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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 Writing More Posts Brings More Traffic To Your Website?

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Creating more content is the most common SEO advice, search engine crawlers more frequently visits the website that posts regularly and according to various researches, it has been found that website that create more content gets more than 400% increase in their traffic.

When more posts are published on your blog, more pathways are opened for your target audience to reach you and with good internal linking and references to other posts you can increase the pages views and time on site.

Know The Free Channels That Give Traffic To Your Blog Post

  1. You get traffic from Search Engines when you post quality content
  2. You get traffic from social media when you share your posts on your page as well as the groups of your niche
  3. You get traffic from micro-blogging sites such as Twitter when you use appropriate hashtags
  4. You get traffic from posts on other websites when you post useful comments
  5. You get traffic from other websites when you review or mention their services or publish how-to guides for their apps and products
  6. You get traffic when you maintain & use your Email Marketing List
  7. You get traffic when you post consistently and make a following i.e. the people who directly visits your website

You will have to remember that you can attract visitors and retain them only by creating valuable content. Understand your target audience, their needs and problems, and then address them consistently with your blog posts to establish your domain as a reliable source of information.

Writing and publishing more blog posts on your website requires planning and consistent effort. You will have to set realistic goals planning how frequently you can post without compromising on the quality of your content. Set achievable goals based on your time. You can plan to post daily or weekly but the effort should be consistent. Choose a consistency that you can follow for a long time.

Make A List Of Possible Post Ideas

Writing down on a topic becomes easy when you have a list of possible post titles. Make use of the following points and then make a list of post titles and consistently add more titles to that list whenever your brain sparks.

  1. Consider your blog niche
  2. Browse the search trends
  3. Analyse your competitors
  4. Find the customer problem points
  5. Understand the needs and pain of the target audience
  6. Encourage your readers to contribute content or ideas
  7. Start searching Google for other blogs that fall in your niche
  8. Repurpose your posts, you can deep-dive in to a specific aspect
  9. Read popular blogs and then think what is missing or what is next
  10. Try Google Keyword Planner to discover popular topics in your niche
  11. Monitor social media platforms and communities related to your niche

Other ways to gather post ideas may come from keyword research, browsing hashtags on Twitter, following topics on social media, and reading forums, etc.

For instance, If blogging is your niche, you will find many topics by browsing WordPress forums to see what problems users are facing and then you can offer a better and well-elaborated solution in your new post.

Never compromise with the quality. Focus on creating valuable, informative, and engaging content that resonates with your target audience. By using a combination of these strategies, you can consistently generate new post ideas and keep up firing new posts everyday.

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Optimizing Your Local Business Website For ‘Near Me’ Google Search

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‘Near Me’ searches are offered by Google and other search engines that serves the customer while they look up for locally offered products and services in their specific area.

There are businesses that have a local need, businesses like event organisers, restaurants, hotels, healthcare, yoga classes, cinema halls, banks, local stores, grocery points, etc serves the local customers. So making and optimising the website for local searches is beneficial for local businesses.

There are several ways to get your business visible in the local searches. But this lesson is about making your business website visible in ‘near me’ searches as that not only helps you to get new customers but also opens up a way to make them subscribe to your website, build a closer connection and yes it brings traffic as well as passive income from ads too.

Build A Mobile Friendly Website

The first thing you need to ensure is you have a responsive website that is hundred percent mobile friendly as most of the ‘near me’ searches are made on the smartphones.

You can easily build a mobile friendly website in your budget yourself simply by registering your domain name and then subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan.

Once you own a domain and Managed WordPress, its automated process will let you build your mobile friendly business website in minutes.

Know How Your Customers Search Google

Before you start the optimisation of your website, you need to ask yourself a few questions on how your prospective customers would be searching Google to find a product or service near them.

These questions could be:

  • Ok Google, Where the nearest pharmacy store?
  • Ok Google, Suggest best event and party organisers near me?
  • Ok Google, Where do I find some fresh grocery in so and so area?
  • Ok Google, What are the best restaurants in this area?
  • Ok Google, Where do I find good dentist in this area?

By knowing how you customers search for the local businesses you would be able to create targeted content on your website.

Use Schema Markup For Enhanced Search Presentation

Schema is a markup that offers enhanced presentation of your website pages and products in the search engine results page by including structured data, rich snippets, and images. You can easily implement it on your WordPress site by using Schema plugin.

Navigate to your admin area dashboard Plugins -> Add New page to find and install Schema plugin on your website. Once installed, you can easily manage its options from your admin area dashboard Schema -> Settings page. The plugin is easy to set and forget with minimal settings and it also offers you a quick configuration wizard.

Create Content With Targeted Keywords

The pages, posts, and products you use to bring local customers should have locally targeted words in the content such as name of the place, your business name, the location, the landmarks, the neighbourhoods, and the city of your business, etc.

You may include target keywords in the title and meta-tags. You may use a SEO plugin such as Yoast SEO, use ALT tags on the images you place and assign relevant tags and categories while creating posts. These can be managed from the edit screen of posts and pages on your WordPress site.

Create important pages with accurate information about your business with relevant details of opening and closing hours, etc. If you have multiple outlets then create multiple pages for them or you may also create separate sites over sub-domains such as subdomain.yourdomain.com, each for one specific outlet.

This all can be easily done with help from the online support team accessible from your Sangkrit.net account.

Start Blogging Your Business

Consistent blogging is the best key to top the search engine ranking, ‘near me’ searches are no different.

So visit your admin area dashboard Posts -> Add New page and start blogging about your business, use relevant tags covering the name and the location of your business outlet and start posting articles, reviews, offers about your products and services.

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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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Why You Really Need To Update Old Blog Posts & Dates?

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The post date of every blog is shown in the Google search result page. There are mainly two reasons why you must keep your old blog posts and their dates updated:

  1. Google prefers fresh content
  2. People prefer fresh content

That means even if Google shows one result with a very old date and another one with a new date, people are more likely to ignore the old post and click on the post that has been posted recently.

Google Freshness Algorithm states that people like content that is both relevant and recent but remember that not all website content needs to be updated and date changed, there is content that stays evergreen and we have discussed about it earlier in this lesson.

What Happens When You Don’t Update Your Blog Content?

Sometimes a well written and researched article needs some update to stay relevant for the search engines.

When you don’t update your old content, it starts slipping down on search engine results pages, its ranking start to decline and the traffic it was brining before begins to drop.

This happens mainly because of two reasons:

  1. Some other website has published a better version of your post which is more informative and new, so now Google prefers that.
  2. People are clicking on the new results because the date of your article is quite old.

This problem can be prevented by updating your posts and adding new important information, going in depth, removing or updating the text that has gone irrelevant with time, and then re-publishing the post.

How To Update Old Content & Dates In WordPress?

It is better to start with popular posts that you have posted years ago and then cover your worst performing articles. Managed WordPress users can easily do that from their admin panel or contact support team to get helped.

For editing any old post, you simply need to follow these steps:

  1. Open the post for editing
  2. Check if there is anything that has gone outdated
  3. Update that content
  4. Read your post
  5. Click ‘Save as Draft’ button
  6. Its asks for your conformation
  7. Confirm to un-publish the post and save it as draft
  8. Move to the right sidebar, under ‘Post’ section (left to the block section)
  9. Next to ‘Publish’ option you will see the publishing date
  10. Click that date and then select ‘Immediately’ option
  11. Now click the ‘Publish’ button

This will republish the post without changing its permalink. The permalink of the post is visible on the right sidebar of the post editing page, you can confirm it from there.

When you re-publish the post, it comes back to the latest feed of your website, become more visible to search spiders, and automatically goes to your blog subscribers, as well as social channels (if connected). Thus, it brings new traffic and becomes more visible on the search.

If you own a blog with evergreen content then you may also update post dates in bulk but only if your content is evergreen, otherwise don’t do that.

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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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Make Use Of Google Freshness Algorithm To Rank Higher On Search

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There is a lot of content out there that explains Google’s freshness algorithm and all is complicated. So, in this lesson, we will make you easily understand what exactly Google Freshness Algorithm is and how you can use it to increase your website traffic by ranking higher on search engine results pages.

What Bloggers Should Know About Google Freshness Algorithm?

One thing that you should know about Google Freshness Algorithm is that it states people want search results that are both relevant and recent.

For instance, if somebody is searching for ‘How to write a blog post in WordPress?’, most probably he is searching to write a blog post on the latest WordPress version and not years old version that now nobody uses.

Google Prefers Fresh Content

Google has stated that the change has already impacted about 35% of search queries which means a minimum of one result per page is getting affected and noticeably it has affected approximately 6% to 10% of search queries.

Get Benefitted From Google Freshness Algorithm

Bloggers should understand that Google is now ranking newer blog posts higher than older posts. There is no problem with poetry, literature, and stories blogs but if you are blogging in a niche such as technology, etc then you must keep your blog posts updated and reposted.

Updating Old Blog Posts Is The Solution

You can get benefitted from Google Freshness Algorithm by updating your old outdated posts and then switching their dates.

Managed WordPress users can easily do this from the post edit screen right below the ‘Post’ block. You simply need to click Publish – ‘Immediately’ link and then change the date of your updated blog post. But first, make sure that the content of your blog post is updated. You may also switch the post to draft, update it and then repost it on your website.

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Why It Matters To Add SSL To Your Website?

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Adding SSL i.e. HTTPS protocol to your website is a critical step in ensuring data security, building user trust, and improving search engine visibility.

You can successfully implement HTTPS and provide a secure browsing experience to your website visitors, by subscribing to a SSL plan here. Enabling HTTPS i.e. HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure to your website is important for several reasons.

SSL Is Important For Data Security

An SSL certificate will encrypt the communication between a user’s browser and your website, ensuring that sensitive data such as login credentials, credit card information, and personal details remain secure and protected from unauthorized access or interception. It helps prevent data breaches, identity theft, and tampering with information in transit.

SSL Builds The Trust

It provides a visual indicator on the address bar of your website that builds visitors’ trust. When a visitor accesses your website, he doesn’t see the browser warning of an insecure or untrusted zone. Instead, he sees the padlock icon called the secure label, and that makes him know that his connection is encrypted and his data is being securely transmitted.

Hence, it builds trust and confidence in your website, especially when your website is handling sensitive information or conducting online transactions.

Search Engine & SEO Benefits

Now dominant search engines, like Google, consider HTTPS as a ranking factor. Websites having an HTTPS connection are more likely to rank higher on search engine results pages compared to non-secure websites. Hence, implementing an HTTPS connection can improve your website’s visibility and organic traffic from the search.

How To Add SSL To Your Website?

You simply need to subscribe to a general SSL plan or Managed SSL Service and the automated process will guide you in doing that. The Dedicated Server, VPS, Managed WordPress, and certain web hosting users can take benefit from free SSL service.

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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.

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How To Auto Configure SSL In WordPress Website?

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SSL stands for Secured Socket Layer. When configured it can be seen in the address bar of your website as an HTTPS lock icon instead of HTTP which generally works on websites having no SSL certificate.

The main work of an SSL certificate is to implement encryption to protect sensitive information such as log-in details, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data from unauthorized people and bots.

Apart from this, it has now become an SEO and internet ranking factor so now it positively impacts the website’s visibility on search engines. All popular web browsers now show a warning of an insecure zone on websites that don’t use SSL certificates.

Anyone can subscribe to an SSL certificate plan such as Standard SSL and Managed SSL for adding an SSL to their website. Free Auto-SSL service is also available for the VPS and Dedicated Server users at Sangkrit.net.

This lesson will guide you on how you can auto-configure SSL on your WordPress Website. Because even when you subscribe and install SSL on your website’s hosting, common issues such as partial encryption, and mixed content errors arise, and the website doesn’t get redirected to HTTPS. As a result, both HTTP and HTTPS modes remain active for the users, which is not at all good.

How To Automatically Configure Your Website To Use HTTPS?

You simply need to log in to your WordPress site and navigate to Plugins -> Add New page and then search for the Really Simple SSL plugin. Install and activate the plugin, upon activation the plugin will automatically configure your website to use SSL to its fullest potential. It takes your website from HTTP to HTTPS in just one click.

Apart from this it also offers features to keep track of your server’s health, and tweak configuration to keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling its weaknesses. It keeps you notified when plugins, themes or core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action.

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How To Enable Weight-Based Shipping Charges On WordPress Ecommerce?

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You can calculate shipping costs based on the weight of orders made by the customer on your WordPress Ecommerce website. WordPress Ecommerce is a packaged service that allows anyone to start his eCommerce shop simply by registering his domain name and then subscribing to the WordPress Ecommerce plan.

For enabling the weight-based shipping cost feature you need to log in to your WordPress Ecommerce website and then navigate to Plugins -> Add New page. Search for WooCommerce Weight Based Shipping plugin. Install and activate it, upon activation the plugin will allow you to add multiple rules for shipping based on various conditions such as:

  • Order Weight, Subtotal, & Destination: You can easily create multiple shipping rules as required for various order destinations, weights, and subtotal ranges. 
  • Flexible Price Calculation: On the basis of the cart’s weight, a rule can be set to expose a constant or a progressive price.
  • Conditional Free Shipping: You can also set up a free shipping threshold. 
  • Shipping Classes Support: For every shipping class, you can override the way the shipping price is calculated.

All these options can be easily managed from WooCommerce -> Settings page, under the ‘Shipping’ tab.

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How Blogging Makes Your Business Visible On Google Search?

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Whether you own a multinational corporation or a small business or even a local shop, getting visible on search always benefits you because when you deal locally, local searchers will find your business and when you deal globally, global searchers will find your business.

Blogging will help you make your business visible on Google and other search engines and that is very advantageous for all sorts of businesses. Let us see how it happens.

Start Blogging Your Business

When you register your domain name and subscribe to a Managed WordPress plan to start blogging your business and you start making posts on topics specific to your business niche, Google and other search engine crawlers visit your website to discover and index new content.

By making and following a consistent blogging schedule, you provide search engines with fresh material to index. Thus, increasing the chances of your website being displayed in relevant search results.

People Will Find You On Search

When a user enters a query or keyword into the Google search bar, the search engine’s algorithms analyze the query and provide a list of relevant search results, which may include your post link too. But that is not that easy sometimes whereas many times it happens without an effort.

Improve Your Visibility On Google

There are various factors that any search engine considers while determining the authority and relevance of a website. By consistently blogging and creating valuable content, you can demonstrate expertise and contribute to your website’s overall authority within your industry or niche. This can positively impact your visibility on Google and improve your rankings on its results page.

Make Searchers Interested In Your Content

There’s a lot of competition on staying on top of search engine results pages but that is nothing to worry about, Do you know why? If your blog post targets niche or specific queries within your industry, it may have a higher chance of appearing in search results for those specific queries. While the search volume for such queries might be lower, the targeted audience that finds your post is likely to be more interested and engaged.

So, to get visible on Google, all you need to do is, register your domain name, subscribe to a Managed WordPress plan, and very seriously start blogging your business.

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How To Hide Date From WordPress Posts?

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You can remove the date from posts and pages of your WordPress Website and you can do this both globally i.e. side wide or on a per-post basis.

“If you don’t have a WordPress site, you can make one easily by registering your domain name and subscribing to a Managed WordPress plan.“

There are various themes that offer you the option to disable the date. But in this lesson, you will see how you can do that even if your theme doesn’t provide you the option and even if you don’t know how to hide date stamps via CSS or PHP.

How To Remove Date From All WordPress Posts?

You simply need to follow these steps:

  1. Visit Plugins -> Add New page on your admin area dashboard
  2. Search and install the plugin WP Meta and Date Remover plugin
  3. Activate the plugin, that’s all

Upon activation, the plugin automatically removes dates from all posts and pages of your website.

How To Remove Date From Selective WordPress Posts?

In case you don’t want to remove the date from every post instead you want to do that manually for selective posts then that can also be done.

  1. Visit Settings -> WP Meta and Date Page,
  2. Tick the first option i.e. individual post option
  3. Save your changes

This will make the plugin work on a per-post-basis and you would be able to disable the author meta and post date from the post edit screen under publishing options.