Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Amazon copied shoe design, and nobody seems to bat an eye on it

Silicon Valley has a long history of copying stuff, be it Xerox PARC raiding by Steve Jobs, the design dispute between Apple and Samsung or Facebook’s attempt to beat Snapchat by giving fierce competition through Instagram. First, Facebook cloned the most prominent feature of it’s one of the...

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Monday, September 23, 2019

Millemann Wines

Millemann Wines
A journey through excellence. Grands Crus wines from Burgundy, France.
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Google Play Store contains adware disguised as VPN apps

Several VPN providers available in the Play Store are malware ad apps in disguise and this is something that needs attention. Although Google Play Store is trying out various policies just to reduce the risks of malware apps but we guess the malware problem isn’t going anywhere anytime soon....

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Insert a Calendar Into WordPress With the Pro Event Calendar Plugin

Having a calendar to be displayed on your website is a must for many business owners. Calendars are the best way to share all the upcoming events that your business has with your audience. However, the various calendar plugins available on the market often have too little features, expensive add-ons, or are too complicated to setup. 

The Pro Event Calendar plugin makes adding an affordable, professional, and sleek calendar to your posts and pages easy. In this tutorial, I will go over how to create events, how to create the actual calendar, how to style the calendar, and how to add the calendar to your website so all your visitors can stay up to date with your business.

What We Will Be Building

For this tutorial, we are going to be the owners of a Yoga studio. We would like to let our customers and potential customers know when we run our Monday morning Yoga class called "Monday Mood Lifter," so we are going to build a calendar to display on our webpage. This calendar will be a dark-skinned calendar that all our website viewers can see and interact with. 

The finished event calendar

Creating Events 

Before we can create our calendar, we need to create the specific events for our calendar so we can display these events on the calendar. To add an event, head on over to the Event Calendar in your WordPress dashboard and click All Events. Next to the title, "Pro Event Calendar, click Add New. You will then be taken to the event editor where we are going to title this event Monday Mood Lifter.

Next, we are going to go over to the right-hand side of the editor and adjust the date of the event as well as the start and end time. We want this event to be a weekly event that starts on the first Monday of August and ends at the end of the month. In the date section, enter 2019, 8, and 5. This will set the date to start on the 5th of August. 

Our start time is going to be 10 am and our end time is going to be at 11 am, so we are going to type those in the appropriate fields under the date section. Since we want to have this event occur every Monday, we are going to head over to the select a frequency section and choose weekly from the drop-down menu. Then select the Mon option from the new menu that is displayed below the drop-down menu. To set the end date head over to the End Date section. We are going to type in 2019, 8, 26.

Setting the end date

Finally, we are going to change the color of the event that will appear on the calendar. We are going to do this so our website viewers will easily be able to spot that there is an event on a particular day. 

Scroll down on the event editor page until you come to the Event Data section and find the Color option. To add a color to this particular event, you will first need to create a color for it to be displayed in the drop-down menu. To do this, click the special events link. This will take you to the special dates and event color menu where you will click the button Add New Special / Event Color. Add the text Blue in the Title field and choose the color blue in the Color field. 

Coloring events in the calendar

Click the Submit button and the blue color will now be available. Now head back over to the EvEvent Data section. Click the drop-down menu next to Color and select the blue color that you just created. 

We are done creating our event, so click the Publish button on the right-hand side of the editor. Check out the video below to watch the event creation process in action: 

Creating the Calendar 

Now that we have created the event that we would like displayed on the calendar, it is time to create the calendar itself. On the left-hand side of your WordPress dashboard, click Calendars under the Event Calendar section. This will pull up the calendars list where you will then click the Add New Calendar button. Under General Settings > Title, we are going to type in Yoga Schedule.

Next, we are going to change around a few of the display settings. We are going to change the skin and show time. In the drop-down menu next to skin, choose Dark, which will change the interface of the calendar to be a darker color. Next, check the Show Time box which will show the event time on the calendar. At the bottom of the editor, click Save and your calendar will be created and shown in the calendars list. You can view the video below to watch how to create a calendar. 

Adding the Calendar to your Website

The WordPress Pro Event Calendar plugin makes the use of shortcodes to add the calendar to your website. Once you have created your calendar, it will appear in the Calendars List. You will see that there is a Default Shortcode column in the calendar list. 

Next tor your calendar, you will see a custom shortcode. Copy this shortcode to your clipboard. From there you will then create a new page or post. Under the visual editor for the page or post, paste the shortcode. Click the preview button on the right-hand side of the editor and your calendar will now be shown on your page or post. To watch how to add the calendar to your website, watch the video below

Getting the Most Out of Pro Event Calendar

This calendar creation tutorial only scratches the surface of what this plugin can do. This calendar plugin is rich with features that can be added to your calendars to make them more useful to your audience and your business. Here are a few features that this plugin offers that will take your calendar to the next level. 

Bookings

The booking option allows you to have your website viewers book a specific event. This allows you to know who will be attending your events so you can plan accordingly. You can also set the maximum number of people able to book an event, so your specific event does not get overbooked. In the plugin settings in the back-end of your WordPress site, you will be able to see who has booked a specific event and you will be able to export this list to an Excel spreadsheet. 

Subscribe to a Calendar

This is an incredibly useful feature. The subscribe to calendar feature allows your website viewers to subscribe to any calendar that you create. When a user subscribes to a calendar, they will get notified anytime there is a new event. Having this email reminder sent to your audience's mailbox will make sure that they do not forget your event, so make sure you turn on this option in the Edit section of your Calendars.

Google Map Support

If you are running an event that requires people to come to a specific location, then this feature should definitely be enabled. This makes it much more convenient for your customers to plan their trip to your event. They can see the calendar and get directions to your event all in one place instead of having to browse around to find your event's location. 

Conclusion 

The Pro Event Calendar plugin will give you the tools necessary to create a custom calendar for your WordPress website. In this article, I showed you how to create an event, add it to a calendar, and display it on your WordPress website with the Pro Event Calendar plugin. 

If you are interested in purchasing this calendar plugin, visit CodeCanyon to download it. Also, feel free to search through the various other calendar plugins on CodeCanyon if this one isn't quite right for you.


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Create an Email Subscription List With Opt-In Panda Plugin For WordPress

To run a successful business or blog on your WordPress website, you will need to have a growing email subscription list. This email list will allow you to market to your target audience and will become a trusted source of revenue and traffic if used correctly. 

But how do we collect emails from our target audience?

Thankfully, there are plenty of WordPress plugins that we can choose from to collect these emails. One of the best plugins to collect emails is the Opt-In Panda plugin. Opt-In Panda collects emails by locking specific content on your pages and posts until a user has signed up. This is a very effective way to collect emails from your target audience that you can market to in your email newsletters. In this article, we’ll go over how you can collect emails on your website with the Opt-In Panda plugin. 

What We Will Be Building 

This tutorial will cover how to build an email locker and place it on a webpage to blur out your webpages text. We are using this email locker to collect email addresses from viewers of our webpage so we can market to them in the future. This email locker will blur out the entire webpage's content and an email sign up popup will be displayed over the blurred out content. This popup will require the user to enter their email address in order to view the content on the webpage. 

We are creating this email locker because it is a very effective way of marketing and building your audience. The people who view your webpage and enter in their email into your email locker are interested in your website's content. From a marketing perspective, this is key. If the webpage's content is aligned with what you are selling, then you will have identified a targeted audience that has already shown interest in what you are selling—this will give you a much higher conversion rate for sales. Below is an image of the email locker that we will be creating. 

The Opt-In Panda email locker in action

Creating a New Locker

To collect emails from your website visitors, Opt-In Panda locks a portion of the content on a webpage and asks the visitor to enter their email. This gives visitors a reason to subscribe right there and get instant access to your websites valuable content. 

To create this locker, we are going to head on over to WP Dashboard > Opt-In Panda > + New Locker. Next, click on + Create Item in the Email Locker section. This will take us to the email locker editor. We are going to first name the locker, "Email Locker," at the top of the editor. 

Now we are going to change the Basic Options of the locker to have the locker function the way we want it to. Under Basic Options, we want to change the default locker header to be more descriptive for the website visitor. We will change it to say This Content Is Only For Email Subscribers.

Next, we are going to change the locker message. We want to make it clear to the website viewer that they need to have a valid email address in order to access the content so we will make a minor change to the text to say, Please subscribe to unlock this content. To subscribe, enter a valid email address below.

Setting up Opt-In Panda

Now we are going to change the theme of the locker. There are three themes to choose from. choose the one that  the theme that fits best with the color scheme and design of your website. In our case, the Dark Theme will fit the best. 

Right below the Theme and Overlap Mode settings, you will be able to see a preview of the actual locker which will help you make your theme choices. Next, we will change the Overlap Mode. The overlap mode is how website visitors will visually see the locked content. 

We want the locked content to be blurred out so website visitors cannot see the actual content on the page, so we will select the Blurring option. You can see the changes reflected in the preview section of the editor. 

The next settings we are going to change are in the Subscription Option part of the editor. To ensure that the user is not putting in a fake email address just to view the content, we are going to choose the Full Double Opt-In setting. Once the user enters in their email address, they will receive a confirmation email. Once they confirm the subscription in the email, the content on the website will be unlocked. If the user puts in a fake email address, they will not be able to confirm the subscription and won't be allowed to see the content. By default, the email confirmation email will be sent through WordPress. We will let WordPress send these emails, but you can have your email service provider send out these emails instead. 

Subscription options for Opt-In Panda
Next, we are going to go to the right-hand side of the locker editor and adjust the Terms & Policies settings. We are going to turn the consent checkbox on. In the preview, you will see that a consent checkbox has been added to the bottom of the locker. 

This is a very important feature to turn on. As of 2018, the European Union implemented a new data protection law that covers processing personal data. Turning this feature will ensure that the locker is compatible with GDPR. If your website interacts with EU citizens, you need to have this active. 

That is it! Your locker has now been created and is ready to add to your website. Check out the video below to watch the email locker creation process that we just went over. 

Adding the Locker to Your Website

Like most WordPress plugins, Opt-In Panda makes the use of shortcodes to add the locker to your website. First, we will need to find and copy the shortcode to our computers clipboard. Head up to the top right of the locker editor and locate the Manual Locking section. In this section, you will see a shortcode. Copy this shortcode and then head on over to a page or post that you would like to put your newly created email lock on. 

Once you are on this page, you are going to paste the shortcode right before the page or post content in the WordPress text editor. We are going to cut the second half of the shortcode as this will signal to the plugin to lock the content between the shortcode. The send half of the shortcode starts with [/emaillocker...]. Once you have cut the second part of the shortcode, head on over to the last piece of website content that you want to be locked and paste this shortcode. 

Congratulations! Your content will now be email locked and you are ready to start growing your email list. Watch the video below to see how to add the locker to your website. 

Getting the Most Out of Opt-In Panda

In this article, we covered just one possible use of the email locker. There are many other uses of the email locker then just blurring out the text on your webpages. Here are a few ways that you utilize the Opt-In Panda plugin to help you grow your email list and marketing campaigns. 

Lock Free Download Links

By locking just the download links on your webpage, you give the user a chance to read through the content of the page and then entice them to enter their email address to receive the free download. This works most effectively when you place the download and the email locker at the bottom of the webpage and use the content placed before the download to convince the reader that they must have the free download. 

Lock Images and Videos

Blocking specific images is another useful way to encourage users. In today's video and image-driven world, users would rather look at images and watch videos then do any reading. Putting an email locker on any important videos and images on your website will give your users a good reason to sign up!

Lock Specific Sections of Your Website

The email locker allows you to lock as many webpages as you would like. This is very handy if you have sections of your website that you don't want users to have instant access to. Areas of your website that you could lock that would help you collect a number of emails include free download sections, blogs, galleries, or any area of your site that you don't want to give away for "free."

Conclusion

The Opt-In Panda WordPress plugin gives you the ability to create an email locker that prevents your website viewers from viewing a pages content unless they enter their email address. This locker is incredibly helpful for building your email list for your website. In this tutorial, you learned one way to create this email locker using the plugin. 

To give this plugin a try, head over to CodeCanyon and check out the live preview of the Opt-In Panda plugin. And while you're here, check out some of the other great WordPress plugins available from CodeCanyon.


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Android Selfie Apps Record Audio: Wandera reported the apps which have 1.5 million downloads

The internet and technology is helping a lot of us but at the same it is also becoming a dangerous place because of privacy and data breaches. There are so many Android applications which quietly share and sale your data to highest bidders. Along with that, those shady apps pop up different...

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