Image optimization becomes very important for responsive WordPress site because your website is being viewed on smaller, slower, low bandwidth devices then all desktop-centric images loads very slowly, cause UI lag, and hence cost you and your visitors unnecessary bandwidth and money. This tutorial is on adaptive images plugin that fixes this thing.
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Now you can very easily create and organize group of images and keep them in a separate folder and use them inside your posts with their URLs, share them on other websites etc. Image Collections is the new, very powerful and useful WordPress plugin made for the webmaster who like uploading and managing image collections in a separate folder other then default media library. It is also good for WP plugin and theme developers looking for a better easy way to work with a sets of images.
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Pixect.com is an awesome webservice that lets you click pictures online using web camera and then you can easily add amazing fun effects to them. It provides you dozens of real-time effects and multiple capture modes so that you can quickly apply digital effects to photos online and then save those photos to your hard drive.
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Hover Zoom is an awesome Google Chrome extension that completely changes your web browsing experience. Hover Zoom automatically enlarges the Thumbnails image to full image size without loading a new page in a lightbox effect. The extension works in all websites including the popular networks like Flickr, Amazon, Google+, Facebook and more.
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Portfolio Press is a responsive two column theme for showcasing your photography, art, websites or any other kinds of projects. You can also use it as a general blogging theme. It provides you one navigation area at the top of the website and an options panel where you can upload logos and change the layout etc. It support other WP features like support for the image, gallery and quote post formats.
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Responsive Media Gallery lets you replace the default WordPress gallery with a responsive, touch friendly Media slideshow and you can create beautiful responsive gallery slideshows in a few minutes. Leveraging the new built in gallery user interface in WordPress, you can now drag and drop images to create perfectly responsive gallery slideshows with ease. Check out its preview here.
Tattoo Images is new WordPress plugin that lets you use tattoo images in your WordPress site. The plugin provides you access to a library of tattoo images direct from your default WordPress media inserter thick box. You can search for the images right from your edit post page, select and insert images and it automatically adds required image credit link so you don’t need to worry about any other thing. All images are safe to use, they only requires a link back to the source which this plugin does automatically.
You can easily import all external images attached in your website content without going through any difficult steps instead you just have to click a button and wait till it automatically imports all your post images. Sometimes when you imported XML file, specially when you are migrating your WordPress installation to a new server, the default WP importer provides you option of downloading all file attachments to media library but in-most cases the feature doesn’t works.
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You must have seen animated various kinds of animated GIFs on social networking sites. Linux news websites use them for showing why everyone loves to hate Ubuntu Unity interface, Health and Fitness websites use them for showing exercise moves etc etc. Now you can also create GIFs from any YouTube video or if you like making GIF from a video you have then you can upload it to YouTube first and then make its GIF image file.
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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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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.
Rollip.com is a free cloud service that allows you to give quick and easy photo effects. Simply visit its website rollip.com/start/ upload your photos and start giving effect in easy clicks. You can easily give any digital photo a complete new look and feel by using the high-quality filters ranging from 70’s vintage to other modern ones.
You can easily try it with one image and then you will probably be ending up processing your entire photo collection. The application works like your own private Instagram but with many more effects. You can easily start with it in just a minute and all your images look more interesting and cool.
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.
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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
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.
Screenshot 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.
If 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.
Pixlr-o-matic enables you to turn your photos into cool looking retro snaps! This darkroom let you apply effects and borders as easy as one two three. It is a cloud web service. Like the kind of effect you get from polariod, hipstamatic, instagram and applications like that, now you have a large selection of styles direct in your web browser.
You can turn your photos into cool looking vintage and retro snaps. With its fun and simple darkroom you can apply filters, lightning and borders very easily. Provides you high quality result without any photo editing expertise and knowledge.
Da Button Factory is a free web service you can use for creating buttons you want to add in your website. Its user friendly and simple layout allows you to create buttons in seconds and everything happens live, there are no steps and redirects to various webpages, you can create button livefrom its homepage and then download it in the image form or copy its CSS. Everything happens live, even while creating button and save your button image.
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You can automatically set and display a default Post Thumbnail image (featured image) either the first image attached to a post or you can set default images as thumbnails for specific categories, tags, custom taxonomies etc. Also you can exclude certain posts. Supports custom fields to ease upgrading.
First install and activate Default Thumbnail Plus plugin then follow the given steps:
Step-1 After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Default Thumb Plus page.
Step-2 Now first it will ask to set default thumbnail that will be loaded if the post has no featured image set.
Step-3 Now click ‘Add Filter‘ button, upload image and use dropdown to set selected image as featured thumbnail of posts from any specific category, tag posts etc.
Use image attachment if available: Automatically use the post’s first available image attachment for the thumbnail. This is useful for older posts that haven’t got a featured image set.
Automatically use first embedded image, use embedded image if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded image for the thumbnail. This is useful if you embed external images.
Automatically use first embedded video, use embedded video thumbnail if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded video for the thumbnail (YouTube only).
Custom field: Enter a custom field key here, it’s value if set will become the default post thumbnail for that post. The custom field value can either be an Attachment ID, or a link to an image.
Excluded posts: List of posts to be ignored by this plugin. Comma separated e.g. 10, 2, 7, 14
Cache and resize external images: Automatically resize, crop and cache external images & video thumbnails. Recommended option, however doesn’t work with some server configurations.
Enable or disable plugin hooks (for developers only): Filter post_thumbnail_html Filter get_post_metadata
Stupeflix Video Maker is a cool web service that allows you to create awesome videos in few simple clicks. It gives you a FREE HD 720p VIDEO as soon you sign up. You can mix up photos, videos, music, and create stunning videos very fast.
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First Visit this URL, now sign in with your Google or Facebook (and there a more) account, soon after login the website will ask you to choose a video theme.
Select a video theme and click ‘Make Video’ button, click start editing and now you can fill the project with photos, video clips, music, you can add text slides, captions, maps, transitions etc. You can arrange, preview and fine-tune – download your movie, embed it or export it to YouTube, Facebook etc.
Getcandid.com allows you to explore the hottest trends and find most influential people on Instagram. (updated hourly). Its Fashion by You section gives allows you to explore new stuff, you ca share your ideas with your favorite brands to get featured on their sites. It enables real-time exchanges between you and your favourite brands. You can join thousands of candid photographers putting their daily pictures to work.
Simply visit this web page and start exploring. You can sign in to the website using your Instagram Account. Just click ‘Sign In with Instagram‘ button.
Also you can give a try to its Google Chrome App.
You can select default link for images while uploading or inserting them inside your WordPress site, in posts or pages. You can select default link to None, Attachment Page, Media File or Custom URL. Default Image Link is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to do so.
Generally when you insert a image in any of your post or page by default,it always appear to be self-linked i.e. liked with its self file. But now by using Default Image Link plugin you can establish the link type by default for images without having to worry about selecting a different option on each occasion.
As said by the developers, For SEO & other reasons most website owners prefer images to have ‘none’ link. And there are many other who prefer images to be liked to their Attachment page or self file (.jpg, .png, .gif, etc.)
Now if you use this new plugin then you can define link type for each image and then there will be no need of modifying image at the time you are using those images. Previously inserted image links are not modified.
Instal and activate the plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Default Image Link page and there you can select default image link option from:
Great for multi-author WordPress sites where sometimes authors forget about selecting correct link for each image used in their post etc. Another good thing about thus plugin is that you can disable it after defining default image link and re-enable it for changing default image link again.
WordPress plugin repo. has new handy plugin for the bloggers and webmasters who need managing a lot of media files. With this new plugin you can create unlimited amount of media taxonomies (just like categories and tags), manage your custom media taxonomies in a better way, easily filter media files in Media Library by your custom taxonomies, create new media file types (MIME types) and more.
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