Monday, July 29, 2013

Wordpress Email Log in - Allow users to log in with email addresses

Wordpress by default allow users to log in with USERNAME only. It can create lots of problem for some membership sites.

Generally visitors forget their usernames / passwords after registration and they keep on trying creating new usernames or retrieving their passwords.

Why not give your users a little bit more freedom. Lets allows the users to log in with EMAIL ADDRESS also. Your user should be able to log in with email address as well as username also.

This plugin does this exactly. It allows your users to log in with both ( email address and username ). Your users can use any of these two.

It will increase the probability of users to log in to your website.


Sunday, July 28, 2013

DropBox - File Sharing for friends

started in 2007. Since then, it is getting huge and introducing new features.
When I lost my Wordpress Hosting. I had a big question of starting again but from where. So, I decided to start with Blogger, the free Service. I customized the template according to my needs. And now I am running my www.appinstore.com using Blogger Services. Thanks to Google.

But still the problem was where to store my wordpress plugin files. So, I tried few hosting services, like mediashare, box.net etc. And in the end, I tried Dropbox. It is amazing.

Yes, Dropbox is amazing. I used it in past. And again I am coming back to it. You can share notes, music, executables, name the type of the file and you can upload to Dropbox. Best part is you can have direct link to share files. Just send the link of the files to your friend to download directly without any sign up or any thing else. You can share your whole folder with your friends by inviting on their email addresses. I remember one of my dear students, Sudarshan shared his folder with sharing the Content about Linux one year back. And guesss what it is still working.

I think for students, this is the best file hosting options. Use it for sharing, Use it for Online Backup, or anything else. You can simply download the DESKTOP software for dropbox. Tell it which folder has to be sync, It will start syncing your folders automatically. Just copy-paste the file to shared dropbox folder, it will be automatically available to friends with whom you shared this folder.

I think every student should try this service. You can share assignments easily and even can work assignments collectively. No need to send files via emails. Just copy the file to Dropbox Folder and that's it.


Click here to try and signup DropBOX

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Wordpress QR Code Widget - Generate downloadable QR Code for your websites on the fly

== Description ==

It is simple widget for your website's sidebar. It will display the QR CODE for the current page/post of website.

For example, if your visitor is at home page, QR CODE for HomePage will be generated. IF visitor is at specific page / post, then for that page / post, QR Code will be generated.
Best part is that your  visitor can download the QR CODE so that it can be used for later or you can share these bar code images to social websites like facebook, twitter.

Currently this plugin is tested with latest wordpress version 3.5.2.


Friday, July 26, 2013

Wordpress Automatic Featured Image for Posts

Description

If you set featured image for every post. You are wasting your lots of time. Because this process can be automated by this plugin. This plugin selects the first image from the post and set the image as featured image automatically. You just have to insert the image into your post. If you want to set featured image manually, it won't interfere in that case. Your selected image will be set as featured image.But remember, it will work for new POSTS only, not for the older one.

Currently this plugin is tested with latest wordpress version 3.5.2.


Installation

1. Download the wordpress-automatic-featured-image plugin and extract the "wordpress-automatic-featured-image" folder.
2. Upload `wordpress-automatic-featured-image` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. That's it. There is no further options page.

Download

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Wordpress Version Remover - Save your site from hackers

Description

A small security solution for your wordpress site. It will remove the wordpress version number so that if you don't update the wordpress site, then hackers won't be able to know which version of wordpress you are using and won't be able to use old version wordpress exploits.

This plugin is successfully tested with Wordpress 3.5.2.



Installation

1. Upload `wordpress-version-remover` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. That's it.

Download

Wordpress BP Profile as Homepage

If you want FACEBOOK like functionality for your buddypress installation where Homepage for Vistiors is different than Logged in users, you should try this plugin. This plugin performs following tasks:
** when user log into your website, user is redirected to his/her profile. ** when user try to move to homepage, user is redirected to his/her profile. ** when user logs out of your website, user is redirected to homepage of the website.


because once users are logged in, there is no need to appeal them to register,so they shouldn't be sent their again. Now you can select the user role, who can view the homepage. Roles which can be selected; No One:- Nobody is allowed to view homepage Administrators:- Only users with the role 'administrator' can view the homepage Editors:- Only users with the role 'editor' can view the homepage Authors:- Only users with the role 'author' can view the homepage Contributors:- Only users with the role 'contributor' can view the homepage Subscribers:- Only users with the role 'subscriber' can view the homepage

Wordpress BuddyPress Login Redirect

This plugin gives an option to Buddypress based website owners to decide that where their users should be redirected after the login. 
Currently users can be redirected to 3 different locations after login. 
1. Personal Profile / Personal Activity Page 
2. Site wide Activity 
3. Friends' Activity


By default, this plugin will redirect the users to their friends' activity page after login.

Download version 2.0 (tested with wordpress 3.x)

BP Profile as Homepage version 1.1 - updated for Wordpress 4.1 and Buddypress 2.1.1

After pointing out by John Clause, I have just updated the plugin for Wordpress 4.1 and Buddypress 2.1.1. Now enjoy the facebook function...