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Plugins WooCommerce WordPress

Top WordPress Plugins for a Fully Functional eCommerce Store in 2024

WordPress, with eCommerce plugins like WooCommerce, makes it easy to create an eCommerce website for your business, but to succeed in the long run and simplify your manual efforts, you’ll need some third-party tools and extensions.

In this article, we have handpicked the must-have WordPress plugins for an eCommerce website.

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Gutenberg Plugins Web Development WordPress

Creating Inspector Controls for Shortcode attributes – Part 1

This is next part in the series of Converting Shortcodes to Gutenberg Blocks. Shortcodes have been part of WordPress for a long time. As the new block editor is gaining users and popularity, converting these shortcodes to blocks will be helpful. Gutenberg blocks are not only useful for creating custom page layouts, but also make […]

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Gutenberg WordPress

Block Editor Updates in WP 5.5

WordPress 5.5 released on August 11th, features a few big updates for the block editor. The editor interface has some noticeable changes. The block directory is now available to install individual blocks with a single click along with the block patterns which provide a few layout options. Editor Interface The block editor interface has been […]

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CSS Gutenberg Web Development WordPress

Styling CSS grid responsive layouts based on the number of columns on the page

Building responsive layouts using CSS Grid and Flexbox is easy. Few lines of CSS and the columns resize nicely based on the width of the page. CSS Grid or Flexbox takes care of resizing and the columns nicely stack as needed in smaller view ports. We can style these columns using media queries for different […]

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Plugins Web Development WordPress

MailChimp lists using Ajax

I recently built a Mailchimp addon plugin for the Chamber Dashboard plugins. The plugin uses the Mailchimp api key to connect to Mailchimp and display the lists in the plugin options page. The admin can select a Mailchimp list to which new member emails can be automatically added. Without Ajax, the user would have to […]

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Plugins Web Development WordPress

Adding a category filter to custom post type shortcode

The Chamber Dashboard plugins make it very easy to create member listings and display the businesses on the site. The shortcode used to display businesses has a few parameters that can be specified like pagination options, business details that need to be displayed like email, phone number, business category, membership level etc. The business_category option […]

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Plugins Web Development WordPress

Adding login/logout links to selected WordPress Menu

Adding a login/logout link to any WP menu is very easy using the wp_nav_menu_items hook. In the Chamber Dashboard Member Manager plugin, we wanted to give our users an option to add the login/logout link to the selected menu of their choice.  There was an option to enable the login/logout link which would add the […]

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Plugins Small Business WordPress

Choosing the best membership plugin for your WordPress site

WordPress is a powerful platform to build and maintain membership sites. As with anything related to WordPress, there are many different plugins available to build a membership site. There are free and paid options. I am going to compare some of the free plugins to help you decide which one works best for your site. […]

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Gutenberg Small Business WordPress

Gutenberg (Block Editor) for Small Businesses

The block editor also called as Gutenberg was merged into WP core in Dec 2018. It was made the default editor as part of WP 5.0. I have been testing the editor even before it was released and I love it. In the past few months, there have been a few improvements and updates to […]