‫In this lecture of the course, we will be taking a look at the extra features that comes with the block
‫C companion plugin.
‫So let's just go ahead and let's get started.
‫Now you can see that we have been using the block C theme throughout our blog website.
‫And this is by far we have designed without relying on those extra features.
‫Now let's suppose that if you want to also incorporate those extra features that are really very amazing,
‫probably one of them is really amazing.
‫And I'm going to be sharing with you how it works and why that is the best.
‫So let's just go ahead and let's go into the dashboard.
‫Now, once you are in the dashboard, you can see that we have got this block C.
‫And if I click on that I will be taken to that particular page.
‫Now this home page is pretty much useless.
‫It's just only about the documentation and everything.
‫So if you want to read more about it, you can read more about it.
‫But I have pretty much explain you each and everything regarding this theme.
‫So you can leave this.
‫The other one is the starter site.
‫So if you want to pre-built, uh, import any of the website that is pre-built, you can import that
‫and you can do it right from here, which is going to be available for the Gutenberg and for the Elementor
‫as well.
‫You can do it.
‫But since we needed the custom design, we have designed that already.
‫After that, we have got this extensions.
‫This is the one that I wanted to talk about.
‫And there we have got four of the free extensions that you can use.
‫Now.
‫The Pro extensions are there, but we're not going to be using this because these are not much necessary
‫for a blog website and we do not want to use this one.
‫So I'll be showing with you what are these free extensions and then we'll be working up with it.
‫Similarly, there is also the useful plugins that is going to show you what are those plugins, what
‫you can go ahead and what you can um, achieve with those particular plugins.
‫You can read them about over here.
‫After that, there is also a change log which is going to show you like when this version was updated,
‫and if there is any of the newer update and everything, let's just go ahead and let's take a look at
‫our extensions which are here.
‫So the number one is this cookies consent.
‫Now what this is going to do is that this is going to show a cookies consent right over here or anywhere
‫around the page that do you accept our cookies.
‫Now this is really important especially in the European countries.
‫Like if you want to build a blog website, you should be adding this cookies consent because this is
‫in compliance with the regulation policy, which is really very important over there.
‫So if you are from Europe, you should know that.
‫But what you need to do is to click on yes.
‫All right.
‫And then you can click on customize.
‫And this is going to take you to the Theme Customizer.
‫Now once you are in the theme customizer this is the cookies consent that is right here.
‫Now if you want you can also choose this design as well.
‫And this is how it's going to be.
‫If you want you can choose this.
‫This design cookie period is going to be forever.
‫If you want the cookies to be saved in the browser forever, you can do it.
‫If you want the cookies to be saved in the browser for the one month, it's okay to, uh.
‫This means that after the one month, this is going to appear again, so it totally depends upon you.
‫Now, I'm going to be keeping this to be forever.
‫I'm also going to be keeping this text to be over here.
‫I do not want to change anything.
‫So then we have got the accept.
‫This is the button.
‫If you need any other text you can do it.
‫There is a decline button.
‫If you need any other text you can do it.
‫Now let's just go into the design page and let's see what we can do.
‫So we've got the text color and everything.
‫This is the link initial and this is the hover.
‫Now since there is no link over here, that is why we do not want to change the hover.
‫But if you have it you can change it.
‫Then we have got the button, uh, the background color.
‫So if you need a different color you can do it.
‫Like let's suppose that I need the hash eBay eBay eBay I need this color.
‫I can do it like this as well.
‫After that there is the decline button, which is this.
‫If you need a different color, you can do it and you can pretty much work with that.
‫So this is the privacy consent that you can show to your particular users, which is the cookies consent
‫which is really very important, especially if your viewers are from the European countries.
‫All right then we have got the newsletter subscribe, which is also available with the Blocksy theme.
‫But since we have already have got the newsletter, that is why we do not want to take a look at that.
‫But if you still want to implement this on your website, then you can just come up here and you do
‫not want to use this.
‫You can read the documentation or if you want to take a look at the video tutorial, you can do that
‫as well.
‫Similarly, we have got the product reviews.
‫This is really very, uh, amazing feature.
‫If you want to do the affiliate marketing on your particular blog website.
‫So what this is going to do is that let's suppose that you review some of the products, like let's
‫suppose that there is a new iPhone that is released and you want to write a review about it, like what
‫is the speed of it and how many cameras are there now?
‫So these are the things that you can, uh, do it based on the product review.
‫Now let me share with you how it's going to quickly work.
‫And then we are going to disable it because this is actually a travel blog.
‫So I'm going to be going ahead and I'm going to be enabling this.
‫This is right here.
‫It says Product Review settings.
‫Product dash review is going to be the slug.
‫And the category slug is going to be product review category.
‫All right.
‫So now uh, once we have enabled that if you now go ahead and if you refresh this page you can now see
‫that we have got this product reviews.
‫And now if we go into the all reviews there is not found because there isn't any review created.
‫And now if you were to go ahead and if you were to click on Add New Review, this is right here I'm
‫going to be adding the name.
‫All right.
‫And hello.
‫Something.
‫Now, once I'm done with that, I'm going to be going ahead.
‫I'm going to be uploading the featured image.
‫So let's select this image.
‫Let's click on Set Featured Image and let's click on publish.
‫Now once I'm done with that, once this is published if I now view this you can now see that it shows
‫page not found.
‫So this seems to be not working at the time I'm recording this lecture.
‫I do not know why.
‫Let me just go back to the old reviews.
‫Let me click on view.
‫And it still shows the page not found.
‫So if I were to go into the block, see?
‫And extensions.
‫And the product reviews.
‫This is product review, which is a single slug.
‫All right.
‫And if I just come here product dash review slash.
‫Hello something.
‫It's not being shown.
‫So if I were to go into the settings and if I were to go into the permalinks and this is set to the
‫post name, let's go down.
‫Let's click on Save Changes.
‫Once that is done, if I now go ahead and if I refresh this page.
‫All right.
‫Now it seems to work.
‫All right.
‫So this is hello something.
‫This is the read more.
‫And now this is the buy now.
‫So if you get any time 404 page errors make sure you go into the permalinks and then just save the changes
‫and it's going to work.
‫All right.
‫Now let's just go ahead and let's go back to our product reviews.
‫Let's go to all reviews and let's click on edit.
‫Now, once we are in here, we're going to select the review entity, which is like you can set it to
‫be like this is a product, this is a book, this is a work season.
‫Whatever you want to do it or this is an episode or anything, and most of them will have a different
‫layout or different thing based on the rating system that you will be having in here.
‫So let's suppose that I say that this is actually a book that I want to write a review about.
‫You can add and edit the gallery like you can add some of the images like these are the images that
‫I want to add.
‫I can click on create a new gallery.
‫I can click on insert the Gallery which is going to be added now.
‫Similarly in here I can add some of the text like let's suppose that I want to add the gypsum.
‫Now, once I'm done with that, I'm going to be selecting the first all of these paragraphs.
‫I'm going to go back to the product review and I'm going to paste that in.
‫Now this is also Gutenberg.
‫So if you want anything to be customized you can do that as well.
‫Now the main and the most important thing that we want to work with is this.
‫Now let's suppose that I want to add the button label that by now, like if anyone want to buy, uh,
‫this product, then how he can buy it here I can add the link of the product, whatever the link of
‫the product, and the person will be taken to that particular product page once he click on this Buy
‫Now button over here.
‫So this is how you can go ahead and you can incorporate that.
‫You can also uh, basically add the open the link in a new tab as well.
‫There is the read more button label as well.
‫If you want you can add that if you do not want it, you can get rid of that.
‫There is also a short description.
‫So I'm going to be writing it here short disk.
‫And I'm going to hit on update.
‫And now once we are done with that now if we go to our hello, something page again and if I refresh
‫you can now see that we have got this.
‫Hello something this read more is already here.
‫Uh so we cannot get rid of it apparently.
‫But hopefully in the future they will add the feature that if someone does not want to show it, they
‫can do it.
‫Uh, so it should be, I think, in the, in the theme customizer.
‫Similarly, there is also a gallery as well.
‫So the person can switch through the images right here.
‫And this is our now product uh review page.
‫Now this is not where everything ends.
‫This is basically the starting point.
‫So now let's suppose that if I go back to this page and now I go into the rating and now you can see
‫that I've got the rating scores product specification pros and cons.
‫So let's suppose that I say score.
‫This is uh and I just click on here.
‫Here is going to be the label.
‫So let's suppose that I say suspense all right which is a five.
‫And then I click on here and then I add in here characters, which is going to be like 4.7.
‫And then I change this to be.
‫Drama.
‫And then I add 4.5.
‫All right.
‫So this is the scoring of this particular book.
‫And then I go down.
‫Then there is the specification like I can say.
‫Hard copy and I'm going to say excellent.
‫Printing.
‫Awesome.
‫And then we have also got some of the pros as well.
‫So let's suppose that if you want to add some of the pros like hello.
‫Add new item.
‫Click on here and add world.
‫Add new item.
‫Change this to Alpha and let me add some more.
‫So now I have added the pros.
‫Now let's suppose that I also want to add the cons as well.
‫So I'm going to be adding the cons.
‫Now let's suppose that these are the cons as well.
‫Now what I will be doing is that I will be hitting on update and this product review is going to be
‫updated.
‫And now if I refresh this you can now see that there is the rating as well.
‫Suspense, character drama.
‫And this is the overall rating.
‫This is the buy now.
‫And if we go down we have got this specifications, hard copy, excellent printing, awesome pros and
‫cons.
‫So this is something that will be already designed.
‫Now if you want to create an affiliate marketing uh blog right here where you want to review the products,
‫where you want to, uh, just like add the affiliate products as well, then you can go ahead and you
‫can work up with this thing.
‫Now, since we do not want to actually work with this affiliate marketing and add the reviews, product
‫reviews, that is why I'm going to be going ahead and I'm going to be clicking on this block.
‫See, I'm going to go into the extensions and I'm going to disable this product reviews.
‫All right.
‫So now once you actually disable the product reviews, you will see that the product reviews will be
‫gone from here.
‫And if you refresh this page you will have nothing in here.
‫And it will take you back to the website.
‫Because our product reviews is now not here.
‫Now, the main and the most important thing that I wanted to show you about is this trending post.
‫And this is really very amazing.
‫So if I just click on here and if I now turn this to yes, now if I just go ahead and if I go to the
‫blog and now I refresh this and now I go down, you can see that now we've got this trending now over
‫here.
‫So this is a really great feature of this blog theme.
‫And now if I just click on here then this is actually a carousel which is going to show the latest post
‫over here.
‫So what I will be doing is that I will be just like closing this.
‫And now let's just click on the customize.
‫And this is going to take us to the customize page for this particular trending post that we have just
‫added.
‫And now if we go down then this is right here.
‫It says trending.
‫Now this is the module title tag.
‫The source is going to be based on the taxonomies.
‫Now what you can do is that you can also click on the custom query.
‫And you can say that I want to show the specific post over here.
‫So let's suppose that I want to show, uh, this particular post which is where to stay in Dubai.
‫Then what I will have to do, I will go into the dashboard.
‫And now I will go into the post.
‫I will click on all posts and then this is where to stay in Dubai.
‫Now if I just click on edit over here then you can see it says a post dot php question mark post is
‫equals to 122.
‫So this is actually the post id.
‫Now if I were to copy this 122, and if I were to go back to this customize, and if I were to paste
‫it, then you will see that that particular post will be shown.
‫And then I can add a comma.
‫And now I can add another post.
‫So now let's suppose that I want to show a different post which is going to be this one.
‫Its ID is 124.
‫124 and this ID is 126.
‫So now let's just go ahead and let's do that.
‫So I want to add 124 and 126.
‫And now if I just go ahead and if I hit on update and if I refresh this now and now I go down, you
‫can see that we have got this where to stay in Dubai, this one and this one.
‫So all of this is right here.
‫Now I do not want it based on that.
‫I need it based on the alt taxonomies.
‫And I needed based on all categories.
‫If you want, you can also just do it like I need it based on the activities, like all of the activities
‫I need to show them right here.
‫All right.
‫So now this is going to be the trending from which means that, uh, the post that we're getting most
‫of the traffic from all of the time will be shown, or the posts that were trending in the last seven
‫days will be shown on the top.
‫So this is something that you can do.
‫All right.
‫So I'm going to say that trending from all the time I need to show that.
‫Then we have got the image size.
‫Let me just publish the page and let me refresh.
‫And now you can go ahead and you can change that.
‫Like if you want uh, much more crispier image, you can do it as well.
‫Like if you need the medium large this is going to be shown.
‫And now you can see that the image size is much more crispier, and I can see the image much more clearly.
‫So it totally depends upon you.
‫But uh, since it affects the website speed.
‫So I'll be going ahead and I'll be setting this to thumbnail because this is already a very small image.
‫Now what we need to do is to go into the design and now we have to work with it.
‫So first of all I will be working with the container, uh color container background.
‫So I'm going to say that this is going to be gray.
‫Not that much gray, a little lighter gray than the one that we are using.
‫Kind of like this.
‫And now we will change this trending now.
‫So we will change that to white.
‫Now we will change this color, which is going to be the post title font color to white.
‫And on hover we can change that to black.
‫So now you can see that this is how it looks.
‫And our Trending Now post is also designed.
‫Now let's just go ahead and let's go to the website.
‫Let's now accept, uh, this cookies.
‫Let's go down.
‫And this is now our trending.
‫So let's suppose it.
‫Now if I click on here, it's going to take me to this page.
‫And now if I go down I still have got this trending over here.
‫So this is how you can go ahead and you can work with the Blocksy theme and add its extra functionalities
‫if you want to add it on your website.