The post Best Point of Sale (POS) Plugins for WooCommerce appeared first on HostGator. Your ecommerce business is flexible in this ever-changing economy. One day, you’re ringing up customers in your brick-and-mortar store, and the next day, you’re accepting bulk orders on your website.   Your point-of-sale (POS) system needs to be agile, too. A holistic view of your products, orders, and customers helps you prepare for an influx in demand. It also gives you the data to reward loyal customers with discounts, locate previous orders, and accept multiple payment methods.   If y ..read more

The post How to Start a Photography Blog on WordPress appeared first on HostGator. You have a vision. You have a camera, the perfect medium for expressing it. You have a knack for taking the right picture at the right time. You have everything a great photographer could need. So why does it feel like something’s missing? Oh, right.  You still need someone to see your photos. After all, if you take a photograph of a forest and no one’s around, can anyone hear the camera click?  We’ll leave that question to the philosophers. As for you, you know what stands between you and your audienc ..read more

The post How to Find & Fix Your 404 Pages appeared first on HostGator. All web users will at some point encounter the dreaded 404 page . It’s pretty much inevitable. But even though it’s common, that doesn’t mean it’s something for brands to treat lightly. When your users land on a 404 page, it can cause frustration. It makes your visitors more likely to leave your website, and high bounce rates can hurt you when it comes to SEO (search engine optimization). And if you have too many links that lead to 404 pages, it makes it look like you don’t take your business website seriously and aren ..read more

The post How to Switch from Elementor to the WordPress Gutenberg Editor appeared first on HostGator. It doesn’t take long to figure out why people use Elementor.  It’s fast. It’s responsive. It makes it possible to create beautiful-looking WordPress websites with drag-and-drop convenience. And as a storehouse for your dynamic content, there are few better ways to create eye-popping websites without knowing a single line of code. So why do some people switch to the WordPress Gutenberg Editor? There are a few reasons: Content optimization. It’s easy to launch dynamic content in Gutenberg E ..read more

The post How to Start a Blog in 2022 appeared first on HostGator. Starting a blog can be an intimidating experience—especially if you’ve never built a website before. Fortunately, starting a blog can be simpler than you think. In a couple of hours, you can go from having never built a website before to having a fully functional blog. In this article, we’ll show you how to find a blogging niche, how to choose the right blogging platform, name your blog, choose a hosting provider, build out your site, publish your first post, and more. What Is a Blog? A blog is a website that focuses primarily o ..read more

The post How to Update PHP on My WordPress Site appeared first on HostGator. If you host a website, your speed and security are only as good as your PHP version.  The problem? For the average WordPress seller or blogger, updating your PHP sounds a tad like getting into the weeds.  You created a website so you could sell homemade candles or blog about reality TV—now someone is telling you to learn programming languages? Yeah, right. You might not fully understand what it does, and you certainly don’t spend most of your day thinking about it.  But it’s important—and updating it ca ..read more

The post 5 Best WordPress Plugins for Restaurants appeared first on HostGator. Every restaurant needs a website. And not just any ol’ site.  More often than not, restaurant websites are the first interactions a guest will have with your business. So, you want to impress potential customers with a beautiful design.  You’ll also want to highlight your menu, store hours, and reviews. With these WordPress plugins for restaurant websites, you can quickly add multiple functionalities.  We’ve curated a few for you to try. Take a look at these restaurant plugins below.  You mi ..read more

The post How to Choose a WordPress Theme [9 Dos and Don’ts] appeared first on HostGator. What’s the most challenging part of setting up a new WordPress site or giving one a makeover? Some say it’s choosing a domain name. Others say it’s finding the right WordPress hosting.  But what about having to choose between literally thousands of themes? Like, there are more than 4,300 on WordPress.org alone.  via GIPHY No one has time to look through that many options but grabbing the first theme you see probably won’t work out, either. Hmmm.  We can’t tell you which WordPress theme is t ..read more

The post How to Get Paid as a Freelance Consultant [Pro Tips & Tools] appeared first on HostGator. Working as a freelancer or a consultant has several attractive benefits. You can be your own boss, you can set your own prices, and you have the flexibility that many other professions don’t offer.  But, there’s one thing that’s difficult for many freelancers—tracking down payments. In fact, over 70% of freelancers report difficulty getting paid as a freelancer at least once in their career with an average loss of $6,000 a year, according to research by the Freelancer’s Union. I experien ..read more

The post What Is Website Bandwidth? appeared first on HostGator. Choosing the right web hosting plan requires understanding what makes your various options different. And for someone new to the concepts and terminology around web hosting, figuring out what’s what is hardly straightforward. One of the most important measures of a web hosting plan you need to understand is bandwidth. You might like… Dedicated Servers Shared Hosting What is Website Bandwidth? Website bandwidth is the amount of data a website can transfer to visitors within a set time. Every website that’s available on the web ..read more