Save More with MotoCMS Templates Winter Promo – 40% Off!

Winter holidays are just round the corner. Holiday markets are already open and pre-holiday rush is on the way. Templatemonster offers you beat the cold weather with a hot winter sale for one of its coolest templates category.
Save More with MotoCMS Templates Winter Promo – 40% Off!
From this day on and during the whole week, until December 15, you can get any MotoCMS template with a burning discount of 40%. These templates are a perfect choice for your small and mid-size business due to their flexible nature and easy setup.

MotoCMS offers a great collection of ready-to-use templates with a comfy admin panel. Thus, users get the entire functionality within a purchase. It saves a lot of time and efforts for inexperienced users as well as for web developers who wish to create a website fast, without digging too much into coding. Handy drag-and-drop functionality ensures you with easy management and full control over a website look and performance.

Among products that MotoCMS provides you can find dazzling MotoCMS flash templates and sleek MotoCMS html templates (with a built-in admin panel, of course). But their latest product, MotoCMS 3, made a real breakthrough in technology and online business solutions. This website builder includes the same WYSIWYG editor, but with improved UI, richer system of widgets, plugins and functions, and many more goodies.



MotoCMS 3 Short Overview

MotoCMS 3 is a responsive solution that is to fully replace html and flash templates. It can be used as it is or customized according to user’s needs. Since it is 100% responsive out of the shelf, you don’t have to tweak the template to each screen resolution – MotoCMS has already done it for you. However, if anything needs to be adjusted to mobile devices – you have such an opportunity in Sizes & Values section.



In the Design section customers can play with the template colors and change one or all hues that make the overall color scheme of a chosen template. It became possible due to an innovative MotoCMS Color Picker widget that shows color palette of a template and allows quickly change any one of them across the entire website.



Text styles can be tweaked inside the Text section where you can choose among the most popular and coolest Google Fonts. You can change their size, color and style to make your future website unique. Since bold typography is one of the biggest web design trends 2016, this feature of MotoCMS 3 templates makes them a great solution for small business that wish to stand out among rivals.

Media Library supports all the most popular file formats – from .jpg/.jpeg, .png, .gif etc. for images to .avi, .mp4 and .swf for video. Content integration from  YouTube and Vimeo is also available what improves your website visual side. The most vital SEO-features for images optimization (titles, alt-tags etc.) are possible within MotoCMS Media Library.

In fact, SEO-friendliness is another strong feature in MotoCMS templates. Here you can tune on pretty all essential on-page features. Setup page titles, URLs, meta descriptions, keywords, and other meta info. Check out noindex, nofollow or canonical attributes for pages to improve your search engine visibility. Integrate your Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools within the website to get all the info about website performance.

MotoCMS has all necessary widgets that help you customize the website design with ease, add and arrange content on a page, and improve its layout. Thus, you can easily add image, text or buttons just dropping a widget to the container right where you need it. Among the coolest and the most useful widgets you will find:

Slider, Carousel and Grid gallery – for perfect presentation of visual content and the most important info on your website;
Row, Containers, Space and H. Divider – for smoother organization of content blocks on a page;
Menu – for setting up a neat navigation around your website;
Contact Form and Social widgets (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc.) – for engaging the website audience.


Due to Code Injection function you can easily add third-party services, like Chat, Disqus, SlideShare etc.,  to any page of your website.

Free 24/7 support will help you with the most of technical issues you may encounter while customizing your template. Try any MotoCMS 3 template you like for 14 days to check out all the features it offers to you. Of course, if you wish to purchase a template with a 40% discount, you should hurry up, because winter promo ends in a week, on December 15. So choose a template from a category that fits your needs, try it and buy it! And don’t worry about the content you may have added during your trial period. Content with all changes you made during your demo will be transferred to you after the purchase.

About the Author


Alex Bulat
In XXI century everyone wants to be a blogger, photographer or whatsoever, in fact, Alex is one of those "lazybones", otherwise you would not be reading his blog posts. Follow him on Google+

Free PrestaShop Modules to Fill in Your Web Development Toolchest

PrestaShop is a great eСommerce platform, but it’s very unlikely that anyone starting a new business will be happy with the very basic modules selection. Most of the PrestaShop modules on the market are paid products, because of the great functionalities they can add to your shop, and help you sell more. However, there are some free PrestaShop modules as well, which can equally enhance the basic functionalities, with the advantage of not having to spend a single penny for it.
Free PrestaShop Modules to Fill in Your Web Development Toolchest
This blog post was written by our guest writer Fabio Porta, an experinced freelance web developer and designer specialising in PrestShop. Also he runs an informational blog about Prestashop.
Now let’s have a look at 10 best free PrestaShop Modules currently available. All of the listed modules are compatible with both PrestaShop 1.5 and PrestaShop 1.6.



Prestashop Ask a question Free Module



This Free Prestashop Addon allows your customers to ask you any question about a specific product, without having to register. You will also have the possibility to choose if you want to publish the question with relative answer, which makes this module, in fact, nothing less powerful than a full-fledged FAQ plugin.

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Some other PrestaShop modules you might be interested in
5 Best PrestaShop Private Sales Modules For Ecommerce Websites




Free Prestashop Twitter Widget



Social media are a key factor in business success. With this free module, you can display a Twitter Timeline on your site, with plenty of options. You can configure all of the customizable aspects of the Twitter Widget, including colors, size, which elements to display, and number of tweets, as well as hooking it to either column, or the footer.

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Facebook Open Graph for PrestaShop



Do you want your products shared on Facebook or Pinterest to look nicer, instead of having the image chosen randomly in the page? You can use this free Module to add richness to shared content, so that it will not only be nicer to see for your potential audience, but also be more relevant to Search Engines.

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Free CSS Editor for PrestaShop



With this module you can adjust background colors, font-sizes, fonts, just about any thing visually on your PrestaShop store can be accomplished with CSS. You will have a powerful visual editor with syntax highlighting, so that you can easily add and modify your own styles.

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PrestaShop AddThis Module



This module is really simple. You just need to login to your AddThis (the popular sharing buttons service) account, grab any of the sharing codes, be it buttons, smart layers or welcome bar, and paste it in the module. You can then choose on which pages you want to display smart layers and welcome bar. Thanks to AddThis, you will benefit from plenty of analytics about social activity on your PrestaShop Store.

Free Download

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Super abandoned cart



It’s a best practice to send emails and follow up with those customers who left your site right during a purchase. With this module, you can set up plenty of options to target abandoned carts, such as vouchers to create, templates for emails, and organize everything into several campaigns.

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Free blog for PrestaShop – Smart Blog



If you feel like you’re not satisfied with the standard CMS system, but want a full Blog System for PrestaShop instead, then Smart Blog is the module you want. Constantly updated and great support in the forum community, it includes all of the features you will need: categories, comments, tags, a search system, popular posts, and more.

Free Download

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PrestaShop Opcache Module



If you are not running Opcache with PrestaShop, you seriously need to look into having it installed on your server. If you do not know what Opcache is, it is part of PHP 5.5 that stores your compiled files in memory for faster execution. Generally, sites that run Opcache cut their loading time in half.

Free Download

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Sliders Everywhere for PrestaShop



As the name suggests, with Sliders Everywhere you can add sliders, banners and galleries wherever you want in your PrestaShop store. You can customize colors, contents, and even add shortcodes to each of them, uniquely for every page. And of course, all sliders are responsive.

Free Download

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Prestashop Newsletters Free



By default, the built-in Newsletter Module PrestaShop has does not let you send anything. This is the only Free PrestaShop module that lets you setup, customize and send Newsletters from the back office, without having to rely on third parties. It also works on older PrestShop version, such as 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4.

Free Download

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That’s it for now. If you’re feeling that some really awesome extension is missing, you’re free to drop it in the comments below we’ll gladly add it to this compilation. Have a nice day 🙂

About the Author


Fabio Porta
Fabio Porta. Fabio has been involved in web development and design when launched his first website at the age of 16. He’s now highly skilled in both client and server side development, along with design, and since August 2012 runs a website about PrestaShop tutorials and Prestashop Modules at nemops.com

The Guide to the CM Magento Marketplace Extension

The CM Magento Marketplace extension is designed to take your online store to new heights. Transforming a simple e-commerce store into a multi-vendor marketplace is one thing, but the CM plugin offers additional features and benefits to help you expand your entrepreneurship.
The Guide to the CM Magento Marketplace Extension
Benefits of the Marketplace Extension for Sellers

The CM Marketplace extension allows site admins to add an unlimited number of suppliers, so you can encourage a healthy competition amongst a number of niche markets.

Vendor options include the ability to ship from a third party vendor, eliminating the need for inventory storage, and dropshipping. This feature allows suppliers in your marketplace to lower product prices to sell in large amounts to wholesale buyers.



As a supplier, you have the added benefit of being able to control shipping of your products from beginning to end. You can define shipping products by your own unique parameters and generate reports on sales and customers to eliminate any guesswork for profit margins.



Benefits of the Marketplace Extension for Admins

As the admin for your Magento Marketplace, you have complete control over the active sellers in your market. You can approve both sellers and their products, apply permanent features across multiple seller accounts, and segment sellers by their products to create an organized marketplace.



As an admin, you also have access to buyer and seller activity throughout the site. You can optimize your marketplace and transactions through data analysis of products, shipping and more.

Added Features

The Marketplace extension allows for seamless integration across the entire chain. The PayPal add-on lets the admin manage payments for vendors automatically depending on their preference—upon order completion, purchase, or manual settings.

The admin is also able to limit the number of categories a seller can choose for his store or products, or define these categories that cannot be changed by the seller. This way, the Marketplace admin can control the products and groups within its market.

Sellers can make changes or view orders on the go with the responsive dashboard—a feature that brings your Magento marketplace into the mobile world. The easy to use interface lets you track shipments and upload products right from your phone.


Additional Extensions for Marketplace

In addition to creating a marketplace for multiple vendors and sellers, you’ll want to incorporate certain extensions that can streamline processes or optimize sales.

The PayPal Integration extension is one to consider including when you’re migrating to a Marketplace site. This allows you or your managers to transfer funds easily to vendors with PayPal. The extension offers options for payment so you can customize when your vendors are compensated.

The benefits of this extension are plentiful—you can automate payments, control the payment process from beginning to end, and save time running your Marketplace.

Another extension to consider is the Multi-User Account extension. This extension lets you grant permissions to separate users for your Magento Marketplace. If your employees need to access or make changes to your Marketplace, this is a simple and easy way to allow it. You can assign employees of your Marketplace different roles, allowing a simplified and segmented process to tasks like purchasing merchandise, viewing orders, making payments, and more.

An extension that benefits your Marketplace customers directly is the Custom Coupon Error Message extension. This extension creates an error message when a buyer attempts to apply a coupon in their cart, and the coupon is not valid or no longer applies to their purchase. Customize the look of your error message in the simple dashboard, and track the frequency of these messages to optimize new coupons within your stores.

Are you ready to turn your e-Commerce store into a bustling online marketplace? Try the Marketplace extension and use the coupon code tm2015 for a 15% discount!

About the Author


Alex Bulat
In XXI century everyone wants to be a blogger, photographer or whatsoever, in fact, Alex is one of those "lazybones", otherwise you would not be readi

A List of the Quickest and Free Drupal Online Training Ways

We are often asked, “How to learn Drupal online?” To respond to questions raised about this topic, we have decided to conduct a roundup of tips on where to get started and where to find information that would help you in your work, no matter if you are a beginner or a pro.
A List of the Quickest and Free Drupal Online Training Ways
In this list today you will find not only the official Drupal page but also a number of other useful free Drupal online training resources that share recommendations and video tutorials of different levels of complexity. So, let’s get started.

Determine Your Goals

First, figure out the goals that you wish to pursue. If you are a web developer looking for some helpful advice on how to convert from, say, WordPress, Joomla or any other CMS to Drupal, then you will need to get started in a different place than someone who is new to this subject. What is good about this roundup is that we have collected online resources that will be of use to both newbies and professional web developers.

Next, decide on what is the best way of learning for you. To put it more clearly, think what methods of learning suit you the best. Will an e-book work or do you prefer video tutorials, step-by-step guides or only practical training? For many of us the last option is the preferred one. Through trial and error you can gain more than just programming skills but also invaluable experience that hardly any book will give you.

Drupal Websites & Blogs

Google, Bing, Yahoo or any other search engine of your choice will help you find hundreds or even thousands of various web resources offering valuable knowledge on different aspects of Drupal.  What we offer for your consideration today, is a selection of 5 websites and blogs that have gained the biggest popularity among web users.

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When searching for Drupal knowledge, the official Drupal hub is the best place from where to start your journey. The website contains different sections for different types of information that may be of the greatest interest to you. For instance, you can read and participate in hot discussions in the forum section, read detailed documentation about the platform in the Drupal Handbooks block or watch online tutorials in the Drupal videocasts.

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SiteGround is a content-rich online resource that provides answers to any question you may have, including Drupal hosting, installation, modification, optimization, modules, and more. There is a separate block with Drupal tutorials that provides step-by-step instructions and examples on how to manage your Drupal site.

siteground

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DrupalDump offers Drupal tricks, hacks, modules, templates, and loads of other useful information. The resource was developed specifically to provide users with a rich selection of handy Drupal tools to make their web development stress-free.

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Drupal Dojo is a group for developers and experts who want to increase their proficiency in the field. Here you will find hot discussions, tips and tutorials on how to write your own modules and themes, case studies, Dojo documentation and guidelines, and much more.

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DrupalBucket offers an invaluable collection of Drupal snippets submitted by others. You will find a handy snippet for almost any purpose here. So, you’re welcome to discover plenty of useful stuff that will save you a lot of time and effort while working on your next project.

dropbucket

Drupal Books

The right book depends on what you’re going to learn. Below we list 5 electronic books that are among our favorites. For a more expanded list go to drupal.org. Here you can search for books by the Drupal version you are using, your audience and book format.

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Building Your Blog with Drupal 7 provides step-by-step instructions on how to build a blog with the help of this CMS. Together with detailed instructions and recommendations, the book includes screenshots for better visualization of each step you will take.

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If you are new to Drupal and want to get familiar with the platform, then Beginners Guide to Drupal will help you take your first steps towards it. For a more detailed insight into different aspects of Drupal, this electronic book contains direct links to other online tutorials and reading that might be of interest to you.

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Although Drupal is not that easy to start learning from scratch, How to Use Drupal in 7 Hours will help you to familiarize yourself with the platform much faster. In an easy-to-read manner its authors will introduce you to the mysterious and vast world of Drupal, explain technical stuff in an easy-to-understand manner, and finally teach you how to make your business go public faster.

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High Performance Drupal is a comprehensive guide that provides best practices, examples and in-depth explanations for solving several performance issues. Covering Drupal 7 and 8, the ebook will teach you how to apply coding techniques to Drupal internals, web servers, databases, and more. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal, then this book is ideal for you.

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Building e-Commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook will take you through the process of installation and customization of your Drupal Commerce site. The book contains clear practical recipes, with plenty of screenshots and tips showing how to install and configure your Drupal shop easily.

Drupal Video Tutorials

If learning by watching is your preferred way of training, then the following 5 most popular online resources will be of use to you.

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Drupalize.me is a great learning resource for those of you who want to start investigating all aspects of Drupal. Together with premium classes, these guys offer free videos for your consideration.

drupalizeme

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GotDrupal is a site with Drupal videos, all about the evolution and development of this platform as well as reviews on how to code your own module.

gotdrupal

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NodeOne is a Drupal learning library featuring an online training course on any aspect of Drupal you wish. To facilitate browsing, you can filter all tutorials by Drupal versions or search for the desired content by tag.

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Code Karate offers valuable knowledge on site building, development, module development, and more for free.

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Learn by the Drop is one more awesome resource rich in training videos about Drupal. Here you will find a series of free videos on how to install and work with Drupal 7.

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Other no less popular resources of Drupal video tutorials of which you may possibly be aware are YouTube, Lynda, OSTraining, BuildAModule, and DrupalCamp24x7. Pick the one to your liking and get straight to Drupal training.

This is not an exhaustive list of free Drupal online training resources that will help you learn Drupal faster and at no cost. We have handpicked the ones that we thing are worthy of your attention. Choose resources that fit your learning style perfectly and get ready to dig deeper into the world of Drupal.

If you enjoyed this page, bookmark it for further reference.

About the Author


Katherine Crayon
Katherine is a copywriter reporting on tech news and all aspects of the web design industry. Do you have strong desire to bring more colors to this world? Follow Katherine on Google+ and Twitter.

70+ Super Popular Fiverr Gigs for Website Owners

Is it possible to design a website for just $5? The short answer is no. Not in this universe. Let’s be realistic: $5 is approximately the price of a Big Mac in Denmark. No one will create you a unique full-featured design for a burger. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t make use of a fiver to improve your existing website.
70+ Super Popular Fiverr Gigs for Website Owners
Speaking of fivers, did you know that you can actually put that money to good use on Fiverr.com – a crowdsourced marketplace, where people will do something for you for as little as $5? This website has become a steady source of income for millions of its members: graphic designers, writers, amateur singers, web developers, and many others.

Today we would like to introduce you to the 70+ of the up-to-date and highest rated Fiverr gigs, which will come in handy for any webmaster working with WordPress, Joomla, Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop or Shopify websites.

There are, however, some rules you should have in mind while roaming this marketplace. They will surely save you from frustration:

Always contact the performer before you place an order. The actual prices may (and probably, do) differ from the ones stated on the gig page (mostly because of the initial pricing policy on Fiverr, when any gig was exactly $5).
Stay away from any gigs that offer you backlinks or other off-site SEO, social media followers, and other benefits that normally should be obtained manually. Many of them are not only unethical, but sometimes even illegal and harmful.
Obviously, choose only gigs with high average rating – this applies to any store and marketplace.
If you are ready to discover the depths of Fiverr, let’s start with the CMS number one for today.



The WordPress section is the most extensive one here. Hundreds of WordPress experts offer their services at competitive rates, so there are plenty of options to choose from. If you are planning to launch a WordPress-based website, consider the gigs related to installation, customization and, especially, security.

WordPress Installation and Customization

Themestuning will install WordPress, a theme, and make sure that it looks like the demo for $5.

WordPress_seo will securely install your new WordPress website taking into account all possible security issues for $5.

Picaya will do all kinds of WordPress-related jobs for $5 each.

Aaliyaan will fix WordPress issues, improve your SEO or fully revamp your website for $15, $50 and $350 respectively.

Alii_raja1 will install a premium theme for you for $5.

Om2000_cuet will solve CSS, HTML, or any other code- or design-related WordPress issue for $5.

WordPress SEO

Tfinry will take various actions for search engine optimization for $5-$20.

Luikangmk will perform onsite SEO of your WordPress Website for $10-$40.

Shafeef will optimize 15 pages of your website for $5.

WordPress Migration

Vizotech will migrate or clone your WordPress-based website for $5. More expensive options like website development are also available.

Webchief will install, transfer, or duplicate a WordPress website for $5.

Abubakerijaz will move, migrate and setup multisite WordPress blogs for $5+ (depending on the amount of data transferred).

Designsages will migrate your WordPress website to another hosting, domain or folder for $5.

Raiszaada will move your WordPress website for $5, and boost its performance for additional $15.

Performance Optimization

Kenjennings will provide all-round performance optimization of your WordPress for $10.

Aaliyaan will speed up your website via enabling compression and caching, database optimization, etc for $20.

WordPresscholar will boost your website’s speed for $15+ (more expensive packages are available).

Wpfalcon will provide in-depth analysis of your WordPress and boost its loading speed for $5-$50.

Mfurqanabid will transfer up to 200 posts from your Blogger account to your new WordPress website for $5.

WordPress Security

Lindoarthur will scan your WordPress for security vulnerabilities for $25. This may seem a bit too much, but safety first, right?

Cerontek will make sure your website is protected on all sides for $10+ (up to $45). The average rating for its more than 350 reviews is 5/5 – just in case you were wondering.

Tapasfun will protect your website for $10, or eliminate the consequences of hacking for $35.

Joomla is not the most popular CMS anymore, but it is still pretty usable. Joomla experts on Fiverr offer a wide range of services including installation, fixes, security and search engine optimization. If you have chosen Joomla for its reliability and functionality, this section is for you.

Joomla Installation and Customization

Webguruhere will install, migrate or upgrade a Joomla website; integrate templates and extensions for $5 and up.

Asbhsoftwares will install and set up a Joomla template for you for $5.

Hawkthalas will install Joomla and all the necessary supplements for $5.

Amine_pipr0 will Install, configure core and third party extension; tune up templates and correct bugs for $5.

Joomla SEO

Amine_pipr0 will make your Joomla website SEO-friendly for $5.

Ivan62 will provide your website with high-quality onsite search engine optimization for $20.

Joomla Security

Arifur will make sure your Joomla website is malware-free, and improve its security for $20+.

Dxxx1988 will upgrade, backup and secure your website for $30 and up.

Szepesif will clean up your site from any viruses and vulnerabilities for $5+.

Magento is the toughest guy among the top eCommerce platforms, and this means it is the most difficult one to manage. That’s why most of the Magento gigs on Fiverr are oriented at fixing bugs and customization. SEO services are less widespread, but you will be able to find a SEO specialist if you really need one. And, of course, there are plenty of gigs offering to save you time by adding products to your Magento store for you.

Magento Installation and Bugfixes

Hacpires will install a Magento theme of your choice for $5.

Kukadiyamayur will fix any problems related to Magento for $5.

Hacpires will do a wide range of works including theme customization, installing extensions and migration for $5.

Faeez567 will set up a store for you, fix bugs, provide customization and upload products for a price starting with $5.

Simbeez offers more than 14 types of Magento tweaks for as little as $5 each.

Kevin2020 will install Magento, themes and extensions; upgrade or migrate your store for $5.

Add Products to Magento

Mosharofct will add 55 simple products to your Magento inventory for $5. He also works with other eCommerce platforms such as PrestaShop, WooCommerce, OpenCart and Shopify.

Woo_expert will publish 50 items to a number of online store platforms including Magento for $5. For variable products that would be $10.

Janggutmerah will manually add 125 items to your Magento for $5.

Extra gig:

Vajsmiler will improve your Magento shop’s SEO. This type of a service is quite uncommon in the Magento section of Fiverr, so don’t pass by.

PrestaShop is a happy medium of moderate difficulty and decent scalability. This eCommerce platform can successfully handle large stores, while remaining fairly easy to manage. Yet, it is open source, so technical problems are inevitable. If you are having any, welcome to the PrestaShop section of Fiverr.

PrestaShop Installation

Spark4hope will install and configure your new PrestaShop store for $5, and install any theme or module for additional $10 each.

Vnwebz will install any PrestaShop-related software: the CMS itself, themes, modules, etc. for a price starting from $5.

Jhon111 will help you with setting up of your PrestaShop store by installing a custom theme for $5. For extra charge he will upload dummy content to make the theme look like on the demo.

PrestaShop Customization and Fixes

Naumanz will fix any possible issues of your PrestaShop store for the initial price of $5 (actually, more if you have more than one issue).

Mayurvanza will prepare a worriless launch of your eCommerce store by installing all the necessary software for $5+. Customization and bug fixes will cost you the additional $25.

Dakshprajapati will install a custom PrestaShop theme and additional modules of your choice for $5+.

Add Products to PrestaShop

Shahp2015 will add 30 products to your PrestaShop store for $5. Variable products are supported, which means you can provide different color variations for each item.

Wordpres_skills will also publish 30 variable products for $5. He works with OpenCart as well.

Sherjohn12 will fill your PrestaShop store with content for $5 per 25 entries.

Extra gig:

Naoufel2 offers a number of SEO services for PrestaShop users. The basic pack costs $5, while the full range of services totals $25, and includes keyword research and competitor’s analysis.



OpenCart is a lightweight CMS praised for its simplicity, ease in development and user-friendliness. Although it is not very popular on Fiverr, we have found some really useful gigs that will make setting up a store a breeze for you.

 OpenCart Installation and Customization

Jigneshdavara will build a store based on OpenCart and customize it as per your requirements for $5+.

Shabirbhat will fix any OpenCart-related issue, integrate payment gateways; install extensions and templates for a flexible price starting with $5.

Adilbhat will fix HTML, PHP, CSS or database issues, install any required template or module, and add SSL to your store for $5.

Kinjan will correct any error in your OpenCart store’s code for $5.

Sagar3003 will perform a wide range of work related to your store for $5 and up.

Upload products to OpenCart

Intechspace will add 100 products to your OpenCart store, previously having optimized the images in PhotoShop for $5.

WordPress_skils will add 50 simple products to OpenCart for $5. He also works with WooCommerce and other popular eCommerce platforms.

Munbdit is ready to add 35 items to your OpenCart shop for $5.



Shopify is a quite simple online store platform perfectly suitable for beginners. There is not much to do about its security or stability, as they are being maintained by the Shopify team itself. But if you want to invest some more money into your store, consider passing on to someone else’s shoulders such boring tasks as adding products or fixing SEO tags.

Shopify Installation and Customization

Salo2016 will fix your Shopify store theme and customize it for $5.

Ecomerce will install and customize a theme, fix any bugs and optimize your store charging $5 for a small task (like fixing one error).

Dijatul will do all kinds of Shopify-related work: theme installation, HTML and CSS fixes, product publishing, SEO, and many more.

David2010 will install a theme, setup and configure apps, and improve the design of your Shopify store.

Add Products to Shopify

Underscore99 will add 50 products to your Shopify store for $5.

Sohag88 will publish 50 simple or 25 variable products for $5.

Creativearman will add 50 products for a flat price of $5.

Shopify SEO

WordPresseo101 will take care of your Shopify store’s SEO for $5+ (advanced $50 and $120 packages are available).

Leuxonghoi will do basic Shopify SEO for $10, and advanced optimization for S20 (Premium package) or S40 (Pro package).

Webseofull will optimize your store for better SEO rankings for $5.

Extra gig:

Enamhasan will transfer the products from your Etsy store to Shopify for $5. For the additional payment he will also transfer categories and reviews.

Wrapping up:

As you can see, Fiverr is not as cheap as its name says. Sometimes you will have to pay several times the basic gig price. But if you don’t wish to become a jack of all trades, outsourcing is the only way to get the things done. Besides, it is great for establishing partnership relations with skilled freelancers.

Have you ever used Fiverr before? What was your experience like? Feel free to share your thoughts with our community!


Disclaimer: we don’t directly endorse any gig from the listed above. We have just collected the most high-rated services with the largest number of positive reviews, so you don’t have to sort them yourself and waste your time. And remember: Fiverr is kind of a drug, so use it wisely. Sometimes it is better to learn how to do something than to throw away another $25.

Interview with Simon Kloostra, Joomla Craftsman and SEO Prof from Netherlands

He knows all ins and outs about SEO of any Joomla website, shares these insights on his popular blog Joomlaseo.com, and has also published the ebook Joomla 3 SEO & Performance. If this is not enough, he’s an experienced web designer in addition.
Interview with Simon Kloostra, Joomla Craftsman and SEO Prof from Netherlands
Have you already read new Joomla guide from Startup Hub? Among Startup Hub regular authors Simon Kloostra came out as invited expert on Joomla SEO and design.

We asked passionate Joomla insider 12 short questions and got the most capacious answers possible. So we share them with you — read about SEO for newbies or advanced users and find some tips for your Joomla website.



Emily Hunt: Tell us about your first experince with Joomla. Was it love at first sight? When did you stop on it for good and all?


Simon Kloostra: Actually my first date was with WordPress, but at the time we did not connect that well 😉 So I turned to Joomla and had a much better time. As I’m always a very loyal guy I never changed my choice, though I must admit that at another time it could have been the other way around too, I am not one of those who is almost religious about his CMS of choice: both have their pro’s and con’s. Having made a choice though I decided to stick with Joomla, as I’d rather be a specialist in one area then a generalist in multiple areas.




Emily Hunt: Please name 5 things you love Joomla for.


Simon Kloostra: Well, the first reason is that, like WordPress, Joomla makes it incredibly easy to build a website. In about 5 minutes you can install Joomla, with a nice template, add some pages and ready you are. For me, as an SEO specialist, there are some specifics about Joomla that I like particularly:
The option to add metadescriptions and page titles is built in the core, I do not need plugins for this.
Slightly more advanced users will sooner or later need to redirect URL’s in their site, for example when they change their site structure. For this, the built-in Redirect manager is extremely valuable.
For performance, which is also one of my favorite subjects, Joomla also has options for various levels of caching and G-zip.
Building multilingual websites is also really easy in Joomla, no plugins needed.
Especially for smaller sites, I can really do all I need using just the Joomla core options, which really keeps sites light and simple.





Emily Hunt: How do you see Joomla in 5 years from now? Your forecasts and wishes for its development.


Simon Kloostra: I know for some of my wishes development is in full swing, while for others ideas still need to be worked out. Especially release 3.6, which is due later this year holds some improvements that I have been awaiting for a long while: One development that is close to being published is the Joomla Router improvements by Hannes Papenberg. This would be a massive SEO improvement. Also for 3.6, an upgrade of the media manager is planned, which should improve image uploading and editing a lot. Another improvement I was eagerly awaiting too is the possibility to add custom fields to Joomla articles. Actually, these three features are the most wanted improvements that I was waiting for, so the list of further improvements I really wish for isn’t even that long.
My main wish now is even simpler update mechanism, preferably fully automated, even though the mechanism is already much improved.





Emily Hunt: What would you recommend in terms of SEO to a complete newbie?


Simon Kloostra: Beginners often think that SEO is really complicated, but the basics aren’t that hard, they just take time and effort. And you don’t have to be perfect from day 1. Just focus on the obvious stuff. The good thing is that if you build your website with your visitors in mind, it will often appeal to Google too: build your site in a structured way with a logical navigation and clear distinctions with categories and you’re halfway there. If you also assign basic metadata like page-titles and metadescriptions you are already at 80%. It’s only the last 20% that gets really technical.Only start with the more advanced topics if you’re more familiar with SEO. Often I see people jumping into changing their site and installing complex SEO extensions without enough knowledge about what they’re doing, in the end actually hurting their SEO.




Emily Hunt: Where does one start? What are the concrete steps?


Simon Kloostra: First you should review your global configuration settings in Joomla, as these are the foundation. After your site is live, these settings can often not be changed without consequences, so get them right from the start. Then create logical categories, fill them with articles (with metadata) and assign these to structured menus, preferably no more than 7 items per level. After your site is live, monitor it. A simple test to see if your site looks healthy in Google is to use the command site:example.com. This often shows you how Google displays your site in the search results. Often you will also see that many pages are shown that you did not expect to see (like login-views, tag-views, etcetera), allowing you to do something about them if needed, like setting a NOINDEX attribute.




Emily Hunt: How long does it take an average blogger to achieve SEO “wisdom”?


Simon Kloostra: It depends how much you want to study on the subject, but spending just a few hours of reading already helps a lot. Both Google and Moz.com have written a beginner’s SEO guide, and both manuals give you a lot of information that is easy to digest.




Emily Hunt: Would you tell about your keyword research workflow and tools you use for it?


Simon Kloostra: First of all, don’t forget the really obvious ones like simply using Google: both the auto-suggest feature and the related searches option at the bottom of the Google.com page are often overlooked. Then the free Google Adwords Keyword Planner is an indispensable tool to gather more keyword-variations and search volume. A secret trick that I keep telling about though is a tool that people often don’t expect: Google Search Console. If you access the tool, check the Search Analysis option. If you then filter the Impressions column, it brings up a list of keywords you are already ranking for, often without you even realizing it. You can then use this knowledge to further optimize the relevant page for this keyword.
Outside Google, SemRush is probably the best keyword-research tool there is, and they allow for some limited free information.





Emily Hunt: Are there any tools or “tricks” for Joomla to make SEO easier?


Simon Kloostra: First of all I want to say that many people often think about SEO too simple. I am often asked: can you SEO our site for us, expecting me to flip some magical switches which automatically raises their rankings. SEO is hard work, requiring page-by-page actions. Someone once said: “SEO is like going to the gym. You have to work hard to build fitness and after a few months, people take notice” and I think this is very true.
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t any tools to make life easier. With some good tools, managing your SEO efforts in Joomla becomes much easier. Especially an extension like OSMeta is excellent for managing metadata in a structured way and keeping an overview. Especially for beginning SEO’s in Joomla, just this extension, plus a sitemap extension (OSmap or Jsitemap) are all you need.





Emily Hunt: Let’s imagine a hypothetical blogger who reads all SEO guides over there, adds all possible keywords, writes wonderful unique content, but still has no search engine traffic. What would you recommend him/her?


Simon Kloostra: Tricky question, but if he or she actually has achieved all this without any decent rankings, he probably needs to take action to get noticed: his on-site SEO is probably perfect then, but he also needs to work on off-site SEO: Links and social media.
Linkbuilding is a bit of a dirty word these days, as links should actually be earned, but without being visible, how can you earn links? So a little bit of linkbuilding is probably required to kickstart this process. A few links acquired by yourself may be enough to get the wheel spinning, but these links should actually be valid. Even though directory-submission sites are usually not the way to go, you could try some large and reliable ones like Blogcatalog.com or Alltop.com or promote your site via book marking networks like Delicious.com and StumleUpOn. Actually, On my blog Joomlaseo.com I currently have a lot of valuable links, but I never asked for a link, they all grew naturally, together with a steady growth in Google rankings.

The best way is to use your own social networks of colleagues and friends to get yourself noticed, but you shouldn’t be too shy… Still, this hypothetical blogger should understand that it may easily take a year or more before your actions start paying off.





Emily Hunt: First things you pay attention to while coming to a new website. What are some terrible mistakes they often repeat?


Simon Kloostra: The most obvious one is that the page-title for the homepage menu-item is left to the default “Home”. When you know that this is the title that you instruct Google to use as the headline to show for your own site-result in their search results you know that this is really bad.
Another issue I often see is that people create multiple menu-items linking to the same article. This generates multiple URL’s, all pointing to the same content. This is a source of so-called duplicate content and is not good for your rankings at all.

Apart from that, lack of structure is definitely number two and number three is being too generic with your content, or even copying other website’s content. Don’t do that, make sure you’re unique!





Emily Hunt: What motivated you to write your (e)Book: Joomla! 3 SEO & Performance? And how at all did you come up with the idea?


Simon Kloostra: This actually evolved quite gradually. Three years ago I got the idea of starting the Joomlaseo.com blog during the Dutch Joomladays. As it quickly became a very successful blog and I liked writing about the subject, a few months later I came up with the idea to write a book too. Actually I recall this exact moment: I was brushing my teeth at night when the idea popped up. The first version of the book was written in a month’s time after which I self-published it. After a few months Apress.com checked in on me whether I was willing to publish the book with them, and so I did.
After all, the book was received pretty good. Especially the 5-star rating on Amazon proved me that the book is really appreciated. Also, even after almost a year, the book is still up-to-date really well. Even though Joomla evolved in the meantime, the SEO changes were minimal.





Emily Hunt: Do you have any favorite blogs or particular authors you read every day? Tell us about them.


Simon Kloostra: Sure, quite a few, as I need to keep up with my topics of course. To name a few:
Moz.com, being the major player in the SEO software field has a great blog. Especially their Rand Fishkin has his Friday Whiteboard video’s on the blog that are very interesting.
Neilpatel.com is a guy that writes very long and in-depth blogposts about SEO on his blog.
Yoast.com: These are the WordPress SEO guru’s, but their blog has many general SEO topics, great for anyone to read, also non-Wordpress-readers.
Then I have a number of general SEO blogs that I follow: searchenginewatch.com, searchengineland.com, searchenginejournal.com and thesempost.com.





Emily Hunt: To summarize it all, what should Joomla community expect from Simon Kloostra in the nearest future? Any plans, conferences, projects your fans should know about?


Simon Kloostra: Short-term plans are to speak on Joomladay Netherlands 2016 and probably a final overhaul of my Joomlaseo.com blog. I will probably focus more on offering SEO audits, similar to how the Yoast guys do for WordPress, though the main focus will always be to offer great content related to SEO.
In the Netherlands I am currently busy organizing an SEO Expert session together with Perfectwebteam.nl, the company of Sander Potjer and Martijn Boomsma and Yireo’s Jisse Reitsma, three guys well known for their work for the Joomla community worldwide.

And of course I will continue to follow the SEO developments closely and reporting on the consequences for Joomla on my blog!

Top 7 Security WordPress Plugins to Turn Your Website into a Fortress

A lot of webmasters favor WordPress because it’s a free content management system featuring highly intuitive controls and remarkable flexibility. Unfortunately, most of its aficionados don’t take the security of their websites seriously enough and thus run the risk of falling victim to surreptitious attacks. For bloggers who neglect things like hacking countermeasures and damage mitigation,the aftermath of a compromise tends to be devastating.
Top 7 Security WordPress Plugins to Turn Your Website into a Fortress
The prevalent WordPress vulnerabilities include poor theme security, server vulnerabilities, plugin security, file permissions, database security, FTP vulnerabilities, and specific file components such as wp-admin, wp-config and wp-includes. These are most heavily targeted by attackers.

Some of the recent hack incidents have shown how easily offenders can exploit weak links in WordPress security to their advantage. A single zero-day vulnerability can expose thousands of sites to attacks. In early February, for instance, cybercriminals deployed a large-scale ransomware serving campaign, where compromised WordPress websites redirected visitors to domains hosting an exploit kit. In another series of attacks, perpetrators leveraged a vulnerability in XML-RPC file to deploy a password brute forcing assault.

To prevent WordPress sites from being hacked or otherwise exploited, webmasters should consider adding an extra layer of protection. One of the following security plugins should to the trick.

All In One WP Security & Firewall



This plugin accommodates advanced WordPress security features, including an intuitive defense strength grading system, extensive firewall protection options and rules, enhanced user registration and login security, blacklisting by IP addresses and user agents, protection against comment spam, and quite a few more sought-after instruments. It uses a unique illustrative grading system based on how many security features you have activated on your website. All the features are divided into three groups by the level of invasion into website functionality: basic, intermediate and advanced.

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iThemes Security



Previously known as Better WP Security, this plugin allows webmasters to scan their websites for vulnerabilities and malware and easily fix what’s detected. iThemes Security also enforces strong authentication for all user account levels, thwarts brute force attacks and efficiently bans bots. While the basic version is completely free, iThemes Security Pro offers such additional security options as user action logging, two-factor authentication, malware scan scheduling, password expiration, Google reCAPTCHA integration and what’s important, support.

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Wordfence



This is another popular WordPress security plugin. Wordfence puts you in full control of login security, malware and vulnerability scanning, as well as real-time traffic and disk space monitoring. To its credit, this plugin also features a WordPress firewall functionality and extensive options to block attackers. Wordfence is also popular for its complementary caching feature. Unfortunately, this plugin is prohibited by most of the managed WordPress hosting providers, but is extremely popular in any other case, having been downloaded more than 1 million times.

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Sucuri Security



This plugin does a great job improving webmasters’ security posture. It delivers remote malware scanning features, security activity auditing, file integrity monitoring, and robust blacklisting options. Furthermore, the Post-Hack Security Actions feature facilitates site remediation in the unfortunate event it gets compromised.

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BulletProof Security



The name speaks for itself. This remarkable plugin allows WordPress website admins to steer clear of hacks and password brute forcing. Some of the noteworthy features include database backup scheduling, dependable .htaccess file protection, security and error logging, as well as frontend and backend maintenance mode.

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Acunetix WP Security



This plugin’s main pros are easy WordPress database backups,version hiding, and recommendations based on thorough security assessments. Webmasters can as well use it to secure their file permissions, disable PHP error reporting, monitor traffic in real time and prevent directory listings. Acunetix WP Security is multisite-ready, so you can secure an entire network of WordPress blogs with one plugin.

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Google Authenticator



With “Don’t let hackers in” being its motto, the plugin in question is all about two-factor authentication. It adds a one-time password requirement to regular WordPress login instances. The administrator can configure the amount of time that the secret code is valid and revoke the code if necessary.

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Additional WordPress security measures

Aside from using security plugins, be sure to keep your WordPress installation up to date. Stick with reputable online resources when downloading themes and plugins.Take authentication seriously: say no to“admin” as the username, use a strong password for your WordPress account, and consider setting up multi-factor authentication.