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Integrating your Etsy store with your WordPress site can significantly boost your online sales. It allows you to showcase your products in a more personalized way, making it easier for customers to shop. Plus, you get access to additional features and payment options that enhance… Read More »

Are you looking for the best content marketing tools and plugins that will help you create killer content for your WordPress blog? Great content helps you increase your website traffic, get more subscribers, and grow your sales. In this article, we have hand-picked the best… Read More »

Creating a product catalog in WordPress allows you to showcase your goods or services without needing a full shopping cart. Many businesses we’ve worked with prefer this approach to display their offerings while managing orders via phone or in person. It’s also a great choice… Read More »

Do you want to add an image to a sidebar widget in WordPress? By default, WordPress makes it easy to upload and add images anywhere on your website. You can add them to sidebar widgets just as easily as you can to pages or blog… Read More »

Interactive elements like quizzes can be powerful tools to engage website visitors and build connections. Our team at WPBeginner has carefully studied the strategies employed by popular websites like BuzzFeed that use quizzes to increase content virality and user engagement. After that, we tested and… Read More »

Custom fields are advanced features in WordPress that allow you to add custom content and metadata to your posts and pages. We use custom fields to display metadata in several WPBeginner areas. However, we noticed many users who wanted to replicate that functionality were unable… Read More »

One of the challenges we’ve faced while running a multi-author WordPress blog is managing post-publication edits. By default, contributors and guest bloggers can’t edit their published posts. This can cause problems if contributors need to quickly fix a typo, correct wrong information, or update a… Read More »

Reviews and ratings can help you gain the trust of potential customers and encourage them to buy from your website. If you have a Facebook page, then you may already have lots of reviews that you can easily embed in your WordPress website. This is… Read More »

At WPBeginner, we’re often asked by users whether they should install a WordPress plugin or add code to their theme’s functions.php file. On one hand, plugins offer a quick and easy solution, often without writing a single line of code. However, installing dozens of single-use… Read More »

Are you seeing the ‘failed to open stream’ error on your WordPress site? Don’t panic. We sometimes encounter this error quite when testing new plugins and themes, and we’ve developed several reliable ways to fix it quickly. While this error message might look technical and… Read More »