The variety of availability of free plugins makes wordpress blogging quite a user friendly platform, with tons of plugins released everyday to maximize the potential of wordpress, here is another wp plugin called Short url plugin which will mask your webpages links, blog posts or affiliate url efficiently. Continue reading…
WordPress, as you know, is one of the best blogging system loved by search engine. There are tons of customization option available in wordpress and with every update of wordpress software, you will find a new feature integrated just to make it much more accommodating for the blog owner. Continue reading…
To tilt an image you have to make use of server scripts or buy commercial softwares but here is a easy way to do this using Live writer software.We previously discussed about Windows live writer being one of the top free blogging software for windows user which comes with a customizable tools and plugin support.The latest version of live writer comes with features to customize images giving a perfect professional look to your images.
If you are using the latest Windows live writer then after inserting, choosing an image you will notice the right sidebar options allowing you to crop, add fading effects, rotate,custom resize and even tilt the picture images with a few clicks.Fortunately Live writer is free and eliminates the need of buying any paid software for advanced image editing!
For those who haven’t download the new Live writer and are working on the old version can implement Polaroid plugin (Download Polaroid plugin) which is another excellent addon that adds text caption to the pictures apart from tilting & rotating the images!
We all know Adobe Flash player plugin is a important component required to view flash content and Videos on the Internet.Most of the browser renders the Flash content due to the flash player but Google chrome browser has a Flash support glitch due to which we can’t watch youtube videos or any flash content online.A work around on installing latest Adobe Flash plugin on Google Chrome was written previously but if you still facing problems about adobe flash player plugin and can’t watch 
Dailymotion,Megavideo or Youtube videos on chrome (You get a problem “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”) then download this Flash player XPI.After downloading the Flash player,add .zip to the extension by renaming the file.The file should look like this flashplayer-win.xpi.zip.
Extract the content of the .zip files where you will find couple of files with different extension.Now here comes the solution,copy the two files – “flashplayer.xpt” and “NPSWF32.dll” and paste them to
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins
Make sure you change the user to your windows logon username and If Google Chrome is installed on other drive then head over to that particular drive & explore the Plugins folder.Close Chrome browser and restart the system and you will find chrome supporting Youtube videos 
If you are using Google Chrome web browser then you might be aware that sometimes you can’t view youtube videos from chrome and get a message “Sorry the video is no longer available”. This is due to the flash player issue, though you have flash player installed on your computer and the youtube videos works perfectly in other browsers like Firefox, Opera then why does the flash plugin player doesn’t support chrome browser?
This is due to the incompatible nature of chrome with the new macromedia flash player.
So here is quick fix for those who want to watch youtube videos on Google chrome. Basically we are going to remove/uninstall the old Adobe flash player from all browser and install other version of Macromedia adobe flash player plugin.
Installing Adobe Flash Player on Google Chrome
First download the small Flash player uninstaller file and uninstall the current flash plugin from your system, here are the un installers
- Download the Windows Uninstaller
- Download the Mac OS X Uninstaller
- Download the Mac OS 8.x, 9.x Uninstaller
Adobe has the updated Flash player 10 beta for Windows and Mac,download them and install the flash player. Now close all the application and re start the system.
Open youtube videos on Chrome & Viola! you can watch videos now This worked for me and hopefully will work for every chrome user! If you are unable to get the Youtube videos working on Google chrome or any other flash content then here is another guide to have Google chrome Adobe flash player working!
Tags can be a essential factor for your blog,they do give a good weightage to your blog and also help in easy navigation within the site for a visitor.The tags are usually written when a post is published via WordPress editor interface or any blogging software customized for wordpress blog postings.Tag Clouds are a series of tags which are in the same page or blog,tag clouds group the similar tags and emphasizes frequent similar terms boldly.
You can find large number of simple wordpress tags plugin but this is a different plugins which not only generates tag cloud but also displays the tag clouds in a visual 3D fashion.
Though using visual 3D type tag clouds slow down the loading time of wordpress blog to a little extent but they are always entertaining and gives a site navigation pleasure for your readers.These visual tag clouds are very good and a demo of this can be found here.They work excellently,moreover search engine spiders can crawl flash type objects too.To install Wp cumulus tag cloud generator plugin on your wordpress blog you have to
- Download the plugin from here
- Activate Wp cumulus from wordpress admin plugin panel
- Create a new page or make modifications in the existing theme and add this code
<?php wp_cumulus_insert(); ?>anywhere in the theme or page.
Your 3D visual tags are generated! you can set the visual speed of the tags or distribute tags evenly,change color,use transparent mode and tweak the tags.Alternately their is also a option to display category cloud on your blog.The plugin is updated and is compatible to suit the newer wordpress version (2.6)
If you are blogging on wordpress then you know the large amount of plugins available for different purpose ranging from editing the look to styling your wordpress blog with many more options to tweak and organize easily.We had a talk about bookmarking wp plugin,seo wordpress plugin and smiley comment plugins in the past.
Again,here are some of the wordpress plugin which helps in editing the posts pages,categories,slugs and also tags very easily with some enhanced options.I have used most of them and they are installed on my wordpress platform blogote blog.Some plugin needs a little editing/tweaking of themes! So make sure you visit the plugin page and install the plugin by reading those proper instructions.
Advanced Category Excluder – With this plugin you can define categories for some parts of the site to be hidden.If you have a uncategorized section or about me or any section which you want to hide then this plugin helps a lot.
Batch Categories – Easily manage the mass/bulk categorization of posts that match various criteria.Requires some tweaks!
Category Overload – This plugin will allow you to better manage a very large category list in a easy way.
Themed Categories v1.2 – This plugin allows you to change the theme on a per category basis.
Better Tags Manager – A simple wordpress plugin to search and bulk edit the tags which are written while publishing the post.Just go to manage section and you can edit the tags and save them in no time.
Manageable – So far the only wordpress plugin to have bulk category edit option.Extremely useful to re edit those mis-checked categories in a couple of seconds or add extra categories to the already published post.You can also edit the date of the post or pages, title, author, categories, tags, status and more without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. Just simple click on edit and you can do it very easily.Do install this plugin for better blog post editing options.
We had written about generating random password tools in our last post,these random passwords are very secure and strong but remembering these random passwords if you have registered to many sites is almost impossible.But majority people use the same password repeatedly and for this their is a web service which helps to login anywhere on the web with your OPEN ID password.Clickpass deals with all of the generation and submission of user’s OpenIDs.It is created in order to save the need to remember passwords. This means that a normal user never has to know anything to do with the URL’s that are flying to and fro within his browser.
You can log into your Clickpass using your Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft Live accounts.All you need to do is choose which account you want to use and then connect it to your existing Clickpass.Creating an account, including name, email, address and even a profile photo takes only a second.All their servers are in secure data centers and protected behind both software and hardware firewalls.Here is how Clickpass works
- Your page loads
- Clickpass button loads pre-filled form containing user’s OpenID
- User clicks button
- OpenID is submitted from Clickpass directly to your website
- OpenID authentication process continues as normal
For now Clickpass supports login to some sites but in the coming weeks they will build the login list.They even have a wordpress plugin which lets you log into your wordpress admin pages using Clickpass. Once the plugin is installed you will be able to log in to your admin panel from your Clickpass account page or from your wordpress login page without typing the password or username.
Download Clickpass wordpress plugin
Here is a video done by Ijustine (Funny Twitter downtime) which explains Clickpass uses :