Now there’s no need to manually upload images to the WordPress media library, before inserting them in your posts. The new WordPress block editor allows you to simply copy-paste pictures from anywhere to your WordPress posts or pages.
All you have to do is –
That’s it. The image will be instantly inserted into your post content. In the background, it will also get uploaded to the WordPress media library.
You can show tasks on specific posts and pages on your WordPress site to easily let your users know what else needs to be done to complete the post or to make it better.
Post Descriptions is the new WordPress plugin that enables you to add small descriptions to posts and pages. It lets you do things like adding small to-dos or don’t-forget tasks for your authors or simply for your own remembrance.
How To Add Small Notes On Your Posts?
To start simply install-activate the said plugin on your WordPress site. Now, post descriptions can be added either from the main edit screen of your post or directly from the quick edit option visible on each post via the Posts -> All Posts page.
Where Your Notes Get Visible
The post description written by you or any privileged user can be seen both on all posts page as well as a post-state which is the bold text next to your post or page title. The given screenshot clearly shows how the notes written on posts would be visible to you or any other user on your website.
Enabling & Disabling The Notes
Next, when you find that your post is perfect and you no longer need to show these notes, you can simply remove them and save your post.
In some cases, especially if your admin panel has become a bit cluttered and you no longer need post descriptions there. Then, you may disable it in post states using the given tick box option.
You can allow your users to subscribe to products they need on regular basis. The desired duration on applicable products can be set by you. The duration of the subscription can be set in months and calculated from the present day or it can be added to an active subscription.
To start simply install-activate the new WordPress plugin called Monthly Subscription. Next, from the admin panel of your WordPress Ecommerce website:
That’s for products. You can also use the plugin with your content via shortcode. Here you simply need to enclose selective content within the opening and closing shortcode (provided by the plugin) and only the users having an active subscription would be able to see that text.
You can create new widget areas to use on particular pages and manage them like other widget areas on your website.
Effata Widget Areas is the new WordPress plugin that lets you do that without editing your theme. The widget areas can be added to any page, category, or tag.
Simply start by installing-activating Effata Widget Areas plugin on your WordPress site.
Once activated, you would be able to create widget areas from the Appearance -> Widget Areas page, as shown in the given screenshot.
You can register new widget areas, set where you want them to display, the position and visibility range, etc. Once the widget area is registered, you can display it via shortcode on any page or via PHP code in your theme, and then start managing it like other widget areas using the widgets page in the appearance menu.
On your WordPress Ecommerce website, you can dynamically increase or decrease product pricing by a set timeframe to entice more buyers.
For example, You may set a 7% automatic decrease in the price of any product and make it work for a set interval of time to attract buyers and make them busy on your website. This way they would also spend more time on your website waiting for the lowest price that they are willing to pay.
How To Make It Work On Your Website?
Simply log in to your WordPress Ecommerce website and install-activate this new WooCommerce plugin called Drop / Raise Price for WooCommerce.
Now visit Products -> Add New page or open any old product for editing.
In the Product Data tab, you will see the General tab having new inputs fields for Price decrement, Minimal price, Drop price every ‘n’ minutes, Counter checkbox and Drop Price Timeframe, as shown in the above-given screenshot.
Enter your values then update or publish your product. That’s it.
To increase your recurring income you can offer renewable downloads on your WordPress Ecommerce website.
If you sell books, PDFs, or any other downloadable products on your WordPress Ecommerce, you can send email reminders to your customers and ask them to renew their download to its newer version especially when their downloads are expired.
Download Renewals for WooCommerce is a WooCommerce plugin that lets you increase your recurring income by offering a download renewal option to your customers. This enables your customers to renew their purchase after a predefined time.
Simply install and activate it. Once activated the plugin automatically adds new fields for renewal price and product expiry in the ‘Product Data’ meta box on all product edit pages.
All you have to do is enter a renewal price on the ‘Renewal Price’ field and set the number of days for product expiration on the ‘Download Expiry’ Field. Save your changes and it will automatically send email reminders to your customers at the time when their downloads expire.
WordPress Ecommerce is extremely affordable and flexible for any business willing to serve online. Compared to most platforms, WordPress Ecommerce automatically sets itself up on your domain and lets you manage everything from its admin panel dashboard.
The solution is significantly more cost-effective as it enables you to manage all design and features yourself with no need of hiring any coder.
Design & Features Can Be Implemented Easily, Free Of Cost
In general, design changes and feature add-ons can be very expensive, and also take longer when you go to a developer. But with WordPress Ecommerce you can do all that on your own with the help of millions of free plugins and themes accessible from the admin interface of your website.
That simply means design changes, as well as additional features, can be configured very quickly and that also at zero or very negligible cost, whereas other ways demand a much longer coding process and, therefore, makes you make a larger investment.
Anyone Can Start Selling Online
You can sell anything. From starting a local delivery service to selling homemade hand-crafted products to building a big business of multiple vendors. WordPress Ecommerce allows you to sell anything (retail or wholesale) online on your own.
Having Your Presence On Search Is Easy
You simply need to add your products so that others can purchase them directly from your website. And then start blogging your business, so that search engines can archive your articles to present them to the people searching for them on the internet.
The big reason for having your search presence on Google etc is because customer behavior has finally changed to adapt to the internet age. People first search for things on the internet before they really make any purchase.
Blogging your business is a worthwhile as well as the most cost-effective solution for promoting your business online.
It is always good to have your own online shop, and anyone can easily have that with WordPress Ecommerce.
By using WordPress Ecommerce anyone can start selling his products online. It provides you everything you need to start and grow your online business using a user-friendly admin panel to manage all sales.
There are absolutely no coding skills required, anyone can set up his online shop in three easy steps:
Selling products via a third-party service or marketplace is subject to their rules and regulations. It spoils your freedom to take your own decisions.
It defiles your organic search as people searching products don’t find your domain. Instead they see the third-party service you use for selling your products. Hence, it is always better to have your own eCommerce store.
In the beginning, you can simply focus on your core products and with time you can diversify your shop as WordPress Ecommerce is capable of handling that.
WordPress Ecommerce offers you thousands of themes you can use to give your shop a new feel and layout. The extensions and plugins range from payments gateways, promotion, shipping, to marketing, analytics, and accounting. It simplifies your work process.
Have you ever wanted to replace an upload on your WordPress media library? By default, it can be done only by uploading a new file, replacing it in your content, and then deleting the old upload.
This technique is both long and causes clatter in your media library as well as dead links on the internet, The reason is that newly uploaded file gets a new permalink.
There is one different way to replace any image – On media library, click “edit” view, and you can replace your file in one of two ways:
Simple Replace
It just replaces your file. The option requires you to upload a new file of the same type as the one you are replacing. The name of the attachment remains the same no matter what filename you upload.
Replace the file and update all links
The option replaces the old file, uses the new file name, and updates all links i.e. all links pointing to the old file are updated to point to the new file.
How To Replace Media Files?
The plugin also provides you a shortcode that picks up the file modification date to display it in your posts and pages.
Sometimes an error is experienced when you try uploading a new file in your WordPress media library. The error message is – “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.”
The reason behind this restriction is to prevent the accidental or purposeful upload of maliciously executable files as that could damage your website.
However, if you are certain about the filetype you are trying to upload then you can fix this issue yourself.
Add this code in the wp-config.php file (located in the WordPress root directory):
define(‘ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS’, true);
Alternatively, you may use a plugin called Remove Unrestricted Uploads. Simply install-activate it to enable unfiltered uploads.
However, the given plugin has certain limitations and does not always work. In-case, if it doesn’t work for your specific file-type then try another plugin called Enhanced Media Library.
Install-activate it and then visit Settings -> MIME Types -> Media page.
See whether your desired file-type is listed or not. If it is not listed, click the ‘Add New MIME Type’ button and type the extension details.
In-case, if you don’t know the name and the label of your file-type extension, you can easily find it from here.
Next, tick the ‘Allow Upload’ box for the new MIME type you have added and save your changes.
This is WordPress. Everyone is free for using this free software as free press. You may freely use this to protest against or support anything anywhere. This could be done very peacefully without rioting around on roads, interrupting the public life or defying the due process.
Sangkrit insists upon all that. Since anyone interrupting the public life, rioting on the road or defying the due process is actually a public enemy. Such a miscreant deserves getting arrested or shot dead by the police upon the very first sight for ascertaining a very peaceful public life.
Moreover you must be domaining instead of indulging into any kind of unpaid labor at a domain not registered in your name from where you could get blocked or trashed whenever the real domainer likes doing so. Considering that too you must be domaining to wordpress to protect all your words.
WordPress Ecommerce allows anyone to sell anything online from anywhere. Use it because it’s a fast and easiest way to create an eCommerce website that you and your customers will love. It is packed with all necessary online selling features. You simply start by registering your domain name, followed by subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce and its step-by-step tour will guide you to the admin panel of your website.
To select a design for your website all you will need to do is simply type in your idea or industry and the WordPress theme installer will pull up a number of professionally designed, ready-to-launch website themes, and you can activate the one specific to your business niche. You can design pages yourself, post articles to reach out to new prospects every day. You can manage your business activities, stocks and workers remotely, you can implement from online appointment scheduling to a full-blown eCommerce system, WordPresss Ecommerce is powerful enough to handle your business’ needs today and as you grow.
At the same time, you can also start up as a people’s personal outlet and help other businesses come online. You can do this by using Managed WordPress and WordPress Ecommerce or by subscribing bigger options of Managed WordPress such as WordPress Developer and WordPress Pro especially to design websites for others, you should introduce more people to this business and include them in your team to easily expand your business and make more profit online from your home.
Managed WordPress at SANGKRIT.net provides you specially packaged WordPress options to help you make websites for yourself and others. WordPress is a web-publishing platform that is not only easy but recognized the world over as a standard in website development. You cannot compare the aesthetics, web standard, and usability of WordPress with any other software in its field. WordPress is free software that empowers you to manage everything from a small personal blog to a large commercial website or eCommerce store with thousands of products. Millions of websites trust their online presence to WordPress and with Managed WordPress, you can, too.
Not sure how to start a blog, design a website, or set up an eCommerce selling platform using WordPress? Don’t worry! Your Managed WordPress subscription is seamlessly connected to the latest version of WordPress, so all you need to do is log in and you can start creating a website directly from your control panel.
Managed WordPress is the perfect solution for anyone who wants the power and simplicity of WordPress without the hassle of technical adjustments. WordPress Developer and WordPress Pro help you to host multiple websites of your clients with bigger and better traffic management solutions. At the same time, you can customize and run each website differently, you can make and sell blogs, eCommerce, or other kinds of the website separately to your clients.
There are several ways to log in to your WordPress website. You may directly go to SANGKRIT.net, log in to “My Account” and choose Managed WordPress type from your list of products. This method also works when you forget your website’s password as you can access the admin panel of your website by following this method and then you can change the password from there.
The second method is by typing http://yourdomain/wp-admin, where yourdomain is your domain name with extension (such as .com, .net, .org, etc) suffixed with /wp-admin. The complete URL will take you directly to the admin login screen of your website.
And if you ever have questions, you may avail the 24×7 online support via phone or email, the contact details are available on the admin panel of your SANGKRIT.net account, the experts will guide you through creating, updating or even promoting your website or blog.
WordPress Ecommerce provides you all the important options you need to live manage your stock and inventory. You can run your eCommerce website to sell your products online and at the same time, you can control your stock from anywhere.
Managing the product stock status in a store is something that store owners spend a lot of time doing. Products keep coming in, getting purchased, going out of the stock, and needing to be re-status. WordPress Ecommerce aims at making stock management less time-consuming, easier, and automatic.
Managing stock on your website also helps your customers to buy things that are there in stock without end up paying for products that are actually not available. With WordPress Ecommerce, you can effectively keep all records and statistics of selling goods and services. You can manage your inventory and it is much easier than maintaining an offline record of your products.
To start selling anything online, you simply need to register your domain name and then subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce, complete the on-screen tour and you will be taken to the admin panel of your website from where you can add products.
Manage Stock Options
To manage your stock and inventory, navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Products -> Inventory, and enable the stock management. You will have the following options.
Enable Stock Management – Inventory for physical products is auto-managed. You enter quantity, and WordPres Ecommerce subtracts items as sales are made, displaying: Stock, Out of Stock, or On Backorder.
Disable Stock Management – When the option is ticked to disable, the inventory and status for physical products must be entered manually. You may still enable stock management on a per-product level if desired.
Apart from the above two main options, there are some more settings such as you can hold products on unpaid orders for any number of minutes. When the limit is reached, the pending order is canceled. You may leave it blank to disable.
You can enable or disable low stock as well as out of stock notifications by adding notification recipient email and setting a number for low stock and out of stock threshold. You can also set your stock display format such as you can make your customers know the low stock availability by displaying messages like – only 2 are left in stock etc on products having a very low stock.
Managing Products With Stock & Inventory
The add new and edit product screen provides you an inventory section that allows you to manage stock for the product individually and define whether to allow backorders and more. It enables you to sell products and allow customers to add them to the cart to buy.
Having stock management enabled, you simply need to enter the stock quantity, and WordPress Ecommerce auto-manages inventory and auto-updates the stock status.
And if the stock management is disabled, you are responsible for updating your stock status on your own.
WordPress Ecommerce allows you to sell anything online from anywhere. You can sell single or multiple video files as a product from within your WordPress Ecommerce website by following a few easy steps.
The basic process of selling videos is simple. All you have to do is upload video files somewhere online such as your SANGKRIT.net dedicated server, cloud server, or hosting, or simply in your WordPress Media Library, the second step is to create new product and mark them as virtual and downloadable. Third, paste the URL or URLs of video files within that product using the Product Data meta box, and publish your product.
If you are not familiar with WordPress Ecommerce then keep reading to go through these three steps in detail.
Step-1 Make Your Website
The first step is to register your domain name, then subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce and the automated tour will help you to connect your domain to your website and your website will be up online in minutes.
Step-2 Upload Your Video Files
Files can be uploaded before or at the time of publishing video products on your WordPress Ecommerce website. To upload files you simply need to visit your admin area dashboard Media -> Add New page and upload your video files individually or in bulk. You will need the URL of each file while publishing your new video product, the URL can be obtained by clicking the uploaded media file and copying the link from the right section showing ‘Copy Link’ field.
Step-3 Add Video As Products
Now start adding your digital products i.e. your videos for online selling. Navigate to Products -> Add New page, Enter title, descriptions, select featured image, etc then scroll down to Product Data meta box and tick ‘Virtual’ & ‘Downloadable’ options.
SKU is no more an issue, make sure to enter the price of the product and the upload the files you want to sell, the file upload option is present just below the price field on ‘Product Data’ meta box. Finally, click the ‘Publish’ button to publish your videos for online selling on your website.
WordPress Ecommerce allows anyone to sell anything online from anywhere. It allows you to sell both physical and digital products such as books, videos, audios, software ZIPs, documents, or anything else. For selling anything digital or virtual, there are some common settings that need to be set beforehand.
These settings include protecting your uploads directory, disabling the shipping method, enabling WordPress Ecommerce to sell to all countries, configuring download settings, and enabling a global payment and checkout method.
Protecting File Uploads
If you are selling digital goods then you must protect the uploads directory to stop accidental theft of your digital files. WordPress Ecommerce already provides you .htaccess file to protect your wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads. Additionally, you can make use of a plugin to protect your WordPress Uploads Directory.
Disable The Shipping Option
Since you are selling digital goods and files so you no more need a shipping option on your website.
Navigate to the Shipping tab on WooCommerce -> Settings page and make sure that the ‘Enable Shipping’ option is unchecked.
Enable Selling To All Countries
Shipping is no more a task for you so navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings page and select option to sell your products to all countries. Next, select your currency for what you want to be selling in.
Select File Download Method
On WooCommerce -> Settings page, open Products tab and click Downloadable Products to select the File Download Method and Force Downloads. You may also set Access Restrictions based on your preferences such as enabling access to downloadable products after payment or require customers to log in for accessing downloads.
Checkout & Payment
Click Checkout tab and select a payment option, you can enable PayPal and then add your PayPal email to start accepting digital payments or you may use some other payment options as per your requirement. For any other digital payment option, you will need to subscribe to that payment gateway service and then install its plugin to set it up on your WordPress Ecommerce website.
If you don’t know much about third-party payment gateway services then you may either research it on Google or explore new digital payment plugins from Plugins -> Add New section accessible from your website’s admin panel.
One thing you need to make sure while using any digital payment method is that it should work globally for all countries or else you can add multiple payment gateways both local and global to cover all parts of the world. WordPress Ecommerce already includes PayPal Payment Gateway and you can simply use that as it works in most of the countries.
Start Selling Products Globally
Now you may add your digital products for online selling. Navigate to Products -> Add New page, Enter title, descriptions, select featured image, etc then scroll down to Product Data meta box and tick ‘Virtual’ & ‘Downloadable’ options, SKU is no more an issue but make sure to enter the price of the product and the upload the files you want to sell, the file upload option is present just below the price field on ‘Product Data’ meta box.
Finally, click the ‘Publish’ button to publish your digital product for online selling on your website.
Protecting media uploads and other files becomes important when you start selling digital content on your WordPress Ecommerce website. All media files on your WordPress site including the e-commerce uploads are located in uploads directory present inside wp-content directory which is located in your website’s root directory i.e. the main directory of your WordPress site installation.
You can protect this directory by installing-activating a plugin called Protect Uploads. Once the plugin is activated, simply navigate to your dashboard’s Media -> Protect Uploads page to see if the plugin is protecting your directory.
How It Works?
Anybody who wants to access your media files could list it by going to your-domain/wp-content/uploads from his web-browser. This plugin will hide the content by adding an index.php file on the root of your uploads directory or by setting a .htaccess which will return a 403 forbidden access error.
Depending on your server configuration, the .htaccess option could be disabled from the plugin settings page.
You can start podcasting from your home using your Managed WordPress site. Podcasts are pre-recorded audio episodes that may contain speeches, songs, tutorials, stories, books, or anything audible. These programs can be published or scheduled on a specific day and time or can be played on-demand from your WordPress site.
You can easily start your own podcasting website with Managed WordPress and run audio shows from your home using your smartphone or a podcasting microphone. Making your own website for building and managing a schedule for your online audio episodes is easier than you think. You can set up the website yourself, manage podcasts, host episodes of your audio files, and enable your users to easily subscribe to them from your website or via iTunes or Google Podcasts.
Step-1 Make Your Website
The first step is to register your domain name, then subscribe to Managed WordPress and the automated tour will help you to connect your domain to your website and your website will be up online in minutes.
Step-2 Record Your Episodes
To record your episodes, you may use your smartphone for recording plain audio files and if you want some mixing with background music, audio effects, etc then make use of Audacity, a free GPL licensed software that allows you to record audio with multiple options for cut, copy, splice, and mixing sounds together. You can also add various effects and change the speed or pitch of your recording.
Once your audio files are ready, you can publish them up on your WordPress website. There are many free plugins that offer you easy hosting and publishing of podcasts from within your WordPress website. One such plugin is PowerPress Podcasting, simply install-activate it, and then navigate to the PowerPress menu visible on your WordPress admin panel. This will take you to the plugin’s admin page.
Follow the connection steps mentioned on the page and fill out the necessary information. You may also connect your podcast to Google Podcasts or iTunes, the option is present on the settings page. It provides you specific fields for podcast details such as intro, category, and artwork, etc. These details are used in your podcast’s RSS feed, and the iTunes and Google Podcasts will also use the same information for placing your podcast in their directory. The Podcast RSS URL of your website which you can submit to Google Podcasts and iTunes is yourexample.com/feed/podcast (make sure to replace example.com with your own domain name).
Step-3 Upload Your Audio Files
Files can be uploaded before or at the time of publishing podcasts on your WordPress website. To upload files you simply need to visit your admin area dashboard Media -> Add New page and upload your audio files individually or in bulk. You will need the URL of each file while publishing your new podcast, the URL can be obtained by clicking the uploaded media file and copying the link from the right section showing ‘Copy Link’ field. The same can be done from Add New post page while publishing a new podcast, you simply need to click Add File button and do the same from the Media Library Thickbox.
Step-4 Publish Your Podcasts
Visit your website’s admin area dashboard and navigate to Posts -> Add New (same as you do while publishing any new blog post) just make sure to create a separate category for your podcasts to make navigation easier for yourself and your visitors.
Title your blog post, write a description of your podcast episode, scroll down and you will notice the ‘Podcast Episode’ meta box. Here, you will need to paste your uploaded media file URL and then click the verify button.
Use the shortcode [powerpress] to place the player exactly where you want it into your post content. The plugin also provides you a playlist player shortcode [powerpress_playlist] that includes a playlist of your latest podcast episodes. Finally, publish your post and your podcast episode will go live. Follow the same steps for publishing new audio episodes.
Apart from the books and media files, you can also sell posts, pages, and custom post types on your WordPress website. To start selling posts and other premium content online, you simply need to register your domain name and subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce or if in case you are already active in blogging with WordPress then first install-activate the WooCommerce plugin on your website followed by Pay For Post plugin.
Pay For Post with WooCommerce is a free plugin that allows you to sell posts, pages, and custom post types on your WordPress Ecommerce website in three simple steps.
What It Does?
The free version of this plugin enables you to create premium posts, pages, and custom post types, this premium content can only be viewed after purchase. It gives you the ability to protect a single post or multiple posts as a single product or to protect single posts with multiple products.
How It Works?
When someone clicks a premium post, a restriction message is displayed asking the user to first purchase the content by clicking the displayed ‘Add To Cart’ button and complete the checkout process.
You can grant access to users for a limited time and set custom pricing on any post or page on a website. You can also use subscription patters for granting access to multiple posts for a specified time.
The premium content on your website displays a global restricted content message which can be customized from the admin panel of your website. The premium version of this plugin offers you some additional functionalities such as the listing of purchased content on order receipt and order confirmation page, a tab on the account page to list out all purchased content, and more restriction options.
Apart from this, the plugin also offers you two simple shortcodes (listed on this plugin’s page) to display posts and pages you have made available for purchase. It uses native WooCommerce functionality to ensure future compatibility.
The online demand for products is increasing, surpassing an earlier peak of eCommerce businesses worldwide. The impact of the corona crisis has changed consumer behavior and has also created challenges to online selling which no one has imagined before.
If your products frequently go out of stock then you should also maintain a waitlist for customers to keep them connected with your online shopping website.
WordPress Ecommerce provides you everything you need to start selling online. By installing and activating a plugin called Waitlist Woocommerce ( Back in stock notifier ) you can easily track demand for out-of-stock items, ensuring your customers feel informed, and therefore more likely to buy from your website. Once the plugin is activated you can select options from its settings page on your website’s admin panel.
The plugin enables your customers to add their email and product demand using a simple popup form visible on out of stock product pages so that they can be notified when the items they were looking for are back in stock. It sends an email to specific customers as soon as the product arrives back in your stock.
