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How To Use Custom Bullet Points In WordPress?

Both ordered and un-ordered lists can easily be inserted in WordPress posts and post types using visual editor. Default un-ordered list shows up old open and MS office days black pin points. In this tutorial we will show you how you can insert custom bullet (un-ordered list) points in custom colors on your WordPress site.

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How To Generate Sitemap For YouTube Videos In Your WordPress Site?

A sitemap is an XML page containing an hierarchical or un-hierarchical list of internal links of your website. These days sitemaps are only generated for search engines, to keep them updated about your website’s content like posts, pages, change in links, newly generated custom post types etc.

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How To View YouTube Analytics From WordPress Dasboard?

YouTube provides channel owners with analytics, stats and lets you monitor the performance of your channel, how your videos are performing, it gives you up-to-date metrics, reports and earnings data. The reports contains data for views, number of minutes watched, traffic sources, demographics and more.

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How To Auto Set Featured Images From Video Embeds In WordPress?

Specially when you are publishing video posts or running a video broadcasting website using WordPress. In general, you manually search related video thumbnails to set an image as featured post image. This tutorial is about an awesome WordPress plugin called Video Thumbnail. It  makes thing easier by automatically finding the first embedded or oEmbedded video in your post and generating a thumbnail from it.

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Best Modal Box Plugins For Your WordPress Site

Earlier we have discussed about the plugins to add modal box logins in your WordPress site. We ahve also posted a tutorial on showing your website members using a beautiful grid and modal box layout. Still there are more awesome things you can do by using modal boxes in your WordPress site.

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Top 10 Plugins For Customizing The New WordPress Admin Toolbar

New WordPress admin bar has new CSS, options and code. Hence all old abandoned plugins doesn’t works for it anymore. There are some useful hacks for customizing the behaviour of this new admin bar. For example: New versions (3.8+ versions) of WordPress provides you a new set of admin area themes and new visual changes. They provides you ability to select from eight different color schemes. However, the themes are not applicable on front end admin bar. Hence, by default the front end admin toolbar always shows its default color.

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Display Post Excerpts On Selected Page Types In WordPress

Posts excerpts are optional intro, summary or description of an article. It is a post summary added manually by post author. Post excerpts are generally shown on multi post pages like frontpage, blog page tags & categories archive pages etc. There are two ways of displaying post excerpts: Either you can add a more tag (<!–more–>) or use the Excerpts Metabox for displaying manually handcrafted excerpts.

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How To Stop Users From Accessing WordPress Dashboard?

You can easily disable all your website users (excluding the site administrators) from accessing your admin area dashboard. WP User Redirects is the new WordPress plugin which not only disables you website users from accessing the admin area dashboard but it also hides the admin toolbar and if a person tries entering the admin section by suffixing /wp-admin, the plugin automatically directs his to the home page.

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How To Export Commenters Email List From Your WordPress Site?

Whenever anyone comments on your website, the default WordPress comment forms ask him to fill-up his name, email and website link. This way your website automatically collects emails of your website commenters. In this tutorial we will show you how to export all those useful emails in a mailing list so that you can easily use them for promotional purposes.

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How To Mockup Device Images In WordPress?

‘Mockup’ term is generally used in manufacturing and designs, it is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, promotion etc. By mocking-up images in WordPress you can display them on poular computing devices, smartphones and tablets. For Example: You can generate an image showing the mobile version of your website inside Macbook Pro, Samsung Galaxy or Nexus.

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How To Create Tiled Gallery Carousel Without Jetpack In WordPress?

Tiled gallery is the an elegant way of displaying photo galleries in WordPress, the good thing about tiled galleries is, they automatically organizes all photos a responsive way that they appear all fixed inside your post without leaving any blank space.

Default WordPress galleries shows up images in columns, suppose you have five images assigned to three columns then it would be showing three images in first line and two in the second line leaving a blank whitespace in third column which doesn’t appears to be good. But this is not with tiled galleries. Tiled galleries automatically fixes up all images in a mosaic view that they don’t show up any blank space.

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How To Fix Unavailable YouTube Videos In WordPress?

Posting YouTube videos in WordPress is easy whereas keeping them upto date is difficult. One can easily embed a YouTube video in WordPress simply by pasting its URL in a fresh line, you can also use the iframe embed and now a days there are many plugins that provides you responsive video embeds. But many a times it happens that the video which you have embedded years ago on your website gets deleted or removed by its admin. In such cases the video embeds present on other websites displays a black screen with message that the video is unavailable.

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Top 10 Plugins To Turn WordPress Sticky

Sticky parts of a WordPress site means the sections which sticks to their place and remains on their position even when the user scrolls. Sticky posts are different from sticky headers, footers, widgets and sharing buttons etc. Sticky posts sticks to the top of a multi posts page and remains on the top, no matter how many new post entries are made by other website users. In this tutorial we are sharing a list of some good plugins which you can use for making your website sections sticky and featured.

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How To Create Premium Posts In WordPress?

Creating premium content means creating the posts (or a part of it) and requiring your website visitors to pay in-order to read it. Content For Money is a free WordPress plugin that enables you to hide a section or entire content of your posts and pages to make them premium. The premium content can only be seen by website members whereas non members can read the hidden content only if they pay the set amount through PayPal.

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Easily Organize WordPress Pages With AJAX Based Page Manager

Swifty Page Manager is great option for WordPress sites having a lot of pages. With this new plugin you can very quickly and easily manage all your website pages using a powerful and user friendly AJAX interface. It displays how the pages in your website are positioned and related with each other so called page tree view of parent and child pages. You can create, edit, delete and manage other page settings like page name, status and more in a very intuitive way.

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How To Create A Season’s Website Using WordPress?

By the late 19th century, “With the Season’s Greetings” and “The Season’s Greetings” quotes began appearing. Whereas by 1920s it had been shortened to “Season’s Greetings,” and has been used as a greeting card fixture. Now-a-days season’s websites are being used as online greetings, these websites exist in all known human cultures, helps people to come in contact and feel more close to each other on special occasions.

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How To Sync Your Social Accounts To BuddyPress Activity Stream?

BuddyStream provides you a powerful synchronization for all popular social networking websites to BuddyPress activity stream. With free version of BuddyStream you can synchronize – Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Last.fm & Flickr social streams whereas as its premium version lets you include more social networks like Facebook, Google+, Vimeo, RSS, LinkedIn and SoundCloud.

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How To Add YouTube Style Page Loader Bar In WordPress?

Google+, YouTube and there are various other services which shows up a slim page loader bar on the top of the page. The bar simply displays a loading color fields which starts when you open a new page and goes away as soon the the page loads completely.

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How To Display YouTube Videos On WordPress Dashboard?

YouTube videos can now be embedded in WordPress dashboard’s home screen, the admin area page where users are automatically directed as soon they logins to your WordPress site. Video Dashboard is the new WordPress plugin by Brian Johnson, it allows you to display YouTube videos using a dashboard widget which can be dragged repositioned and edited.

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Top 3 WordPress Plugins To Auto Generate Post Tags

Instead of manually adding tags to your WordPress posts, you can automatically generate them from post title,excerpt and content. Great for multi author and multi-blog WordPress sites where you have a lot of members and you want them all to tag their content before publishing it online. In this tutorial we are sharing a list of some good and tested automatic tagger plugins.

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How To Leave Sticky Notes For Other Users In Your WordPress Site?

You can leave sticky notes anywhere on the frontend of your WordPress site, you can tag other users and communicate with them by means of these sticky notes, you can leave your suggestion (tagging author) for improving any post or page, you can add notes for bettering the website’s layout, content and theme etc. WordPress Sticky Notes simply allows logged in website users to compose and stick notes anywhere in WordPress, the notes are only visible to logged in users and yes, site admin can set the capabilities for the user roles to create, view and edit these sticky notes.

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