In our last tutorial, we discussed about a plugin that lets you show off image galleries from Pinterest profile or from a Pin-board. Now here we have selected 5 plugins that lets you do same thing but can grab images from other popular image sharing community websites like Flickr, Google Plus & Picasa, Tumblr, Instagram and we have also included Pinterest too in this tutorial. So what you can do with following plugins is embed a stylish in-post photo gallery from popular image sharing networks, you can do this via shortcode generator or use a sidebar widget.
The Alpine PhotoTile for Pinterest allows WordPress users to show up photos from any Pinterest user profile or from a specific pin board. The images can also be linked to the your Pinterest page or to a custom URL or you can showcase them inside a Lightbox slideshow. The best feature of the plugin is its easy Shortcode Generator which simply allows you to insert its widget inside your posts. The plugin uses WordPress’s in-built JQuery scripts and creates a sleek presentation.
We have discussed about the plugins that lets you show menus and widgets on the basis of post, pages and taxonomies etc. But now you can use similar feature for showing up a custom title on some specific webpages of your WordPress site. Flexible Blogtitle is the new very lightweight plugin which enables you to set conditions for displaying custom titles on selected areas of your website.
Social Butterfly is new simple, sleek and very attractive social media sharing plugin for WordPress users. The plugin is lightweight and easily gets integration before or after post. Its position can be customized sitewide from its options page or you can define its position from top, bottom, both top & bottom or completely hide it from an individual post.
Callout Bar by ContactUs is a customizable toolbar you can float at the top or bottom of your WordPress site and grab your visitor’s attention very easily. The Callout Bar is designed to be used for three main purposes: You can grow your emailing list, generate your sales leads or simply enable general contact enquiries.
The feature is increasingly popular in weight loss websites. In this tutorial we will show you how you can show off image differences by automatically keeping two images side by side inside your content. The feature is very easy to use and you can enable it in seconds and start using it inside your posts, pages and other manually generated post types etc.
Default ‘Read More’ links opens up post in a fresh web page. As soon ‘Read More’ link is clicked, the page opens up with a refresh. In this tutorial we will explain you how you can open up the post in same window in a AJAXified popup which instantly comes visible without any page refresh.
Everybody likes proper citation of their links but in general other website owners simply insert links instead of giving a proper citation. Here’s the solution, you can encourage your readers and help them know how to cite your articles correctly on their websites. Cite is the new WordPress plugin that lets you display a box at the bottom of each article showing the reference information. The box can be inserting using the shortcode [cite] inside your posts, pages and other custom post types. See it live working here.
Visual Icon fonts, also knows as genricons and vector icons are used as font icons popularly among web designers, the icons are lightweight and looks much better than simple bitmap images. There are many advantages like the icons can be resized without losing the quality and can be styled with CSS which cannot be done with image icons. This tutorial explains how you can use these iconic fonts using default WordPress visual editor present in add new & edit content pages, and the best thing is that you don’t need any HTML or CSS coding as everything is done visually.
While completely moving WordPress installation (including the database, files and plugins), widgets settings automatically moves and the website automatically starts working like before. This procedure is good for moving large websites but sometimes you might need need to reuse only widget settings, if there are only one or two widgets then that can be moved manually. However, if there are many widgets, widget areas in multiple sidebars then a better, fats and more easy solution is needed. This tutorial explains you how you can import & export widget settings across WordPress installations.
Facebook like toolbar is the brand new WordPress plugin for showing Facebook Like Page Button with a custom message of notification in a highly customizable bar at the bottom of your website. You can display a message in simple text or you can use the HTML code and include hyperlinks etc.
Just like Tumblr Crossposting from WordPress, now you can easily cross post your WordPress blog posts and other content to your WordPress.com blogs and other self-hosted WordPress site having Jetpack installed in them. WordPress Crosspost is the new WordPress plugin that automatically crossposts your content to your other WP sites, it enables you to select the blog of your choice whenever you hit the “Publish” (or “Save Draft”) button.
Crossposting from WordPress to Tumblr is easy, you can keep your WordPress blog completely in sync with your Tumblr blog and then you can easily control everything from your WordPress admin area. Tumblr Crosspostr is an awesome WordPress plugin that lets you cross-post published WP posts to your Tumblr, even the changes made to your WordPress posts also get reflected to your Tumblr posts.
By default WordPress only allows users to display static pages and posts on the front page. There are many solutions for displaying any other post type on the homepage like by using shortcode plugins etc but here we will provide you the easiest among all other solutions. We will be using a hack which you can easily enable on your website or alternatively you may also give a try to CPT on Front Page plugin by fabrizim.
According is good for saving space and showing up more things on user’s demand. Earlier we have discussed about many according plugins that enables you to add accordion with your post & post type content and now in this tutorial we are posting something new, we are sharing a list of three best plugins that provides you with accordion based menus and menu widgets.
After the release of Twenty Fourteen WordPress theme, many new plugins arrived in the free market providing various cool features that extend this default WP theme with more customization options and features. Earlier, the first thing (after WordPress installation) that most of the web designers used to do was activating a new theme but now this new default WP theme provides users with a professional magazine layout which looks good on both profession & personal weblogs and now you can make it more customizable with following free plugins.
WordPress Website Email Signature – by WiseStamp is a chrome app that lets you promote your WordPress blog’s address, recent post and social links on every email you send using a customizable signature template and it does that automatically. To start first install WordPress Website Email Signature – by WiseStamp in your Google Chrome’s web browser.
Here’s a simple and fast way of displaying a Facebook page like box block. Facebook Like Box Sliding, a new WordPress plugin automatically enables a Facebook button floating on the side of your website’s screen which when clicked slides up your Facebook page with like button, fan avatars and recent post scroll. The button and box are sticky so scrolls with the page.
Displaying widgets by devices means displaying displaying the widget content only the device you want like only on mobile or only on tablet or only a computer’s web browser. WP Widget Devices is the new WordPress plugin with which you can display HTML text widgets only the device you want like smartphone, tablet or only on regular web browser.
In a few clicks you can create beautiful full screen photo galleries with inbuilt full-screen slider in your WordPress site. Here’s a completely new way of creating and displaying full-screen galleries which is totally different from default WP photo galleries. Fullscreen Slides is the new WordPress plugin which which you can easily add a fullscreen gallery to page or post simply by inserting a shortcode, the plugin provides you custom image management, it doesn’t rely on the default WordPress Media Library and is compatible with all major web-browsers and smartphone is optimized.
There are hundreds of under construction & coming soon page in WordPress plugins repository but if you want a highly customizable page with tons of options and features then Coming Soon / Maintenance mode Ready! is a good choice. The plugin not only provides you various features for designing coming soon page but even you can redirect your website to some custom URL or to an external website etc.
