Posts by Press Avenue
WordPress Black Friday Cyber Monday Deals
Press Avenue’s Black Friday Cyber Monday Roundup. We love to save big on all things WordPress from to plugins, themes, services and everything in between to help run a business or your personal site. This year the Black Friday Cyber Monday deals list is different by quite a bit. We have made a whole new…
Read More5 Reasons WPForms Is The Best Form Builder
Building forms can cause headaches in WordPress because there are too many choices of plugins to choose from and some have a large learning curve. this is where WPForms enters the scene to offer a beginner-friendly form building experience for all WordPress users. I have been using WPForms for quite a while and I feel…
Read MoreHow to Create Online Payment Form – WPForms PayPal Addon
Collecting payments online is a must in today’s new normal. You can have your customers pay you upfront and then you can allow them to pick up items or even deliver! WPForms has a drag & drop builder making it really easy for you to customize the form, add and remove fields with a simple…
Read MoreHow to Create a Donation Form
How to Create a Donation Form In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a donation form for your nonprofit! Right now, organizations all over the world need the ability to accept money online to support their nonprofit efforts. This simple form setup will allow you to accept money quickly. Any Nonprofit could…
Read MoreHow to Add Dynamic Copyright Year – Elementor Footer
How to Add Dynamic Copyright Year – Elementor Footer In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Elementor’s dynamic content to add a copyright date to your website’s footer that is always up to date. This date in the footer will always show the current year. This tutorial requires Elementor Pro and the…
Read MoreHow to Create a Free WordPress Contact Form – HappyForms
How to Create a Free WordPress Contact Form – HappyForms In this tutorial, I will walk you through each step to installing HappyForms and building a free WordPress form with the plugin. HappyForms provides a ton of functionality in their free version of their form software and it allows you to easily customize the form…
Read MoreHow to Create a WordPress Upload Form
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a WordPress Upload Form which will allow you to receive files, images and even videos from people via your WordPress form. You can also collect additional info in the form from potential or current clients, job resumes, videos, audio, Word docs and more. This has…
Read MoreHow to Backup Restore WordPress – Free Plugin
How to Backup Restore WordPress Website with a free plugin called UpdraftPlus which backups your files and database easily. Backups can be scheduled, downloaded or added to the cloud all for free which is great for a free plugin! In this tutorial, I will show you how to set this up, backup your WordPress website…
Read MoreHow to Add Anchor Links WordPress Gutenberg
In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to add anchor links in WordPress Gutenberg, aka the Block Editor. Before the block editor update, you needed to do this the code editor in order to place anchors in your content and then add a link to go to them. Thankfully the block editor has…
Read MoreHow to Add reCAPTCHA Forms
How to Add reCAPTCHA forms with WPForms In this WordPress tutorial, we will look at adding reCaptcha forms to our WordPress website to help prevent and eliminate spam, spambots, and other junk. Below is an example of a ReCaptcha form, thankfully they have an invisible option as well so your user may never see it.…
Read MoreHow to Remove Malware from Hacked WordPress Website
How to Remove Malware from Hacked WordPress Website This tutorial will show you steps to take when removing WordPress malware, spam and other junk that should now be on your website. In this video, I remove WordPress Support 24x7Support, this is spam and they ask for money to remove and to help! Now I will…
Read MoreHow to Setup WordPress SMTP Email Logs – Track and Fix Emails
How to Setup WordPress SMTP Email Logs – Track and Fix Emails WordPress is terrible at sending emails but it’s pretty great at everything else. If you don’t know, WordPress uses the PHP mail() function to send emails out from your site and based on your server your emails might not be getting to the…
Read MoreBeaver Builder Footer – Change the WordPress Footer with Themer
Beaver Builder Footer – In this tutorial we will be building a new Beaver Builder Footer using Beaver Themer. Themer allows use to edit different parts of WordPress beyond just the content areas. these areas could include the header, footer, archive pages, category pages and more. Beaver Builder Themer is an additional plugin addon to…
Read MoreHow to Fix SSL Not Fully Secure WordPress Website
Securing your website is a must for every website owner. Nonsecure websites don’t usually affect your website’s functionality but they do impact your user experience and your Google SEO rankings. Imagine your users seeing a NON-SECURE or Red Lock saying the site is not secure when they visit your site. This makes users uneasy but…
Read MoreHow to Setup WordPress SMTP for Sending Emails
How to Setup WordPress SMTP for Sending Emails We realize WordPress users sometimes, almost always, struggle with email deliverability from their WordPress websites. We want to fix that and we have found a solution that is absolutely great! If you have ever thought any of the following then this WordPress Tutorial is for you! Why…
Read MoreBest WordPress Plugins 2020
The Best WordPress Plugins 2020 is my list of plugins that I install on every site I create and this list will feature only free ones to help you get started with your WordPress website. Best WordPress Plugins 2020 Video Best WordPress Plugins Featured These plugins should cover most sites and if you have any…
Read MoreHow to Accept Payments WPForms PayPal Addon
How to Accept Payments WPForms PayPal Addon Accepting payments can be done in a variety of ways. Thankfully WPForms has a payment addon for PayPal so we can utilize a plugin already installed on our business websites to accept payments from clients. In our case, simply accepting money is great but I do like to…
Read MoreHow to Find Out What WordPress Theme a Site is Using
How to Find Out What WordPress Theme a Site is Using Have you ever been curious about what WordPress theme a blog or website you visit often is using? In this tutorial, we will cover 3 ways we look this up. This question was asked in our free Facebook group for Press Avenue tutorials. We…
Read MoreOverview of Securing WordPress with HTTPS Course
Learn how to Secure Your WordPress Website with HTTPS and fix any issues that you may run into along the way. This course will give you everything you need to secure your site, your clients’ site or any WordPress site that you use. Learn at your own pace. I created the Securing WordPress with HTTPS…
Read MoreWordPress Plugins Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
Strong Custom Authentication or SCA is here! This effects WordPress merchants (and everyone else) in the European Union or the European Economic Area (EEA). So what is this exactly? Strong Customer Authentication applies to “customer-initiated” online payments within Europe. Meaning if you have a customer come to your eCommerce WordPress website and they initiate a payment…
Read MoreWPForms Conversational Forms
WPForms Conversational Forms are forms that look like a conversation is taking place. For example: One question is asked by the form You give an answer A follow-up question is asked Then you give another answer etc Conversational forms allow you to turn your form content into a more engaging way for your users to…
Read More