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Add category in Weebly

How to Add a Product Category to your Weebly Store

Category: Beginners Guide, Tutorials

This tutorial shows how to add categories to your Weebly Store website. Adding categories for your products would allow you to better organize your Weebly store.



How to Add a Category in Weebly Store

To do so, you must first navigate to your Weebly site’s store editor.

  1. In the left sidebar, click Items.
  2. A drop-down under Products will appear. Click Categories Add category in Weebly
  3. In the right upper corner, click + Add Category
  4. Input information for your new category in the shown text fields such as image category etc.

Performing the listed above steps, you will be able to add a category in your Weebly store. You can add more categories by repeating this process.

Related: How to Create an Online Store with Weebly

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Weebly website down

Weebly Website Not Working? Check this Ultimate Troubleshooting Guide

Category: Beginners Guide, Tutorials Tags: Weebly website down 8 Comments

If your Weebly website is down, there’s no need to panic. This troubleshoot guide is made available to figure out what’s going on. You’ll definitely be able to get the website up and running as it should be.

Before moving forward with this post, you may want to double check to make sure if your website is working and not a cache issue from your end: How to check if your Weebly website is working worldwide.



Weebly Website is Down? Here’s What May Have Gone Wrong

First of all, make sure the actual Weebly website is created and published and it’s ready to be online. If website is unpublished, you’ll be seeing a 404 error.

Weebly Down for Unexpected Maintenance

If you ever come across that error, be reassured that it’s temporary and your website will be back shortly. We have a dedicated article that explains this in detail. Check it out: Weebly Down for Unexpected Maintenance.

Website still down? Not a problem. Let’s figure out what’s going on. The sections below are specific to the kind of address you’re using.

Weebly Website Down Using a Free Weebly Sub-Domain (like website.weebly.com)

Actually, the only real problem which will keep your Weebly subdomain from showing up online is if a typo or other mistake was made when setting up the address in Weebly. Double check your URL.

Weebly Website Not Working using a Customized Domain Purchased through Weebly

If your domain is registered through Weebly, there are very few problems that may prevent your website from being reachable.

404 error like this?

Weebly 404 error

This usually means the website is not published from the Weebly Site Dashboard. However, if you know you’ve published your Weebly website still not working, you can try a couple of different things: Hard refresh your browser and/or make sure there’s no typo in the typed URL.

Weebly Website Not Working using a Customized Domain Purchased Elsewhere

If your domain is registered through a different domain provider, there are very few problems that may prevent your website from being reachable.

Seeing something like this?

Domain expired

That means the registered domain is now expired. Make sure to renew it.

Something like this?

Domain not pointed

That error either means the domain isn’t properly pointed to Weebly or DNS propagation in progress and you’d just need to give it some time, usually a few hours. Here’s how to point your domain to Weebly.

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what is a domain name

Beginner’s Guide: What is a Domain Name and How Does it Work?

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If you’re just starting out, as a beginner, you may have heard that you need a domain to have a website.

Many people do confuse domains with websites or hosting plans etc. It’s quite normal that all these different terms may sound too technical.

Actually your domain name is your online identity, the one that represents your brand. The choice of a good domain name can highly contribute to the success of a new web project.



What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the Internet address of your website. The one entered in the URL field of your browser. For example WeeblyTutorials.com. It is composed of a first part [WeeblyTutorials] which is the name of the site and another [.com] which is the extension.

How Domain Names Actually Work?

To understand things up quickly on how domains work, we will take a look at what happens when you enter it in your browser.

How domains work

When you enter a domain name in your web browser, it sends a request to the server where your website is hosted via the namesevers. The sever then sends the data back to the browser via the domain name.

Now that we understand the different parts of a domain name, let’s get to the business of how to pick out the best name. We have prepared a complete guide on that to help you choose and register the best domain name for your Weebly website.

Related: Step by Step Free Weebly PDF Tutorial ebook

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How to Add a Quiz in Weebly

Category: Beginners Guide, Tutorials Tags: Add a Quiz in Weebly

Ever wondered how to add a quiz in Weebly? A quiz us basically an online web form that collects visitor input, processes submitted values, and shows results.

Quizzes are a very useful way to increase visitor engagement. They can be used for several purposes including education and more.

Well, in this tutorial, we will show you how to easily insert a quiz in Weebly.



How to Add a Quiz in Weebly

In order to add quizzez in Weebly website, we will going to create a HTML quiz with any provider online such as Interact or GoToQuiz and then paste the generated HTML code into our Weebly website using the Embed Code Element from the Weebly Site Builder.

Let’s say you have already created the quiz and generated the HTML code, you’d just then need to follow below steps so you add that to your website.

  1. Inside the Weebly Site Editor click “Embed Code”. This will add an HTML box onto your Weebly website where the quiz will be displayed.
  2. Click “Edit Custom HTML”. This will open up a box you can add the quiz embed code into.
  3. Copy your embed code from Interact, GoToQuiz or any other provider that allows creating HTML quizzez.
  4. Paste in and you’re done

Add a quiz to Weebly

We hope this article helped you learn how to insert quizzez in Weebly websites. You may also want to see our guide on How to Add Proper Spaces in a Weebly Website.

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Weebly Spacer Element

How to Add Proper Spaces in a Weebly Website

Category: Beginners Guide, Tutorials Tags: Add proper spaces in Weebly

This article sheds the light on two of the most important Weebly elements. The Spacer element and divider element. The main purpose of this post is to help you understand how to have and keep consistent spacing across your Weebly website.



Weebly Spacer Element

Well, there is a Weebly element specifically designed for adding spaces in between contents, and that is called the SPACER element.

The spacer element is quite a good tool as it allows you to add spaces but it’s not that recommended. Here’s why, the element itself makes it not that easy to have a consistent spacing. The reason for this is that you have to drag the spacer element up and down to decrease or increase the height of the spaces which makes it quite difficult to even impossible to have the very exact same height each time you drag and drop the element.

Add Proper Spaces

Weebly Divider Element

Here’s the trick to get a perfect spaces and general website structure, it’s to use the spacer element for adding spaces and the divider element for adding a horizontal divider. That’s how you’ll acheive the best results.

Don’t miss: How to Add Different Types of Elements in Weebly

With the divider element, you click the plus or minus buttons from the element options box in order to add or reduce its height. This way, you can set a consistent height for all the divider element you use across your Weebly website.

Weebly Divider element

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Weebly RSS feed — How to Use RSS with Weebly

Category: Beginners Guide, Tutorials, Weebly Apps Tags: Use RSS feed wth Weebly, Weebly RSS feed 9 Comments

Browsing online, you may have come across an orange icon labeled RSS feed. If you have ever wondered what is a RSS feed and how you can use RSS with your Weebly website, then you’re in the right place. In this tutorial, we will explain what is RSS, what are the advantages of RSS, and how to add and use it with your Weebly website.



What is RSS

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication“. It is a set of data formats used for web content syndication. An RSS feed is a web resource whose content is usually generated automatically, based on updates in a specific website. RSS feeds are often used by news sites and blogs to present the articles of the latest information available online.

What Are the Benefits of Using RSS

It is a simple and convenient way to be constantly alerted about a website content that interests you. The feeds update automatically and permanently, without you having to connect to your favorite information websites.

It simply makes it easy for anyone to subscribe to your content.

How Does the RSS Feed Work

RSS feeds work by publishing your latest website’s content in a XML file. This XML file can then be fetched and read by a RSS feed reader. There are several RSS feed reader software available out there for all kind of devices.

How to Add and Use RSS Feed with Weebly

You can actually add and use a RSS feed reader into your Weebly website with just a few simple steps.

  1. Login to your Weebly Site Editor
  2. From the More category of the Build sidebar, drag and drop the Feed Reader element to use it. You can click on the element to customize the feed URL.

You may also consider adding a RSS feed using a Weebly App such as News RSS Feed but that’s not advised since Weebly has a free, built-in feature for that. Why would we pay for it?

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Google Ads Weebly

How to Add Google AdSense to a Weebly Website

Category: Beginners Guide, Tutorials

As you may know, Google Adsense helps you generate revenue from your website by automatically showing some ads targeted to your website content.



In this article, we’ll take a look at Google AdSense and how to add it to your Weebly website. Weebly does not take any cut from the revenue generated.

Google Ads display isn’t possible on free Weebly websites. You’ll need to upgrade to at least a Starter plan or above.

Add Google AdSense to Weebly

In order to use Google adsense on your website, you’ll obviously need either to apply for a new AdSense account or use your existing AdSense account credentials.

Displaying Weebly AdSense Ads

You can place Google ads in your Weebly website’s pages using AdSense element.

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Give Access to your Weebly Website Without Sharing Login Details

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Do you want to give access to your Weebly website? If yes, you’ll probably want to do that without sharing your log-in details with them. Which is totally normal to be careful. Remember, sharing full login access means the ability to DELETE the whole website or make other irreversible changes.



How to Give Access to Weebly Without Sharing the Login Details?

Well, Weebly actually has a built-in option that allows you to give someone an editor access to your website without sharing your full login details.

An editor access provides the person you’re sharing access with to the Weebly website editor, only. That means the person in object won’t be able to access your weebly account dashboard where your account information is located.

Well, to grant editor access to your Weebly website, follow these steps:

  1. Log into your Weebly Site Editor.
  2. Click settings, on the sidebar (left), click Editors. Click Add Editor.
  3. Write down the email address of the person you want to give access to.
  4. You can select permissions you’re going to give.
  5. Save changes
Give Access to Weebly
Give Access to Weebly

Once done, Weebly will send an email with a login details and link to the email address you entered.

Add caption to images in Weebly

How to Add Caption to Images in Weebly

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Do you ever want to add captions to your images in Weebly? Captions are short text descriptions. They are typically used to provide additional details.

The good thing is that Weebly has the needed built-in option to easily add a caption for each uploaded image in your website.

In this article, we will explain how to easily add a caption to images in Weebly.



Adding Caption to Images in Weebly

The first thing you need to do is to add an image to your Weebly site. On the Weebly Site Editor screen, drag the ‘Images’ element and drop it wherever you want to add the image.

To learn more, see our article on how to add and align images in Weebly.

Now you have added the image, all what you have to do is to click on the image, a box will appear, you need to scroll down and click on Caption. A text field will appear so you can enter insert your caption.

Here’s a Video Tutorial on How to Add Caption to Images in Weebly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hueBIVCWYDM

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Mega menu in Weebly

How to Create a Mega Menu in Weebly

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One of our visitors asked if it’s possible to have a mega menu in a Weebly website.

Mega Menu allows to have a larger navigation with multi-column drop down menus with extra content such as images and videos.



In this article, we will show you how to create a mega menu in Weebly.

Why and Who Should Add a Mega Menu in Weebly?

A Mega Menu is particularly helpful for a website with a lot of content. Website’s owner can showcase more content in the menu for easier navigation.

Mega menu in Weebly

Don’t miss: How to Make and/or Recreate Website Navigation in Weebly

Weebly per default navigation menu lets you create drop-down sub-menus but this article is made available if you ever want to have a mega menu in your weebly website.

Let’s take a look at how to easily create a mega menu navigation in Weebly.

Video tutorial

As you might have seen, for now, we only have to use a Weebly App called “Mega Menu” to create a mega menu in Weebly. There’s unfortunately no other way to do it for free.

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