How to use Gist in Sublime Text 3

Sublime Text is the most popular text / source code editor widely used in programming. Although it is a proprietary software, there are lots of free and community build plugins which can be used to extend the feature of Sublime Text. If you are not already fallen in love with Sublime Text, they you must give try.

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. This is one awesome service provided by Github. It allows you to store code snippets for later use, you can have as many private gists as you need and you can group multiple gist files under a single gist.
If you frequently use Gist then there is a Sublime Text plugin which helps you to use it easy way. You can manually install this Sublime Text plugin from this Gist github repository.Or you can install it through Package Manager.

Generate Access Token

You will need Access Token for using Gist in Sublime text.

• Open up github site.
• Go to Account Settings -> Applications
• Click "Generate new token" under "Personal access tokens"
• Enter some meaningful name in "Token description"
• Under "Select scopes", select gist

Quick Admin WordPress Plugin

Quick Admin is a simple WordPress plugin for adding quick links in the admin dashboard and admin bar. Separate management panel is provided to add/edit/delete links. Adding links in Admin bar is optional. You can set roles for which quick links are displayed.

How to add extra menu item in WordPress Navigation menu

WordPress very easy interface for managing navigation for WordPress themes.  But in some cases you may want to add extra menu item in the WordPress navigation. Here is a simple example to show how to add extra menu item in WordPress navigation menu.

In this example we are targeting primary menu. If you have not registered menu then you have to register nav menu with register_nav_menus function.

register_nav_menus( array(
  'primary' => __( 'Primary Menu' ),
  
 ) );

NS Featured Posts WordPress Plugin

NS Featured Posts is a plugin for making posts, pages or custom post types featured. User can enable/disable Featured for selected post types.
This plugin add checkbox for each list item. You can easily check / uncheck the Featured. Checking the Featured will set the meta value 'yes' for meta key '_is_ns_featured_post'. From plugin settings, you can choose to which post types you want Featured functionality.