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Why Not Use Ctrl-S For Saving & Previewing Your WordPress Posts ?

Everywhere we use Ctrl-S for saving our content. We use it while saving images on Photoshop, saving web pages, saving content on writer, spreadsheets etc etc. We are using it since long because its simple so from now you can use this keyboard combination on WordPress too.

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Easily Manage .htaccess-style 301 Redirects From Your WordPress Dashboard

New WordPress plugin provides you a user friends and very simple redirect editor for managing redirects. It gives you a simple test area for editing .htaccess-style 301 redirects, one per line.

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Now Redirect Default WordPress Search To Google, Bing Or Yahoo

Now redirect your WordPress default search to popular search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo so that your site’s visitors can get more appropriate search results when they search anything in your blog.

Simple Search Redirect is new WordPress plugin that adds a widget (and shortcode too) that lets you redirect users to various search engine’s site:search filters which gives more accurate result than default WP search functionality.

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How To Disable Certain Dashboard Menus On Subsites In WordPress Multisite Install ?

If you don’t like certain menus and their features to be used by subsite users in WordPress multisite install then you may easily disable them. For example: if you don’t want your subsite users to upload media then you can disable media library menu from dashboard. Doing this they won’t be seeing media library menu in their admin section and even if they try to get their they will be seeing an error message.

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How To Add A Cool Header Navigation Menu In P2 Theme Of Your WordPress Blog ?

P2 is a group blog theme for short update messages, inspired by Twitter only for WordPress users. It doesn’t give you a header navigation by default but if you like adding a cool minimalist header navigation menu the you can do it very easily. Just follow simple steps mentioned here.

Following image shows how your navigation will look like after following given steps. You can easily change its look by editing CSS.

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Ultimate Video Gallery Plugin For Your WordPress Site

It has become much easy to create a nice gallery of videos (youtube and/or flv ) in your WordPress site.

ULTIMATE VIDEO GALLERY plugin creates a beautiful gallery of videos for your site with youtube and flv videos. Thumbnails get automatically created. You can add titles on the videos and choose your own colors, number of columns and rows of thumbnails, video size in proportion to the module, the size of the thumbnails in proportion to the plugin, and a lot of things more. Also you can use it as a sidebar widget.

Installation & Usage:

  1. Install and activate the plugin.
  2. Configure and create new video gallery in your Dashboard-> Settings-> Ultimate video. Place [ultimate ID /] inside your Posts, where ID is your gallery ID. For example: [ultimate 1/] Where 1 is the gallery ID

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Give Professional Look To Embedded YouTube Videos In Your WordPress Site

Using WP YouTube Player Customizer you can customize the appearance of any embedded video in your WordPress site very easily, just with a few clicks. You can give a professional look to embedded video by removing YouTube link, title, description and the related videos that YouTube shows after the video completes. You can make video auto play as soon you open its page without clicking the play button and also you can add your own title and description in any YouTube video which you choose for embedding in your site.

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How To Add Custom CSS to WordPress Admin Bar Without Disturbing Core Or Using Hack ?

You can customize WordPress admin bar. You can change its color, size and other style  by adding some custom CSS. Generally this is done by adding a function to your theme’s function.php file. Second method includes editing siteroot-> wp-includes->css-> admin-bar.css file but I would not recommend you changing the core css files. As far I know there are no plugins available that allows you add custom color to wp admin bar.  Here I am discussing another method which easily customizes your wp admin bar without disturbing anything on your site.

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How To Add TechCrunch Type Retweet Button In WordPress And Allow Tweets As Individual Comments ?

Add a Twitter retweet button (similar to techcrunch) for your WordPress posts and archives that shows all tweets and enables retweeting. If you want you can also add adds tweets as comments and trackbacks.

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Allow WordPress Commenters To Select Comment Avatar Manually Or Use Custom Avatars Stored In Your Website

Some people don’t use Gravatar, some don’t use Twitter and there are some who don’t use Facebook also and when they leave comment on your blog they leave a mystery man image (or your site’s default avatar) in their comment which sometimes does’t look nice. But you can allow them to choose their comment avatars manually by selecting a avatar from their social profile, email or choosing it from a list of your site’s custom avatars. I know about few plugins that allows you to do so.

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Bring More Traffic With More Comments By Auto-Syncing Your WordPress Blog Posts To Newsgrape

Newsgrape Sync, a WP Plugin automatically syncs your WordPress posts to your Newsgrape.com account. Editing or deleting of any post also replicated and it also allows you to crosspost all existing posts to Newsgrape.com, Not only this much but the best part of this plugin is it also integrates the Newsgrape comments inside your WordPress posts.

Connecting to Newsgrape is good, it drives more traffic and engagement to your blog. It provides smart filtering and helps to find better content to its readers through charts, social media observation and subscriptions.

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Give Better Look To Your Food Recipes In WordPress. Automatically Create Google Recipe View

If you are running a recipe blog, posting your food recipes in WordPress is easy now. You can get them automatically formatted in a better recipe and as per Google Recipe View.

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How You Can Hide Theme Editor From WordPress Dashboard ?

If you like hiding WordPress theme editor from dashboard then all you need to is add a function in your theme function file.  Copy and paste the following code in your theme’s function.php file editing the username given in the following code to you own. Changing the username in the following code will make theme editor visible to that admin who’s username is written in the code:

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Best WordPress Plugins For Maximizing Your Blog’s SEO

SEO plays crucial role for online business websites as well blogs. SEO helps to get more traffic. Here are the best plugins for improving WordPress blog’s SEO. Other ways include like link exchange, subscribe RSS Feed that are more crucial parts under SEO. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a key tool to get more website visitors. The main goal for blog owner & SEO is to get traffic and appear in the first 5 pages of the search engine and maintain online posting and also repetitive visitors.

Check out the following WordPress plugins for improving your blog’s SEO. If you also know about any good SEO plugin for WordPress then feel free to mention it here.

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How To Display A ThankYou Button With Counter After Your WordPress Blog Posts ?

Allow your readers to say thank you for your posts. You can add a ‘Thank You’ button to each of your post/page, counts and shows a total number of visitors ‘thanks’ (i.e. thank you counter) for post/page.

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