WordPress Live Chat Plugin

Best FREE WordPress Live Chat Plugins for Online Support

You’ve started business online and selling your products. In the next big steps, you need to build a good support system for your customers who wants to find a response for their queries and your instant support makes your client happy and the satisfaction of clients becomes a key of success for your business.
There are these 3 ways to do that.

  • Firstly, via call. You give them a support number (it’s may free or not free) for which all the calls will be made.
  • Secondly, you and your customers can talking directly via instant messaging softwares / services like Skype, Hangouts, OTT apps or Live Chat. The cost savings and convenience for customers and staffs.
  • And finally, the email support. You give them your support email ID and start waiting for the customer’s email. It’s slowest method, the customers and staffs need few days for ask and answer. It’s free but un-cheerful!

Here I’d like to share some of the live chat plugins which are very useful for your business websites.

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WooCommerce JetPack

Powerfull WordPress Plugins to Enhance WooCommerce Functions

WordPress and WooCommerce are free, you don’t have to spend anything to build your own web store and start selling your products. Running a WordPress site is no difficult task, so it means managing a WooCommerce store too is not difficult by any standards. Since it’s built on top of WordPress, there are hundreds of plugins available to make your web store even better. Below is a list of Powerful WordPress plugins to Enhancing WooCommerce Functions which allow you to improve your product listing, use various discount methods, improve your ordering process and maximize your sales by going social.
If you’re looking for the methods to create and send to your customers, don’t miss Top 7 WordPress Plugins to Invoice Your Clients

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Beginner's Guide to WordPress Must-Use plugins

Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Must-Use & Drop Ins plugins

Sometimes, you will facing the Must-Use or Drop Ins section when navigate to the WordPress Plugins list page. You can’t touch it except uninstall it by removing the plugin file from the must-use or wp-content directories, which is found in wp-content/mu-plugins by default.
Popular plugins that do belong in this folder are ones like Domain Mapping and W3 Total Cache.
Must-use plugins allow users to add features which are not present by default in the WordPress core but that are needed for users.

What’s about WordPress Must-Use Plugins

The mu-plugins directory was originally implemented by WPMU (Multi-User) to offer site admins an easy way to activate plugins by default on all blogs in the farm.
Must-use plugins (a.k.a. mu-plugins) are plugins that will always be activated by default, without you needing to do it yourself. Must User plugins are designed to have loading priority over regular plugins, it will always be executed, unless it is uninstalled.

  • Always-on, no need to enable via admin and users cannot disable by accident.
  • Can be enabled simply by uploading file to the mu-plugins directory, without having to log-in.
  • Must-use plugins allow users to add features which are not present by default in the WordPress core but that are needed for users.
  • Loaded by PHP, in alphabetical order, before normal plugins, meaning API hooks added in an mu-plugin apply to all other plugins even if they run hooked-functions in the global namespace.
  • You loose the settings when change themes or plugins. By using a “Must Use” plugin, the code will always be available – no matter what network, theme, or curious guest blogger might do otherwise. It’s very useful in WordPress Multisite (Network)

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Contact Us Form

Why You Should Create a WordPress Contact Form Without Plugins and How?

There are a plenty of plugins that can be used for adding almost any functionality to your WordPress powered site. However, if you’re someone who like to build things from the ground up, then probably you won’t like to make use of the existing plugins. You can roll out your own stuff! When building something from scratch you’ll understand the underlying implementation of the thing that you’re creating, and will even gain skills that might end up using the same skills while working on another WP project.

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Improve WordPress Comments System with Social Comments

Improve WordPress Comments System with Social Comments

The default comments system built into WordPress is very basic and not good as we expected to prevent spam (How To Stop WordPress Spam Comments?), connect to your audience… and it’s lacking of advanced functionality to improve the way to commenting on your website. Thankfully, WordPress plugins can help you done with threaded commenting (include in core comments system), use social media accout to login and comment, mark a comment as favorite/like/helpful or not …
The Social Comments System like Facebook, Google+, Disqus… breaking down the barriers between you and your audience. When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, they can now use one of their existing social networking accounts to post a comment.
Let’s take a look at some Social Comment Systems that will elevate you above the default WordPress comments system.

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Syntax Highlighter WordPress Plugins and Services for Embedding Code

9 Syntax Highlighter Plugins and Services for Embedding Code Snippets in WordPress

WordPress is using TinyCME as default editor, so displaying code within a post is not an easy task. That is why there are some amazing developers who create plugins to make that solve this niggly issue.
However, there are some simple and effective ways to do this by use WordPress code snippet plugins or 3rd-party services there can help you maintain the original formatting of any code being inserted in WordPress posts and make your blog a lot more appealing to the readers.
Following are a list of best WordPress plugins or 3rd-party services to highlight code snippets within your blog that I have personally tried.

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Why I stop using Jetpack plugin

Jetpack’s bloat, replace Jetpack’s modules with other plugins

JetPack is all-in-one WordPress plugin developed by Automattic, made up of a bunch of useful modules, they called it as super-plugin. When I first heard about Jetpack, I was excited about the potential for WordPress.com features to be shared with WordPress.org users. It’s good choice (must have) when you start a WordPress website and in some previous post, I’ve told why do you should active JetPack first. But all-in-one or everything functionality plugin is not good for you, sometimes you will feel it

Why I stop using Jetpack plugin
Why I stop using Jetpack plugin

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Prevent Hidden Causes by Clean up WordPress Database Bloat Issues

Prevent Hidden Causes by Clean up WordPress Database Bloat Issues

After running your WordPress website more than 2 years, you will find your database size bigger than your thoughts. Over time WordPress saves a ton of information to its database, which can become bloated with unnecessary values, thus slowing down your site and putting more stress on your server setup. WordPress database bloat may be the hidden cause of a number of issues your blog may be experiencing!
Just like anything, your WordPress blog also needs some maintenance, servicing and cleaning every now and then to keep it running smoothly, speedily and effectively. In this post we’ll look at 10 ways you can give your WordPress install a spring clean to trim the fat and put everything in its place. So then, it helps you prevent hidden causes may occurring to your WordPress website.

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How to Schedule Backup WordPress Database

How to Schedule Backup WordPress Database

Do a schedule backups of your WordPress MySQL database is the most important thing to do when running your own WordPress website, it is required to restore your blog, it needs to urgently migrate to another host or restore your database from a crashed server.

From official WordPress guidline – The WordPress Codex, you will find some excellent ways to back up database using phpMyAdmin, MySQL commands, and MySQL administrator. But are you willing to backup your site daily, weekly, monthly and everyday of the year by yourself? There are too many methods, plugins, tools which help you done this job by automatically back up your MySQL database for you and send it across to a safe storage space such that the latest backup is there whenever you need it, wherever you need to restore database from across the world.

There are several ways to backup MySQL data. In this article I will show you how to backup your databases using different methods, we will also learn how to achieve an automatic backup solution to make the process easier, including the backup of your database to a file, another server, and even a compressed gzip file and send it to your email.

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Top 20 Most Common Wordpress Plugins for starters

Top 20+ Most Common WordPress Plugins for starters

WordPress has a lot of plugins developed by many people. A headache after you install your own WordPress blog that “What is the necessary and useful WordPress plugins need to install after I got a WordPress blog?”
Let’s take a look at the 20 most commonly used plugins on WordPress blogs across the web, including those that offer more features, to those that simply reduce the simple tasks of running a blog.

Top 20 Most Common WordPress Plugins for starters
Top 20 Most Common WordPress Plugins for starters

If you are new to WordPress, this basic list (which is technically not limited to plugins alone) should help get you started on the right foot. Whether you are running a basic brochure site, or a full featured blog, you should be sure your WordPress site includes these essentials.

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