You can assign a separate theme on home, posts, search, archive and other pages of your WordPress site.
In this lesson, you will learn how easily you can get control over the look and feel of your website by assigning different themes to different areas of your website.
Simply navigate to your admin area dashboard to find and install Multiple Themes plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Manage Themes page to assign different themes over different sections of your website.
The plugin will enable you to choose
A Theme for All Posts
A Theme for All Pages
A Theme for Site Home
A Theme for an Individual Post
A Theme for an Individual Page
A Theme for Selective Archive Page
A Theme for Selective Search Pages, Terms, and more
The plugin enables you to choose a different theme for everything and override the active WordPress theme on your website.
Updating WordPress Theme Options
Now the question arises how you would be able to change the theme options for any theme you want? Well that is possible, you will find the complete process in this lesson.
The plugin doesn’t changes the active WordPress theme on your website. Instead, it works by dynamically overriding the settings on the pages and sections selected by you.
You can better manage your multi-author WordPress sites by marking WordPress posts and Pages as completed, partial, needing review, add notes documenting editorial needs with Content Progress plugin.
Twitter already provides you inbuilt widget creation features. Other than this WordPress also provides you oEmbed for twitter, you can enable oEmbed in your WordPress site from Dashboard -> Settings -> Media page and then you can embed a tweet simply by pasting its URL inside your post or page content.
This article is on few other WordPress plugins that extends tweet embed features in WordPress and allows you to do some more good things with your tweets.
Tweet Blender is a popular WordPress plugin that provides you various Twitter Widgets like you can
Display your own tweets
Display tweets for hashtags
Display tweets for twitter lists
Display tweets relevant to your post content (like Huffingtonpost)
The plugin supports multiple authors, keywords and hashtags. With Tweet Blender you can display tweets from a single user or a list of users. Also you can display tweets from a certain topic, multiple hashtags or keywords, various lists, authors etc. There is a long list of this plugin features.
After activation specify your configuration settings from Dashboard -> Settings -> Tweet Blender admin page. You will be needing to authenticate to Twitter and allow read-only access to tweet stream (present under the Status tab).
Fetch Tweets is another plugin for fetching and showing Twitter tweets. With this plugin you can display tweets by specifying username, search results, keywords, Lists and yes you can show up combined results by adding multiple rules.
For displaying the fetched tweets the plugin provides you Widget, Shortcode, PHP Code and Custom Templates.
Installation & Usage:
Install and activate the plugin then follow the given steps:
After activation you can set a rule from Dashboard -> Fetch Tweets -> Add Rule by User Name or Add Rule by Keyword.
For using its widgets visit Appearance -> Widgets and use Fetch Tweets by Rule Set. You can set the rule in the widget form itself.
The plugin also provides you shortcode to use in your posts, pages. Use the shortcode
[fetch_tweets id="123"]
Replacing 123 with your rule ID. Rule ID can be found in the Fetch Tweets admin page in your dashboard.
As clear from its name, the plugin provides you widget and shortcodes for displaying Twitter Tweets. It is used for displaying one tweet at a time with rotation which means one tweets gets automatically and smoothly replaced by the other. Display is responsive and it shows up the recent tweets even if Twitter is down. Check out the plugin working here.
Installation & Usage:
After activation you can use its widget from Appearance -> Widgets page or you can display it via shortcode (inside your posts and pages etc) like:
[rotatingtweets screen_name='your_twitter']
The plugin allows you to decide how you want to show up tweets, you can set the number of tweets to display, you can include retweets and replies and even display a follow button if you like.
You can also set Tweets rotation speed and animation type to use in Tweet rotation.
How To Create A Twitter Application ?
Most of the above plugins uses Twitter Application, API so following are he instructions on how you can create your Twitter Application, it takes a few minutes:
Visit My applications page on the Twitter website. Login with your Twitter username and password.
If you don’t already have a suitable ‘application’ then create one from the Create an Application page. It’s normally best to use the name, description and website URL of the website where you plan to use Rotating Tweets. You don’t need a Callback URL if you are setting it up for the plugins discussed here.
After clicking Create your Twitter application, click on Create my access token.
Now copy the Consumer key, Consumer secret, Access token and Access token secret from your Twitter application page and use it wherever required.
You can easily activate a custom mouse pointer for the visitors who access your website in the frontend. Unique Cursor is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to select a custom mouse pointer.
Page Showcaser Boxes is the new WordPress shortcode plugin that enables you to showcase your WordPress site pages with excerpt using beautiful boxed type columns linked to their full page via shortcodes. You can use the plugin’s shortcode in any post, page or custom post type.
By default WordPress provides you one H1 heading title field. This tutorial is on a simple WordPress plugin that lets you add sub-headings in your WordPress blog posts and post types.
Using WordPress Queue Posts plugin you can queue your blog posts and pages for later publishing with just press of a button. The plugin simply allows you to place new posts in a queue for further publication at a specified time interval.
Search in Place is a cool WordPress plugin that improves your website search by showing up search query results in real time. The plugin uses AJAX and displays results dynamically as soon you enter the search criteria. Also it groups search results by post type (post, page, attachment) and allows you to limit the number of elements in the dynamic search results. It also offers a different navigation option on the website.
You already know about WordPress Visual editor and HTML editor, they all works in the back-end. Here we are discussing about new WP Smart Editor that works directly in Post Preview Mode which means you can directly edit, write and customize your post content from its preview page itself using this new post editor.
HubSpot provides you a set of tools for inbound marketing. This tutorial is HubSpot users, they can easily integrate HubSpot in their WordPress sites and enable analytics and other cool features by adding their Hub ID and App Domain.
Using new PageNavi Automatic Page Numbers plugin for WordPress you can automatically insert page navigation numbers at the bottom of your website. The plugin is easy to use.
Share Buttons by AddToAny is a popular social media sharing kit with more than 2 million digital downloads. It is a free plugin which you can download from WordPress plugin repository, make a few easy configuration settings and easly display sharing icons for popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon and there are many many more.
Now you can easily set custom background images in your individual blog posts and pages. For example: suppose you are writing something about yourself in your blog’s About page then you can add your image or the image showing you working on your laptop etc can make your page more attractive and beautiful.
You can easily enable your website visitors to listen to any text present on your WordPress site. They can listen to your blog posts, pages, footer content, or any manually selected text on your website.
GSpeech is a WordPress plugin that uses Google to provide you the good-quality automatic text-to-speech service enabling your visitors to listen to any text on your website.
Main features of the plugin:
Allows you to listen to any text from the site!
Listen to the selected text. The speaker will appear when You select a part of the text!
Install and activate the GSpeech plugin on your WordPress site. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> GSpeech admin page and select your language. You can choose a custom style and set other options from the same admin page. Now, click the ‘Save Options’button and that’s all.
Now visit the front end of your website, select any text (which you want to listen to) and it pops up a Speaker Icon. Click that speaker icon and listen to the selected text.
For displaying the speaker after the text, use this basic format: {gspeech}Text to speech{/gspeech}
You can also specify custom styles and language for each text-to-speech block on your website: {gspeech style=2 language=en}Custom text to speech{/gspeech}
When using all parameters with GSpeech, the structure will be: {gspeech style=2 language=en autoplay=1 speechtimeout=0 registered=0 selector=anyselector event=anyevent hidespeaker=1}welcome{/gspeech}
In order to use the plugin, you must have the PHP Curl library enabled on your web-hosting. If you are hosting your website at Sangkrit.net, simply contact the support to get help.
You can keep full post, page or a few lines visible only to your registered site users whereas display a Login to Readmore link for other site visitors.
So first install and activate the new WordPress plugin Login to read more. After activation you can simply enclose your text inside [auth] & [/auth] as shown in the following example:
[auth]This content will display for registered users only[/auth]
How it works ?
Text enclosed in shortcode tags shows up a login to readmore button to non-logged in users of your website. The button link directs them to wp-login page and if they are registered site users they can simply login and the plugin will redirect them to the content they were trying to read.
Arguments & Filters: The plugin provides you few parameters and filter hooks, visit its WordPress plugin page for more information.
You might have noticed on various popular websites showing their email subscription box at the end of their blog post’s content. Jetpack by WordPress.Com plugin provides you an email superscription widget but by default there are no options to display it else where. This tutorial explains you how you can easily display Jetpack Subscriptions box after your blog posts.
Account Lock is a free WordPress plugin that lets WordPress site admins to lock their user accounts without deleting posts and contents created by that particular users. All users locked by the admins will not be able to login or reset their password but their content will be accessible by website visitors.
Using WP Elegant Testimonial you can show testimonials inside your blog posts and pages. The plugin is easy to use and you can insert testimonials without any limitation on number of testimonials you display on a specific page or post. You can insert as many testimonials as you want using shortcodes.
