Secrets of VKontakte. VKontakte secrets that few people know about VK functions

Now we will talk to you about what cheats (see) and secrets are available on the Vkontakte social network. They will help you take advantage of unusual features, expand the functionality and appearance of your page, promote your account (see) and much more.

Personal page design

Let's see what tricks we can use to change the appearance of our page.

Theme

If you want to completely change your profile design, use ready-made themes from the site:

https://get-styles.ru

Go to it and select the topic you like from the list.

Now in the block with the selected topic, we need to click the “Apply” link. A browser extension will be installed (see), with which the selected design style will be installed for your profile.

As a result, you will get this result.

Changing the language

An interesting feature - you can set a different profile language (see). To do this, go to "My Settings - General". Find the block here "Regional settings", and try to select the Soviet language.

As a result, you will get this funny result.

Look - all the words are now written in the Soviet style.

Block "Personal Information"

There is a small trick - display lines with information, but leave the value in them empty (see).

We will get this result.

You can see that the Hometown field is left blank.

Removing advertising from design

Let's go to the site:

https://adblockplus.org/ru/

And install the extension.

It will automatically block annoying VKontakte advertisements.

Promotion

What secrets are there for promoting your VKontakte account?

Vote

You've probably heard about the internal currency - votes. With them you can purchase chips that the social network offers (see). But at first glance it may seem that you can only get votes for real money. This is wrong.

We discussed this in the article -.

Likes on photos

You probably already know that the more likes a photo has, the more popular it is. But the secret with which you can get them in large quantities without investing money is still available to few people (see).

Would you like to learn about some useful functions of the mega-popular social network VKontakte in our latitudes? Then, read about the seven hidden features of VK and use the knowledge you gain now!

Quite recently we wrote about. There, everything was solved by installing a special plugin, which automatically added the functionality we needed, among which, downloading media files is only a small part of the improvements...

However, not always and not everyone has the opportunity to install something on the computer from which you access the online... And, it turns out that in most cases it is not necessary to use third-party software - the main thing is to know some secrets and be able to do them use;)

Therefore, I bring to your attention a small but useful selection of tips that will allow you to significantly diversify your stay on VKontakte :)

Changing the language

And we’ll start with perhaps the most useless, but fun function - changing the interface language of our account. Previously, in the “basement” (the very bottom of the page) of the social network there were links to quickly change the language, among which there were two funny variants of Russian: “Pre-Revolutionary” and “Soviet”.

Then Contact underwent a redesign and some of the “chips”, among which were the mentioned interface options, disappeared somewhere. But, in fact, everything remained in place, it was just moved :) Soviet and pre-revolutionary Contact can still be turned on. To do this, you need to go to “My Settings” and at the bottom of the “Language” drop-down list, the last two items will be our treasured parameters :)

Select the desired design option, click the “Apply” button and get the desired result. The only pity is that your friends will not see or appreciate your new interface, since it is visible only to you. However, in a group you can also laugh, for example, by changing the language of one of your comrades on his computer to a pre-revolutionary one, and calmly observing the reaction :).

By the way, on the same first settings tab (“General”) you can also change the address of your page like “vk.com/id_page_number” to a more readable and memorable option like “vk.com/vasya_pupkin”. To do this, just enter the desired name of your account in the “Page Address” field, just above the list of languages.

How to add symbols and underscores in messages

If the change in the interface language will be visible only to us, then now I propose to study the question of what can be done in Contact so that everyone can see it :) Specifically, I mean the possibility of formatting text in your messages. After the last redesign (around April-May), many of the text formatting functions were eliminated, but some remained...

The general concept of formatting VKontakte text is as follows: in front of the letter that needs to be highlighted in a certain way, a special code is placed, starting with symbols and ending with a certain number with a colon at the end. In practice, it looks something like this (we enter the example without quotes): "͠п͠р͠и͠в͠е͠т":

In addition to the wavy overline, the following codes also work now:

• ́ - stress (placed before the letter we want to emphasize and works only once in one word);
• - non-breaking space (replaced with an empty character and allows, for example, to send an empty message);
• ¯ - overlining with a solid, straight line;
• ̅ - dotted line.

At the moment, everything is formatted, however, it is worth mentioning that VKontakte codes partially coincide with popular ALT codes. If anyone doesn’t know yet, an ALT code is a special set of numbers that are entered using the numeric keypad (a block of buttons with numbers on the right) while holding down the ALT key. While the button is pressed, we can enter certain numbers that will not be visible, but as soon as we release the key, a certain character will appear.

So... By experimenting with the numbers after, you can get interesting results. For example, code © will give us a copyright icon - :)

Wall posts visible only to friends

Since we are talking about messages, it is worth mentioning one far from obvious, but useful function, such as hiding information on the wall from all visitors except friends. If you try to do this during normal editing from “My Page,” then you will not succeed, since the required option is not available anywhere.

Someone may rightly note that in Settings, in the “Privacy” (second) tab, you can configure it so that only friends (or no one at all :)) can view the wall. But this will be a global setting. But what if you want to hide only a single post?

It turns out that this is possible and not at all difficult. You just need to know where to look :) And you need to look in the “All entries” section! You can get into it if you click on the inscription on your page that displays the number of posts on the wall (top left above the “What’s new with you?” field). This will open a page displaying only your wall and an expanded news entry field:

Under the news entry field we will have the treasured “only for friends” checkbox. We activate it, publish the news and it will be invisible to everyone who is not on your friends list!

The only caveat is that you can no longer hide previously added news. You can only hide new posts that you publish directly on your wall, which has an address like “vk.com/wallyourID”.

How to find out who visits you most often

There are generally many different questions associated with VKontakte friends... For example, we officially cannot find out which of our friends visited our page. For this purpose, VKontakte has dozens of applications that, with varying degrees of reliability, show who allegedly visited you. However, in reality, most often such applications do not work.

It turns out that there is a very real way to find out who has recently visited you most often, even without third-party applications of dubious quality. True, it is not known what degree of reliability there is in this method, since you can only check by asking people directly whether they visited you. Although, everything coincided for me, so I’ll tell you about the method, and it’s up to you :)

So, the first thing we need to do is go to “My Settings” and at the very bottom of the page find the inscription “You can delete your page.” Click on the link in this caption and go to the page for deleting your account:

There is no need to delete anything! We are only interested in the item “No one comments on my page.” We select it and in the field with a standard answer, the system will give us the names of two people who have visited your page recently :) If you want to find out who else, besides these two, visited you, repeat the procedure and get the names of another couple of visitors. We can repeat this until we count everyone! I got 7 people in a day - it seems to be true, although who will understand their developers :).

How to delete a friend request

The last situation related to friends, which often arises among VK users, is requests to be added as friends from strangers of dubious activity :). Previously, there was a button that allowed you to directly delete any add request. Today we are offered only two options: either add or remain as subscribers...

Subscribers will not be able to write messages to you directly, but will be able to read and comment on your posts on the wall... If you do not want the person to receive information about all your new posts, then you can do the following...

We leave the person as subscribers, and then go to the “My subscribers” section (in the menu under the avatar on your page). A pop-up window will open with a list of people following you. We find the avatar of the person we just added, and in the upper right corner, click on the “Block” button with a cross. Everything is ready - you won't be disturbed anymore :)

How to download music and videos

There are a whole bunch of services, plugins and full-fledged ones for downloading music and videos from Contact. However, there is a way to download media files directly without additional devices :). To do this, we can use any browser that allows us to view the code (usually viewing the code is caused by pressing the CTRL+U key combination).

To download music, go to the “My audio recordings” section and look for the track that we want to download. For speed, copy its name and call the page code using the context menu (in Chrome this is the “View page code” item) or the above-mentioned combination (works in all popular browsers). Call the search by code (CTRL+F) and paste the copied name of the desired song (if there are several of them, then scroll through the code manually):

To make the search easier, you need to know that all the links we need are in the block with id="audios list". Now we find the name of the desired song, and the link to it will be in the block above in the block with the class class="play_btn fl_l". Copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp3", create a new tab, paste this link into the address bar and press Enter.

In some browsers (mostly old ones), after this manipulation the download will start immediately, and in some a player will appear. If you have started playing, then you need to call up the context menu and activate the “Save As” item in it. A standard save dialog will appear, in which you can select the location where the file will be downloaded and give it a normal name.

To download a video, we need to add it to “My Videos,” open it for playback and quickly press CTRL+U to access the code. Videos in Contact can be stored in two formats: .mp4 or .flv. We enter both options into the search in turn and look at the result. You should find a link like this:

As you can see, it is not stored in completely working condition. Specifically, its performance is hampered by backslashes, which appear three in front of forward slashes. We need to copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp4" or ".flv", and then paste it into the address bar and remove the extra groups of slashes. Then the algorithm is the same as for links to music: either the video will immediately start downloading to the default downloads folder, or the player will appear and we can save the video through the context menu.

The only thing worth saying is that we can download a video in this way only if it is uploaded to one of the servers of VK.com, VK.me or friendly video hosting sites, but not YouTube or RuTube. And one more thing:) For some videos there are several links - they are preceded by the codes url240, url360, url480 or url720. These numbers mean resolution, and therefore video quality;).

Status "Online from a mobile device" on a PC

One more simple trick for a snack :) Recently, VKontakte, in addition to the “Online” status, also began to display the “Online from a mobile device” status, which is displayed if you are online from a phone or tablet. Some comrades immediately “saw the trick” and began to boast that they had cool tablets and smartphones. Naturally, they cite their status as proof :)

But the status, if necessary, can be obtained quite easily if your browser is - or similar (a new one will also do :)).

We need to go to the browser menu and find the “Tools” - “Developer Tools” item there (also called by the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+I). Now in the panel that opens, activate the “Emulation” section and in the “Device” tab, select from the list the device that we want to emulate. I chose the Google Nexus 10 because this tablet has a fairly high screen resolution and will be comfortable to work with on a regular monitor.

Now all that remains is to click the “Emulate” button and reload the Contact page. You will be automatically transferred to the mobile version of the site, and next to your name there will be a status icon in the form of a mobile phone :) Close the “Developer Tools” panel and the last step is to switch to the full version of the site by clicking the “Full version” button in the left menu at the bottom. Although, if you are satisfied with the mobile version, you can leave it...

conclusions

So our mini-excursion into the hidden capabilities of VKontakte has come to an end. In fact, there are many more secrets in VK, but it is unrealistic to know them all! And the obsolescence of certain features occurs quite rapidly. While this article was being written, for example, VKontakte returned the function for selecting a language from the site’s footer :) And the article was written in only two days...

In a word, you can’t keep track of everything, so we make the most of today what we can still use, and we’ll see what will happen tomorrow :) Happy surfing and more friends with whom you can communicate on any topic!

P.S. Permission is granted to freely copy and quote this article, provided that an open active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is preserved.

Switch language

You can change the language. The choice is large: Russian, English, German and others. But there are also more exotic/fun ones. For example, Pre-Revolutionary or Belarusian. Try it yourself. At the top right, click on your profile and select Settings. Language – Change. And there you can choose whatever you want from a large list. We recommend trying Pre-Revolutionary.

Leave the field empty

There is an option to fill out your profile in the Career section, but leave most of the fields blank. To do this, go to Edit Profile. Then in all lines (Career section) we insert a set of characters:

Confidentiality

In order to prevent people from finding you by your phone number on VKontakte, you need to go to Settings - Privacy - Contact me. There, in the line: “Who can find me when importing contacts at +37529******,” select “Only me.”

Disabling advertising

Are you probably annoyed by intrusive advertising on VKontakte? It is time to turn it off once and for all. Just download and install the Adblock plus extension for Firefox or Chrome. Activate all filters by default, and advertising will disappear not only on VKontakte, but also on other sites. How nice and calm it is to read the news without advertising. Thank you Adblock.

Listening to music

There is a lot of music on VKontakte. Lots of good music. New items appear here quickly. But we want to listen to it not only on the website, but also on a smartphone, in a car, and without the Internet at all. No problem. We go to a special website, it will ask you for authorization, allow it and start downloading! Enter the song you are interested in into the search and go!

Changing the design

Do you want to freshen up your page design a little? Or are you a little tired of the classic VKontakte design? Nothing could be simpler. You can change the theme of the site at your discretion. Only you will see this design. To do this, you need to go to the site and install the extension for Chrome/Firefox. Then, on the website, select the theme you like and click “Apply”. This is what we end up with:

News updates

In “News” you can sometimes get a lot of necessary and not so necessary information. How about looking at the list of people your friends have added today? Click the News section, then Updates on the side. Voila! Now we can see specifically who your friends have added to their friends list.

Privacy

If you are a very private person and value privacy, you can hide your page completely. Users will only be able to see your main photo. To do this, let's go to Settings - Privacy. Next, select “Who sees the basic information of my page”, check “Only Me”. Ready!

Lock

If you need to completely hide from one person, just block him. Go to his Profile and select – Block. Now he will not be able to write to you, see your photos, friends and information about you.

Hiding friends

By default, all VKontakte users can see all your friends. For some it is convenient, for others it is not. VKontakte stands for openness. We will stand up for confidentiality. It is possible to hide certain (but not all) friends. To do this, go to Settings - Privacy. There, click on the item “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions”, select “Show all friends except”. Select the friends you want to hide. Ready!

Delayed publication

To publish a note or photo on your page at a certain time, there is a useful function - Delayed publication. It's easy to launch. Go to the message writing interface, then click “More” - “Timer”. There we select the date and time of publication of the message.

Safety

If you suspect that someone is following you and secretly logging into your account, it won’t be difficult to check. Go to the Settings section - Security - Show activity history. There you will see the IP address, country, time and type of device from which you logged into VKontakte the last few times. Clear and accessible. If you see some strange IP addresses from other countries, but you yourself are in Belarus, this is a reason to think about it and change your passwords.

Free votes

There we will be offered to play various online games, reach a certain level and receive our free votes. Why not?

Mention

If you want to mention someone in your wall post, you can do this in a similar way to Twitter, use @. For example, like this: @Petrov

Changing the page address

Today I’ll tell you about some VKontakte secrets that few people know. Millions of people visit this popular social network, but they don’t use many of its features. They don’t use it because they don’t know about them, and don’t even realize it.

For example, did you know that there is such a section as “Documents” on VKontakte? It is something like a cloud for storing data. Here you can find a more detailed description this wonderful opportunity.

Not many people know how to send several musical compositions to a friend at once, so they send first one, then another, etc. But why such torment? You can send several audio recordings at once in one fell swoop.

To do this, click “More” -> “Audio recording”

Hold down the “Ctrl” key, and then select the desired compositions by clicking to the right of each on the “Attach” inscription.

This way you can select any audio recordings.

2. Make an active link to the group in the “Place of work” column

In the “Place of work” column, you can not indicate your place of work, but select a group from the drop-down list

You can add another place of work if you click on the corresponding link (see above), but only the second link will be displayed on the main page.

This way you can get additional subscribers to your group.

3. Change the theme (template) on VKontakte

If you want something new, then there is nothing better than changing the appearance, i.e. changing the VKontakte theme. An example you can see below.

The theme I chose as an example is called "Space".

All you need to do is install a special plugin in your browser and select a ready-made template.

The plugin works in the following browsers:

1. Mozilla
2. FireFox
3. Yandex
4. Opera
5. Google Chrome

Once it's installed, select a theme and then click Apply. After which you will see a warning message “the theme is installed, refresh the VKontakte page.”

Refresh the page and you will see the new design of your account.

In the future, to change the template, you need to go to the website get-styles.ru, select a theme, and then click “Apply”.

I’ll tell you here just a few ways to get VKontakte votes, but in reality there are more.

Completing tasks. Go to “Settings” -> “Payments” -> “Top up balance”, and select “Special offers”.

Here you can find various tasks for which you will be awarded votes. For example, you can play games, or you can take part in some kind of promotion.

Services: There are special third-party services where you can earn votes. I won’t explain the process of getting votes, because it’s easy to understand, but I’ll just give links:

1. roboliker.ru is an excellent service where you first need to earn points and then exchange their votes.
2. vkway.com – you can earn not only votes, but also email. currency.
3. wasdclub.com - here you need to earn richiki (the site’s currency), and then exchange them for votes.
4. coinsup.com – we earn credits and then exchange them for votes.

Competitions: There are public pages on VKontakte where you can earn votes by completing simple tasks.

Contests are easy to find if you enter keywords into the VKontakte search box at the same time, for example, “voice contests.” I omitted the comma on purpose. It is clear that the search should be carried out by community.

Let's move on to the next VKontakte secrets

5. How to enable invisible mode on VKontakte

In order to become invisible, you can use the special VKFOX plugin, which can be installed via this link, through the Chrome online store, or on the website vkfox.com

During installation of the plugin, you will be asked to log in to the vkfox.com website via VK. After installation, you will become invisible in VK.

This plugin allows you not only to be invisible, but also to remain always online. The plugin is generally interesting, and there is a lot more to write about it, but you can easily figure out its functionality yourself.

6. How to log in to VKontakte if access is blocked

If you need to log into your VK account, but access is blocked, you can use an Anonymizer, for example, cameleo.ru. Go to this site, and then enter the address vk.com in the field, or simply click on the link below, as shown in the image.

You will go to the VK website for mobile devices, and the following gobbledygook will be displayed in the address bar: 0s.nzsxo.ozvs4y3pnu.nblz.ru. Ignore this and try to log in.

It's a shame I didn't have a chance to test whether it works or not, but people claim that it works.

There are many other VKontakte secrets, but the ones I described in this article are working at the moment.