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[How To] Boost your Old posts with Twitter in WordPress

Sunil Jain — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:34:49 +0000

OLD is GOLD

So here is an interesting wordpress plugin-> Tweet Old Post , which is used to tweet all your posts to your twitter account randomly based on the time intervals specified by you. Below are few features of this amazing plugin :

Tweet Prefix : Now you can add few prefixes or tags which will be placed at the starting of the tweets in the format

“{tweet prefix}:{Post Title}…{url}”

Post Data : If this option is set to yes then automatically the tweet format will be

“{tweet prefix}:{Post Title}—{Content}…{url}”

URL from Custom Field : This option will allow to fetch the shortened url from the custom field specified by you or else it will use the url shortener in the deafault list as shown below :

#Hash tags : You can also insert default hash tags to be included in the Tweet.
Time interval : The Minimum Time interval for the Tweet and Random Tweet Interval can be set in this plugin.
Post Age : Depending on the age of the post , this plugin will tweet the posts. This feature has left behind many twitter schedulers.
Category Based : The posts will be avoided of selected category as shown below

How to Install and Configure

After installing and activating this plugin , fill the required fields as shown below :

After filling the required fields click on Update Tweet Old Post Option and Tweet Now to start tweeting at that instant of time.

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Thanks to Ajay Matharu

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[How to] Customize Retweet Feature in Multiauthor WordPress blogs

Sunil Jain — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:05:10 +0000

Twitter is the vital source for bloggers to share and promote their content. Retweet allows visitors to share the content using their twitter account. All bloggers are using Retweet button on their blogs to get huge traffic from twitter. Today i am going to share with you a simple trick where in you can customize your Retweet feature in your Multiauthor WordPress blog.

In Multiauthor blogs , when Authors post their content , it is well displayed and shared with others through various social bookmarking sites. Twitter is one among them. We use Retweet button on each post to get more traffic. When visitors click on Retweet button , it connects their twitter account and hence tweets the post in the following format :

RT @twitter-id <———–Post-title———-> .

[Using Tweetmeme plugin]. So in Multiauthor blogs , whoever may be the Author but by default the twitter-id is always of the Admin of that blog. So here i will be showing how to replace the default twitter-id with the Author’s twitter-id . To do this you must use Tweetmeme plugin and follow the below steps :

Step 1: Adding a New field in Author’s bio

In this step instead of adding a new field in Author’s bio , i would use the existing empty field in the Author’s bio as shown below

As shown in the above image , we would change the label “AIM” to “Twitter id” or “Twitter id without @” [without quotes]. Here is how it is :

Firstly login to your ftp and point to the root directory where you have installed wordpress.

Browse to the /wp-includes directory.
Open registration.php file present it

Edit the file registration.php

Search for “AIM” in the file and change it to “Twitter-id without @”. [without quotes] as shown below:

Now refresh your author profile page and see whether the label changed as below image

Step 2 : Adding block of codes Tweetmeme plugin file

Now we will be editing the tweetmeme plugin file to achieve this Retweet feature . Follow the steps as shown below :

Browse to the wp-content/plugins/Tweetmeme folder

Open tweetmeme.php file to edit

After opening the tweetmeme.php file , edit the following codes as shown below :

Search for “global $post;” [Without quotes] and for the first search add the below code under it

// Block of code added by sunil jain on 28 Mar 2010

      $author_info = get_userdata($post->post_author);

 $retweetid = $author_info->aim ? $author_info->aim: get_option('tm_source');

  //End of block

Have a look at the screen shot :

Search for “ if (get_option(‘tm_source’)) {“ [without quotes] and replace it with the below code :

if ($retweetid) {

Have a look at the screenshot below :

Now you don’t need to worry about your blog authors as their twitter id will be mentioned each time when any visitor tweets it

Note : If any author doesn’t want to use his/her twitter id then by default Admin can insert his/her Twitter id to the options of Tweetmeme Plugin Settings page via WordPress Dashboard as shown below :

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How to use different Themes for WordPress posts or pages

Sunil Jain — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:45:50 +0000

You might think that why can’t my blog be a mixture of many themes wherein i can use different themes for different pages or posts of my blog?? .

Well , you are thinking wright , because recently a plugin by name Themeperpost has been developed, which gives you an option of using different themes in different posts or pages of your blog. It uses Custom Field option from which you can yourself assign a theme for different posts and pages.

Why this plugin :

A many of readers will ask (including you ) will ask this question “Why this plugin “. This is my answer -

“If you want to be simple then be , but if you want to be creative then do some creative “, isn’t this a creative plugin wherein you can have your own customized theme for different pages or posts?? [Answer this by commenting :announce: ] .
If you have a multiauthor blog like ShoutMeLoud , then several authors would like to see their posts in their own customized colors , no problem you can do this using Themeperpost WordPress Plugin .
“Ten mugs of water is one bucket of water” , similarly ten colorful mugs of water is an attractive and wonderful bucket of water [Think Positively :yes: ]

How to use it :

Firstly upload the new wordpress theme which you want to use for posts or pages. If the theme is already uploaded then note down its name properly , as we will be using it later.
Now go to the post or page in edit mode and add a custom new field by name “themeperpost” and in the place of value add the Theme name which you had uploaded newly or noted it
Here you are , now you can see that particular post or page using the theme which you have entered in the custom field’s value section

Demo & Download

Demo1->Demo2->Demo3 : These links are of the same blog but they are using different themes.

Download Themeperpost WordPress Plugin.

What do you think , what more can be included in this plugin??? . Be frank , as your comment will be taken into comsideration to update this plugin with some more customizations

Go Green with Your WordPress Blog

Sunny Bhasin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:05:27 +0000

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Go Green with Your WordPress Blog

As we all know that Internet Browsing consumes a lot of energy in global level when compared to other resources. Our blogs are also responsible for Global Warming as the Internet Browsing emits certain amount of CO2 to the atmosphere which leads to Global Warming.

Online Leaf has developed a wordpress plugin which will install a green standby engine on your blog.

This engine will automatically generate a blackish background eliminating the animations and high graphics present in the blog when the visitors become inactive on your blog.

This results in less consumption of power from the monitor as the dark colors requires less energy consumption.

Below is the screen shot of the image which is created when your visitors become inactive

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I am Proud to have a Green Website. Are you ??? If yes then comment here and show others or else Download the plugin and then have your comment here

[How To] Create Customized Coming Soon WordPress Pages

Sunny Bhasin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:29:54 +0000

Coming Soon Pages are the teasers which are required by all the webdesigners and bloggers whenever they are launching a new product or a website and also when your blog is under construction for some reasons.

Coming Soon Pages has the following advantages :

Branding Solution : It will help you to create a nice image of your product or blog.
Increase in visitors : The visitors might like your coming soon page and subscribe to get updates about your product or blog , when it is ready or launched.
Brief view : It helps the visitors to know about the product coming soon breifly.

Now we have come to know why we need Coming Soon Pages , so lets know now how to create and customize it in WordPress.

Custom Coming Soon Page WordPress Plugin

An amazing wordpress plugin developed by Mohit Aneja, which can be used to create and display your own customizable Coming Soon Page or Under Construction page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress based website or Blog. Meanwhile the Admin has the authority to look forward his blog without this coming soon page , so that he/she can update and fix the blog.

Features of this plugin :

Controlled access : Only the Admin can have a look at his/her blog with the themes and plugins installed i.e. a fully functioning blog with dashboard whereas all other vistors will be shown this coming soon page.

Easy to Customize:

Content : The Title of the page as well as the coming soon message can be customized based on the requirement.
Design : Both the Backgrounds and the page style can be customized with the options using in it.
Countdown Timer : This is optional i.e if you are launching a product then you can enter the date or else you can just show the visitors the Coming Soon page if your blog is under construction or in some upgradation.

Social Networks Integration : You can integrate your Coming Soon Page with Facebook and Twitter, which indeed will allow visitors to get connected with you through Facebook or Twitter.
Easy to Configure : This is very necessary for each and every plugin. Once you have installed this plugin , the rest all setting options is easy to understand and implement.

Screen shots and Demo

Demo1

Demo2

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Small Talk with Mohit Aneja

Hello Mohit Aneja

When did you feel to create this amazing Plugin ??
Is there any story behind this ? Please we all would like to know??

Mohit Aneja says :Recently I have updated my website to optimize its performance (http://www.cssjockey.com/general-news/performance-upgrade) and I wanted something nice to display the under construction message to my users and needed the ability to work at the back-end at the same time. I created a custom wordpress script for personal use and later optimized it to share with all WordPress users like me in the form of plug-in.

If you feel any more need to be added in the post or any suggestions for the plugin then feel FREE to COMMENT.