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How To Organize WordPress Posts In Multiple Parts?

You can now create and organize WordPress posts into multiple parts. Multiple parts means you can automatically add a table of content at the top of the post which links to other selected posts of your website. This table of contents looks similar to Wikipedia’s table of contents but here it links to individual posts and it automatically shows up on all posts which are linked to it.

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How To Define Words Globally Using Hover Text In WordPress?

This is not about inserting tool tips with shortcodes, this is about adding meanings to some words on your website which will automatically appear on hovering the mouse pointer over the predefined words in WordPress. Text Hover, a WordPress plugin lets you add hover text to regular words. The plugin provides you a handy way for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, and acronyms mentioned inside your posts, pages and comments.

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How To Get Goo.gl Short URLs From WordPress ‘Get Shortlink’ Button?

WordPress provides you a ‘Get Shortlink‘ button on post edit screens which generates a shorted URL of the page. A WordPress short URL contains your domain name suffixed with some numeric value. Where as Jetpack plugin enabled websites generates shortlinks with wp.me/something address. In this tutorial we will show you how to use Google URL Shortner service for creating short URLs with WordPress ‘Get Shortlink’ button.

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How To Auto Color Change WordPress Post Editor On Word Count?

A post with minimum of number 300 words is considered good for SEO than those which just have a little text and links in them. This tutorial is about an amazing WordPress plugin which allows you to set editor colors associated with number of words in them and then when a user starts typing the post content the color starts changing on the basis of number of words he has types or pasted in editor’s post content area. This way you can automatically know your post has reached that number of words.

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Easily Allow International Visitors To Translate English Words Or Know Definition In WordPress

Translating whole page is not good everytime. Sometime your visitors only wants to know the meaning of an individual word and for that either they search it on Google or use a translator for translating that word in their own language. You can make things easy for your website visitors by allowing them to know the definition of any word inside your post, pages and other custom post types just by double clicking over them, further they can browse more information about that certain word by clicking ‘More info’ in the tool tips.

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How To Calculate Payment For Authors In WordPress?

A few days back we have discussed about counting profits generated by individual posts in WordPress. If you are running a multi-author WordPress blog then you can also set up calculations for paying your authors on the basis of the number of posts they have published, number of words they have used, visits, images and also comments. Post Pay Counter lets you easily handle authors’ payment on a multi-author website by computing posts’ remuneration basing on admin defined rules.

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How To Instantly Live Preview & Customize Posts In WordPress?

Default WordPres post editor has a preview button on publish metabox but that opens up the post in a new tab. You can make this thing instant and then preview, edit or customize post very easily from an awesome preview screen that shows up on post admin page with a close button. Everything works very fast, you simply write your content then click ‘Preview’ button and it opens up a preview screen (without any page refresh) very much like WordPress theme customizer. It allows you to set featured image, add excerpt, edit your post content, use visual formatting buttons, all from its live post customizer screen.

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How To More Easily Assign Categories To Your Posts In WordPress?

WordPress post editing screen provides you a category metabox showing a hierarchy list of your website categories. But when you have a large number of categories then it it becomes very difficult to scroll and assign categories in post edit screen. In this tutorial we will show you how to make make this process more easy by adding some useful features to category selection metabox present in ADD NEW/ EDIT post pages.

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How To Add An Undo Button In WordPress Post Editor?

Earlier we have discussed about restoring posts using WordPress posts revisions and now today will will show you how to quickly restore those revisions with an undo button. Default WordPress installation doesn’t provides you any undo button, it only provides you the saved/auto-saved revisions which are the backup copies of your posts, they get automatically saved and also everytime you click ‘Save Draft’ or ‘Update’ buttons. Using post revisions you will be able to look back at the recent changes you’ve made and revert to an earlier version if required.

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How To Find WordPress Content IDs?

From 2.5 version of WordPress, the content IDs on all admin area screens have been removed but there are various plugins, widgets and themes that requires post IDs for some specific features. For Example: Some WordPress themes like Atahualpa enables you to show/hide sidebars on specific pages and for that they asks you to enter page IDs.

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How To Customize WordPress Post Edit Screen?

Earlier we have discussed about writing your first blog post. In this tutorial we will explain you how to enable hidden features of WordPress post edit screen and customize it. Post edit screen is an admin page from where you write new blog posts (Dashboard -> Posts -> Add New) or edit old ones. Default post edit screen consists of post editor and meta boxes like publish, format, tags, categories and featured image.

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Top 5 Plugins To Break WordPress Post Content In Tabs

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.

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How To Add External Links Indicator In WordPress Posts?

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.

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How To Automatically Schedule WordPress Posts For Publishing?

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.

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How To Schedule Multiple Post Actions In WordPress?

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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How To Bulk Schedule WordPress Drafts For Publishing?

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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How To Easily Make Sticky Posts In WordPress?

We have posted many tutorials about sticky i.e. featured posts on your WordPress site but we have never discussed how to turn any post sticky. Sticky post is a built-in WordPress feature. All sticky posts gets stick to the top of your home page and you can keep them there, it doesn’t matter how many new posts you publish. In this tutorial we show you how to make any post sticky and then how to turn it back to un-sticky whenever you need.

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How To Quickly Link To Existing Posts In WordPress?

While writing a new post, page etc, many times you need to link and reference to an old article of your website. In general, most WordPress bloggers follow the long route of linking internal content. First they search for the post, copy its URL and then mention it. The easy way of doing same thing is built-in WordPress feature which works right inside your post edit screen.

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How To Create Categories And Subcategories In WordPress?

Now you know how to install a WordPress blog and how to write your first blog post. Another most important thing to manage any WordPress blog is organizing your blog posts with categories so that you can easily display filter links and make it easy for your visitors to browse your website. Many a time it needs to go deep into a topic and create sub-categories. WordPress categories are the hierarchical taxonomies and hence you can easily create a tree type structure by adding categories and then their child categories and then more subcategories and so on. Here, in this tutorial we will explain you how to add categories and subcategories to your WordPress site.

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How To Mention Posts Using Modal Box Links In WordPress?

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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How To Undo/Restore Changes In WordPress With Post Revisions?

Post revisions are in-build feature visible on post edit screen but very few knows about the real power of post revisions. Using post revisions you can undo changes and revert back to an earlier version of any published post. Some simply calls the feature as Revisions as it is applicable on most post types in WordPress. Have you ever wish that you hadn’t deleted what you wrote before inside your post? With post revisions you can move back in time and undo any change. This tutorial explains how to undo changes using post revisions in WordPress.

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