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Enable Your Users To Read More Without Refresh In WordPress

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‘Read More’ or ‘Continue Reading’ tags are used for showing only a part of the content on home and multi-post pages on a WordPress Website. The tag is inserted by clicking the plus icon on the block editor and then searching ‘More’ and then clicking it to insert after the first or second paragraph that you like to show on the homepage.

By default, when this ‘Read More’ link or button is clicked, the user is directed to a single post page showing the complete blog post.

In this lesson, you will learn about a shortcode that will allow your users to read complete post content right there on the page without reloading the site to a new page. There is a plugin that lets you do that very easily on your WordPress site.

How To Display Read More Without Refresh Button?

  1. Simply navigate to Plugins -> Add New page on your admin area dashboard
  2. Search and install the Read More Without Refresh plugin
  3. Navigate to your admin area RMWR Settings page from the left side menu
  4. Select the read more button’s color, text, font size, border, padding, hover, font-weight, and other customization options and save your settings
  5. Now in your post edit screen, simply use [read more] Your long text [/read] tags to display the read more button
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Once the user presses the “Read more” button, it expands the content. The users would be able to hide it again by pressing the same button that becomes ‘Read less’ when the content is expanded.

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The plugin is SEO-friendly, it hides the predefined text of your choice with a shortcode, leaving the remaining content visible to search engines. The plugin works for posts, pages, and other custom post types and it can be an alternative to the traditional ‘Read More’ button.

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How To Convert One Taxonomy Into Another In WordPress?

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This lesson guides you on how you can convert any default or custom taxonomy into another taxonomy on your WordPress Website.

Taxonomy is the term used to refer to categories, tags, and other custom taxonomies that may be present within your active theme or plugin or you have created it manually. This lesson guides you on how you can easily convert one taxonomy into another in your WordPress Website.

Term Taxonomy Converter allows you to copy i.e. duplicate or convert or move terms between the taxonomies. Copying a taxonomy means duplicating it to another without deleting or moving the original taxonomy. Whereas converting the taxonomy means, changing it to another taxonomy. This can be done between two or multiple taxonomies while maintaining associated posts.

To convert or copy a taxonomy you simply need to follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New page
  2. Search and install the ‘Term Taxonomy Converter’ plugin
  3. After activation visit Tools -> Term Taxonomy Converter page
  4. You will see various tabs for Tags, Categories, and Custom Taxonomies
  5. Switch to the taxonomy tab you like to convert
  6. Choose Copy or Convert option
  7. Select the taxonomies you want to convert
  8. Use the checkbox to tick the ‘Taxonomy’ in which you want the selected taxonomies to be converted to
  9. Click the ‘Go’ button

Since this plugin collectively works for all tags, categories, and custom taxonomies, you don’t need any other plugin separately for converting default taxonomies such as tags and categories in WordPress. In case if you only want to convert tags and categories then follow this lesson.

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How To Convert Categories Into Tags Or Tags Into Categories In WordPress?

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It is possible to convert tags into categories or categories into tags in your WordPress Website. There is also a lesson on converting one taxonomy into another but this lesson guides you on how you can easily change a category into a tag or vice versa in WordPress.

For instance, suppose you were frequently using a tag for a long time and now you want to transform it into a category so that you can provide more filters by creating its sub-categories. If you just want to convert tags and categories and not other taxonomies then there is a plugin called Categories to Tags Converter.

How To Convert Categories Into Tags?

  1. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New page on your admin area dashboard
  2. Search and install the ‘Categories to Tags Converter’ plugin
  3. After activation, navigate to Tools -> Import page
  4. Click the ‘Run Importer’ link below the Categories to Tags Converter
  5. Under the ‘Categories’ tab select the categories you want to convert into tags
  6. Click the ‘Convert Categories’ button

How To Convert Tags Into Categories?

The same plugin i.e. Categories into Tags Converter lets you convert tags into categories:

  1. Navigate to Tools -> Import page
  2. Click the ‘Run Importer’ link below to Categories to Tags Converter
  3. Switch to the ‘Tags’ tab
  4. Select the tags you want to convert into categories
  5. Click the ‘ Convert Tags’ button

So this was a simple hany plugin for converting tags and categories on your WordPress site. Now if you want to go deeper into the functions of converting any taxonomy (including tags and categories) into another taxonomy then there is another lesson on the topic.

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How To Use Tags And Categories On Pages In WordPress?

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Tags and categories in WordPress can be extended to pages. By default, WordPress offers you tags and categories for posts but by activating a plugin you can extend the functionality to pages in your WordPress Website.

There are several plugins that let you create new post types and their custom taxonomies and there are also some plugins that let you assign new taxonomies to posts, pages, and other post types. But this lesson guides you on how you can simply activate tags and categories on pages without manually creating new taxonomies.

Simply navigate to Plugin -> Add New page on your WordPress admin area dashboard to find and install Post Tags and Categories for Pages plugin.

Page Tags & Categories

Upon activation, the plugin automatically activates a function that enables post tags and categories for pages and it also adds the stock WordPress categories for all of your pages. Adding stock means now your website pages will also show up in the archive queries just like posts.

You can create and manage tags and categories in the same way you do for posts. New tags and categories can either be created from the page edit screen or from the Pages -> Categories and Pages -> Tags page on your admin area dashboard. There’s another plugin called Pages with category and tag is also an alternative option for enabling tags and categories on pages.

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How To Auto Remove Formatting Tags While Pasting Content In WordPress?

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When you run a multi-author blog a common problem that comes to your WordPress site is having different layout styles in different blog posts, which disturb the look of your website.

This happens when some authors don’t remove HTML formatting after copy-pasting content from their Word, Writer, Google Docs, or any other editor to your blog. Hence, the undesired HTML tags and formatting also get into the posts and pages of your website. This lesson guides you on how you can overcome this issue simply by activating a plugin.

The problem can be resolved and safe pasting on your website can be easily implemented by using the Secure Paste plugin. You simply need to navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install the plugin. After activation, the plugin removes any HTML tags from your blog’s posts and pages before inserting them into the database. Thus, it prevents all your website users from pasting undesired HTML tags to post and page content.

The following are the HTML tags that stay and any other HTML tag, attributes, and formatting are automatically removed by the plugin:

<p> <a> (allowed attributes: href, title). <img> (allowed attributes: src, alt, class). <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <blockquote> <ol> <ul> <li> <em> <strong> <del>

The removal of formatting takes place while your authors edit their post or page content in any status such as scheduled, draft, published, etc. But this fixing of content is only done on the new content i.e. the content created or edited after the activation of the plugin.

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Top 7 Plugins To Insert License-Free High-Quality Images In WordPress

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There are various free services that offer you license-free high-quality images you can use in your WordPress posts and pages for various illustrative and editorial purposes. In this lesson, you will know about the five best plugins that let you insert such images directly from their source to your posts and pages without leaving your website.

Instant Images

The instant Images plugin lets insert images from Unsplash, Openverse, Pixabay, or Pexels to your posts and pages without ever leaving your website. This is an excellent plugin for users who want to save time by uploading images directly inside their WordPress installation and for developers who want to prototype and develop using real-world imagery.

Inserting Images In WordPress from Unsplash, Openverse, Pixabay and Pexels

Main features of the plugin:

  • Image Search – The Instant Images search lets you quickly find and upload images for any subject in a matter of seconds!
  • Image Orientation – Filter search results by landscape, portrait, or square images.
  • Time Saver – Quickly upload amazing stock photos without leaving the comfort of your WordPress admin.
  • Theme/Plugin Developers – A great tool for developers who want to prototype and develop using real-world imagery.
  • Gutenberg – Instant Images directly integrates with Gutenberg as a plugin sidebar.
  • Media Modal – Instant Images are available as a tab in the WordPress Media Modal.
  • Page Builders – Instant Images integrates with page builders such as Elementor, Beaver Builder, Brizy, and Divi.
  • Edit Image Metadata – Easily edit image filename, alt text, and caption prior to uploading to your media library.
  • Accessibility – Automatically include a relevant alt description for screen readers, visually reduced users, and SEO.
  • Easy to Use – It couldn’t get much more simple, just click an image and it’s automatically uploaded to your media library for use on your site.
  • No Accounts Needed – An account on any service provider is not required for the use of this plugin. Just activate and you’re ready to go.

StockPack

StockPack – Stock photos from Unsplash, Adobe Stock, and more plugin offers you optimized image search in your WordPress site to search images from Unsplash, Adobe Stock, Getty Images, iStock, Pixabay, Pexels, and Depositphotos. The plugin offers you a very simple option in the WordPress media library pop-up box that lets you switch between providers and compare the images.

StockPack – Stock photos from Unsplash, Adobe Stock and more

Main features of the plugin:

Free Assets Library

Free Assets Library – Openverse/Pixabay 600+ Million Images plugin simply lets you search from more than six-hundred-million images, and use the inside your posts and pages. The plugin lets your search and inserts images from Pixabay and Openverse and soon more services are to be added. This plugin has been tested with the 2.1+ version of WordPress.

Main features of the plugin:

  • Zero configuration
  • Download images from Openverse, Pixabay, and (soon more)
  • Easy search from 600+ millions of images.
  • Direct download into the media library.
  • Automatically set the image TITLE tag for SEO purposes.
  • Automatically set the image ALT tag for SEO purposes.
  • Automatically Image attribution (of original image author) in the image description field for SEO purposes.
  • Automatically create SEO-ready image names.
  • 100% safe, model-released images.
  • Quick support

Getty Images

Getty Images are among the world’s leading creators and distributors of still imagery, video, music, and multimedia products, as well as other forms of digital content. The Getty Images plugin gives you access to over 50 million free embeddable images, available for editorial use on your WordPress website.

Main features of the plugin:

  • Search millions of photos, vectors, and illustrations, customized to your Getty Images account.
  • Download and preview comp images before you post.
  • Download, insert, and publish any size image using your existing agreement with Getty Images.
  • Licensed images are saved to your Media Library for future use.

Envato Elements

Envato Elements – Photos & Elementor Templates plugin enables you to explore and import Elementor Templates as well as premium stock photos right from your WordPress admin area dashboard.

Envato Elements – Photos & Elementor Templates

The free version of the plugin gives you access to try thousands of free page and block templates to use within Elementor. All you need to do is browse, import, then customize

Pexels: Free Stock Photos

Pexels: Free Stock Photos offers you high-quality photos that are completely free stock images you can use for personal and commercial purposes. This plugin helps you search, browse and download those photos directly to your WordPress site, giving you the benefits of hosting them (cropping, compressing, caching, etc.).

Pexels Photo In WordPress

Main features of the plugin:

  • Search and browse thousands of free stock photos from Pexels from your WordPress Dashboard
  • Add ANY image to your WordPress Media Library with one click
  • Use the image inside your post/page content
  • Use the image as a Featured Image
  • No attribution is required (really!)

Pixabay Images

Pixabay Images is a free WordPress plugin that enables you to pick free, creative commons and other public domain images from Pixabay and insert them into your posts, pages, and other content.

Pixabay Images

Main features of the plugin:

  • You can easily search Pixabay’s public domain pictures using the “Add Media” button inside the editor.
  • You can filter search results by image type (clipart, photo) and/or orientation (landscape, portrait).
  • You can preview images in paginated search results.
  • Enables direct image uploads to WordPress’ media library.
  • Use of standard media dialogues for editing and inserting images.

So these were some of the best plugins for inserting professionally photographed free high-quality images in your WordPress Website. The first three plugins are great, and we recommend you use the first one as it covers four major services. The last two plugins are also good but these haven’t been updated to the latest version of WordPress but still, they do their job.

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How To Make Managed WordPress Website After Registering Your Domain Name?

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Once you register your domain name at Sangkrit.net, you simply need to subscribe to a Managed WordPress plan to take your business website online, you may subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce for making an online store. As you do that the automated system guides you step-by-step to set up your website and login to your admin area dashboard.

This lesson guides you on what you have to do next when you are on the admin panel of your dashboard. Although Managed WordPress gives you a complete website by asking you to choose your options and add your business details during its setup process. Still, by reading this lesson you will know how you can customize or change your website anytime on your own.

Login To WordPress Admin Panel

The time you follow the Managed WordPress process of making your website, it asks you to choose a username and password which you use to log in to your website by visiting the yourdomain.com/wp-admin page.

Choose & Customize The WordPress Theme

The next thing you should do is choose a theme. WordPress offers you a wide range of industry-specific themes that you can install from the admin panel of your website.

Simply navigate to Appearance -> Themes and you would be able to browse the free themes, preview them, and choose the one that fits your industry requirements. All you have to do is click ‘Install’, and the theme will install, and then click the ‘Activate’ button to activate the selected theme.

Now navigate to the Appearance -> Customize page to choose your theme options. From here, you can modify the site title, tagline, logo, header, colors, fonts, and other visual elements. Some themes provide a massive range of customization options.

You May Enable The Online Store Option

If you have subscribed to WordPress Ecommerce, you can customize your store settings from the admin panels’ WooCommerce -> Settings page. In case you have not subscribed to WordPress Ecommerce and you want to have an online store then you can install the WooCommerce plugin from your admin area dashboard Plugins -> Add New page by searching for WooCommerce plugin.

Install Necessary Plugins

You can also install other essential plugins to enhance the functionality of your WordPress site. For instance, you may install the ‘Contact Form 7’ plugin if you want to enable visitors to message you directly from your website using a Contact Us page. ‘Yoast SEO’ is a popular plugin for search engine optimization, and the ‘Add To Any’ plugin allows you to add social sharing buttons on posts and pages of your website.

Create Necessary Pages

For adding important information about your business you will need to create the necessary pages. Simply navigate to Pages -> Add New page in your admin area dashboard. Add a title, content, images, videos, and other important information to your page, and then click the Publish button. Repeat the process to create more pages such as About, Services, Privacy Policy, Contact, etc.

Create Navigation Menu

You have created the pages, maybe you have also enabled the eCommerce store, etc on your website. Now it is very important to let the visitors know what you are offering, and where they can find the information they are looking for on your website. For this, you need to display navigation menus on your website.

Simply navigate to the Appearance -> Menus page and you would be able to create menus having categories, blog, store, about, contact, and other pages of your website. The page allows you to arrange the menu items to your desired order and assign the menu to the appropriate menu location such as the header on your website.

Start Blogging Your Business

You can easily add new blog posts from the Posts -> Add New page, the same page allows you to create and add categories and tags. Later on, these can be managed from the Posts -> Category and Posts -> Tags page.

Similarly, you can create and manage products from the Products menu on your admin area dashboard.

Your Website Is Ready

Following these steps, you get your website ready for public view. You can always customize the settings, look, and feel of your website from the admin area dashboard just as we have discussed above.

WordPress is a user-friendly system, as you start working on the admin panel of your website, you come to know about all its features on the go. And since you have subscribed to Managed WordPress, it provides automatic setup, backups & restores, malware scanning, and software updates paired with 24/7, award-winning support. 

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How To Add WhatsApp Chat Option On WordPress Website?

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WhatsApp has a massive user base of more than two billion users worldwide. Since it offers real-time communication, it can be a convenient platform to enable your visitors to send queries, messages, images, videos, and documents, facilitating quick and efficient communication.

This lesson guides you on how you can easily add a WhatsApp chat button on your WordPress Website to enable your website visitors to chat or contact you by simply clicking the button. And you can easily respond to their queries, provide product information, address concerns, and offer personalized assistance from your smartphone.

How To Add WhatsApp Chat In WordPress?

Simply navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install the Click to Chat – HoliThemes plugin on your WordPress site. Upon activation, visit the ‘Click to Chat’ page from the admin menu on your dashboard.

WhatsApp for WordPress

On this page, add your WhatsApp or Business WhatsApp number, you can customize the prefilled greeting message, and enable Web WhatsApp which also shows up on desktop and laptop computers.

There are several other options this plugin offers you such as WooCommerce compatibility features, page level settings, display settings, customized buttons and messages on product pages, several styles, and customizations, etc.

WhatsApp WordPress Plugin

Select your options, and save changes, and the WhatsApp chat button will com visible on your website. By clicking this button smartphone users would be able to chat with you on the WhatsApp Smartphone App and desktop users will be navigated to WhatsApp Web Chat.

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How To Add WhatsApp Sharing Button In WordPress?

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WhatsApp is an instant messaging platform that works on Android, iPhone, and other smartphone devices. Mobile Internet users use WhatsApp more frequently than other social networking websites. In this lesson, you will learn how you can add WhatsApp sharing button on your WordPress Website.

Adding WhatsApp Sharing Button

Simply navigate to your admin area dashboard Plugins -> Add New page to find and install AddToAny Share Buttons. Upon activation, visit its settings page to select the sharing buttons you want to add before or after the posts on your website.

You can add sharing buttons for WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and many other social media websites. Select the sharing buttons’ icon size, and their placements, and save your changes. That’s it, the sharing buttons would get visible on your posts and pages.

WhatsApp Sharing Floating Bar

The plugin also allows you to add a sticky floating bar, simply switch to the ‘Floating’ tab and select the placement options.

Adding WhatsApp Sharing Button With Jetpack Plugin

Jetpack plugin users can easily add WhatsApp sharing button from their admin area Settings -> Sharing page.

Simply scroll down to the ‘Sharing Buttons’ section and drag the WhatsApp button from the ‘Available Services’ box to the ‘Enabled Services’ box. Save your changes and the WhatsApp sharing button will be added by the plugin.

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How To Auto Rename Images Based On Post Title In WordPress?

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You can set WordPress to automatically rename images and other media files on upload in order to better the SEO of your website. Images can be automatically renamed on the basis of the post title or the site URL.

File Renaming on Upload is a WordPress plugin that automatically renames media files as they are uploaded so that they can be exhibited without any problems. It renders filenames properly with accents and special characters. It also allows you to use your post title or prefix website domain name to make your images more SEO friendly.

  • Rename files on upload based on the post title
  • Rename files on upload based on the Site URL
  • Rename files on upload based on the current date
  • It updates the file permalink based on file renaming
  • Remove accents and special characters from filenames on upload

To start using the plugin simply navigate to Plugins -> Add New page on your dashboard to find and install File Renaming on Upload plugin. Once activated, navigate to its Settings -> File Renaming page to enable the plugin and set your rule for file uploads.

  1. Add Site URL: Insert “www.yoursite.com” at the beginning of the file name. Ex: yoursite.com_filename.jpg
  2. Replace File Name by Date Time: Replaces filename by date-time, like “2013-07-18_21-48-19”
  3. Lowercase: Converts all characters to lowercase
  4. Remove Accents & Special Chars: Removes these special chars:? + [ ] / \ = < > : ; , ‘ ” & $ # * ( ) | ~ ` ! { }

You simply need to tick the options you like to enable on image upload and save your changes. The plugin will automatically work each time a new file is uploaded on your WordPress website using Media Library and Add Media thick box on post-edit screens.

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How To Add A Secondary Title In WordPress Posts & Post Types?

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You can add a subtitle i.e. secondary title to your posts, pages, and custom post types. By default, WordPress doesn’t provide you with this feature but still you have it on your WordPress Website. This lesson will guide you on how you can add a secondary title to your posts and other content.

Secondary Title is a free plugin that enables a subtitle title field for posts, pages, and other post types in WordPress.

Secondary Title on a WordPress Post

Unlike to other subtitle plugins, it prefixes or suffixes secondary title with the main post title which looks something like this: “This is my first blog post: Hello World!”. You can either use this functionality sitewide or enable it selectively over post types, categories, or only on some individual posts.

How To Add Secondary Title In WordPress Posts & Post Types? 3

To enable the functionality of the secondary title, navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install the Secondary Title plugin. After activation, the plugin adds a new title field below the main title fields on post-edit pages.

Secondary Post Title and Subtitle Functionality in WordPress

It offers you a set of options you can manage from your admin area Settings -> Secondary Title page. On the settings page, you can select the post types where you want the secondary titles to be activated. You may select none if you want to use it on all available post types.

How To Add Secondary Title In WordPress Posts & Post Types? 1

The plugin also allows you to select categories to enable secondary titles. Here also, select none to include all available categories. You can also limit secondary title functionality for certain posts and pages by adding their IDs to the post IDs box.

How To Add Secondary Title In WordPress Posts & Post Types? 2

The default format for title and secondary title is %secondary_title%: %title% which shows a prefixed secondary post title on the main post title but you can change this format by interchanging the locations of variables and using your own heading tags in between. Simply use %title% for the main title and %secondary_title% for the secondary title.

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How To Create & Add Favicon To Your WordPress Website?

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Favicon shows up on the browser’s tab above the web address bar. These are also shown on bookmarks, mobile apps, and Google displays them on mobile search results.

You can have a custom favicon for your website. In this lesson, you will learn how to make and assign favicon on your WordPress Website.

Before favicons were creased as special tiny file as favicon.ico and were uploaded to the root directory of the website. But now WordPress lets you use any image file as the favicon of your website.

How To Assign Any Image As Favicon In WordPress?

You simply need to navigate to your admin area and follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Appearance -> Customise page
  2. Click on the ‘Site Identity’ tab on the left menu.
  3. Scroll down to ‘Site Icon’ section
  4. Click on ‘Select Site Icon’
  5. Upload the image file
  6. Click ‘Publish’ button

That’s it, WordPress will now convert your image as the favicon of your website.

How To Create Favicon Images?

Although, WordPress lets you use any image as favicon but you may also create a custom favicon image for your website, as that is going to improve your identity on the internet.

There are various business tools that lets you create graphical images, banners, and logos, etc.. Leading business tools for designing images are Canva, MemberSpace, Adobe’s Online Graphic Maker, etc. You will easily find them by searching Google.

For generating a free favicon, you may use favicon.io service, there are many more services that you will easily find by searching on Google.

How To Find Free Favicon Images?

If you simply want to use a favicon image that matches the niche of your website then there are various free services that offers you free images and vector graphics.

If you want to use any image or vector graphic as your favicon then there are services that include pixabay.com, pexels.com, openverse.org, and commons.wikimedia.org, you will find the images by searching keywords and filtering the results.

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How To Update Old Links After Changing The Domain Name In WordPress?

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After changing your domain name, installing SSL, or changing any link on your website, the most important thing you need to do is update the links on your website.

When you move your WordPress Website to a new domain name, the most common issue that you notice is all internal links to pages and references to images are not updated, images don’t show up and internal links don’t work as they point to the old address which you have abandoned. This lesson will guide you two easy processes of updating such URLs on your WordPress site.

How To Update All Your WordPress Site URLs In One Click?

Login to your WordPress site and navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install Update URLs plugin on your website. Upon activation, navigate to Tools -> Update URLs page.

Here you simply need to type the old URL and the new URL address, then use the tick box option to select where you want to update URLs such as on posts, pages, attachments, excerpts or all GUIDs and then click ‘Update URLs Now’ button. That’s it, your URLs would get updated.

How To Auto Update Website URLs After Migrating To A New Domain Name?

There’s another plugin that automatically detects the domain name change and the auto-updates all old links and WordPress tables in the database of your website. It is especially coded for the domain name change and you don’t require to selectively mention the changes.

Navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install Automatic Domain Changer plugin on your WordPress site. After activation, navigate to Tools -> Change Domain and first you may backup and save your website database by clicking ‘Backup Database as SQL’.

Next, type the old domain name and new domain name in the fields and click ‘Change Domain’ button. The plugin lets you update HTTPS and the links with or without the ‘www’ prefix.

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How To Change Theme Options While Using Multiple Themes Plugin In WordPress?

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In the previous lesson you have learned about Multiple Themes plugin that allows you to activate different themes on various posts, pages, post types, search queries, archive pages, etc on your WordPress site.

Plugin works same as advertised but one common problem any user experiences is changing theme options of specific themes activated on various sections of your WordPress site. 

In this lesson, you will learn how to change theme options like theme customization, widgets and menus etc when using Multiple Themes plugin in your WordPress site.

The plugin has no built-in functionality for updating theme options but there are some tricks as suggested by the plugin developer on Appearance -> Manage Themes -> Theme Options (Tab).

There are two methods:

  1. Using live preview method
  2. Using theme test drive method.

Method #1

  1. Visit your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Themes screen.
  2. Live preview the theme you wish to change.
  3. Using left sidebar you can customize theme options.
  4. Navigation appears when a menu is set from Appearance -> Menus page.
  5. Click Save & Activate button.
  6. Visit immediately to Appearance -> Themes and reactivate previously active theme by clicking ‘Activate’ button.

Method #2

  1. First deactivate the Multiple Themes plugin.
  2. Now install and activate the Theme Test Drive plugin.
  3. Visit your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Theme Test Drive.
  4. From usage section, select the theme you want to customize options for.
  5. Use ‘Enable Theme Drive’ button present at the bottom of admin panel.
  6. Make changes to the theme options. You can change Widgets, Sidebars, Menus, Background, Header and other Customizations.
  7. You can do same for changing theme options for other WordPress themes
  8. Deactivate ‘Theme Test Drive’ plugin.
  9. Now activate Multiple Themes plugin.

That’s it. Now both the alternate and active theme should now display all configured theme options.

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How To Use Separate Themes On Different Pages In WordPress?

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You can assign a separate theme on home, posts, search, archive and other pages of your WordPress site.

In this lesson, you will learn how easily you can get control over the look and feel of your website by assigning different themes to different areas of your website.

Simply navigate to your admin area dashboard to find and install Multiple Themes plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Appearance -> Manage Themes page to assign different themes over different sections of your website.

The plugin will enable you to choose

  1. A Theme for All Posts
  2. A Theme for All Pages
  3. A Theme for Site Home
  4. A Theme for an Individual Post
  5. A Theme for an Individual Page
  6. A Theme for Selective Archive Page
  7. A Theme for Selective Search Pages, Terms, and more

The plugin enables you to choose a different theme for everything and override the active WordPress theme on your website.

Updating WordPress Theme Options

Now the question arises how you would be able to change the theme options for any theme you want? Well that is possible, you will find the complete process in this lesson.

The plugin doesn’t changes the active WordPress theme on your website. Instead, it works by dynamically overriding the settings on the pages and sections selected by you.

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How To Center Align Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme With CSS?

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Twenty Fourteen is the a beautiful and responsive WordPress theme official released by Automattic. But some bloggers don’t like its left alignment as that makes the website stick to the left leaving some spcae on the right side on big screens, whereas on small screens it is left unnoticed.

Likewise Fourteen Extended plugin (which was designed to tweak Twenty Fourteen theme) is missing from WordPress plugin repository (but is still available here). But the plugin is quite old so in this lesson we are sharing another easy way to center align the whole Twenty Fourteen theme on your website including its header, sidebars, content, footer etc.

How To Center Align Twenty Fourteen Theme?

All you have to do is add the following CSS on your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Additional CSS page.

#page {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

Alternatively, you may do this with Simple Custom CSS plugin. Simply navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install Simple Custom CSS plugin.

After activation visit your admin area dashboard Appearance -> Custom CSS screen and add the given CSS code. Save your changes and the code will centrally align the Twenty Fourteen theme on your website.

You may also do this by creating a child theme and then adding this CSS in its style.css file

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When And How To Update WordPress Posts Dates In Bulk?

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In the previous lesson you have learned about Google Freshness Algorithm that works on the theory that people like both relevant and recent content.

Google prefers new content over old, the date of every post is shown in Google’s search results page and it is more likely that people are going to click on the post that has been recently published.

In this lesson, you will learn about updating WordPress post dates in bulk. Although updating just date is not enough, your content must be updated too. But if you have a blog with evergreen content such as Fitness blog, Food & Recipes blog, Family & Relationship blog or any blog where the content doesn’t goes out of date then you may bulk update the post dates and for that there is a WordPress plugin.

How To Update Post Dates In Bulk?

Updating post dates in bulk is easy. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to search and install Bulk Post Update Date plugin. Upon activation the plugin will let you automatically update the time stamp of published date and modification date. By using this plugin you can:

  • Update Posts Modified date in bulk
  • Update Pages Modified date in bulk
  • Update Any Custom Post Type dates in bulk
  • Randomly distributes dates to look realistic to search engines
  • Option to change Published Date or Modified Date
  • Select Custom Interval or the Date Range
  • Apply on posts from specific categories
  • Apply on specific pages

These options can be managed from your admin area dashboard Settings -> Bulk Post Update Date page. From this page you simply need to select timestamp and post categories and then click the ‘Update Post Dates’ button. The plugin will take care of the rest. Again, remember that this is only for the blogs with evergreen content.

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Auto Import External Post Images & Update Their URLs In WordPress Site

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You can automatically import external post images and update their URLs in your post content.

Previously we have discussed saving any image from any website to the WordPress media library. By default, WordPress offers you the functionality to insert external images (i.e. images located on other websites) in your post content.

But this lesson is about automatically importing external images to your website and auto-changing their URLs inside your post content to their new URL on your website.

How To Save External Post Images In WordPress?

There is a plugin for that, navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to search and install Auto Upload Images plugin on your website.

Upon activation, visit its settings page to select your options such as if you want to exclude the plugin’s functionality for any post type or you want to block certain websites for uploading images, etc.

The plugin automatically works when you save your post, it searches for the image URLs present inside your post content and when it finds any external image URL, it imports it to your website and replaces its URL inside your post content.

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How To Save Contact Form Messages In WordPress?

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Whenever someone sends you a message using the contact form on your website, it is directly sent to your email address and not stored online on your website. In this process sometimes WordPress Website owners miss the email and so messages too. In this lesson, you will learn how you can store and access messages also from your admin area dashboard.

The most popular plugin for creating contact forms is Contact Form 7. There’s one more plugin called Flamingo, developed as an addon plugin for Contact Form 7, which doesn’t store submitted messages. But when you use the Flamingo plugin you would be able to store messages on your website too.

Storing Contact Messages In WordPress

To use the plugin, make sure that Contact Form 7 plugin is active on your website. Next, navigate to Plugins -> Add New page on your admin area dashboard to find and install the Flamingo plugin.

After activation, you will see the Flamingo in your admin area menu. There you will see that all new contact messages are listed in a searchable format. By using this plugin you no longer be losing contact messages due to server issues, missed emails, misconfigurations in your mail setup, etc.

Jetpack Plugin Also Has The Feature

Apart from this, you should also know that the Jetpack plugin also provides you with contact form functionality, and its messages are automatically stored on your admin area dashboard, you can access such messages from the admin section’s ‘Feedback’ menu.

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How To Create Chat Rooms On WordPress Website?

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Without connecting to any third-party service you can start fully hosted chatrooms on your WordPress Website for enabling chat for the users and guests.

This lesson will show you a really simple process of doing that in minutes. Simply log in to your WordPress site and navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to search and install Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box plugin on your website.

Creating A Chat Room

Upon activation, navigate to your admin area dashboard Settings -> Simple Ajax Chat page and change the default name of the chat to anything you want.

Then choose your options such as whether you require login or want to enable chat for the guests too, enter banned phrases, etc. Now save your changes and scroll down to copy the shortcode.

Displaying A Chat Room

For displaying the chat room navigate to Pages -> Add New page and paste the shortcode you have just copied. Publish the page and your chat room is live. You may also add the chatroom page link to your website’s navigation menu from the admin area dashboard Appearance -> Menus page.

Alternatively, another awesome plugin called Chat Room is also there, but it has not been tested with the recent WordPress versions, although it still works. If you want, you may try that one also.

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Automatically Calculate Taxes & Print Shipping Labels In WordPress Ecommerce

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WordPress Ecommerce is your all-in-one solution to start an eCommerce shop within minutes simply by registering your domain name and subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce. It is loaded with WooCommerce, hosting, backup, security, and everything you need to set up your store and manage it without any technical skills.

This lesson guides you on how quickly you can manage sales by automatically calculating taxes and printing shipping labels. You will just need to create products and your store will automatically take care of tax calculation, payment processing setup, and printing the shipping label, etc.

How To Implement Auto Tax Calculation & Shipping Label Print?

Simply log in to your WordPress Ecommerce website and navigate to Plugins -> Add New page to find and install WooCommerce Shipping & Tax plugin on your website.

The plugin needs to have the Jetpack plugin installed and activated on your website. If it is not installed, a prompt will appear to install and connect Jetpack. As you do that, a setup complete banner will display.

Once done, you would be able to set up shipping from your admin area dashboard WooCommerce -> Settings -> Shipping -> WooCommerce Shipping & Tax -> Shipping Labels page.

And taxes can be managed from your admin area dashboard WooCommerce -> Settings -> Tax page by selecting the “Enable automated taxes” option. The plugin provides you with all important options to manage shipping and taxes on your website.