WordPress provides a ”Press This” bookmarklet which allows you to easily post links, text and other information to your WordPress site on the go. The bookmarklet can be used from your bookmarks bar, it has the capability to quickly create new WordPress post entries on fly.
After installing WordPress, there are a couple of plugins you should install to make your WordPress blog more useful and awesome for your website visitors. After WordPress is installed there are a couple of modules every blogger needs to use in his website like social sharing features so that you readers can easily share your content and help you in increasing your reach, a related posts feature will enable them to browse other useful content from your website, social links will enable them to follow you on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ etc. A PinIt button over you images will allow them to easily pin good images of your website to their Pinterest pinboards, a SEO plugin will let you see how exactly your post looks like in search results and you can use choose good keywords which are searched more often etc.
Sometimes people need only a static website of few pages. Many don’t want to update their websites regularly by making new blog posts instead they only use a website for showcasing some important thinks like details about their business, social media links, projects with about and contact page etc. The best thing about WordPress is that you can use it for creating any type of website like a blog, a static website, a social network, a webstore or all in one or whatever. In this tutorial we will be show you how to use WordPress as a static website.
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.
Forwarding all WordPress scheduled posts simply means you can bump dates of all scheduled posts to a number of days. Great utility for the bloggers who plan for very long and schedule a number of posts in advance for future publishing. For Example: Suppose you have scheduled 7 posts for the next week but incidently something new happens and you plan to spend next 3-4-days on covering and posting all exclusive information about that event.
New WordPress update of 3.9 provides you a stunning new theme browser that makes you search for a new theme more fast, fun and easy. Using the new theme browser you can browse new and old free themes as per your taste. You can easily filter beautiful themes with their free boundless supply coming from WordPress theme repository.
LaTeX is a popular WordPress.com feature. It is a widely used typesetting system, very good for formatting mathematical formulas and equations etc. In this tutorial we will show you how to enable latex support in your self-hosted WordPress site. Official WordPress.com’s LaTeX support can easily be enabled with Jetpack plugin. First make sure Jetpack is active on you WordPress installation and then follow the given steps.
By default, custom link images can only be used with manually shared links on FB fan pages. In this tutorial we will explain you how to assign a custom Facebook share image on per post basis in your WordPress site. Generally what happens is whenever any post link is shared, Facebook tries to grab images from the linked webpage. Many a times it allows you select a thumbnail, sometimes it fails to grab images and fetches only link title and description. In-case of auto posting; FB randomly grabs an image. All these things happens only on websites not using proper open graph meta tags.
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.
You can easily add beautiful social sharing on-hover buttons on images you use inside your content via ‘Add Media‘ button present in WordPress visual editor. WordPress Image Hover Lite is the new WordPress plugin that enables you to do so at the time of inserting images in your posts and hence you can decide on what images you like to display social sharing icons. How It Works? Your website visitors brings his mouse arrow over the image, the image fades up and displays social sharing buttons.
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.
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.
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.
WordPress 3.9 has introduced an awesome image editing feature. Now you can edit images directly from post edit screen. This new feature update not only allows you to drag and drop images but now you can edit them very easily. It provides you a faster access to image crop, scale, rotation tools and you can use them for editing images directly from edit content screens.
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.
WangGuard protects your website from sploggers and spambots, it protects your from their spam users collecting their data on websites it operates by using one centralized database. On every new registration, the plugin checkes the user’s data into its database in order to delete it of suspicions, and protect website from fake or spam registrations.
A child theme simply inherits the functionality of any WordPress theme. Child themes enables you to edit or add new functionalities to main parent theme without digging inside its code files. The features added to a child theme overrides the features of main theme and hence it is the safest way for adding custom CSS, custom hacks and the best thing is that the code added to a child theme doesn’t gets lost after new updates.
Now you have successfully installed WordPress, now what’s next? It’s time to login and make a few changes to give your website a good look and make it ready for your visitors. There are some important things need to setup soon after the installation. For example: switching to a SEO friendly permalink structure, adding your time zone, choosing a date format, filling out the empty sidebars with useful widgets etc. This tutorial covers some basic options you should setup soon after installing WordPress.
Modal login is a beautiful feature, you must have noticed on Twitter, clicking a Twitter profile open a popup with a close button and no lightbox overlay, that is called a modal box. In this tutorial we are sharing a list of three modal box plugins designed for logging in to WorPress dashboard. You can use in your WordPress installation so that whenever your users try logging-in, they see a modal box instead of getting redirected to default WordPress login page.
Starting a WordPress blog or website is easy at Sangkrit.net as you don’t have to set any manual configuration. You can bring your website online in one click by using the one-click WordPress installer.
Sangkrit.net’s user-friendly interface starts guiding you as soon as you log in to your account. It starts the step-by-step guidance from registering/transferring a domain name to subscribing to a hosting plan and then installing WordPress.
The first thing you need to do is get a website hosting plan, and a domain name. Then log in to your Sangkrit.net account and launch Installatron, a one-click website installer.
Select the Application Browser tab:
Scroll down to the ‘Apps for Content Management’ section and click ‘WordPress‘.
Clicking ‘WordPress‘ opens up its installation page showing you details and features of a WordPress-based website. Here you can take an application demo, check other websites using the same application, etc.
To start the WordPress installation process, click ‘+install this application‘ button.
This asks you to select a domain/subdomain/directory for installing your new WordPress website. If you are already running a website on your main domain then you can either go for a subdomain or use a subdirectory for installation.
Scroll down to the ‘Settings‘ section and type in your new website username, password, and admin email, and then click the ‘Install’ button.
It takes a few seconds and then provides you with your new website address and admin section URL from where you can log in and start managing your WordPress website.
Blogging network like WordPress.com provides you sub-domain addresses like http://example.wordpress.com but you can register a new custom domain with us, such as yourdomain.comand then map it to your existing WordPress.com blog. So that when your website visitors arrive, they will see your own domain name in their browser instead of something prefixed with WordPress.com which is your original website address.