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How to Hide or remove the WordPress Upgrade Message in the Dashboard

Nur — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:43:08 +0000

It is very important to keep up to date your WordPress because of security threats, specially now a days due to its popularity. Although WordPress function pop you up all the time for new update version to automatically update it or through providing download link at the top of WordPress admin panel, as well a link on the update page where you can automatically install the new available version.

In case, you are using WordPress for your client or have made lots of customizations on core WordPress files, then might not want this message to displayed, because it will overwrite all the files and client site will lost all the changes.

So there are few option to hide it from dashboard through some function adding in function.php file, by using WordPress plugin to hide this message and manually removing the code from WordPress core file. Different bloggers had provided the solution on their bog like like as follow:

1. Just Open functions.php file from wordpres theme and put following code in that file: (from wordpressapi)

add_action('admin_menu','hide_update_message');
function hide_update_message()
{
remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
remove_filter( 'update_footer', 'core_update_footer' );
}

2. All you have to do is simply open the theme’s functions.php file and add this: (wpbeginner)

add_action('admin_menu','wphidenag');
function wphidenag() {
remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
}

3. To get rid of the “Please update now” message in your WordPress dashboard, simply paste the following code on your functions.php file. (wprecipes)

if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_users' ) ) {
  add_action( 'init', create_function( '$a', "remove_action( 'init', 'wp_version_check' );" ), 2 );
  add_filter( 'pre_option_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;" ) );
}

4. You can optionally put this code with a condition so that the update message will only be shown to the site admin or other user roles depending of the if-statement in the code snippet below. (fredrikmalmgren)

function hideUpdateNag() {
    remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
}
if ( !current_user_can('activate_plugins') ) {
    add_action('admin_menu','hideUpdateNag');
}

5. Removing the update message is very straightforward to do – simply add the following lines of code to your functions.php file:(vooshthemes)

remove_action('wp_version_check', 'wp_version_check');
remove_action('admin_init', '_maybe_update_core');
add_filter('pre_transient_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;"));

All the above almost do the same thing, If still not satisfied requirments you can use WordPress Plugin to hide “WordPress Upgrade Message” from users and clients dashboard.

Hide Update Reminder

This plugin allows you to hide the update WordPress reminder from all users that are not assumed Administrators (cannot upgrade plugins).

If you have multiple users then this means those who are not admins don’t need to see the message. Useful for CMS based sites, so the client doesn’t see the notice.

Detail

If you want to display notifications to your user when you update something or when you wish to make an announcement. The plugin
“WP update notifier“ is simple yet effective and extremely usefull.

Disable WordPress Core Update

Completely disables the core update checking system in WordPress. The plugin prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed in the admin area. Ideal for administrators of multiple WordPress installations.

Detail

How to Enable Posting and Editing From the WordPress Front-End

Nur — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:13:47 +0000

If you are running a blog on WordPress than you should convert it into a community blog by allowing your visitors to participate on your blog. There are mainly two ways that you can use to run a social friendly blog. Firstly, Allow them to make a post or share a news on your blog from the Front end. Secondly, Allow them to vote on blog’s content.

WordPress Plugins for Front end posting and Editing

For those who are not familiar with WordPress dashboard, for guest writers, authors, WordPress have the capabilities to make a post and to edit it from front end. Lost of users find it difficult and often give up on posting. So its very necessary for those sites which heavily relay on user-generated content, such as reviews or community news, can be a formidable challenge. I’ve complied a list of plugins that will help to virtually eliminate this problem.

Gravity Forms

This plugin allows users to automatically create a post, among many other things. When added to a form, the post fields create a post when the form is submitted. It’s great for user-submitted stories, job postings, directories, etc. and comes with professional support.

Detail

Post From Site

This new wordpress plugin allows you to post straight from your front-end (i.e. website) – perfect for a quick update! Also useful if you have multiple users and don’t need them to see the admin side of things. It creates a link on your website which, when clicked, will bring up a simple text-box. Users can enter a post title (required), content (also required), add categories and tags (including created new ones), and upload images. Images can be placed in your post with custom tags ([!--image1--]), or all appended to the end of the post.

Front-end Editor

Front-end Editor is a plugin that lets you make changes to your contentdirectly from your site. No need to load the admin backend just to correct a typo.

Goals:

save as many trips to the backend as possible
compatible with any theme, out of the box
light and fast

You can edit posts, pages, custom post types, comments, widgets and manymore elements.

Quick Post Widget

This plugin provides a widget to post directly from the frontend of your site without going into the backend. The widget optionally offers visual editing while posting from the frontend, with a bunch of features (media uploading, spellchecking, preview,….)!
Guest posting can be enabled with optional captcha security. Apart from post title, content and categories, tags, custom fields, custom taxonomies, post date and excerpt can optionally be entered. You can easily add images or video-clips to your posts without using the backend of your site.

Inline Editor

Adds the capacity to edit your content from the front end of your WordPress blog using the styling of your blog.

Using the excellent and lightweight NicEdit WYSIWYG editor component to give you full control over the look.

The main advantages over editing this way over the traditional method is that you can see your content exactly how it will appear using all the styles and formatting of your WordPress template, plus it’s far more convenient this way.

One Quick Post

One Quick Post is a WordPress/BuddyPress plugin that allows you to enable frontend posting on your blog; including for non-registered users.

FE-Editor inline

The famous Front-end editor by scribu http://scribu.net is changed only by CSS to an real inline editor. After login into backoffice and going back to your front end you can edit your texts by double click as in scribu’s front-end editor. But now your editor panel is fixed above in your browser’s left corner and always present and the page looks as before but now you can write in it. Above that edit panel you find an edit button – if your template supplies the class post-edit-link for it – for going into backend making the job you can’t do with the small editor.

WP User Frontend

Some of us want something like that the subscriber/contributor will not be able to go in the wordpress backend and everything these user can control will be done from wordpress frontend.

WordPress Plugins for Voting on posts

Get vote on your post to get more exposer for social bookmarking. All you have to do is to give your readers the ability to rate content on your site.

Simple Star Rating

The Simple Star Rating plugin for WordPress is a very simple-to-use star rating system that you can use anywhere in your blogs & pages by clicking on an additional button integrated in your content editor.

Choose the number of stars, the default value, the color and the size of your rating items within the WYSIWYG editor, through a dead easy slider-based popup. Then let your visitors rate your posts, movies, recipies and more…

Detail

Avia Feedback Box – feature request system

The Avia Feedback Box is a feature request system for visitors and customers. They can suggest new ideas, vote on existing ones, and track your work progress.

At the beginning of each month a user/visitor get 10 votes to distribute. They can choose to use all their votes for one idea they really like, or spread them across between several ideas.

Detail

Post Voting Plugin

Gauge the popularity of your site’s content by letting your visitors or users vote on that content. Sort of like your own personal Digg or Reddit, and it’s packed with features!

jSocial

With jSocial you can easily place social share buttons under your articles and pages on your website. This script uses the jQuery framework and works completely client side. So you can use it on static and dynamic webpages.

Detail

How to tweak your website images for maximum SEO

Nur — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:02:36 +0000

Most of the bloggers use images to improve the search engine optimization and to enhance the website content. And this is fact that photos and graphics bring more organic traffic to their site, specially if we are thinking about Google Image Search.
Today I am explaining few basic tips and tricks, which help you to optimize your images for Google, Bing, Yahoo and create more search engine exposure for your WordPress site.

The power of image search traffic

This is the great SEO opportunity to get organic traffic from Google image search. So, optimize the photos and graphics on your website to rank in Google Image SERPs, How to do that read a full instruction on the following link: How to Submit & Optimize WordPress Blog Post for SERPs.

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How to manipulate image sizes to speed up WordPress blog load times

Loading time of web site directly impact users and ranking position. As compare to text, images take more time to load and search engines indexed those web pages which have less load time and user spend time that give good impression to search engines. Detail

Tweaking images for better SEO

The algorithm of Google search engine for images is very unique and well maintained to index the images. So its very important that you give useful description to avail this opportunity.

Appropriate and descriptive filename

Always use a relevant and descriptive filename. Avoid to use generic filenames like Image 6.jpg or IMG0015.jpg, because these are not giving you any benefit according to SEO.

File name photodun.jpg, which clearly helps the photo rank in Google Images when someone searches for the phrase “Photo dune”.

Always write a good alt text

Spare some time to watch this video of Matt Cutts, well explained about the alt tag is and how you should use it.

Importance of captions and titles

It is very easy for WordPress user because it will give the option to include a title and a caption when you upload images. At this time you have the option to provide descriptive information and give Google a sense of what the image is all about.

Coherent the image in context

Just like the the filename and alt text, Google also uses the content of the webpage to determine what an image is about. So try to make connection between images and content for better SERPs.

Quality of the Image

The quality of images is very important, always try to use sharp, colorful and visually-rich images to get better rank and for Google SERPs.

Recommended eBooks and other useful Resources:

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How to manipulate image sizes to speed up WordPress blog load times

How to Manage WordPress Users and Multiple Authors Profile

Nur — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:45:17 +0000

Running a multi-author web directory for articles, posts pages, or other content to your wordPress powered site, means you have different people writing on different topics or offering different perspective on the same topic. WordPress designers and developers have extended the ability to manage the users and Authors by using specific themes and plugins. For example with ArticleDirectory you can manage your article site with the power of WordPress and it will let your users submit articles, featured articles and do the Advanced Search and do lot more with this advanced theme but still you need to manage authors and co-authors.

And with Article Manager Module for CMS pro plugin! Article Manager is a CMS pro! premium module designed to enable you to create unique Blogs/Articles/News items.

Today we are compiling some WordPress plugins and explaining some tips and tricks for managing a multi-author web site by using WordPress.

How To Create An Authors Page

If your theme do not come with authors page, you have to create one for that. In this case WordPress will look for an archives.php template or an index.php template and the summary of an authors posts would be display in the same way that monthly and category archives are displaying.

In the following list of tutorials you will find how to Create a Kickass WordPress Authors Page.

How to Create a Kickass WordPress Authors Page

He has written a flexible WordPress page template that will support most themes. You can download the page template and this template lists all authors ordered by author ID. The format of a listing is author name followed by author description and gravatar which is followed by a link to recent post and finally links to social media profiles. The page template supports twitter, facebook, linkedin, digg and flickr.

How To Create An Authors Page

Kevin Muldoon explain step by step how to create and embed it into your theme. If you have multi authors blog, you will get more detail about creating a dedicated authors page for them in order to give them more exposure.

Add More Social Network Handles To Your WordPress Author Profile

The authoer’s page by default only allows you to put just enough information up. For those who utilize their authors.php page, they can add more things like your Twitter and Facebook profile to their author profile and not have to even alter the core of their site. You can even add more than that.

Creating A Simple Author Profile Page In WordPress

You want it styles somewhat similar to your other pages, but you can add the following and style it according to your own template. The code contains the gravatar, 3 different social network handles, and a simple listing of the author’s posts. You can customize it to display excerpts, display excerpts with thumbnails, full posts, and more.

Custom Portfolio Page For Your WordPress Theme

Whether you’re modifying an existing wp theme, or building a new one, this easy to follow tutorial will allow you to add the commonly used Portfolio/Gallery Page to your website. You can also use this same method to create other custom pages & custom categories (category-x.php) to display “WP Custom Post Types” in categories of your choosing.

How to add Author Bios to Single Posts

For the Multi-author sites, WordPress has built-in functionality to display Author Bios to single post, and there are some plugins to help as well. There are three thinks that we need to get to display Author Bios: Detail

How To Display Author Photo In WordPress Post and comments Using Gravatar

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. It is a service by Automattic, and stores “avatar” or profile, images link to an email address on its servers. Once you upload an image on Gravatar server, it will display on any site that supports Gravatar across the Internet. Gravatar is a widely supported service used by many social media sites.

Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently

Multi-Author Blogs are a popular trend that is spreading rapidly in the blogging industry. It is getting hard to keep up with the fresh content for one man bloggers therefore more and more blogs are now seeking for guest authors, co-authors, and multi-authors.

Tips Tricks To Manage And Handle Multi-Author Blogs

Luckily there are lots of WordPress plugins and resources out there to help owners and administrators to manage co-authors. If you are planning to turn your blog into a multi-author blog, here’s 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out.

Must have Plugins if You have Multiple Authors in WordPress

Managing a Multi-Author Site

There are many tools available to assist you in managing a multi-author site, as well as making your site more interactive by adding some features, By using these tools on your site you can make more rewarding and satisfying experience not only for you and your readers, but for your authors, as well.

Tools that help authors communicate

By Communicating on a multi-author site, co-authors can share information about their articles and thoughts with each others. Use the following tools to help you manage the flow of communication between everyone involved:

WP Status Notifier

WP Status Notifier will send a notification to given email address(es) of posts pending review by contributors. It can also optionally notify the contributors when their post is accepted or rejected. WP Status Notifier is useful for moderation in blogs with multiple contributors.

Wordpress Arena » Plugins

How to Hide or remove the WordPress Upgrade Message in the Dashboard

How to Enable Posting and Editing From the WordPress Front-End

WordPress Plugins for Front end posting and Editing

WordPress Plugins for Voting on posts

How to tweak your website images for maximum SEO

The power of image search traffic

Get INSTANT ACCESS To The SEO Fast Indexer Tool Now!

Tweaking images for better SEO

Appropriate and descriptive filename

Always write a good alt text

Importance of captions and titles

Coherent the image in context

Quality of the Image

Recommended eBooks and other useful Resources:

How to Manage WordPress Users and Multiple Authors Profile

How To Create An Authors Page

Managing a Multi-Author Site

Tools that help authors communicate

Tools to promote author profiles

Features

Tools to manage multi-author blog posts

Themes With Authors Profile

How to Localize WordPress Themes, Plugins and Front-end

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