YD WPMU Bloglist Widget provides you a sidebar widget and a template function for displaying list of subsites with posts count in main WordPress site of a multisite network.
Linkimage is a brand new WordPress plugin which allows you to display images by using same old media uploader or simply grab them from WordPress media library and display them on sidebar widget with custom links using various customization options. The plugin also provides you a premium version upgrade which offers shortcode and a few more useful features.
There are many websites that allows you to create Facebook Timeline Covers and we have discussed about a few earlier but this article is on a different type of Timeline cover creator called NameCovers.Com. The service is different as it allows you to create Facebook Timeline Covers with your name over it.
JB Common is the new WordPress plugin that enables some basic common features that are not packed with default WordPress install like adding favicon, meta tags, adding HTML to head and footer, WordPress e-mail from header filter and a few more.
WordPress automatically suggest to upgrade browser (if necessary) when working in its admin area dashboard. But the functionality is limited to backend only and hence sometimes when your visitors browse your website using some old web browser, they may see some hanged scripts etc in your website and blame you or your developer for that. This article explains you how you can easily suggest your visitors to update their web browser for better view without blocking their access to your website.
What is PHP.INI File ? PHP.INI is a configuration file which is read when PHP starts up. For server module versions of PHP, it only happens once when the webserver is started. For the CGI and CLI versions, it happens on every invocation.
Url2png.Com is powerful screenshot service that allows you to grab screenshot of web pages by using their URLs. Easiest way to check this service is to visit its home page (url2png.com) type the URL and press ENTER. You will be seeing the screenshot image instantly displayed on the left, you can open that image in a new tab and save it to your hard disk. You can use this service in your website using its API key or simply try using its plugin if you use WordPress. Read its quick start documentation here.
With WordPress BETA releases you can check new coming features of WordPress and test them locally on your computer or somewhere else. Example: For testing WordPress 3.6 you can download its beta .zip file here, upload them to a hosting or locally on your computer server, configure them just like you do with WordPress stable release installation and check it. Or you can replace WordPress core files on any running WP website and check BETA release, but remember its recommended not to run any BETA release on a production website. This tutorial explains you how you can easily upgrade WordPress to recent BETA releases by installing and activation a simple WordPress plugin.
Now WordPress.Org has a new look and all its color and patterns are just like WordPress future’s secret admin area interface. MP6 is a secret WP plugin (where MP6 doesn’t stand for anything) by Matt Mullenweg, Andy Peatling and 13 other developers. It simply transforms your admin area interface to the one that may be reshaped in near future.
WP Status Notifier lets you send automatic email notifications to given email addresses for the blog posts pending for review. The plugin can also be used optionally to notify contributors when their post is accepted or rejected, The plugin is very useful for moderation in multi-contributors WordPress blogs.
The tutorial is on adding a new Webmaster user role which comes in between your site Administrator and Editor. This user is same as site Administrator but it excludes some capabilities like managing plugins, changing themes. Users with this role will not be able to install or activate any theme or plugin. They can change the widgets, edit theme options like background, header images etc if your theme provides and do all other things which a site admin does.
New WordPress Colored Titles for each Post Type provides you an easy way to change default title color of your blog posts, pages and other custom post types.
Snake is a very popular and most addicting game people used to play mostly on mobile phones. Now you can add it in your WordPress site and allow all your website users including unregistered visitors to play this game on your website. You can add it inside a page, post, custom post type or text widget simply by using its shortcode.
WordPress can be used in many different languages. By default the language installed and active on WP sites is English. You can easily change your installation language by editing your wp-config.php file which is present in your site’s root directory. Remember it may happen that the language you have defined in your wp-config.php file is not installed in your WordPress site. In such case you can download your language files from here and upload them to Your site root -> wp-content -> Languages directory.
Earlier we discussed about WP Fluid Images plugin that automatically makes all your website images fluid that takes up the screen size. This tutorial is on similar plugin that works in keeping YouTube and Vimeo videos proportional and smooth according to the screen width.
Without visiting cPanel and editing or adding PHP files you can very easily customize your WordPress installation with some basic hacks that every WordPress site owner needs, specially if you are working on your client website.
You can set WordPress to approve or reject user registrations after admin review. WP Approve User is a free WordPress plugin that works in almost all WordPress versions. After activation it allows you to approve or unapprove user registrations and when you unapprove any user he gets blocked from access WordPress admin area dashboard.
Although there are many WordPress plugins, hacks and other cPanel tricks that allows you to block visitors on some defined conditions. Here is an easiest way of blocking visitors from selected countries and it is the best method if you want to target traffic from a specific country or region.