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Adding Images

Whenever you want to deal with images, video or other types of media – you will be working with media library in WordPress. This is where WordPressstores all the images, video and other media that you upload so that you can include it on your website. Think of it as giant repository on your website…

Keeping Your Site Updated

Your Best Defense? ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS – KEEP YOUR SITE UP TO DATE!!! Sorry for the shouting but this is critical. Make sure you have the latest version of WordPress and all your plugins. How? Many ways. But the easiest way to see is to simply look at our left hand column of your Dashboard.…

Types of Modules in Beaver Builder

Review of Standard Modules Here are the Standard modules with a basic description: Basic Photo: insert an image Separator: insert a horizontal line between modules Button: insert a button with a link – has a Style tab where you can set background and hover color as well as the structure of the button. Video: insert…

Beaver Builder Framework

What is a Framework? In WordPress you can generally chose between a theme and a framework. But, what exactly is a framework and how are they different? A Framework is the base of a theme. It holds the basic functionality but is fairly devoid of any styling. This makes it lightweight and easier to use.…

Menus in WordPress

Creating a Menu In order to create a new menu, you must first acccess the menus section in the backend of your WordPress site. There are two ways to go about this. Via the Dashboard From your Dashboard click on Appearance –> Menus Via the Admin Menu Go to the site name in the top…

How to Add PHP pages to WordPress

First, duplicate post.php or page.php in your theme folder (under /wp-content/themes/themename/). Rename the new file as templatename.php (where templatename is what you want to call your new template). To add your new template to the list of available templates, enter the following at the top of the new file: <?php /* Template Name: Name of…

Adding Rows & Columns

When you create a page in Beaver Builder for the first time you see this: The column that is hovering shows all the modules you can use. Interestingly enough though, we want to start with creating our layout first. Usually. So click on the Rows menu option. Then you will see this: We

User Registration Add On

Gravity Forms has a user registration plugin which allows you to create new users. GO read about it 🙂 Using the User Registration Add-On

Intro to User Role Editor Plugin

This is mainly a premium plugin – there is a free version but it has ads…ugh! However, you can try it out and if you like it -buy it. A simple personal version is not too much. When you are using it for classwork or projects associated – you can use our unlimited professional version.…

Extending Gravity Views

Gravity Views is a premium plugin. Mettler Solutions uses it on most of the sites that we created that use Gravity Forms. It is a quick and powerful way to let the user see and edit data. So far, we have covered the basic features of Gravity Views. However, if you own one of the…