Earlier we discussed about embedding any Facebook post on any website, weblog or simple HTML page. Just like YouTube, Twitter and Flickr etc, Facebook also provides you an embed code which can be copied from Facebook post drop down options itself, the code simply embeds that specific Facebook post with all its like and comments into your website.
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Unlike to Gravatar which works universally on all WordPress sites showing one common avatar by email address you can add avatars of your choice for your WordPress site authors, editors and subscribers etc. There are several good WordPress plugins that allows you to upload avatars locally on your blog right from the user profile page. Following are some free plugins ordered by their popularity and downloads.
Theme Tweaker grabs all your existing theme colors and allows you to modify them either by typing the color codes or by using color picker. The plugin offers you another feature to change theme colors in bulk, like you can invert all colors, use grey scale, sepia style colors or you can generate random colors in a click etc.
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StickyZon Lite is an awesome WordPress plugin that lets you add Amazon products related to your blog posts content. With this new plugin you can add targeted products without touching or adding any code snippet. Its a quick set and forget plugin which automatically adds most popular Amazon products to your blog posts related to your post topic.
This way the similar products increases the chance for your visitors to go and take a look over your products and buy them from Amazon. You can make easy commissions without any work.
Features:
Getting Started: Install and activate StickyZon Lite plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> StickyZon Lite page and set Amazon Affiliate ID, API Key (Access Key ID), Secret Access Key and choose your Amazon Product Category using the drop down box.
Other than this you can Use Post Tags to search products, Use Post Categories to search products, Set Default search keywords, Add Widget Title, Edit Buy Now Link Text and Show sponsor link etc.
WP Curtain is the new highly customizable WordPress plugin that lets you hide your website from general visitors and search engines like Google, Yahoo and all others. The plugin allows you to enable access for logged in users having a specified access level like Editor, they can can view website but all other visitors will get directed to a friendly error page showing a message or a beautiful countdown timer (FlipClock) or a log in section, its up to you. You can easily customize its settings.
Simply install and activate WP Curtain plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Plugins -> WP Curtain Settings page and here you can:
Facebook Ads Tool lets you create cool Facebook ads directly from your WordPress admin interface. It provides you an easy user-friendly interface and you can quickly start in seconds creating your own Facebook ads that drives new traffic and promote your web pages. You can know more about its awesome features on its download page at WordPress.org here.
To start simply install and activate Facebook Ads Tool and follow the given steps:
The plugin also activates Facebook Ads Dashboard (Dashboard ->Facebook Ads Tool -> Ads Dashboard) where you can keep track of your Facebook Ads, Clicks, Conversions and other useful information. Following screenshots will certainly make you better understand this useful tool that works from WordPress admin section:
Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 1)
Creating a Facebook Ad in your WordPress Admin (Part 2)
Creating a Facebook Ad directly from a wordpress page
Your Ad on Facebook
Live Social Contests & Promotions
Creating a Sweepstakes in your WordPress Admin
Email Automation Campaigns
Contact Database
Campaign Analytics
HS Social Media Buttons provides you sticky metro style social media buttons with four different button effects. The buttons allows you to add Facebook URL, Linkedin URL, Twitter URL, Youtube URL, Google+ URL, Pintrest URL. You can set their position to left or right and set their top margin in pixels.
Simply install and activate HS Social Media Buttons plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> HS Social Media Buttons page and add your social profile/page URLs and save changes.
It is ofcourse not easy to remember all shortcodes you have active in your WordPress installation unless they provides you shortcode generator etc. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that simply displays a list of all the shortcodes available for use on the post and page edit screens.
Install and activate Edit Screen Shortcode Lister plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically starts displaying all active shortcodes your WordPress site has.It produces a clean, easily accessible list of all the custom/third party added, and WordPress default shortcodes that you are able to use inside your posts and pages. This way you can easily use your shotocodes by copying them right from the post edit screens. Now it is no more difficult to remember them all.
WPMS Admin Reports is the brand new WordPress plugin made for multisite networks. It provides you a reporting tool accessible by multisite administrators. It gives you three reports and a dashboard that gives you a quick snapshot view of the health of your WordPress Multisite installation. All of the tables are client-side sortable using jQuery and tablesorter. It includes graphical indicators (smiley faces) to help easily identify problem sites, users and plugins.
Install and activate WPMS Admin Reports. After activation you may access the reports from network admin dashboard.
Dashboard
Site Report
User Report
Plugin Report
Help Tab
Dashboard – provides charts displaying multiple factors from the other three reports in a graphical way using radar and pie charts.
Site Report – Detailed information about each site in your installation like Errors, ID, Status (Up/Down), Last Post, Last Update, When Created, Current Template, Number of Users and lists the Primary Administrator.
User Report – Gives you detailed information about each user in your installation.
Plugin Report – Lists all installed plugins and provides information about each one. Includes information such as Name, Upgradeability, Status, Activation Site-wide, Total Number of Blogs that use it and a list of those blogs.
Restaurant Menu Manager is the brand new WordPress plugin you can use for creating beautiful restaurant menu in your WordPress site, you can easily group different menu items like Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Desserts, etc. You can also group entries with entry tags or Vegetarian, Sandwiches, Salad, Soups, etc. and then finally display them using a list or jQuery based accordions or tabs.
The plugin uses default WordPress functionality of custom post types, taxonomies, and custom meta fields and lets you easily import and export all your data. The plugin provides you following main features:
Install and activate Restaurant Menu Manager. After activation the plugin adds a new post type in WordPress admin section. Using this new post type you can create your restaurant menu entries, types and add tags etc.
Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery accordion tabs.
Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery tabs.
Restaurant menu displayed in simple list.
Add New Restaurant Menu Entry screen.
All Restaurant Menu Entries Screen.
How to display the menu on your site in simple list?
[rm-menu]Displaying restaurant menu in a jQuery accordion with collapsible tabs for different menu types, use
[rm-menu display=’accordion’]For displaying your menu in jQuery tabs, then add this shortcode:
[rm-menu display=’tabs’] Learn more about shortcode usage.RSS, or “Really Simple Syndication” is a format for distributing and gathering dynamically generated content from sources across the Internet, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. RSSJS, or “RSS To Javascript“, allows you to display this content within your own web pages and to do so without having to possess any XML knowledge or skills. RSSJS will take ANY RSS feed and create a very simple Javascript that can be coded into ANY HTML document. The resulting Javascript output can be manipulated using CSS and even scrolled as we have done in the “News Headlines” example. – Source
Recently WordPress.org has launched a new plugin called RSSJS. The new lightweight WordPress plugin simply creates an RSSJS feed for your WordPress site. All you will be needing to do is install and activate it.
Amplify is the brand new WordPress plugin that lets you presents your human face to your website users. The plugin is designed to encourage visitors to engage with you.
People want to connect with real people and not brands. Brands are not people. But brands are made by people. So why not use a real person from your company to represent your brand.
[/quote]Install and activate Amplify plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Amplify admin page and enter your API key. You can easily obtain your free API key by registering your account at Getamplify.com
Amplify -Feedback widgets, contact us forms etc are seen by your users as one-way conversations. Users after filling up a form are not even sure if they will receive a reply. But with Amplify Connect these feedbacks are turned into conversations and stored in a personalised user-inbox for every user.
Pro-active User Engagement-Less than 0.5% users on any site submits a feedback or fill up a contact form. So instead of waiting for users to contact you, why not greet them with a custom message when then pay you a visit.
Easy and yet powerful customer support-Easily assign these conversations and support requests to team members. Use email forwarding to centralised your support queries via Amplify Connect.
additional marketing channel-An additional marketing channel
TinyPNG for WordPress lets you connect your WordPress site with Tinypng.com API so that you can easily optimize/reduce size of your PNG files on the go. TinyPNG uses a smart lossy compression techniques for reducing PNG file size by selectively decreasing the number of colours in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. Effect made by the service is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference optimizing your PNG files.
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PNG is useful because it’s the only widely supported format that can store partially transparent images. The format uses compression, but the files can still be large. Use TinyPNG to shrink images for your apps and sites. It will use less bandwidth and load faster.
How does it work? When you upload a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file, similar colours in your image are combined. This technique is called “quantisation”. Because the number of colours is reduced, 24-bit PNG files can be converted to much smaller 8-bit indexed colour images. All unnecessary metadata is stripped too. The result: tiny PNG files with 100% support for transparency. Have your cake and eat it too!
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Installation & Usage:
Install and activate TinyPNG for WordPress plugin. Upon activation visit your Dashboard -> TinyPNG admin page and enter your email and API key to connect with TinyPNG.
Now you can upload the PNG file using its uploader. As soon as the uploading finishes, the plugin will connect to the TinyPNG API and get you the Optimized image. (The files uploaded and optimized are saved in the TInyPNG folder in the main WP media folder. For eg – /wp-content/TinyPNG )
How to obtain your API key?
If you haven’t made one yet, you can visit this link to make one – https://tinypng.com/developers
Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin provides you a simple and handy shortcode that displays jQuery powered horizontal timeline in your WordPress site. Timeline displays dates and time which when clicked shows the posts with excerpts (under the timeline) published on that particular date without page any refresh.
Install and activate Horizontal Timeline Shortcode plugin. After activation the plugin enables a shortcode you can use inside your posts, pages, text widgets and other shortocde supported areas of WordPress.
[ml_timeline] is the default shortcode that will display all posts.
category_name=”Your-category-slug” -> [ml-timeline category_name=”Your-category-slug”] will display posts from a specific category.
Now you can view and edit your post’s thumbnails directly from All Posts list (Dashboard -> Posts -> All Posts) present in WordPress admin area dashboard. Featured Image Admin Thumb lets you do this in a very handy way. Install and activate this new WordPress plugin and then follow few simple steps.
Screenshot shows the Thumb column in the All Pages/Posts admin view and in this case a thumbnail is available and shown. There would be a blank space if no thumbnail was found for the post or page.
If the column is not showing in your All Posts/Pages view this shows you where you can check to see that the “Thumb” column is selected to be displayed
Upon activation the plugin automatically adds a new column in admin section’s ‘All Posts’ & ‘All Pages’ view. This new column shows featured thumbnail image attached to the Post/Page. Other than this the posts which don’t have any thumbnail attached, the plugin displays ‘Set Thumbnail’ button you can use for adding thumbnail to your post in admin post list view.
Similar to Facebook and Twitter you can activate automatic activity loader in your BuddyPress based network. BuddyPress Activity Autoloader is the brand new plugin that automatically activities when a user reaches at the bottom of the page. The plugin just simulates Facebook style infinite activity scroll with BuddyPress.
All you need to do is install and activate BuddyPress Activity Autoloader plugin and it will start autoloading activities when a user reaches at the bottom of the page.
Digg Digg is among the most popular free social sharing plugins available for WordPress sites. The plugin adds a floating bar with sharing buttons to your WordPress blog, just like Mashable. Now this tutorial is on another new WordPress plugin called Evolution Social Share. It is advertised that theb plugin is an alternative to Digg Digg that uses less code and loads much faster. Provides you fixed social share toolbar that is SEO friendly and customizable.
The plugin is designed for the bloggers who don’t like to use the content heavy and slow Digg Digg bar. This new bar only has the code required to create the fixed bar having sharing to increase page speed and less code. It contains only the necessary JavaScript for the buttons which is added to the Footer, not inside the content and hence gives you high performance and loading.
Install and activate Evolution Social Share plugin. Upon activation you can control its options, features and make customization from your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Evolution Social Share page.
BuddyPress site owners now can easily enables their site admins site to upload and use custom avatars for their blogs. BuddyPress Blog Avatar is the new BuddyPress plugin by BuddyDev developers. The plugin simply activates a new admin section feature where site admins can upload blog avatar using backend settings options.
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Install and activate the BuddyPress Blog Avatar plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Blog Avatar page and upload blog avatar, crop it and save the changes.
Science Blog Helper is the new WordPress plugin designed specially for science blog writer. Currently it provides you functions like LaTeX supporting and post outline generation. Simply install and activate it. Upon activation the plugin adds a new menu in admin sidebar. Visit Dashboard -> SciBloger and choose your configuration mode and other options.
LaTeX SupportThis function is realised by importing copy of MathJax, an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers, from their CDN Service.
Simply use \(…\) to wrap your in-line math or \[…\] to wrap your equations. For more info, please visit MathJax Homepage or Documents.
Posts on science usually are long works. SciBloger will help you generate a useful outline as long as headers were set properly: making h3 the top level in your post; h4s, h5s, h6s follows by order.
Shortcode is also supported to generate outline more flexible:
[scibloger_outline show=”yes” right=”10px” top=”20%”]Yes you can easily enable subtitles in all WordPress widgets like default WP widgets, widgets your theme provides you and widgets provided by plugins, hacks etc. Widget Subtitle is the new WordPress plugin that provides you easiest way of adding widget subtitles.
Simply install and activate the plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically adds a new subtitle field in all widgets. Visit Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page and use subtitle text field and add subtitles to your widgets.
All your website widgets keeps working in old way, the plugin doesn’t adds any subtitle to any widget by itself upon activation.
DX Share Selection is the new fork of WP Selected Text Sharer which is not updated since long. DX Share Selection simply activates snippet sharing feature that allows your visitors to share/search selected text from your site. They may select a snippet, search for it or share it on various popular social networks.
Install and activate the plugin then visit Dashboard -> Settings -> DX Share Selection and select your options like you can add Widget Title, Share Items, add custom buttons,set Border Color, Background Color, Title Background color, Hover Color, Text Color, Extra Class, Grep Element and other options including Bitly Settings etc.
As soon your reader selects a text snippet in your website’s content like a post, page or custom post type, a popup comes from where sharing is done. Shared snippet also includes to that page thus increases site visibility and traffic.
Apart from sharing buttons you can also add custom buttons and search engines like Google, Yahoo etc or simply your site’s to the popup.
