While creating any new photo gallery in WordPress, you can set all its image links either to attachment page or their media file location but there is no default feature to specify custom links for each image showing up on the gallery which you have created. This tutorial explains how you can easily specify custom links for images in gallery.
Default view of WordPress media library is simple and slow and nobody even likes to visit there for browsing images. Sometime back we discussed about displaying media file URL on media library page, people need such plugins because default media library page is show and has a very boring layout. But now after reading this tutorial you can make your media library very beautiful and fast. Media Grid is an awesome WordPress plugin, it works out of box and there are no options to set after activation.
Masking, the bullets that generally appear whenever you type any password on any website is a general practice you can find on most websites and applications. This was just designed to prevent other people from looking and memorizing your passwords from your screen.
On WordPress multi-author websites, there are a lot of things you need to keep eye one. Like if you want to allow limited number of external links, you have various conditions on productivity and content you want your authors to write etc etc. Keeping an eye on new posts is easy and that you can do without installing any additional plugin or adding any PHP hack etc but when it comes to the edits made of old blog posts then what to do? Here’s easy way of monitoring post changes made on your website.
Sometimes, specially while working on client websites and when installing many plugins for testing purposes to see which one works best for you, it becomes very irritating to again and again visit plugins admin page for deactivating plugins. This tutorial is on a plugin that makes this job easy by enabling you to quickly toggle plugin activation status from the WordPress toolbar. Best for developers.
Here’s the most quick and very-very easy way of re-ordering WordPress admin area menu items. Admin Menu Reorder is the brand new plugin from WP Idiots. The plugin works completely live and allows you drag & drop for reordering menu items on the go.
You can keep some specific tags hidden from tag lists and tag clouds of your WordPress site. You can very easily specify a list of tags whom you like keeping hidden and these selected tags will go invisible for your website users and won’t show up on the places like tag clouds and post tags lists present below the post etc while keeping their archives safe and accessible.
WP Bootstrapper is new Twitter Bootstrap plugin for easily integrating new Bootstrap with your WordPress site. The plugin is easy and fun in use with classes and shortcodes. To start simply install and activate WP Bootstrapper.After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> WP Bootstraper and here you can enable or disable diffent parts of Bootstrap. Use of this plugin is very easy with shortcodes and classes as shown below.
Two Column Admin is the new WordPress plugin that provides you the ability to select from the classic 1 or 2 column setup on your dashboard in wp-admin. There are no configuration settings, install, activate the plugin and then use “Screen Settings” in the main dashboard view to select one or two columns.
WordPress posts and pages differ ins the same way tags and categories differ. Yes, the hierarchical view. Pages can have sub or you can say child pages just like categories. However when displayed in WordPress admin area, the child pages of parent page are displayed with a dash — before them which is fine for most WordPress users but there are many website owners who has a lots of pages and child pages and also other hierarchical custom post types and then it becomes difficult for users to find child pages. Here’s the solution, you can enable admin column view for better organize pages and other hierarchical post types.
If you are blogging from a very long time and established a blog with huge amount of content, then the default WordPress archives widget is ofcourse not for you, it can be pretty long and messy. Here’s the solution, in this tutorial we will show you how you can display archives a good looking compact form instead of displaying a long list of months.
Simple Documentation, a free WordPress plugin makes things really easy for your website users by allowing to display a list of reference material to access in admin area. In simple words, this plugin helps webmasters/developers to provide documentation through the WordPress dashboard because you are on a stage where dashboard widgets are nothing and you don’t even look at them but there are many other users, specially the beginners, dashboard widgets are the first thing where they start looking up for the solutions or you can say answers.
Minify in WordPress simply means removing all white spaces from code which works as a great trick for speeding up your website and reducing resource usage. On one hand these spaces make the code more readable for programmers where as on other hand servers and also web browsers don’t like it. So here comes the use of an application that can automatically minify your website’s code rather than manually doing this job. WP Minify integrates the Minify engine in your WordPress installation which combines and compress JavaScript and CSS files for improving the page load time.
Generally there are two ways webmasters use for optimization database tables, some do it via phpMyAdmin which works from your webserver or your web hosting account and the other way is using a database optimization plugin which is more easy and user friendly way. There are hundreds of database optimization plugins available in WordPress plugin repository which confuses the new WordPress users.
There are many plugins available for creating columns, we have tested many of them and found that Advanced WP Columns plugin provides you beautiful way to set up your website content into multiple columns using easy user interface, without using any shortcodes. It also provides you with its Online Video Tutorials & User Guide.
If you have a YouTube channel for your website, you can very easily display all latest videos from there to your WordPress site either by using a widget or by using shortcodes inside you pages etc. Youtube Channel Gallery lets you display a YouTube video and a gallery of thumbnails for a YouTube channel.
Sometime back we posted a tutorial on how you can easily make all your website images fluid i.e., responsive and make them look nice on all screen sizes, no matter what the width and height you have given. We also posed a tutorial on keeping YouTube and Vimeo videos proportional and smooth according to the screen width. Here we are not discussing about any new plugin but the most popular Shortcodes plugin known as Shortcodes Ultimate, the plugin supercharges your WordPress site with a wide range of shortcodes which can easily be inserted using its easy shortcode generator. Same plugin can be used for embeding YouTube, Vimeo and all other kinds of videos very easily.
When posting a new comment, you can enable a new functionality for users to directly mention the author of another comment in WordPress. The feature is similar to popular Facebook and Twitter mentions, comments can use “@” symbol. Mention comment’s Authors by Wabeo lets you enable this functionality in a very easy way.
Carousel-of-post-images provides you completely integrated jcarousel Image Gallery shortcode and function call that enables quick and easy galleries generated from images attached to posts. Photos inside the gallery are selected from either all images attached to posts, or from images attached to a specific post. By default it selects 10 random images from all posts.
UppSite – Go Mobile (iPhone, Android, HTML5) is among the most popular plugin that transforms your WordPress site into a mobile app. You easily start by using its free features and then you can upgrade to its pro features. it includes wide range of features and options. Watch the following video: