Child Theme Wizard is the new WordPress plugin that lets you easily generate a child theme (from any theme) in just one click and lets you customise its options. The plugin provides you a one step wizard ;-) which lets you create a new child theme without any need for additional tools and coding as everything works right from the WordPress admin interface.
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Error 404 pages are not considered good for SEO and also as per adsense terms & conditions you cannot display the adsense ads on 404 pages and hence it is always good to redirect these pages to your website’s home. In this tutorial we will explain you how you can redirect 404 to home or to a custom URL of your website or to a sub domain or even if you need you can redirect it to some external URL.
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500px, pronounced as five hundred pixels is a popular online photography community which is aimed at aspiring and professional photographers and encouraging members to upload their best work to gain gain exposure, find inspiration and connect. The webservice currently has over 2.5 million registered and over 10 million monthly active users. In this tutorial we’ll explain you how you can add your 500px photo gallery in your WordPress based website.
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Setting up theme template category wise means that you can assign a different theme for each and every category of your website. Template Base On Category enables you to change the theme template for category and post in category base on your category ID. WIth this new plugin you can select the theme ( template ) base while creating new or editing any old category from admin section. All posts in edited categories will automatically change.
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Brand-Marker, s simple yet powerful free WordPress plugin ensures that the appropriate trademark symbol will be applied in every page, or post where you use your brand’s text or symbol etc. For Example: If we use this plugin here on text ‘SANGKRIT’ then wherever have written ‘SANGKRIT’ (inside post, pages, post types etc) it will show up ® or any other selected trademark after it.
You can map domains for pages, posts, post types, categories etc on your WordPress site. Mapping domains mean you can assign a separate domain for an individual page a n individual post, post type or their archive pages or on a category. Domain Mapping System enables you to do this very easily.
Not everyone who reads your post comments on your website and mostly the comments are made by the website owners and bloggers working to build up good back links to increase page rank and traffic towards their web addresses. Now, if you add some feedback buttons after you posts and ask your readers to rate the post can bring a boost of reactions (if you have traffic).
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Now Jetpack also provides you fully functional module for displaying related posts of your website. This new Jetpack’s feature feature pulls out the relevant content from your blog and displays it at the bottom of your posts. When the feature is enabled, a new section of related posts automatically appears underneath your Jetpack’s Sharing Buttons and WordPress.com Likes (if its on).
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We posted a number of tutorials for extending the features of new beautiful default WordPress theme, Twenty Fourteen. We have also discussed about a Twenty Fourteen Child Theme To Visually Customize Each Element Color. Then we posted a tutorial on Twenty Thirteen & Fourteen Theme Color Managers, adding new styles on Twenty Fourteen like Instant previews,Text size,Google Fonts, Text colors, Border colors, Background colors, tons of other options and a very popular article on Tweaking Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme, Make It Full Width, Center Aligned, Change Colors And Much More.
Default Twenty Fourteen was specially designed to provide users with a responsive, sleek and modern magazine website design. But the grid was made only for the featured content. So now in this tutorial we’ll tell how how you can enable a beautiful grid view for regular blog posts/front page of your website.
Sequel is the WordPress theme by Zulfikar Nore (UK based web developer). His theme extents the default Twenty Fourteen WP theme and provides you the ability to set the home blog feed to the Grid format mimicking the Featured Content grid, make Featured Grid span full width above the left sidebar and Author bio that mimics the Contributor’s page output, upload site logo and much more.
To start with Sequel, first make sure you have Twenty Fourteen theme installed on your WordPress installation. Now install and activate Sequel theme. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Customize page and use the newly added customization options for enabling grid view and more. Enjoy!
Adding proper Facebook Open Graph Meta tags and values to your WordPres site gives awesome looks to the links of your website shared on Facebook. WP Facebook Open Graph protocol, a free WordPress plugin adds well executed and accurate Facebook Open Graph Meta tags details to WordPress.
The plugin makes things much easily by keeping minimal configuration and options but still it is a powerful Open Graph plugin and it not only works on Facebook but other networks like Google Plus and Linkedin.
Install and activate WP Facebook Open Graph protocol. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Facebook OGP page and enter your Facebook User ID or App ID for the plugin to work. Then you may add Default Image URL to use and that’s all.
Many times bloggers need to create a new type of category tree and then you require merging two or more categories together. Sometimes after importing posts from some other website you like keeping posts to some other newly created categories. There are various free plugins for editing and merging categories like ‘Term Management Tools’ etc. But you might get surprised to know that you can do bulk category editing can be done with default WordPress category management features.
Step-1 Visit your admin area Dashboard -> Posts -> All Posts page.
Step-2 Filter posts to display only the category you like editing out then select all.
Step-3 Now with all selected i.e. checked posts, choose “Edit” and click “Apply”.
Step-4 You will now get directed to a bulk edit screen where you can choose a new category that you like to apply to your blog posts. It also provides you some more specific options like maybe if you like leaving some posts out or if you like only re-categorizing a few and adding others posts to a different category.
Step-5 Finally, after assigning a new category to all posts, you can step towards eliminating the old so visit Dashboard -> Posts -> Categories page. Now hover over that category and click the red color delete link.
A list of ten useful WordPress plugins covering some good features that enables easy working with images. The plugin includes features for cleaning up un-used website images, lazy loading images images for better frontend experience, adding featured images directly via URLs, limiting image upload side limit which is a very useful feature for multi-author blogs, easily importing external images used in your website and a good plugin for adding your name or brand watermarks over your website images.
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Single Post Template plugin lets you enables your theme to include “Post Templates” in much the same way you can add “Page Templates”, the plugin provides you a dropdown which enables you to choose which post template you like using on a per-post basis. Yes, by using this cool plugin you can create one or more “Post Templates” in your theme’s folder, and when creating or editing a post, choose the post template that you would like to use. If no post template is selected, the default template will be used.
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You can automatically display a light, focused and simplified list of attachments files after your post content in WordPress. WP Attachments, a free WP plugin automatically displays each and every file uploaded to a post, a page or any other custom post typejust below its content, without having to insert any link in text area.
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Whenever you copy-paste anything from other webpages, PDF or from Word Pad etc to Visual Editor of WordPress, it automatically copies the formatting like text color, style, type, size etc and hence for avoiding this bloggers mostly paste the text in WordPress text editor instead of visual editor but then also sometimes you make things difficult, For Example: Suppose you want to copy paste a big amount of text (including all content links) from a website: Then in that case if you copy paste the content to visual editor, it will put all useless formatting works which certainly be looking odd on your website OR if you paste it to HTML text editor then it will not copy the content formatting and style but your links will also be removed and then you will be having to add links one by one.
Image Pro – Image resizing and media management done right enables WordPress users to upload, resize, add, change images all instantly. Using this WordPress plugin you can manage your media collection more easily and use it for any blog post, page or any other post type. The plugin provides you a whole new way of managing your content.
The plugin is very easy to set up. Simply install and activate it and that’s it, the plugin is ready to use, just visit any post or post type and start using it.
Adding ALT & Title attribute works very well in improving traffic from search engines like Google & Yahoo etc and now you can add them automatically in WordPress. Search engines can archive your images without Title & Alt text but if your images have title & alt tag then there would be more chances for it to be shown on search results pages. For Example: If you have uploaded and image image-name.png is more SEO friendly than gdhs4789.png, the same is in case of title & Alt tag. Images having these tags are more SEO friendly than Title & Alt tagless images.
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Spreadsheet of Posts automatically aggregates all your blog posts into a spreadsheet interface and then you can very easily manage the important information of your content without opening and editing your posts one by one. It uses a standard page-based navigation and cycles through records that doesn’t fits into a single page.
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Now visitors can easily record videos on your website, you can enable your visitors to send you video reviews or whatever. Adding a video recording button in WordPress is now very-very easy. The button when clicked asks your readers to allows their webcam and then by clicking the record button they can record videos, play it, re-record the video and finally when they are satisfied with the video they can submit it to your website and then the site admin can download and play the video.
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Nick Halsey is a WordPress core contributor, plugin developer, and a classical composer & arranger. He has developed many WordPress plugins, in this tutorial we are discussing about two color manager plugins (Thirteen Colors & Fourteen Colors) he made for customizing the colors of Twenty Thirteen & Twenty Fourteen themes.
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WordPress blogs running on multiple authors can restrict authors from posting to some specific category that admin configures in their profile. Restrict Author Posting is the new WordPress plugin made for single category restrict function for authors user roles. You can very easily assign restrict category for authors by editing their profile and the plugin will show a warning message to them whenever they try posting to the restricted category.
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