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How To Add Anonymous AJAX Chat Room In WordPress?

In this tutorial we will show you how to quickly add a simple, good-looking and powerful AJAX chat room in your WordPress site. Earlier we posted a tutorial for WordPress site administrators, they can easily start chat rooms (with type & enter functionality) for registered their users to participate in by following URL of any particular chat room. Now this tutorial explains you how to create similar chat room but for unregistered WordPress users.

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How To Bulk Convert Posts To Custom Post Types In WordPress?

With in a few clicks you can convert your WordPress posts or pages to some other custom post types and also you can do opposite of same i.e. you can convert any custom post type to posts or pages. Convert Post Types provides you the functions for converting posts and post types in WordPress.

This is not just limited to conversion but the plugin also enables you to limit the conversion to posts from a single category or children of some specific pages and vice versa. You can also assign new taxonomy terms (like tags and categories), which will get automatically added to the posts’ existing terms. This way you can migrate any specific category to a new post type without disturbing any other content.

To start, first install and activate Convert Post Types plugin. Take backup of you database before you start playing with this plugin or if you are sure about what you are doing then visit your admin area Dashboard -> Tools -> Convert Post Types admin page and choose the ‘Convert from‘ and ‘Convert to‘ post type options.

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Select a category if you want limiting this conversion. You can add taxonomies to get auto assigned to your content after the post type conversion process. Finally, click the ‘Convert‘ button and wait for the process to complete, process time depends entirely on the amount of content you are converting.

Get Complete Control Over Follow & Nofollow Links In WordPress

Earlier we have discussed about Automatically No Following All External Links In WordPress. But that’s not useful everytime, specially if you are reviewing or writing tutorials on some good websites and services. In this tutorial we will explain you a very easy procedure of getting control over follow/no-follow link relationships.

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How To Move Any Website From Joomla To WordPress?

Before migrating your Joomla website to WordPress, first make sure you have a self hosted WordPress site. We recommend you SANGKRIT.net’s WordPress Hosting as it provides you easy one click WordPress installation and free database backups, (free backup is a limited time offer). Assuming you have a WordPress site, install and activate FG Joomla to WordPress, a free WordPress plugin to migrate Joomla website categories, posts, tags, images, media and other content to a WordPress.

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Easily Display Rich HTML Tooltips Containing Images & Links In WordPress

Tooltips or infotips are used for showing hints when a mouse pointer is hovered over specified keyword or icon. Earlier we have discussed about displaying traditional tooltips in WordPress but now-a-days tooltips are not just limited to simple hint texts but various websites use them for showing HTML rich content containing images and links in them. Tooltips are not the popups, they only appear when mouse pointer is hovered over some icon or keyword and disappears as soon the pointer goes away.

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How To Easily Add Popup Links In WordPress?

Earlier we discussed about Alligator Popup plugin which enables you to insert simple links which displays simple popup scrollable windows when clicked by the user. Now today we will how you how to insert an instant popup link in WordPress. Anything Popup is a free WordPress plugin to display custom text or HTML content in to unblockable popup window using default WP text editor. Popup appears by clicking the text or used image button.

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How To Use Any Shortcode In WordPress Theme Files?

Shortcodes are the special tags like [a-shortcode-ex] which replaces the tag with some other content on the frontend. By default shortcode usage is only limited to WordPress posts, pages and custom post types but there is a very easy function in WordPress called do_shortcode() which enables you to use any shortcode with in your theme files, the PHP template files.

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Display Custom Content After Posts From Some Specific Category In WordPress

Inserting custom content after each post can be done by adding a simple function in your theme’s function.php file or if you don’t like editing in your theme files and avoid feature lost after updates then use the Code Snippets plugin. In this tutorial we will explain you adding custom contnet after each post or after posts from some specific category in WordPress.

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Branding Your Videos With Custom Image Overlay In WordPress

You can brand videos which you have posted or iframed in your WordPress site using a branding cover or a custom image overlay. This is workable for videos from popular video broadcasting websites like YouTube, Vimeo and Sceenr enabling compatibility for embed suppliers as well. Video Overlayer, is a free WordPress plugin which provides you option to overlay an image on each and every video on your website.

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How To Implement Breadcrumb Trail Navigation In BuddyPress?

WordPress has many breadcrumb plugins and we discussed about them in a tutorial. Breadcrumbs are not just limited to blogging sites but you can also use it in your BuddyPress network. You can adds breadcrumb trail navigation to your BuddyPress site simply by adding a line of code to your template.

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How To Change Number Of Posts To Be Displayed On WordPress Blogpage?

By default WordPress displays recent posts on homepage. Blogpage, posts page or frontpage are the pages where multiple posts are shown. WordPress allows you to change the number of posts showing up on blog page, by default it displays 10 posts per page. Here we will be explaining you how to change this number to the number of posts you like showing up on your blog page or home page.

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Top 7 Popular Breadcrumb Plugins For WordPress

Likewise we have discussed in our last tutorial about breadcrumbs. Breadcrumbs enables you, your website visitors and search engines to determine the structure of your website. It is a trail or a set of links showing navigation route which helps users to understand and navigate on your website’s category hierarchy. Here we are publishing a list of 7 best breadcrumb plugins you can use in your WordPress installation.

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What Is A Breadcrumb And Why You Should Use It In Your Website?

The term ‘Breadcrumbs’ generally confuses both new and old bloggers who are not the web developers, many people know breadcrumbs only by face but don’t know what actually it is and how it works. Breadcrumbs are very good functions, both for your website visitors and also for the SEO and the results displayed on search results page. Even Google has a separate team for breadcrumb.

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How To Easily Paginate Comments In WordPress?

There are a few disadvantages of showing large number of comments on one page. If your website gets a lot of comments then you must have noticed that the comments load slower than other content you have on that webpage and a long list of comments also make the navigation difficult for visitors who are willing to further the discussing by posting more comments. You can make long discussion easy by paginating the comments in multiple pages.

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How To Parse Or Fetch Selective URLs In WordPress Posts?

URL Parsing is mostly used by the social networking websites like Google+ & Facebook. URL parsing means whenever you type any URL, the service automatically grabs its details like title and description. Earlier we posted a tutorial for enabling URL parsing/fetching feature in BuddyPress with BuddyPress Activity Plus Plugin. Now, today we will explain you URL parsing in WordPress so that you can fetch any link details inside your posts, pages & other post types.

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Easily Show Stream Of All Your Online & Social Activities In WordPress

WP Social Stream is the new WordPress plugin which enables you to display a stream of all your social media and other online activities in your WordPress site.The plugin is not just limited to social media website but it covers all major networks, web blogging platforms and popular web sites, even wikipedia and github etc. The plugin is very easy to use, all you have to do is add your usernames and starting using its shortcode [wp_social_stream], you can use it inside you posts, pages, text widgets and other shortcode supported areas of WordPress.

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Easily Enable Guest Posting Feature For Unregistered WordPress Users In One Minute

Earlier we have discussed about building an account based guest posting system with WordPress. But that’s off course not for everybody. This tutorial is for the website owners who simply want to generate a for for accepting guest posts without allows any kind of new account creation. The plugin works out of box and is one of the easiest guest posting plugin for WordPress.

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Official Google Publisher Plugin With Better Adsense Display & One Click Website Verification For WordPress

Google Publisher Plugin (beta) is an officially released plugin developed by Google. The plugin enables you to use Google’s products including AdSense and Webmaster Tools with your WordPress based website.

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General process of adding Adsense requires generating snippets in from Google.com/AdSense and then pasting them into your website’s template files, digging inside PHP files if you are using WordPress or by using a plugin like Adinjection or Adinserter. But Google Publisher Plugin (beta) works very much differently from all other Adsense plugins out there and give you a new easy style of placing Adsense with a simple point-and-click user interface (UI).

The plugin also provides you an inbuilt one click website verification with Google Webmaster Tools.

How to start up with Google Publisher Plugin (beta)?

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Install and activate Google Publisher Plugin (beta) plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Google Publisher Plugin page, click ‘Get started‘ button, login and click ”Verify’ button:

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Then you can select to preview the home page or your single post pages. The plugin will automatically add markers on page letting you know where the AdSense can get fit better. You can then select the place and click to add advertisements, you can create different placements for each page template and start displaying AdSense there.

Easily Get Your Pinterest Account Verified With WordPress

Pinterest verification is done with a code  provided by pinterest itself. After your Pinterest account gets verified, you will be noticing a little tick mark on your pages displaying that you do indeed own that website. The only problem or you can say difficult part in Pinterest verification process is you you either need to upload an HTML code file to your website or insert some code into your template file. Many website owners don’t like digging inside the website files, for them here’s a very easy process for verifying your Pinterest account using your WordPress website.

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How To Write Product Reviews Without Creating Any New Post Type In WordPress?

Earlier we have discussed about creating a review website with WordPress, but that method activates a new post type whereas in this tutorial we will be explaining you how you can write product reviews without adding any new custom post type. WP Product Review is plugin which adds in-depth reviews & ratings features to basic WordPress posts. The bloggers make regular posts but at the bottom of the page, the plugin will ask you if this post is a review or not. If you select “Yes, it opens up a whole bunch of extra fields and makes it easy for you to list product’s features, its pros and cons, you can add a product image and add other review details.

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How To Sync Any Facebook Page Photos & Albums To WordPress?

This is not just about importing and managing Facebook photo albums on to your WordPress website but you can bring in photos from any public Facebook page into your WordPress media library simply by using the FB page slug. FB Photo Sync is an incredibly powerful and free WordPress plugin which is very easy to set up, manage, you can sync FB photos & albums and to display any album with all photos to a post, page, post type etc via shortcode.

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