If you're using your WordPress website as a business storefront, you already know you need a way for prospective customers to contact you with questions. An email form is a start — but many customers won't find a form buried in your contact options, and by the time you respond to an email, those that do may have moved on to purchase from a competitor.

You're probably spending much of your day working on your business anyway, so wouldn't it be nice if you had a way talk to customers as soon as they realize they need information? Fortunately, WordPress live chat serves exactly that purpose!

By installing a WordPress live chat plugin, you can add a small "chat" button to your website pages. Visitors can click the button to open a chat window and ask their question, at which point you'll receive an alert to reply through a browser console. You can also initiate chats with visitors who land on certain pages or have already spent a few minutes browsing your site.

The experience is very similar to having a conversation over GChat or another instant messaging app — and broadly similar to having a salesperson available to assist customers browsing a physical store. 

There are dozens of live chat plugins available for WordPress, offering a wide variety of features and price points. Olark is one stable, affordable option that is easy to install and includes features like canned responses, targeting, and an offline message mode.

If you're running a WooCommerce store, Olark will also give you visibility into the contents of your visitors' shopping carts. Seeing your visitor's shopping cart can can help you save big sales and upsell customers on complementary products.

Ready to try it out? Here's what you need to do to to get set up with live chat:

● Start a free trial on the Olark website. You'll have free access to all their features for 2 weeks, and you won't be charged if you cancel before the trial ends.

● Follow these instructions, to install the plugin. You'll need access to your WordPress admin interface, as well as your Olark site ID, which you'll find in your Olark dashboard.

● Navigate to the user view of your website and refresh the page — you should see your new chatbox!

The Olark Help Center offers lots of good tips for configuring your setup and making the most of specific live chat features. At a minimum, you'll want to configure the following:

● Chatbox visibility — if your website has a lot of traffic, use rules to control who sees the chatbox so you're not overwhelmed with too many chats. For example, you could show chat only on certain product pages, or only allow visitors to see the chat option after they've browsed for at least a few minutes.

● Canned responses — if you know you'll want to provide certain information to many visitors on chat (for example, a reminder of your shipping and return policies), store that information in a canned response so you can recall it quickly while chatting.

● Integrations — connect chat with other tools and systems you rely on, such as a helpdesk or CRM, so you can attach transcripts to customer records and access customer information during a chat.

● Agents and groups — add agent accounts for any colleagues who will be joining you on chat. If you'll have many agents with different specialties, you might find it helpful to group them so you can transfer chats to anyone in a particular group.

● Offline mode — you can't be online all the time, and you don't need to be! Just one or two conversations per day is enough to make a difference for your business. Decide whether you'll hide the chat button entirely when you're not available, or keep the button but replace the chatbox with an offline message form.

Live chat is an incredibly powerful business tool, and if you're already using WordPress, adding it to your website only takes a few minutes. It's also supported with any WordPress themes, so you do not need to about integration.  Get started with the steps above, and then add a comment if you have additional suggestions or advanced tips and tricks to share!

Hello guys!! Hope you are already informed about the series post to show the Capabilities of quix. Currently we are running a campaign to make websites under 10 minutes with power of quix.

This is the second post of the series and it will cover- simple approach to make a business website in 10 minutes. In previous post we have shown to create personal portfolio site within 10 minutes.

Let's talk no more and start making own business site. 

Requirements

 You will need a couple of stuffs for this purpose. Find the list of required components from below.

• ​Quix Pagebuilder
  
• Any Joomla Template(ex. Biznes)
  
• T3 Framework
  

Step 1: Download​

• Revolutionary Quix Pagebuilder
  
• Preferred Template
• T3 Framework
  

Step 2: Unpublishing Previous Modules​

Before you start it is important to unpublish any previous modules or else it might conflict with new modules.

• Go to Extensions > Modules
• Now select on all modules and click on Unpublish.

Step 3: Installation

After Download completed you have to install the template and other components in regular process.

• Go to Extensions > Manage > Install and Upload Package File.

Now activate the template by making it default from

• Extensions > Templates > Styles. 

Step 4: Home Page Creation

It's time to create the homepage of the site. Quix has made page building so much easy, all you need to do is dragging and dropping.

• Go to Quix > Pages > New.
• Give title of your home page.
• Click on Save & Close

Step 5: Blocks Creation​

Now lets add some contents to your empty page and make it look business ready. You can add as much as blocks you want.

With Quix you have sky limit possibilities with you. With this 50+ elements, customize the page in your way and find the creativity inside you. For learning more you can check the video tutorial page. 

But for now I am adding About, What We Do, Team, Partner block in my home page one by one. 

• Click ADD NEW SECTION button.
• Click on Add Columns and select the number of columns you want to take.
• I am taking one column.

• ​Now click on Add Elements. 

As soon as you click, a list of all quix element is loaded and you can add any element from the list.

• I am taking Slider Pro element.
• Choose the image, height and save.

• You can add more elements and customize yourself in the way you want with Quix.
• Add more sections / blocks using your preferred combination of quix elements. 

​A business site can be built in any way you like. It might confuse you a little to choose which blocks to create. To help you out I am providing some suggestions:

What We Do Section: Section Title, Text, Blurb, Image.

Recent Work: Section Title, Filterable Gallery.

Team : Section title, Person.

About Us: Image, Section title, Text, Button.

After putting all blocks together, it will look like above.

Wait a minute. Your site doesn't looks like this? Don't worry, it is not necessary to look your site exactly like this.

Find the creativity inside you and make the site even better. 

Step 6: Labeling Sections

Each time you make a new section, an id for the section is automatically generated. You can use a specific id for reusing same section, but it is difficult to remember the auto generated id. When the section or block creation is finished take a note of the blocks, for which you want to create navigation menu.

• Go to Quix > Pages
• Select your homepage.
• Scroll to section, on which you want to give label and click on purple colored settings icon.

• Now under Advanced tab give your preferred ID and save it.

Similarly label all the sections you want to assign on the navigation menu. 

Step 7: Creating Navigation Menu

It's time to create the Navigation menu on top of the site. Navigation menu helps you to navigate to different sections and pages. Lets find how to create it. 

• Go to Menus > Main Menu > Add New Menu Item
• From Details tab select Menu Item Type as Quix > Page.

• On Select the page option choose your homepage.
• Check if the parent item is Menu Item Root.
• Press Save & Close.

Step 8: Assigning Certain Sections with Menus

Now let's put the blocks under specific section. So when you will click on the menu item, it will take you to that specific section of the home page.

• Go to Menus > Main Menu > Add New Menu Item
• From Details tab select Menu Item Type as System Links > URL.
• Now give the menu title.

• On the Link field, type the ID of the specific section that you want to place on the Menu.
• Do not forget to place "#" before your link.
• Save & Close.

In this way assign all the sections with the specific menu.

Step 9: Footer Customization

Footer can be customized with any elements or modules. It can be customized creatively. At here I am showing to create copyright information on the footer. 

• ​First create a new section.
  
• Add the number of column.
  
• Take a text element and write your information.
  
• Save & Close.

I have taken one column and text element. 

Step 10: Save and Close

Conclusion

Joomla is considered as one of the most popular Content Management System (CMS) for managing dynamic websites. English is set as its primary language initially, but it doesn't prevent you populating your site with content written in any other languages. Even it doesn't require creating Joomla multilanguage options to do so.

However, a Joomla multilanguage website does have the ability to show its content in multiple languages, perhaps with triggering a switch or button.

But the question is- if you find a Joomlawebsite where contents in different languages are placed here and there, does it make any sense to you, and will you deal with them?

We know your answer- that's a big NO!

Genuinely, it's not a good practice having contents in multiple languages without having a multilingual option. It greatly makes the visitors confused which leads the reason they leave forever.

So, the notable factor's been found here- Multilingual Option but can you yet guess, why we're strongly mentioning that having Multilingual Option is beneficial for your site?

Well, you might already know- a Joomla multilingual site is able to hold the traffic twice sometimes even more than a single language based site does. So naturally, the conversion rate in a Joomla multilanguage website is much higher than single language based one.

Joomla previously couldn't let users creating multilanguage websites through its existing features. Sort of third-party extensions had to be used for doing so. But the stressful period is over now..

And the most exciting news is- Joomla currently is allowing users to create multilingual websites without using any 3rd party extensions and it's absolutely free of cost.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you- how to create a multilingual site with Joomla, through TEN simple and straightforward steps. 

Let's have a quick look at the index.

1. Install your Desired Language
2. Enable Installed Language
   • Enable Language Plugins
3. Create Multilingual Joomla Content
   • Create new Categories
   • Add contents
4. Create Multilingual Menus
5. Set Default Homepage for Each Language
6. Display Menu Items on Front-End
7. Enable Associations Component
8. Make Association Between two Articles
9. Duplicate the Template
10. Add Language Switcher Module

If you are interested in creating the multilingual site using JA Multilingual Component, you are always welcome to check our another Comprehensive Guide from right here.​

Step 01 : Install your Desired Language​

This is the very first thing you need to do. Since English is set as the default language primarily, you have first to install your desired language to get started creating Joomla multilanguage option.

Note that- a Joomla multilanguage website doesn't automatically translate the whole content itself. So, if you are planning to make your site supports in two different languages, you have to create entire contents in that two languages.

Follow the below instruction of how you can install a new language.

• ​Go to Extensions> Language(s)> Installed
• Click on Install Languages button at left-top.

• ​Use the Search button to find your preferred language and having found it, click on the Install button to install it. 
  

Step 02 : Enable Installed Language​

Now, it's a must to enable the installed language before you proceed. Find the approach below.

• ​Go to Extensions> Language(s)> Content Languages
  
• Click on the Publish Item button pointed on the screenshot below to enable the just installed language. 
  

Enable Language Plugins

Make sure, the language plugins are enabled for the new language. You can enable language plugins from the plugin manager.

• ​Go to Extensions> Plugins
• Use the search box to find them quickly. Write language on the box and hit enter. 
  

• Click publish button to enable both plugins. 
  

Step 03 : Create Multilingual Joomla Content​

Now, you are ready to generate multilingual Joomla content. But before that, let's create two new categories; one is for English and the other is for your desired language. Spanish is my chosen language for instance. 

Create new Categories​

• Go to Content> Categories> Add New Category 
  
• Give a category Title for Spanish language, select Spanish from the language drop-down menu and click Save & New. 
  

•  Give a category Title for English language, select English from the language drop-down menu and click Save & Close.
  

Add Contents​

Now, let's create articles for both Languages (English and Spanish). First let's create for English.

• ​Go to Content> Articles> Add New Article
  
• ​Give the article title on the Title text box.
  
• ​Put the content on the editor area.
• Choose English from both the category drop-down as well as Language drop-down at the right side of the module. 

• ​Click on Save & New button at the top-left.
  

Now, let's create another article for Spanish language. Follow the same procedure above. 

Step 04 : Create Multilingual Menus

Now, it's the time to create menus for each language. Let's create the menu for English language first.

• ​Go to Menus> Manage> Add New Menu.
• Give a menu name on the Title text box.
• Write the menu type on the ​Menu Type ​text box.
• Click on ​Save & New ​button to add menu for the ​Spanish ​language.

 Similarly, create another menu for the Spanish language.

Creating Menu Items​

Till now, the newly created menus are empty as we haven't added any sub-menu items. So, let's create sub-menus under those two menus. First, I'm creating a sub-menu under the main menu- English.

• ​Go to Menus> English> Add New Menu
  
• ​Give a sub-menu title on the Menu Title text box.
  
• ​Click on the select button next to the Menu Item Type option and a pop-up modal will appear.
  
• ​Select Articles> Single Article
  

Click on the Select button next to the Select Article option and from the next pop-up modal, choose the article we previously created for English language. 

Click on Save & New to add another sub-menu. 

Unlikely the above instruction, create a sub-menu item for the main menu Spanish as well. 

Step 05 : Set Default Homepage for Each Language​

Now, you have to define the article page in each language as their corresponding default homepage. Let's make the default homepage for English menu first. To do so-

• ​Go to Menus > English
  
• Click on the star icon pointed on the below screenshot and it'll turn yellow in color, meaning- the English article page has successfully set as your default homepage for English menu. 
  

 Same instruction to be followed in order to set default homepage for Spanish menu.

Step 06 : Display Menu Items on Front-End​

In Joomla, the only way to show a menu item on website's front-end is to add a module for the menu item and show the module on front-end by setting a position. Find below- how you can do so;

• ​Go to Menus > Manage
  
• Click on the Add a module for this menu button next to the English menu. 
  

From the next window, give a title on the Title field, select English from the Select Menu drop-down and define the module position from the Position drop-down at the right sidebar. 

• ​Scroll-down the page and choose English from the language drop-down at the right-bottom.
  
• ​Click on Save & Close. 

Step 07 : Enable Associations Component​

The most recent version of Joomla is packed with Multilingual Associations feature, that allows you to perform translating contents from one place. Make sure, the Associations option is enabled. To check and enable the association option.

• ​Go to Extensions> Plugins
• On installed plugin list, find the System - Language Filter and click on it.
  

Make sure the Associations option is enabled but if not, then toggle it to enable. 

Step 08 : Make Association Between two Articles​

Suppose, a visitor lands on an article page which is written in English. But unfortunately, he's from Spain. In that case, if you had previously been associated that article with its Spanish version, just by choosing the ​Joomla multilanguage option, the visitor can see the article in his native language.

Let's see, how you can associate multiple articles with one another.

• ​Go to Content > Articles and open/edit the article.
  
• Under Associations tab, click on the Select button to choose the article to associate with, Save & Close. 
  

Now you're ready to utilize the Multilingual Associations Component if you have successfully done the above steps. 

• ​Go to Component > Multilingual Associations
• ​Choose an article from the Select Item Type category filter and select a language from the Language box. Click on the fetched article from below then.

Select the Targeted language from the right-top box to translate the article into. 

You can find two button at left-top to save the changes. Where- Save Reference button to save changes the first article and the Save Target button to save changes the second article.

• Close the window once you're done. 
  

Step 09 : Duplicate the Template​

Now, you have to create two different templates for two languages. The approach is absolutely simple- just duplicate your default template twice and name them accordingly for the two languages.

• ​Go to Extensions > Templates. Duplicate your default template twice. (One for English and the other for Spanish)
• To duplicate, select your default template and click on the Duplicate button at left-top.
  

• ​Click on your duplicated template 
  
• Modify Style Name as you prefer and choose English from Default drop-down menu (for English) 
  

•  Save & Close the window.
  

Step 10 : Add Language Switcher Module​

Now, just one last task left on your hand. A language switcher allows the visitors switching language anytime they want. You can find language switcher module on the modules list.

• ​Go to Extensions > Modules and hit on the New button from the left top.
• Find the Language Switcher module and click on it to go to its configuration mode.
  

• ​Give the module title on the Title field.
  
• ​Select the module position from the Position drop-down.
  
• ​Enable the option Use Drop-down if you want the language switcher as a drop-down menu.
  
• Save & Close to successfully save the switcher. 
  

See, a language switcher option has been successfully added to the site front-end which allows readers/ visitors to switch content language just by a single mouse-click. 

Conclusion​

This is the most straightforward approach to convert a Joomla website into a Joomla multilanguage website within possibly the shortest time. If you find any of the above procedures critical, and fail to do by yourself, feel free to use the below comment section for letting us know. We would love to help you out. 

Search is the first thing we do when we enter into internet. That is why Google became the #1 company in tech world. Whether it's Google, Amazon, Facebook or tiny little website, we prefer to search first. This is the fastest way to explore a website content.

At ThemeXpert we produce a lots of author and user driven contents. Blog, documentations, product sales pages are the example of author driven content ( by US ). Forum is the place where users ask us a question(tickets) and we answer them are example of user driven content.

Now here is the problem…

Our site built with several different components that store data to their own table and they has their own searching module.

So, if you search something on forum you will never get content suggestion from our documentation and vice versa.

We figure out the solution and we wanted to share with you so you can apply this to your Joomla website.

Problem

We list down problem that our users facing so we could provide better solution.

• Search is not unified. Each component has it's own search system.
• Search is not fast enough.

Solution

We could have create some plugin that index all the site content to Joomla smart search component and display the result with a module.

That is the first things came to our mind but we keep exploring for better solution. We wanted to off-load the Joomla smart search system from our site and make it really fast.

Turns out, Elastic Search is 'the most powerful and fastest' Joomla search extension on the planet. Which is based on Joomla ajax search, and it is a definitive choice for our requirements.

Then we search for a Joomla integration and surprisingly Joomla Geek already built a component to do all the heavy lifting for you.

We created an Amazon Elastic Search Service instance and integrated it with Geek ElasticSearch Component. They have extensive documentation for everything and excellent support.

Let's explore the search feature and see how fast it is... 

Where to search?

To search with any keyword in our website, you need to go to our site and will find a Joomla search module icon at the top, just right after the main navigation menu. By clicking on it, an elegant pop-up modal window will open up that lets you put your keywords on the certain text box and you will find a search button next to the text box. Either you can use that button to search or even you need not press any button after putting your desire keyword on the text field, you'll find the result in less than a microsecond.

Smart User Interface

This Joomla search extension comes with a nifty user interface that nobody has a bit chance to be confused about. The main searching module consists of an empty search box and a button right beside that. There are a couple of filterable categories those can be chosen to get the exact result. That feature makes the Joomla search extension more fruitful and ensures the most flexible user experience. 

Instant Searching Result

This amazing Joomla search module can instantly give you back the result in a twinkle of an eye just by searching with any keyword you want. The mechanism of this Joomla search plugin is so powerful that it compares the keywords with all the existing contents and returns only the contents that match the keywords and the whole procedure consumes less than even a single second. 

Search By Category Filtering

This Joomla search module lets you search by filtering with categories that will help you to find your desired content faster than ever before. Even if there is no contents exist for the keyword you provide, this Joomla smart search extension will politely show you that there is no result found for the keyword. 

Real Time Result Update

ElasticSearch is built with injected capability that is able to show you result in a microsecond. In case you change the searching keyword, this Joomla search module will not let you wait a bit, instead show you the updated result instantly right in front of your eye. Isn't that smart?

This Joomla smart search module highly reduces the difficulties and provides you a hassle free searching experience.

Extremely Fast

The processing capability of this Joomla search module is so husky that user even can't feel it. So, no more waiting to find the thing you need, just write what you want and its next to your eyes instantly for the sake of its powerful mechanism. This Joomla smart search extension is undoubtedly the fastest searching procedure exists on the internet.

ElasticSearch can effortlessly handle a huge amount of data and perform it's the tasks it's made for, without even a glitch.

Oh! Wait,.

You have another exciting news; we partnered with them and now you can get all Joomla Geek's premium products at 20% discount rate using the coupon THEMEXPERT20.

Let's see at a glance the core features of Joomla Geek's ElasticSearch

• Real-time search
• Managing Big data
• Support 3rd party extensions
• Incremental Update
• Cron Job
• Advanced search module
• Keep up-to-date
• Manage Indexed Content
• Support Amazon Elasticsearch and many more.

​Now, let's look over the supported components for ElasticSearch.

How To Apply This To Your Website ?

If you have a Joomla website with enough content then investing some $ on search is enough worth it. Just create a small instance on Amazon Elastic Search and purchase the JoomlaGeek Elasticsearch component and you are done.

This will take your website search into a whole new level.