There are many plugins that allows you to show your blog comments in various styles. Some allows you to display comments with avatars, some displays top commenters, featured comments etc etc. But there are very few plugins or might be this is the second one that allows you show your WordPress site’s Trackbacks and Pingbacks as sidebar widget.
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Earlier we have discussed about WordPress widgets that allows you to display posts from selected tags or categories in your WordPress site. Now this posts is about a new WordPress widget that allows you to show recent blog posts from specific tag, category or anyother custom taxonomy by pulling them across your network and showing them on widget.
Jetpack by WordPress.Com provides you a mobile theme that you can activate from Jetpack’s main page in your WordPress admin area dashboard. By default most plugins that allows you to select positions for displaying ads like Google Adsense works only in main activated theme of your WordPress site. Hence, your blog readers who visit your site from their mobile devices get none of your ads displayed.
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Now you can easily add the famous SubtlePatterns as backgrounds in your WordPress blog. WordPress has a new plugin called Subtle Background Patterns. Its very easy to use, even it provides you an option to activate live preview feature on the front-end of your website so that you can instantly check any background pattern simply by clicking on it.
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BuddyPress allows its members to upload a custom avatar but WordPress doesn’t provides you any option to upload and use a custom avatar directly from your website, instead you have to use Gravatar.Com This is OK because provides you avatar that can be used globally in all WordPress sites simply by using your email address. But some site admins running a multi-user WordPress site face problems because they don’t get any option for uploading avatar image for the users who are not registered on Gravatar.Com
Twitter Bootstrap is getting more and more popular in blogging world. WordPress plugin’s repository has a new plugin called WP Bootstrap Menu, with this new plugin you can give your WordPress navigation menus a Twitter’s Bootstrap style.
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You can allow your users to preview themes without activating them, this way you can setup a website providing different downloadable themes to your users and easily allow them to preview each theme.
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WordPress plugin repository has a new plugin Jellyfish Counter Widget, it provides you an odometer type counter widget for displaying either a static value or animate it to a set of total. Great for tracking totals, not for counting jellyfish ;-)
Undo is popular feature of office suites, photo editors and many other apps. WordPress by default doesn’t provides you any undo button but sometimes you can use CTRL + Z to undo a line or character but thing is very limited because you cannot use us it for many undo steps like you do in other applications.
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oEmbed has made content embedding really very easy for bloggers, for example if you want to embed a YouTube video in your WordPress site then you simply paste the video URL and it gets embedded automatically without using any iframe code. In the same way for embedding images you simply paste the image file URL in your blog post and it gets embedded automatically. oEmbed features now comes in BuddyPress also, now by pasting any video or image URL in BuddyPress activity stream makes it auto embed.
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Now you know how to reorder blogs posts globally or reordering them with in a given category. This tutorial is also related to the given tutorials but here you will be knowing to to reorder post categories and custom taxonomies using the same drag and drop interface.
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Once I read a question in a FB’s WordPress Group, the group admin asked his members which admin area theme they use? One person commented that he use to try new admin area themes that comes in WordPress plugin repository and then after few days he switch back to default and when new theme arrives tries that one, then back again. This way he never gets bored with the color scheme of his blog’s dashboard. If you also like trying new dashboard themes then here’s a new one for you.
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It sounds weird but yes you can make shortcodes ready to use in your blog post and page headings. Shortcodes In Titles is a free WordPress plugin that adds ability to use shortcodes in post titles without any hassle.
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You might have observed on some sites showing an image, video, logo or anything with some embed code with a click to copy button. Mostly these types of Grab box are found in non-profit sites promoting any cause or campaign, it was widely used in SOPA-PIPA potests. You can use this type of widget in your WordPress site too by following few simple steps given here.
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Yes you can very easily install a number of plugin simply by typing their names or download URLs. Sometimes while creating a new WordPress site people like installing some of the plugins basic plugins like I always install No Page Comment plugin on every new WordPress site I create.
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Now website owners who are using Jetpack by WordPress.Com on their self-hosted WordPress sites can view enhanced stats with more useful information on the homepage of WordPress.Com
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We have already discussed about some of the best Light box plugins that you can use in your WordPress site. What lightbox does is, when you click an image present in a blog post or page the lightbbox plugin starts its work by darkening the rest of page showing only your image to you, it also allows you to use arrow keys for viewing different images attached to the blog post you are reading, you an press ESC or cross button for closing the lightbox and returning back to your blog post.
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There are many different methods for installing WordPress. Some hosting providers provides you with some auto installers for WordPress, one click WordPress installer like Softcalculus etc but then also there are many new users who faces problem in installing WordPress on their web-hosting Some people faces problem because they are new to WordPress, some are new to web hosting and cPanel or whatever they have purchased.
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If you belong to a blogger family, running a multi-user blog with all your family members as blog authors having their own posts and categories then you should try WP Family Tree plugin.
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You can allows your blog readers to download blog post to their computer’s hard-drive in PDF format. You can apply this post download option in both front-end and back-end of your WordPress based site. Using it’s great features you can easily manage PDF report and display post information the way you want it to be, use custom CSS for PDF files and more.
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Rebel Mouse allows you to pull streams from your social accounts like Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook , Tumblr, Pinterest and more to a page in your website. This way you can keep all your social profiles information at one place. You can easily your embed code by registering yourself on RebelMouse.Com, following few steps and copy-pasting its embed code into your website.
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