Recently, I installed ShareThis plugin on a WordPress website (with counters) and I needed to show the count of total likes and shares for that domain but those counters just count for each page separately. If you want to show the site-wide count of the FB Likes, Google Plus and Tweets in your WordPress Blog,…
“ShareThis” is a great WordPress plugin for adding social links to your Posts and pages. ShareThis plugin seamlessly enables users to share your content through Email,Facebook,Twitter, Google +1, Like, Send and many more. This plugin works well but adds the social shortcuts to every page, post, excerpt and custom post type that you have in…
Mingle Forum is very useful WordPress Plugin that allows you to quickly put a Forum on your WordPress site/blog. Email notifications in Mingle Forums is one area which needs improvement. Earlier for a previous version, I had posted a hack so that every member could get email notifications for any new topic started by any…
Recently working on a WordPress powered website, I needed to place different forms on the WordPress based website to generate leads and capture data. One contact form was to be setup through sidebar widget and other form was to be setup as lead generation standard ‘Get a Free Quote’ form placed in the theme header.…
Embedding Flash swf files in the WordPress is something which all designers and developers have to do to showcase their work. And since WordPress is now being used extensively not just for blogging but also as a CMS, there are more and more people showing their Flash portfolio in WordPress pages. Also, usually Flash files…
Search feature on website is the most important and crucial one and no one can search better than Google, even within your website. Google has made available custom Search engine option for all its AdSense accounts freely and it’s great option that every website owner must avail. Even if you don’t place AdSense ads on…
With the popularity of WordPress with ever expanding list of features, it’s now being used more as a CMS for a website than a blog. With this, more and more people have to move the WordPress form a sub-directory to root of a website to properly setup website. For all of its pages and posts,…
WordPress slowly but surely has become the most popular open source CMS but most users did not start using it as a CMS for their websites. I also started using WordPress as Blogging Platform and had a custom built CMS to manage rest of my website. But with the arrival of WordPress 3.x, lot of…
One of the best features in the WordPress 3.x is the ability to add multiple Menus from pages, posts, customs posts types or even just anything as you desire. It’s very easy to first register custom menu in the admin panel and then call in your theme files and style them as you want. To…
In WordPress, Custom Post Type is great feature to manage your custom content such as portfolio which can’t be managed properly with the default posts or pages type. One of the problem in working with custom post types is the pagination issue. If you are viewing the same records on the next or third page…
Custom Post Types is very useful way to add Custom Manager in the WordPress. I have been using More Types with lot of success. One of the problem that I usually get while setting up is the permalinks structure for the custom post using More Types Plugin or any other Custom Post type plugin is…
The New Menu system in WordPress 3.x works great. It allows you to create multiple menus and add multi-level menus easily without any hackery. Although many users have their upgraded their WordPress installations, many old themes still do not support latest Menu system. Since it requires some coding, let’s see how can this be enabled…
Gravity Forms is a great WordPress plugin to add and manage forms on your blog. While setting up multiple Gravity Form on one WordPress powered website, I had issue with tab index. Both Gravity forms had the same tabindex number and it was not working properly. I tried to search something Gravity Forms support forums…
Gravity Forms is hands down the best contact form plugin for WordPress. Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin allows you to quickly build and design your WordPress forms using the form editor. You just need to select your fields, configure your options, and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built in tools. Although…
WordPress shortcodes are great for adding great features easily and efficiently using plugins into your posts and pages. The problem with shortcodes is that they don’t work when added outside the loop. Shortcodes are usally added in the content text area for added functionality. For instance, if yuo wanted to add Gravity Form into your…