Scheduling WordPress posts is a common functionality but what when you like scheduling other actions like turning a post unsticky or auto closing the comments after a few days. In this tutorial we will show you how to easily schedule all other sorts of actions associated with WordPress posts and post types.
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After installing WordPress, there are a couple of plugins you should install to make your WordPress blog more useful and awesome for your website visitors. After WordPress is installed there are a couple of modules every blogger needs to use in his website like social sharing features so that you readers can easily share your content and help you in increasing your reach, a related posts feature will enable them to browse other useful content from your website, social links will enable them to follow you on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ etc. A PinIt button over you images will allow them to easily pin good images of your website to their Pinterest pinboards, a SEO plugin will let you see how exactly your post looks like in search results and you can use choose good keywords which are searched more often etc.
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Have you ever ended up writing a number of drafts or imported a bunch of drafts from other website or may be you have written various sequence wise tutorials and now you want to publish them. Default WordPress draft publishing feature is good for publishing a few drafts but when you have a long list of WordPress posts with draft status then manual publishing takes a lot of time even with the Quick Edit option. WordPress Draft Scheduler is a good solution in such cases, this WordPress plugin enables you to schedule all your WordPress drafts in bulk for future publishing with time interval defined by you.
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Forwarding all WordPress scheduled posts simply means you can bump dates of all scheduled posts to a number of days. Great utility for the bloggers who plan for very long and schedule a number of posts in advance for future publishing. For Example: Suppose you have scheduled 7 posts for the next week but incidently something new happens and you plan to spend next 3-4-days on covering and posting all exclusive information about that event.
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LaTeX is a popular WordPress.com feature. It is a widely used typesetting system, very good for formatting mathematical formulas and equations etc. In this tutorial we will show you how to enable latex support in your self-hosted WordPress site. Official WordPress.com’s LaTeX support can easily be enabled with Jetpack plugin. First make sure Jetpack is active on you WordPress installation and then follow the given steps.
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By default, custom link images can only be used with manually shared links on FB fan pages. In this tutorial we will explain you how to assign a custom Facebook share image on per post basis in your WordPress site. Generally what happens is whenever any post link is shared, Facebook tries to grab images from the linked webpage. Many a times it allows you select a thumbnail, sometimes it fails to grab images and fetches only link title and description. In-case of auto posting; FB randomly grabs an image. All these things happens only on websites not using proper open graph meta tags.
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You can easily add beautiful social sharing on-hover buttons on images you use inside your content via ‘Add Media‘ button present in WordPress visual editor. WordPress Image Hover Lite is the new WordPress plugin that enables you to do so at the time of inserting images in your posts and hence you can decide on what images you like to display social sharing icons. How It Works? Your website visitors brings his mouse arrow over the image, the image fades up and displays social sharing buttons.
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Mentioning other posts inside any post works great for building SEO and increasing time on site. In general, bloggers mention posts simply by linking the words with other internal post on their website, clicking the link opens it on a new page. In this tutorial we will show you how to mention any post using a modal link so that as soon your visitor clicks it, the whole post opens up in a closeable modal box without any page reload.
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WangGuard protects your website from sploggers and spambots, it protects your from their spam users collecting their data on websites it operates by using one centralized database. On every new registration, the plugin checkes the user’s data into its database in order to delete it of suspicions, and protect website from fake or spam registrations.
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Modal login is a beautiful feature, you must have noticed on Twitter, clicking a Twitter profile open a popup with a close button and no lightbox overlay, that is called a modal box. In this tutorial we are sharing a list of three modal box plugins designed for logging in to WorPress dashboard. You can use in your WordPress installation so that whenever your users try logging-in, they see a modal box instead of getting redirected to default WordPress login page.
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A few months backs we have posted a list of Top 3 Tabbed Widget Plugins. In this tutorial we will be showing you the usage of a new awesome tabbed widget which is very much different from last three tabbed widget. Widgets In Tabs can group any number of widgets into one tabbed and light widget which works beautifully with most WordPress themes. Unlike to other tabbed widget plugins, Widgets In Tabs is not limited to specific widget types but it allows you to add any widget in its animated tabbed display.
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Earlier we have posed a tutorial on searching and inserting free creative commons images directly from add new/edit post pages in WordPress. Now this tutorial is about inserting dreamstime stock images inside your WordPress blog posts, pages and other post type using same old ‘Add Media’ thick box. Dreamstime Stock Photos is a WordPress plugin which enables you to search and insert images into your content from Dreamstime’s vast database of Royalty-Free stock photos & illustrations.
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You can brand your website better on social media by creating your own customized short URLs. Your own Short URLs simply means you would be able to create short URLs with your own domain name.
To start first Register a short domain with us. Bit.ly is a free short URL service so sign up a Bit.ly account then login and click on the ‘Settings‘ present on dropdown menu of your username. From the settings page, click the ‘Advanced‘ tab. Follow the instructions and add your new registered small domain name.
Now you will be needing to set A Record or say DNS Host for your domain to point to bit.ly’s IP address.
If you have registered Domain with us then you will find A record is located under the “Total DNS” tab, simply login and add DNS record and point it to the IP 69.58.188.49 (which is Bit.ly’s IP).
In-case if you are using a sub-domain name then in that case you will be needing to set a CNAME record and then point it to cname.bitly.com
It takes from 2 to 24 to 48 hours for DNS changes to propagate. You will get know about successful DNS setup at the time you would be able to set your custom short domain as default domain in your bit.ly account settings. Once the process is finished, any URL shorten from your website will automatically use your new domain name. That’s all.
WordPress users may also give a try to WP Bit.ly plugin with which you can auto create short URLs for your posts, pages and other content types right from the admin area (on post edit screen). Assuming you have already configured your bit.ly account, install and activate WP Bit.ly plugin then navigate to Dashboard -> Settings -> WP Bit.ly page. Type in your Bit.ly Username, the API Key, select post types and save the changes. That’s it, you can check it by opening any post for edit and clicking ‘Get Shortlink‘ button.
Also read our tutorial on easily creating your own URL shortner webservice.
WordPress has the power to hold various types of content. An example of a single content is known as ‘Post’, although you should know that post is nothing but a specific post type present by default in WordPress just like ‘Page’ which is another kind of post type. In general post types provides same interface you get in posts and pages but they can be customized with different fields and use them for different purposes. For Example: ‘Media’ is also a post type but it has completely different features. Internally in database, all post types are stored at the same place i.e. in wp_posts table and they are differentiated by a column called post_type.
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You must have noticed various old days websites offering a link (on homepage) titled as ‘Sitemap’. That link directs the visitor to a HTML page offering all important links present on that website. A sitemap generally contains a hierarchical or un-hierarchical list of all links but these days adding any sitemap link for visitors is not of much importance. Today sitemaps are mostly generated in XML (not HTML) and their target is search engines (not website visitors).
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In this tutorial we will show you how you can automatically set some specific websites to open in incognito mode as soon their web address hits your browser’s address bar. For those who don’t know anything about incognito: The times when you need browsing the web without saving any history and information like login credentials, autofills etc you can use incognito mode in Google Chrome by clicking the wrench menu (present on the top right corner) and selecting ‘New Incognito Window’.
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Earlier we discussed about removing category base slug and removing tag base slug from WordPress permalinks structure. Now this tutorial explains you doing same with custom taxonomies.
What is a taxonomy? A taxonomy is a way for grouping things together like in WordPress you can use a taxonomy for grouping articles from same topic together. Tags and categories are default WordPress taxonomies, there are also various plugins and hacks which enables you to register custom taxonomies as well.
By default taxonomies uses a base slug like a taxonomy with name ‘Topics’ would be looking something like this: http://yourdomain.com/topics/topic-name. Removing any taxonomy’s base slug means making it look something like this: http://yourdomain.com/topic-name.
WP No Taxonomy Base removes the base slug for both custom taxonomies and also the default WordPress like category. All you have to do is install and activate the plugin and you’re done.
In this tutorial we will show you how to quickly add a simple, good-looking and powerful AJAX chat room in your WordPress site. Earlier we posted a tutorial for WordPress site administrators, they can easily start chat rooms (with type & enter functionality) for registered their users to participate in by following URL of any particular chat room. Now this tutorial explains you how to create similar chat room but for unregistered WordPress users.
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With in a few clicks you can convert your WordPress posts or pages to some other custom post types and also you can do opposite of same i.e. you can convert any custom post type to posts or pages. Convert Post Types provides you the functions for converting posts and post types in WordPress.
This is not just limited to conversion but the plugin also enables you to limit the conversion to posts from a single category or children of some specific pages and vice versa. You can also assign new taxonomy terms (like tags and categories), which will get automatically added to the posts’ existing terms. This way you can migrate any specific category to a new post type without disturbing any other content.
To start, first install and activate Convert Post Types plugin. Take backup of you database before you start playing with this plugin or if you are sure about what you are doing then visit your admin area Dashboard -> Tools -> Convert Post Types admin page and choose the ‘Convert from‘ and ‘Convert to‘ post type options.
Select a category if you want limiting this conversion. You can add taxonomies to get auto assigned to your content after the post type conversion process. Finally, click the ‘Convert‘ button and wait for the process to complete, process time depends entirely on the amount of content you are converting.
Earlier we have discussed about Automatically No Following All External Links In WordPress. But that’s not useful everytime, specially if you are reviewing or writing tutorials on some good websites and services. In this tutorial we will explain you a very easy procedure of getting control over follow/no-follow link relationships.
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Before migrating your Joomla website to WordPress, first make sure you have a self hosted WordPress site. We recommend you SANGKRIT.net’s WordPress Hosting as it provides you easy one click WordPress installation and free database backups, (free backup is a limited time offer). Assuming you have a WordPress site, install and activate FG Joomla to WordPress, a free WordPress plugin to migrate Joomla website categories, posts, tags, images, media and other content to a WordPress.
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