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Source: Black Friday / Cyber Monday WordPress Deals 2016

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Content Timeline – Responsive WordPress Plugin

Content timeline is powerful and lightweight responsive WordPress plugin, best for displaying any organized content. It is fully customizable, and easily implementable with any js script, video, flash etc. Well structured code, and wide ranged API functions make it simple to get started and flexible for customization.

With our responsive wordpress plugin you can easily set up your own history timeline with chronological set of events. Every card in the timeline has the option to either expand or to open new link (direct link to your post). This option allows you to choose wheter you want the timeline to go directly to blog posts or to simply display your data in a separate card on the spot.

How does the Content Timeline work:

Take any content

Sort it by date

Call function

You are ready to go!

Content Timeline can easily be modified to suit your needs. It has 30 elements places that can be activated on the left side of the timeline and 30 more on the right side of the timeline and you can add unlimited number of groups and items. In this preview we have displayed content that is sorted by date, but you can use whatever system you like.

Responsive design

Compatible Browsers

Features: Customer Reviews

Change log

Version 4.3.2 (October 17th, 2016) - Added the option to set alignment for Start Item (Left. Right, Center) - Fixed "image overflow" problem - Fixed Month translation Version 4.3.1 (October 5th, 2016) - Added the option to set the number of years to be displayed per line - Fixed "Disable Pretty Photo" option Version 4.3 (September 26th, 2016) - Added the option to disable node text on small resolutions - Fixed timeline "Years" option - Fixed responsive image overlay problems - Fixed Swipe functionality Version 4.2 (July 8th, 2016) - Removed "timthumb" folder from the plugin archive Version 4.2 (June 7th, 2016) - Added translation support for name of the months - Added a basic version of vertical timeline - Added the option to disable pretty photo for all posts with one click - Added the option to link all posts to their pages with one click - Updated documentation (Documentation-UserManual.pdf) - Minor CSS fixes Version 4.1 (December 17th, 2015) - Fixed "Timeline by Years" option - Fixed arrows not showing in backend (unclickable tabs) - Version typo fixed Version 4.0 (December 15th, 2015) Version 4.0 - Added sorting by year - Added the option to show more categories - Added 12 new styles - Added the option to set scroller color - Added dynamic content loading (automatically adds new posts as you add them from wordpress) - Added the autoplay option - Added the separate (responsive) autoplay option - Added the option to reverse timeline - Added 2 new navigation (arrow) option - Added advanced nod coloring options - Added the option to set the latest post to starting item - Added the option to show / hide dates on all card styles - Added the option to share posts on facebook, twitter, pinterest and google+ - Added the number of comments on a post - Added a "like" button for a post - Added additional space to the left side of timeline cards (were not visible when scrolling) - Added a gradient overlay over images to enhance text visibility - Added the "small scroll on hover" for left and right arrows (UX enhanced) - Fixed swipe on android devices - Fixed scheduled posts not appearing when dynamic loading is selected - Fixed selected item (start item) is centered now - Fixed starting item, it always works now - Fixed arrows missing in responsive mode - Fixed a rare bug timeline breaking after clicking read more button - Fixed a rare bug timeline not showing on page - Fixed a bug with images not showing correctly on read more - Shadow effect is re-worked both on hover and default - Backend slightly re-worked - Swipe functionality optimized

Categories: Interface Elements, Sliders, WordPress Plugins

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Source: Content Timeline v4.3.1 – Responsive WordPress Plugin for Displaying Posts

There are thousands of WordPress themes out there. But only a few of these remained useful over the years. Divi theme from Elegant Themes is one of these few themes.

The latest update of Divi comes with unlimited customization options and a brand-new frontend editor. You can use this theme to create any kind of website you want. In today's post, I am going to take an in-depth look into the theme and discuss all the useful features.

Without further ado, let's begin!

All New Frontend Builder

Divi 3 introduced a brand new frontend builder. This enables you to create your own layouts and check out the actual preview at the same time. Unlike the other page builder solutions, you can do things like click on any text field and edit the text, drag and drop elements to adjust the width, height etc. Thanks to the AJAX-powered interface, the changes will take place immediately.

Adding new content couldn't be easier. Just hover over the desired location and click the '+' icon. You can choose to create your own column-based layout or pick a layout from the library. For each column, you can choose any of the 40+ content elements provided by Divi theme.

Besides the usual settings options, each content element is provided with its own design options. You can apply custom text styles, margin, padding, border, background etc. for each element. It is also possible to apply custom CSS.

Each content element could be dragged and dropped to any location inside the layout. It is also possible to delete or make duplicates of the content element.

Revision history is another unique feature of the Divi visual builder. This feature shows a list of your recent changes. You can revert to any of these changes just by clicking on them. There are separate undo and redo buttons as well.

The Divi Page Builder

If you are used to creating custom layouts by using a page builder, Divi has got you covered as well. The Divi builder includes most features of the visual builder. You can create standard, full width, specialty sections, or choose a layout from the library.

For each section, it is possible to choose a column-based layout. And for each column, you can choose any content element. Just like the visual builder, you can apply custom styling to the elements, drag and drop, delete, or make duplicates of them.

When working with the page builder, you can choose the sidebar position, navigation style etc. for the post or page.

Diverse Theme Options

Divi comes with a diverse range of customization options. You will find these in the Divi > Theme Options page.

As you can see, the page is divided into several sections. In the General section, you will find options to upload the logo, favicon, enable fixed navigation, smooth scrolling, back to bottom, show social media profiles, Mailchimp and Aweber integration options.

In the Navigation section, you can choose which page(s) should be excluded from the menu, enable dropdown menu, exclude categories, hide empty categories etc.

The Layout section allows you to enable or disable comment on the pages. For the singe posts, you can choose to display the author, date, categories, comments etc.

There is a dedicated section for SEO. This section enables you to allow custom title, meta description, meta keywords, canonical URL, separator character etc.

The integration section enables you to add code to the head, body of your website, or at the top or bottom of your posts. There is also a section for managing the ads.

Unlimited Customization Options

Along with usual options like site title, menu, widget, and color schemes, Divi theme customizer features lots of other customization options. For instance, you can choose the layout and define the website width, section, and row height, set the theme accent color.

The dedicated typography options enable you to choose different fonts for the heading and body text. As Divi comes with all the popular fonts, you can easily choose your favorite one. It is also possible to choose the color, size, and spacing for the header, text, and links.

Divi supports several header styles. You can choose the suitable style from the 'Header Format' section. You can choose to display the social icons, search icon, phone number, and email address in the header. Regarding the menus, it is possible to choose the menu height, font family, text color, active link color, link background color, dropdown menu animation etc.

Divi also allows you to choose the footer layout. The footer widgets could be customized by defining the header text and link styles. You can personalize the footer menu display options too.

Dedicated button styling options is an interesting feature of Divi. This helps you to choose the default text size, color, background color, border styles, font family, icon styles etc. for the buttons. It is also possible to choose the text, background, and border colors for button hovers.

Divi features a fully responsive design. However, you can take this into a whole new level by defining the section, row height, text size, and menu styles for mobile and tablet devices.

Other Features of Divi

Along with the awesome features mentioned above, Divi also includes a few other notable features. First of all, there are 20+ readymade layouts and demos available for you. You can choose any of these and get your website started within a few minutes.

What's more, Elegant Themes conducted a 100-day Divi Resources event which featured hundreds of examples of using Divi in different ways. You can download and use any of these layouts for free.

With full RTL support, Divi can be used to create websites in other languages too. As the theme is already translated in 32 different languages, chances are your language is already covered by Divi.

Every website owner is concerned about the security aspect, and I know you are too. Well, Divi has thought about that as well. The complete theme coding is checked by Sucuri and they found zero security issues. That means you can use Divi in all your websites with absolute confidence.

Divi Pricing

You have to be an Elegant Themes member to use Divi. There are three pricing plans –

Priced at $69 per year, the Personal plan provides access to all themes by Elegant Themes.

Priced at $89 per year, the Developer plan provides access to all themes and plugins by Elegant Themes.

Priced at a one-time fee of $249, the Lifetime Access plan offers unlimited access to all the themes and plugins by Elegant Themes.

Final Words

Over the years, I have used lots of WordPress themes, including the most popular ones (and some uncommon ones). But none of them were able to impress me as Divi did. And the latest update has made it even more interesting. I highly recommend it for any web development project.

But that's only my opinion. I am more interested to know your thoughts about Divi. What do you think about its features? Have you used this theme in any of your websites? Let me know by leaving a comment below.

Source: Divi Theme Review – is it the best Multipurpose WordPress Theme?

This is wordpress.com support. We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Our support docs do not apply to(1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or(2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM.

Also, note that we do not provide Jetpack support https://jetpack.com/support/ for sites linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page.

Some Jetpack solutions are here http://jetpack.com/support/

Others are in the Jetpack support forum at WordPress.orghttp://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack

However, if help cannot be found at either one then they can file a Jetpack support ticket here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service

WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

As you are referring to a site that is not hosted here, if you don't have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_PasswordWordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_PageSee also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/

Source: problems with jetpack and wordpress.com

As an agency, to be successful in digital marketing you must face the challenges of today and the future. These problems are not only worth solving now, but worth investing in solving because they will still be problems in the future.

In his speech at Agency Summit, WP Engine's CTO and founder Jason Cohen discussed how to take current problems in the digital landscape and turn them into a differentiating advantage.

Let's take a look at some of those obstacles we see today, including how they are addressed and solved by WordPress.

Today's Digital White Waters

There's a technical term in whitewater rafting called a "boof". When rafting, whitewater indicates an obstacle that can be a challenge to pass through. According to Cohen, "the human tendency when you see water rolling around is to go around it. But when you do that in a kayak, you turn over, meaning leaning away from the problem actually is the problem."

"So the correct technique is to go right at the white water to fly over the obstacle and use it as an advantage to go fast," Cohen explained.

This is a great metaphor for what it means to take on these challenges in digital marketing. Rather than work around the problem, turn the problem into a differentiating advantage.

According to Cohen, here are some of the "boofs" (or obstacles) digital marketing faces today that can be overcome…

the marketing it explosion

Source: Chiefmartec.com

"One thing that's obvious to me is there's an explosion in types of marketing tools from chat to geo-targeting to lead generation forms and so on. It's clear that in the future there will be more of these types of things, not fewer," said Cohen.

Within each marketing category, it's getting more specialized and complicated. So this implies that if there's only going to be more types of 'things', and it's very hard to do those things. The general conclusion is platforms are going to start offering to do everything for you… 'we'll do all in one' so to say.

However, according to Cohen, being able to do everything on one platform isn't the future of digital marketing. Ask yourself "how do I take it to the next step from basic integration to doing something custom with that integration?" For instance, taking these marketing IT tools and turning them into something unique.

Personalization

From the film "Minority Report"

Personalization is a trend that's gaining rapid momentum. But how do you persuade your clients of its importance? According to Cohen, sometimes your clients aren't convinced to invest in something that's highly personalized. It's important to convey to them that conversions will go up when you're specific and personalize content based on information you can gather about your customers (say from AdTech).

Therefore, in terms of technology, this means your website has to collect and manage data. To be personalized, there has to be a lot of data. You must be able to access the data in real-time too.

Brands As Publishers

In the 90s brands were told to get on the internet. "It's the future," they were told without really any other explanation. You weren't able to say, "you need to get online because Amazon is going to happen…or Google's going to happen..or social media is going to happen." We didn't know any of these things, but we knew this was the future, Cohen explained.

Today, the equivalent to getting online is giving your brand publishing agility. "Content should be the centerpiece of marketing," said Cohen. He added, "people on Facebook share content, not home pages."

The obstacle here is being good at publishing…many brands don't specialize in this area, so it's a challenge to go above and beyond to make your brand stand out from a publishing perspective.

"Those who don't publish will not only stand still, but they'll fall behind," said Cohen.

Intrapreneurship

When you think like an entrepreneur in the context of a bigger company, that's called intrapreneurship. There is so much unknown and it's hard to plan for the unknown or how things will unfold. "One of the ways you deal with this uncertainty is to act or think more like a startup that also doesn't know anything about their customers, their products, or their market," said Cohen.

He further explained that what you do is you run experiments. You acknowledge that you aren't sure how to use certain technology and that you need a technology platform that is flexible and lets people move quickly when they want to.

Secondly, you need an agency that's flexible and creative because it doesn't matter what the technology is doing, it's the campaigns and creative inside there that actually counts.

Thirdly, you need to be able to run tests quickly and cheaply so you can try things and learn and figure out what's working.

"This notion of intrapreneurship is more than just nice, it's mandatory when you're navigating a world where it's not exactly clear what the right answer is," said Cohen.

To Boof or Not to Boof?

What are the answers to some of these obstacles? Let's take a look…

Technology Can't Replace Human Creativity

"It doesn't matter what the technology is if the creative isn't there," Cohen explained. He added, "at the same time, if you have the best ideas in the world, but it costs 50 thousand dollars and two months for a test campaign, that also won't work."

The relationship between technology and creativity is a marriage — you have to have both the technology platform to support these activities, along with non-A.I. humans to drive the creative strategies.

What's Needed from Technology to Exploit the Rapids to Your Benefit?

To attack these sorts of challenges, here's what you need from technology:

Scale

A solution that already runs at scale, meaning globally. Your content should be able to be reached from all over the world and cater to different languages, etc. But also, in a technology sense, say something goes viral and you get tens of millions of hits in a day; your site should be able to handle this volume of traffic without crashing.

Agility

Agile = fast. You have to be fast to be entrepreneurial at all of these things.

Right Cost

Not everything is cheap, obviously. Yet, simple things ought to be easy and they should be cheap. Complex things are not cheap, yet they are possible.

Integration

As data sources continue to expand, being able to easily and quickly connect and access all that data is essential.

Why WordPress?

"WordPress is actually perfectly suited to take on these particular obstacles," said Cohen.

Here's how WordPress addresses these challenges:

Size

WordPress powers more than a quarter of the web and 60 percent of the CMS market share. It also powers 27 percent of the top 10K websites.

Agility

Here's an example: When Google Glass came out, by the next day there were three free WordPress plugins that you could use that would take your content and make it available in Glass. This means that you and your clients are in control of the when and how to go and apply this new technology.

"It's the control and power to go at the rate that's appropriate for you and your clients…that's agility," said Cohen.

On the other hand, a closed platform, like Adobe, took four months to declare when they'd have support for Google Glass..the answer…nine more months and then they didn't even end up supporting it.

Right Cost

The WordPress software is free and so are many plugins and themes. "Sometimes it's not about making the budget smaller, but rather making the value bigger," said Cohen.

Ask yourself 'what are you spending the money on?' Are you spending it on software licensing fees? This doesn't make a project more successful. Or are you spending it on making a better project or a more effective campaign which generates more value?

Integration

WordPress is open source and has 30,000-plus people working as freelancers whose primary income comes from WordPress. The fact that all this exists makes it easy to make integration points. Since it's open, you can take whatever somebody else did and customize it to the integration you want, making it that much easier.

The Catch…

"WordPress is free like a puppy dog is free," explained Cohen. But of course, it's not actually free. Just like you have to give a puppy shots and keep it fed, WordPress comes with maintenance tasks too.

"This is the part where WP Engine comes in. We take an open source project and we make it an enterprise-grade platform. All of the challenges of open source goes to all of the things we want to solve," said Cohen.

He then explained the inspiration behind WP Engine. "I wrote a blog post on a dedicated WordPress server. When it got popular, the server would crash," said Cohen. This led to the need for a managed WordPress solution, and so WP Engine was founded.

"Just because you have a pile of zipped up PHP code doesn't mean it scales, doesn't mean it's secure, doesn't mean it has high uptime or doesn't mean it will perform well under a lot of traffic. There are all of these pieces required to actually make a website work," said Cohen.

According to Cohen, there are three vital pieces to taking an open source project and making it an enterprise-grade platform. This includes high performance, security, and service.

With WP Engine, high-performance is just one result noted. The infrastructure was built to address scalability among other performance factors.

Security is also another important piece to an enterprise-grade website. "YTD we've blocked 1.6 billion attacks on our platform," said Cohen. As technology evolves, security attacks will not be something that'll lessen in the future, they'll only get worse. That's why it's important to invest in an enterprise-grade solution that hardens your WordPress site against potential threats.

In addition, another component to being enterprise-grade is having access to great service. "We have 400 people in our organization and about half of them work in customer experience," said Cohen. He added, "Because investment in humans beings the right way is how you have great service."

Check out more from Agency Summit #wpeagency. 

Source: Exploiting Digital Currents With WordPress

but when you do a google search for my blog the first one that comes up is the wordpress one and it says this blog is no longer active. So people think I have stopped doing my blog. My actual blog page is number 3 on the google search- HELP!

The blog I need help with is www.mermaidwellness.com.

Source: i deleted my wordpress blog account as I have one through blue host

Your detailed theme description page is at https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/ and that's where set up instructions for it are found. Scroll down to Setting up your front page -Set up a static front page with the Front Page Template. The live demo site is at https://selademo.wordpress.com/

I think you are asking: How do I set up a custom menu?

This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog(1) All posts on the front page.(2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

You need to be aware that:

1. There are differences between posts and pages described herehttps://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

So the process you need to use is:

a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menuhttps://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pagesand arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

Source: cannot set blog as a page

It's been a while, but I'm finally back with part 2 of our making money with WordPress series. Previously we coved how to make money with your WordPress blog, but that's not the only way you can leverage WordPress to build a successful business.

Many people (WPExplorer included) are making a living by selling products and services for WordPress. Today we'll take a look at what you can create to help other WordPress users, and specific pros and cons to consider before you start selling.

Make Money With WordPress Products

If you're using WordPress then you're most definitely also using (or have used) at least a few third party products to go along with your core installation. In my experience there are three main products many  WordPress users are willing to pay a premium for.

1. & 2. Premium WordPress Themes & Plugins

One of the biggest markets related to WordPress is the theme & plugin market. There are countless independent premium theme stores (ThemeBeans, ThemeIsle, Anariel Design, etc) in addition to the mega theme marketplaces like Themeforest or Templatemonster that host countless products from many different developers.

If you're a developer and have confidence in your coding ability then creating premium themes or plugins is a great way to generate income. The only investment required is your time! Once you create an original product you just need to decide if you'd rather start your own store, sell on a a marketplace or balance a a combination of bother.

Elegant Themes is a shining example of an independent theme & plugin store making a name for themselves. What started as a small theme membership site has grown into a multimillion dollar business all built in the premise of offering premium WordPress themes and plugins at an affordable price. Other notable success stories include OptinMonster, Themify, DesignModo, Soliloquy and StudioPress among many others.

The biggest perk to starting your own store is that you are 100% in control of all decisions. You decide your prices. You decide what you're selling. You decide if you want to run promotions.

At the same time, running your own store can be difficult because you are the one running it. This means you must take extra precautions for customer data security, make sure to follow all local e-commerce laws, and if you are making international sales there are additional laws you must abide by. It's a lot!

There are options like Shopify that you can use to help better manage your store, but you'll just have to do the research to see which e-commerce method works best for your store.

For WPExplorer we've chosen to use marketplaces for our premium themes. Currently you can find us on Themeforest and Creative Market. In our case we felt it was easier to let someone else manage the transactions for us, while we continue to handle theme development and support.

The two main challenges of using marketplaces is that they often have strict, lengthy review processes and also take a percentage of sales. In our experience, we've found the review process often times makes items better and the nominal fee is more that worth it to not have to manage our own e-commerce system.

Lastly, you have the option to take advantage of both and sell your items on a non-exclusive basis on marketplaces as well as your own store.

Brands such as Themefuse, ArrayThemes and Anariel Design have done a great job taking advantage of marketplaces for exposure, as well as their own stores for closer control over sales.

One caveat with this option is that some marketplaces like Themeforest charge non-exclusive authors a larger sales fee. This means you may have to forfeit a bit more of your income in order to have the flexibility to sell in a variety of places.

Additionally, the more places your sell your items the more places you'll have to provide item support. You'll either need to create a central support location (such as a customer forum, or a ticketing site using a service such as HelpScout or ZenDesk) or take the time to log into multiple author accounts to provide customers with adequate item support.

All three options are awesome ways to sell your own products. Just keep in mind that no matter which method you choose it's going to take time to establish yourself as a trusted developer or brand in the WordPress community. Don't be discouraged if you don't see a ton of sales in the beginning. Network with blogs to have them help promote your items, create premium add-ons for your products or consider creating "lite" versions for extra exposure.

3. WordPress eBooks & Courses

The next product worth mentioning doesn't extend WordPress, but instead compliments it. There are millions of WordPress users around the globe, and many of them are still learning. So why not provide a product to help them do just that?

Knowledgeable folks have been creating premium ebooks (checkout some of the top recommended WordPress books), guides and even online courses (like those offered on Udemy, or sell them yourself with LearnDash or another WordPress course tool) to assist new users with everything form setting up a blog for the first time to developing your own custom plugins.

The best part about offering educational products is that you don't have to be a developer or a designer to create a useful product that users will buy. You just need expertise and the ability to convey what you know to others.

Make Money By Offering WordPress Services

WordPress products offer a lot of opportunity for hungry entrepreneurs to start successful businesses, but you don't have to sell a product to make money. Plenty of creative folks have found ways to offer services to WordPress users at a premium.

4. WordPress Website Design & Development

The first service that comes to mind is simply website creation. A number of designers build client sites completely with WordPress. This is a lengthy process since you'll often need to work with clients through concept, creation and potentially maintenance.

The benefit of tackling a client web design project is that you can often charge a hefty sum for your effort since you'll likely be spending a couple weeks or more working on it. You'll be able to feel secure in a set income while you focus your efforts on a single project (or maybe even a few projects if you're able to juggle them).

The challenging aspect of web design is working with clients. Not every client will be great to work with (trust us, we know and we've even written an article on how to kiss nightmare clients goodbye). Some clients will be happy with your work and you'l never hear from them again. Others will frequently message you with new requests. Each client is different.

It's up to you to decide what level of service you want to offer you clients, so just remember to build it into your contract before beginning a project.

5. & 6. WordPress Installation and Customization Services

Perhaps you don't want to work with clients in the long run, and would rather offer one-and-done services such as theme or plugin installation services. Many experts offer this exact service on sites like Envato Studio, Upwork or Freelancer.

Some new WordPress users understand how to create blog posts, but their knowledge ends there. This can make installing and setting up themes or plugins a challenge for them. By offering installation services you can simply login, add the theme, make sure it's configured properly and be done.

Customizations are another great niche within WordPress where freelancers can make a bit of extra money. Many users just need help changing their header layout, or adding a new custom post type but don't have the coding knowledge to do so. This is where you can offer your services on a per-tweak basis.

7. WordPress Management, Maintenance And/or Support

Another option worth considering is WordPress Maintenance services. Sites like WP Butler and WP Curve have built businesses around maintaining WordPress installations for folks who simply don't have the skills or time to do so themselves.

One of the best parts about maintenance is that you can easily add-on to increase the value of your service. Offering site audits, backups, malware scanning, customizations and similar options means that you can charge more for your service.

8. WordPress Hosting

If you're a bit more ambitious you could also consider selling your own managed WordPress hosting service. With this you need not be a traditional WordPress developer or designer, though you will need an understanding of core WordPress functions.

The best part is that you don't need your own servers to start offering hosting – many of the large hosting companies like HostGator offer reseller hosting as an option. These plans also include useful tools for creating packages or managing your customers' accounts right from your own user panel. You could also build your own managed hosting with a Media Temple virtual private server or cloud hosting via Cloudways, as they both allow unlimited installations on each server. You'd just need to scale up your own plan as you acquire more customers.

The benefit with offering hosting is that you can secure a regular, recurring income from clients. Plus hosting is a natural add-on if you're already offering other WordPress services such as web design or website management.

Before jumping in be sure to consider some of the requirements of offering hosting. Contracts, server security, updates, etc. Just do your research okay?

9. Custom WordPress Product Development

If you're a developer but you don't have ideas for your own product, or perhaps you simply don't want to create something that you'll have to support, you can always offer your services to other developers or businesses.

Often times creators will seek help from other developers who have more expertise in a particular area. For example, theme developers will often reach out to plugin developers for help create custom extensions. In these cases they might hire a developer for a one time project to create something that adds value to their own product.

Again, sites like Upwork and Envato Studio offer developers a place to advertise their skills and qualifications.

10. One-on-one or In-person WordPress Training

Similar to offering ebooks or courses as a product, you can offer similar education materials in a service type format. WordPress experts like LisaWork have created careers by offering live WordPress seminars where new users can come in to learn how to use WordPress.

Many new users appreciate the ability to ask questions and receive one-on-one help as they go through the process of creating a website for the first time. You can use this opportunity to create an income generating business, with additional revenue streams from recommended follow-up courses, hosting or key products.

Stay Tuned

WordPress is an amazing platform, not just for websites but also for building a successful business. So far we've shared the top ways to use WordPress to make money with your blog, as well as 10 ways to profit from selling products and services. Hopefully the information was new or helpful to you!

In our next installment we'll cover how to turn your blog into a business and some of the crucial steps we took to create WPExplorer.

Until then let us know if you have any questions in the comments section below! We'd be happy to answer them as best we can to help you start your own business with WordPres.

Source: How To Make Money Selling WordPress Products & Services

Are you fed up with your daytime job and wants to become a full-time blogger?

You are being bored on the daily basis to work from morning till evening and doing same work again and again.

Learning no new things at all.

Or

Are you are running a blog part time and want to leave your full-time job to become a full-time blogger.

Then You are reading the right post because I am going to share with you that how you can become a full-time blogger and earn more than your regular job.

First of all let me tell you about myself, that a year before I gave up my job of SEO expert to become a full-time blogger. Although, It took me about 3 months to earn more than I was earning by doing the job. But that experience was awesome. It feels really good when we become our own boss and earn more than the previous job we were doing.

In this Post, I am going to share my experience of I become a Full-time blogger from a part-time blogger.

Step 1 is to make a Plan if you want to become a full-time blogger:

If you are about to quit your job and want to become a full-time blogger, Then the first think that you need to do is create a perfect plan. Because if you working without a plan then you might get a shortage of money for a short time or in some cases for a long period of time.  So, Before Quitting your day time job you must become a full-time blogger who earns much full filling his or her needs.

And also you must keep these things in mind like:

How are you going to earn through your blog?

What is the amount required by you to quit your job and become a full-time blogger?

When are you ready to leave your job?

How much amount you must save if your full-time blogging fails to pay you the desired amount.

What are sources needed by you to grow your blog?

And much more things.

Keeping the above things in mind will not let you have an obstacle in your full-time blogging.

2. Selecting a perfect Niche for your Blog.

I don't know what your field is, is it web development, SEO, App development or something else like a lawyer, Cook or expert in something else. But the only thing that I want to tell you is that a Blogger can't write about everything. So, I truly recommend you to choose a perfect topic for your blog. I have written a post on "Single topic blog vs. Multi-topic blog" which will help you to understand better that is why you must choose a perfect niche for your blog.

Although, There are many single topics which I can recommend you to start your blog about like.

Lifestyle

Food

Relationships

Home

Family

Finance

DIY

Small business

The outdoors

Fitness and health

Inspiration and advice

Animals

Travel

Games

School

Electronics, and more!

But the best thing about a blog is that it can be about anything in your mind and once it looks to you the same niche can help you to become a full-time blogger then you can leave you day time job and lead to a way to becoming a full- time blogger.

3. Starting a blog.

This is the most important this one must consider. What I mean to say is that if you have not started your own blog then how can you become a full-time blogger.

Let me tell you about myself that How I became a full-time blogger. I started my blog in October 2015 and for the first two months I was a part-time blogger but When it looked to me that I can earn my living through my blog then I give up my job of daytime to become a full-time blogger. Actually, I left my job just after two months when I knew that I can earn my living through Blogging. Now you can see yourself that my Blog has a good domain authority and has also had a good reputation on a Google.

So, if you have not started your blog then, the first thing that you must do is start your blog. And If hasn't started your blog yet then I can help you to get hosting and domain for just $12 USD from GoDaddy to run a self-hosted WordPress blog.

4. Publish high-quality content regularly.

If you want to earn from your blog and become a complete blogger. Then You must regularly publish high-quality content for your blog. It is important to publish high-quality and unique content for your blog because the readers will read and share the content only if they like it.

That means You must follow the below steps for making the high-quality content for your blog.

Write about your experience with the techniques or products.

Do a complete research before writing an article on any think.

Read other bloggers blog.

Write content that engages your readers which will force them to return to your blog.

Do not copy content from others blogs because it may lead to a panda penalty from Google.

Update your content when you feel it is outdated.

Embrace your work.

For some people writing content becomes a burden. But will be more fun if you embrace your work of blogging. If you want to run a successful blog and earn your living by the means of blogging only, then you must make content writing as your companion.

Blogging has always been a long-term game which needs effort and hard work. Make a habit of writing content for your blog regularly, so that you don't fall short of content for your blog. And even write content for promoting your blogs like Sponsored posts, Guest posts, and some other content marketing  strategies.

6. Finding Ways to monetize your blog?

There is no doubt that if you want to become a full-time blogger then you have to monetize your blog so that you can earn much. Although I have shared a post where you can get all the ways to make money online, even how you can make money using your blog.

But here also I will share some of the techniques which you can use to make money through blogging.

Monetizing your Blog with Programs like Google Adsense:

There are many monetizing networks available on the internet with which you can earn a very good amount. You can also see that I am using Google AdSense on my blog for monetizing. But If you are not able to get Google Adsense then you go for some other monetizing networks like Infolinks, Chitika, Bidvertisers and many others.

Google AdeSense on my blog for monetizingAffiliate marketing:

Affiliate marketing means when we sell others products through our blog it can be defined as the affiliate marketing. And I must say that it is one the favorite technique of me and many other bloggers because it helps them to earn a good amount of money. I will suggest you some affiliate programs like Cj.com, clickbank.com and many other are there.

Creating your Own Products:

Once you have started your blog you can start to sell your books or courses online through your website. And truly there are many bloggers who are earning thousands of dollars by selling their products online through their blog.

7. The last thing that you must do is Improve your page views.

Your blog can earn money only if it is getting a good amount of traffic. It will surely be a waste of time, effort, and money if your blog doesn't help you earn a good amount for you to become a full-time blogger. So, What I suggest you is to follow the below techniques to get more traffic for your blog. I will be sharing all those search engine optimization techniques which have worked for me. As it is simple that more your blog has traffic more are chances that you will earn more.

So, Here are the things that you must be doing to increase the page views of your blog:

Be Active on Social Media Sites: There are many social networking sites like facebook, Twitter and some other, although I have collected a list of social media sites where you can share and promote your content easily. Getting traffic from the social media sites is considered the best type of referral traffic and will help you to grow your blog enormously.

Learn Search Engine Optimization: Once you have started your blog then it's time for you to start learning about SEO. I have prepared a post which can help you to learn the basic of SEO and also all the On-page SEO techniques that you need to know. SEO is important to learn because it will help you to increase the traffic of your blog on the Google SERPs and believe that this kind of traffic is considered as the best type of traffic.

Write Guest Post Post to get More Exposure: You just can't get more traffic by writing for your own blog. If you want to get more traffic for your blog then you should also write for other blogs. I have done guest blogging  many times to get more traffic to my blog and you can do the same.

Make your content shareable: The First think you need is a sharing button at the end of your post so that people can easily share your post if they like it. And secondly, write content which people like to share.

Finally, What I want to say?

You can only become a full-time blogger only if you decide to work hard and be passionate about blogging. If you want to leave your daytime job and devote yourself to become a full-time blogger then please follow the above tips.

And If you think that I have missed some of the points or you have any point in your mind then please share your thoughts through the comments. We would love to hear you.

Source: How To Become a Full-Time Blogger?

As the marketing word appears in your URL I want you to read what I post below.

There is no secure payments system here at wordpress.COM and you cannot add a shopping cart to sites hosted by wordpress.COM.

E-commerce plugin options have been removed here at WordPress.COM. Secure payment systems are not available here at wordpress.COM. You need a wordpress.ORG install. Please read this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/e-commerce-22?replies=17#post-2575955

Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site you have two options.

(1) PayPal - Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.

(2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

If what I provided above at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to a Self-Hosted WordPress Site where you can set up a secure payment system https://move.wordpress.com/

We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Our support docs do not apply to(1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or(2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM.

Also, note that we do not provide Jetpack support https://jetpack.me/support/ for sites linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page.

Some Jetpack solutions are here http://jetpack.me/support/

Others are in the Jetpack support forum at WordPress.orghttp://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack

However, if help cannot be found at either one then they can file a Jetpack support ticket here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service

WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

If you don't have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_PasswordWordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_PageSee also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/

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Hi all,So, I have a blog on Blogger that consists of articles with 1 image per article and a domain is pointing to it now, and I would like to increase the income from it to a little more than a few dollars a month and I was just wondering what anyone here thinks of the platform to be used for the long term?.

I don't swear or anything and all articles are family friendly, and I make daily backups using the Export tool, so technically I could just import the XML file into a new Wordpress site and restore everything that way right?.

I've heard from people saying that they have had their blogs taken down overnight (completely deleted) so that is why I am just a bit worried for the future.

Source: Blogger for the long term?

What's Your Ultimate Blogging Goal?

Blogging comes in many shapes and sizes; some do it for fun while others treat it like a business. They dedicate real hours, real resources and real manpower to it on a daily basis, and thus see their income increase every year.

Are you blogging simply out of passion? Are you hoping to gain some kind of fame and identity? Are you in it for money and the potential for a luxurious lifestyle?

All these options are fine, so there's no right or wrong answer here. Needless to say, you must define your goals before turning into a serious, respected blogger. Let's look into 9 crucial ways you can get serious about blogging and gradually reach a new level.

1. Less Fun. More Work.

Sometimes I think that I've been working hard… and then I read a post by an avid blogger telling the world he had just worked a ten-hour shift. Suddenly my small, five-hour work day feels like a walk in the park by comparison.

I'm not saying you must live like a slave to stay successful, but let's face it: You do have to work extra hard to see your blog reach a certain point and status.

So, what can you do to get serious about blogging? Watch three hours of TV instead of your usual five; cut back on video games by 30-45 minutes; wake up a half hour earlier; you don't need to "Like" every social media update made by friends and family.

You get my point: We often think that we're already giving it our all, but this is a complete lie when you really stop to think about it.

Once you finally achieve a milestone or two, then you can begin outsourcing or automating certain things in exchange for more time.

2. Save Some Money

There was a time when I struggled to afford even the most basic blogging tools and services, not wanting to admit I was blowing too much money on unnecessary expenses.

Hell, I ran on an incredibly slow server and settled for some horrendous WordPress theme just to avoid purchasing premium/better alternatives.

Then I did some of the following: Ordered Chinese takeout less frequently, replaced my expensive gym membership with a much cheaper option, I got rid of a useless cable package, among other minor things.

And guess what? Suddenly I could afford that expensive, but amazing blog theme and then acquired a dedicated server soon after.

Cut back on all expenses you think you need and get more realistic. This advice is subjective in nature, of course, since only you know what's truly necessary in your life. Nevertheless, consider this a reminder to reassess your options.

3. Start Investing

Let's talk about money a bit more. As Carol Tice pointed out, one of the things successful bloggers have in common is their willingness to invest.

Use every penny and experiment with those premium resources you had always been curious, but reluctant to try. Learn the best ways to use Facebook ads, as well as Google AdWords and even look into advertising space on fellow niche blogs.

Sure, most of these sources will probably result in a loss at first, but this is part of the game; these setbacks will help you refine the campaign by analyzing what's working and what isn't. Your second month of investment might get a little better, and the third month might just hit the spot.

4. Get Organized

Want to get serious about blogging? Then here's a big one: There's a thousand and one ways to get organized, as this largely depends on each individual's daily needs, wants, and overall responsibilities. For example:

Find your best working hours (some love working late at night while their kids sleep; others feel more energetic in the morning).

Develop a daily plan. I personally use Todoist and it's been a life saver. Some things are done only on weekdays and others on weekends, for example.

Make everything accessible. Do you need to access your Documents folder often? Create a desktop shortcut. Same goes for creating email folders and tweaking other resources, online and offline.

5. Avoid Unnecessary Work

Performing too much – or doing things that are mostly pointless – may lead you to abandon the blog in record speed.

Consider automating certain blogging aspects such as social sharing and publishing. Services like Hootsuite allow you to schedule updates to multiple social networks throughout the day, as well as a multitude of WordPress plugins like JetPack.

6. Connect with Influencers

It's entirely possible to become successful blogging solo, but making friends with powerful people will truly get you places.

Don't just comment on fellow blogs. Think of ways to help others out, regularly share their content, and gradually develop a great virtual friendship.

This alone can't be explained in a single section (that's how important it is) so I suggest you read this definitive guide.

Other important suggestions:

7. Dump free hosting services: A CMS like WordPress gives you virtually endless ways to grow your website. Google's BlogSpot does not.

8. Quality over quantity: Forget about posting everyday or even three times a week if it means posting generic content. Spend hours on your next blog post, as opposed to 30 minutes on a 400-word article.

9. Keep learning: I used to ignore many crucial things about blogging (such as implementing an optin box) simply because I lacked the knowledge. This could potentially cost you followers and conversions over time.

On to You

Perhaps the best question to ask is this: Where is your blog now compared to one year ago? If it's still in the same position, this is a clear sign that you should get serious about blogging.

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Source: 9 Tips to Get Serious About Blogging

Sounds easy but is surprisingly difficult. I need a blog and a blog theme, e.g. WordPress and a theme. Requirements: 1. Must be for a finance related blog 2. Must be FAST, must be also fast in China. Meaning loading no bulls.t from Facebook, google analytics, google fonts etc. since this stuff is blocked there. 3. Must be responsive. Must look good on a cell phone.I have word press with a simple and responsive theme installed. It looks ugly on phones and is slow. Any ideas?I had a look on gohugo.io at leas the page loads very fast and looks good on my phone. But for Hugo I would need another server and not just hosting.

Any suggestions welcome.

posted by yoyo_nyc to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)
Source: Fast responsive Blog and Blog Theme that work in China.

Improve site navigation through simplicity.

Do you ever visit a WordPress blog only to realize how difficult it is to navigate? This often causes readers to abandon it or only visit on occasion.

The following tips are designed to turn your blog into a pleasant resource for new and existing visitors. Let's get started!

Use a Customizable Theme

It's good practice to keep your overall layout as simple as possible, but sometimes we need a bit more flexibility. Consider themes that allow you to switch the number of sidebars, adjust the footer, and fully customize your homepage's post layout.

I personally use themes from Themify, which come with a built-in "Page Builder" that enables me to make my site look however I please (I mean it, the sky's the limit). Otherwise, consider a plugin like Visual Composer to achieve a similar goal.

Enable Breadcrumbs

These refer to the link trail you would see at the top of posts and pages, such as: Home>Blogging Tips>WordPress>

Here's a nice example from WPBeginner:

This is a simple, yet powerful option that enables visitors to quickly visit a previous section without confusion. While it's not necessarily helpful for every standard blog, consider using it on a site with multiple sub-categories such as an ecommerce store.

The Breadcrumb NavXT plugin does a great job and helps improve site navigation with ease.

Use Numbered Pagination

To me, there's nothing more annoying than the inability to skip over several pages when browsing through multiple pages or archive. This is especially important when looking for products, even if you have some basic sorting options already in place.

Pagination effectively gets rid of "Next Post" and "Previous Post" and replaces these with numbers. Plugins like WP-PageNavi provide a great fix, as well as many premium themes such as the ones provided by the aforementioned Themify.

Add Related Posts

I love reading an article and naturally running into a highly related piece on that same page.

Include a link to related posts (along with their titles) at the bottom of your content and even right in the middle if it makes sense.

Doing this manually gives you greater control over which post users get to read, but plugins such as YARPP can also improve site navigation through more automated options.

Interlink

Interlinking between existing articles creates a chain of related material that helps users stay on your website longer. Do you ever find yourself clicking every link on Wikipedia articles? This is the same awesome feeling you would give your blog readers.

Use a Logical Structure

It's common practice to include your website's most important pages and categories first, followed by optional ones last. Your "About" and "Contact" pages, for examples, don't typically go before prominent sections like "Job board" or the main products page.

Follow a similar pattern with all sidebar items to greatly improve site navigation and overall user experience.

Use Clear, Obvious Titles

This one is a tad subjective: You want all categories and pages to clearly tell the visitor what they're about. If your site hosts a job board, for example, don't name it "The Pot of Gold" because not everyone will understand what this is all about (and many won't care to find out).

On the other hand, being playful with words and phrases may improve your brand and help your site stand out.

The key here is to word things wisely, perhaps by leaving the cutesy names to the "less prominent" sections. Aim for clarity where necessary, not creativity.

Create a 'Start Here' Page

Do you have a series of must-read posts you'd like visitors to go over? Maybe you run a "WordPress for Beginners" blog and would like them to learn the very basics first and foremost? This is where a "Start" page comes in. Customize it according to your needs, niche, and audience.

Honorable Mentions

Embrace short paragraphs: Nobody likes to read a wall of text. In fact, this is the number one reason I skip an article and go find a similar one elsewhere.

Subheaders: These are essential to improving user experience and are quite easy on the eyes.

Use tables when appropriate: Do you have a gigantic list of items, such as CommetnLuv-enabled blogs along with other related details? A nice table works wonders here. I personally use TablePress.

Learn from other bloggers: Analyze your favorite blogs and implement a similar look and feel. There's nothing wrong with that.

Your Turn

There are still dozens of ways to improve site navigation and user experience. What can you personally recommend? Share your knowledge with the rest of us!

Don't Miss: 8 Free WordPress Themes Packed with Premium-like Features
Source: How to Improve Your Blog's Navigation and User Experience

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In this detailed plugin review, let's find if the search for the best WordPress media manager plugin ends at WP Media Folder plugin by Joomunited or not.

WordPress being a simplest Content Management System has to stay away from a lot of complex features, which can further simplify the built-in tools. To include these missing features, we've plenty of plugins from third-party developers, and even from the official WordPress developers.

Default Media Manager of WordPress

The default Media Library module in WordPress misses out a lot of tools which can actually make the media management, a lot easier. Agree?

WP Media Folder plugin by Joomunited aims at adding all those missing features and it promises to make the workload, easier.

By looking at the details mentioned at the product's landing page, it surely seems to work. But, does it stand on its promises? Let's find it out.

Why we need a WordPress Media Manager Plugin?

The default Media Library module packed inside a fresh WordPress install is the simplest approach to what a media manager can look like. As I said earlier, in order to maintain simplicity, it has to stay away from many useful elements.

For a normal website, which has handful number of media uploads, there is no need for any third-party management tool. One can easily find a file, use the built-in search tool and even perform bulk actions. The feature set ends here!

While in the case for a heavy website, where hundreds of media files are being uploaded every week, or even every single day, management does become an issue.

Here is another catch! If you're uploading a lot of unique looking pictures which are uniquely named, and the fact that you can remember those name (in future when a search is to be initiated), then the built-in search tool is well-capable to provide the management relief.

Now, is there a guarantee that you'll remember to name images and videos exactly as they should have? Is there a guarantee that there will be no duplicate uploads? Is there a guarantee that there will be no need to further categorize the uploads?

The questions are many and, once you're in this confusing zone, you need a dedicated WordPress media manager plugin.

Do you need it? I guess so!

Installation Experience

Step 1 Install the Plugin.

The current version of the plugin weighs approx 2MB and it took less than a minute to get installed. The installation drill was usual and there was nothing needed to setup the plugin. 

The first thing it asks to do is to Import Categories. I proceeded with the same, allowing the plugin to serve at its best!

As soon as I clicked on the Library option under the Media section, the new (technically, improved) Media Manager loaded. This is the first interaction, and personally, I was in love with this product.

Step 2 Import categories for better organization.

Straight out the gates you can wipe your media files into shape; you are also free to reorganize in whichever way you deem best.

Simplicity at its best!

Not just because of any technical features, but because of the fact that it added those features right into the default WordPress Media Manager. There is no additional tool to learn, as everything seemed simple and straight.

Two categories, Download and Uncategorised, were added which can be renamed or deleted. Now, I can easily drag a media file and drop it into the folder.

Step 3 Visit the Plugin Option for Further optimization.

In your dashboard navigate to Settings > Media Folder for advanced optimization options.

What can I do with WP Media Folder Plugin?

In this section of the review, we will have a look at the various things we can use this plugin for. And later on I will tell you my favorite thing and WP Media Folder and why you should try it.

Manage media with folders and sub-folders

A new button was added to Create New folder quickly, and a couple of new filters were added, allowing me to sort or find files based on their names and even sizes. Duplicate files are replaced to save space, which works automatically and it is a much-needed feature.

As it's a premium plugin, adding these little features won't make it look worthy of the price tag. So, it brings a bunch of add-ons which can be integrated easily, extending the functionalities further.

Create galleries from folders

Have you ever visited websites like TMZ, Gawker media, and many more popular big media sites?

If you have then you would have probably noticed the beautiful gallery slider that big sites like MSN and many others use to keep visitors on their website for longer.  Before creating galleries and having them organized was a time-consuming job however WP media folder makes it super-easy to create galleries based on  folder categories  that you've already created.  the beauty of this is that when you update your Media folders the galleries will also be reflected which saves you time instead of going back and editing all those galleries

Order and filter media Sync media with server folders

For a better organization WP media folder allows you to sync the folders on your WordPress site to that on your server which is extremely useful in the case of a few bulk uploaded a bunch of Media image or graphics into your own web server or vice versa.

Drag'n Drop interface

The simple but intuitive media management system allow you to easily drag and drop your images and to your chosen folders. The system also enables you to rearrange your media files for maximum efficiency.

Update-Replace-Duplicate existing media

The update, replace and duplicate is an incredibly powerful feature which allows you to go in and quickly update one of your old images with a new one with a click of a button. This eliminates having a broken link to your media file and comes in very hand if that image as been shared across the internet. For me, I use this feature to enhance some of our featured images which were created in early days for a more professional look without breaking the pictures.

Add-ons or Extensions it features

It works best with WooCommerce, thanks to the add-on and can be used to properly manage the images which are too many in the case of an e-commerce. It can be extended with Google Drive of Dropbox, integrating proper synchronization between the cloud-based storages and the website. It can also understand PDF files and make them downloadable.

The plugin also works with famous frameworks or drag & drop page builder tools like Visual Composer, Divi, Beaver, Site Origin, Themify and few others. In my case, it was working perfectly with the Genesis.

Other features include,

WPML support

Four different gallery layouts including Masonry

Ajax-powered navigation

Media view counts

SEO friendly

All these makes the overall package, complete and totally useful as per the modern website techniques and norms set by social and search engine platforms.

It stays lightweight (unless you integrate a lot of add-ons) keeping the performance in proper check.

What happens if you decide to Uninstall it?

Finally, I uninstalled the plugin to check if it ruins the earlier structure of files or leaves them in a proper stack (resuming the previous structure). And, I was impressed with the result! The structure was replaced with the old one, leaving everything without any mess or trash.

The folders which were created were gone, leaving no trace, and the files were again available in the default layout.

It clarifies the fact that one can easily start using this plugin and if not liked (however, it will be rare), can simply uninstall and get back to the default mode.

The Pricing & Support Elements

You can get it for just $29 from the official Joomunited website. There are total four plans available for the plugin while the most popular one costing $49. It includes the plugin, all add-ons, and updates and support for one year. To me, the services this plugin offers, and the way it handles the media files in number, the pricing is good. Also, it's a one-time fee and you're allowed to use the product on any number of WordPress websites.

Learn more: For the full features list of what's on offer with WP Media Folders. Click here

Pros

The plugin is easy to setup and requires no initial things to do.

It improves the existing Media Library of WordPress, by adding its own features.

Drag & Drop upload works perfectly and the same work when you want to put a media file into a folder.

It can quickly sync with other folders on the server.

It marginally adds to the overall size, thus, maintaining the performance.

It can quickly replace the duplicate files, which works on automation.

The add-ons (like WooCommerce) available are built-in solutions for the need of extension.

When uninstalled, it leaves the files in the old management way.

The product is SEO friendly, ensuring the images make way to the Google Image Search and other similar Media search engines.

Cons

The plugin does lesser things, compared to the price it asks.

It is less useful for a small website, as it is useful only in case of a heavy one.

Now, I know you have few queries here. Fire them up in the discussion section, and I'll be happy to sort them one by one.

Are you going to use WP Media Folder by Joomunited or happy with the current WordPress Media Manager?

Source: WP Media Folder Review – Best WordPress Media Manager?