Category Archives: WordPress

How To Use Instant Articles For Facebook In WordPress Website?

Sometime back Facebook’s F8 conference announced that Instant Articles will be open to all publishers. FB has partnered with Automattic, the company behind WordPress to build a free plugin that simplifies the process of generating and publishing Instant Articles from WordPress. This will enable millions of publishers using WordPress on their websites bring the Instant Articles experience to their readers.

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How To Fix WooCommerce Invalid Shipping/Payment Method Error?

Invalid Shipping Method and Invalid Payment Method are the most common type of errors encountered by every new WooCommerce website user. In this lesson we will explain you how to solve this issue and continue selling from your eCommerce website.

A WooCommerce user says – On the checkout page where it displays the order, under shipping it says: “Sorry, it seems that there are no available shipping methods for your state. Please contact us if you require assistance or wish to make alternate arrangements.”

If I ignore this and click on the “Place Order” button anyway, I get two error messages:

  • Invalid shipping method
  • Invalid payment method

The latter confuses me because WooCommerce did not show payment methods until the error message appeared. I have Authorize.net DPM, a Woocommerce Plugin, installed. Once the payment methods are visible, if I click on “credit card payment,” and continue to try and place the order, I am taken back to the page saying: “Sorry, it seems that there are no available shipping methods for your state. Please contact us if you require assistance or wish to make alternate arrangements.”

I have “Local Delivery” as my primary shipping method for WooCommerce, and products can only be shipped to the United States- California, at the zip codes I have defined.

If there is any additional information you need to know, please inform me! Thank you for your time.


So how to resolve this WooCommerce issue? Mike Jolley, the developer of WooCommerce simply suggests that this kind of error comes when your address doesn’t match any shipping methods. So in-order to overcome this issue you just need to enable more shipping methods.

This can easily be done by logging into your WordPress WooCommerce website and navigating to WooCommerce -> Settings page.

Woocommerce Shipping

Now your second step is to select Shipping tab, you will be noticing various small links under this tab:

  1. Flat Rate
  2. Free Shipping
  3. International Flat Rate
  4. Local Delivery
  5. Local Pickup

These are the shipping methods which needs to be configured on your WooCommerce website for successful checkouts. By default, no shipping methods are enabled but you can easily enable them one by one depending upon your business requirement.

To enable a shipping method, just click its link under ‘Shipping’ tab, check ‘Enable’ checkbox selecting your optional settings and save new changes.


The given trick, solves invalid shipping method and invalid payment method errors. If you have any further questions, feel free to discuss them using the following comment form.

Top 5 WordPress Plugin To Transform WooCommerce Website Into Multi-vendor Marketplace

WooCommerce is the most popular, powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that helps you sell anything on your WordPress based website. You can open your online store, start selling your products, allow your customers to track product deliveries, use cash on delivery or popular online payment gateways and more.

You can easily start a WooCommerce website at SANGKRIT.net. All you got to do is subscribe Managed WordPress and install WooCommerce plugin, both are free softwares which can also be installed on regular hosting plans, VPS and servers.

In this lesson you will learn how easily you can convert your eCommerce website into a marketplace to enable other netizens open their store on your website and sell products just like Amazon etc.

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Easily Restrict Access To Posts, Pages, Menus & Widgets For User Roles In WordPress

It is possible to restrict pages, posts, custom post types, menus and widgets to members, nonmembers or specific roles in your WordPress site. WordPress Access Control plugin not only allows you to control access to your membership based website but provides you shortcodes and post, custom-post-type support, along with comprehensive admin interface to configure the plugin defaults.

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How To Add Infinite Scroll On Single Posts In WordPress?

Infinite Scroll is a feature to automatically append next page of posts on a blogging or media website. A website with infinite scroll enabled doesn’t ask visitor to click next page navigation. Instead it automatically loads up other post entries.

In general, infinite scroll is used on multipost pages such as on front page, tags & category archive pages, search pages etc. But there are some websites such as Time, LA Times, Quartz, Vogue etc that uses infinite scrolling on single post screens too.

In this lesson you will learn about implementing infinite scroll on single post screens in WordPress and your website will automatically load the next post as soon the user will scroll down to the end of any single post type screen.

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How To Display WordPress Posts In Grid Layout?

Traditional vertical layout of displaying posts is common in most WordPress themes. Although it is good for personal blogs and small websites but takes a lot of space. In this lesson we will discuss about the different ways of displays posts using a grid layout which is great for multi-author WordPress websites with large number of posts.

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Transfer SEO Data From One WordPress Theme Or Plugin To Another

When switching to a new WordPress theme or plugin, there is a risk of losing all SEO data such as meta-title, descriptions and keywords etc.

There are some theme frameworks and plugins that allows you to add SEO data like you can set custom SEO title which is shown on search engine results pages, description etc.

Popular SEO plugins such as All in One SEO & Yoast SEO allows you to add more custom SEO data in your posts, pages and custom post types.

In this lesson you will learn about properly transferring all SEO settings with the help of SEO Data Transporter in WordPress.

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Best Placement For Social Media Buttons To Encourage More Sharing

It is a common knowing that social media websites and networks are great place to market content. By adding social media sharing buttons to your website, you allow your readers easily share your content on their social profiles.

This drives more traffic to your website so gives you more advertising revenue. Other than this more people come to know about your website and products.

Still there are some successful websites that doesn’t use social media sharing buttons at all, such as: signalvnoise.com. They are losing their chances to viral marketing online.

Now what is the best position to display social media sharing buttons on your website. Well, it should be the place where readers can easily notice the buttons.

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Hide The Fact That You Use WordPress On Your Websites

Anyone can easily detect if a website runs over WordPress. There are many ways to detect a WordPress installation such as view source and WP Theme Detector that allows anyone to detect a WordPress site and displays whole lot of information the theme and plugins being used.

In this lesson you will learn about a trick to hide the fact that you are running your WordPress site over WordPress. You can hide this not only from your users, visitors but also from bots and even WP Theme Detector won’t be able to recognize the use WordPress on your website instead it will say that your website does not seem to be using WordPress.

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Reset All WordPress User Passwords & Email Them Out

When a website is attacked by hackers, all passwords are needed to be reset for security reasons. This may take a very long time if you have a lot of users registered on your WordPress site.

In this lesson, you will learn about resetting all user passwords on your WordPress install and automatically emailing them out to your website users.

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Start A Fully Functional Coupon Website In Minutes With WordPress

A coupon websites offers promo codes consisting of letters and numbers that can be redeemed on shopping cart websites and online purchases.

Starting a coupon websites involves listing of sales & discounts, offers with promo codes for various products that can be purchased online on eCommerce websites and apps. A coupon website can become a profitable business online with advertisements and commissions earned when coupons are clicked from your website.

In this lesson you will learn about creating your own coupon website in minutes with WordPress.

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Best Free Keyword Research Tools To Rank Higher On Google

Keyword research is one practice of search engine optimization (SEO). Although there are many professionals in this field but there are also very good keyword research tools that makes it easier for startups to find and use better keywords that will help you come up higher on search engines.

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Shardul Pandey Talks To Dr. Peter Achutha

The first and foremost thing that might interest the most of netizens is your story. So tell our netizens about yourself, your story? Where do I start and what do I say? Do I get into the deep dark wicked ways of mankind and how much lying, cheating, bribery and corruption there is going on in this world and people conniving ways? Or do I make it a diplomatically simple and naive life of a hermit scientist (engineer!). I wish I had a “normal” benign life but that is impossible when Greed is Good and people lust for money and worship billionaires as their gods.

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Display Custom Overlay Ads On Embedded YouTube Videos In WordPress

YouTube videos can be embedded on any website via embed code or oEmbed that automatically converts video URL to embedded video. But when you embed videos channels you don’t own, the advertisements shown on video doesn’t makes any profit for you.

Yes, you can display your own advertisements above, below or on the side of the video but in video advertisements are of the user who uploaded the video on YouTube.

In this lesson, you will learn about a new and unique way of showing your own advertisement on any YouTube video embedded on your WordPress website.

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Google Ventures Startup Has Chosen WordPress For Website

Netizens often make mistake of classifying WordPress as blogging platform or just content management system. While you can still use one click WordPress install to start your own website or go for Managed WordPress hosting, now it can be programmed to work as fully functional startup system or smartphone app.

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