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Featuring a specific product in your online store can be an effective way to increase your sales. For instance, you may want to showcase your newest item on your home page, or promote it in a blog post. Fortunately, the Featured Product WooCommerce block enables you to easily highlight any product on your WordPress site. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the Featured Product block and show you how to add it to your site. We’ll also discuss some best practices for using this feature effectively. Let’s get started! How to Add the Featured Product WooCommerce Block to Your Post or...

Divi footers are versatile. You can place a variety of elements within them to help visitors navigate through your website. Although Divi is full of modules you can place inside your footer off the bat, you can also include plugin shortcodes in your Divi footer. In this article, we’ll show you how! We’ll tackle three different plugin examples, so let’s get to it. Preview Let’s take a quick look at what we’re adding to our Divi footer. We’ll add these plugins: The Events Calendar Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed CookieYes | GDPR Cookie Consent & Compliance Notice The Events Calendar...

In many online stores, there’s one category of products that sells better than anything else. If this is true for your e-commerce shop, the Featured Category WooCommerce block can help you introduce those top items to an even broader audience. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Featured Category block in WooCommerce. We’ll go over how to configure this block and discuss the best ways to use it. Finally, we’ll answer the most common questions about how to include a Featured Category section in your storefront. Let’s get to it! How to Add the Featured Category WooCommerce Block...

A yearly copyright notice is one of the most popular elements to add to a website’s footer. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to remember to change the year from one year to the next. The solution is to make the year dynamic. It would pull the date from the server, and you would never have to worry about it. Fortunately, adding a dynamic year to the Divi copyright footer is a simple task. In this article, we’ll see how to add a dynamic copyright year to your Divi footer so it will update automatically. Preview Here’s how the Divi copyright footer will look on desktop and mobile. Divi...

Divi footer WordPress menus are an important part of any footer. Menus can be created with text links, menu modules, or widgets. The Divi menu module places the links on a horizontal line. However, footers often utilize menus with links that stack vertically. Fortunately, these menus are easy to add to Divi footers. In this article, we’ll see how to add WordPress menus to your Divi footer. Divi Footer WordPress Menus Preview Here are the Divi footer WordPress menus that we will create. They will allow us to change them easily. Rather than adding the Divi footer WordPress menus with the...

There are broken links everywhere on the web. As your content library grows and posts become outdated, it’s all too common for some links to “break”. When a user clicks on a broken link, it sends them to a page that doesn’t exist. That’s terrible news for both the User Experience (UX) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Finding and fixing links that don’t work is easier than you might expect. However, dead links are something that you need to actively check for. In this article, we’ll talk about why broken links appear and what problems they can cause. Then we’ll show you how to find...

Privacy policies and terms and conditions are two important pages that should be easy to access. The footer is perhaps the most popular place to add links to these pages. These links are easy to add to your footer with Divi. In this article, we’ll see two methods on how to add Divi footer privacy & terms links to your website. Preview of our Divi Footer Privacy & Terms We’re going to add the Divi footer privacy & terms links using menus and widgets. This will get us a horizontal layout and a vertical layout. Here’s a preview of how they will look. Method 1 Desktop Here’s the...

Anyone who’s familiar with browsing the web has run across a 403 Forbidden error, or other HTTP status error, at some point. These errors are incredibly frustrating, especially when they appear on a WordPress website that you own and run. When you’ve gone to the trouble to set up your own hosting and you know the ins and outs of managing your own website, it’s perplexing to suddenly be locked out of a particular page (or the site itself). Thankfully, a 403 Forbidden error is possible to fix. This article will explain what the 403 error is, and what to do if you see one on your WordPress...

Pop-up optin forms are simultaneously one of the most useful and most annoying elements of web design. Without them, you can hardly grow a list of devoted customers, but first-time visitors are highly unlikely to even pay attention to them. That’s why we want to walk you through the process of using Divi’s condition options to trigger an optin form after the user visits certain pages. Not only are they more likely to convert because they have looked around your site a bit, but also because you’re not annoying them with a pop up that doesn’t pertain to them. Let’s dig in and see how we can...

Your internet browsing session has just been interrupted by an untimely 504 Gateway Timeout error. Most likely, you’ve seen this error from time to time, since it happens when a browser fails to connect to the website you’re attempting to visit. It’s a nuisance for web users who are simply trying to navigate to their site of choice. If you’re a website owner, this error is more than an annoyance. Getting a 504 Gateway Timeout error on your WordPress website could actually be costly for your business, resulting in a high rate of lost traffic, conversions, and ultimately, income....

The WordPress maintenance mode page automatically shows to website visitors when you’re updating your site, like when you’re updating core files, plugins or themes. The point of the maintenance mode page is to prevent your site from looking like it’s broken when it’s just undergoing routine updating. The page is supposed to show only temporarily, but sometimes it sticks around for longer than it should. That means your site will be offline for far longer than you intended, which can be bad for everything from your brand reputation to search engine ranking. Another problem that a lot of...

When there’s a 500 internal server error on your website, your focus goes to one thing only: How do you get your website back online as quickly as possible? Every minute – second, even – that your site is down is time that you’re losing traffic and sales. Plus, it’s not a good look for your brand, whether you run a huge company or you’re a solopreneur. Also, a 500 internal server error that affects your site for several hours (or that happens often) can have a negative impact on your SEO rank. A site that goes down for just a few minutes may not even be recognized by Google as being...

Securing your WordPress site isn’t a one-and-done deal. No matter how much you trust your security plugin or how thorough you were with website hardening, a safe website today does not make for a safe website tomorrow. To keep hackers at bay, you have to regularly conduct WordPress security audits and fill in the safety holes you find. Website hacking tactics are always progressing, and with them so are preventative measures to keep your site safe. Think of it as a cycle. The safer a website is, the more creative hackers have to be to get into it, which means your website has to get even...

Having a strong social media presence is crucial for the success of any website. Your audience wants to connect with you on their favorite platforms. One way to make it easy for them is to provide social media links on your website. Fortunately, this is easy to do with Divi. In this article, we’ll see how to add social icons to the Divi footer. Let’s get started. Preview of the Divi Footer with Social Icons Here’s a look at how my footer will look on desktop and mobile. Desktop Preview Here’s how the layout will look on the desktop with the new social icons in the Divi footer. Mobile...