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How to Export WordPress Users Data to a CSV File

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Do you want to export WordPress users data to a CSV file? Sometimes you may need the user data to add into a new website or to use in other marketing campaigns. The default WordPress export tools do not let you export user accounts. In this article, we will show you how to easily export WordPress users data to a CSV file.

Export WordPress users data to CSV file

When and Why Export WordPress Users Data to a CSV File

The default WordPress export tool does not include user accounts. It allows you to create user accounts during the import, only if those users have content. This excludes user roles with no writing privileges like subscribers or customers in an ecommerce store.

If you are moving a WordPress website, then user data will already be included in your WordPress database backup. What if you just wanted to move user data and not the whole website?

Many businesses and site owners may want to use the user data in their CRM platforms, email lists, or other marketing campaigns.

This is when you’ll need a tool to easily export user data in a CSV file. These are plain text files where each user data field is separated by a comma. CSV files can be opened in any spreadsheet software like Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, etc.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily export WordPress users data to a CSV file.

Exporting WordPress User Data to a CSV File

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Export Users to CSV plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit Users » Export Users to CSV page to configure plugin settings.

Export to CSV settings

Select the user role you want to export or select ‘Every role’. The plugin also allows you to select a date range to download only users who joined between that period.

Once you are finished, click on the export button to continue.

The plugin will prepare a CSV file containing user data and send it to you as a download. Once downloaded, you can open that file in a spreadsheet program or import it into other programs.

That’s all, we hope this article helped you export WordPress users data to a CSV file. You may also want to see our mega list of handy WordPress tips, tricks, and hacks for beginners.

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13+ Best WPBakery Page Builder Add-ons – Formerly Visual Composer

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In the past few weeks, we’ve been diving into add-ons for popular WordPress page builders. These are essentially “plugins for plugins” that add additional functionality to your favorite page builder. In those weeks, we’ve already looked at Elementor add-ons, Beaver Builder add-ons, and some Divi extensions. Now, we’re going to round things out with a look ... Read more13+ Best WPBakery Page Builder Add-ons – Formerly Visual Composer

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How to Use Contact Form to Grow Your Email List in WordPress

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Did you know that you can use your WordPress contact form to grow your email list? Users are most engaged when they are trying to reach out using the contact form on your website. In this article, we will show you how you can use contact forms to grow your email list in WordPress.

How to use Contact Forms to Grow Your Email List

Why Use Contact Forms for Email List Building in WordPress?

Email marketing is the most cost effective way to reach your audience. If you haven’t started it yet, then you need to see our article on why you should start building your email list right away.

You will need to combine different tools and methods for encouraging users to signup. Offering multiple choices to sign up helps you quickly get more subscribers.

Many users focus on adding email signup forms to their websites, which is good start but you need to get more creative. Contact forms, in fact any kind of forms on your website are the perfect place to add an email signup option.

Here is why:

  • Your users have already entered their email address in the contact form.
  • They are already interested in what you have to offer, that’s why they are filling the form. Why not ask them to subscribe as well?
  • Many users feel that their chances of getting a response will increase if they opted in for your email list
  • You can use it in a variety of ways not just contact forms, but surveys, quizzes, ebook downloads, and more.

That being said let’s see how to easily integrate your email list to your WordPress forms and use contact forms to boost your email subscribers.

Connecting Your Email List to WordPress Contact Forms

First thing you will need to do is install and activate the WPForms plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

It is a paid plugin, and you will need at least the Plus plan to access email marketing addons.

You can use this WPForms Coupon: WPB10 to get 10% off your purchase on any WPForms plan.

Upon activation, you need to visit WPForms » Settings page to enter your license key. This will enable automatic updates and give you access to respective addons.

WPForms license key

Next, head over to WPForms » Addons page to install the addon for your email marketing service.

WPForms comes with integration addons for the top email marketing services including Constant Contact, MailChimp, AWeber, and more.

Install addon

Once you have installed and activated the Addon, you need to visit WPForms » Settings page and click on the integrations tab. You will see your email service provider listed there.

Click on your email service provider name and enter the required credentials. You can find this information from your email service account.

Connect your email service provider to WPForms

Now that you have connected WPForms to your email marketing service, you can easily add email optins into your forms and add them anywhere on your website.

Adding Email Signup Checkbox to Your Contact Forms

First you need to create a simple contact form for your website. See our detailed instructions on how to easily create a contact form in WordPress.

Once you have created your form, the next step is to add an email sign up option into the same form. Click on the checkbox field from the fields column.

Add checkbox to your form

You will notice a new field added to your form with three checkboxes. Clicking on the field will open its settings. You need to remove the two checkboxes and change the field label to something appropriate like ‘Signup for our Email List’.

Edit checkbox

You can check the box next to the choice field. Doing so, your email signup field will be checked by default.

Now your form is ready, we just need to tell it what to do when someone fills up the form.

You can do this by clicking on the ‘Marketing’ tab in the form builder. Here you need to select your email service provider and then click on the ‘Add New Connection’ button.

Add new email connection

You will be asked to provide a name for this connection.

Next, WPForms will fetch your email service account. It will show the label you added for the account when you added it in the integrations.

It will also fetch email lists available under your email service account. You need to select the email list where you want to add users.

Mapping form fields to email list fields

In the next section, you will be asked to map the form fields to your email service fields. After that you need to click on the checkbox next to ‘Enable conditional logic’ option.

Enable conditional logic

Select ‘Process’ this form if condition and then select your checkbox field and the checked reply.

Your contact form with email signup optin is now ready. You need to click on the Save button at the top bar and then exit form builder.

You can now add this form into any WordPress post or page. Simply click on the Add Form button when editing a post and then select your contact form.

Add form button

Here is a preview of a contact form on our demo website with email sign up optin.

A contact form with email subscription optin

Adding Email Subscription Checkbox to Other Forms

You can add email subscription checkbox to any form you create with WPForms. Here are a few creative ways to display forms and then you can add email subscription option to all these forms.

We hope this article helped you learn how to use contact forms to build your email list in WordPress. You may also want to see our ultimate guide on how to do lead generation in WordPress like a pro.

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Elementor vs Visual Composer (WPBakery Page Builder): Which One Should You Choose?

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Elementor vs WPBakery Page Builder (formerly known as Visual Composer) is an interesting comparison because it’s pitting two page builders with vastly different market positions. On one side, you have Elementor – the upstart that’s managed to quickly amass 300,000 active installs in under two years. And on the other, you have WPBakery Page Builder, ... Read more

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How to Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress

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Do you want to accept Bitcoin payments in WordPress? Bitcoin makes it super easy to accept online payments from anywhere in the world. In this article, we will show you how to easily accept Bitcoin payments in WordPress.

Accepting Bitcoin payments in WordPress

Why Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress?

WordPress allows you to build an ecommerce store in minutes using WooCommerce or other ecommerce plugins for WordPress. These platforms allow you to accept payments online using PayPal, Stripe, 2Checkout, and many other popular payment gateways.

In fact you can accept payments with Stripe or PayPal without even using a shopping cart plugin.

However, not all payment gateways are available everywhere. Some of your clients may not have PayPal available in their region, others may not want to use their credit cards.

Bitcoin offers an alternate payment method that can be used by anyone from anywhere in the world. Once you accept payments in Bitcoin, you can transfer them to your bank account or keep them in your wallet. Bitcoin rates are steadily increasing, and it will continue to do so as more people start using it.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to get started with Bitcoin and integrate it into your WordPress website.

Getting Started with Bitcoin

First, you will need a Bitcoin wallet. This is a piece of software that you will use to send or receive Bitcoins and store your bitcoins safely.

There are many different types of wallets available. You can install a wallet on your computer or even on your phone.

To learn more about wallets and to choose the right wallet for your needs visit the Bitcoin Wallets page.

Next, you will need to sign up for a BitPay account. BitPay is an online service that offers Bitcoin exchange, conversion, and transfer to your bank account or Bitcoin wallet.

BitPay signup

During the sign up, you’ll be asked to select services. You need to select ‘Business Account’ to sell products or services on your website and transfer payments to your bank account.

BitPay Business

After that you can fill out your organization name and enter your personal information to create your account.

BitPay account creation

Once you have signed up, you will reach the getting started dashboard. There you will see three steps required to verify your account.

First you’ll need to verify your email address. Next, you need to enter your business information to verify your business account. Lastly, you need to enter your bank account information or your Bitcoin wallet address.

After completing these steps you’ll be ready to accept payments on your website.

BitPay offers multiple ways to accept payments on your WordPress website. We will show you two different methods, and you can choose the one that best suits your business.

Accepting Bitcoin Payments in WooCommerce with BitPay

If you are already using WooCommerce, then this method is recommended for you.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the BitPay for WooCommerce plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit WooCommerce » Settings page and click on the ‘Checkout’ tab. Next, click on the BitPay link to configure its settings.

Setting up BitPay in WooCommerce

You need to click on the link below the API field to generate your API key. This will take you to BitPay website where you need to click on the ‘Add New Token’ button. After that you need to give this token a label and click on ‘Add Token’ button to continue.

Generating new token

BitPay will now show you a pairing code which you need to copy and paste in your WooCommerce BitPay settings page. Next, click on the find button to continue.

Your WooCommerce website will now connect to BitPay to verify the pairing code. Upon success, it will automatically fetch and store your API key.

Don’t forget to click on the save settings button to store your changes.

Your customers will now see an option to pay using Bitcoin on the checkout page of your store.

BitPay Checkout

Accepting Bitcoin Payments in WordPress with BitPay

This method is recommended for users who are not using a shopping cart or ecommerce plugin on their WordPress website.

BitPay allows you to create payment buttons for items you want to sell. Visit the Payment Tools page under your BitPay dashboard and then click on Payment Buttons.

Create Bitcoin payment buttons with BitPay

This will bring you to the button generator page. You need to enter your business name, checkout item description, and payment amount.

Generating checkout button

You can also enter a browser redirect URL. This is particularly helpful if you are selling digital goods like software, ebook, or music. The redirect page could be the page where your users can download the file.

Click on the Generate button to continue.

BitPay will now show you the button code and different button sizes. Select the button size you want to use and copy the code.

Select button and code

Now you can head over to your WordPress website and edit the post or page where you want to add the button. On the post edit screen, you need to switch to the text editor.

Add button code

Next, paste the code you copied from BitPay website inside the text editor and save or publish your changes.

You can now visit the post/page to see your checkout button in action.

Pay with Bitcoin button in WordPress page

We hope this article helped you learn how to accept Bitcoin payments in WordPress. You may also want to see our ultimate step by step WordPress security guide for beginners.

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11+ Divi Extensions And Add-on Providers To Extend Divi Further

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In the past few weeks, we’ve featured posts on Elementor add-ons and Beaver Builder add-ons, which may have left you to think that we’ve forgotten about the horde of Divi fans out there. That couldn’t be further from the truth – we were just making you guys wait! But no longer, because today we’re about ... Read more

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How to Add Click to Load for GIFs in WordPress

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Do you want to add a click to load GIF player on your WordPress website? Animated GIF images take longer to load which affects page speed and user experience. That’s why many popular blogging platforms don’t auto-load GIFs in their apps. In this article, we will show you how you can easily add click to load for GIFs in WordPress.

Adding click to load for Gifs in WordPress

Why Add Click to Load for GIFs in WordPress?

If you often add animated GIF images in WordPress, then you already know that they are way larger in size than regular images. This means they take longer to load which affects your website speed and performance.

Some websites deal with this by lazy loading images in WordPress. However, this still affects users experience because GIFs take longer to load as the user scrolls down.

Popular platforms like Tumblr and others use click to load GIF player to mitigate this problem. Instead of loading all frames in a GIF animation, they load just the first frame of the animation. A play button or GIF label on the image indicates that users can click to view the animated GIF.

Paused GIF example

That being said, let’s take a look at how you can add click to load button for GIFs on your WordPress website.

Adding Click to Load for GIFs in WordPress

First thing you need to do is install and activate the WP GIF Player plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

This plugin works out of the box, and there are no settings for it.

You can head over to the post edit screen to see it in action.

Add GIF button in WordPress post editor

On the post edit screen, you will notice the Add GIF button above the post editor. Clicking on it will bring up the media uploader popup where you can upload your GIF images similar to any other image.

Upload GIFs using the Add Gif button

Once uploaded, you need to click on the Insert image button to continue.

The WP GIF player plugin will now add the required shortcode in your WordPress post editor.

GIF shortcode in WordPress post editor

You can now save your post/page and click on the preview button to see your click to load GIFs in action.

All the GIFs embedded on your post will now have a button on top of them labeled GIF. Clicking on the button will load the animated GIF in the background and display it.

Click to play animated GIF

One downside of this plugin is that it only works for the new GIFs that upload. It will not add click to load for GIFs uploaded using the normal WordPress media uploader. This means all your previously uploaded GIFs will not have the click to load button.

We hope this article helped you learn how to add the click to load GIFs player in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to fix common image issues in WordPress.

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WOT Cache Review: A Comprehensive WordPress Performance Plugin

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You don’t need me to tell you that page speed is important. I mean – the data is there. Page load times affect everything from user experience to conversion rates and even where your site ranks in the SERPs. Page speed’s importance is one of the reasons you see all those massive, complicated posts on ... Read more

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WP Review Slider Pro Review: Display Facebook, Google, And Yelp Reviews On WordPress

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If you run any kind of business, reviews are essential to getting people to trust you. In a survey from BrightLocal, a whopping 85% of surveyed consumers said they trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. And when it comes to trusting reviews, that same survey shows that consumers trust these three sources the ... Read more

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