Child Theme Wizard is the new WordPress plugin that lets you easily generate a child theme (from any theme) in just one click and lets you customise its options. The plugin provides you a one step wizard ;-) which lets you create a new child theme without any need for additional tools and coding as everything works right from the WordPress admin interface.
Error 404 pages are not considered good for SEO and also as per adsense terms & conditions you cannot display the adsense ads on 404 pages and hence it is always good to redirect these pages to your website’s home. In this tutorial we will explain you how you can redirect 404 to home or to a custom URL of your website or to a sub domain or even if you need you can redirect it to some external URL.
500px, pronounced as five hundred pixels is a popular online photography community which is aimed at aspiring and professional photographers and encouraging members to upload their best work to gain gain exposure, find inspiration and connect. The webservice currently has over 2.5 million registered and over 10 million monthly active users. In this tutorial we’ll explain you how you can add your 500px photo gallery in your WordPress based website.
Setting up theme template category wise means that you can assign a different theme for each and every category of your website. Template Base On Category enables you to change the theme template for category and post in category base on your category ID. WIth this new plugin you can select the theme ( template ) base while creating new or editing any old category from admin section. All posts in edited categories will automatically change.
Brand-Marker, s simple yet powerful free WordPress plugin ensures that the appropriate trademark symbol will be applied in every page, or post where you use your brand’s text or symbol etc. For Example: If we use this plugin here on text ‘SANGKRIT’ then wherever have written ‘SANGKRIT’ (inside post, pages, post types etc) it will show up ® or any other selected trademark after it.
You can map domains for pages, posts, post types, categories etc on your WordPress site. Mapping domains mean you can assign a separate domain for an individual page a n individual post, post type or their archive pages or on a category. Domain Mapping System enables you to do this very easily.
Not everyone who reads your post comments on your website and mostly the comments are made by the website owners and bloggers working to build up good back links to increase page rank and traffic towards their web addresses. Now, if you add some feedback buttons after you posts and ask your readers to rate the post can bring a boost of reactions (if you have traffic).
Now Jetpack also provides you fully functional module for displaying related posts of your website. This new Jetpack’s feature feature pulls out the relevant content from your blog and displays it at the bottom of your posts. When the feature is enabled, a new section of related posts automatically appears underneath your Jetpack’s Sharing Buttons and WordPress.com Likes (if its on).
Adding proper Facebook Open Graph Meta tags and values to your WordPres site gives awesome looks to the links of your website shared on Facebook. WP Facebook Open Graph protocol, a free WordPress plugin adds well executed and accurate Facebook Open Graph Meta tags details to WordPress.
The plugin makes things much easily by keeping minimal configuration and options but still it is a powerful Open Graph plugin and it not only works on Facebook but other networks like Google Plus and Linkedin.
Install and activate WP Facebook Open Graph protocol. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Facebook OGP page and enter your Facebook User ID or App ID for the plugin to work. Then you may add Default Image URL to use and that’s all.
A list of ten useful WordPress plugins covering some good features that enables easy working with images. The plugin includes features for cleaning up un-used website images, lazy loading images images for better frontend experience, adding featured images directly via URLs, limiting image upload side limit which is a very useful feature for multi-author blogs, easily importing external images used in your website and a good plugin for adding your name or brand watermarks over your website images.
Single Post Template plugin lets you enables your theme to include “Post Templates” in much the same way you can add “Page Templates”, the plugin provides you a dropdown which enables you to choose which post template you like using on a per-post basis. Yes, by using this cool plugin you can create one or more “Post Templates” in your theme’s folder, and when creating or editing a post, choose the post template that you would like to use. If no post template is selected, the default template will be used.
You can automatically display a light, focused and simplified list of attachments files after your post content in WordPress. WP Attachments, a free WP plugin automatically displays each and every file uploaded to a post, a page or any other custom post typejust below its content, without having to insert any link in text area.
Image Pro – Image resizing and media management done right enables WordPress users to upload, resize, add, change images all instantly. Using this WordPress plugin you can manage your media collection more easily and use it for any blog post, page or any other post type. The plugin provides you a whole new way of managing your content.
So What Actually Image Pro Does?
The images are responsive by default. They will resize nicely on lower resolution screen devices
Their size can be now be chosen according to predefined presets or just typed in manually
Freely scalable: you can get past the responsive restriction set by your theme
A better user interface(UI), lots of bugfixes and improved usability
The plugin is very easy to set up. Simply install and activate it and that’s it, the plugin is ready to use, just visit any post or post type and start using it.
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The Plugin Enables You To:
upload of multiple files directly from your desktop
perform smooth image resize (a perfect resize is created based on your resized picture in the editor)
easily manage the media collection (search, filter by file type)
drag and drop any image to the post and have it resized the way you want
Adding ALT & Title attribute works very well in improving traffic from search engines like Google & Yahoo etc and now you can add them automatically in WordPress. Search engines can archive your images without Title & Alt text but if your images have title & alt tag then there would be more chances for it to be shown on search results pages. For Example: If you have uploaded and image image-name.png is more SEO friendly than gdhs4789.png, the same is in case of title & Alt tag. Images having these tags are more SEO friendly than Title & Alt tagless images.
Spreadsheet of Posts automatically aggregates all your blog posts into a spreadsheet interface and then you can very easily manage the important information of your content without opening and editing your posts one by one. It uses a standard page-based navigation and cycles through records that doesn’t fits into a single page.
Now visitors can easily record videos on your website, you can enable your visitors to send you video reviews or whatever. Adding a video recording button in WordPress is now very-very easy. The button when clicked asks your readers to allows their webcam and then by clicking the record button they can record videos, play it, re-record the video and finally when they are satisfied with the video they can submit it to your website and then the site admin can download and play the video.
Nick Halsey is a WordPress core contributor, plugin developer, and a classical composer & arranger. He has developed many WordPress plugins, in this tutorial we are discussing about two color manager plugins (Thirteen Colors & Fourteen Colors) he made for customizing the colors of Twenty Thirteen & Twenty Fourteen themes.
WordPress blogs running on multiple authors can restrict authors from posting to some specific category that admin configures in their profile. Restrict Author Posting is the new WordPress plugin made for single category restrict function for authors user roles. You can very easily assign restrict category for authors by editing their profile and the plugin will show a warning message to them whenever they try posting to the restricted category.
Creating a backend admin page and adding custom things there is easy. WP Admin Custom Page lets you create a custom page in your admin dashboard and there you can show HTML code to editors. You can place anything in there and even add a menu item that appears in the Dashboard menu section of WordPress admin area at the top left side of the page. Great for your client websites as you could put the help and instructions. The plugin lets yoy edit the HTML text directly in a box showing up in option page with a WYSIWYG editor. It supports all HTML, JavaScript & CSS etc and also you can insert YouTube videos and images.
Here an awesome plugin for the websites that allows guest posting. Default WordPress feature provides you authorship i.e. displaying author’s name with link to all posts he posted on your website but what then when you want to publish some posts without registering any new author in your WordPress site.
Sometimes you like displaying an author name on a post without register any new user and sometimes when you delete any registered author and WordPress assigns all his posts to someone else but you want to display his name for the posts he made on your website. Here’s your solution.
Enabling Authorship For Unregistered Users:
Simply install and activate the new Post Authorship plugin. After activation the plugin adds a new metabox (for entering custom author name) on your add new & edit post screens. The metabox provides you a simple text field to enter a custom author name.
Now if you leave it to blank, the plugin will display original author’s name but if you type any name there then plugin will change the default author name to the name you just typed. Another good thing about the plugin is that it displays the author’s name with link (just like WP default) which directs the users to a page showing archive of posts made by that particular author and hence the registered and unregistered authors on the frontend looks the same.
While sharing your blog posts and other content on social networks, you must have noticed that most of the social sharing websites fetches the link details, like thumbnail, title and description and this is not just limited to social websites but also with Google and other search results. In this tutorial we are discussing how you can improve the appearance & ranking of your blog Posts, Pages, and also your eCommerce Products in Google Search and Social Website shares.