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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You can automatically set and display a default Post Thumbnail image (featured image) either the first image attached to a post or you can set default images as thumbnails for specific categories, tags, custom taxonomies etc. Also you can exclude certain posts. Supports custom fields to ease upgrading.
First install and activate Default Thumbnail Plus plugin then follow the given steps:
Step-1 After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Default Thumb Plus page.
Step-2 Now first it will ask to set default thumbnail that will be loaded if the post has no featured image set.
Step-3 Now click ‘Add Filter‘ button, upload image and use dropdown to set selected image as featured thumbnail of posts from any specific category, tag posts etc.
Use image attachment if available: Automatically use the post’s first available image attachment for the thumbnail. This is useful for older posts that haven’t got a featured image set.
Automatically use first embedded image, use embedded image if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded image for the thumbnail. This is useful if you embed external images.
Automatically use first embedded video, use embedded video thumbnail if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded video for the thumbnail (YouTube only).
Custom field: Enter a custom field key here, it’s value if set will become the default post thumbnail for that post. The custom field value can either be an Attachment ID, or a link to an image.
Excluded posts: List of posts to be ignored by this plugin. Comma separated e.g. 10, 2, 7, 14
Cache and resize external images: Automatically resize, crop and cache external images & video thumbnails. Recommended option, however doesn’t work with some server configurations.
Enable or disable plugin hooks (for developers only): Filter post_thumbnail_html Filter get_post_metadata
By default WordPress is not set to upscale small images and hence you are never guaranteed a certain size for a featured image format. This tutorial is on a simple WordPress plugin that enables upscaling of thumbnails for small media attachments in your WordPress site.
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AndroCaptcha is a free and easy to use plugin that allows you to add Android like captcha in WordPres. The plugin activates captcha like you use in android lock screen where you have to match the pattern from given image.
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Super Post adds many useful features for displaying your WordPress blog posts and post types is a better way. The plugin is compatible with all post types and automatically adds various useful options, gives you more controls over your blog content.
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Earlier we discussed about auto-posting thumbnails from the first image present inside your blog post. Now this tutorial explains you how you can set post’s featured image simply by entering an image URL.
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Generally what blog post authors do is that they upload large image files taken from their high resolution cameras everyone and after uploading WordPress crops them in different sizes, a few are used in your posts but those large files are hardly ever used and they take up a lot of storage space on your server. You can easily save your storage space by using a simple WordPress plugin called Lean Media.
Cloudinary.Com has launched a free WordPress plugin that lets you host your WordPress images on cloud using a fast CDN all free of cost. The service automatically uploads, normalize, optimize and back up all your WordPress site images to its cloud and makes you free from messing around with image editors; Cloudinary can manipulate and transform your images online on-the-fly and you can manage everything directly from your WordPress admin area dashboard; resulting images are cached, optimized and delivered using a fast content delivery network (CDN).
Earlier we discussed about Downloading YouTube Videos easily to your hard-drive. Now this tutorial explains you how you can easily display latest video thumbnail from a YouTube channel or playlist using a highly customizable widget in your WordPress based website.
Bloggers running a multi-author WordPress blog can display avatar list of their site authors using a widget or shortcode. Here are two WordPress plugins that allows you to do so very easily.
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Sometimes you don’t have featured image to show in your post, sometimes you forget adding thumbnail. By using Default Thumbnail Plus plugin you can automatically display a default post thumbnail in posts having no thumbnail. You can either use first image attached to a post or you can set default images for specific categories, tags, or custom taxonomies. It also supports custom fields for easy upgrading.
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Display your WordPress blog categories or posts in columns.
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You can automatically show excerpts on your WordPress site’s homepage even if your theme doesn’t support it you can display them without touching the code.
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