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Creating a WooCommerce Store on the Cloud in 10 Minutes
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By Shaumik Daityari,
An eCommerce store enables businesses to reach a larger market. In this tutorial, we explain how you can create an eCommerce store with WooCommerce.
10 Popular Plugins to Extend or Enhance Your WordPress Site
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
WordPress plugins offer easy ways to extend WordPress functionality. There are hundreds on the market. But which ones should you use?
Now You Can Build Design-Oriented Pop-ups Straight from Elementor
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
You either hate pop-ups, or you love them. And if you say you love them, you're probably lying.
Visual Composer: The Brain-Twisting Story of the Name Change
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
If you have been a Visual Composer user for some time, you have witnessed some changes happening that might have been a little bit confusing.
An Introductory Guide to Managing WordPress with WP-CLI
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By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov introduces WP-CLI, a command-line interface for managing a WordPress site (as opposed to working through the default admin interface), covering its main commands and also introducing some of its third-party packages.
Using the WordPress Settings API to Build a Custom Admin Page
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By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov introduces the WordPress Settings API, and showing how to create a WordPress administration page to demonstrate the use of this API. In this article, he shows how to wrap this functionality into a plugin, though it can also be a part of a WordPress theme.
Building a WordPress Plugin with Vue
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By Ahmed Bouchefra,
Ahmed Bouchefra shows how to create a WordPress plugin that makes use of the Vue.js library, creating a shortcode that can be used to display a Vue component in posts and pages that fetches and displays the latest posts every five seconds.
A Beginner’s Guide to Selling Digital Goods with WordPress
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By Sufyan bin Uzayr,
Sufyan bin Uzayr introuces Easy Digital Downloads, a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to accept payment for digital products and provide immediate download links to customers.
Creating a WordPress Ecommerce Store with WooCommerce
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By Sufyan bin Uzayr,
Sufyan bin Uzayr explains how to sell physical goods on a WordPress site with the help of the WooCommerce plugin, covering installation, settings, and how and where to choose the perfect theme.
How to Translate WordPress Websites Using the Weglot Plugin
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By John Hughes,
Translating your site into multiple languages might seem like an impossible goal, but thanks to the Weglot Translate plugin, you can quickly create a site that reaps all the benefits of catering to non-native speakers, but without the time-consumption and hassle.
Create a Dynamic Widget in WordPress in Ten Minutes
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By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik Daityari walks through the simple steps of creating your own WordPress Widget via a plugin, even if you don't have a lot of experience with WordPress or writing code.
3 Ways to Back Up and Restore Databases in WordPress
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By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik Daityari looks at the basic functionality of the WordPress database and the importance of backing up your database, exploring three ways of doing this — via a plugin that helps you in backup, via PhpMyAdmin, and through the command line.
Modern WordPress Plugins with the Gutenberg Migration Guide
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By Tom Rankin,
The new Gutenberg editor is slowly becoming a powerful method for creating WordPress layouts, which is great news for both end users and developers. The Gutenberg Migration Guide is an excellent resource for those needing to adapt their projects quickly.
An Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development
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By Simon Codrington,
Simon Codrington covers the basics of what you need to know about building your own WordPress plugins and best practices for WordPress plugin development.
Lazy Loading for WordPress: How to Add It to Your Website
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By Nick Schäferhoff,
Lazy load is another tool in your toolbox to improve page loading speed. The technique decreases page weight and HTTP requests, allowing visitors to see their desired page more quickly. Nick Schäferhoff explains how lazy loading works, lists tools you can use to set it up, and explains what you can use it for.
Getting Ahead of Gutenberg
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By Janna Hilferty,
One of the biggest changes to WordPress ever is coming soon. Are you ready? How can you prepare? Why is WordPress making this change anyway? These questions and many more have been flying around the WordPress space for nearly a year since the new Gutenberg editor was announced by Matt Mullenweg.
5 Top Development Tools that Will Help You Do More in Less Time
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
Here are 5 great tools and services to make your life as a developer a lot more productive. Bonus content: 3 tips to get your developer skills to the next level.
How Many of These Essential WordPress Tools & Services Are You Using?
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
Ten of the top WordPress tools and services to supercharge your WordPress website and take it to the next level. From page builders and dynamic tables to website management and marketing tools, there's everything you need for a strong web presence.
Amelia: The Next-level WordPress Booking Plugin
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
Simplify the booking process while making it reliable and error-free with Amelia.
Check Out the #1 WordPress Page Builder
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
Finding just the right WordPress website builder takes time. Your search will be over once you check out Elementor.
Google AMP & WordPress: Everything You Need to Know
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By Ryan Gould,
To compete in the mobile search ranking arena, your WordPress site needs to support Google AMP. Here's how.
How to Ship & Validate New Projects Fast
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By Adrian Try,
Adrian Try takes you through how to launch and validate your new business idea or project quickly, even if you're not a coder.
wpDataTables: The Best Plugin for Tables & Charts in WordPress
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By SitePoint Sponsors,
Turn huge amounts of data into comprehensible charts and graphs easily with wpDataTables.
How to Customize WooCommerce Product Pages
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By Muhammad Owais Alam,
Have you ever wanted to customize WooCommerce product pages to make them really fit your site? Take a look here to find out how!
Learn Plugin Development with a Bulk Category Creator
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By Vishnu Ajit,
Do you want to learn plugin development for WordPress? This post takes you through developing a simple mass category creator plugin as a tutorial!
6 of the Best Free Contact Form Plugins for WordPress
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By Tahir Taous,
Forms are essential for most websites. In this article we cover the most popular, regularly updated and free contact form plugins for WordPress available.
6 Essential WordPress Plugins for Solopreneurs
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By Jacob McMillen,
Jacob McMillen looks at six plugins that help solo entrepreneurs, or solopreneurs, automate more of their workflow.
How to Backup Your WordPress Site
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By Craig Buckler,
Few people care about backups until they lose everything and catastrophic WordPress failure is guaranteed! Craig discusses numerous backup options.
5 Ways to Use WordPress to Provide Exceptional Customer Support
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By Adrian Try,
Every successful business provides exceptional customer support. In this guide, Adrian Try lists five ways you can use WordPress to support your customers.
How to Take Incremental Backups in WordPress
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By Maedah Batool,
Are you still manually backing up your WordPress site? Take a look at these two plugins to begin taking incremental backups quickly and easily!