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5 Best WordPress Calendar Plugins

The post 5 Best WordPress Calendar Plugins appeared first on HostGator Blog . Best WordPress Calendar Plugins Calendar plugins can be a very useful addition to your WordPress site. You can help to showcase your live events, manage bookings, and a lot more. Some plugins are better suited for managing your events, while others offer complex booking and scheduling options. Luckily, running WordPress means you have a ton of options at your disposal, both free and paid. But, since calendar plugins are so popular, it can be difficult to find the right plugin for your needs. Below we highlight five of the most popular WordPress calendar plugins, so you can easily find and use the right plugin for your needs. 1. The Events Calendar The Events Calendar is a very popular free plugin. It’s clean, simple, intuitive, and easy to use, and is one of the most downloaded WordPress calendar plugins. With this plugin, you can easily add events to your site, along with different venues and organizers. You can even integrate Google Maps to make it easy for your viewers to find your event. There’s also a premium version of the plugin which adds support through WooCommerce , and gives you additional features like selling tickets through your site, creating recurring events, and a lot more. The premium version currently costs $65.   2. My Calendar My Calendar is a free and feature-rich event management plugin. It offers you a ton of different options, so you can decide exactly how you want your events to display. You can integrate multiple calendars, create calendars for specific categories, add locations, create events groups, and a lot more. With the short code generator, you can display your events wherever you’d like, in your posts, sidebars, or even on its own page. When creating an event you’ll be able to adjust options like the event description, add images, set the event host, add the time, and more. Finally, you’ll also have the ability to customize the look of your events and your event calendar from within the plugin’s settings. If you’re looking for more,  there are various premium extensions , which will allow you to easily sell tickets for your events.   3. Events Manager Events Manager is another very popular WordPress events plugin. It offers a ton of different features like the ability to integrate with Google Maps and Google Calendar, multiple display options, and a lot more. This plugins also lets your users register for events, and you can easily create recurring events as well. If you want to add a social element to your events you can integrate the plugin with BuddyPress to add discussion feeds, user feeds, and a lot more. There’s also a premium version of the plugin available if you require even more feature and functionality. When you upgrade the plugin you’ll get access to additional features that allow you to accept payments, offer coupons, and create custom booking forms.   4. Simple Calendar Simple Calendar is another plugin that integrates with Google Calendar. This plugin is similar to the Google Calendar plugin above, except it offers even more customization options. With this plugin installed all you need is your Google Calendar feed URL. Then you can import your upcoming events and start customizing. With this plugin, you have a shortcode that you can use to display anywhere across your site. If you know any CSS, you can customize the look of your events calendar with custom stylesheets. The plugin is even fully responsive, so your events will look good no matter the screen size they’re viewed upon. There are also premium add-ons available , which unlock additional features like color-coding events, adding more events details, and getting more attendance and registration options.   5. All in One Event Calendar All in One Events Calendar packs a ton of useful features into an easy to use interface. Right out of the box you have three different themes to display your calendars. Some of the features include adding events, adding category sorting, adding theme venues via Google Maps, adding event descriptions and a lot more. Plus, you can sync your events with any app that supports iCal format, like the Google Calendar. There are a variety of add-ons available that will give you access to additional features like a front-end submission form, being able to embed your calendars into other platforms like Facebook, and the ability to sell tickets from your site. Hopefully, you find one of the plugins above useful in integrating an awesome calendar with your WordPress site. Find the post on the HostGator Blog Continue reading

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How To Use WordPress User Roles To Improve Security

The post How To Use WordPress User Roles To Improve Security appeared first on HostGator Blog . How To Use WordPress User Roles To Improve Security If you’re just a single person running your site, then you probably haven’t thought twice about WordPress user roles . However, if you ever want to give someone else access to your site, now or into the future, then knowing how to use these is paramount. Essentially, with user roles, you can give people access to certain areas of your site. With this, you only give them access to the portions of the site they require to do their work. Below you’ll learn what WordPress user roles are, why they’re important, and how using them the right way can help to improve your site’s security. What are WordPress User Roles? WordPress is equipped with a role management system that allows you to specify what users can and can’t do on your site. As your site grows knowing how to use these roles is absolutely invaluable. Each role can be specified based on certain capacities. For example, you can give one user the role to publish a post, while you can give another a role to update your plugins and themes. In total there are six default user roles you can use.   1. The Administrator Role You’re probably already familiar with the administrator role . It’s the role you’ve been assigned when you created your site. Usually, there is only one administrator role and it has access to everything related to your site. This role is very powerful and you should rarely give anyone this high-level access to your site.   2. The Super Admin Role There is a user role that’s technically one step higher than the admin role and it’s called the super admin role . The super admin role only applies when you have a network of connected WordPress sites using the WordPress multisite installation. This role is responsible for the entire network of sites and has the same privileges as an admin, but it extends out across the entire network of sites. If you have a super admin role, then the role of the admin is diminished and you can no longer modify or install plugins and themes, or change user information.   3. The Editor Role The editor role has pretty high-level access to your site. This role is responsible for content management, so they’ll be able to do things like creating and edit pages and posts. Along with moderating comments and changing categories. They won’t have access to plugins or themes, but everything related to publishing content is under their jurisdiction.   4. The Author Role The author role is responsible for creating content. They’ll be able to create, edit, and publish posts, but that’s about it. They won’t have access to any pages and will have no level of administrative access.   5. The Contributor Role The contributor role  has even less access than the author role. With this role, they’ll be able to read the posts on the site, plus edit and delete their posts. This role doesn’t allow post publishing or the uploading of media files.   6. The Subscriber Role The subscriber role is commonly used for subscription-based sites. Subscribers usually have access to a stripped down WordPress dashboard where they’ll be able to manage their own profiles. This role is useful if you want users to sign up to gain access to certain content.   Why User Roles Matter When your site grows and you have multiple people working in the backend of your site, you need a way to manage these users without getting overwhelmed. User roles are important for two reasons: 1. They can simplify your workflow. If you have a developer who maintains your plugins and themes, a team of writers, and an editor you can assign them specific roles based upon the job they’re doing. This will make their jobs easier and prevent them from accessing parts of the site not related to their work. 2. They make your site more secure. By defining user roles you’re giving people access to limited portions of your site. The last thing you want is an untrusted user installing plugins, or themes, or modifying your existing code.   How to Use WordPress User Roles to Improve Security By assigning different users roles based upon how they’ll be using your site it’ll help to tighten up your overall security. When you give every single site user an admin role you essentially give them full access to your site. Even though you might trust the person you’re assigning an admin role to there are things that can still compromise the security for your site. For example, they could be using a very weak password . In that case, if the password is hacked then whoever is doing the hacking will have a full range of your site. While, if you’ve assigned them a specified user role the damage the hacker will be able to do is minimal. You also never know if another person’s computer is infected. They might not even know, but their computer could have malware or another virus installed. If you give them admin access, instead of a defined user role, this puts your site at risk. Overall, by specifying user roles you end up improving the security of your site and help to safeguard it against any user errors. Hopefully, you see the advantages of utilizing user roles as your site grows. It’ll not only improve your overall workflow but will improve your security in the process. Find the post on the HostGator Blog Continue reading

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The Top 15 Most Popular WordPress Plugins

The post The Top 15 Most Popular WordPress Plugins appeared first on HostGator Blog . What Are the Most Popular WordPress Plugins? WordPress plugins are a great way to increase the functionality of your website and easily add additional features. There are thousands of different plugins for you to choose from. In fact, the WordPress plugin repository has over 45,000 different plugins available. So, how do you know which ones […] Find the post on the HostGator Blog Continue reading

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5 Anti Spam WordPress Plugins to Clean Up Your Comments Section

The post 5 Anti Spam WordPress Plugins to Clean Up Your Comments Section appeared first on HostGator Blog . Best WordPress Plugins for Anti Spam You’ve finally done it, your site is gaining traction, and you’re getting more traffic than ever before. However, once your site starts to pick up your traffic, you might also notice the rise of something else, too: spam comments. If you run a WordPress blog or website and have […] Find the post on the HostGator Blog Continue reading

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