In today’s competitive world of blogging social media traffic and mailing lists are perhaps the most important tools to help us increase our sites’ reach and exposure. Our plugin of the day is geared towards helping you increase that traffic by restricting access to pieces of your content.
Themify Audio Dock
It’s almost certain that you have run onto a site which features some sort of audio when it loads, whether it is soothing or annoying music, the feature is rather popular. Today’s plugin of the day can help you add some, hopefully nice, music on your WordPress site.
WP Pixabay
Continuing with our image related theme, today we’re going to take a look at a plugin that helps us find free stock images, including photos, vectors and illustrations, these can be used either in the content or set as featured images for our posts.
Vectr – Embedded Graphics Editor
Images are a very important piece of your content. Sometimes they are the ones that capture the visitor’s interest and make them read on. Naturally graphics and image manipulation will take up much of your time while writing articles for your site. Today we’ll take a look at an awesome tool which will help you create stunning graphics right in your dashboard.
Announcements
If you are running a multi user WordPress installation it might get tricky to notify all existing users of an important change or bring new users up to speed on rules and procedures on the site. Luckily there is a plugin for this.
Announcements
This small plugin allows you to create global announcements. Once a user logs in they will see you announcement in their dashboard before anything else. You can also set them to be mandatory and the user will have to tick a certain box stating they have read and understood the announcement presented to them, otherwise they will not be able to proceed on the dashboard. This way you can make sure all logged in users get any important information you need to pass to them and new users have T.O.S. readily accessible when they log in on the dashboard, along with any other on-boarding info.
Price: Free
Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/announcements/
TinyMCE Recover
If you have updated your WordPress installation to 4.7 you might have noticed that the text underline and text justification buttons were removed. This has inconvenienced many bloggers out there who find them useful but tend to forget keyboard shortcuts. Luckily there is a solution to this problem in the form of a plugin.
Take control of your widgets with the Widget Options plugin
Widgets are an essential part of most WordPress sites. They help us feature content, products, display social profiles and feeds, contact info and more. However sometimes you might need more refined control over your widgets, what if you want to display a widget on a certain page alone, or only on posts of a certain category, what if you want to apply custom styling to a widget? Luckily there are plugins to help us with this and today we’re taking a look at one of them.
Show theme in footer
If you manage a lot of WordPress sites each with its own theme, you might need a way to easily check which theme is active on a particular site and which version it’s running. This will make updating themes easier. That’s what today’s plugin of the day can help you with.
Show Theme In Footer
Once you install and activate the plugin the active theme’s name and version number will appear on the bottom right hand side of the administrator dashboard. If you are running a child theme you will also be informed of the parent theme’s name.
Price: Free
Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-theme-in-footer/
Reset your database with WordPress database reset
The WordPress database might get bloated, especially if you tend to use many plugins, test out new interesting ones and change themes often. You might want to clean it up or even wipe it out entirely to start fresh. You don’t have to delete your entire WordPress installation and create a new one to do this, you can just reset your database using a plugin.
Migrate your database using WP Migrate DB
There are many cases where you might need to migrate your WordPress database. Whether it is to set up a staging site, update an existing one or create a local installation of a live project. WordPress options and meta are serialized and stored in the database making such migrations a bit more complex than a simple search and replace, but don’t worry, there’s a plugin for this!
WP Migrate DB
This plugin makes database migration a breeze. It will export your database, run a search & replace to replace the old URLs with the new ones and handle data serialization while doing it. What you will get is an SQL file ( or a gz one if you enable compression ) which you can then import to the destination server using phpMyAdmin, MySQL command line or any other tool that allows you to import the database on your server. That’s it. Additional plugin options allow you to exclude spam comments, transients, post revisions and more.
Price: Free
Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/