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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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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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230°Celsius is a restaurant that serves roast chicken and other foods. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, 230°Celsius needed to open for delivery across multiple cities.

They used our WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin to create an online order form on their website.

How our plugin solved their problem

230°Celsius delivers whole roast chicken as well as other foods such as pizzas, pasta, soups, and desserts. They needed a solution that allowed their customers to place orders online for delivery.

They used our WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin to list food items on their website on the Menu page. When a customer lands on the page, they can view all items or choose to see only vegetarian options or only non-vegetarian options.

The different food items are sorted under categories including Roasted Meals, Keto Diet Meals, Stuffings & Sides, Entrees, and Desserts. This makes it easy for customers to quickly find the food items they’d like to order.

Customers can view each food item’s title, description, price, and add to cart icon. If they’d like to add a product to their cart, they can simply click the (+) icon next to each food item.

The developer added a custom floating sidebar to the menu page to enhance the customer’s experience. It allows customers to jump to a different category quickly.

And, once customers are done adding items to their menu, they can proceed to checkout to place their order. It's a fast and user-friendly way to take food orders online.

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Feed Me I’m Hungry is a food blog that regularly publishes recipes of all types including appetizers, main dishes, desserts, drinks, and allergy-friendly recipes. They used our Posts Table Pro plugin to create a WordPress recipe index to list recipes in a user-friendly way.

How our plugin solved their problem

Feed Me I’m Hungry publishes all sorts of recipes on their food blog. They needed a way to make it easy for readers to quickly find the recipe they were looking for from their collection of nearly 400 recipes.

When a visitor lands on the Recipe Index page, they see a table listing the recipes. The table shows 25 recipes per page with the name, category, and author of each recipe.

In addition to this, the table has category filters that enable visitors to quickly find the type of recipe they’re looking for. The different categories include Allergy Friendly (with Dairy Free and Gluten Free as sub-categories), Appetizers, Baking, Breakfast, Desserts, Main Dishes, and others.

Readers can also use the search box above the table to quickly find a specific recipe. The table can also be sorted based on the columns. The searchable, sortable WordPress recipe index with filter options helps readers narrow down their search.

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Arts Active is a registered charity that supports people looking to enjoy the arts in a variety of different ways. They used our Document Library Pro plugin to create a front-end resource hub for visitors and share downloadable documents.

How our plugin solved their problem

Arts Active needed a way of allowing website users easy access to their arts resource hub. They were looking for a plugin that would allow users to easily search the resource hub to find the right document quickly.

In addition, they wanted a document library plugin that supported various forms of media for download and for linking. This allowed them to have the Download button download a PDF and link to an accompanying video. Since Arts Active puts everything out bilingually, they were able to offer multiple documents by setting the Download link as a ZIP file.

The resource hub has columns for each document’s image, title, excerpt, categories, tags, and download link.

When a visitor lands on the Resources page, they can choose from tags and categories using the filter options above the resource hub. Visitors also have the option to search the resource hub for a specific document using the search box. The document titles are clickable which means visitors can click them to learn more about the resource before downloading it.

The resource hub lists 25 documents per page and has a total of 4 pages that visitors can navigate to using the pagination options below the resource hub. The table is also sortable which means visitors can sort by any column in the table.

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