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IGBC Online is the online presence of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC), an organization that supports recovery and delisting, and ongoing conservation of grizzly bear populations.

They’ve used the Document Library Pro plugin to create a document library for around 800 meeting minutes, policies, and reports.

How our plugin solved their problem

The IGBC website is designed by SnowGhost Design who were looking for a way to build a searchable document library in WordPress. More specifically, they needed a way to list around 800 company documents (like meeting minutes, policies, and reports) in an organized and searchable way.

They used the Document Library Pro plugin to create a document library with folders and subfolders containing all of the organization’s documents. To do this, they simply uploaded the documents to their WordPress site along with information about each document and categorized them.

The Document Library page contains multiple folders (some with sub-folders) based on the document categories. Each table contains a list of all the documents organized under that category or sub-category). This makes it easy for users to find the documents they’re looking for.

The tables are divided into six sortable columns – Title, Date, Tags, Type, Size, and Link. In addition to this, the table has filter dropdowns that make it easy for users to narrow down their search further. Once a user finds a document they’d like to access, they can click the download icon to download it to their device or click the Preview link to view the document in a lightbox.

There’s also a search box above the document library that lets users search for documents by keyword.

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The Max De Pree Center for Leadership aims to equip leaders to respond faithfully to God’s callings using a variety of resources including books, podcasts, video series, journal articles, and more. They’ve used the Posts Table Pro plugin to create an index of resources for site visitors.

How our plugin solved their problem

De Pree Center were looking for a way to create an index of resources for leaders on their website in a user-friendly way. This involved creating and displaying an index of their entire collection of 2,800+ posts with information about each post. An index was necessary to help people find the information they’re looking for and keep it evergreen.

They used the Posts Table Pro plugin to create an index of all posts and displayed it on the Life for Leaders Index page. To do this, they followed our step-by-step tutorial to select the posts they wanted to include in the index and add the posts table to a page on their website.

The posts table features a total of seven columns – to show each post’s publishing date, title, content description, author, book, series, and theme. In addition to this, there are filter dropdowns above the posts table that let users filter by Book, Series, and Theme. Users can also click on the taxonomies in the posts table to filter by that item.

In addition to this, users can search for specific keywords using the search bar above the posts table and sort the columns in ascending or descending order.

When a user visits the Life for Leaders Index page, they can see the complete collection of posts, filter them to narrow down their search, or search for a specific keyword using the search bar. This makes it easy to find the posts they’re looking for. Users can click on the title of the post to visit the post page.

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Starborn Creations is a unique gemstone jewelry online store that sells jewelry, home decor, and loose stones. They use two Barn2 plugins to help make their store more successful:

• The WooCommerce Product Filters plugin adds show various product filters in the sidebar, allowing customers to filter by a range of custom product data.
• WooCommerce Wholesale Pro adds a private login-only wholesale area for trade buyers.

How our plugins solved their problem

Starborn Creations needed a way to show product filters not only on their shop page, but also on category pages (see example).

Since the company sells products made from a variety of gemstones, fossils, crystals, and minerals, they were looking for a way to let customers narrow down their search by price range, stone name, birthstone directly on the shop page.

Starborn's customers spend a lot of time on category pages because many wholesalers like to focus on certain stones. The category page filters allow customers to tailor their selections based on product data such as stone, color, ring size, and so on.

When a customer lands on the main shop page or one of the category pages, they can use the various product filters to narrow down their search. For example, if someone is looking for jewelry with a Blue Topaz stone and Sterling Silver base material that’s under $150, they can set the filter options accordingly to only see products that fit that criteria. Customers can also clear specific filters or all filters using the clear filter options.

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M-Rock Stone Manufacturing sells manufactured stone and brick veneers. They have used our WooCommerce Product Sample plugin to let prospective customers order samples of the manufactured stone and brick veneer products they sell.

How our plugin solved their problem

M-Rock Stone Manufacturing needed a way to let customers see the manufactured stone and brick veneer samples before placing orders for their projects.

They used our WooCommerce Product Sample plugin to create and sell samples directly through their online store. For this, they enabled product samples globally for all products on their online store and configured shipping settings.

When a customer lands on their product page, they can choose the number of boxes they’d like to buy and click the Order Sample button to add the samples to their shopping cart.

For products with variations, the Order Sample button appears on the product page after a customer selects the variation – Flats or Corners – they’re interested in. Once customers select a variation, they can either order the full product or a sample.

Customers can also order samples directly from the Samples page by clicking the Order Sample button.

M-Rock Stone Manufacturing have capped the maximum number of samples a customer can order in one go to 3.

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Village of Manchester is an online community website that publishes village meeting minutes, newsletters, and forms as well as local events. They’ve used the Document Library Pro plugin to list large numbers of documents in a neat and organized way.

How our plugin solved their problem

Village of Manchester needed a way to list large numbers of documents (meeting minutes, newsletters, and forms) in an organized way on their website.

They used our Document Library Pro plugin to create a Document Library page on their website. When a visitor lands on the page, they’re able to see the documents structured into collapsible folders.

The Document Library page has instructions for visitors explaining how to use the document library to find what they’re looking for. It also contains four document folders Minutes, Forms, Newsletter, and Village.

Site visitors can click on the folders to preview and download a document. The documents are listed in a neat and organized table layout. The table includes sortable columns for Title, Summary, Link, and File Size. The document library also has a search field that site visitors can use to locate specific documents. All of the documents in the document library are PDF files.

Add a free document library with collapsible folders to your site today!

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Omnifoto.nl / Masters of Light is a Dutch top-rated and highly specialized supplier, in filters for Landscape Photography of the excellent HAIDA Filter- and the handmade LEE Filter series.

Omnifoto required a plugin that would immediately indicate on the shop and category pages whether an item is in stock. Previously, customers had to visit each individual product page to see whether an item was available. To save them time, Omnifoto wanted to display this information directly on the main shop pages.

WooCommerce Lead Time turned out to be a fantastic solution to their problem. It is the only plugin that offers a simple way to include stock and lead time information on the shop and category pages.

Omnifoto.nl now use WooCommerce Lead Time to:

• Show the stock status of every product directly on product category pages.
• Display the approximate number of days when specific out-of-stock goods will become available in the inventory.

As a result, customers can easily determine whether they should place an order right away or wait. Each product has text such as such as "5 in stock (can be backordered)" or "On backorder | Waiting time: X months or days".

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Eastern Learning Alliance is a group of educational institutions spanning Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, England. 

Eastern Learning Alliance needed a solution that could help them display their school network vacancies in a sortable table format. For this, the Post Table Pro plugin proved to be a perfect solution.

On the vacancies page, all the job titles are listed with relevant details in separate columns such as location, contract type, and application deadline date. Applicants can easily sort the job listings by clicking on the respective column head.

The new vacancies are automatically added to the table when a job is created in the WordPress admin dashboard. This makes managing the job board a lot easier and quicker. To learn more about a particular job opening, users can simply +click on the job post title to view the full job advert.

Related tutorial: Create a WordPress Job Board with the Posts Table Pro Plugin

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Winfrith Bakery sells handmade bread in Winfrith Newburg from scratch using traditional techniques. They’ve used the WooCommerce Fast Cart plugin to create a one-page shop. It enables customers to checkout without needing to move between web pages.

How our plugin solved their problem

Winfrith Bakery was looking for a way to make it easy for their customers to buy bread, buns, cakes, pastries, and croissants from their online store. Since most of their customer base is over the age of 70, they wanted to create a simple checkout flow.

Andrew from Winfrith Bakery had this to say about the WooCommerce Fast Cart plugin:

"Given that most of our customers are over 70 and not very tech-savvy is a great reflection on its ease of use and positive impact on customer experience!"

They installed the Fast Cart plugin on their WooCommerce store to create a one-page shop where customers can checkout without needing to visit multiple pages. The popup cart checkout feature enables customers to quickly place their orders from the one-page shop.

When a customer lands on the shop page, they can add products to their cart, review their order in the popup cart, and checkout.

"Really working well and had positive comments from some of my OAP customers - who like its simplicity - they wanted a one-page shop solution without the need to move between web pages."

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PS Vascular is an electronic media library that makes summaries and publications available for the public. They’ve used our Document Library Pro plugin to add a free document library to their WordPress website.

How our plugin solved their problem

PS Vascular needed a way to create a free download library that lets users quickly find the summaries and publications they’re looking for. This includes medical information, textbooks, and videos.

They used our Document Library Pro plugin to create a free document library on their website. For this, they set up a Document Library page and added the document library to it. When a visitor lands on the page, they can view all of the summaries and publications as well as download links for each one.

The document library features two columns – Title and Link. It also shows the total number of documents in the document library above the table. Visitors can choose how many summaries and publications to show on each page using the dropdown.

The document library also has pagination links at the bottom. This lets visitors skip to any page they’d like quickly. By default, the newest files are listed at the top.

When a user finds a summary or publication they’d like to download, they can simply click the Download button next to it to download it directly to their machine.

Add a free document library to your own site today!

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