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5 most popular plugins for Ecommerce site 2018

June 20, 2018

Thanks to Wordrpress, now anyone also can build an ecommerce site for their own. There are so many plugins so you can find the right plugin to solve a particular problem on your site, it’s easy to feel like a kid in a candy store.

In this article, we will show you the 5 of the most popular plugins for creating an ecommerce site. Almost these plugins which have the clean user interface and good user experience so the users can easy to use.

Woocommerce (Free, 4+ milion active installations)

It’s very famous plugin, powers 30% of all online stores. No need to worry if your favourite theme is compatible with Woocommerce. Virtually all the themes need to support Woocommerce, even the theme need to be updated when Woocommerce releases a new version.

Woocommerce is completely free plugin. By defalt, it nearly provides all the basic functions for creating an ecommerce site. But if you are finding more advanced features, maybe you can find out here

Demo on Unidash theme

Easy Digital Downloads (Free, 60,000+ active installations)

As its name would suggest, Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress. Not like Woocommerce, this plugin just provides a complete system for effortlessly selling your digital products (software, documents, photos, ebooks, songs…).

In the free version, Easy Digital Downloads supports 2 payment gateways only: Paypal Standard and Amazon Payments. You can extend this through their extension. If you are curious, visit here to see all extensions.

Demo on Business Hub theme

JigoShop (Free, 56000+ downloads from their site)

 

Jigoshop supports both physical and downloadable products. Jigoshop eCommerce provides you with the features necessary to complete your shop in minutes. They also supply their own theme, in this case, you want an assurance that theme will be worked perfectly with the plugin, you can choose their theme

It also supports the extensions so you feel free extend their shop

If you are not good at imagining, we suggest you visit their site for demo

WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart (Free, 40000+ active installations)

This plugin is a lightweight solution. It allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button for your product on any posts or pages. It also allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post or page or sidebar easily. You will be able to create products by using shortcodes dynamically.

 WP-Ecommerce (Free, 20000+ active installations) 

The plugin supports product uploads, a dashboard for managing orders and inventory, and tax management.

WP eCommerce offers three free payment gateways such as ProPay, PayPal, and WorldPay. Other Payment gateways are available courtesy of extensions. WP-Ecommerce allows making WP eCommerce do anything you can imagine with hundreds of available hooks.

We have suggested you the 5 of most popular plugins for building ecommerce site, hope you can find what you want.

WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips

How to bulk delete thousands posts in WordPress

April 30, 2018

Have you been in a case which requires you to delete a ton of posts? If so, I won’t tell you about WordPress reset plugin because it will sweep out all of your site data, not only posts. There should be another way? Sure, let’s check it out my blog 😉

First, bulk deleting posts by default WordPress function

Currently, WordPress just display 20 posts per page in Dashboards > All Posts, which means you just can remove 20 posts at once. But you can increase this number easily by open Screen Options > Pagination: enter the Number of items per page as you need. Please note that the value must be less than or equal 999. However, I recommend you just enter the number less than or equal 99 to avoid an infinite page loading if your host is not powerful enough. And don’t forget to revert the posts pagination back to 20 when you’re done.

You can process the delete task more quickly, can’t you? Wait for a second, what’s about a thousand posts at one as I said before? Huh, you still need to do it better than that. Don’t be impatient. You will have the answer right now.

Second, using Bulk Delete plugin:

Actually, the plugin not only allows you to delete posts but also pages, attachments, users and meta fields in bulk based on different conditions and filters. In this example, I will focus on how to delete posts. Now, you can download the plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-delete/

Once the plugin is installed and activated, a Bulk WP menu appears on the WordPress Dashboard. In Bulk Delete Posts, there are many conditions for you to chose how do you want to remove your posts:

  • Delete posts by category
  • Delete posts by tag
  • Delete posts by custom taxonomy
  • Delete posts by custom post type
  • Delete posts by url
  • Delete all draft posts
  • Delete all pending posts
  • Delete all private posts
  • Delete all scheduled posts

The plugin performance is excellent comparate to the traditional delete method of WordPress. I deleted more than 2 thousand posts within minutes. Ahh, don’t forget this warning: “Posts deleted once cannot be retrieved back. Use with caution.”

If you still need more than that. Please take a look at these features of Pro Add-on such as:

  • Delete posts by custom field
  • Delete posts by title
  • Delete posts by duplicate title
  • Delete all scheduled posts
  • Delete all posts from trash

Although the Plugin provides comprehensive options and filters to perform the bulk deletion. You even have one more choice to remove posts by using PHP MyAdmin and it’s indeed a high-speed process. However, since deleting posts in the database needs technical skills, it’s just recommended for advanced users & developers.

 

 

WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips

How to show/hide content on specific pages?

April 20, 2018

WordPress provides Conditional Tags to control how a content is displayed on template files base on specific conditions. However, when we need to do this on dynamic content, we cannot use original Conditional Tags PHP code. Don’t worry, WP Conditional Shortcodes plugin will help you to accomplish this.

Download and Install

You can install and active WP Conditional Shortcodes directly in WP Admin Dashboard, or download the plugin package from here.

How to use it?

As you know, WordPress has many conditional tags, but this plugin only supports some basic conditionals tags which comes in shortcode format. Every shortcodes would includes its contents if the condition is true.

Here’s the list of supported shortcodes matches with its conditional.

  • is_single – if showing a single post. Use the optional parameter “ids” to specify specific posts.
  • is_singular – if showing a single post or page.
  • is_page – if showing a page. Use the optional parameter “ids” to specify specific pages.
  • is_home – if showing the blog home.
  • is_front_page – if showing the front page of the site.
  • is_sticky – if the current post or page is ‘sticky’.
  • is_category – if showing a category-based archive. Use the optional parameter “ids” to specify specific categories.
  • is_page – if showing a page.
  • is_tag – if showing a tag-based archive.
  • is_tax – if showing a tag- or category-based archive.
  • is_author – if showing an author-based archive.
  • is_archive – if showing any archive.
  • is_year – if showing a yearly archive.
  • is_month – if showing a monthly archive.
  • is_day – if showing a daily archive.
  • is_time – if showing an hourly or shorter archive.
  • is_feed – if generating a feed.
  • is_search – if showing search results.
  • comments_open – if comments are open for the current post or page.

Especially, with  is_page, is_category and is_single shortcodes, you also can use ids=”” attribute to list of the ids that you want to apply the condition.

For example :

[is_page ids="76, 339"]hello[/is_page]

[is_category ids="5, 7"]hello[/is_page]

[is_single ids="94, 63"]hello[/is_single]

In the reverse, you can use prefix not_ before the shortcode name to negative the condition and use it as a if else condition with the positive condition.

[is_single]
This is only shown if showing just this post.
[not_single]
This is shown everywhere else.
[/is_single]
WordPress Plugins

Control the sidebar widgets more with Widget Options plugin

April 10, 2018

To gain more control over your widgets, there are a lot of plugins allow you do that, but in my opinion, Widget Options is one of the best ones. Using Widget Options, you can easily show or hide the widgets under various conditions just by checking the options. Let’s explore!

After installing Widget Options, you will see a new section on your widget settings that allows you control more over the widgets.Show/ Hide the widget on specific pages

You can choose which pages that the widget would be appeared or not. So you can add a post sliders to Home Page only as a header, or make each pages have their own header, or add the Members Listing widget on Login/Register page only…

Example of using Post Sliders widget for Homepage only as a header

Show/ Hide the widgets on checked devices.

Widget Options also provides the options to show/hide the widgets on Desktop/Tablet/Mobile. If your widget displays on Mobile not correctly like on Desktop, you able to hide this on Mobile only.

Align the widget

This plugin also allows you change the alignment of the widget without using CSS. Just select from the available options.

Add your own custom IDs (classes)

This option helps you make a widget unique within a lot of widgets (ID) or group the widgets (class). So you can easlily custom the widget by using CSS code for the specific widgets.

 

WordPress Plugins

Table of Contents Plus Plugin.

April 5, 2018

1. Feature

Table of Contents Plus plugin is to create a context specific index or table of contents (TOC) for long pages (and custom post types). More than just a table of contents plugin, this plugin can also output a sitemap listing pages and/or categories across your entire site.

2. Install

To install Table of Contents Plus Plugin:

  • Step 1: go to Plugins -> Add New
  • Step 2: Enter Keyword plugin in search box  and click on “Install Now” 

  • Step 3: Click on “Activate”
    3. Use  Table of Contents Plus Plugin to automatically create indexes in single post

  • Step 1: Access on Setting ->TOC+
  • Step 2: Configure Position, Show when and Heading text. Beside, You can setting more the  information in this tab
  • Step 3: Create  và Enter on Your Information Post. After, Click on “Publish”.=> The result displays as follow:
WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips

Simple Way To Get Free SSL Certificates (HTTPS) For Your Website

March 28, 2018

Google finally released the official SSL Certificates (https) for website with custom domain how I can get it ? just follow this tutorial.

Using plugin: Really Simple SSL 

Description

Really Simple SSL automatically detects your settings and configures your website to run over https.
To keep it lightweight, the options are kept to a minimum. The entire site will move to SSL.

THREE SIMPLE STEPS FOR SETUP:

  • Get an SSL certificate (can’t do that for you, sorry).
  • Activate this plugin
  • Enable SSL with one click

Screenshot:

 

Congrats! Now your website has a unique SSL certificate which will surely enhance an extra layer of security to your website. Now check your website with https:// and enjoy free SSL.

I hope you like this in-depth guide/tutorial, and I’m sure that this tutorial will help you take your blogger blog to the next level and it will improve your ranking in all search engines. If you’ve got any problem or you’ve stuck on any step then feel free to ask in comments, and if you appreciate this post then, please do share this post to let more people know about this trick, after all, sharing is caring.

If you have any question, feel free to comment on the comment section down below.

WordPress Plugins

Hide “unnecessary” items from WordPress admin area based on user role

March 27, 2018

If you are finding a way to protect some sections in WordPress admin area, or just you think that there are some items/parts should be invisible for some specific user roles. Adminimize plugin is useful for you.

With Adminimize, you can hide most of the parts in admin area. It supports custom post types. It allows you add your own options using css selector.

The default options

After installing plugin, go to Settings > Adminimize to configure the settings. There are the available parts so you just check the boxes to hide.

  • Admin Bar Back End Options
  • Admin Bar Front End Options
  • Back End Options
  • Global Options
  • Dashboard Options
  • Menu Options
  • Widgets
  • Write Options- Post
  • Write Options- Page
  • …

 

(and other Write Options – custom post type if your theme has the custom post types)

Admin Bar from Backend

Adminimize- backend-admin-bar

Write Options – Course (custom post type)

Your own option

There are some deep parts which is not listed there and you need to add your own options to hide them.

As an example, I would like to make About Yourself section in User > Your Profile invisible for all the user roles. To do that, i added a custom option and name it About Yourself. Then add the css selector to hide exactly those parts. 

Before

After

Hope this article helps you manage your site better!

 

Wordpress Developer, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips

How to use URL field in Visual Composer

February 28, 2018

URL field of Visual Composer is “vc_link” param type. The user can use this field to search and add a link of post/page… link exactly and easy. Besides, that user can type link directly like another text field. Moreover, the user can add target attribute equal “_blank” to open link in a new tab and add rel attribute equal “nofollow” for SEO campaign.
Url Field Setting

1. Add the URL field to your custom element

Visual Composer already has an URL field and we only need to add it to custom code.

2. Manage and edit the HTML

3. Result and Complete Code

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