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Best Plugins to Create/Manage Custom Post Types and Taxonomy Easily

admin — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:00:34 +0000

Custom Post Types and Taxonomy are powerful features from WordPress. Did you know, “Post”, “Page”, “Attachment”, “Nav Menu” and “Revisions”. All these are most used default custom post types comes bundled with fresh WordPress install. “Category” and Tags are major Custom Taxonomies which WordPress uses by default.

If there is a requirement to separate the content from default “Post” type (ex. Coupons, Gallery, Portfolio, Books etc) then you can create Custom Post Types and related Taxonomy easily using built in functions . There are many plugins out there from which you can easily create Post Types and Taxonomy without bothering about adding code in function file.

CMS Press

CMS Press adds interface to your WordPress installation to create Custom Post Types and Taxonomies. Creating a new Custom Post Type and Taxonomy is just by filling the forms on your dashboard.

Custom Post Type UI

Custom Post Type UI plugin provides easy to use admin UI to create and manage Custom Post Types and Taxonomies. It also generate code that you can use directly in to your function file.

WP Easy Post Types

WP Easy Post Types plugin creates admin interface to create Custom Post Types and Taxonomies. You can also edit existing custom post types and taxonomies easily.

Ultimate Post Type Manager

From Ultimate Post Type Manager plugin you can easily create, customize and manage your custom post type. Some of the features are: Create and customize custom post types, Rewrites for Permalink, Manage supported featues(Title, excerpt, comments) etc…

Types

Types is a reliable WordPress plugin to manage Custom Fields, Custom Post Types and Taxonomies. You can easily associate custom taxonomy to custom post type.

Custom Post Type Editor

With Custom Post Type Editor plugin you can edit or customize text labels and menu names. You could customize all Custom Post Types created by WordPress core, Plugins, Themes.

Custom Post Type Creator

Custom Post Type Creator allows you to creator new Custom Post type easily using admin UI. You can associate any taxonomy to custom post types.

WordPress Content Types Manager

WordPress Content Types Manager is a premium plugin to create and manage Post Types, Taxonomies, Fields, Shortcodes and Theme Options very easily.

Feature Includes:

Create Unlimited Custom Post Types
Create Unlimited Shortcodes to use across your website
Create Unlimited Custom Fields
Create Theme option page very easily
Create Unlimited Taxonomies which can be assigned to any Post Types

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Easy Custom Content Types for WordPress

Easy Custom Content Types is a another premium WordPress plugin from which you can create and manage Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and Meta Boxes.

Feature Includes:

Easily Create Custom Post Types
Create Custom Taxonomies and assign it to any Custom Post Type
Create Meta Boxes to add additional fields/information to Post Editor
Create Meta Fields to add additional fields/information to theme files

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Daily Plugin: Measure Plugins Impact on Your Site Load Time

admin — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:11:42 +0000

Have you thought to check all your plugins performance on your WordPress installation? Do you know the run-time of each plugin you have installed ? Are you aware of plugin’s impact on your site’s load time ?

Often WordPress sites load slowly because of poorly designed themes, badly configured or so many plugins installed and of course the slow server’s where you have hosted your website. Here we are very much concerned with plugins impact.

P3 a free plugin from Godaddy which gives you answer to all these questions. Sometime plugins put unnecessary load time which results in slowness of your website. By using P3 you can measure each and every plugin’s impact on your site load time.

Main features of P3 plugin:

Inbuilt scanner which generates some traffic and produces plugins performance on your server
Generates runtime of each plugins installed
Measures load time impact from all plugins
Detailed timeline for plugins, theme and WP core
Shows number of database queries
Keeps history of all previous scans

Go ahead and optimize your WordPress site today! Let me know if there are any similar plugins out there which does same thing.

P3 Plugin Performance

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Enhance Your WordPress Website with WooDojo

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:41:08 +0000

WooThemes team have released a new plugin called WooDojo last week. This plugin comes with additional WordPress features which were previously available to WooThemes premium users only.

What is WooDojo ?

“Dojo” is a Japanese term which literally means “place of the way”, “training hall” or we can call it as place holder. When activated installs additional features to your WordPress website in a centralized location.

Bundled WooDojo Features:

Tabs: Add tabbed widget to your sidebar or widgetized area
ShortLinks: Enable short-links for your post and pages using popular URL shortening service
Custom Code: Easily add custom CSS and HTML code without touching the theme files
Login Branding: Add logo to your login page easily which replaces default wordPress logo
Social Widgets: Collection of Widgets for connecting to social networks – Dribbble, Twitter etc

Additional WooDojo Features:

WooCommerce: WooCommerce is a powerful free e-commerce plugin for WordPress which enables your to sell anything on your website. Plugin can be integrated to WooDojo easily by installing the plugin
WooSidebars : Customize your widgetized or sidebar area for Page, Post, Category, Post Types and even search results page.

Download a Free Copy of WooDojo Today!

Conclusion

This is a v1.0 first release of WooDojo. We can expect more and more features into WooDojo coming days. So keep an eye on WooThemes

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Easily Create Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in WordPress

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:14:16 +0000

If you are already aware of Custom Post Type and Custom Taxonomy then this article is for you. These are one of the powerful features which WordPress introduced and popular plugins (Getshopped) built on these features.

In brief:

Custom Post Types:

Custom Post Types enables you to differentiate different types of content in your WordPress website. By default WordPress has “post”, “page”, “attachment”, “revision” and “nav_menu_item” types. Internally all post types are stored in same place – wp_posts table and are differentiated by a column called post_type.

You can create well formatted Coupon, Gallery, Portfolio, Events, Movies, Music, Video websites easily using Custom post types.

Custom Taxonomies:

Custom Taxonomies helps you to grouping post types together. WordPress has 3 built in taxonomies – “category”, “post_tag” and “link_category”. You can also create taxonomy for each of your custom post type.

Have you ever thought of creating or adding Custom Post Types and Taxonomies easily without manually adding code snippet to your functions.php file. Here is the plugin Custom Post Type UI which makes it simple to add unlimited Custom Post Types and Taxonomy to your website.

Plugin Features:

Create Unlimited Custom Post Types and Taxonomy
Easy to Use Admin Interface
Plugin Generates Code if you Want to Create Post Types and Taxonomy Manually
You can Mange Your Custom Post Types Easily

Conclusion

There are many other plugins out there but i personally like this plugin as it has very easy to use interface and even it generates custom code. Its your decision whether to use it or not. Please share if there are any better plugin for creating and managing Custom Post Types and Taxonomy.

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23+ Ultimate WordPress Social Widgets

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:31:45 +0000

Social networks are backbone of any website traffic. They are great resources to increase your website traffic exponentially. If you are looking for ultimate WordPress social widgets that boost your subscriber list, then this article is for you. These resources are collected from WordPress plugin repository and Codecanyon.

These items are collected based on there popularity and i am sure you will like these set of social widgets.

Free WordPress Plugins

Here we first start with free social media WordPress widgets. There are free open source plugins from WordPress repository and all are different from one another. They all are free to use and no restriction on usage of these plugins.

1. TentBlogger Social Widget

TentBlogger Social is a clean, simple and fast loading Tabbed social widget. You can consolidate Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds informations in one widgetized location.

Drag TentBlogger social widget to your widgetized sidebar or footer. Fill twitter, RSS username and Facebook Badge code to setup slick social widget and your social widget is ready!

2. Social Media Tabs

Social Media Tabs is very similar to TentBlogger Social Widget but it has options to add even many social media content into widgetized area or set to slide from browser sidebar.

Pull the widget into widgetized sidebar area and set the options. Location of the widget appearing on your site can be easily set from widget option area.

3. WP MashSocial Wigdet

WP MashSocial Widget is beautiful social widget similar to the one at Mashable. You can setup and add your G+ , Twitter , Facebook and RSS Feeds to it.

Place the widget into your widgetized sidebar or footer area, set basic options from widget control area and you are done.

4. Social Crowd

Want to showcase your Followers/Fans from popular social network? Social Crowd plugin will do the work for you. It grabs the total number of friends or followers from your popular social network and display them in widgetzied area.

Supported networks are Facebook Google+, Twitter, Linked In, Youtube, Vimeo, Feedburner. You can setup them easily via plugin option page and pull Social Crowd widget to your sidebar! You are done.

5. Slick Social Share Buttons

With this Slick Social Share Buttons Widget you can easily add facebook, twitter, google+1, linkedin, digg, delicious, reddit, buffer, stumbleupon and pinterest social media buttons anywhere in your website

Buttons can be a floating or sliding which you can set in plugin option page. Admin dashboard also shows statistics of each posts associated with social network.

6. Share This

Share This plugin allowed the users or visitors to share your content through email and popular networks like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit.

It has over 50+ social network to choose from. You can customize easily Share This widget on your website and register with Share This to get enhanced analytic’s for your website.

7. InsiteBar

InsiteBar is more then just a social WordPress plugin. Choose from over 1000+ social application or add your own application onto the bar.

InsiteBar is compatible with Mobile devices including iPad, iPhone, Android and many more.

8. GetSocial

GetSocial is yet another lightweight and slick floating social media widget for your website. Supports Twitter, Facebook, Google+1, Buffer, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Digg and many more.

9. Sharebar

Sharebar is more or less similar to GetSocial which adds dynamic vertical and horizontal floating social sharing icons to left side of your post.

10. SimpleReach Slide

SimpleReach Slide is not an social widget exactly but it shows RECOMMENDED or RELATED posts with social media buttons placed in the website footer. It helps you to increase your pageviews and follower counts on social network.

11. Follow Me

Follow Me Social WordPress widget adds popup enabled button to your website sidebar.

When user clicks on the button, popup window will show popular social buttons with the profile links.

12. Most Shared Posts

Most Shared Post widget displays most popular post shared across popular social network in your widgetized sidebar. It checks Facebook Likes, Twitter Tweets, Google +1s and displays the popular post with sorted counts in your website sidebar aswell as in plugin panel.

13. AddThis

AddThis social widget allows your visitors to share and bookmark your website content easily across 330+ popular social networks.

Also register with AddThis to track the statistics of your website content in social network, how visitors are sharing the content and which social network is most used for sharing.

Premium WordPress Plugins

Here we will see some of the popular social media premium WordPress plugins across the globe. Premium plugins will have many features and more easy to customize compared to free version.

14. Social Network Tabs

Social Network Tabs WordPress is a premium version of Social Media Tabs. Uses AJAX to fast loading of social network feeds. Add your social profile and feed details into slick slide out tabs or static tabs easily using widget option panel.

Features are as below:

Fast Loading Tabs via AJAX
Widget options to display either slide out tabs or static tabs
Ordering of Tabs using Drag and Drop UI
Enable or Disable Widget using Custom Fields
Add profile details and Tabs from Plugin option page, shortcodes and custom fields
13 Social Network and 30 Feeds to Choose from
PSD file and Documentation included
and many more…

15. Top Social Share Posts

Top Social Share Posts is a premium WordPress widget to display the post popularity and follower counts from Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, Linkedin, Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Pinterest and more. You have a option to display the posts with share counts as a jQuery accordion, Carousel widget or a slider showing top post by social media network.

Features are as below:

Supports 9 Popular Social Networks
Includes Top Shared, Total Shared and built-in jQuery Accordion Custom Widget
Includes Custom Post Types
Plugin Admin Page with Social Statistics
Plugin Documentation included
and many more…

16. SocialPop

SocialPop premium plugin for wordpress helps you to add social sharing buttons to content of your post and pages. You can also insert social media buttons wherever you like using template tag, custom widget and shortcodes.

Features are as below:

Supports 27+ Social Media Networks
Includes Bit.ly/J.mp support
Includes Custom Widget, Template Tags and Shortcodes
Easy to use Plugin Option Page
Plugin Documentation included
and many more…

17. Sticklr WP

Sticklr is a sticky sidebar panel premium WordPress similar to what you see in all Envato Marketplace websites. You can add social sharing buttons, site switcher, search box, form, calender and many more to sticklr widget area.

Features are as below:

Sticky to Left or Right Sidebar
Works without JS (CSS Fallback)
Fixed Position
Cross Browser Compatible
Plugin Documentation included
and many more…

18. Simple Share

Simple Share is a premium social share WordPress widget that adds floating social share buttons to your sidebar, which allows your reader to share your content across popular social networks.

Features are as below:

Support 8 Social Sharing Buttons
Easy to Use Plugin Option Page
Complete Positioning and Styling Control
jQuery Enhanced Tool Tip
Plugin Documentation included
and many more…

19. SocialBox

SocialBox is a premium WordPress widget which enables you to add social widget to your website widgetized sidebar and footer. It displays current Facebook page likes, Twitter followers, Dribbble, Digg Followers, YouTube and Feed Subscriptions.

Features are as below:

Support 8+ Popular Social Networks
Easy to Use Plugin Option Page
Disable any network from the widget to fit your need
Compatible with All Major Browsers
Plugin Documentation included
Localization ready and many more…

20. Advanced Social Widget

This plugin is very similar to MashSocial Widget which adds advanced social and subscription widget to your sidebar. It support popular social media includes Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Google +1 and FeedBurner Email Subscription.

Features are as below:

Support Many Popular Social Networks
Advanced Plugin Option Page
Option to open links in same window or new window
Compatible with All Major Browsers
Plugin Documentation included
Inherits CSS styles from the current activated theme (fonts and colors) and many more…

21. Social Counters & Ranking

This plugin enables you to display social counts across popular social networks and even page rank from Google, Alex etc.

Features are as below:

Displays Alexa Rank and Google PageRank
Feed Subscription Box
Enable or Disable any of the network from Widget Area
Compatible with All Major Browsers
Plugin Documentation included
Customize Widget Area Easily using Widget Option and Plugin Page

22. Social Auth

Social Auth is a premium WordPress plugin which enables for your visitors and reader to Sign-In to website using popular social credentials.

Features are as below:

Easy Plugin Option Page
Log-In Option using Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and Linkedin
Enable or Disable Login Button
Compatible with All Major Browsers
Plugin Documentation included
Includes Custom Widget

23. Socials Bytes

Social Bytes is a premium WordPress widget which displays social sharing counts in your widgetized area. There are 6 pre-defined layout to choose from.

Features are as below:

6 pre-defined Layouts
Includes Custom Widget and Shortcode
Support 12 Popular Social Networks
Compatible with All Major Browsers
Full Documentation included
Includes Shortcode Generator Page

Conclusion

These are the social widgets/plugins which i like the most. Please post your comment if any plugins are missed from this list and they are really good. Subscribe to our feed to get latest articles directly into your email box. Happy Blogging!

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Daily Plugin: Disable Password Reset via Default “lost password” form

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:50:09 +0000

Justin Tadlock has come up with a simple plugin “Prevent Password Reset” which does tricky things with respect to WordPress default user password reset. The plugin completely disables reset functionality from Lost your password? form. Plugin adds new checkbox to each user profile area. If selected, will prevents resetting any user’s password from ”lost password” form.

Advantage of using ‘Prevent Password Reset’ Plugin

Disables Password Reset From Log-in page completely
No One can try to reset your password
Stop getting emails if someone tries to reset your password
Puts extra level of security

Once the option is set in user profile area their password cannot be reset. Below screenshot shows what happens when someone tries to reset the password for the user with prevent option enabled.

Disadvantage of using the Plugin

It makes life difficult if you lose your password. This needs either to remove all the plugin files or have an administrator on the site to reset the password.
This plugin doesn’t disable the filed in the profile area which is used to edit or change the password. It just prevents the reset of user password from Log-in page.

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Daily Plugin: Awesome Payment Gateway Alternative to Paypal

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:22:44 +0000

Want to use online payment gateway alternative to paypal ? Stripe can do that for your. Stripe was developed by developers and entrepreneurs who are dedicated to build better and simpler online payment solution . This is particularly useful for charities, non-profit organizations and any other website developers who wants to save transaction charges. Stripe charges just 2.9% + 30 cent per successful transaction.

Advantage of Stripe Payment Gateway:

You don’t need to merchant account details. Stripe handles everything.
Credit Card Information Will not hit your server. Payment Process through Stripe Gateway.
API to embedded/Integrate Stripe in Your Website.
No monthly fee or charges for failed transactions.

Stripe Limitations:

Stripe is currently available to the customer residing and accepting payments in US. The payee can be anywhere from the world.

There is a plugin WP-Stripe to integrate any WordPress website with Stripe without doing any coding.

WP-Stripe Plugin Features:

Embed Payment Form using shortcode or template tag.
Recent Donations/Payments Widget.
Latest Donations/Payments in a Widget.
Latest Donations/Payments in Admin area.

There are many features like Project Donations and Recurring Payments coming soon for WP-Stripe plugin.

Download

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21+ Free and Premium WordPress Plugins for Admin Dashboard Branding

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:34:59 +0000

Are you developing a Website for client using Open Source WordPress? Do you want to give customized Admin Dashboard to your client project?, then you are come in right place. Here are the collection of 21+ Free and Premium WordPress plugins to customize all the elements of non multisite WordPress and Multisite WordPress admin dashboard.

Why you need Custom WordPress Branding ?
If you are building website for client then the admin dashboard and the website looks totally different. Client will not be happy after seeing it. So to avoid that all the elements needs to be customized with respect to the client website front end.

1. AG Custom Admin {Free}

AG Custom Admin is a free plugin for customizing WordPress dashboard. This can be used to control all the aspects of admin dashboard look and feel.

Admin Bar and Footer Customization
Admin Dashboard Customization
Login Page Customization
Admin Top Level Menu and Submenu Customization
Unlimited Color Schemes

Download

2. Admin Trim Interface {Free}

Admin Trim Interface is a free WordPress plugin to remove admin dashboard elements.

Remove/Hide Admin Bar WordPress Logo
Remove/Hide “Howdy” Text
Username link in admin bar
Remove/Hide Avatar in admin bar
“Help” Link
Remove/Hide WordPress Version in the footer
All Footer Links
And many more…

Download

3. CMSify {Free}

CMSify is an ultimate WordPress plugin to brand, modify, hide/remove admin dashboard elements. Everything from admin elements to widgets customization.

Full Admin Dashboard Options
Media Options
Editor Options
Custom Branding Options
and many more…

Download

4. WP Dash Message {Free}

WP Dash Message is a free plugin to brand any multisite WordPress websites. From this plugin any Dashboard widgets can be removed or added network wide.

Multisite Admin Dashboard Welcome Message Widget
Remove/Hide ADmin Dashboard Network Wide

Download

5. Dashboard Tweaks {Free}

Dashboard Tweaks is a free WordPress plugin to customize the admin dashboard area.

Change Default WordPress Logo in Admin Bar
Admin Dashboard Favicon
Change “Howdy” Text
Background Color for Submenus
Custom Footer
Change Admin Dashboard Title

Download

6. Menus {Free}

Menus is a free WordPress plugin to control adminstration menus for all network wide user and sites.

Enable or Disable Multisite Admin Dashboard Menus
Super Admin has full control of what Menus should appear on whole network

Download

7. Easy Admin Color Schemes {Free}

Easy Admin color Schemes allows you to easily customize admin dashboard interface and elements.

Unlimited Color Schemes for Admin Interface
Add, Delete, Edit, Export and Import Admin Color Schemes

Download

8. Adminimize {Free}

Adminimize is a complete set of WordPress admin dashboard customization functionality. This plugin has highest download count in its category.

Per user based admin theme
Custom Color Schemes
Admin Menu and Submenu Customization
Custom Admin Sidebar Width
Admin Bar Modification
And many more…..

Download

9. Fluency Admin {Free}

Fluency Admin is a free WordPress plugin to style the admin dashboard interface.

Stylish Color Schemes
Custom Logo
Access Menus with Hotkeys
Hover Enabled Sub-menus
And many more…..

Download

10. Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu {Free}

From this plugin align all admin menus as a header drop down menu.

Admin Menu available as CSS Driven Header Drop down list
Save Lots of Space in Admin Dashboard
And many more…..

Download

11. White Label CMS {Free}

White Label CMS allows customization of WordPress admin dashboard, login logo, menus and access control to various elements.

Custom Log-in Page Logo
Admin Bar Modification
Admin Dashboard Customization
Admin Menus and Submenus Control
Access Control to Widgets and Menus to different type of users.

Download

12. White Label CMS {Free}

White Label CMS allows customization of WordPress admin dashboard, login logo, menus and access control to various elements.

Custom Log-in Page Logo
Admin Bar Modification
Admin Dashboard Customization
Admin Menus and Submenus Control
Access Control to Widgets and Menus to different type of users.

Download

13. WordPress Admin Bar Improved {Free}

Easily customize admin bar menu using this free WordPress plugin.

Add Custom Menu to Admin Bar
AJAX Login
AJAX Search Form
Show or Hide Admin Bar
And many more…

Download

14. Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search {Free}

This enables to integrate all the CODEX search box to admin bar.

Show/Hide Admin Bar
Custom Dashboard Widgets
Search Boxes
And many more…

Download

15. Codepress Admin Columns {Free}

Extend admin columns for post, pages, media library and users.

Post Columns
Custom Fields
User Columns
Media Columns
Sortable Custom Columns
And many more…

Download

16. Ultimate Admin Bar {Free}

This plugin can move all the sidebar admin menu to the top of admin bar which significantly reduces the admin dashboard space.

Download

17. Enhance Admin Bar {Free}

This plugin enhance the admin bar by adding many options by adding custom menus, Like, Bit.ly Shortlink and many more.

Hide Admin Bar
Show Custom Search Box
Add Settings Link
Remove Elements from Admin Bar
And many more…

Download

18. Admin-Colour {Free}

From this plugin you can easily change the admin menu and submenu colors schemes.

Download

18. Blue Admin Bar {Free}

Change the color of the admin bar to blue with this free plugin.

Download

19. WordPress Admin Colors & Branding {Premium}

Customize the admin interface which suites your client requirement with this premium WordPress plugin. Features are as below

Removal of WordPress Logo and fly out menus
Stop Plugins from Checking Updates
Custom Favicon Logo in Admin Bar
Update Notifications in Different Colors
Replacement of WordPress Version

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20. White Label Branding for WordPress {Premium}

This is ultimate premium WordPress plugin to control all the aspects of your WordPress dashboard. This is a highest sold item from this category. This is best suitable for no-multisite WordPress version.

Custom Dashboard Widgets
22+ Branding Options
Top Level and Sub Menu Customizations
Screen Options
Custom Login Page Templates and Various Options
Unlimited Color Schemes
Roles and Capability
many more…

Download

21. White Label Branding for WordPress Multisite {Premium}

This is yet another premium WordPress plugin to control all the aspects of your Multisite WordPress dashboard. This is best suitable for multisite WordPress version.

Custom Adim Dashboard Options
8+ Network Wide Branding Options
Network Wide Top Level and Sub Menu Customizations
Login Screen Customization Options
Custom Login Page Templates and Various Options
Custom Admin Bar
Various Multisite Options
Roles and Capability
Language Localization
many more…

Download

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