If you had a website that wasn’t built on WordPress then it won’t be as easy as it is with WooCommerce. If you want to utilize the holidays and seasons then it’s time to setup a good plugin that will help with that.

I have compiled a list of the best WooCommerce Gift Card Plugins that works really well in 2021.

Benefits of WooCommerce Gift Card Plugins:

There are a lot of benefits to having gift cards on your eCommerce store. If you are in this article then you already know the benefits but to those of you who doesn’t here they are:

• Helps in increasing your revenue and sales.
• Double the customers. When someone purchases a gift card from your site they are actually giving it to another person and they also become your customer.
• Helps in marketing.
• Attract new customers.
• Increase brand presence.
• Helps you utilize the holiday and festival seasons.

WooCommerce Gift Card Plugins:

I went through a lot of websites around the web to find the best ones out there.

I have also tried all of them to give the best opinion for you. These plugins also have more than one features that actually help in increasing your sales of your website.

In my opinion, below are the best WooCommerce Gift Card Plugins.

1. Gift Cards by Gift Up

Gift Cards by Gift up is an easy to use a plugin that you can use to create gift cards for your store. One of the great things about this plugin is that you can use these on your social media as well. This plugin is free to use but they charge a small fee for every gift card sold.

Features:

• Custom design with your own branding.
• Automated emails for gift card purchases.
• Easy installation with a shortcode.
• Multi Currency Support.
• Use the mobile app to create gift cards.

Info / Download

2. PW WooCommerce Gift Cards

This is another plugin that is a plug and plays and it also supports guest checkout. PW plugin supports multilingual and it’s free. There is also a pro version of this WordPress plugin that offers more features. Below are all the features this plugin has to offer.

Pro Features:

• Set Custom Amounts
• Schedule delivery
• Specify a Default Amount
• Customer-facing Balance Page
• Adding funds to an existing gift card
• Expiration Dates
• Balance Adjustments
• Sell Physical Gift Cards
• Manually Generate Gift Cards
• REST API

Info / Download

3. YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards

The coolest thing about this plugin is that it enables you to create a new product type and customize it as you like. This will not only look goof but also will increase the conversions. This plugin has a free version and a paid version as well. Even the free version has all the fetaures you need but if you think you are generating a lot of sales then you should probably check out the pro version too.

They also have a live free demo for you to check it out even before installing this plugin in your website. Below are some of the plugin’s main features.

Features:

• Creates a new product type.
• Highly Customizable.
• Offers a dashboard with all the tools you need to create gift cards.
• Reports of the gift cards.
• Creates an unlimited amount of gift cards.
• Ability to create multiple images for your customers to choose the layout of the card.

Info / Download

4. WooCommerce Gift Card Pro

The plugin offers quite unique features compared to the other ones and one of them is QR code generation. A pretty modern plugin that has the features of the current generation’s needs. The PDF version that this plugin helps to create and send to customers will make it more convenient and professional.

You can download this plugin from codecanyon and it is a paid plugin as the name suggests. If you are pretty serious about your business then spending a few bucks on this will definitely go a long way.

Features:

• 3 times of pricing for gift cards.
• Multiple options to design your gift cards.
• Track your gift cards via history log.
• Supports shortcode.
• QR code generation.
• PDF Version of the gift card.
• Email templates.
• Supports multiple languages.
• Import gift cards via CSV format.

Info / Download

5. WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card

An extensive WooCommerce plugin that comes with a lot of features which makes it a lot more effective. You can customize your gift cards and allow your customers to share it via WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook, and more. Also it can help you send gift cards via QR, BAR Code etc.

This plugin has a free version and a pro version both of them are a great way to start it.

Features:

• Customizable Gift Cards.
• Redeem/Recharge Gift Cards on your Retail Store.
• 20+ Predefined Gift Card Templates.
• Share Gift Cards Via WhatsApp.
• Gift Cards via QR and BAR Code.
• Analyze and reporting of gift cards.
• Offline gift card in PDF Version.

Info / Download

6. Gift Cards By codemenschen

Gift Cards By codemenschen has a free version for you to try. Another extensive plugin with a lot of features such as Multi Payment gateway integration such as PayPal, Stripe, etc…

Regardless of the kind of store you have, you can generate and sell gift vouchers or gift cards for your customers. The pro version obviously has more features than the free one.

Features:

• Admin can generate gift cards.
• Schedule delivery.
• Barcode vouchers.
• Add commission.
• Multi Payment gateway.
• Hide price on gift cards.
• Gift card categories.

Info / Download

7. WooCommerce Smart Coupons

Apparently one of the best-selling WooCommerce Gift Card plugin that does the job. This plugin is extremely flexible to use and has wonderful features that your store needs to set up vouchers or gift cards.

Use this to increase your customer loyalty and help repeat customer purchases.

Features:

• Fixed and Percentage Coupons.
• Bulk Generate and send gift cards/coupons.
• Free shipping.
• Sharable with links.
• Free gift coupons.
• Include coupons with product purchases.
• Reoccurring coupons.

Info / Download

FAQ:

What is a WooCommerce Gift Card?

A WooCommerce Gift Card is basically a coupon, voucher, or a gift card that customers can purchase on your store and send it to their loved ones and the recipient can redeem the gift card on your store.

How to Install WooCommerce Gift Card Plugin?

You can install it on your WordPress dashboard by navigating to Plugins > Add New.

Are all of these plugins free?

Most of the plugins listed on this page offer a free version, so you can either choose to use the free version or upgrade.

What are some of the basic features of a WooCommerce Gift Card Plugin?

Some of the basic features are:

• Create, edit, or delete gift cards.
• Enable the option to share gift cards.
• Read and analyze reports of gift card purchases.
• Customize gift cards.
• Email gift cards.
• Set expiry for the gift cards generated.

Conclusion

Thanks for reading, I would suggest to try out the free versions of these plugins before you make the purchase. Each of these plugins has their own unique features to it and it’s better to choose the one that fits your store goals and niche.

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WordPress sites in General gets attacked on a daily basis. I personally got my site attacked probably more than 1000s of times and I had to figure it out by myself on how to fix it and protect the website.

There are a lot of number of ways to secure your sites and CloudFlare is only of the best ways to do it and also you can get started for free. Even with a basic free plan you’re much more secure than leaving your WordPress site as it is.

If you have a new WordPress site, also feel free to check out how to install google analytics.

Why Use CloudFlare on WordPress?

WordPress in general doesn’t have a great security and it’s very hard to tell where the vulnerability would be. There are a lot of attacks that might happen to your website that you can’t manually stop. We need a service that will help us do that.

CloudFlare will act as a filter before users or even hackers access your website and if there is a bot trying to access your website, CloudFlare will stop the bot from moving forward. This service will shield your website from unwanted sources and automated traffic.

It’s better to give your users and yourself a safe site. Below is an example of how it works…

CloudFlare to WordPress Installation Step-by-Step

Create an Account in Cloudflare.com

You can use your regular email and If you don’t already have an account then go ahead and register with your email address. Make sure it’s a valid one as this is important. You will have to verify your email at a later stage.

Add Your Site

Now that you have created your account, now you need to enter your domain without https://

Example: yourdomain.com

Once you do that, click add site.

Choose a plan & Continue

Like I mentioned at the start of the article, even the basic plan is good enough to get started. So, choose your plan here and click next.

On the next step CloudFlare will import all your DNS records and ask you to review and click next.

Connect and Verify Your Domain

When you reach to this step, don’t click the “Done, check nameservers” yet. You need to connect your domain name from your domain registar to the new DNS.

Updating Nameservers

Whatever domain name provider you use, the settings are goign to be pretty similar. I use namecheap for my domain. So below is where you need to go and copy paste your new nameservers.

Once, that’s saved. It will take up-to 24-48 hours for the DNS to propagate. Usually it is updated in a few minutes to few hours. Now in the next step, we go back to CloudFlare.

Now click on “Done. Check Nameservers”

Configure Settings in CloudFlare

If you know about caching and other settings on this page, you are free to choose your desired settings but if you are new to this then below is the summary of settings that I use.

After you clicked “Finish” you should be taken to the next page where you will have to verify your domain. If you see something like the below image then, you have completed the verification.

Configuring your WordPress with the CloudFlare Plugin

Now you need to go to your WordPress Dashbard and once you’re there, navigate to Plugins > Add New

When you’re in the plugin section, now search for “CloudFlare”. Install and activate it.

and…

Once you click on “Save API Credentials” you are done. Now you have successfully configured cloudflare on wordpress for free.

Conclusion

Keep in mind that this is a basic setup and there are much more things to it than what the settings I have mentioned. So, use this with caution and if you need any help head over to my contact page.

You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel to be updated on more tutorials on how to speed up your site and secure it.

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I wrote this so it’s easier for a beginner to follow the steps. You can either watch the video below or read the article and follow along.

Step-By-Step Google Cloud WordPress Installation on Free Tier:-

Create your Google Cloud Account:-

The first step is to go ahead and create an account on google cloud. You can use your regular Gmail account to signup.

1. Go to https://cloud.google.com/ and click on “Sign in” or  “Get Started for free.”
2. You need to choose your country and enter your card details and other info.

3.  Once that’s done, you will be redirected to https://console.cloud.google.com/ and you should see a page like this below.

Creating Your Project

1. After you have successfully signed up, the next step is to create a “New Project”.
2. Give your Project a “Name”.
3. Once the project has been created, you need to click on the newly created project.

Marketplace to Install Openlitespeed

Head to the marketplace and search for “WordPress”. Browse until you find “Openlitespeed” and click on it.

We are choosing openlitespeed-wordpress because we will be using openlite as the stack to Install WordPress. After you have click on it, you will see the launch button and click on “Launch”

Now it’s time to configure the WordPress deployment. You can follow my settings below or if you know what you exactly need, you can go ahead and input them. If you are just starting out then I would suggest you just follow my settings below.

Make sure you have read the Google Cloud Free Program pricing before you choose or configure. After all, you don’t want to be charged more than what you want.

Below are the settings for configuration.

and also this…

After you have done that, you should see the deployment manager page.

Reserving Static IP Address:-

We don’t want a dynamic address for the installation as we need to connect the domain name via the IP. So we need to make sure the IP is static and to do that head to Menu > VPC Network > External IP Address.

Once you have reserved your IP, the next step is that we will connect the IP to a domain.

Connecting your Domain Name:-

So, we’ll just be adding two A records on the domain name to connect.

After this process, the DNS Propagation time will vary. It might take anywhere from 24-48 hours to completely propagate throughout the internet.

You can check the process at whatsmydns.net

Installing Let’s Encrypt SSL:-

This step is pretty easy and you can just follow the steps that prompt itself on the command line. First head over to your deployment manager and make sure you have chosen the one that you just installed.

Open up your SSH command line.

After that, you will automatically be prompted to do the following steps and just enter your domain name without WWW and click enter.

If everything went well, you will get a success message and if you do then, you’re done.

Install WordPress:-

Hold on there, we are almost done. All you need to do now is to go to the domain name that you just connected.

Open a new tab and type in https://yourdomain.com/ and you will see the page to Install WordPress. You just need to input your details and you will be taken to the dashboard.

That’s straight forward and the next step is important, so please don’t skip it.

Setup Swap File:-

Swap file creation is pretty simple and it’s always advisable to create one just in case. After all, we don’t want our website to crash or use more storage than what’s required.

Open the command line again:-

just paste these commands one by one and you should be good to go.

Swap File Commands

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile

sudo chmod 600 /swapfile

sudo mkswap /swapfile

sudo swapon /swapfile

free -m

echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

You’re done, but below is the command if you want to check your newly created Swap File.

htop

Access Phpmyadmin:-

Accessing PHPMyAdmin is pretty easy unlike in AWS. All you need to do is head over to https://yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin/

the default username is “root”

the password can be found in the command line by using the command below:-

sudo sed -n 1p /home/ubuntu/.db_password

Command for finding user MYSQL password

sudo sed -n 2p /home/ubuntu/.db_password

Edit PHP.ini File:-

Editing PHP.ini is very handy when you want to configure additional settings. You can do it straight from the command line using the commands below:-

The command for root access

sudo -i

The command for editing the php.ini file

vi /usr/local/lsws/lsphp74/etc/php/7.4/litespeed/php.ini

Once you have edited it, for it to take effect, you need to restart your PHP and the command for that is below:

killall -9 lsphp

Conclusion:-

Also check out:- How to Install Google Analytics on WordPress

If you have followed all the steps right, then you should be good to go to install WordPress. If the text tutorial is hard for you to follow, you can always watch the video at the start of this page.

If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]

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If you have a WordPress website and you would like to install Google Analytics, you have come to the right place. It’s quite easy to install it in WordPress as there are quite a lot of plugins available.

In this tutorial, I am going to answer the following:

What is Google Analytics?

Why is Google Analytics Important?

How to install Google Analytics on WordPress?

Click here to skip to the installation part

Perfect, if you are still reading this then let’s get started.

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that is offered by Google. The web analytics tool gives you a piece of code and once it’s correctly placed on your website, it lets you measure your Return of Investment.

It provides extremely valuable insights into your website. Which will help you create actual strategies to grow your business.

Below are a few things that analytics offers:

Who are your visitors? – It shows you clear cut data on who the audience is and that includes their geographical data as well.

Where are your visitors from? – Apart from the geo-data, it also tells you from which part of the web the users are coming from.

How long are the users spending on your site? – Crucial data that the analytics provides is the average time spent on your site.

How are the users engaging? – Shows how are the users interacting with your website.

Above are a few of the data it provides and it has much more. You can take all those data to track your campaigns and make calculated decisions on your business.

Why is it Important?

Regardless of the fact if you are into the marketing of your website or you are the owner of the website. You will always need to know what is happening with your website.

The data that is taken from the analytics will give a wider understanding of the audience. In any business knowing your customers and audience are very important and that is exactly what it does.

, For example, : If you have an eCommerce website, you need to be able to track your conversion rates and if you aren’t getting any then you will know exactly why and google keeps giving you updates on your website based on the data it collects.

How to Install Google Analytics on WordPress?

The best and easiest way on WordPress to Install is to use a simple and lightweight plugin. Below is a video tutorial if you don’t want to continue to read.

Below are the actual steps to install it via WordPress.

Step 1: Sign up for Google Analytics

The first step to do is to sign up and create a new account for your site if you already don’t have one. Click here to create an account

This is going to be either “Set up for free” or “Get Started”.

Step 2: Log In to your google account.

Once you have filled in your details and logged into your account. You’ll be prompted to the next step.

Step 3: Fill in your details

Make sure to fill in your account name. This is just an account name and only you are going to be able to see it.

Step 4: Choosing what you want to measure

This is important. As we are going to measure the website. Click on the option shown in the image below.

Alright, now that’s done. The next one is important.

Step 5: Details of your website.

Type in your website details and also your category. You need to choose your correct timezone as it will reflect the same in your data. So make sure you have set the correct one.

Step 6: Accept terms & Create your account

Make sure to read the terms and conditions and accept them. It’s also good to read them.

That’s about it for the google analytics side.

Step 7: Logn to your WordPress Dashboard

Step 8: Adding the Plugin

Navigate to Plugins > Add New

Search for “Monster Insight”. or alternatively here is the link to the plugin

Step 9: Configuring Monser Insight Plugin for Google Analytics

Once the plugin has been successfully installed, on the Monster Insight’s plugin page. Click on Launch the Wizard!

Step 9.1: Choose your website category

Don’t worry about the specific category of your website as that will be on that next step. For now, choose the general category and click on next. Once you choose it, click on “Save and Continue”.

Step 9.2: Connecting page of Monster Insight

After you’ve reached this page, you can directly click on next as Monster Insight offers a free version of the plugin as well and you don’t need to worry about the license until you want the pro feature.

Click on the “Connect Monster Insights”.

Step 9.3: Choose your Google Account to Allow Monster Insight

Click on the same account you’ve used to create the google analytics account.

Monster Insights needs these data from Google Analytics, so make sure you click on “Allow”.

Step 9.4: Add your website

Now choose your website from the dropdown. The website you just added on the analytics console.

After that, click next!

That will take you to the new few final pages as shown in the next step.

Step 9.5: Completing Google Analytics Setup

Below are the bunch of settings for the Monster Insights plugin. I would suggest you leave it as it is if you are a beginner. As the default settings are good enough.

Note: You can always change these settings at a later date.

Unless you want to install WPForms you can just skip this step.

Right after you hit the “Finish Setup & Exit Wizard”.  You will be taken to the Monster Insight’s dashboard. Then, you’re done.

Step 10: Navigate to WordPress Dashboard

Here is the summary of your report and by this step, you will be done configuring the plugin. Which we will verify in the next step.

Step 11: Ensure connect connection of the Google Analytics

Use Private window or incognito mode to visit your website to ensure that we have successfully configured it.

If everything has done correctly and if you have followed the steps right. Google Analytics would have been successfully connected. Feel free to comment or reach out to me if you need help.

I will be more than happy to help.

You might also want to check out:

• Digital Marketing for your business
• Viral Marketing
• Social Media Marketing for Restaurants
• Social Media Marketing for Nightclubs

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