Instead of showing default scroll bar with top and bottom scrolling buttons you can enable a custom iOS style scroll bar with custom colors as per your website’s theme and colors, you can also use a custom border and custom scroll bar dimensions in your WordPress site. WordPress Nicescroll is the new plugin which upon activation transforms default scroll bar with its custom jQuery scroll compatible with destkops, tablets and smartphone devices.
In general, most WordPress website owners use software and online apps for resizing their high resolution images before uploading and using them inside their website content. Earlier we have discussed about WP Smush.it plugin which compresses images in WordPress in-order to improve your website’s performance without affecting the image quality. Today in this tutorial we will show you how to extend default WordPress image uploading functionality and make it auto resize your images to a size defined by you.
There are many syntax highlighter plugins out there in WordPress plugin repository and WordPress also provides you a simple feature for highlighting code inside your posts and pages. All you have to do is switch from ‘Visual’ to ‘Text’ mode, select the syntax and click ‘code’ button. In this tutorial we will show you how to use a more beautiful option i.e. using crayons for highlighting syntax in WordPress.
YouTube Plugin for WordPress provides you tons of awesome features for integrating YouTube with WordPress together. In this tutorial we will show you how to use this plugin to embed an entire YouTube channel as a playlist in your WordPress site. First thing you should know that if you have a YouTube video URL and you want it to embed in WordPress then all you have to do is paste the complete URL on its own line.
Enclosing WordPress post content inside responsive tabbed sections is a convenient way of displaying long blog posts. Using a tabbed layout you can easily break up your articles information and show them a small space keeping your advertisements display all the time. In this tutorial we are listing some of the best tabs plugins designed for WordPress posts and post types.
Vertical Tab Slider is a very attractive and easy plugin to create a simple good looking tabbed slider which auto-rotates according to defined interval of time and also enables your website visitors to rotate the images and description by manually clicking on the tabs, you can also set it to pause slides on hover (mouse over).
Responsive Social Sharing Icons is the brand new responsive WordPress social sharing buttons plugin recently launched by wptreasure.com. A common problem you all must have noticed in social sharing icons is that they break up into two or more lines in small screen devices, the reason is they are not responsive. We have discussed about lots of social sharing plugins but this new WordPress addon works out of box and provides you a completely responsive design of social sharing icons. See it live working here.
WordPress has built-in option to enable public registration. The feature works in all single WordPress sites, WordPress multisite networks and BuddyPresss based social networking websites. One can easily enable registration by logging into WordPress admin area then navigating to Dashboard -> Settings -> General page and ticking the option ‘Anyone can register’. In this tutorial we are providing you a list of some good and free WordPress plugins we have tested for extending and customizing default WordPress registration process.
External links indicator is an icon used for indicating external links (the links which directs visitors to some other website/domain) in webpages. The feature is quite popular on Mediawiki websites like Wikipedia etc and now you can enable the same feature in your WordPress site too.
Wrapping text around images is common style used for presenting text articles by aligning images on sides. This is done by adding CSS classes for image alignment in web pages. WordPress already provides you built-in image alignment functions, it provides you visual editor buttons for aligning images to the right or left or center and wrap text around them. All WordPress content editing pages provides you the image alignment options.It works works for posts, pages and other custom post types if you register.
Plugins are the WordPress addons that can extend it to do almost anything you can imagine. WordPress Plugins Repository is loaded with thousands of free plugin which you can find and install right from your WordPress site’s admin area dashboard. This tutorial provides you a step by step guide on installing new plugins in WordPress.
A vast majority of comment spams gets automatically blocked by Akismet, but still you must have noticed that many kinds of spambots that successfully post comments on your website, here comes the use of CAPTCHA to block spam comments. In this tutorial we will provide you some easy steps to enable reCAPTCHA for your WordPress site.
This tutorial is about creating a powerful and useful social networking website for business, family or whatever. You can easily create one in minutes if you a have a WordPress website. BuddyPress is a free plugin which transforms your WordPress installation in to a social network with powerful social networking features like Extended User Profiles, Activity Streams, Member Account Settings, Friend Connections, Internal Private Messaging, User Groups, Notifications, Site Tracking and there are thousands of good BuddyPress plugins available to extend your networking options & features.
WordPress already has a built-in feature for creating and inserting photo galleries inside your posts, pages, custom post types etc. This tutorial is about a free plugin that extends default WordPress gallery feature and enables you to create re-useable photo galleries which you can edit anytime and keep them saved and easily accessible. Hence, now there is no need of creating same galleries again and again or digging inside your old content to copy old gallery shortcodes.
Newsletter is a really powerful WordPress plugin that lets you easily create & control an awesome newsletter system with unlimited emails, subscribers and newsletter tracking (know when your newsletter is clicked) directly from your WordPress admin area dashboard. The plugin is loaded with lots of options and features which makes it highly customizable but sometime lots of options confuses the new WordPress users. In this tutorial we will make things easy by providing you a quick installation and usage steps for this newsletter plugin.
3D roll over is a stylish way of adding in-content links (both internal & external) inside your WordPress posts, page and other custom post types. 3D Roll Over Links is the new WordPress plugin that enables you to do this very easily in your website, after activation the plugin automatically starts using the 3D roll animation for each and every link you have added in your website content.
Using iconic navigation in WordPress menus means you can assign an icon for each navigation menu item you create via Appearance -> Menus admin page. The icons automatically uses your theme CSS and looks awesome with all WordPress themes. You can either choose an icon from 1400 font icon set provided by the plugin or if you already have icon(s) then you can upload it to WordPress media library and then use it for your navigation menu(s).
WordPress allows you to easily link to existing posts, the ‘Insert Link‘ feature that works from your Add New/Edit post page allows you to insert existing blog post links in a click of a button. But what when you have scheduled a number of posts for future publishing and now you need referencing one of them in the content you are writing. In this tutorial we will discuss about linking any text to your scheduled post.
Setting up automatic schedules for your posts is a great functionality for multi-author websites. Auto-Schedule Posts, a free WordPress plugin simply enables you to set time intervals between posts. You can either randomize it or select a publishing order. The plugin lets you set all important auto post scheduling parameters, even you can exclude or include manually scheduled posts as per your new auto post scheduling plan.
