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Baton WordPress theme: Hero Widgets

With the release of our new feature-packed theme, Baton Pro, there are a few select features we’d like to talk about. Today we proudly introduce to you, Baton Hero. What is Baton Hero? Baton Hero is a display type of our free widget, Note. The main purpose of the Baton Hero layout is to showcase content with an image behind it. This is great for a piece of content that you would love to feature on your website! Baton Hero was designed to be used on the Front Page of your website. Why you ask? The Front Page is the first place …

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How to Make WooCommerce Thumbnails Clickable

WooCommerce is super-popular plugin for selling digital or physical products from your WordPress website. It’s used by tens-of-thousands of shops around the world. It’s quite an amazing plugin but lacks one simple interface function — clickable product images in the store view! Crazy right? Unfortunately, it’s going to take some developer chops to get this working as there isn’t a simple one-click action for this in the settings. Luckily for you in this post, we’ll show you how to make those WooCommerce thumbnails clickable.

How to create a woocommerce website quickly

How to create a WooCommerce website quickly and affordably

WooCommerce is the most popular free solution for eCommerce on WordPress. WooCommerce was acquired by WordPress creators Automattic, so we can expect that much will be done to make WooCommerce the official solution for WordPress eCommerce. Thankfully, WooCommerce is also one of the most widely supported WordPress eCommerce plugins. It is the one we have recommended from the beginning and the one we support the most. Our pro themes are even developed with WooCommerce support in mind. Read the resource to find out how easy it was for a business to take a WordPress theme and WooCommerce and build an …

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Set up shipping WooCommerce

How to set up shipping in WooCommerce

One would assume that if you are reading this resource, you have already accepted WooCommerce as your WordPress eCommerce solution of choice or are strongly considering it. There are a few technical details that can be extremely daunting when using a free plugin like WooCommerce. These include: Accepting Payment Managing Stock Creating variants (small, medium, large) Creating products easily Shipping your products A lot of these options are more easily managed with solutions like Shopify, but that does not mean you shouldn’t have a difficult time managing your WooCommerce options. It is a cheaper options, and resources like this help …

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How to setup a WordPress portfolio website

Using WordPress to manage a portfolio layout is easy using the Jetpack plugin & our Symphony theme. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to combine the popular plugin with our unique portfolio layout design to showcase your work or services. You should be somewhat familiar with custom post types and taxonomies before diving into this lesson. You won’t be using a normal post or displaying photos directly from the media gallery. You can learn more about how Jetpack handles their custom post types, here.

WP Smush.it Alternative

Smush.it may not work. Here are some alternatives.

You may or may not be surprised to learn that WP Smush.it is an image optimization plugin for WordPress that uses Yahoo! to run its services. With the popularity of WordPress and the plugin — which is at time of posting active on over 300,000 websites — it is safe to say that Yahoo!’s servers were getting taxed to perform the operations on your images. In fact they were getting taxed so much that there is concern that the server load is too much for Yahoo! to continue with the service it offers. It is time to look for alternatives …

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iThemes Exchange vs WooCommerce

WooCommerce vs iThemes Exchange: the battle of free eCommerce plugins

Everyone looks for the cheapest, easiest solution to a problem. Why wouldn’t you? When you are using a free platform like WordPress, having similarly “free” options in your plugins and themes is attractive, right? Not necessarily. This is a look at WooCommerce vs iThemes Exchange — two of the most popular free WordPress eCommerce plugins — and the true costs of selling on a WordPress platform.