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How Blogging Your Business Strengthens Your Social Media Reach?

Blogging lets you repurpose content for social networks. It increases your chances of getting discovered on social media websites. The reason is when you publish a blog post it gets into a continuous process of meeting new people through search engines and social networks.

A blog post is something that people can share on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc. When you promote anything on any social media website, it is seen and clicked, so promoting your own posts on social networks gives you a better chance to accumulate traffic on your website.

How To Start Blogging & Encourage Social Sharing?

Managed WordPress is a packaged service that offers you hosting, security, backups, as well as support at the same time. To start your blog, website, or eCommerce store you simply need to register your domain name and subscribe to a Managed WordPress plan.

Once subscribed, its automated process will help you set up your website in a few minutes and then you can start blogging your business.

To write a new blog post, simply visit your admin area dashboard Posts -> Add New page. Write the title and the content and then add a featured image from the right sidebar. This featured image is automatically fetched by social media websites when someone shares your blog post.

For adding social sharing buttons on every blog post of yours simply visit Plugins -> Add New, search the term ‘Social Sharing’ and you will be presented with a number of free plugins you can add to display social sharing buttons on your website.

Customizing Your Managed WordPress Blog Page With New Amazing Designs

There are times when you don’t want to leave your theme but think about implementing some changes to it. It becomes difficult when you don’t know to code and still wonder how to do it on your own. If you are in such a situation you may simply comment on this post and someone will help you out with that.

Maybe this lesson may also help as it is about implementing some amazingly great designs on your WordPress blog without changing the theme of your website.

First of all, you should know that Managed WordPress is a packaged service that allows anyone to start his own blog or website simply by registering his domain name and subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan. It gives you everything such as hosting, security, backup as well as online support you need to start and manage your website on your own.

Back to the topic, there is a free plugin called ‘Blog Designer’ that offers you fifteen unique designs you can select and implement on the blog page of your WordPress site. Let’s see how you can do that.

Blog Designer

How To Implement Blog Designer Layouts On Your Website?

  1. Login to the admin area of your WordPress site
  2. Visit Plugins -> Add New page and search for the ‘Blog Designer’ plugin
  3. Install and activate it. Upon activation, visit Blog Designer -> Gettings Started page on your admin area dashboard to know about the plugin
  4. Visit Blog Designer > Settings page to select and customize a new design for your blog
  5. Select the page for your blog to appear and save your changes
  6. That’s it, the new design will go functional

The plugin offers you highly customizable design options that you can use without having any technical or coding skills.

How To Encourage Product Reviews On Your WordPress Ecommerce Website?

This lesson guides you on how you can enable as well as encourage product reviews on your eCommerce website.

First, you should know that WordPress Ecommerce allows anyone to start his own eCommerce store simply by registering his domain name and subscribing to the WordPress Ecommerce plan.

Follow these steps to set up reviews with a photo upload option:

  1. Login to the admin area of your WordPress Ecommerce website
  2. Visit Plugins-> Add New page and search for the ‘Photo Reviews For WooCommerce’ plugin. Then, install and activate it.
  3. Upon activation, it adds a new menu ‘Photo Reviews’ on the sidebar of your admin area dashboard from where you can manage its settings and options.

The plugin also lets you send review reminder emails to customers who have purchased your products, allows customers to post reviews including product pictures, and enables you to send thank you emails with WooCommerce coupons to your customers.

Building Your Event Management Website With Event Blogging Feature

The event managers plan, publicize, and arrange the occasion of an event from a wedding to businesses, and virtual conferences. They must have a website to showcase their past work to their prospective clients, bring new clients from an internet search, and provide an option to contact or book an appointment.

With Managed WordPress, any event manager can create his own website simply by registering his domain name and subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan.

How To Make An Awesome Event Management Website?

Simply register your domain name and then subscribe to a Managed WordPress plan. Next, visit the ‘My Products’ page on your Sangkrit.net account and select ‘Setup’ next to WordPress in your ‘My Products’ list.

Now the automated process will ask you a few questions and you will be shifted to your WordPress admin area dashboard where you can start managing your website.

Install An Event Theme

Since you are starting an event management website then it would be better to install a theme designed especially for your business type as that will give a professional feel to your website.

You can install such themes from the Appearance -> Themes page by clicking the ‘Add New’ button. Simply search the term ‘Event Management’ in the themes search box and you will see that there are many themes you can choose from.

Create New Categories

The design of your website will only look better when you will have content. So create content by adding new blogs and pages with photos and galleries. Navigate to Posts -> Add New page, here you can write posts and also classify them under categories and subcategories using the categories meta box present in the right sidebar’s ‘Posts’ section.

Create Necessary Pages

Similarly, you can create pages from Pages -> Add New page. Unlike posts that display new on top on the home page of your website, pages look stand-alone. Some common examples of pages include an about page and a contact page.

Display Menus

By displaying menus you can show your clients what content you have on your website and make browsing easier for them. You can create and manage menus from the Appearance -> Menus page to show categories and page links on the header of your website.

Install Plugins

You may also install some useful plugins to make your website more featureful and better. Visit Plugins -> Add New page and search for the feature you want to add to your website.

For example, to display social sharing buttons on your website simply search the term ‘Social Sharing’ and you will be presented with a number of social media sharing plugins you can select from.

Event Posting

A plugin called ‘Event Post‘ makes blogging more specific to event managers by adding more meta-data to posts to convert them into full calendar events. Each event can be exported into iCal, Outlook, or Google Calendar.

It also offers you an option to show Geolocation and automatically fetches the weather of the place where the event is going to happen.

It enables you to display:

  • Event Begin Date
  • Event End Date
  • Custom Color
  • Event Status
  • Event Attendance
  • Address of the place
  • Weather & Temperature
  • GPS coordinates of the place
  • The Virtual Location of the event

You can also use this plugin to sell tickets to the event with WordPress Ecommerce or by installing WooCommerce plugin on your website.

In case you have any questions, comment here using the following comment form and someone soon will help you out.

Easily Enable Voice Typing On Your WordPress Blog

You can easily convert your voice i.e. your speech into text while writing blog posts on your WordPress Website. You simply need to press a button on the ‘Add New’ post page and then start dictating your words and you will see that your voice is being converted into text automatically.

To start you need to have a WordPress site. If you yet don’t have one you can make it now simply by registering your domain name and then subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan.

How To Convert Your Voice Into Post?

Log in to your website and visit Plugins -> Add New page. On the search box type the keyword ‘Speech to Text’ and press the Enter key. Now install the ‘Speech to Text’ plugin and click the ‘Activate’ button.

Visit Posts -> Add New page and you will see a new meta box with the title ‘Speech to Text’ has been added by the plugin. On this meta box, you simply need to click the ‘Record’ button and start speaking your thoughts and it will work like a writer writing everything for you.

You don’t need to type anymore but that doesn’t means you cannot write with a keyboard. Voice-to-text works as an add-on feature that is surely going to help you in reducing the load of typing through your fingers.

Chrome browser is necessary for the feature to work and the microphone is the hardware required by the plugin. If you are doing it on a mobile or laptop, they already have one.

Enabling Face Recognition Login On Your Managed WordPress Website

Whether you run your website over Managed WordPress or WordPress Ecommerce, you can secure your website or online store by enabling facial recognition that works from your smartphone or laptop, anything that has a camera.

By enabling it on your website, you will no longer need the username and password and it will also add more security to your website as the bots attempting to log in and the brute force attack won’t get anything.

To set up face log in simply login to your website and install-activate the new WordPress plugin called FiD Facial Recognition Admin Login. Then, visit its settings page and enter the required information. You will need to use a pin number and your face for authenticated login.

Next, to start securing admin user accounts, navigate to the ‘Users’ tab, enlist the admin account and follow the instructions. As soon as a user is enlisted, the plugin will start to protect his login by implementing facial identification.

Reduce The Time CSS Takes To Load On Your WordPress Website

In the case of CSS, there are two factors that affect the loading of CSS on your website. First is the size of the CSS file working on your web page and second is the number of CSS files actively working on your web page.

Hence, if your website is taking longer to open then CSS could be one reason. To resolve the issue you should choose your WordPress theme wisely. You may stick to the default WordPress theme or select one from the popular WordPress theme by clicking the ‘Most Popular’ filter on Themes -> Add New section because popular themes become popular when they perform better.

Now if you have a good WordPress theme and your website is working fine. Still, you can reduce its loading time by lazy loading necessary CSS files on your website.

How To Lazy Load CSS On Your Website?

Simply install-activate the new WordPress plugin called Lazy Load CSS. Upon activation, visit the plugin’s settings page on your dashboard and specify the CSS stylesheet files that you want to lazy load, and the plugin will do the rest.

What CSS Should Be Avoided?

Lazy-loading important CSS files of your theme or CSS files used on the viewport or above the fold may result in issues with the design of your website.

You should only lazy load the CSS that is below the first fold of your website. That means lazy load only those sections that appear when a user scrolls down on your website. In other words, lazy loads only the content that is not visible without scrolling otherwise the first view of your website could be blank for some seconds, and that is something nobody wants.

The plugin works well in reducing the time your website takes to load and improving FCP i.e. First Contentful Paint as well as LCP i.e. Largest Contentful Paint scores, and the overall performance of your website.

If you yet don’t have a website you can easily have one by registering your domain name and subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan with or without the eCommerce option and the system will guide you in bringing your website online in less than an hour.

Enabling WordPress Ecommmerce Payment Options By Customer’s Location

The lesson guides you on how you set different payment options on the basis of the customer’s location. For example, suppose you want to accept direct bank transfers only from users located in your country or you want to accept cash on delivery only from nearby customers.

By installing and activating the new WordPress plugin called Dynamic Payment Gateways for WooCommerce, you can set payment options to your customer’s location. You can disable certain payment gateways by geolocation of your client which is auto-tracked by your website either from the billing address or the IP address.

Payment Gateway Variation

After activating the plugin, click WooCommerce on your dashboard’s side menu and click the Dynamic Payment Gateways tab to enable or disable payment gateways by country. By using this plugin you can ensure that your website offers a relevant payment method to your customers.

How To Set Different Menus For Posts On Your Managed WordPress Website?

You can have different menus on the posts and pages on your website simply by activating a plugin.

Anyone can make his website by registering his domain name and then subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan which can be enhanced with free plugins available in the WordPress plugin repository.

This lesson is on a new WordPress plugin that allows you to set different menus on posts and pages on your WordPress site.

Simply install-activate the new WordPress plugin called Different Menu in Different Pages and Posts. Once activated, you would be able to set a specific menu for specific posts and pages from the post-edit screens where the plugin adds its meta-box.

Yes, you will need to first create a menu from the Appearance->Menus screen, save it and then it can be chosen for selective posts on your website. The menu you will choose will be displayed on the menu location of the header or wherever you have the menu location. On other posts and the homepage, the default menu will be displayed.

How To Disable Every Spot Of Copy-Paste Theft On Your WordPress Site?

While it is impossible to completely stop aces from copying from your website but still you can harden it by disabling all known and unknown shortcuts of copying text from your website.

Anyone can make his website by registering his domain name and then subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan which can be enhanced with free plugins available in the WordPress plugin repository. This lesson is on a new WordPress plugin that simply disables all known and unknown shortcuts for copying text from your website.

All you need to do is install-activate Disable Copy Paste plugin by the developer Dev Kabir and it will disable:

  1. The right-click menu
  2. The F12 and Ctrl+Shift+I shortcuts
  3. It recognizes opening the developer tools from the browser menu bar and closing the current page
  4. It can identify the real mobile terminal
  5. It can identify browser developer tool settings
  6. It can identify the plug-in forged mobile terminal
  7. It can identify saving performance for the mobile terminal
  8. It can identify developer tool shutdown events

The plugin has multiple monitoring modes and supports almost all popular web browsers such as IE, 360, QQ browser, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc.

So especially if you are a webmaster or coder and you want to protect your website content then this plugin will let you deny all measures that are used to enter the developer tools. So that the code of your website could get manipulated by any intruder.

Scheduling Sales On WordPress Ecommerce Websites

WordPress Ecommerce lets you start your own online store to begin selling your products online. You can start your eCommerce website, add your own products, price them, sell them online and collect payments via different payment gateways or simply use pay on delivery option.

It offers you many advanced features of selling, one useful feature is scheduling sales. In this lesson, you will learn about that and beyond the default scheduling feature that only lets you set the start and end date for any sale. You will see how you can extend the feature to not just schedule the sale date but also a time in hours and minutes.

How to schedule sales in WordPress Ecommerce?

The WordPress Ecommerce users at Sangkrit.net may simply log in to their eCommerce dashboard and follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the ‘Products’ you would like to schedule sales or create a new product, whatever you need is
  2. Open it for editing if you are scheduling sales in an already listed product on your website
  3. In the ‘General’ section of the ‘Product data’ box click the ‘Schedule’ option
  4. Set your start and end date of product sale
  5. If you want to set a scheduling time too then install-activate a plugin called Precise Sales for WooCommerce
  6. Once the plugin is activated, you can also set sales time in hours and minutes in addition to the sales start and end day
Schedule Sales WordPress

This gives you a more precise way of scheduling sales, the plugin is especially helpful for stores that serve in countries having multiple timezones such as the United States.

Get Rid Of Every Possible 404-Not-Found Error On WordPress

The most common error that takes away your traffic is 404 i.e. PAGE NOT FOUND error because as soon as the visitor sees it, he closes the browser’s tab to visit somewhere else.

Now you know how to conditionally redirect any link on WordPress but are you really aware of every 404 PAGE NOT FOUND error that is snatching away the visitors of your website?

What if you have a big website with lots of posts and you are not sure what links may cause a page-not-found-error? One way that can solve almost all of your problems with dead links is redirecting every user on your website to the content he wants to read.

In order words, you can convert every expired link into an intelligently working link on your website.

So how is that possible?

You just need to install-activate a WordPress plugin called Link Fixer, once activated the plugin automatically fixes all active and possible 404 errors on your website.

How does It work for the visitor?

The plugin searches the database to find any of the values especially the words that match the dead link requested by the client. Once, it finds the best match, it sends the user to that page. As a result, the user sees the content he was looking up for.

How does it work for search engine crawlers?

Google and other search engine spiders simply find the 301 redirects so they can update their results accordingly.

The best solution for users moving to WordPress

The plugin is a great solution for users planning to move their website from any platform to WordPress. Where sometimes the conversion process removes words such as “the” and “a” from the permalinks and generates many 404-page-not-found errors.

It also offers you some settings on your dashboard Settings -> Link Fixer page to let you modify values and set your own parameters.

Even if you don’t make any settings. Simply activating the plugin will get rid of every 404 error on your WordPress site.

How to know that your links are fixed?

Simply mistype any permalink or temporarily add a broken link somewhere on your website then click that link to see how intelligently you are redirected to the right page.

Creating Private Notes On WordPress

You can write private notes within WordPress for your own personal use. You may use it for keeping a reference to something, some text, or a link on the web to use it in the future while writing your post.

The new WordPress plugin called Hypernotes offers you a new custom post type that is completely private and created specifically for writing notes. These notes can’t be published online anyhow so it gives you a complete sense of security that it will not go online to the public even by mistake.

Otherwise, the private post option of WordPress is also available that simply allows you to make any post private (using the ‘Publish’ meta box) i.e. available only to logged-in website users.

The plugin also offers you the option to create folders and organize your notes. Together with the new PWA capabilities introduced by the Gutenberg plugin, these notes could be accessed easily through WordPress app on your smartphone.

Although the notes you create with this plugin are kept hidden from the public but at the moment these are not encrypted, so anyone having the access to MySQL database on your website will be able to read them (only if he knows how to).

But no worries if you are the complete owner of your WordPress site and use cPanel, VPS, dedicated server, or Managed WordPress for running your website because then only you have access to your website’s database and you can decide whom you want to share that access with.

Conditionally Redirect Any Link On WordPress

You can decide what links, users, and HTTP codes you want to send on what specific pages and set your own redirection rules on WordPress.

This means you can redirect links by HTTP codes, on the basis of whether the user is logged in or logged out, redirect specific URLs or permalink structure, etc, easily with the help of a plugin.

Although, these redirect implementations can also be done via cPanel using the domain redirect rules or by using the .htaccess file present in the root directory of your website. But to make things easier for newbie users, the Redirect Redirection plugin is programmed with an easy interface to do the same from the admin panel of your website. Its simplified functions are made available to help users that are not familiar with coding and defining redirects via the technical interface of the server.

The main features of the plugin include:

  • Options to redirect any HTTP code that can be 301, 302, 303, 304, 307 and 308
  • Options for defining the inclusion and exclusion rules for the logged in & out users, specific user role, user’s referrer link, user’s agent, user’s cookie, user’s IP, server, and also the language
  • Several options to set redirection rules that include simple as well as advanced RegEx matches. The URLs that contain specific string to new or removed string, URLs that start with something, specific permalink structures, and soon 404s redirects would also be available. Apart from this, the setting redirection rules with several matching conditions is also possible with this plugin
  • Options to manage all redirects comfortably by enabling or disabling links, modifying or deleting the redirects neatly listed on the admin page
  • You can set automatic redirects, change URL, and also import or export redirection lists, these features are under development and would be availble soon to you

How to set it to work on your website?

To start you will need to install-activate the new WordPress plugin called Redirect Redirection. Once activated visit its admin page on your dashboard and select the option to add your own redirect rule.

You will see that there are several options to let you set your own link redirect condition. You can define as many rules you want and also you can keep a backup of that, the plugin offers you the option to import and export the URL redirection rules you have created on your WordPress website.

How To Bulk Sell Products In WordPress Ecommerce Website?

You can sell bulk products in one product group by associating and linking multiple products at one price. The new WordPress WooCommerce plugin lets you to do this in a very easy way.

Simply start by installing-activating the new Bulk Product Selling plugin on your WordPress Ecommerce website. Once activated, visit the add new product page or open any old product for editing.

On the page, inside the product data section which is present below your product description section, you will see a new ‘Bulk Product’ tab is added. Click that tab and start typing the name of the product you want to link, once the product name is displayed, click it and it will be added.

Following this way you can link as many products as you want. Once you are finished adding your products in the bulk products section. Simply update or publish your product.

That’s it. Visit the front end of your website to see it working. The plugin works for simple, variable, and other types of products of your eCommerce website. If you yet don’t have a website, you can easily create one yourself with Managed WordPress.

How To Enable PreOrdering In Your WordPress Ecommerce Store?

You can allow your customers to pre-order upcoming products from your WordPress Ecommerce website. This way you can enable the selling of the product before they become available in your inventory.

Pre Order for WooCommerce plugin lets you do this very easily on your online store. To start you should have a WordPress Ecommerce website, if you don’t have one, you can easily make it at SANGKRIT.net by registering or transferring your domain and then subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce.

Next, install-activate the new WordPress plugin called Pre Order for WooCommerce. Upon activation, the plugin will add two new fields in the inventory tab present under the ‘Product Data’ section of your product admin screen, as shown in the above-given screenshot.

The two fields are:

  1. Pre Order Product – The checkbox option allows you to enable pre-ordering on selected products
  2. Pre Order Date – The field allows you to set a product shipping date on the pre-order enabled product

Once you enter the correct information in these two fields, enter order important product information such as price, name, variations etc and then publish or update your product.

That’s it. The product’s default ‘Buy Now’ button will now get changed to the ‘Preorder Now’ button allowing your customers to pre-order that specific product from your website.

How To Make All WordPress Links Open In New Tab?

You can make all links on your WordPress website open in a new tab. By default all WordPress links open in the same tab, there is an option in the links box to set specific links to open in a new tab. To make all links open in a new browser tab, you simply need to add a few lines of JavaScript code to your website.

The new WordPress plugin called Open Links In New Tab automatically does the same for you. Once the plugin is activated, your links start to open in a new browser tab. You can set if you want to open only external links in a new tab, or just internal links in a new tab, or both.

How does it work? This plugin adds only a few JavaScript code lines and it doesn’t depend on any external library, doesn’t even require jQuery, which is the most common JavaScript library. The function it produces is completely search engine optimized.

How to Switch Post Types In WordPress?

By switching post types you can convert any post into a page or custom post type, you can also convert any page into a post or custom post type or any custom post type into a page or post.

There are various options available to bulk convert post types in your WordPress site. But you can also individually switch any post type from the post edit screen.

Post Type Switcher is a WordPress plugin that adds a simple post-type drop-down to your post edit screens. Thus, allowing you to reassign any post to a new post type while editing your post.

Once activated, it can convert nearly every combination of posts, pages, and custom post types on your WordPress website:

  1. Post to Page
  2. Page to Post
  3. Post to Custom Post Type
  4. Custom Post Type to another Custom Post Type

While converting any post the invisible post types, such as revisions, menus, etc, are excluded. But, in case if you need to access invisible post types, you can adjust the boundaries of the plugin by using the ‘pts_post_type_filter’ filter.

Apart from this, bulk editing allows you to select all the posts in a certain type and convert them to a new type with one quick action.

How To Send User Directly To Post On Single Search Result?

If you have a small blog and you want to send the user directly to the post especially when any search result comprises of just one post or page. In such a case you can automatically redirect the user to that result.

The new WordPress plugin called One Search Result allows you to do that on your website. Simply install-activate it and it will start to work automatically. The plugin works with any theme and any objects that would be shown on your search results page.

How To Fix The Issues WordPress Has With SSL?

You can seamlessly map your website URLs to HTTPS and get most of the mixed and insecure content errors automatically fixed on your WordPress website.

If you have SSL subscribed and your site has access to it, then you just need to install-activate a WordPress plugin called Really Simple SSL, and that’s it. Your site will get automatically moved to a secure HTTPS connection.

The plugin instantly configures SSL on your WordPress site, without any modifications to other files and settings.

In case you don’t have an SSL then the first thing you need to do is subscribe to an SSL of your choice. You may either go for a Standard or Premium SSL or you may subscribe to a Completely Managed SSL Service.

Once you have SSL, just activate Really Simple SSL plugin on your website. It saves you from hours of work.

As soon the plugin is activated, it –

  • Automatically updates the siteurl and homeurl to HTTPS
  • Automatically fixes all insecure and mixed content errors
  • Automatically redirects all incoming URL requests to HTTPS
  • Automatically handles most issues that WordPress has with SSL

The plugin works by using an internal WordPress redirect, but it also allows you to use a .htaccess redirect instead. It handles when you’re behind a reverse proxy/load balancer and takes care when no headers are passed, which WordPress uses to detect an SSL connection

The insecure and mixed content on your website is dynamically fixed by replacing all HTTP URLs with secure HTTPS, except hyperlinks given to other websites. This URL migration is dynamic so no database changes are made, except for the site URL and home URL. The plugin sets PHP cookies securely with the httpOnly flag.

How To Convert Absolute URLs Into Relative URLs In WordPress?

WordPress always saves the content using the actual domain i.e. the domain you use to write your content.

But sometimes it may cause you issues especially when you want to develop your WordPress site locally using a local host server or blog on one domain and then go live on another. Because then you need to replace all URLs in your database.

This lesson guides you on how you can easily convert all absolute URLs into relative URLs.

Relative URLs is the new WordPress plugin that allows you to move from localhost to a live domain with minimal effort. The plugin doesn’t change the links in the database, so you can develop in the staging area or on a subdomain, or a sub-directory without worrying to replace URLs in your content.

The plugin doesn’t replaces the URLs in the database but:

  • It removes the domain name on internal links
  • It also removes the domain name on image sources for the images that are located on your server

Using this plugin you can:

  • Switch between HTTP and HTTPS sites
  • Move from one directory to another with minimal effort
  • Go live in one domain and carry on your development in another
  • Backup a production site from one domain and restore it for testing process on another domain

One important thing to take note of is the plugin should always be used for local development only. As it may conflict with your server-based cache services such as Nginx or Varnish.