How to send automated MailChimp welcome email to WordPress popup subscribers

This tutorial will guide you how to send automated welcome email to MailChimp subscribers that subscribed from WordPress popup forms created with the Wonder Popup plugin.

Wonder Popup is a WordPress popup plugin to create lightbox popup forms, embed forms, corner slide-in forms and notification bars that can help you get more newsletter subscribers.

For how to create an email subscription popup form with Wonder Popup, please view the tutorial: How to create WordPress email subscription popup for MailChimp.
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How to apply for a Google Drive API key

This tutorial will guide you how to apply for a Google Drive API key. You can use the key to generate Google Drive direct download links for image, audio and video files hosted on Google Drive: Google Drive Direct Link Generator for Image, MP3 and Video Files.

There are 4 steps in this tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Log into the Google Cloud Platform
  • Step 2 - Create a project in Google Cloud Platform dashboard
  • Step 3 - Enable Google Drive API
  • Step 4 - Create a Google Drive API key

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WordPress HTML Content Slider

This tutorial will show you how to create a WordPress HTML content slider by using the plugin Wonder Carousel.

You only need to select images, enter text or HTML code for title and description, select a skin, the plugin will create an HTML content slider that you can add to a WordPress page or post.

There are 4 steps in this tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Carousel
  • Step 2 - Add images, enter text or HTML code for title and description
  • Step 3 - Select an HTML content slider skin
  • Step 4 - Publish the slider

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How to create WordPress Logo Carousel

This tutorial will guide you how to create a WordPress logo carousel. You can link the logos to webpages, configure the carousel to auto scroll and pause the carousel on mouse over.

There are 4 steps in the tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Carousel
  • Step 2 - Create a new WordPress carousel and add logo images
  • Step 3 - Configure the WordPress logo carousel to auto scroll
  • Step 4 - Publish the WordPress logo carousel

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WordPress Full Screen Background Slider

This tutorial will guide you how to create a fullscreen background slider for your WordPress. At the end of the tutorial, we will create two kinds of full screen sliders.

The first demo shows the full screen slider in the background, while the page displays the normal content you entered in the page editor: WordPress full screen background slider.

The second demo just shows the page header, menu and the full screen slider, it does not display the normal page content: WordPress full screen slider.

If you want to create a WordPress full screen slider without the page header and menu, please view this tutorial: How to Create a Fullscreen WordPress Slideshow.

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WordPress Shoutcast Player

This tutorial will guide you how to create a Shoutcast live streaming audio player for your WordPress website. The player displays the current song title and the played track list.

There are 5 steps in the tutorials:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Audio Player
  • Step 2 - Prepare Shoutcast Live Streaming URL
  • Step 3 - Create an Audio Player to Play the Shoutcast Live Streaming
  • Step 4 - Select a Skin for Live Streaming Audio Player
  • Step 5 - Publish the player

At the end of this tutorial, we will also discuss the common problems when creating the player.

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How to Add a Slider to WordPress

WordPress slider is a great way to highlight the contents of your website and call the attention of your website visitors. This tutorial will guide you how to add a slider to your WordPress website.

To add a slider to WordPress, please take the following 5 steps:

  • Step 1 Install the plugin Wonder Slider
  • Step 2 Create a new slider
  • Step 3 Add images, videos and texts to the slider
  • Step 4 Select a skin and publish the slider
  • Step 5 Add the slider to post, page or the WordPress theme

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