56 – Members only content




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Summary: A lightbox for your contact form<br> <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightbox-for-contact-form-7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lightbox</a> for Contact Form 7  places your contact form in a fancy pop-up lightbox.<br> Just install the plugin – there are no settings to configure – and replace the normal Contact Form shortcode with:  f7lightbox form_id=FORM ID<br> And you’re done. You’ll now see the words Contact Form on your page, click them and your contact form will pop up with a dark background.<br> Members only content<br> This <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/anonymous-restricted-content/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plugin</a> is as simple as it gets when you want to force visitors to become a member of your site to see selected content for members only.<br> Simply install Anonymous Restricted Content, mark the content you want to hide from casual visitors (non members) – and it’s done.<br> Non-members clicking to see a restricted page, post or category will be directed to your WordPress login page where they can join up. After successful authorization, the user is redirected back to the requested URL.<br> 404 heaven<br> The 404 error pages hurts the SEO rank of your site if you have lots 404 links (dead links to non-existent pages).<br> A quick way to solve this issue of disappointing visitors and bringing on the wrath of Google, is to install <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-404-redirect-to-homepage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Better 404 Redirect to Homepage</a>.<br> It is a simple plugin that handles all 404 errors by redirecting anyone clicking an out-of-date URL to your home page using 301 redirection.<br> The plugin doesn’t have any settings. All you need to do is install it and forget. It will automatically do its job.<br> Got a question about using WordPress? Use the contact form to send them over…<br>