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How to add a Notification Bar Strip on WordPress Powered Website

Nur — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:45:17 +0000

Most of of the Website owners display ads or run a promotional campaign on the top or at the bottom of the Website. Such kind of notification must be stick on top of the content without disturbing them but if you are using WordPress, its very easy to manage Notification bar by using WordPress plugins, I will provide the best WordPress plugins for Ad bar, as well If you don’t like WordPress plugin to distract your site, you can still run a Ad or Notification bar by using the following piece of code and instruction from “Put a Floating Ad Bar Strip on Your WordPress Site“. Although with Hello Bar you can drive more attention to your most important website content with the cost of Hello Bar promotion same as with other WordPress Plugins. But with premium Plugin like Fading Menu with Notification Bar and Social Icons, You can set the text manually (with a simple text editor that will allow you to add links and change color on the fly), or set it to always show your latest tweet, facebook notification and important content. This will allow you to always have an up to date notification bar with your latest news.

Adding a Floating Notification Bar

In case, if you don’t like WordPress Plugin, you can add the following snippet after the tag. Go to Appearance > Edit and select your header.php file and add the following piece of code above the tag:


Drive more attention to your most important website content

Style Your Notification Bar

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You must give some style to your ad strip, otherwise it will not float properly when the site visitors scroll down the page and it will display as a text link, so it is very important to give a style to it as follow, open your theme style sheet file(style.css) and add the div class into it and save the file:

#notification-bar {
  position:fixed;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 20px;
  margin-bottom:15px;
  background-color: ##FFF9B8;
  color: #333;
  border-bottom: solid #000000;
  padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 12px;
  font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman;
  font-weight: bold;
}

If you have activated admin bar for yourself and user, better to disable it, so it will not disturb your important content on ad strip. If you have different user roles on your site and want to manage their layout for Admin bar, than you can use WP Custom Admin Bar: This gives you options to change who sees the Admin Bar based on their user role, change or override the default styling or remove the Admin Bar altogether.

WordPress Header / Footer Notification Bar Plugins

Fading Menu with Notification Bar and Social Icons

Fading Menu with notification Bar is a WordPress Plugin that will allow you to add your navigational menu (main menu or custom menu defined by you) along with notification bar at the top of your browser. Simply scroll down your browser a bit to see it in live action!

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uAnnounce – Premium Announcements for WordPress

uAnnounce is a Premium Announcement plugin for WordPress. The announcements are thin colored stripes that contain a message and appear at the top of the page. uAnnounce allows you to schedule announcements to appear on your blog, you can use this to draw your visitors’ attention to an important message you may have. It supports a wide range of conditions that influence on which pages, blog posts and/or to users with which particular browsers the announcement should be displayed. It also features multiple skins to cover the basic announcement types, such as Alert, Error, Warning, Info.

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Foobar – WordPress Notification Bars

The Foobar is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a highly customizable bar to the top of your blog or website. You can display different notifications on different pages and define a default bar that will display on all your pages.

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attentionGrabber: WordPress Notification Bar

attentionGrabber is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a notification bar to your website.
With this plugin you can easily display custom texts, Twitter posts and Feeds RSS . Also, the huge list of features lets you fully customize the notifications look.

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Widgetized Stickybar

Widgetized Stickybar is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a highly customizable widget bar to your blog or website. As it is said in the title, bar contains widget areas, where you can place any widgets available in your WordPress dashboard. As an administrator you decide where to stick the bar: top, bottom, right or left edge. You also can customize size, colors, opacity, number of columns and other parameters of the bar. Widgetized Stickybar is a perfect way to extend functionality of your website.

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Free WordPress Header / Footer Notification Bar Plugins

Easy Heads Up Bar

This plugin adds an easy to use notification bar to the top of your WordPress website with a linked call to action

General Display Options

Your Heads Up Bar appears on the top of the websites page
No Limit! You can create as many Heads Up Bars as you need
If you have multiple Bars they will show randomly
The Bar can be limited to just the Home Page, Interior Pages OR the can be displayed on all pages

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WP-TopBar

Creates a TopBar that will be shown at the top (or bottom) of your website. Customizable and easy to change the color, text, image, and link. Live preview to see your TopBar from the Options page.

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Quick Notice Bar

This plugin will help the admin to publish highlighted notice on WordPress site header. Any message like offline notice, update notice, tweets, special offers, latest post can be set to attract visitors in 1st sight.

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ViperBar

ViperBar adds an attractive bar to your site header, which you can use to increase blog or newsletter subscribers. It includes built in styling, Aweber & Feedburner integration, conversion rate tracking, split-testing, themes, and much more. ViperChill, a blog on Viral Marketing, is the creator of this plugin. If you want to take your blog to the next level, you should read this post on WordPress SEO.

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Notification Toolbar

This is a toolbar placed on the footer of your blog and it will show your custom notifications on it. This plugin is developed based on the Static Toolbar plugin.

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WP Attention Boxes

Sometimes you just want to call out attention to a particular important message, or quote, or a collection of links, in a bright yellow box, or similar, in a Blog post. And you might do this a lot in your blog entries.

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Foobar Lite Notification Bars

The Foobar is a cool notification / alert bar that sits at the top of the page and draws in the visitor’s attention.

features

A cool notification bar at the top of your site that draws the attention of the visitor
Options to set the message text, height and speed of the Foobar
Options to customize the background,text and link colors to match your theme
See a preview of the Foobar within the admin
Advanced options to help troubleshoot issues

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How to embed media to WordPress Responsive Themes

Nur — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:02:04 +0000

There are lots of Free and Premium Responsive WordPress themes, but with some responsive themes, it is very important to make sure that the embedded media properly display on all devices, And you don’t want that your responsive theme on your client site show unresponsive result for media files. There are excellent Responsive Themes like Awesome WordPress Responsive themes from Themify (buy any theme, get any second theme for FREE!), Alyeska Responsive WordPress Theme and Qualeb: Responsive Premium WordPress Theme, although you can find more excellent Responsive themes on Best Responsive WordPress Themes for All Devices and Screen Resolutions.

If you still not satisfied with your Responsive Theme, there is a new WordPress Plugin “Responsive Video Embeds” it will automatically resize your media file and has auto-embed features.

Responsive Video Embeds

This plugin will automatically resize your WordPress auto-embeds, including video and other iframes, in a responsive fashion. It currently supports the following providers:

YouTube
Vimeo
DailyMotion
Blip.tv
Viddler
hulu.com
Revision 3
Funny or Die
WordPress.tv
Scribd

Live Example

Visit the test page where you can resize the browser and watch the videos automatically scale to fit the resolution.

About WordPress Auto-embeds

WordPress has a nifty auto-embed feature, allowing authors to automatically turn a link to a video embed into a video player when a post is viewed. To turn this feature on check theAuto-embeds check box in Administration > Settings > Media SubPanel.

Under the hood

Please note that this plugins modifies the output of modify_embed_output filter, adding HTML & CSS to make the magic happen.

Credit for the method used in this plugin goes to Anders M. Andersen for crafting the method used to gracefully resize the embeds.

Multisite Compatibility

The Responsive Video Embeds plugin is compatibly with WordPress Multisite, just use theNetwork Activate feature to enable responsive video resizing embed on every site. If you only want responsive video resizing to happen on a specific site, activate the plugin for that site only.

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How to Managing Your WordPress Multi Sites
How to enable Multi Site feature in WordPress 3.0?
How to do Domain Mapping in WordPress Multiste Network
WordPress plugins for multisite network management
How to do Domain Mapping Without a Plugin in MultiSite Network
Free Download Plugins and Themes From WordPress Multi Site User (WPMU)

How to Find, Remove and Protect WordPress Site from Malware

Nur — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:27:45 +0000

WordPress powered websites are hit list on the crackers, they are using Maleware (a malicious software) for attacking your WordPress site. There are different form of Malware, like viruses, Trojan horse, spyware, hijackers, crimeware, adware, dialers, keyloggers, worms, rootkits and similar programs. Detail about different types of Malware have explained by James D. Nardell on “Different Types Malware“. Latest news about Types of Malware and all other security threats can be found at Panda Security website which provide and present Collective Intelligence Monitor about all threats, as they said “ The best way to defeat your enemy is to understand him.” I have written step by step guide on How to Identifying removing and preventing malware WordPress site when one of my friend blog xponent4 was effected and I cleaned it up. Now its running okay without Malware but still on threat because of shared hosting on Servage, although they provide the good support but I recommend the best hosting like Hosgator.

If your site is infected, I cab help and assist you with removing Malware from your server and can clean up your WordPress site (Request at Wparena’s Facebook page and like it ). Even we can do basic penetration test free of cost to tell you about Valnurabilities in your WordPress powered Website.

Identifying Malware on WordPress Powered Website

There are different ways that can help you to identify Malware on your website. If you see any issue with Malware on your site, first of all change your FTP, Admin, and database password and than try to use some online tools like Sucuri, Stop Badware and antiphishing to know more about latest threats and Malware.

Google Safe Browsing Diagnostics tool can help you to check vulnerabilities in your site and provide you the next step about protecting your site, detail you can read on How to Identifying removing and preventing malware WordPress site.

Next you can use WordPress plugins to check about Malwares on your website, but before using these plugins do foolowing steps to make it more secure. Update all your installed Plugins, Test all Links on your site to make sure that your site not linking to site which contain Malware. All these checking you should don on Virtual Machine, so your actually Machine not be infected during any test. If you are not sure how to do that ask on Wparena’s Facebook page or you can request in Comment to do it for you.

Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner

Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner is an excellent tool to check any Vulnerability in your site. The recent Timthumb.php vulnerability (discussed here) has left scores of unsuspecting bloggers hacked. It’s the perfect combination of not so easy to fix for the technically disinclined, and easy to find and exploit for the malicious – resulting in a disastrous number of compromised sites.

Regina Smola from wpsecuritylock, has explained about this Plugin and Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner plugin will scan your entire wp-content directory for instances of any outdated and insecure version of the timthumb script, and give you the option to automatically upgrade them with a single click. Doing so will protect you from hackers looking to exploit this particular vulnerability.

As well Elegant Themes authors provide a security patch and updates in their themes which use image re-sizing script called Timthumb, so their themes are more secure now. Woo Themes authors also update and mention the Security Flaw in their themes.

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Exploit Scanner

Search the files and database of your WordPress install for signs that may indicate that it has fallen victim to malicious hackers. This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. It does not remove anything. That is left to the user to do. How To Detect Malware in WordPress Using Exploit Scanner.

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There is a huge list of Security Plugins to Protect Your WordPress Site, but few best one are complied by Jules on Quertime Editorial and inspired by Techlila. More Secure Plugins for WordPress: Security Ninja

Reversing engineering to a malware wordpress theme

Removing Malware from WordPress website

Make a COMPLETE and CLOSE review of your ENTIRE content and replace suspect files with fresh ones from trusted sources. Always keep 3rd party Plugins and theme up to date to minimize the risk of security issues as good as possible. Regularly check your content so you might notice unauthorized modifications pretty soon yourself because when notes of this type get overhand we will charge an admin fee for our additional work.

After finding any suspicious and malware infected ads, links, Posts or piece of code in your file, image or in script, remove all of them. If you are sure that your site has been hacked, Follow the steps provided by Go Daddy to get back it online:

Take the site offline to avoid putting site visitors and customers at risk.

Remove all offending code. This is only effective long-term in conjunction prevention.

Fix underlying security vulnerabilities to prevent future attacks.

Check for and remove “back doors” left by the hacker. A back door allows the hacker future access even after you secure the site.

Check for and install updates, and research the software you are using to find out if other users have been affected.

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Other Resources:

Beginners Guide on How to Remove Malware Scripts and Files
How to Remove malware from website
How to Identifying removing and preventing malware WordPress site

In case if you Machine is infected with Malware you can get help from Different approaches to removing malware.

Protect Website from Malware

Finally all you have to protect your site for further attack and the best tool is the prevention. Try to keep upto date all your Plugins, Theme and Core WordPress and use scanners that can detect vulnerabilities. Before putting any ad or link on your site make sure its not distributing any Malware and monitor them regularly. As well make sure user generated contents are no containing exploit links to Malware and they are clean for visitors without any suspicious link and executable files.

For maximum security please ensure your account password is secure (at least 6 mixed numbers and letters) and that it is changed regularly. Ensure that permissions for your folders are set to 755 and for files it is set as 644. Also check that no folders have insecure permissions such as 777.

For a password to be strong, it should:

Be at least seven characters long. Because of the way passwords are encrypted, the most secure passwords are 6-12characters long.
Have at least one symbol character in the second through sixth positions.
Be significantly different from prior passwords.
Not contain your name or user name.
Not be a common word or name.

Other Resources:

Tips for Cleaning & Securing Your Website
How do I protect my website from malware
How to Protect a Website From Malware
How to get rid of code injected Malware on your website
How to Protect Your Website from Malware and Virus Attacks
How to Identifying removing and preventing malware WordPress site
5 Powerful Anti-Malware WordPress Tools

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How to Customize and Create a new Login Page for WordPress Powered WebSite

Nur — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:11:13 +0000

You must have seen WordPress Powered Websites with customized login page. Sometime you have to create new login page for your users and for a client required new and customized wp-admin page for login to the admin panel. There are different ways to customizes WordPress Login page template. If you use WordPress Plugin, there are some limitations, for example activate plugin will not match your installed theme and provide less customization. So there is a need to create your own Custom wordpress login page template as part of you theme.

Creating a New Custom-login Page

First of all create a new php template with “custom-login.php” name and upload it in WordPress Theme folder ( wparena.com/wp-content/themes/your-theme). Add following code before uploading or after uploading you can edit your page and add the codes.

I am not sharing my piece of code because my client have some restriction. Although Oliver Dale have explained how-to-create-a-custom-login-page-for-your-wordpress-theme, but I am sharing Kannan‘s code from his post “Custom WordPress login without using a plugin“. There are few reason to mention Kannan’s work, first of all he use jQuery to show login error messages without page-refresh and redirect to the homepage when he is not login.

Full Code Preview of Custom login Template

< ?php
/*
Template Name: Custom Login
*/
global $user_ID;

if (!$user_ID) {

if($_POST){
//We shall SQL escape all inputs
$username = $wpdb->escape($_REQUEST['username']);
$password = $wpdb->escape($_REQUEST['password']);
$remember = $wpdb->escape($_REQUEST['rememberme']);

if($remember) $remember = “true”;
else $remember = “false”;
$login_data = array();
$login_data['user_login'] = $username;
$login_data['user_password'] = $password;
$login_data['remember'] = $remember;
$user_verify = wp_signon( $login_data, true );

if ( is_wp_error($user_verify) )
{
echo “Invalid username or password. Please try again!”;
exit();
} else
{
echo “”;
exit();
}
} else {

get_header();

get_footer();
}
}
else {
echo “

Add New Blank Page

After uploding your new page template, go to “New Page” under pages from the WordPress Deshboard. Name the page as your own choice and select the template type from Template list “Custom Login” and Publish it. Now you can add this page wherever you want for further instruction read this post WordPress Shortcode with loop, meta, category, pagination, Gallery and Plugins

Customize the WordPress Login Screen Logo

You can replace the WordPress logo from WordPress login page by replacing “logo-login.png” image file. Login to hosting via ftp and brows /wp-admin/images/ and replace with your own logo but the name must be same. You have to change the image link as open wp-login.php file and change following line according to your own url.

” title=””>

You can customized the WordPress login screen by using the following WordPress Plugins.

White Label Branding for WordPress Multisite

Are you running a WordPress Multisite Network? Are you a WordPress developer or a Web Designer who uses WordPress to develop websites for your clients? Have you ever wished that it was easier to customize the menu’s and logo’s on each sub-site in your WordPress Multisite Network? Would you like to give each sub-site the ability to do their own branding? Look no further! This plugin let you control the branding of the main site and all sub-sites in a network of websites powered by WordPress Multisite.

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Pathway – Custom WordPress Login Page

Are you bored default wordpress login page ? Pathway let you customize your wordpress login page, You can customize unlimited design from the admin options, and bring to your clients a new login page design.

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Wp Nice Screen Login – Customize Admin Login Page

WP Nice Screen Login is the final solution to customize the “Wordpress Admin Login Page”. You can choose from 5 default themes to redesign the Login Page, and bring to your clients a new professional page to login

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Login Logo

This plugin allows you to customize the logo on the WordPress login screen. There is zero configuration. You just drop the logo file into your WordPress content directory, namedlogin-logo.png and this plugin takes over.

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Custom Login

Activate this plugin and customize your WordPress login screen. Use the built-in and easy to use settings page to do the work for you. Theres no need to understand CSS at all! Now featureing a HTML & CSS box for advanced users to up the customization!

Works great for client site installs.
Comes with a Photoshop template included in the library files (default theme).
Read more about the Custom Login Plugin & most recent blog post.

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WordPress Admin Colors & Branding

Customise the WordPress admin interface with you own color scheme and logos. Perfect for delivering a white label WordPress for clients and customers. This is the only plugin available that allows dynamic color choice for the admin interface, designed specifically for WordPress 3.2 and WordPress 3.3.

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Ninety Ajax Login/Register for WordPress

Our Sidebar Login/Register plugin for WordPress does exactly what it says on the tin; Logins and Registrations with a touch of AJAX magic. Simple! It also has a nice ‘logged in’ view, and a lost password form for those forgetful folk.

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Single Sign-On For Magento And WordPress

Scenario where you’d want to use this extension:
You are creating a website, or own a website, that is built using a mixture of Magento and WordPress. It may be that WordPress is used to manage pages and a blog, while Magento is used purely for it’s e-commerce functionality. Or perhaps all your pages and e-commerce functionality are managed through Magento, and WordPress is simply there as a blog platform.

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Other Resources:

How to Change WordPress Login Page
Create a custom login page in WordPress
How to Create a Custom Page in WordPress
WordPress Tips and Tricks – Custom Login Page
How to Create a Custom Login Experience for WordPress Subscribers
How to Create and use Custom Page Template in WordPress to Create a Sales Page

WordPress Shortcode with loop, meta, category, pagination, Gallery and Plugins

Nur — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:25:31 +0000

With shortcode it is possible to display complicated codes or function result every where in your WordPress Theme like in widgets, excerpts, comments, theme files, user descriptions, and category/tag/taxonomy descriptions. According to WordPress support’s site “A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut [shortcodes].

Shortcodes were introduced in WordPress 2.5, and allowed the Gallery feature allows the option to add an image gallery to a Post or Page on your WordPress blog. but now you can us shortcode for your theme by using WordPress plugins and can create your own function to display requires result. I was working on my client web site and was required to display one category post on a specific page, I tried few plugins but did not get the proper result so one of blog fellow have given a solution on Simple Recent Posts Shortcodes for WordPress, which help me a lot and here is my code for The Corporation WordPress Theme:

function my_recent_posts_shortcode($atts){

global $post;

$myposts = get_posts(“showposts=5&category=32″);
foreach($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>

” rel=”bookmark”>

endforeach;
}
?>

There are different requirement to display content on your blog, Kevin Chard have wriiten lot of usage of shortcode on his blog. You see shorcode usage on the following link: wpsnipp/shortcode. and Filip Stefansson, the Founder and editor of WP-Snippets, explained in detail about shortcode usage on this link: Getting Started with WordPress Shortcodes (+Examples).

WordPress Plugins for Shortcode

Slider gallery shortcode

This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress. With this new shortcode, you can create a slider gallery in seconds just by typing [slider] while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will display the images that you have uploaded to the current post or page.

If you need more options, this simple shortcode features multiple attributes that you can set. You can:

add controls to go back and forward through each slide
select an specific transition between images (fade, zoom, scroll, curtains, grow, toss and many more)
show the image title
set the size of the images displayed in the slider
wrap the image with a link to the image file
adjust the transition speed
set the pause between transitions
set the initial delay before the first transition
exclude some selected images.

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TitanEditor – The Shortcode Editor On Steroids

Features

Drag and drop Functionality – Drag, drop, move or delete your short-codes until your satisfied.
Page template Manager – No more messing around inside your default pages and posts, create your own page templates filled with short-codes.
Button shortcode editor – Create as many button styles and shapes you want.
Most common shortcodes included – Buttons, tabs, accordion, toggle, slider, images, columns, lists, message boxes, video, quotes, separator, blog elements, galleria and pre/code
Quick fill – After adding your columns your able to fill them all by just one click.
TitanEditor Page Attributes – After creating your page template and you’ve filled and rearranged all components then just create a new page and select your page template from the TitanEditor Page Attributes window and your done.
Clever editing – Not happy after seeing your freshly baked page, then just select the template through TitanEditor and edit it, TitanEditor remembers where you have left and opens the page just as you left it.
Screencasts Included – Watch the videos for full instructions on how to use the editor, once your used to it you never return to the wp-editor ever again.
Blog Post compatible – Your also able to create a nice looking blog post that looks different then any other blog post. Just create a page template ad your content through the editor and assign this page template to that blog post.
Editors Option Panel – A option panel from where you can enable or diasble the stylings, so if you want to use your own then you only need to disable it.

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Tabbed Content Shortcode

A clean, easy to integrate, reusable tabbed content area for your WordPress themes!

Features

Reusable , add as many as you want on the page!
Easy to use, activate and copy-paste the sample shortcodes to begin
Auto sizing on a tab by tab basis
Help and information admin page
Easy to integrate into any design

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SWS: Nivo add-on for Styles With Shortcodes

Styles with Shortcodes is a great plugin that makes life easier using WordPress whether you are a seasoned developer, designer or just a normal user!

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Shortcodes Ultimate

With this plugin you can easily create buttons, boxes, different sliders and much, much more. Turn your free theme to premiun in just a few clicks. Using Shortcodes Ultimate you can quickly and easily retrieve many premium themes features and display it on your site. See screenshots for more information.

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Display Posts Shortcode

The Display Posts Shortcode was written to allow users to easily display listings of posts without knowing PHP or editing template files.

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Category Post Shortcode

This plugin allow you to display post list in your page or post by using shortcode.

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List category posts

The shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can also display the post author, date, excerpt, custom field values, even the content! The [catlist] shortcode can be used as many times as needed with different arguments on each post/page.

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Category Shortcode

This plugin creates the [Category]] Shortcode. The code takes 5 arguments:
number: the number of posts to display. 0 equals the default number. -1 equals the total available.

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Available shortcodes for WordPress Hosted Blog

Miscellaneous | Video | Images and Documents | Audio

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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.

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How to adjust and fixed DIV columns Heights with jQuery Plugin and CSS

Nur — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:40:06 +0000

I was working eCommerce website, and there is a need to display four equal column in one row and the other four in a 2nd column. I tired with Equal height – javascript, Equal Height Columns with Cross-Browser CSS, these tutorials are very helpful but not full-fill my client requirements. So I tried Faux Columns, which gave the perfect solution. Faux Columns provide the very easy way to by Making DIVs, using the CSS “Float Left” property, all have uniform heights; automatically adjusting to match the tallest DIV in the row.

All you have to play with the design and one image that fit with your design. A tutorial by DAN CEDERHOLM explained step by step procedure. Here is my CSS lines which I get after modification. Due to my client, I am unable to provide the link of this implementation but still you can get idea from my code.

/* ======= index page cat. display ===================*/
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1110px;
}
.cat_a {
display:block;
color: #FFF!important;
background-image:url(‘cat-tab-bg.png’);
min-height:40px;
padding-top:10px;
padding-left:10px;

}
.cat_a:hover, .hov_sh:hover {
text-shadow:2px 2px 2px #661111;
text-decoration:none;
}

.cat_ico {
float:right;
position:relative;
top:-11px;
}

#faux {
background: url(‘cat-bg.png’);
margin-bottom: 5px;
overflow: auto; /* Paul O Brien Fix for IE www.pmob.co.uk */
width: 100%
}

#leftcolumn {
display: inline;
width:264px;
padding:0px;
float:left;
margin: 0px 10px 10px 10px;
position:relative;
}
#leftmiddle {
display: inline;
padding: 0px;
width: 275px;
float: left;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
position:relative;

}
#rightmiddle {
display: inline;
width: 270px;
float: left;
margin-left:12px;
position:relative;

}
#rightcolumn {
display: inline;
position: relative;
padding: 0px;
width: 256px;
float: left;
margin-left: 13px;

}
.clear { clear: both; background: none; }

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