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15 Hacks to Pimp Your WordPress Website

Edward Korcheg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:54:39 +0000

Despite the general awesomeness of WordPress plugins there is a common situation when plugins are an unnecessary headache for the web masters. The point is any plugin brings a series of updates that can crash your WordPress website functionality in some cases. So if you have some basic PHP skills (we mean really really basic – like being able to copy and paste the pieces of code) or web development experience you might be interested in making some little changes to your WordPress website with your own hands. With this in mind we have prepared for you some short and interesting WordPress hacks that would improve your WP-based without involving any third-party software. There are many simple functions that actually don’t need being plugin-powered. These are pagination, contact forms, social media buttons etc. Anyways, just know that this post isn’t meant to criticize the existence and usage of WordPress plugins – it’s just an alternate point of view so you could have choice. This post is meant for those seeking souls that are looking for simple and interesting solutions to improve their WordPress themes functionality.

How to build a WordPress Post Pagination without plugin

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Display Your Popular Posts In WordPress Without A Plugin

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How to Add Live Comment Preview to Comment Text area without Plugin

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Show Number of Retweets in WordPress Without a Plugin

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Breadcrumbs without plugin


function the_breadcrumb() {
		echo '';
	if (!is_home()) {
		echo ';
		echo get_option('home');
		echo '">';
		echo 'Home';
		echo "
";
		if (is_category() || is_single()) {
			echo '';
			the_category(' 
 ');
			if (is_single()) {
				echo "
";
				the_title();
				echo '
';
			}
		} elseif (is_page()) {
			echo '';
			echo the_title();
			echo '
';
		}
	}
	elseif (is_tag()) {single_tag_title();}
	elseif (is_day()) {echo"Archive for "; the_time('F jS, Y'); echo'
';}
	elseif (is_month()) {echo"Archive for "; the_time('F, Y'); echo'
';}
	elseif (is_year()) {echo"Archive for "; the_time('Y'); echo'
';}
	elseif (is_author()) {echo"Author Archive"; echo'
';}
	elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) {echo "Blog Archives"; echo'
';}
	elseif (is_search()) {echo"Search Results"; echo'
';}
	echo '
';
}
?>

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Show Top Commentators In WordPress Without A Plugin

function top_comment_authors($amount = 5){
 
	global $wpdb;
 
	$results = $wpdb->get_results('
		SELECT
			COUNT(comment_author_email) AS comments_count, comment_author_email, comment_author, comment_author_url
		FROM
			'.$wpdb->comments.'
		WHERE
			comment_author_email != "" AND comment_type = "" AND comment_approved = 1
		GROUP BY
			comment_author_email
		ORDER BY
			comments_count DESC, comment_author ASC
		LIMIT '.$amount
 
	);
 
	$output = "";
	foreach($results as $result){
		$output .= "".$result->comment_author."
";
	}
	$output .= "
";
 
	echo $output;
 
}

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Restrict Admin Menu Items Based on Username

function remove_menus()
{
    global $menu;
    global $current_user;
    get_currentuserinfo();
 
    if($current_user->user_login == 'username')
    {
        $restricted = array(__('Posts'),
                            __('Media'),
                            __('Links'),
                            __('Pages'),
                            __('Comments'),
                            __('Appearance'),
                            __('Plugins'),
                            __('Users'),
                            __('Tools'),
                            __('Settings')
        );
        end ($menu);
        while (prev($menu)){
            $value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
            if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted)){unset($menu[key($menu)]);}
        }// end while
 
    }// end if
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_menus');

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How to Redirect WordPress Feeds to FeedBurner without a Plugin

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-] )?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/wpbeginner [R=302,NC,L]
IfModule>

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Take Control of your WordPress Admin Bar

function my_admin_bar_link() {
	global $wp_admin_bar;
	if ( !is_super_admin() || !is_admin_bar_showing() )
		return;
	$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
	'id' => 'diww',
	'parent' => 'my-blogs',
	'title' => __( 'Do It With WordPress'),
	'href' => admin_url( 'http://www.doitwithwp.com/wp-admin.php' )
	) );
}
add_action('admin_bar_menu', 'my_admin_bar_link');

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How To: Inserting Google Maps into WordPress

//Google Maps Shortcode
function do_googleMaps($atts, $content = null) {
   extract(shortcode_atts(array(
      "width" => '640',
      "height" => '480',
      "src" => ''
   ), $atts));
   return '.$width.'" height="'.$height.'" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="'.$src.'&output=embed" >';
}
add_shortcode("googlemap", "do_googleMaps");

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Remove post columns

function remove_post_columns($defaults) {
  unset($defaults['comments']);
  return $defaults;
}
add_filter('manage_posts_columns', 'remove_post_columns');

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How to Generate Perfect WordPress Title Tags without a Plugin


 
<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;"><?php</span> 
 
<span style="color: #b1b100;">if</span> <span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #990000;">function_exists</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'is_tag'</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #339933;">&&</span> is_tag<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #009900;">{</span> 
 
	<span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">'Tag Archive for "'</span><span style="color: #339933;">.</span><span style="color: #000088;">$tag</span><span style="color: #339933;">.</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'" - '</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> 
 
<span style="color: #009900;">}</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">elseif</span> <span style="color: #009900;">(</span>is_archive<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #009900;">{</span> 
 
	wp_title<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">''</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">' Archive - '</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> 
 
<span style="color: #009900;">}</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">elseif</span> <span style="color: #009900;">(</span>is_search<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #009900;">{</span> 
 
	<span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">'Search for "'</span><span style="color: #339933;">.</span>wp_specialchars<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #000088;">$s</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">.</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'" - '</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> 
 
<span style="color: #009900;">}</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">elseif</span> <span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #339933;">!</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span>is_404<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #339933;">&&</span> <span style="color: #009900;">(</span>is_single<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #339933;">||</span> <span style="color: #009900;">(</span>is_page<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #009900;">{</span> 
 
	wp_title<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">''</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">' - '</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> 
 
<span style="color: #009900;">}</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">elseif</span> <span style="color: #009900;">(</span>is_404<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span> <span style="color: #009900;">{</span>
 
	<span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">'Not Found - '</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> 
 
<span style="color: #009900;">}</span>
bloginfo<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'name'</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> 
 
<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?></span>

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Random WordPress Quotes Without A Plugin

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Add Social Links to WordPress Without a Plugin

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Custom Post Types and Page Templates in TemplateMonster WordPress 3.x Themes

Edward Korcheg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:57:00 +0000

Last week we have announced the release of our WordPress 3.x themes. One of the major features they include is the ability for website owners to create and edit custom post types and page templates. This was actually one of trump cards that fortified WordPress’ positions in the CMS comparison chart. WordPress was often criticized for weak content system and the lack of flexibility in general (as we know WordPress is considered to be a blogging platform which is why it was pretty complicated to customize it for classical static business websites). So now this problem is fixed, and our new WordPress themes are perfectly compatible with this new feature and include some predefined custom post types and page templates.

So let’s get back now to these features. First of all, it very important to understand the meaning of the following terms: posts, pages, custom posts types and page templates. Without it it would be hard to comprehend all advantages and even the main point of implementing these new features.

Post is a default content type which is related to the blogging sphere. Usually blog posts are displayed in reverse sequential order by time (newest posts come first).
Page is a default content type that used for the static pages. Pages are for non-blog content. For example the default set of WordPress pages contains Home Page, About Us and maybe Contact Us pages. Actually you can remove all posts from a WordPress installation and by this you’ll achieve a standard non-blog static website.
Page Template is a functional feature of our WordPress 3.x themes which allows you to change the page layout, number of columns, move siderbar etc.
Custom Post Type is another functional feature that is tightly connected with Page templates. This option allows you to manage website’s content which is not typical for blogging post types. For example with the help of Posts section at the dashboard you can create separate pages for portfolio page items, edit content of the slider on your pages and so on. Custom post types can be the elements that page templates contain (e.g. every individual testimonial in a testimonials page template is built with testimonials post type) or may be used independently.

Now we will show you some interesting examples of the custom post types and page templates in our new WordPress 3.x themes. By the way if you want to see them in action – just click the live demo of the WordPress theme and play with its features ad lib. Here are some examples of page templates and custom post types.

Portfolio Post Type with Portfolio Page Template for 4 columns

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Services Post Type

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About Page Template

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Slider Custom Post Type

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Testimonials Custom Post Type

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FAQ Custom Post Type

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New Features in WordPress 3.x Themes on TemplateMonster

Edward Korcheg — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:50:21 +0000

As you may have noticed recently our product line was enriched with WordPress 3.x themes. Despite the fact that it may seem just another piece of boring corporate news we must state the significant importance of this milestone – both for our company and our dear clients. It is not a secret that WordPress themes are an insanely popular product. So, it is not that simple to satisfy the growing needs of our customers with every new update of the WordPress CMS. But we are always open to hear the voice of our people and improve our products and services according to your needs.

WordPress CMS is famous for unique combination of reliable and highly functional back-end software which is spiced up with the ability to add extra features by installing widgets, plugins and other “delicious” stuff. And that’s the reason WordPress CMS is considered to be the most user-friendly software – even the newbies can master WordPress within the short period of time. Now that all ceremonies are over we can go straight to our topic. Below you’ll find the detailed information concerning the functional improvement of our WordPress 3.x themes.

Custom Post Types

Creating various types of posts is one of the greatest features that opens many great opportunities for WordPress users. Currently you can use the custom post types in our WordPress 3.x themes too. Here is the list of all possible post type options:

Portfolio Post Type is the post type that delivers content in the form of image portfolio with some text comments to the images.
Slider Post Type is another image related option that presents all your post content in the dynamic slider with navigation buttons and short text info.
Testimonials Post Type lets you set up custom fields for this type of post, such as testimonial name, testimonial URL, set up featured image etc.
Services Post Type
FAQs Post Type allows to create a special post where content will be displayed in the ‘question – answer’ form as it is usually done on the FAQ pages.

Page Templates

This exact option offers you adding page templates that have various design characteristics. These pages have different number of columns, layout, sidebar absence etc. Here is a short info concerning each of our page templates.

Full Width Page is a page template with one column and without any sidebar positions.
About Page is a page template with one column and without any sidebar elements.
Testimonials Page has custom styled design created by our designers specifically for displaying testimonials posts.
FAQs Page template is a full-width page without any sidebar created for displaying FAQ information.
Portfolio Page has 1, 2, 3 and 4 columns view layout enhanced with Prettyphoto jQuery plugin.

Custom Widgets

The WordPress widgets presence is another functional goodie that is quite popular among WordPress fans. That’s why we’ve decided to include some popular widgets to our themes, such as Recent Comments, Popular Posts, Social Networks and others.

50+ shortcodes

WordPress Shortcodes were introduced in WordPress 2.5. Basically a shortcode is a simple set of functions for creating macro codes that you can use in post content. For example, you can add a photo gallery into the page by adding one of the codes to the blog posts. Our themes support over 50 various short codes including tag clouds, audio/video embedding, popular posts, last comments and so on.

jQuery Plugins

From now on all our WordPress 3.x themes are equipped with a set of superb plugins powered by jQuery. You can enable any of this plugins in the proper section of the dashboard. The following plugins will help you display image content in a more spectacular and efficient manner. Here is a short description for each plugin that you may find at our new WordPress themes.

jQuery Cycle is a slideshow plugin that supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and other transition effects.
jQuery PrettyPhoto is a lightbox clone plugin that supports images, videos, Flash etc. It is highly compatible with all major browsers (it has support even for IE6!).
jQuery NivoSlider is a small but efficient slider plugin that supports more than 16 various transition effects to display images on your website.

Native WordPress Plugins

We are glad to inform you that there are more surprises waiting for you inside of each WordPress 3.x theme. Our themes are armed not only with jQuery plugins but also with some native WordPress plugins that might be extremely useful for any web project.

WP-PageNavi is a pagination plugin that adds navigation button numbers for every page that you have on your website. It is a highly usable and simple WordPress plugin.
WP-Contact Form 7 is a simple contact form plugin that delivers reliable and user-friendly tool for receiving users’ feedback instantly.

Google Webfonts

I’m sure that you’ve heard about Google Web Fonts library. So, this plugin allows you to embed all fonts from this library into your website seamlessly.

Multi Level Dropdown Menu

From now on all our WordPress 3.x themes will have navigation enhanced with multilevel dropdown menu which is widely used in web design these days. This feature will make your website more user-friendly and navigation-wise.

Cross Browser Compatible

All our themes are compatible with major web browsers (including IE7) which means that your website will be properly displayed for all your visitors.

PSDs included

As always, all our design products are supplied with PSD files. You can easily improve them by making any changes you want.

Well Documented Themes

Each and every WordPress 3.x theme will be shipped to you with a comprehensive manual where you can find all information about the installation process, theme’s functional features and other stuff that would help you to set up all the things without any problems.

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Now we want to invite you to check out the collection of fresh designs of our new WordPress 3.x themes. Below each theme you’ll find a short list of functional features available for that particular theme. If you still have questions concerning our new product – we would love to receive your feedback in the comments section.

Jesus Chruch

Custom Post Types: Gallery Post Type, Banners Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Home Page, Portfolio Page (1, 2, 3 and 4 columns view)
jQuery plugins
Flash XML Slider
5 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes

Sadex

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Partners Post Type, Services Post Type, FAQs Post Type,Our team Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, FAQs Page, Home Page, Portfolio Page (3 columns)
jQuery plugins
Cufon text replacement
5 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes

Agrico

Custom Post Types: Partners Post Type, Slider Post Type (based on nivoSlider), Testimonials Post Type
6 Page Templates: Blog page, Full Width Page
jQuery plugins
Cufon text replacement
7 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7

Interior

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Services Post Type, FAQs Post Type, Our team Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Testimonials Page, FAQs Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
Google Webfonts
50+ shortcodes
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Another Random Posts Widget

Grand

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Capabilities Post Type, FAQs Post Type, Out team Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Testimonials Page, FAQs Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
3 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Widget Logic, WordPress Newsletter subscription Opt-in for SendBlaster

Interior Design Studio

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Our team Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Testimonials Page, FAQs Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
7 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
Google Webfonts
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Custom Meta

InFit

Custom Post Types: Programs Post Type, Slider Post Type, Nutritions Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Home Page, Blog Page, Programs Page
jQuery plugins
7 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
Google Webfonts
Cufon text replacement
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, WordPress Newsletter subscription Opt-in for SendBlaster

Zero

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Services Post Type, Our team Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Testimonials Page, Home Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
4 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
Cufon text replacement
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Widget Logic

Agroplus

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, FAQs Post Type, Service Post Type, Partners Post Type, Resources Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Testimonials Page, FAQs Page, Blog Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
2 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
Cufon text replacement
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Widget Logic

Just Stephen

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type,Testimonials Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins: jQuery Cycle, jQuery PrettyPhoto
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7

Qorra

Custom Post Types: Services Post Type, Clients Post Type, Extra Post Type, Our team Post Type, Projects Post Type, Slider Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Home Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
Cufon text replacement
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7

Gear

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, FAQs Post Type, Our team Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Testimonials Page, FAQs Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7

Jacov

Custom Post Types: Banners Type, Portfolio Post Type
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Home Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins:jQuery PrettyPhoto
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7

Delicicaes

Custom Post Types: Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Bakery Post Type, Our team Post Type
3 Page Templates: Home Page, Subpates Page, Testimonials Page
jQuery plugins
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Widget Logic

My Folio

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type
3 Page Templates: Home Page, Full Width Page
jQuery plugins
3 Sidebar Positions
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Widget Logic

Doom

Custom Post Types: Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Services Post Type, FAQs Post Type
8 Page Templates: Full Width Page, About Page, Testimonials Page, FAQs Page, Portfolio Page
jQuery plugins
5 Sidebar Positions
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
Google Webfonts
WordPress Plugins: WP-PageNavi, WP-Contact Form 7, Widget Logic

In2Ition

Custom Post Types:Portfolio Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Services Post Type, Our team Post Type
6 Sidebar Positions
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Home Page, Portfolio Page
9 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
jQuery Plugins<
Google Webfonts
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress plugins: WP-PageNavi,WP-Contact Form 7

Optima

Custom Post Types:Projects Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type
8 Sidebar Positions
6 Page Templates: Full Width Page, Blog Page, Portfolio Page
7 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
jQuery Plugins<
Cufon text replacement
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress plugins: WP-PageNavi,WP-Contact Form 7

Best Travel

Custom Post Types:PrFAQs Post Type, Our team Post Type, Slider Post Type, Testimonials Post Type, Portfolio Post Type
10 Sidebar Positions
7 Page Templates: Full Width Page, FAQs Page, Home Page, Portfolio Page
7 Custom Widgets
50+ shortcodes
jQuery Plugins<
Cufon text replacement
Multi Level Dropdown Menu
WordPress plugins: WP-PageNavi,WP-Contact Form 7

10 WordPress Plugins for Blogs with Multiple Authors

Edward Korcheg — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:54:38 +0000

Multi-author blogging is not that much of a big deal these days because WordPress 3.x technically supplied us with this great function. There are many brands and projects that use the system of multiple authors on their WordPress-powered websites including such famous websites as Mashable, Techcrunch and others. So, if you run a blog with a large number of authors from different countries then you know that it is extremely difficult to control all processes without a reliable and powerful software. Everyday you have to read new posts, schedule articles, register new authors and so on. That’s why we want to present you WordPress plugins for multi-authors websites. These plugins will help you deal with publishing, staff management and other important functions. So, let’s begin!

1. WP-CMS Post Control

Now you can achieve more control over some important features of your favorite CMS. Writing post and page areas can be easily customized according to your needs. Basically you can set to show the controls you need. Also you can disable trackbacks, autosaves, revisions and even Flash uploader.

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2. Members

Among its main features are the great role management system which gives full role control over the users’ roles on your website (creating, editing and deleting). Also you can easily control user permissions (by role) to have access to posts content.

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3. Adminimize

Adminimize plugin gives full control on the administration backend and allows you to assign rights on certain parts of the admin panel. You can create your own set of functions available for each user by activating or deactivating each part of the menu.

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4. Private Messages For WordPress

This is a simple plugin that allows users to send messages to each other. Also you can put email notifications for the users when the PM is received.

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5. Blog Metrics

Blog Metrics delivers full statistics date about each author’s contribution in to your website. You’ll have detailed information about average number of posts per month, words and comments per post, average number of trackbacks per post and so on.

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6. WP Status Notifier

This notifier is a perfect tool for multi author blogs moderators and owners. It sends notifying emails to the contributors concerning the status of the blog post. So, you can easily notify all your contributors just by clicking few buttons which will save tons of your time.

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7. Pre-Publish Reminder

This plugin is a sort of a cheatsheet for absent-minded bloggers that always forget to do something before publishing a post. Pre-Publish Reminder will prompt everything you need to do.

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8. Editorial Calendar

This is just another great plugin for blogs with multi-author system. Now you can manage your posts by using special WordPress calendar plugin which allows change dates of publishing, manage and schedule posts, drafts, edit titles and content.

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9. WP Document Revisions

The following tool was created to improve your document management and version control systems. It is perfect for organization with complicated workflow process when a huge number of collaborators are engaged. Basically this plugin allows teams to collaboratively edit files of any format including text documents, spreadsheets, images, etc.

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10. Insights

Insights is a very unusual plugin that is useful for blog authors. Basically this plugin allows you to search any information on Wikipedia and Google by using simple Ajax-powered interface. You can link, paste images, videos, add Google maps locations right from your blog post admin page.

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5 Most Exciting New Features of WordPress 3.3

Edward Korcheg — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:41:27 +0000

Good news, everyone! There is no doubt that many of you, our fellow WordPress users, have heard that the major update of WordPress is coming – WordPress ver. 3.3. Yes, the current release doesn’t have such significant meaning comparing to what WordPress 3.0 was, but still it does have few very important features that cause huge impact on both simple users and WordPress developers. It means that WordPress team is planning to improve their product’s user experience for all categories of users. Now that’s that we call a smart content management system. Also, seeing our favorite CMS evolving is really a pleasant thing to do. Now if we get back to its latest release the first thing that stands out is a well-defined visual improvement of the dashboard. Also some major changes have been made in the under-the-hood sector which is primarily interesting for WordPress developers.

By the way, we’ve tested our WordPress 3.x themes with this new version of a platform and they’re perfectly compatible. Truly a match made in heaven. Now back to those new features.

We’ve collected five of most interesting (according to our opinion) new features that have been presented in WordPress 3.3 and we are going to share them with you. So, if you haven’t updated your WordPress version maybe this list will convince you to do that.

Responsive Layout: while mobile web design sets new rules of the game, WordPress developers are trying to stay in touch with it. Version 3.3 has major support for the responsive layout (the full support will be realized in version 3.4). So far the left side menu bar will collapse on small screens. This is a first step in making your WordPress website more mobile friendly.
Improved Media Uploader: WordPress said no to Flash uploader and now it utilizes HTML5 and Silverlight technology. Now you can easily use drag-n-drop technology to upload PDF, graphics and other files right from the desktop or any folder. This is a long-anticipated feature because Flash uploader was quite buggy and often users were switching to the older browser uploader which allowed to upload only one file at one time.
Major Dashoboard Improvement: now you can use enhanced Help section, enjoy new tooltips, flyout menues and redesigned admin bar. All of these are visual and functional innovations that are involved to simplify admin panel and make it more user friendly. Also these improvements allow WP theme and plugins developers to create their own tours by using new tooltips.
WordPress API Editor: starting from version 3.3 plugin develoeprs are able to customize the post editor or even add additional editors. This awesome feature opens many great opportunities for WordPress developers.
jQuery Package: well, based on an exponentially growing popularity of jQuery tools, WordPress has decided to simplify the life of WP developers by including such default feature as a presence of full jQuery UI toolset in the installation file. Now WordPress developers are supplied with the full package of useful tools.

Well, that’s all for today, folks. We sincerely hope that our post will be that guiding light that would lead you to taking a right decision and installing new WordPress 3.3 version on your website. We wish you to have an awesome Black Friday and an even better weekend. Take care!