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Best WordPress Plugins you Should Use for Your Small Business Website

Annette Hill WordPress plugins August 14, 2019August 8, 2019 Leave a comment

Nowadays WordPress offers an enormously big amount of plugins to start building a website from scratch. And very often it is tricky and unclear especially for inexperienced users to understand where to begin from.

In this post, we gathered the best WordPress plugins for building business websites. But all of them are perfectly suitable for any other kind of website – personal blog, gallery, portfolio, online shop, etc. In case you already have a website, you can check this list of needed plugins and get to know which ones are missing on it. But regardless of your goals you will for sure find extremely useful, handy and cool WordPress plugins to implement on your website.

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Getwid Blocks: Section Gutenberg Block

Ann Taylor WordPress plugins August 7, 2019August 8, 2019 Leave a comment

The Section Gutenberg Block by Getwid is a top-level (parent) Gutenberg block. You can use it as a container for organizing multiple (child) blocks inside it: feel free to utilize the Getwid, core Gutenberg, and third-party blocks.

Since Section has been designed to provide you with a huge number of configuration settings, you want to start with this block for any deeply custom content! You can control it as one block.

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Petotel: WordPress Pet Sitting Website Template for Pet Daycare & Boarding

Ann Taylor WordPress themes July 30, 2019July 25, 2019 Leave a comment

Here at MotoPress we build WordPress tools for rental business of all types, primarily hotels, bed and breakfast hosts, vacation rentals and the like. It took us several years to polish the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin to make it a recognizable purpose-oriented reservation solution for WordPress! But this is the first time that we’ve released a very specific pet boarding WordPress theme with a very witty name: Petotel pet sitting website template.

As its name suggests, the theme is aimed at pet boarding and services websites, such as cat and dog website templates. Moreover, feedback from our clients who had used other MotoPress themes for creating pet hotels was a driving force for crafting this pets website template. You don’t need workarounds anymore!

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Meet New Getwid Blocks for Gutenberg: Contact Form, Post Slider and More!

Ann Taylor MotoPress news July 24, 2019July 25, 2019 Leave a comment

Since we’ve added five new Getwid Blocks for Gutenberg recently, we can safely say that the Getwid WordPress Blocks plugin by MotoPress offers one of the biggest collections of the free blocks out there!

In this overview, we are going to indulge you with even more useful and powerful blocks for Gutenberg that will allow you to:

Create mobile-friendly post and custom post type sliders automatically sourced from your website data.
Build tailored layouts for custom post types.
Implement a simple WordPress contact form.
Create a restaurant menu.

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15+ Best Premium Gutenberg WordPress Themes

Valerie Way WordPress themes July 17, 2019August 5, 2019 Leave a comment

If your sights are well and truly set on building WordPress websites using the new Block Editor and you want to go with one of the premium Gutenberg themes to get the most out of it, our today’s theme collection may come in handy for you.

Here are the top premium themes that are built specifically for WordPress 5.0+, optimized for the block-based editing approach and ensure that customizing them with Gutenberg is a breeze.

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WordPress Hotel Booking News: Reports, Better Rate Management and More

Ann Taylor Product updates July 9, 2019July 30, 2019 Leave a comment

If you haven’t got time to go through the last three MotoPress Hotel Booking releases (the latest version is 3.5.1 as of the time of writing this), we are going to help you do that quickly with this brief overview of the major improvements in hotel booking reports and management sections.

Since some of the recent updates were focused on minor fixes and improvements, we didn’t have enough reasons to introduce them to you. Now we have loads of things to share and boast!

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How to Create a Hotel Booking WordPress Website

Ann Taylor WordPress tutorials July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Leave a comment

In this WordPress tutorial, I’m very keen to tell you how to create a hotel booking website that won’t break your bank account.

We do write about WordPress for hotels and rental properties a lot on this blog, so before we go any further, let’s see whether this is really that piece of content that you are looking for!

Here are some key things on what we’ll be looking at and what sort of website you can achieve:

This guide is aimed at WordPress.org self-hosted websites (not .com).
You can create a website totally independently: the process doesn’t involve coding skills (unless you need a deeply custom configuration – in plain words, something absolutely different from the default design and functionality solutions I’m going to introduce you to).

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Meet Bimba: Handmade WordPress Theme & WooCommerce Store

Ann Taylor WordPress themes June 26, 2019July 30, 2019 Leave a comment

If you are looking to start an online shop with WordPress, your own but more modest Etsy, we’re going to tell you how to do that and what things to consider.

Bimba WordPress WooCommerce theme for handmade, children’s and home textiles, and other sorts of goods can be a great foundation for your future shop website on WordPress.

Bimba is our brand new handmade WordPress theme that was created according to the new WordPress realities that had started with the Gutenberg block-based editor.

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Best Free and Premium WordPress Themes for Your Pet Hotel or Boarding Facility

Valerie Way WordPress themes June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 Leave a comment

There are a great many of animal and pet WordPress themes with a fun, professional and truly flexible design that can be adjusted to fit nearly any animal-oriented site.

But here is what we noticed trying to find a theme that would be the best choice for pet hotel or pet boarding websites.

After browsing through the demos and feature lists of pets themes available on the market, we realized that the majority of them are optimized (in terms of available inner pages, widgets or integrated plugins) for businesses that differ from pet hotels in concept and operating principle. These are usually either grooming salons or vet clinics, or large pet care centers providing a whole suite of services (where overnight boarding may or may not be one of them.)

Let us explain what we mean with an example. E.g, many of the pet templates are shipped with appointment booking plugins – the ones for managing short-term (usually hourly) appointments. They do work great for pet salons, veterinary clinics or animal training classes.

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Best WordPress Gutenberg Blocks Plugins Compared

Ann Taylor WordPress plugins June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 4 Comments

In this post, we’re taking a closer look at some popular WordPress Gutenberg block plugins. So if you think it’s high time (it is!) to switch to a more native WordPress page builder that extends the functionality of Gutenberg, we are here to help you find the right match for your needs. It all boils down to your particular type of website after all.

Please note: we’re going to list only those Gutenberg blocks plugins for WordPress that are bundles of extra blocks for different content creation purposes, similar to WordPress page builders like Elementor, but more WordPress-native. So we’re not going to look into a one plugin=one block sort of functionality or adapted ones from popular WordPress companies like WooCommerce.

We’ve given a brief test-run to each Gutenberg plugin in this round-up to get some hands-on experience and share it with you. We’ll also highlight the pros and cons of these plugins as well as organize some paramount features in the checklist so you can compare the most essential things.

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