First thing you need to do is install and activate the Pinterest RSS Widget plugin. After installation, simply go to Appearance » Widgets. There will be a widget called Pinterest RSS Widget. Drag it in the appropriate widget area, and configure the settings.

You can customize the size of your thumbnails. You can also choose to display the titles below the images or not.

If you want to show the Pinterest Pins on a post or a page, then you can do that using the following shortcode:

[prw username="syedbalkhi" maxfeeds="10" divname="myList" printtext="0" target="newwindow" useenclosures="yes" thumbwidth="100" thumbheight="100" showfollow="medium"]

If you want to show the Pinterest Pins in your theme by hard coding it, you can also do that using this plugin. Simply add the following codes wherever you want to display the latest pins:

<?php get_pins_feed_list($username, $maxfeeds, $divname, $printtext, $target, $useenclosures, $thumbwidth, $thumbheight, $showfollow); ?>

The parameters are:

• username is the Pinterest username you wish to display Pins from (mandatory)
• maxfeeds is the maximum number of Pins to display (optional, default = 25)
• divname is a name suffix for the list class. “myList” will become “pins-feed-myList” (optional)
• printtext must be 1 if you want the first few words of the Pin description to be printed below the thumbnail (optional)
• target is “samewindow” or “newwindow”, depending on where you want links to open (optional, default = samewindow)
• useenclosures is “yes” or “no” (optional, default = yes). Use this if you don’t want to use the tag in the feed and force the script to find an image
• link in the feed item description.
• thumbwidth is a number that will set the width in pixels of the Pin’s thumbnail (optional, default = 150)
• thumbheight is a number that will set the height in pixels of the Pin’s thumbnail (optional, default = 150)
• showfollow is “large”, “medium”, “small”, “tiny” or “none” (optional, default = none). Use this if you want to show the “Follow Me On Pinterest” button below the thumbnails. Select the size that best fits the space allowed (“large” is 156×26, “medium” is 78×26, “small” is the square 61×61 logo, and “tiny” is the 16×16 logo.)

When installing this plugin, we ran into the issue of images not showing up. Thankfully, it is a known issue and the author has already covered it into the FAQ’s section of the plugin. If your images are not showing up, then below are the possible solutions:

• TimThumb requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4.3+ installed. Make sure your host has this installed (most do).
• Once installed and in-use, TimThumb will automatically create a /prw_tmp/ subfolder in your/ wp-content/uploads/ directory with proper write-permissions. If your host server doesn’t allow this by default, be sure to manually create the /prw_tmp/ subfolder in your/ wp-content/uploads/ directory and set the /prw_tmp/ folder permissions to 755. If this still doesn’t work, try setting the /cache/ folder permissions to 777.
• Known issue with timthumb.php on Hostgator: If your website is hosted on Hostgator, you may need to contact HostGator to request “mod_security whitelisting”. More info here: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/timthumb-basics

Download Pinterest RSS Widget plugin

P.S. Don’t forget to follow Syed on Pinterest

How to Show Your Latest Pinterest Pins in WordPress Sidebar Widgets is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

WP Google Weather

The reason why we picked this plugin was its ease of installation. Unlike many other plugins, this plugin does not require you to signup with a third-party service to get an API. Also, this plugin does not require any link backs on the front end.

All you have to do is install and activate WP Google Weather. Then go to Appearance » Widgets. Then simply drag the WP Google Weather widget into the Sidebar. Enter the title of the widget, location, which language the display should be in, which unit the display should be in, and whether you want to show just today’s weather or the 3 day forecast.

Here is how the settings and the front-end display looks:

The front-end display is not the best however it can be customized to your liking. All you have to do is edit your stylesheet.

Weather and Weather Forecast Widget

This plugin comes with a lot of options. It allows you to use the services like Wunderground and World Weather Online API to get your data. This plugin also has the auto-detect option for location, but you need to signup for another API service for that. The biggest downside in our eyes is that it is mandatory for you to display the link to the provider otherwise your API can be terminated. All those companies do have monthly paid API options where you can remove their link back.

First thing you need to do is install and activate Weather and Weather Forecast Widget. Then go to Appearance » Widgets. Drag the GoGadget Weather Widget. Fill out all the settings. There are tons of options.

Here is how the preview looks:

Although the preview looks a lot nicer, the data powered by link is a really big turn down for us.

We hope that you like these plugins. If you know of a better plugin, then feel free to suggest it in the comments.

How to Show Weather Forecast in Your WordPress is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

First you need to install and activate the plugin called Blogging Checklist. Upon activation, a new menu “Blogging Checklist” will appear under the Settings tab.

You can add whatever you like in to your checklist. There are examples to copy and paste on the checklist screen. Once you click save changes, then your checklist will be visible on the post write page.

One of the downside of this plugin is that it does not store any of the checklist data. So lets say you did 3 out of 5 things on the checklist and you reload the page, it will reset all boxes. It would be great if this plugin can actually store the data and not let the user hit publish until all boxes are checked.

Download Blogging Checklist

How to Create a Blogging Checklist in WordPress is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

First thing you need to do is install and activate Supreme Google Webfonts Plugin for WordPress.

Once you have activated it, if you go to your post editor you will find an extra column at the top with a drop down list for choosing fonts.

You might notice that there is a second drop-down for choosing font-size as well. Also, if you are using WordPress multisite, don’t worry, the plugin can be activated on all of your blogs.

Download Supreme Google Webfonts for WordPress here.

How to Add Google Fonts in WordPress Post Editor is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

We will do this using a free plugin called ThreeWP Activity Monitor. The plugin displays the following activity to the administrators:

• Logins (successful and failed)
• Retrieved and reset passwords
• Posts/pages created, updated, trashed, untrashed and deleted
• Comments approved, trashed, spammed, unspammed, trashed, untrashed and deleted
• Changed passwords
• Changed user info
• User registrations
• User deletions
• Custom activities from other plugins

It also keeps track of the latest login times and displays a column in the user overviews. Once you install and activate it, a new option will be added under the Dashboard tab.

This is also a good plugin for the security of your blog because you can monitor if anything unusual happens.

Get ThreeWP Activity Monitor

How to Track Site or Network-wide User Activity in WordPress is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

Simply install and activate the plugin Allow PHP in Posts and Pages. After installation, simply wrap your php queries inside the shortcode:

[ php] [ /php] – Please ignore the spaces. We cannot use this shortcode because it will pull our Syntax Highlighter Evolved plugin.

You can also save your php queries and call them on post or pages when you need them. To do this, simply click on Allow PHP in Posts menu option. Click on the Code Snippets Tab. Add your PHP query there.

Then in your post, simply use the shortcode with the Snippet ID:

[ php function=ID]

Get Allow PHP in Posts and Pages

How to Allow PHP in WordPress Posts and Pages is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

First thing you need to do is install and activate Color Admin Posts.

Once you activate it, in the plugin settings you can select which color you want to assign for each post status.

Once you have selected the colors, then your posts section will look like this:

Oh when you do this, don’t forget to let your authors know about it. Otherwise, they will freak out. (Speaking from experience)

Get Color Admin Posts

Change Background Colors of Posts in WordPress Admin Based on Status is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin called Lazy Load.

And you are DONE.

This plugin was created by WordPress.com VIP team at Automattic, the TechCrunch 2011 Redesign team, and Jake Goldman (10up LLC). It is using the jQuery.sonar script by Dave Artz (AOL).

As you can see there is a very high qualified team behind the plugin.

When we first installed the plugin on List25, it did not work. All of our images broke. But the issue was not with the plugin. It was the way JavaScripts were in our theme. We adjusted the script order, and it works perfectly fine.

Combined with MaxCDN and W3 Total Cache, This plugin will make your site load even faster.

Get Lazy Load for WordPress now.

How to do Lazy Load Images in WordPress is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

Before we start with the tutorial, we want to show you the final product that we created in 5 minutes using this free plugin.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin Price Table. Upon activation, a new menu option will be added called “Price Tables”. Price Table essentially is just another custom post type, but it has Drag drop feature in there that lets you add columns.

Click on Add New and you will see something like this:

Click on Add Column, and you will see a column. We don’t recommend you to add more than 4 columns because it starts to look ugly after that (unless your theme has a super wide design). When using Twenty Ten theme with no-sidebar template, we only used 3 columns to make it look good. So we went ahead and filled the details for our table. Below is an explanation of features that this plugin has to offer:

Once you have created the table, simply Publish it. A shortcode will be displayed which looks like:

Take the shortcode and paste it into any WordPress page or post, and it will work.

Final outcome that we got:

Get Price Table Plugin Now

P.S. At the time of writing this plugin, the repository shows that 2 people have voted that this plugin is broken and 2 says that it works. We tried it, and it works for us. If it does not work for you, then the developer has offered to provide free support if you send him an email as he builds this plugin up to version 1.0.

How to Create a Clean Price Table in WordPress is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin called Simply Exclude. Upon activation, a new menu will be added called “Simply Exclude”. You will see there is an option for tags, categories, authors, and pages.

On each page, you can check what you want the item to be excluded from. You can exclude the category from Front page, Archive, search, and/or feed. Pages however can only be excluded from WordPress search.

Check the ones you want excluded and save changes. That is it. No need for code, this plugin will take care of everything for you.

Download Simply Exclude Now

How to Exclude Specific Pages, Authors, and More from WordPress Search is a post from: WPBeginner which is not allowed to be copied on other sites.