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How to Accept Recurring Payments via Stripe On your WordPress Site

Stripe, one of the world's leading payment gateways has become a popular choice in recent years among online business owners. Stripe, similar to PayPal, offers a secure platform with competitive rates. In this article we will take a look at how an online business owner can accept recurring payments … [Read more...] about How to Accept Recurring Payments via Stripe On your WordPress Site

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How to Email Lock a Download on Your WordPress Site

Email locking the downloads you offer on your website means that users will need to present a valid email prior to downloading your digital content. In this article, we will take a look at how our Simple Download Monitor and Manager Plugin and the Squeeze Form Addon can handle email locking … [Read more...] about How to Email Lock a Download on Your WordPress Site

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Adding Your Own Custom Fields in the Software License Manager Plugin

This is a tutorial for the Software License Manger plugin. This tutorial is aimed at advanced WordPress Plugin developers. Lets say, you want to create an extension or a custom plugin to add couple of extra fields to save some info with each of the license keys. Below is a guideline on how to … [Read more...] about Adding Your Own Custom Fields in the Software License Manager Plugin

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WordPress Plugin to Allow ePUB file Uploads to Your WordPress Site

WordPress doesn't allow you to upload ePUB file types to your site using the media library for security reasons. If you try to upload a file with .epub or .mobi file extension, it will just give you a URL to the attachment page (not the direct URL to the file). This plugin will remove the … [Read more...] about WordPress Plugin to Allow ePUB file Uploads to Your WordPress Site

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Image Optimization Tools: Making WordPress Pages Load Faster

With the recent launch of Accelerated Mobile Pages, which reminded everyone of Facebook Instant Pages and Apple News, it's clear they want us slimming down our web pages. They want Speedy Gonzales, but we're offering a fat, lazy mouse with unnecessarily giant ears. And by "they" I mean: … [Read more...] about Image Optimization Tools: Making WordPress Pages Load Faster

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Software License Manager & Product Communication

Important Note: The intended audience for this article are software developers, with an intermediate level (2+ years) understanding of Internet and programming concepts. Previously, we introduced the concept of Software License Managers (SLM); and the important role they play, both in increasing … [Read more...] about Software License Manager & Product Communication

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License to Run – Introduction to Software License Managers

Anyone who used a Microsoft product in the last 16 years, whether it's been Windows or Office, has experienced the software activation process; in which a license key is used to "lock" a product instance, you paid for, to a specific device.  In the case of Office, you are even allowed to unlock and … [Read more...] about License to Run – Introduction to Software License Managers

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Enhancing Site Usability with Toggle Media

WordPress can embed certain kinds of media content into posts and pages; using the oEmbed protocol. But appearance and usability issues can occur, when this capability is rendered on mobile devices; like smartphones. In this example, we see that media embedding can take up much of the … [Read more...] about Enhancing Site Usability with Toggle Media

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How to Accept Donations via Stripe from Your WordPress Site Easily

Using donation buttons are the simplest and quickest way to begin monetizing a WordPress site.  In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Stripe Payments to accept donations from your site easily. If you want to accept donations via PayPal, then check out our accept PayPal donations … [Read more...] about How to Accept Donations via Stripe from Your WordPress Site Easily