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Post Type Switcher

  • How to Convert or Change Custom Post Types in WordPress
  • How to convert a page to a post in WordPress?
  • How to convert a post to a page in WordPress?

WordPress has a variety of post types to manage content of website. These include posts, pages, portfolio, faq and many more. Sometimes it requires to change or switch post type.

Using a simple plugin the purpose can be successfully completed.
Plugin url: https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/

Install and activate, “Post Type Switcher.”

  • You will find post type converter located on the right side of the WordPress editor under the “Publish” section.
  • Click the “Edit” link next to Post Type and use the drop down box to change the post type.

Press OK and then click “Update” to publish it.
That’s all!

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Restore a softaculous backup on a new server

Follow the steps

  • Decompress the .tar.gz backup
  • Find the backupinfo file that named same as the compressed file
  • Open the file to make required changes of softpath, path, softdb, softdbuser, softurl, softdomain

For Example,
Backup file name: wp.26_10029.2021-08-26_23-33-55.tar.gz
Backupinfo file name: wp.26_10029.2021-08-26_23-33-55

 

 

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Contact Form 7 – Google Sheet Integration

  • Connect google sheet with contact form 7

CF7 Google Sheets Connector

  • Install “CF7 Google Sheets Connector” Plugin which will send the Contact Form’s data to the Google Sheet.

Google Spreadsheet

  • Create a google sheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets
  • In Google Sheets, provide the Columns name in Row 1. (For eg. “your-name”, “your-email”, “your-subject”, “your-message”, etc).
  • Name the first column as “date” if you want to keep the record of the date.

Google Sheet Settings

From dashboard click on the form and go to the Google Sheets tab.

  • Google Sheet Name
  • Google Sheet Id
  • Google Sheet Tab Name
  • Google Tab Id

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Contact form 7 default select option value

  • Contact form 7 default select option value
  • Contact form 7 default select value
  • Contact form 7 set default value
  • Contact form 7 default select placeholder

Use first_as_label

[select fieldName first_as_label "Select Option" "Option 1" "Option 2" "Option 3" "Option 4"]

Use include_blank

[select fieldName include_blank "Option 1" "Option 2" "Option 3" "Option 4"]

 

 

 

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PopUp on WordPress with plugin

Generally we use two types of popup.

  1. On page landing popup
  2. On click popup

There are many plugins those can be used for these purpose. But you can check below two plugins.

For on page landing popup, we can use “Popup Builder” plugin. This plugin can also be connected with “Contact Form 7”.

For on click popup, we can use “Popup Maker“. This plugin can also be connected with “Contact Form 7”.