It’s hard to keep visitors engaged on your website, even for experienced site owners like me. Especially when you only have 50 milliseconds to make an impression before they decide to stay or leave.

Now think about how many customers you’re losing because your image sliders aren’t doing their job: getting and keeping attention.

Every visitor who leaves without taking action is a missed lead or sale for your business.

That’s why I’m thrilled to announce our completely revamped Image Carousel block for SeedProd.

Now you can customize each slide with your own text and buttons, making your sliders more engaging and professional. It simplifies the entire process of creating attention-grabbing carousels and helps you turn more visitors into customers.

Let’s take a closer look at what you can do with the new and improved Image Carousels.

Add Text and Buttons to Image Carousels

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add attention-grabbing headlines and call-to-action buttons right on your slider images? With this update to our Image Carousel block, it’s super easy to do just that.

You can now add custom headers, sub-headers, and clickable buttons to each slide individually.

But what sets SeedProd apart from other website builders, is how easy it is to fine-tune the details. While others overwhelm you with tons of settings, ours is designed to keep things simple and easy.

It only takes a few clicks to set up your carousel and get it looking just the way you want.

Make Your Text Pop

For the entire carousel, you can add a color overlay to make the text and buttons stand out.

You can also adjust the opacity, so images are still visible in the background.

Easily Remove Distractions

By default, carousels will display navigation controls under the images. But if you want a cleaner look, you can now disable this option while still allowing the carousel to autoplay and cycle through each slide.

Put Buttons Where They’re Noticed

Chances are, you won’t always want your buttons and headers right in the middle of an image. That’s why we’ve made it easy to change the vertical and horizontal alignment.

This means you can move the text and button to anywhere you like on the carousel. Just drag the sliders until everything is right where you want it.

Make Every Element Work Together

You can customize the look of each text and button element to match your website perfectly. Change fonts, adjust sizes, and pick colors that grab attention.

Plus, add smooth animations to make your content come alive and keep visitors engaged.

If you’re unsure how to make the most of this update, here are some tried and tested ways you can use image carousels to get results for your business:

• Show off your products with “Buy Now” buttons that turn browsers into buyers
• Display customer reviews with professional text overlays that build instant trust
• Create portfolio presentations that help you land more clients
• Highlight your services with clear calls-to-action that get more bookings
• Promote special offers with eye-catching headlines that drive sales

While other WordPress builders make you struggle with settings or charge extra for basic features, our new Image Carousel gives you everything you need in one simple package. No hidden costs, no complexity, just professional results in minutes.

Think about it: How many more conversions could you get with sliders that actually engage your visitors?

New Industry-Specific Website Themes

I know how time-consuming it can be to start a website from scratch. That’s why we’ve also added 15 new professional themes designed specifically for:

• Business & Marketing – Perfect for agencies, consultants, and service providers
• Health & Wellness – Ideal for coaches, therapists, and wellness practitioners
• Entertainment & Travel – Great for travel blogs, entertainment venues, and tourist services
• Home Services – Designed for contractors, cleaners, and home maintenance pros
• Real Estate – Built for realtors, property managers, and real estate investors
• Author – Crafted for writers, bloggers, and content creators

Each theme comes with pre-built pages and sections, making it easy to launch your website faster. Just customize the content, add your branding, and you’re ready to go.

And with our new improved Image Carousel block, you can easily enhance any template with engaging, conversion-focused sliders wherever you need them.

Create Sliders That Actually Convert

With this update, you can say goodbye to sliders that visitors ignore and hello to more potential leads and customers.

To see the difference this update can make for your business, update your SeedProd plugin and try it today.

As always, thank you for being part of the SeedProd community. We’re committed to making website building easier and more powerful for you.

John and the SeedProd team.

P.S. Don’t have SeedProd Pro yet? Join over 1 million website owners who trust us to build beautiful WordPress websites without code.

Creating a Sticky Header

1. While editing a page or template with SeedProd, add a section that will contain your header elements.
2. After creating your header section, click on the section’s settings handle (the gear icon within the section’s purple toolbar) to open its settings panel. You may also do this by opening the Layout Navigation panel, and then clicking on the header section within this panel.
   
3. Click on the “Advanced” tab and then open the “Position” panel.
   
4. In the “Position” dropdown menu, select “Sticky”. Then, add a zero (“0”) top offset and a high z-index number (for example, “9999”) to ensure that the header stays at the top above all elements on the page.
   
5. Save this page or template then preview the page to see the sticky header in action while scrolling down/up on the page.
6. That’s it! You now have an awesome sticky header on your site.

Adding a Shape Divider

Shape Dividers can be easily selected under the Advanced tab after selecting a Section or Column. Here’s our step-by-step guide on doing this for the top and bottom shape dividers.

1. Select the section or column element you would like to add a shape divider to. You may select the desired section or column using the Layout Navigation panel, or by clicking on their Settings handle while hovering your cursor over any of the edges of this element.
2. Click on the Advanced tab and expand the Shape Divider section.
   
3. Select the Top (or Bottom) shape divider position option, then select one of the various types in the Type dropdown menu.
   
4. You will now have more options to customize your shape divider, including its Color, Width, and Height. You also have the Flip option to flip its horizontal orientation and the Bring to Front option to bring it in front of all elements within this section or column.
   

   Quick Tip: You can also have both top and bottom shape dividers by customizing both the top and bottom shape dividers.

5. That’s it! You now have an awesome page design with the simple yet elegant addition of shape dividers.

Requirements: The Posts block is available in all our license plans. Before you get started, make sure you’ve published some posts with featured images within the Posts section of WordPress.

Adding the Posts Block to Your SeedProd Pages

Follow these steps to integrate the Posts block on your SeedProd pages:

1. Go to Blocks > Advanced, and drag and drop the Posts block onto your page.
   
2. Click on the Posts block to access its settings. In the Content tab, you can customize your Posts Query and Layout settings to tailor the display according to your needs.
   
3. Post Query Settings
   
   
   Query Type: Choose from three distinct options to tailor your post display. ‘Default‘ uses the existing query parameters, ‘Custom‘ lets you create a personalized query, while ‘Manual‘ enables you to input your own query string parameters.
   
   Query by Post Type: Enable this feature to handpick the types of posts you wish to display. Note that this option is exclusively available when you’ve selected the ‘Custom’ query type.
   
   Query By Category: Activate this setting to filter posts based on one or more categories within your selected post types. This filter is only accessible when using the ‘Custom’ query type.
   
   Query By Tag(s): Turn this on to refine your post selection according to specific tags within your chosen post types. This feature is solely available with the ‘Custom’ query type.
   
   Query By Author(s): Enable this to showcase posts by selected authors. This filtering option is only open when you opt for the ‘Custom’ query type.
   
   Order By: Sort your posts based on different criteria including Date, Last Modified Date, Title, Comment Count, or Menu Order.
   
   Order: Arrange your displayed posts in either ascending (ASC) or descending (DESC) order to suit your presentation style.
   
4. The Layout Settings section provides options to fine-tune the visual presentation of your posts.
   
   
   Skins: Classic, Card, Creative, Minimal
   
   Layout: Grid, Masonry, Carousel
   
   Columns: Customize the layout by specifying the number of columns in which posts will be displayed.
   
   Pagination: Choose to enable or disable pagination to help visitors navigate through the list of posts.
   
   Posts Per Page: Determine the number of posts displayed on each page for a more controlled viewing experience.
   
   Featured Image: Opt to display or conceal the featured images of posts, enhancing visual engagement.
   
   Title: Toggle the visibility of post titles based on your presentation preferences.
   
   Meta Information: Decide whether to display or hide metadata elements such as Date Modified, Author, Date, Time, and Comment Count.
   
   Excerpt: Display a brief summary of each post, with the added flexibility to set your desired excerpt length.
   
   Read More Link: Include or omit the “Read More” link, offering readers a pathway to the full post.
   
5. Within the Advanced tab, explore styling controls for posts, text, images, borders, content areas, badges, spacing, attributes, device visibility, and animation effects.
   
6. Once you are satisfied with the layout and settings, remember to save or publish your work.

That’s it! By using the Posts block, you can elegantly display your posts on your web pages, providing readers with a visually engaging and organized post viewing experience.

Adjusting Column Sizes

Using the Layout Navigation panel:

1. Open the Layout Navigation panel by clicking on its icon at the bottom of the left side panel.
   
2. On the Layout Navigation panel, select the column you’d like to adjust. This will open the column’s layout settings where you can adjust the Column Width option.
   
3. After adjusting the width of the desired columns, you can save this change and preview the page.

Using the Resize Columns Handle

1. Hover anywhere within the section that contains the columns you’d like to resize. This will show the row’s handle options (in blue) including the Resize Columns option.
   
2. Click on the Resize Columns handle option to turn on the column resize mode. Then, click and drag the column gutter between any two columns to adjust the size of the columns proportionally.
   
3. After adjusting the width of the desired columns, you can save this change and preview the page.

That’s it! You can repeat any of the two methods to resize any column on your SeedProd pages.

• PHP Version: so we know which PHP versions we have to test against (no one likes whitescreens or log files full of errors).
• WordPress Version: so we know which WordPress versions to support and test against.
• MySQL Version: so we know which versions of MySQL to support and test against for our custom tables.
• SeedProd Version: so we know which versions of SeedProd are potentially responsible for issues when we get bug reports, allowing us to identify issues and release solutions much faster.
• The SERVER_SOFTWARE variable in PHP: combined with an SeedProd option called SAS are used to parse out which web hosting companies our users are using. We use this to determine the top hosts users are using and make sure that we have testing accounts with those hosting companies, so we can properly test our new releases with various host environments. This also helps us identify conflicts with specific hosting providers so we know which hosts to work with to fix the issue if it’s a server configuration issue.
• Theme/Plugin names and versions: So we know which themes and plugins to support and test against. SeedProd runs on over 1 million websites. While we can’t test with all 50,000+ plugins, we do our best to test against the top plugins from this list.
• License key and email and url: If you’re an SeedProd customer, then we use this to determine if there’s an issue with your specific license key, and to link the profile of your site with the configuration of authentication to allow us to determine if there’s issues with your SeedProd authentication.
• SeedProd settings: So we know which settings people are using, allowing us to determine potentially which new settings or areas of SeedProd people want us to expand on, and which settings people aren’t using.
• Site and user count and is multisite: This allows us to gauge how important it is to support specific types of multisites like multi-network and similar styles of configuration and gauge how much we need to scale our servers before launching features like author tracking dashboards that are correlated to the number of users on a site using it in terms of scale.
• Usage tracking config: The SeedProd option that contains the information on when the usage tracking data-sync will happen (once a week), so we can gauge the server load for the usage tracking servers.

Requirements: The Progress Bar block is available in all our license plans.

Adding the Progress Bar to Your SeedProd Pages

Follow these steps to integrate the Progress Bar on your SeedProd pages:

1. From the Design > Blocks panel, locate and drag the Progress Bar block onto the desired page section.
   
2. Click on the Progress Bar block to access its settings. In the Content tab, you will find options to set the bar text, percentage, and color.
   
3. Navigate to the Templates tab to choose the preferred bar style.
   
4. In the Advanced tab, explore additional options such as adding more styles, adjusting spacing, attributes, and device visibility.
   
5. Remember to save your work to ensure the changes are preserved.

That’s it! By following these outlined steps, you can incorporate the Progress Bar Block into your SeedProd pages, offering an engaging way to showcase progress and completion visually.

You can now import and export your landing pages and custom SeedProd themes created in the Theme Builder with a few clicks. Even if your theme includes custom WooCommerce templates, SeedProd will export the entire theme, ready for you to import onto another WordPress website.

How to Export/Import Your Theme Builder Settings

Exporting Theme Builder Settings

1. From your WP admin dashboard, go to SeedProd > Import / Export.
   
2. Click on the Export Theme Files button within the Import / Export Theme Builder section. This will prepare a ZIP file (“seedprod-export-theme-files.zip”) that will be downloaded to your computer.
   

Importing Theme Builder Settings

1. From your WP admin dashboard, go to SeedProd > Import / Export
   
2. You can import your Theme Builder settings using the exported ZIP file stored locally on your computer or on a web/FTP server.
   
   1. To use an exported Theme Builder ZIP file on your computer, click on the Choose file button within the Import / Export Theme Builder section. Then, locate and select the ZIP file.
   2. To use an exported Theme Builder ZIP file that’s stored on a web server or FTP server, enter the URL of this file in the Enter Import file URL input box.
3. Click on the Import Theme Files button (or the Import by Theme URL button) to start the import process. This will be completed when the “Import Started” popup message (at the top right of the page) disappears.

How to Export/Import Your Landing Pages

Exporting a landing page

1. From your WP admin dashboard, go to SeedProd > Import / Export
   
2. Under the Import / Export Landing Pages section, select the desired landing page to export from the Select Pages dropdown menu.
   
3. Click on the Export Landing Page button to begin the export process. This will prepare a ZIP file (“seedprod-export-landing-page-files.zip”) with all the that will be downloaded to your computer.

Importing a landing page

1. From your WP admin dashboard, go to SeedProd > Import / Export
   
2. Under the Import / Export Landing Pages section, click on the Choose file button within the Import Landing Page
   sub-section. Then, locate and select the ZIP file.
   
3. Click on the Import Landing Page button to start the import process. This will be completed when the “Import Started” popup message (at the top right of the page) disappears.

The SeedProd no-risk money-back guarantee offers that, if at any time within the first 14 days of opening your paid Account you decide that SeedProd is not for you, then just let our awesome support team know (we make it easy!). A refund request must be sent our support team’s email: support@seedprod.com or open a support request: https://app.seedprod.com/ticket

We will stop your Subscription and issue you a refund. Your request for a cancellation must be received within 24 business hours of the 14 days of the date and time of opening your paid Account. While some refunds may be instant, refund credit can take up to 5 – 10 business days to show up in your credit card statement.

If adequate notice is not received and your credit card is subsequently charged, you will not receive a refund.