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Stratum Widgets: Free Elementor Instagram Widget

The current Stratum collection consists of 20+ advanced Elementor widgets, and we keep exploring their possibilities. Some of them, like Advanced Google Maps, Advanced Slider or Image Hotspot, offer extended customization features of Elementor Basic widgets. But also, Statum shares a few exclusive widgets that have no alternatives in the basic set of a page builder.

The free Elementor Instagram widget is one of the convincing reasons to download the Stratum addon right now.

See also: the free Instagram widget for the block editor (Gutenberg)
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10 Best Free WordPress Slider Plugins & Gutenberg Blocks

Despite the controversy and even demonization, many websites still can’t ignore sliders as a powerful marketing and presentation weapon so the latter are often in high demand. If you are here, most likely you’ve already made up your mind that a WordPress slider plugin is what you need to go further. And we are here to help you choose the best slider plugin for your particular needs.

The main limitation of many free slider plugins for WordPress is that they provide only image sliders with limited layouts and animation effects – but you’re also to discover some that moved beyond these limitations!

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Stratum Widgets: Price Menu & Price List Elementor Widgets

The Price Menu and Price List Elementor widgets by Stratum Elementor addons will aid you in creating categorized lists of items with prices, which can work for (but are not limited to) restaurant and cafe menus, product lists and diverse price lists.

In this post, we’re looking into two dedicated widgets that will help you channel your menu list design ideas to interactive website content. The key elements of both Elementor widgets are a title, description, price placeholder, plus optional dotted lines and images.

See also: the Price Menu block for the block editor (Gutenberg)

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Stratum Widgets: Advanced Google Maps Elementor Widget

The free version of Elementor provides you with a basic Google Maps widget, but if you want to customize the map further, use the Advanced Maps Elementor widget by Stratum. It’s also free but gives you access to way more tools integrated from the official Google Maps services.

See also: the Google Maps widget for the block editor (Gutenberg)

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How to Make MotoPress Hotel Booking Search Forms Horizontal

Let’s talk about making a MotoPress search form horizontal. The search availability forms and booking forms in the MotoPress WordPress Hotel Booking plugin are vertical by default (if they aren’t styled and optimized for specific themes) since such a layout type adheres to rather universal design patterns. In simple terms, there are more chances it will look and work better regardless of a viewport (on any device).

But quite often you need to change this, especially for desktops, to improve the default design of your WordPress rental property theme. So are there any easy ways to do that?

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Stratum Widgets: Advanced Posts Elementor Widget

The Advanced Posts widget for Elementor is one of the most customizable and feature-rich widgets for dynamically sourced posts or pages of your WordPress website.

Whether you want to showcase the latest or manually selected posts in a carousel or a modern card-styled grid layout, it’s a doable task with the Advanced Posts Elementor widget by Stratum widgets.

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5 Free WordPress FAQ Plugins + Tips on How to Make a FAQ Page

There is hardly a chance that beginning entrepreneurs would relate a FAQ section to a highly efficient marketing instrument. But it truly is!

While businesses are working REALLY hard to optimize their job to the online reality, using old-but-gold marketing methods becomes a no-brainer. A well-written FAQ section comes ahead of Google ads, social media promo, and a business blog. Simply spoken, if you choose the right question and come up with a clarified answer, it can bring a lot of organic traffic from the search engine.

The moment you realize it is when you start looking for a good WordPress FAQ plugin…

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How to Sync WordPress Bookings with Google Calendar & Apple Calendar

It’s pretty easy to sync and manage bookings across different platforms and calendar applications that support iCal.

iCal (iCalendar) is a common data exchange file format, meaning its primary aim is to store and exchange events data (property reservations in our context).

Many external OTAs, such as Airbnb or Booking, support this format just like the Hotel Booking plugin by MotoPress. This makes a two-way connection between your WordPress website bookings generated via Hotel Booking and reservations sourced by those platforms possible.
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How to Use Gutenberg: Quick Guide on New WordPress Block Editor

Right after the WordPress 5.0 release, there was a rather big uncertainty as to how to use this new Gutenberg WordPress editor. How to work with a revolutionary interface, how to use Gutenberg and start handling blocks as a fundamental element of a website? In our WordPress block editor tutorial, we will clarify all the information about the Gutenberg editor and how to work with it.

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The Guide To Setting An Online Food Delivery WordPress Website

If you wonder how to make a food delivery website and set up an online food delivery WordPress service, click no further. We’re going to show you how to do it with a few WordPress food ordering system plugins.

Before we go any further, let’s outline things you must have at your disposal to create a food delivery website WordPress:

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