Aug 20, 201012

WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Video Lightbox Plugin – Display Videos and Images in a Fancy Lightbox Overlay
The WordPress Video Lightbox plugin allows you to embed videos on a page using lightbox overlay display similar to the one shown below. This plugin can be used to display images, flash, YouTube, Vimeo, iFrame etc in a lightbox overlay. The embedded videos can be viewed on iPhone and iPad too. The plugin uses the PrettyPhoto JQuery Library. Click on the image to see how the video pops over in a lightbox overlay. [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=G7z74BvLWUg width=640 height=480 anchor=http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wp-video-lightbox-demo.png] Little Background Previously I was using another plugin to display my Vimeo videos in a lightbox overlay but recently Vimeo changed their video embed code to use HTML5 in an effort to make the videos playable in iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, the other plugin wasn't working with this change and I was getting the following error on all my embedded Vimeo videos: Sorry, this video does not exist To get around the problem I created this plugin and tweaked the prettyPhoto JQuery library so it works with the new Vimeo video embed code. When you use this plugin to embed video it will play your YouTube or Vimeo videos in iPhone and iPad! Installation Unzip and Upload the folder 'wp-video-lightbox' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu ...
Jul 17, 201021

Affiliate Link Manager Plugin – Revolutionize Your Affiliate Marketing

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
Affiliate Link Manager Plugin – Revolutionize Your Affiliate Marketing
The Affiliate Link Manager plugin allows you to automatically convert specific keywords from your blog posts and pages into your affiliate links. It also cloaks the affiliate link and gives it a prettier and shorter alias. The affiliate link manager plugin will revolutionize how you approach your affiliate marketing business by allowing you to automate the repetitive tasks (learn more on why use a link manager). Affiliate Link Manager Features Some key features of the WordPress Affiliate Link Manager Plugin include: Automatically Convert Keywords into Affiliate Links Assign one or more keywords to a an affiliate link, and the plugin will automatically scan your blog post and pages for those keywords and convert them into your affiliate links. You can easily reverse the operation with one click (very useful when you stop being an affiliate). Cloak Your Affiliate Links It will make your external and affiliate links appear to be on your site. The links will look short and pretty too. Set Keyword Conversion Limit You can set the maximum number of automatically inserted links per post or page so the blog posts do not look spammy. Apply Common Customizations Customize the font color, size, style of all the anchor texts of the cloaked links. You can also ...
Jun 12, 201036

WP PDF Stamper Plugin – Stamp Your eBooks with Customer Details to Discourage File Sharing

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WP PDF Stamper Plugin – Stamp Your eBooks with Customer Details to Discourage File Sharing
1. Are you selling eBook(s) from your WordPress site? 2. Are you concerned that one of your customers might upload your eBook on a file sharing site and you will lose sales? 3. Would you like to automatically stamp the footer of your PDF eBooks with the customer's personal details (e.g. name, email, address) upon purchase to discourage sharing? If you have answered "yes" to all of the above then the WP PDF Stamper plugin might be a good solution for you. Plugin Summary The WP PDF Stamper plugin allows you to dynamically stamp a PDF file with the customer’s details (e.g. name, email, address etc.) upon purchase. If you are wondering why it is important to stamp the PDF eBook before giving it to your customer then this page is for you. Plugin Features Below are just some of the notable features of the WP PDF Stamper Plugin: Easy Installation Easy installation like any of our other WordPress plugin. eBook Protection Protect your eBook(s) from being shared on the file sharing sites. Password Protect PDF Files Password protect your stamped PDF files with the customer's email address or with a fixed password. Encrypt PDF Files Automatically encrypt the stamped PDF files to prevent users from being able to copy, modify ...
Apr 6, 20106

Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Web development
Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using
If you are running a small website, chances are you've already heard of Web Analytics. If you haven't, it is a tool for measuring traffic of your website. It provides data on the number of visitors, page views etc to gauge the popularity of the site. For many people, using analytics is limited to watching how many more visitors have come to the site, and repeating the figures to potential advertisers. If used smartly, analytics is also a marketing tool, an e-commerce tracker, an ad tool, and the list goes on. In this article, we'll have a look at basic ways to use the analytics. Choosing an Analytics Software First of all, you need to have an analytics software set up for your website, which mostly means signing up for an account of an analytics provider, and adding a few lines of javascript code to your pages. Google Analytics is the most widely used analytics tool. It's also free and integrating it in a WordPress site is just a matter of adding a plugin to your site! If you like to have choices, you can search the Internet looking for some other alternative solutions. This article lists a number of analytics software ...
Mar 6, 20107

Basic Guide to CSS

Categories: CSS
Basic Guide to CSS
Many people want to make simple CSS changes but do not know where to start or are afraid that they will change the wrong thing. As a result of this I get asked a lot of CSS related questions from new WordPress users. The fact is that learning CSS is not really that hard. Once you get a hang of the basics, you can quickly become an advanced CSS user if you keep playing around with it. In this article I have explained how to do simple CSS modifications, hopefully it will be of some help to some of you. Let's get started. First, you should make a back up copy of CSS files you are going to modify. You should do this with any file you plan on modifying incase something goes wrong, you can always revert back to the version you know works properly. What is CSS "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. It's most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML ...
Nov 19, 200917

WordPress Plugin – Change WP eMail From Details

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Plugin – Change WP eMail From Details
This WordPress plugin lets you customize the email details that appear on emails sent from WordPress. By default the "From Name" on emails sent from wordpress has a name "WordPress" and the "From Address" on emails has "wordpress@your-domian.com" which is not very meaningful. You can customize both these fields with this plugin so your customers are not confused. Plugin Installation Unzip and Upload the folder "change-wp-mail-from-details" to the "/wp-content/plugins/" directory. Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu in WordPress. Plugin Usage Check the appropriate checkbox for the options that you want to customize. Enter the customized text in the appropriate field. [caption id="attachment_1884" align="alignnone" width="443" caption="Settings Screen of the Change "Email From Details" Plugin"][/caption] Special Note If you are trying to customize the "From Name" and "From Email Address" for any of the following plugins then there is an even simpler solution: Wordpress Shopping Cart (WP eStore) WordPress Membership Plugin (WP eMember) WordPress Affiliate Plugin (WP Affiliate Platform) You can use the following format in the "From Email Address" field in the settings menu of these plugins: Your Name <youremail@gmail.com> So for the above example "Your Name" will be displayed as the name and "youremail@gmail.com" will be used in the email address field. Support/Donation Option Donation option can be found on my projects page. Download Latest Version (v1.0) Download ...
Nov 13, 20096

Adsense Integration plugins for WordPress

Categories: Wordpress
Adsense Integration plugins for WordPress
Earlier, we discussed some Pay-per-click ad serving options; their features, advantages, limitations and payment policies. This time we will look into some WordPress plugins that integrates advertisement into the site. Most of them are related to Google Adsense, since it's the most widely used advertisement program on the net. But I've also covered some popular alternatives such as, Chitika, Amazon etc. WP Simple Adsense Integration As the name suggests, this plugin makes Adsense integration truly simple. Adding a Google advertisement on your WordPress blog post, page or sidebar is just a trigger text or a PHP function call away. If you feel overwhelmed while using some premium plugins built for the same purpose, this one is definitely for you. [Get the plugin] Adsense Beautifier If you are worried about ads making your beautifully design website look bad, you can try out this plugin. This plugin makes your Adsense look soothing to the eye, by adding images adjacent to the ads. This also helps increase your click-through rate(CTR). However, don't forget to add a line between the image and the ad, otherwise you would be voiding terms and conditions set up by Google. [Get the plugin] Adsense Earnings This plugin enables you to check your Adsense earning right ...
Nov 9, 20097

How to Add Javascript in a WordPress Post or Page

Categories: Wordpress
How to Add Javascript in a WordPress Post or Page
One of my readers asked me the following question: "How can I run a JavaScript within a WordPress post?" In this short post I have explained how I use Javascript in my WordPress posts. Adding javascript in WordPress post is really simple. You just have to switch to the HTML view in the editor and paste the JavaScript code and that's pretty much it. If the JavaScript code is in an external file then you need to include it first. You will need to add a bit of code similar to the following in your "header.php" or "footer.php" file to include the external JavaScript file: <script type="text/javascript src="http://www.your-domain-name.com/scripts/my-javascript.js"></script> I prefer to add javascript in the footer for site performance factors. You can paste it in the HTML view of the post too if this file is only needed in that one post. Replace "http://www.your-domain-name.com/scripts/my-javascript.js" with the actual location of the JavaScript file. After you have included the file you can use any functions that is defined in that file. Use something similar to the following: <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- custom_function(); //--></script> Replace "custom_function();" with the actual name of the function.
Oct 14, 20093

Is the RSS Feed of your WordPress Blog Working in all Major browsers?

Categories: Wordpress
Is the RSS Feed of your WordPress Blog Working in all Major browsers?
This morning one of my site visitors was kind enough to email me saying that the RSS Feed of my blog wasn't working on Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers. Internet Explorer is well known for its issues so I wasn't that alarmed but my hearth jumped as soon as I double checked the RSS feed on Chrome and found that it was complaining too. In this article I am going to explain what the error was and what I did to resolve it so you don't panic if it ever happens to you. The 1st RSS feed Error and Solution Internet explorer was displaying the following error when I clicked the RSS feed link on my site: The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. Chrome gave me the following which was a bit better as it was pointing out the line of the error rather than saying there is an error: This page contains the following errors: error on line 485 at column 330: Encoding error At this stage my best option was to validate my RSS feed using the W3C Feed Validator A quick validation check ...
Sep 15, 200930

Cool WordPress .htaccess Tips to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Categories: Blog Setup, Site Optimization Tips
Cool WordPress .htaccess Tips to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security
You have started a blog to share your opinion with the World Wide Web. Someone stumbles upon one of your articles. He likes it, and posts it on Digg. Now it gets everyone's attention. Visitors come pouring into your site. Your revenue starts to go up. Definitely good news! But now there is a catch. You are now the target of the 'bad crowd' of the Internet, spammers, hackers and leechers. It's time to toughen up your innocent little Wordpress site. The .htaccess file is the easiest and the cheapest (actually it's free!) solution to secure a Wordpress blog. What is a .htaccess File? The .htaccess file is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software. When a .htaccess file is placed in a directory which is in turn "loaded via the Apache Web Server", then the .htaccess file is detected and executed by the Apache Web Server software. It is often used to specify the security restrictions for the particular directory. In this article I'm going to show you how to strengthen your site's security by adding/changing a few lines in this file. Before you make any changes, it might be a good idea to take a backup ...
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