You must have observed this type of feature on many websites. By default, WordPress allows you to select taxonomy terms one by one, even if you select any parent taxonomy, you have to select other child taxonomy terms one by one. This is good for most WordPress users but sometimes you need more options.
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Now you can add a fast and responsive launcher bar similar to application launcher buttons in various operating systems. WP Start bar automatically add a Windows like launcher bar with a start button you can use for visiting various sections of your website. This way you can control your website just like you control your operating system.
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You can automatically set and display a default Post Thumbnail image (featured image) either the first image attached to a post or you can set default images as thumbnails for specific categories, tags, custom taxonomies etc. Also you can exclude certain posts. Supports custom fields to ease upgrading.
First install and activate Default Thumbnail Plus plugin then follow the given steps:
Step-1 After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Default Thumb Plus page.
Step-2 Now first it will ask to set default thumbnail that will be loaded if the post has no featured image set.
Step-3 Now click ‘Add Filter‘ button, upload image and use dropdown to set selected image as featured thumbnail of posts from any specific category, tag posts etc.
Use image attachment if available: Automatically use the post’s first available image attachment for the thumbnail. This is useful for older posts that haven’t got a featured image set.
Automatically use first embedded image, use embedded image if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded image for the thumbnail. This is useful if you embed external images.
Automatically use first embedded video, use embedded video thumbnail if available: Automatically use the post’s first available embedded video for the thumbnail (YouTube only).
Custom field: Enter a custom field key here, it’s value if set will become the default post thumbnail for that post. The custom field value can either be an Attachment ID, or a link to an image.
Excluded posts: List of posts to be ignored by this plugin. Comma separated e.g. 10, 2, 7, 14
Cache and resize external images: Automatically resize, crop and cache external images & video thumbnails. Recommended option, however doesn’t work with some server configurations.
Enable or disable plugin hooks (for developers only): Filter post_thumbnail_html Filter get_post_metadata
You can change text color of your WordPress site to whatever you like, few months back we discussed how you can change text selection color by editing style.css or by adding the css to Jetpack’s Edit CSS editor etc. But now you can do this more easy, without digging inside your theme files etc. Now you can do this with an easy to use WordPress plugin.
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WordPress 3.7 release is set to update its installation automatically without any user input. Soon after its release, many new plugins came in the free market and we have already discussed about them earlier:
This article explains you how you can turn-off WordPress automatic updater without using any plugin.
All what you have to do is open your website’s wp-config.php file and add the following code:
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );
wp-config.php file is located in your WordPress site’s root directory. This file cannot be accessed or edited from the admin area dashboard. For editing wp-config.php file you will need to visit your site’s file manager via cPanel or FTP.
There are many admin area themes but only a few gives your dashboard a clean classic style that can be used for a longer duration of time. This article list three WordPress plugin that enables a beautiful dashboard themes as soon you activate them. Following are the most popular and best admin area themes you must give try.
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With brand new WordPress Canvas Shortcodes plugin you can quickly insert Accordion, Tabs, Toggle, Columns, Testimonials, Borders, Buttons, Full Width, Notifications, Google Maps, Social Icons, Progress Bars, Pricing, Highlights, Custom HTML, Code etc in your website pages using its fast shortcode generator.
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Muki Tag Cloud is the new new WordPress tag cloud plugin that allows you to display creative, beautiful and colourful tag cloud. Install and activate Muki Tag Cloud plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Muki Tag Cloud page.
Now from the options page you can set you tag cloud widget’s width, height in percent or pixel. You can set Tag Cloud to display random or order them by article, you can set smallest & largest font size and color scheme. It shows you real time tag cloud preview.
Finally, you can add the widget to sidebar or any other widget area from Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page.
You can display any feed content as your own post content in your WordPress site. Virtual Posts is the new plugin that can publish virtual posts from any feed and instead of creating post copies it creates it’s own “virtual” posts and shows the feed content as a post.
First install and activate Virtual Posts plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings->Virtual Posts and add your feeds. You can set maximum number of items to show for each feed.
From the ‘General’ tab you can set minutes between cron jobs to fetch feeds. Default fetch interval time is 20 minutes.The plugin also provides you a widget for displaying virtual posts in your sidebar.
MFS Campaigns is the powerful, easy and till now best WordPress plugin for randomly displaying campaigns with custom links on the top of your WordPress site. It provides you the best way of creating multiple campaigns from admin area dashboard and that’s all. Rest is done buy the plugin itself. It will be displaying campaigns randomly on your website. It gives a neat display and is not at all disturbing, your visitors may hide the campaign box by clicking small x button. Just like old Wikipedia’s begging messages.
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Easy Media Download provides you the easiest way to add downloadable media file buttons. This is the new WordPress plugin that activates an easy shortcode button that offers file download to your readers, your readers can download digital media files from your website. It instantly starts the download once the button is clicked.
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You can select default link for images while uploading or inserting them inside your WordPress site, in posts or pages. You can select default link to None, Attachment Page, Media File or Custom URL. Default Image Link is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to do so.
Generally when you insert a image in any of your post or page by default,it always appear to be self-linked i.e. liked with its self file. But now by using Default Image Link plugin you can establish the link type by default for images without having to worry about selecting a different option on each occasion.
As said by the developers, For SEO & other reasons most website owners prefer images to have ‘none’ link. And there are many other who prefer images to be liked to their Attachment page or self file (.jpg, .png, .gif, etc.)
Now if you use this new plugin then you can define link type for each image and then there will be no need of modifying image at the time you are using those images. Previously inserted image links are not modified.
Instal and activate the plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Default Image Link page and there you can select default image link option from:
Great for multi-author WordPress sites where sometimes authors forget about selecting correct link for each image used in their post etc. Another good thing about thus plugin is that you can disable it after defining default image link and re-enable it for changing default image link again.
Earlier we discussed how you can disable website field in WordPress comment form. Now this tutorial explains you how you can easily dis-allow your website commenter from including links in their main comment’s body.Automatic Comment SPAM Disable is the new WordPress plugin is the new WordPress plugin created for automatic deletion of comment spams and then delete them.
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WordPress plugin repo. has new handy plugin for the bloggers and webmasters who need managing a lot of media files. With this new plugin you can create unlimited amount of media taxonomies (just like categories and tags), manage your custom media taxonomies in a better way, easily filter media files in Media Library by your custom taxonomies, create new media file types (MIME types) and more.
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Removing all useless things and saving server space is very very important, it makes your website run fast, keeps your database light and quick and also your backups becomes light weight. After you upload any big image in your WordPress media library for using it inside your post content etc, BY DEFAULT WordPress doesn’t removes the unused original size image, thus every time increases some size of your site’s upload directory.
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With Twitter’s Bootstrap Shortcodes Ultimate Add-on plugin you can extend popular Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin by enabling shortcodes for Twitter’s Bootstrap 3 CSS and components.
In-case if you don’t know about Shortcodes Ultimate plugin, Shortcodes Ultimate is a powerful and very useful plugin that enables cool shortcodes in your WordPress installation. Using this plugin you can quickly create buttons, boxes, different sliders, quotes and more. It retrieves many premium themes features and allows you to present content in a more beautiful way. Also it includes a visual shortcode generator that use can use right from your post editor. We have already discussed about the plugin a few months back, now it is loaded with more cool features and is more easy to use.
Now lets come to new Twitter’s Bootstrap Shortcodes Ultimate Add-on, this plugin. Likewise we all know Bootstrap is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development. This new Shortcode Ultimate add-on plugin gives you full power of Bootstrap by enabling shortcodes for Twitter’s Bootstrap 3 CSS and components.
Cream6 is the new user-friendly WordPress admin area theme with responsive layout. It is available for download as a plugin at WordPress Plugin Repository.There are Screeno configuration options to set. Simply install and activate it and that’s all, your new admin section is ready to use.
Given screenshot shows its truly responsive layout in different widgets. It works much better than other admin themes and provides better display in different screen sizes.
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Formilla.com provides you a free live chat widget plugin called Formilla Live Chat, it allows you to chat with your website visitors, your visitors can ask any questions if they have or when they need any support. It provides you a new clean and user-friendly interface. Core plugin features of the plugin allows you to:
Start by installing and activating Formilla Live Chat plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Formilla Chat and SignUp using the form given there. It just takes some minutes to setup your first live chat widget and get it on and running. After you finish registration process, your live chat widget is instantly generated and becomes available on your website for your customers to chat with you.
Formilla Live Chat page integrated within wordpress where you’ll receive and respond to chats.
Chat widget installed on your wordpress site upon activation of Formilla.com Live Chat plugin.
Chat Customer Inbox. View chat history, search and respond to offline email submissions, etc.
Configure options for your chat widget such as proactive chat, hours of operation, and email notifications.
For further usage questions refer to this link.
You can make your multisite management better by adding more useful functions for super admins. Multisite Enhancements is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to enhance the network admin area by adding some new useful functions to it like the plugin adds several useful items to the multisite ‘Network Admin’ admin bar, it enables ‘Add New’ link under the Plugins menu only for Network admins (super admins), shows which blogs have which plugin and theme active and much more.
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GooglePlus Multi-Authorship provides a straightforward solution to WordPress users, it allows you to properly add Google+ Authorship markup to the head of each post & page on a multi-authored website.
The plugin follows recommended use of rel=”author” tag and points author name to its Google+ profile in search results
Install and activate GooglePlus Multi-Authorship plugin.
After activation each author should add their Google+ profile URL in their WP user profile settings.
Visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> G+ Multi-Authorship admin page and here you can provide a default Google+ author profile below. This will be used when an author has not added a Google Plus profile in his/her WP user profile settings. Leave it blank if you don’t want to use a default.
With new Ajaxy Search Keyword Analyzer & Tracker, webmasters can track live searches happening on their website, they can track the search keyword and can easily get to know what website visitors are looking for in their website. You can easily get started, simply install and activate Ajaxy Search Keyword Analyzer & Tracker plugin. Upon activation the plugin adds a dashboard widgets showing you all search stats and reports.
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