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How To Edit Mediawiki Sidebar ?

You can edit the MediaWiki sidebar from front-end without opening any PHP file on the c-panel. For this, you will need to modify the MediaWiki:Sidebar page, that controls the navigation links on the left-hand side of your MediaWiki website.

Only the users having administrator access have permission to make these changes by following these steps:

  1. Open your wiki.
  2. Log in to your account.
  3. In the search box type: Mediawiki:Sidebar
  4. Press Enter.
  5. Click Edit.

Alternatively, you may visit the URL yoursite.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar to open the Mediawiki sidebar page. Once the page is visible click the ‘Edit’ option.

On this page, you’ll find a structure that controls how the sidebar is displayed. Here you can add new links and dropdown menus. The format includes section headings and individual links, where an asterisk indicates each section (*), and links are represented by double asterisks (**). For example, * navigation defines a section and ** mainpage|Main Page represents a link, where mainpage is the internal page, and “Main Page” is the display text.

Everything you add here will be displayed on the sidebar. Suppose you would like to add Sangkrit as a dropdown and Domains, Hosting, WordPress, and Email as sub-menus then do it like this:

*Sangkrit

**Domains|Domains

**Hosting|Hosting

**Websites|Websites

**SSL|SSL

In the above text, remember that the menu options you have added must have their pages on your Mediawiki website. Else you can add external links other than internal pages:

*Sangkrit

**http://address|Domains

**http://address|Hosting

**http://address|Websites

**http://address|SSL

After making your changes, click “Save page” to apply them. If the sidebar doesn’t update immediately, you might need to clear the cache. This can be done by visiting yoursite.com/index.php?title=Special:Purge or adding ?action=purge to your URL. Alternatively, you can run a purge command on the server to refresh the cache manually.

The MediaWiki:Sidebar page offers a simple way to customize your site’s sidebar navigation by allowing you to edit, add, or remove links as needed.

How To Create An Online Music Store With WordPress & PayPal?

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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Top 3 Great Ways Of Embedding Twitter Tweets In WordPress

Twitter already provides you inbuilt widget creation features. Other than this WordPress also provides you oEmbed for twitter, you can enable oEmbed in your WordPress site from Dashboard -> Settings -> Media page and then you can embed a tweet simply by pasting its URL inside your post or page content.

This article is on few other WordPress plugins that extends tweet embed features in WordPress and allows you to do some more good things with your tweets.

Tweet Blender

Tweet Blender is a popular WordPress plugin that provides you various Twitter Widgets like you can

  • Display your own tweets
  • Display tweets for hashtags
  • Display tweets for twitter lists
  • Display tweets relevant to your post content (like Huffingtonpost)

The plugin supports multiple authors, keywords and hashtags. With Tweet Blender you can display tweets from a single user or a list of users. Also you can display tweets from a certain topic, multiple hashtags or keywords, various lists, authors etc. There is a long list of this plugin features.

Screenshot showing Tweets archive page: [view more screenshots here]

Installation & Usage:

After activation specify your configuration settings from Dashboard -> Settings -> Tweet Blender admin page. You will be needing to authenticate to Twitter and allow read-only access to tweet stream (present under the Status tab).

The plugin provides you widgets you can use in your sidebar, shortcodes to use inside your posts/pages and templates to use inside your theme files.

Fetch Tweets

Fetch Tweets is another plugin for fetching and showing Twitter tweets. With this plugin you can display tweets by specifying username, search results, keywords, Lists and yes you can show up combined results by adding multiple rules.

For displaying the fetched tweets the plugin provides you Widget, Shortcode, PHP Code and Custom Templates.

Installation & Usage:

Install and activate the plugin then follow the given steps:

  1. After activation you can set a rule from Dashboard -> Fetch Tweets -> Add Rule by User Name or Add Rule by Keyword.
  2. For using its widgets visit Appearance -> Widgets and use Fetch Tweets by Rule Set. You can set the rule in the widget form itself.
  3. The plugin also provides you shortcode to use in your posts, pages. Use the shortcode
    [fetch_tweets id="123"]

    Replacing 123 with your rule ID. Rule ID can be found in the Fetch Tweets admin page in your dashboard.

Screenshot showing widget settings: [view more screenshots]

For more usage instruction refer to the Other Notes section here.

Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)

As clear from its name, the plugin provides you widget and shortcodes for displaying Twitter Tweets. It is used for displaying one tweet at a time with rotation which means one tweets gets automatically and smoothly replaced by the other. Display is responsive and it shows up the recent tweets even if Twitter is down. Check out the plugin working here.

Installation & Usage:

After activation you can use its widget from Appearance -> Widgets page or you can display it via shortcode (inside your posts and pages etc) like:

[rotatingtweets screen_name='your_twitter']

The plugin allows you to decide how you want to show up tweets, you can set the number of tweets to display, you can include retweets and replies and even display a follow button if you like.

Checkout its its shortcode parameters here.

You can also set Tweets rotation speed and animation type to use in Tweet rotation.

How To Create A Twitter Application ?

Most of the above plugins uses Twitter Application, API so following are he instructions on how you can create your Twitter Application, it takes a few minutes:

  1. Visit My applications page on the Twitter website. Login with your Twitter username and password.
  2. If you don’t already have a suitable ‘application’ then create one from the Create an Application page. It’s normally best to use the name, description and website URL of the website where you plan to use Rotating Tweets. You don’t need a Callback URL if you are setting it up for the plugins discussed here.
  3. After clicking Create your Twitter application, click on Create my access token.
  4. Now copy the Consumer keyConsumer secretAccess token and Access token secret from your Twitter application page and use it wherever required.

How To List All Incoming Search Terms In WordPress ?

SEO SearchTerms Admin is simple WordPress plugin that lists all incoming search terms generated by SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2. To use this plugin you will need to have SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 installed and activted in your WordPress site, this plugin allows you to multiply your blog traffic by strengthening on page SEO, increasing the number of indexed pages, auto convert search terms into post tags etc.

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Powerful Featured Category Widget For WordPress

Featured Category Widget is specially designed for website owners for whom the Featured Post Widget is not enough. There are many different featured category widgets but this Featured Category Widget plugin is highly customizable and provides you a number of display options and features.

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Easily Display Sliding Social Media Icons Akin To Theme Color Of Your WordPress Site

Sliding Social Icons is the new WordPress plugin that enables you to display simple social media profile link representations on right side of your WordPress site. The best feature of this plugin is that it allows you to show social sliding buttons in custom color so that you can make them look akin to your theme’s color format.

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Beautiful & Customizable Flash Powered RSS Ticker For WordPress

7feeds ticker is a beautiful and highly customizable RSS ticker widget plugin for WordPress site owners. The widget allows you to display vertically scrolling external and internal RSS feeds (via URLs), you can display multiple feeds from different URLs, you an use various color themes, customizeble colors, fonts, titles, dimensions and other advanced scrolling options. It loads immediately and works smoothly.

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How To Display Thumbnails In Recent Posts Widget In WordPress ?

Newpost Catch is a free WordPress widget plugin that lets you display thumbnails in new posts setting widget. The plugin allows you to set thumbnail size (Width & Height), number of posts to display, display date, display sticky post, even you can set categories to display etc.

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How To Integrate HubSpot Inbound Marketing Tools In WordPress ?

HubSpot provides you a set of tools for inbound marketing. This tutorial is HubSpot users, they can easily integrate HubSpot in their WordPress sites and enable analytics and other cool features by adding their Hub ID and App Domain.

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Extend Default WordPress Widgets With More Powerful Cutomization Features

You can easily extend default WordPress widgets and add a few more widgets with more powerful features and customization options. GD Simple Widgets is a package of powerful and user-friendly widgets which expands default widgets features with few more must-have widgets specially for displaying posts, authors and comments.

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WP Elegant Testimonial: Display Professional & Colorful Testimonials Via Shortcode In WordPress

Using WP Elegant Testimonial you can show testimonials inside your blog posts and pages. The plugin is easy to use and you can insert testimonials without any limitation on number of testimonials you display on a specific page or post. You can insert as many testimonials as you want using shortcodes.

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Easily Display Customizable List Of All Subsites Inside Your Theme Templates Or Using A Widget In Your WordPress Multisite Network

YD WPMU Bloglist Widget plugin activates a new sidebar widget that lets you display the list of all subsites of your main parent site using a single or multi-column layout format.

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Easily Add 31000+ Games In Your WordPress Site Via Shortcode

You can very easily add over 31,000 games in your WordPress site and increase your time on site and ad income. All you will be needing to do is install and activate Online Games Collection plugin, then use [online–games] shortcode wherever you want games to be displayed.

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How To Show Twitter Tweets Relevant To Post Tags Or From Twitter lists, Hashtags And More In WordPress ?

Showing Tweets relevant to post tags is a very popular feature used in various high ranking websites. This tutorial explains you how you can enable this and few other features for showing Tweets relevant to your blog posts, from a Twitter list or from a Hashtag etc in your WordPress site.

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Easiest Way To Exclude Certain Tags & Categories From Home Page Of Your WordPress Site

You can easily exclude posts from certain categories and tags to appear on the homepage of your website. Advanced Category Excluder is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to exclude selected categories and also tags to appear on the home page of your website.

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Beautiful Tabbed Sidebar Widget Showing Tabs For Posts, Comments, Categories, Tags & Archives

Evolution Sidebar Box is the brand new tabbed widget plugin for WordPress. It displays various beautiful tabbed layout for recent blog posts, latest comments, categories & tag cloud, most popular blog posts, archives.

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New WordPress AdSense Plugin With More Powerful And Easy Features

WordPress Plugin Repository has a new AdSense plugin called Best Adsense. The plugin is different from all other plugins out there , it provides you with quick and much easy to use features. The plugin simply requires Adsense Publisher ID and Channel (Number) and you can play with all sizes of ads without having to create-copy-paste new ad block code from your Google AdSense account.

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How To Display Recently Viewed Posts & Pages Of Your WordPress Site ?

There are already many plugin that allows you to display most viewed, least viewed and popular posts or pages of your WordPress site but there are very few plugins that displays recently viewed posts. You can enable your WordPress installation to show recently viewed blog posts to your website visitors by using Last Viewed Posts plugin.

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