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Are you wanting to add a contact upload form on your WordPress website? These forms are great if you’re wanting to collect files for job applications, contests, or a plethora of other reasons. In this video, we’ll show you how to create a file upload form in WordPress.

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0:35 How to install WPForms
1:45 How to install additional form templates
3:57 How to create a custom form to accept file uploads
5:11 How to set up custom notifations when a file has been submitted
6:40 How to add the form to your post or page
8:18 How to files that have been submitted

For this tutorial, we will be using WPForms Pro which you can purchase using the link above. Install and activate the plugin, and in the settings add the license key to verify your product. Finally, for this tutorial you will go under WPForms and into the Addons area to activate the Form Templates Pack Addon.

We will go into WPForms, Add New and name our new form what we want, and we will scroll down to select the file upload template. Select it and WPForms will create a form for you with pre-populated fields that you can decide to use or not. These will include an upload field, comments, and other fields that are normally included in this type of form.

You can delete any fields you don’t want to use or if you select a field, on the left-hand side you will have options available for editing the field to display how you want. For the upload section, you can limit to certain file types and allow multiple files if you wanted.

For this guide, we will check the box to store files in the WordPress Media Library so the files are saved on your site itself. In the general settings for the form, we’ll set the admin email address, the subject, and decide if we send them to a thank you page or send a thank you message.

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Do you want to password protect one or more pages in WordPress? This could be for private pages for specific clients or for getting started if you want to keep your site content a secret until launch. In this video, we will show you how to password protect pages in WordPress.

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For the built-in method, you can go to a specific post or page on your WordPress site and in the document settings under Status and Visibility you can change the visibility to Password Protected. Set the password you want your users to input and save your changes, now when someone visits that specific post/page they will be prompted to offer a password.

If you’re wanting to password protect the entirety of your site, WordPress does not have a built-in method to set this up but we do recommend SeedProd that you can purchase from the link above. Install, activate, and in the plugin’s settings add your license key to have it start working. Under Settings, Coming Soon Pro you have the choice to activate the plugin for your site.

If you want to have a URL that people can use to get past your coming soon page you can scroll down the settings to set up a bypass URL. When a user visits with this URL they will view the site without any issues. If you want to only limit certain URLs you can select the Include URLs in the Advanced Settings area. Don’t forget to edit your coming soon page to the design you want it to appear with using the button in the General Settings section.

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We’ve been asked by multiple users about specific URLs on their site not appearing in Google’s search results. If your site is now then Google can take some time before they crawl and display the new page or changed to the page in the search results. In this video, we will show you how to ask Google to recrawl URLs of your WordPress site.

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Start by ensuring your site is on Google Search Console, once your site is added you can request Google crawl the specific property. With your site a part of Google Search Console you will want to select the site in your search console and add the problem URL in the search field. Goole will bring up the information it has on that specific URL and gives you the option to crawl or recrawl depending on what it knows.

If you’re worried about your site being indexed you can add your sitemap to Google to help ensure all of your posts are added. Install and activate an SEO plugin, for this we recommend Yoast and once you install and activate the plugin an SEO section should be added to your admin area. Under SEO, General, scroll down to XML sitemaps and click the question mark. The area should expand to allow you to get the URL for your sitemap you can submit to Google Search Console.

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Are you looking to update your site for 2020 and not sure where to turn? There are multiple guides online so it can be hard to tell where to start. In this video, we’ll go over some of the best tutorials to get you started on your journey in 2020.

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5 Best WordPress Business Directory Plugins
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7 Ways to Get an 800 Toll-Free Number for Your Business in 2019
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How to Prevent Clients from Deactivating WordPress Plugins
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How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Search Console
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How to Make the Most Out of WPBeginner’s Free Resources
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-make-the-most-out-of-wpbeginners-free-resources/

How to Detect AdBlock Users in WordPress
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-detect-and-stop-adblock-in-wordpress/

What’s New in WordPress 5.3 (Features and Screenshots)
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Have you seen websites where users are allowed to submit posts or other content on the site? Do you want to have a site where you feature user-submitted content? In this video, we will show you how to allow users to submit blog posts to your WordPress site.

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For this guide, we will be using WPForms found using the link above you should be able to purchase it. Once purchased, install and activate the plugin and in the WPForms settings add the license key for the level that you purchased. Now we can go under WPForms, Addons and activate the Post Submissions Addon to start accepting posts.

Under WPForms, Add New we will be creating a new form named whatever we like and we will scroll down to use the Blog Post Submission Form to give us most of the defaults we need to have for the post. It will bring you to the form editor where we can modify the format of the fields we’re wanting to be filled out such as name, author bio, and the post information.

For categories, we will remove the dropdown and replace it with a multiple choice option and in the advanced settings for it, we will activate the Dynamic Choices option for categories to show all category options available.

In the general form settings, we can set the general information for the form as well as who/where is notified of submissions. You have the option to customize your confirmation or point it toward a specific page for the confirmation. Don’t forget to select your preferred post status for the submitted posts, we don’t recommend published as it is better to review the posts before having them live on your site.

Go to the page you would like to have the form live on or create a new page, add the WPForms block, and select the form you created for post submissions. Any Entires you will be able to find under WPForms, Entries where you can review them.

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We’ve been asked if you can stop search engined from indexing a WordPress site by some of our users. This is mainly for sites just getting started or maintenance. In this article, we will show you how to stop search engines from crawling a WordPress site.

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To start we will log into the site and under Settings, Reading we will check the box to discourage search engines from indexing our site. This will let search engines know when they try to crawl the site that you request it not be added by the search engine.

Now, to protect the site we have a few options, to begin we will use the built-in password protection from our hosting provider. Log in and check for Password Protect Directories or Directory privacy and go there. Select the folder for your specific site or you can use the public html folder should you only have one site.

It will promtp you to choose a name for tne protected directory, then set up a username and password that will be required to view the site. When you view the site, every time you viist, a browser notification will pop up asking you for the login information you set.

For the other method we have two plugin options available, the first we will use is SeedProd linked above. Purchase the plugin, download the zip file, under Add New for plugins click the upload button and add the zip file there. As this is a pro plugin you would want to add your license key and you will be able to enable the coming soon mode for your site. The SeedProd plugin even gives you a bypass URL that will only allow users who have a specific url to visit your site.

If you would prefer a free plugin we would recommend the Password Protected plugin found here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/

This plugin, once enabled, allows you to limit access to your site to admin or logged in users. Set the password that should be used and feel free to enable the allow Remember me so the password does not need to be continually entered.

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Do you want to display rotating testimonials on your WordPress site? Testimonials are a great way to show social proof and help your site’s credibility. That’s why you see so many sites with quotes from other customers being featured. In this article, we will show you how to easily add rotating testimonials in WordPress.

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For this tutorial we will be using the Testimonial Rotator plugin found here:

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With the plugin installed and activated you want to go under Testimonials, Add Rotator to set it up. You select how you want the testimonial carousel to look in terms of animation, duration, showing/hiding, and more. Once you select that including your theme, click the publish button to save your changes.

With the display chosen, you now need to add the testimonials on your site, go under Testimonials, Add New and start adding the information for each of the fields you want to display. These include things like name, star rating, author information, and more. Add however many you would like to include and publish each one for them to be visible in the slider.

Now you should be able to go under Testimonials, All Rotators page and copy the User Rotator Settings shortcode and add it to the post or page to display it how you set it up in the settings.

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Do you want to add a search bar to your WordPress navigation menu? By default WordPress lets you add a search section to your sidebar, footer, and other widget-ready areas. However, there is a preference for some to have the search option in their menu. In this video, we will show you how to add a search bar to your WordPress menu.

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You would first want to check in your theme options area if your theme has one or under Appearance, Customize. If your theme already has this option it would likely already be styled for your theme. If not, you would want to install and activate the Ivory Search plugin found here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-search-to-menu/

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0:17 How to add a search bar to the header widget
0:30 Add search using theme customizer
1:09 How to add search to menu area using a plugin called Ivory Search

With it installed and activated, you would want to go to the Ivory Search section added to your admin area. Under Search Forms you can modify what is included in the search should you want to hide certain pages. The plugin even allows you to go under options to change how many posts are on the results page.

Once you’ve set up the search options you can go to Ivory Search, Settings to enable the search option where you would like it. when going under Select menu it should show you the menu options available to your specific theme.

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Have you found a need to reset your WordPress site to the default settings? We’ve had users reach out to us about needing to bring their WordPress site back to the settings of when it just started out. In this video, we will show you how to reset your WordPress database to the default settings.

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For this tutorial we will be using the WordPress Database Reset plugin found here:

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Before resetting your content, we would recommend creating a backup for safety. With the plugin installed and activated, you would go under Tools, Database Reset to choose what tables to reset. You can select specific tables to reset or the plugin gives the option to select all tables.

You can decide to reactivate your plugins and theme or not depending on your preference. With that selected, you will add the security code and press submit. The plugin will give you a final warning and as soon as you hit the Okay button it will begin the process of removing your content.

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Do you want to customize the permalinks for your WordPress posts, pages, and other post types? We’ve had users reach out to us wanting to customize this safely without breaking their links. In this video, we’ll show you how to create custom permalinks in WordPress without affecting your SEO.

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At the end of the video, we will show you how to create redirects but for sites with a visitor base, we would recommend caution before changing permalinks. For your standard permalinks, you can go under Settings, Permalinks and modify the permalink structure there. We normally recommend the post name structure for most sites.

Below the standard permalinks, there is the option to change the category and tag base. This would mean rather than your site/category/name it would be what you set here replacing category in the URL.

For individual posts or pages, with the block editor, you would go next to the title for modifying or in the document settings under permalink. This will allow you to change the final part of the permalink with the post’s name only to let you make it the correct name that you are wanting.

For changing a category you would go under Posts, Categories, and click the edit link beneath the category name you want to modify. You will both have the option to change the name you see on the back end of your site as well as the slug which is what is added in the URL.

For editing the author slug we would recommend using the Edit Author Slug plugin found here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-author-slug/

With that active, you can go under Users, All Users and edit the user who’s slug you want to modify. For the permalink for authors in general if you wanted to change that then you would want to go under Settings, Edit Author Slug.

For even greater control over your permalinks, we would recommend the Custom Permalinks plugin found here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/

With the plugin activated you can edit the post you want and scroll down to find the custom permalink editor below. This will give you the power to make this specific content have any permalink you want. You can also visit the categories themselves to customize it there.

With the permalinks changed this can cause 404 errors when trying to visit their old links which is a greater problem for already set up sites. To solve this we will be using the Redirection plugin found here:

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this will allow you to redirect the posts from their old locations to your new custom permalink.

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