Category Archives: WordPress Plugins

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

08.12.2017Elementor, Page Builder Plugin, Visual Composer, WordPress Page Builder, WordPress Plugins, WPBakeryColin Newcomer

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

07.12.2017accept bitcoins in wordpress, add bitcoin payments in wordpress, bitcoin checkout button in wordpress, bitcoin checkout wordpress, bitcoin payments woocommerce, WordPress PluginsEditorial Staff

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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How to Allow Users to Delete their WordPress Accounts

05.12.2017allow users to delete their account in wordpress, user delete account wordpress, WordPress Plugins, wordpress user accountsEditorial Staff

Do you want to allow users to delete their own WordPress accounts? If you allow user registration on your WordPress site, and a user does not want to keep their account anymore, then they will have to manually ask you to delete their account. In this article, we will show you how to allow users to delete their WordPress account from their account area.

Allow users to delete their accounts in WordPress

Why Allow Users to Unregister Themselves in WordPress?

Many WordPress websites allow users to register and login. This could be membership websites, blogs that accept user submitted posts, or an online store.

Once users register their WordPress account, they cannot delete it on their own. They will have to manually ask you through a contact form to delete their information.

Website owners may want to keep the user contributed content or at least have their email address. However, if you give users control of their information, then they may feel more confident in their interactions on your website.

That being said, let’s see how to easily allow users to unregister themselves in WordPress and delete their WordPress account information completely.

Allowing Users to Delete their WordPress Accounts

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

Upon activation, you need to visit the Settings » Delete Me page in your WordPress admin area to configure plugin settings.

Delete Me settings

First you want to select the user roles that can delete their own profiles. You can also choose link styling and text that they will see on their profile page.

By default once the account is deleted, the plugin will redirect users to your site’s homepage. However, you can change that and provide a custom URL for redirect such as a thank you page. Additionally, you can choose to delete user comments as well.

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

Now you will need to switch to a user account under the user roles you selected earlier. Once logged in, go ahead and visit the Profile page, and you will see a new section where users can click to delete their account.

Delete account link on user profile page

When a user clicks on the link, they will be shown a warning that deleting an account will delete their access and all their content. Once the user agrees, this plugin will proceed and delete their account.

Adding Delete Account Link to Custom User Profile Page

If you use a custom user profile page, then this is how you can allow users to delete their WordPress account.

Simply add the following shortcode to your custom profile page template:

[plugin_delete_me]Delete Your Account[/plugin_delete_me]

Note: When a user deletes their account, it will also delete all their content (posts, pages, custom post types) and move it to trash.

A user can re-register a new account using the same email address, but this will not recover the content they contributed earlier. However, as a site administrator, you can recover content from trash if it is not permanently deleted.

We hope this article helped you learn how to allow users to unregister in WordPress. You may also want to see our step by step WordPress security guide for beginners.

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

05.12.2017Divi, Divi Extensions, Divi Themes, WordPress PluginsColin Newcomer

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

04.12.2017animated gifs in wordpress, click to load gif, click to play gif animation, wordpress gif images, WordPress PluginsEditorial Staff

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

04.12.2017Caching Plugin, speed up wordpress, WordPress Caching, WordPress PluginsColin Newcomer

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

01.12.2017WordPress PluginsColin Newcomer

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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How to Prevent Authors From Deleting Posts in WordPress

28.11.2017access control for authors, multi-author, user role, WordPress PluginsEditorial Staff

By default, users with the author user role can delete their own posts, even when these posts are already published. If you run a multi-author blog, then you may want to stop authors from deleting their own posts specially once it’s published. In this article, we will show you how to easily prevent authors from deleting their own posts in WordPress.

How to prevent authors from deleting posts in WordPress

Why Prevent Authors From Deleting Their Own Posts in WordPress

WordPress comes with a powerful user role management system. Each registered user on your WordPress website is assigned a user role, and each user role comes with different permissions.

Users with the ‘author‘ role can write posts and publish them on your website. This role is generally used by multi-author WordPress blogs.

Authors can also delete their own posts, including those already published. As a website owner, you may want to prevent authors from doing that. The easiest way to do that is by modifying the author user role and changing its permissions in WordPress.

Let’s take a look at how to easily prevent authors from deleting their own posts.

Method 1: Prevent Authors From Deleting Posts Using Plugin

This method is easier and recommended for all users.

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

Upon activation, you need to visit Users » Capabilities page. Here you can load any WordPress user role and change its capabilities and permissions.

User roles and capabilities manager

You need to start by locating the ‘Select Role to View / Edit’ box in the right column, and then select ‘Author’ user role from the drop down menu. After that you need to click on the ‘Load’ button to load the author user role capabilities.

Load author user role

The plugin will now load the ‘Author’ user role capabilities. Under the deletion capabilities section, you need to uncheck the box next to delete and delete published options.

After that you can go to the bottom of the page and click on the save changes button to store your settings.

Now, users with the author user role will not longer be able to delete any posts on your WordPress site.

Giving Back Permissions

User role capabilities are defined explicitly. It means that once you remove a capability from a user role, it will not come back unless you explicitly define it again. Even if you uninstalled the plugin, the capability changes you made will not revert automatically.

If you want to give back authors permission to delete, then you will have to repeat the process and check the boxes next to the delete and delete published posts options.

If you want to uninstall the plugin and revert back to default WordPress capabilities, then first you need to visit Tools » Capability Manager page and click on ‘Reset to WordPress defaults’ link.

Reset user role permissions

Method 2: Manually Prevent Authors From Deleting Their Own Posts

This method requires you to add code to your WordPress files. If you haven’t done this before, then take a look at our guide on how to copy and paste code in WordPress.

You will need to add the following code to to your theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific plugin.

function wpb_change_author_role(){
	global $wp_roles;
	$wp_roles->remove_cap( 'author', 'delete_posts' );
	$wp_roles->remove_cap( 'author', 'delete_published_posts' );

}
add_action('init', 'wpb_change_author_role');

This code changes the author user role and removes their capability to delete their own posts.

If you want to revert back the permissions, then simply removing the code will not make any change. You will need to explicitly redefine the removed capabilities by replacing the first code snippet with the following code:

function wpb_change_author_role(){
	global $wp_roles;
	$wp_roles->add_cap( 'author', 'delete_posts' );
	$wp_roles->add_cap( 'author', 'delete_published_posts' );

}
add_action('init', 'wpb_change_author_role');

We hope this article helped you learn how to prevent authors from deleting their own posts in WordPress. You may also want to see our ultimate step by step WordPress security guide for beginners.

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Booster for WooCommerce Review: Jetpack For Your WooCommerce Store

28.11.2017woocommerce, woocommerce addons, woocommerce plugins, WordPress PluginsColin Newcomer

Ever wished that there were something like Jetpack for your WooCommerce store? Something where you could just install one plugin and then pick and choose between a ton of helpful modules rather than trying to hunt down 20 different plugins? I think you see where this is going… Booster for WooCommerce is that Jetpack for ... Read more

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10+ Best Beaver Builder Add-ons For Even More Functionality

21.11.2017Beaver Builder, Beaver Builder Addons, WordPress PluginsColin Newcomer

With its 400,000+ active installs, Beaver Builder is one of the most popular WordPress page builders that you’ll find. It also has a huge developer community, which has led to the creation of a similarly huge number of Beaver Builder add-ons. We already covered the equally vibrant Elementor add-ons community, so now it’s time to ... Read more

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