The lazy load image functionality has been added to the WordPress core. Hence, it works automatically all over your website and by default, there are no options given to disable it.
This lesson guides you on how you can turn it off on your website in case you don’t need it. All you have to do is install-activate the new WordPress plugin called Lazy Load Disable. Once activated, the plugin simply turns off the lazy load on your website.
There are no options to turn on or off lazy load functionality so in case you want lazy loading to be back, you simply need to deactivate the plugin and the lazy loading feature will start to work as before on your website.
WordPress has given a new publishing experience by introducing the block editor. Blocks work as the component to add customized content inside a post or page on your website. This lesson guides you on how you can work on some WordPress blocks without publishing them.
While working on a live post or page, you can continue to work on any block in the backend, without making it live for the public view, until and unless you are done with your editing work.
Hide Block is the new WordPress plugin that lets you hide blocks from the front end of your website. Simply install-activate it.
Once activated, the plugin will automatically add the ‘Hide Block’ option (below the ‘Advanced’ tab) to the block editor section. It shows up on the side of your screen while you edit a block on your edit post screen.
The plugin works for the posts, pages, and all post types, wherever the block editor is active.
By applying photo effects you can give a new artistic look to images you use in your WordPress posts and produce an enhanced look on your website.
You can do it easily by using the new WordPress plugin called Image Effects. It enables you to add images to your content and apply different effects over them.
Simply start by installing-activating it on your WordPress site and then on your post editor click the ‘Add Block’ button (that small plus icon). This will open the default block editor where you will notice the ‘Image Effects’ option added by this plugin.
Click that ‘Image Effects’ icon, select the image, set your effects and insert it in your post. It is that simple.
It offers you effects for setting the image brightness, blur, contrast, grayscale, hue, and inverts option, etc. For the images, you want to insert simply without giving any effects, just use the default ‘Image Block’ option on your post editor page.
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.
Enter the product name, price, and other information
Now select ‘Monthly Subscription’ as a product type
You can add the ‘Subscription Duration’ on the input field (below the price under the ‘General’ tab of ‘Product Information’)
Finally, save and publish your product
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.
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.
You can add videos to better describe and promote your products at your WordPress Ecommerce store.
WordPress Ecommerce allows anyone to build an online shop himself, without any technical skills. All you have to do is register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce, and then you can manage your website from its admin interface.
This lesson will guide you on how you can add single or multiple videos on any product to its linked featured image or product gallery.
To start you will need to install-activate a WordPress plugin called WPC Product Videos for WooCommerce. Upon activation, open the product you want the video to be added. You can do this while adding a new product also.
The product admin page will show you a newly added field for the video URL, this is next below the featured image section. Simply paste your video URL there and update or publish your product.
The plugin works for YouTube and Vimeo videos or you can upload your own video from your WordPress Media Library and use its URL.
For any further help, comment below or use the helpline number.
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.
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.
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):
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.
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.
Image alt tags are the text that sometimes appears in place of images. It is used to describe your image and make them search-friendly. When you use alt tags on your images, they become search-friendly and are more likely to appear on search results pages to visitors who are searching for them.
Default WordPress functionality allows you to alt tag images after you upload them on your website, all images show a field of title and alternative text where you can tag your images simply by describing them in brief.
The plugin is compatible with Pinterest, WooCommerce, TinyMCE, Page Builder by SiteOrigin, Elementor Page Builder, Gutenberg, Yoast, and provides you manual customization of alt tags other than those used by Yoast or page titles.
More than twenty percent of search queries are made on Google Images so if you are running a photo blog or share more images on your posts then using alt image tags is a critical step that should not be overlooked.
The corona crisis has forced people to shop from home. The demand for the essentials is high as it was ever and the big eCommerce companies are failing to satisfy this demand on time. The reason is that the sellers registered on such eCommerce platforms are cleaning out their shelves in their local area and the delivery slots are going down because of the shortage of delivery boys and active courier services.
So this is the niche that wholesalers can fill by bringing their businesses online to serve both retail businesses and regular customers from their own mobile-optimized eCommerce website.
How To Bring Your Wholesale Business Online?
Bringing your wholesale business online is an easy task which you can do yourself simply by registering your domain name and subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce. The automated process of WordPress Ecommerce takes you to a step-by-step tour to help you set up your eCommerce website in minutes. The website can be used for both wholesale and retail purposes.
How To Serve Wholesale & Regular Customers Both From The Same Website?
Taking your wholesale business online has the same steps as bringing any retail business online and once your website is online you can make use of a plugin called WooCommerce Wholesale Prices to supply specific users with wholesale pricing for their product range. This is very simple, you can control pricing from the product editing page and manage wholesale users from the ‘Users’ section on your admin area dashboard.
Simply install and activate the plugin then navigate to the product you wish to enter wholesale pricing for. If the product you have selected is a simple product, you will find a wholesale price box on its general tab whereas if it is a variable product then each variation will have its own wholesale pricing.
Apart from this, you can change the user role to ‘Wholesale Customer’ for customers you wish to grant wholesale privilege.
Another plugin called Wholesale For WooCommerce Lite provides you the same set of options with the ability to sign-up your customers using a wholesale registration form and then you can assign them “Wholesaler” user role. With this plugin, you can also display the amount they’re saving on your products.
WooCommerce Team also provides you a wholesale addon called Wholesale For WooCommerce but that is a premium plugin.
Now SANGKRIT.net lets you manage your WordPress site with the version-control software called Git. It can now be used with your Managed WordPress account for backups and development.
When a website appears broken, what most website owners do is search the web for a solution, deactivate all plugins by temporarily renaming the plugins folder and then re-activate them one-by-one to check their website for the problem after each reactivation.
When you remove and upload any images being used in several spots on your website, WordPress automatically generates a new ID for them and bounds you select the new one all around.
Other times when you want to rename an image file also leaves you with broken links until you update all your posts and pages using that specific image.
This post provides you an easy solution that lets you replace or rename any image file without breaking any links on your and other websites.
You can either use Website Builder or WordPress to start your website without any coding skills.
Website Builder provides you an automated step-by-step process to bring your website online and all it takes is 5 minutes to set up your WordPress website at SANGKRIT.net.
The official AMP plugin for WordPress enables AMP support but has very limited customization features. Currently, all you can do is change the background color for header, link and enable it for custom post types on your website.
There are some more AMP plugins and add-ons which you can install on your WordPress website in addition to the main AMP plugin to activate more customization options.
The AMP Project is a collaborative effort supported by companies like Google and Twitter to make the web faster. It enables the creation of fast websites and ads that are consistently fast and high-performing across mobile devices and distribution platforms.
For instance – It enables Google AMP Cache to host the content of AMP enabled websites, these cached web pages open instantly when a user taps them from search results.
As for now reading on the web is sometimes slow for some users, this also depends on their geographic location and the speed of internet connection. Hence sometimes content rich pages take several seconds to load despite all efforts taken by webmasters to speed up their websites.
