6 Free Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Tips, WordPress, wordpress plugins
Site speed plays a very important role in online business. It can increase or decrease the revenue of your online business, depending on how much time your site takes to load. There is a shocking relation between site speed and conversation rate, which is particularly true for e-commerce sites. There are a dozen of reasons to improve the site speed, but the two most important ones are search rankings and user experience. Search Rankings When Google first announced site speed in web search rankings, it played a minuscule part. But overtime it has become one of the main development factors Google takes into account for ranking websites. While page speed isn’t the only factor Google takes into account, pages that load faster and follow Google’s best practices for performance tend…
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Top 10 Social Media Plugin for WordPress

Top 10 Social Media Plugin for WordPress

WordPress
Social Media has become the next big thing and it’s very important for bloggers or website owners to integrate social sharing buttons on their blog or website.Using social bookmarking & sharing buttons you will let your readers quickly share your blog post on their favorite social networking sites.WordPress Social Plugins are very important for the extensibility of your WordPress blog or store. Many WordPress Plugins exist that allow you to add different Social Networks.This will help you to drive more traffic from social media sites and helps in search engine ranking. So while using WordPress you probably want your content to be easily shared on those social networks, and constantly expand your presence and social impact by making it easy for visitors to join your network of social presence.There are…
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Adding New FileTypes To WordPress Media Library

Adding New FileTypes To WordPress Media Library

WordPress
WordPress CMS has a set of pre-defined file types that allow you to upload in the media library. This is due to a great security feature of WordPress CMS. But there may be many times where you’d like to add new file types that are not in the list of allowed by WordPress, or some time you need to only allow a fewer extensions to be uploaded. This can be done by using a small hook of WordPress. If you’d like to add a specific file type that can be uploaded to WordPress via the media library, you can insert this PHP code in your theme functions.php file: function tar_mime_types($mime_types){ $mime_types['tar'] = 'application/x-tar'; //Adding tar extension return $mime_types; } add_filter('upload_mimes', 'tar_mime_types', 1, 1); But if you want to remove any…
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Best Filter Plugins for WordPress Blog

WordPress, wordpress plugins
Awesome Filterable Portfolio The plugin lets you create a very modern and outstanding filterable portfolio. More Info | Download WordPress Options The plugin allows you to easily add options to your products, themes or plugins. More Info | Download Advanced Post Manager The plugin allows you to turbo charge your posts admin for any custom post type with sortable filters and columns, and auto-registration of meta-boxes. More Info | Download WP Hide Post The plugin enables you to control the visibility of items on your blog by making posts/pages hidden on some parts of your blog, while still visible in other part. More Info | Download wpautop control The plugin allows you to add a global setting to turn the wpautop filter on and off as well as to override…
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How to hide WordPress admin for your subscribers?

CMS, Web Design & Programming, Web Development Services, WordPress
These functions will help you for hiding  WordPress admin for your subscribers. We’ve used a capability of “edit_posts” which is just outside of the roles of a Subscriber user. If the user is logged in, but can’t edit posts, then hide the admin bar on the frontend of the website. If the user is logged in, but can’t edit posts, do not allow them to access the WordPress admin panel. This code could go in functions.php of your theme or in a plugin you create. /** * Disable admin bar in frontend for subscribers. */ function themeblvd_disable_admin_bar() { if( ! current_user_can('edit_posts') ) add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false'); } add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'themeblvd_disable_admin_bar' ); /** * Redirect to homepage and not allow access to * WP admin for Subscribers. */ function themeblvd_redirect_admin(){ if ( !…
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Localize Your WordPress themes and plugins with GetText

WordPress
Localize Your WordPress themes and plugins using GetText with some easy steps. If you want your blog to be in a number of languages, the your theme and texts in plugins should be localized, as well as the post contents. We’ll show you how you can achieve this with the GetText package. Localizing your plugins allows you to reach the widest audience possible.It only takes a little effort to make your plugins & themes translation ready and is easier to do. GetText and WordPress GetText is a a text translation utility. It’s free and comes built on any web server. WordPress makes comprehensive use of it and all WordPress localization is based on GetText. There are a few steps to localization with GetText: Wrap each text in a GetText call…
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WooCommerce FrontEnd Add-on

Web Design & Programming, Web Development Services, WordPress
Product Description WooCommerce FrontEnd product manager is a powerful WooCommerce add-on that helps to manage all the user’s products, their product orders, profile settings and other WooCommerce settings from the front-end of your site. No back-end access required for the user to set up his own products on your site. This add-on will also add the feature of user registration, user front-end login and all WooCommerce plugin feature. It`s a complete package for the users to manage everything regarding their products, their product orders, their profile, there WooCommerce settings along with the PayPal payment settings. Adding, editing, updating, trashing and permanently deletion of product feature is also available. User can view their product orders with different view options as completed, pending and all orders and can also mark them as completed. User can also view…
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CSS3 & jQuery Tips & Important Links

HTML5 Templates, Joomla, WordPress
CSS3 & jQuery are two main aspect of a website, and without it a website cant be looking nice and user friendly. Here we are providing you CSS3 & jQuery Tips & Important Links, so that you can use them in your websites and can develop more nice and eye catching. Border Radius CSS The border-radius CSS property allows Web authors to define how rounded border corners are. The curve of each corner is defined using one or two radii, defining its shape: circle or ellipse. You can give any element "rounded corners" by applying a border-radius through CSS. You'll only notice if there is a color change involved. For instance, if the element has a background-color or border that is different than the element it's over. GENERATE Gradient CSS…
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Automatically Complete WooCommerce Orders

WordPress
When a WooCommerce order is placed, the customer will pay for it, the order will be fulfilled and the item(s) dispatched, at which point the order will probably be marked as ‘Completed’. This process is supported in WooCommerce and allows the order to go from ‘Pending’, to ‘Processing’, and finally to ‘Completed’ once the products have been sent out. This is fine for orders where a physical item exists, but this seems not correct with virtual orders becuase there is no notion of postage or sending out items. In this case, when someone paid via PayPal we needed to set the order straight to ‘Completed’ once payment had been received, instead of having to manually log into WordPress and update the order status ourselves. The steps below explain how to…
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What is responsive design?

WordPress
Responsive design is a web design approach aimed at crafting websites to provide the best experience available for the device being used to browser a website. This tailors the experiences for reading and navigating, reducing the need for resizing, panning, and scrolling on small screens. In the field of Web design and development, we’re quickly getting to the point of being unable to keep up with the endless new resolutions and devices. For many websites, creating a website version for each resolution and new device would be impossible, or at least impractical. A typical website design with responsive capabilities is designed using CSS3 media queries, which allow specific CSS styles to be applied at different browser widths. This allow you create different designs for differently-sized screens. A good place to…
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