You can sell audio files like music, speeches, narratives, MP3 and more using your WordPress site and your PayPal account. Music Store is an awesome online store plugin which enables WordPress users for selling audio files: music, speeches, narratives, everything that is audio, you can receive secure payments with PayPal.
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Mashshare Share Buttons is an awesome social sharing plugin with a high-performance sharing functionality inspired by the popular weblog Mashable. The plugin also displays the total share counts of Facebook and Twitter at a glance. (View Demo). The plugin uses the sharedcount.com webservice and periodically checks for the total count of sharing made on Facebook and Twitter. It then calculates and shows the total count beside the Share buttons.
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You can easily enable a good feature that simply allows your website visitors to add their favorite posts. The WP Favorite Posts is a free WordPress plugin that uses cookies for saving data and hence the unregistered users can favorite any post they like.
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There hundreds of plugins that allows you to register new custom post types, some plugins automatically provides you post types made for specific purposes like news, blog and events etc and some plugins enables you to manually register your own custom post types but there is no custom post type plugin that lets you manually edit the post type icon that appears in dashboard’s side menu. In this tutorial we will show you how you can assign or edit post types icons, the best thing is you can edit all custom post type icons no matter if that post type is registered by a plugin, a PHP hack or you have manully registered it.
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Earlier we discussed about Ultimate Landing Page and Coming Soon Page plugin which is the most popular landing page builder plugin with which you can not only create a good landing or coming soon page but also you can collect emails of visitors, the plugin provides you tons of other useful features. Now here in this new tutorial we have are posting a list of three more landing page builder plugins, we have created this list after downloading and testing many landing page builder plugins, following three and the above one are the best.
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Fast & Easy Social Sharing is a simple, easy to use and very fast social media sharing plugin. It’s social sharing buttons are loaded as fonts which makes its loading very fast and can scale as large as you want them to be. It uses no JavaScript from any of the social networks, it works simply by making only two requests, first for the fonts and second for the stylesheet, that’s all, the buttons are displayed after your blog posts.
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Rocket Lazy Load is a simple but powerful plugin with a tiny (less than 2kb) lazy load script without any jQuery and others libraries. What all this script does is, it displays images on pages only when they are visible to your user’s eyes i.e. only when show up on screen with down scroll. Hence, this trick reduces the number of HTTP requests mechanism and improves your website’s loading time.
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Here are some of the best plugins with user management features like user activation, confirming users after they register on your website, enabling site admins to automatically add existing users to their websites or blogs, allowing super admin to instantly switching between users.
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When working on a WordPress- BuddyPress membership website, the biggest administrative headaches come from the user activation process as there are many a times when activation emails get caught by spam filters or they are deleted unwillingly by the person or simply not understood. Yet by default, WordPress & BuddyPress has no user interface for viewing and managing unactivated users. Here’s a solution for you.
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Multisite Enhancements is a free WordPress plugin that provides multisite networks with many multisite enhancements functions. Sometimes while working with many sub sites admins need more details and menu items. Multisite Enhancements plugin is designed to enhance the network area with different useful functions for super admins.
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Interaction between super admins and other individual site admins is very important. There are many reasons like may be you want sending them link to new terms and conditions, you want them to provide all important blog and profile details or you personally invite them for an event or whatever.
Organizational Message Notifier is a multisite WordPress pluin the enables network admin or you can say super admins to send organizational messages to blog admins. The plugin includes read confirmation which means whenever you send out any message, each blog admin will see its notification until he marks the message as read and that’s not all but super admins can also view who has read and who has not read any particular message.
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WordPress Review Site Builder is an awesome free plugin that enables you to create your own review website in few simple clicks. With this plugin you can create any kind of affiliate or review website. The plugin is compatible with all WordPress themes so there is no need of additional modifications. It uses custom post type feature with all SEO features that you use with your posts and pages etc. Also, if you like using a professional theme specially for this plugin then refer to WordPress Review Theme.
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Sometime back we discussed about transforming your WordPress installation into a Questions & Answers website similar to Quora, Yahoo Answers etc. Now in this article we are posting a list of some good free WordPress plugin you can use for easily creating a Questions & Answers website.
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Add to home screen WP Plugin invites your blog readers to add your website as an icon or you can say web app on home screen of their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It uses Add to home screen’s Cubiq script for enabling and placing a floating balloon which invites the user to add website to their home screen as an iOS app. This is a good way to retain your visitors coming to your web address especially if you don’t like wasting your time and money on developing an expensive app just for letting your readers to read your website’s articles.
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In general most WordPress themes uses “Leave A Reply” as comment form title which is good but sometimes bloggers like using some other custom titles and for that they dig into their theme files. You can better engage your website visitors and initiate their discussions with more meaningful titles in default WordPress comment forms, created on a post-by-post basis! This tutorial is on two good WordPress plugin with which you can edit comment form title more easily with better options.
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Everybody who watched the film “The Social Network” knows about Mark Zuckerberg’s and the concept of Hot or Not website for rating images. Creating this type of website you can very easily host various popularity contests. You can use your WordPress installation for hosting image contests, your visitors can rate their favorite things, they can easily explore and rate the images as shown here in this demo. Owen Cutajar & Hyder Jaffari have creates am easy WordPress plugin called Hot Or Not, the plugin does it all and engages your visitors attention and hooks them on your website, as long as you have fun content to serve them.
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Sometime after leabing comment on any website you must have felt the need of editing your comment, maybe due to some grammar or spelling mistake or regret of posting something idiotic. But unfortunately, most WordPress sites doesn’t provides the ability for anonymous users to edit their comments. The reason is, by default WordPress only provides this ability to site admins. In this tutorial, you will see how in a few clicks you can enable your anonymous and unregistered users to edit their comment.
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Cue, a free and powerful WordPress plugin that provides you ability to use your website as a music website. With this awesome plugin, you can easily create stylish playlists (as many you want, you can host audio files on your website, you can upload new audio files, you can reuse existing files from your media library or add audio from links to other external remote sources and then easily display them anywhere on your website like on widgets, inside your posts and page or by using the shortcode and template tag.
Install and activate Cue plugin. After activation the plugin adds ‘Playlists’ a new post type in left side admin menu.
Visit your Dashboard -> Playlists -> Add New page, give your playlist a title and upload songs by clicking ‘Add Tracks’ button. After uploading songs you can drag-drop and reorder them.
Click the arrow on the right of each item to reveal more configuration options. Also you can set a featured image for your playlist and for each song. When you’re done, click ‘Publish’ button and copy the shortcode showing up on left below publish metabox.
Finally, place the copied shortcode into a post or page to embed this playlist.
The plugin also provides you a widget (Appearance -> Widgets page) with which you can display playlist on your sidebar and other widgets area simply by placing the widgets and selecting a playlist from the drop down.
For more fine-grained control over where the playlist appears, you can use its template tag: <?php cue_playlist( $id ); ?>
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Each user has its own capabilities like author can only publish and edit its own posts where as an editor gets the charge of all published content, subscribers can only comment and administrators have the complete charge of website. However, if you are working on your client’s website then in that sometimes you like removing and adding certain permissions to user roles, create new user roles etc as per the demand of your client. Other than this website owners running a multi-author blogging site, also sometimes require editing capabilities of certain user roles or create some new user roles with custom capabilities. Whatsoever may be the reason. In this tutorial we are providing you a list of three cool plugin you can use for creating and editing user roles. All plugins are good and tested on recent WordPress release of 3.8.1.
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Stream is a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you track all logged-in user activity, monitors each and every change made on to your WordPress website and provides every detail in beautifully organized way. But note that it requires PHP 5.3 or higher to be activated and used, otherwise it doesn’t shows up any stream page and displays a message that your hosting doesn’t supports PHP5.3
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Few weeks back we discussed about a plugin that changes WordPress posts labels to articles. Now in this tutorial we will learn how you can edit and use your own names in WordPress post labels. By saying admin post labels we mean the ext post(s) present anywhere in admin area like Dashboard -> Posts, Posts -> All Posts, and Add New Post, Edit Posts etc etc.
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