How to Delete Older Emails in Gmail Automatically 2020

Microsoft Outlook has an interesting Auto-Sweep feature that lets you automatically deletes older email messages from specific senders after a certain period of time. You can also set up rules that mark older emails as read or you can move emails to different folders based on conditions.

Gmail offers you filters but these filters only work on new incoming emails. You can’t set up a filter in Gmail that will, say, auto-purge all old newsletters emails from your mailbox. Or a filter that will apply a different label to emails after a specific number of days and also mark them as read.

Gmail Auto Purge – Delete Old Mails Automatically

Email Studio is a new Gmail add-on that can help keep your Gmail mailbox lean and tidy with the built-in auto-purge feature. Here are some examples of rules that you can set up for your Gmail with the help of Email Studio:

• Delete all emails that were received more than a month ago and are from specific senders or are in a specific folder.
• Archive and “Mark as Read” all emails in the inbox folder that are more than 3 months old.
• Star emails that are in the “follow up” folder and received more than 2 weeks ago.
• Permanently remove all emails from the Gmail trash and the spam folder after 2 days. (Gmail will only clear your spam and trash after 30 days).
• Apply the label “follow up” to all starred emails after a week or a month.

The auto-purge utility also includes an email unsubscriber to help you easily remove your email address from unwanted mailing lists and other bulk emails.

How to Enable Auto-Purging in Gmail

To get started, install the Email Studio add-on (video). Next, switch to the Gmail website and open any email message in your inbox. You’ll see the Email Studio icon in the right sidebar.

Open Email Studio, log in with your Gmail account and then choose the “Email Cleanup” tool from the list of available options. Click on “Add new rule” and set up a rule.

There are two parts – you specify a condition and then you specify an action that will be performed on messages that match your condition.

For setting conditions, you can even specify advanced Gmail search operators like newer_than or has:attachment or larger_than to exactly match the Gmail messages that you wish to archive, trash or move to another folder.

Once you have created a rule, click the Save button and Email Studio will launch in the background. It will auto-run every hour, like a cron job, and perform the specified action on email messages that match your condition. There’s no need for you to run the rules manually.

Email Studio is free for basic use but if you wish to create multiple sets of purge rules, please switch to the premium version. It includes email scheduler, forwarder and auto-responder and costs $29 per year.

The Ultimate BlogVault Plugin Guide To Automated Backup Of WordPress 2019

What according to you is a blogger’s or a WordPress user’s biggest fear?

My biggest fear is losing years of work due to the server failure or a malware!

Believe it or not, it has happened to many, and surprisingly, the solution is pretty easy.

All you need is a backup system which takes an automatic and timely backup of your entire website. And in times a catastrophic event as mentioned above, the backup becomes the most valuable investment you will have ever made.

In the WordPress ecosystem, there are only a few reliable solutions which ensure that the backup works. BlogVault is one such popular service that lives up to the expectation.

I have shared the detailed features of BlogVault below, but for now, let’s learn to set up an enterprise grade automated backup using this popular WordPress backup solution.

It doesn’t matter if you are a blogger, a freelancer, a web agency or anyone else. As long as you are using WordPress, you should have a backup system to safeguard yourself in the event which is outside one’s control.

Without further delay, let us dive into the exact steps you need to take to configure BlogVault for your WordPress website. At the later section of this review, I have shared a special 20% discount coupon to help you save money.

For now, You ready?

Let’s go.

Step-by-Step Guide To SetUp BlogVault for Automated WordPress Backup

You can start by creating a BlogVault account. They offer a 7-day free trial, which is good enough for you to test the reliability of the system without spending a penny.

After creating an account, log in to the BlogVault Dashboard and add the website you want to backup

Install BlogVault WordPress Plugin:

The next step is to install the BlogVault WordPress plugin. You can either do it from your WordPress dashboard or let BlogVault do it for you. Since BlogVault uses strong encryption and focuses on data security as well, you can trust them with your login details.

In my case, I used the automatic install feature of BlogVault. Within minutes, their engine installed the plugin and started the first backup of my WordPress site.

Depending upon the size of your website, the backup can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.

To be clear, a complete backup of WordPress contains both database and all the files of WordPress (mostly content of WP_Content folder). The way I see it is, as long as the backup lets you quickly restore your website without any hiccups, it’s a solid one.

I have seen a lot of WordPress users believe that taking backup of WordPress database is enough, which is not the truth. If you are guilty of doing this till today, you should undo the wrong and make sure that you set up the complete backup of your WordPress site.

After 4 Minutes ⏰ And A Cup Of Coffee

It took a cup of coffee and 4 minutes to backup a medium size blog (WPSutra).

Well, if you have been following all the steps thus far, you can celebrate a little, but it is not finished yet.

Since it’s the first ever backup, you should also test the backup. Even though BlogVault boasts of their data integrity and backup solution, a quick check wouldn’t hurt anybody. Moreover, it hardly takes a minute to do that.

You can watch below video to understand the whole process of Blogvault WordPress backup in a 

BlogVault features and the experience:

Backup details:

You can access this by going to your BlogVault dashboard and clicking on the site name. Doing so will take you to the detailed page where you will find information about your existing backup. You could do a whole lot right away. See the screenshot below with two unexpected bonus features.

Before I talk about the Whitelabel feature, let’s quickly look at the bonus features.

Firewall:

This feature seals the deal for many who manage multiple websites. Using this feature, you can have a bird’s-eye view of the security status of your website. There is not a lot of features here, but it is certainly helpful when you have such a report. I believe BlogVault might move to complete website management solutions in times to come.

You can also click on traffic logs to see the detailed report.

Depending on the BlogVault plan you have, you can use it to strengthen the security of your WordPress site. Click on secure site link (next to ‘Want to harden security’), and you will get a few options to solidify the security of your blog.

If you are an agency or a freelancer who has built a static website for a client on WordPress, you can take advantage of Essential and Advanced features, and from here on you will have one less thing to worry about.

WordPress Staging site:

Who would have imagined that a WordPress backup solution should offer stanging site feature!

But, now when I think through it, I realize it is indeed a feature that every complete backup solution provider must offer. This can make our lives so much easier when we want to check the backup integrity on a test server.

When creating a staging site, you can select the PHP version to test your site with. I usually recommend the latest PHP version, and that’s what you should be using for your live site as well. There is a significant performance difference between PHP Version 5.6 and 7.X+.

It barely took 3 minutes to create a staging site from the existing WordPress backup.

White label feature:

For agencies and freelancers, the white label feature is a treat. You can add your branding to increase your brand awareness. This white label branding will show up in the WordPress plugins list, and your client would end up thinking it’s a solution from you.

You also have an option to completely hide the BlogVault plugin from showing in the plugins list.

Update WordPress from a single dashboard:

One of the biggest troubles I face while running multiple WordPress sites is keeping them all updated. As I mentioned earlier, Blogvault is not only a WordPress backup solution but is also moving in the direction of WordPress site management.

From the BlogVault dashboard, you can update WordPress plugins, themes, and core WordPress as well. You also have the option to activate, deactivate any WordPress plugin, which is handy when you are managing multiple WordPress sites.

As a side note, it would be good to see the option to install a new WordPress plugin from the Blogvault dashboard.

Blogvault experience Conclusion and 20% discount for SML readers:

Its been a month that I have been using BlogVault and it is a powerful WordPress backup and management solution. The staging feature is handy for those who are using a managed WordPress hosting or standalone WordPress staging solution.

For agencies and web hosting companies who are looking for a complete WordPress backup solution, BlogVault is the ideal choice.

One can test out Blogvault for 7 days without requiring a credit card. If you decide to upgrade to any paid plan, you will also get 20% off on your monthly or yearly billing.

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The Best Places to Download HTML Templates for your Website 2020

Are you looking for responsive, beautiful and professional looking HTML templates for your next website but don’t have the budget? Well, here are a couple of free resources on the Internet where you can regularly find good templates for use in your web projects without restrictions.

Dribble is a popular community of designers for them to showcase their work online. In addition to posting screenshots of their work, designers also upload the HTML / CSS version of their projects for anyone to use. You should bookmark the freebie and the freebies tag on Dribble to never miss these projects.

Creative Market is a marketplace for website templates, themes, fonts and other design assets. It is a paid store but if you join their email newsletter, they’ll send you free design stuff every week in your inbox that can be downloaded directly to your Dropbox. And they are mostly good.

HTML5 UP is created by the same developer that built Carrd, one of the most useful websites on the Internet. HTML5 UP is a treasure house of beautiful templates built sans the heavy Bootstrap or Material framework. All web templates are available in the Creative Commons license so can you can use them in any way with attribution.

Envato’s Themes Forest is a premium marketplace for website templates but if create a free account with them, you get to download all the freebies that are published on their homepage every few weeks. These are paid items that the authors have made free only during the duration of the promotion to gain visibility in the marketplace.

OnePageLove is a curated directory of single page websites and they have a dedicated section for HTML templates that are free to download.

UpLabs is another online marketplace and community where creative designers share their work. The “web” section offers a variety of HTML templates that are free for both personal and commercial use.

Manoela Ilic’s Codrops houses the most creative collection of work for web designers as well as developers. Every single project on this site, be it an image slider or a checkout page, is unlike anything you’ve seen before and the source code is up for grabs on Github.

Freebiesbug, as the name suggests, curates web freebies including fonts, PSD designs, stock photos and, of course, HTML templates. Look for the “exclusive” tag and you’ll discover HTML/CSS templates that the designers have chosen to share exclusively on this website.

And the final resource in my list that is worth adding to your bookmarks is Codepen. Chris Coyier started Codepen as a playground for writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the web browser but the project has evolved into a huge community of front-end developers that are putting the code in public which are free to fork and download.

Top 4 Ways Adobe and Autodesk Products Can Save your Time 2020

Everybody who works in an office is better known to the adobe and autodesk products and features of that products. Almost every industry is using adobe products to enhance their work routines and do the work in a smarter way.

With the use of Adobe products in offices businesses are getting more revenue and less stress of work load as adobe products are really helping us do things the easy way and at the peaks of professionalism.

If you are new and just getting started with your startup company or an employer at a new company which is yet to test Adobe products then you should try reading these top 4 ways how adobe products can save your time in office hours and use its best products for your company.

So lets read how Adobe and Autodesk is making your life easier with its core products:

1. Adobe Creative Cloud (CC)

 If you are looking to get an all-in-one application and do everything at creative side with one platform of build-in products and templates then the most exciting product of Adobe named Creative Cloud is here and its best at making your white paper or blank canva a great design which your company and your clients will love to see and purchase.

Creative cloud will give you access to:

• Photoshop: For easy image editing/compositing
• Illustrator: For creating vector graphics/illustration
• InDesign: For page design and layout of print/digital publishing
• Adobe Stock: To find the perfect digital assets for your next creative project
• Illustrator Draw: For vector drawing anywhere you want
• Adobe Premiere Pro: For video production and editing
• After Effects: For cinematic visual effects
• Adobe Audition: For audio recording, mixing and restoration
• Character Animator: To animate your 2D characters in real time
• Adobe Stock: To find stunning HD and 4K videos and Motion Graphics templates
• Premiere Clip: For video editing on the go 
• Typekit: Getting thousands of fonts from around the world's leading type foundries
• Adobe XD: For design, prototype and sharing user experiences
• Dreamweaver: To design and develop modern/responsive websites
• All-new Lightroom CC: The cloud-based photo service with 1TB cloud storage
• Lightroom Classic: For desktop-focused photo editing
• Creative Cloud Photography plan: To get all-new Lightroom CC, cloud storage and Photoshop CC
• Spark Post: To create stunning social graphics in seconds
• Spark Page: To turn words and images into beautiful web stories
• Spark Video: For creating compelling animated videos

This what just one product by Adobe can help you with and I think this is enough for a dreamer and designer or a digital entrepreneur to work and get paid in thousands of dollars. They have student and business plans for this product and it really makes sense when you are paying some dollars for all of these premium and high quality products which billion dollar companies are using right now to serve their clients.

2. Adobe Acrobat

 This is something great from Adobe company as without this you really can't enjoy many online things and even many websites and games are using this software so that you must have to install this on your computer and some of your hand devices too.

Its best for: 

• View flash files
• Create flash and rich files
• Manipulating
• Print Documents
• And managing Portable Document Format

Go ahead and install this software in your computer. This will help you in many ways. The most exciting and best thing about Adobe Acrobat reader is you can download and install it for free and almost all of the computer users at some type of work are using this to read and interact with the documents online and even offline.

3. Autodesk

 Autodesk is a company providing really high-end products with core features of creating 3D designs and things for people who are in engineering field or looking to design something new and cooler than the rest which has been created.

With its top 3 products it is really very famous that products are:

• AutoCAD: Software for 2D and 3D CAD designs and modeling. Subscription includes AutoCAD, specialized toolsets and apps
• REVIT: Computer Software for Building Information Modeling
• MAYA: Fast, creative tool-set for 3D animations, modeling, simulation and rendering 

That's not all. Autodesk is there with many other products and its every product is a perfect software for solving your problems to save time.

If you are looking for an ultimate tool-kit to start your own building design business then AutoCAD is something that can really help you in starting your business and then taking it to the next levels without having to purchase another software for life of your business.

4. AutoCAD

 This is something everybody knows about and in every technical college there is a diploma for this particular engineering product. This product is helping thousands of people around the globe in their office work to designing their own home.

Yes, its best use is in the construction area and people from USA, Dubai, Pakistan and India are heavily using AutoCAD software to design their buildings and make next level structures just by working on a computer.

This product can help you its features like:

• Architecture designs and more
• Electrical use
• Map 3D with tools
• Mechanical use and its use for MEP
• Plant 3D and best at Raster Design

Still people are more than interested to use it for drawing sketches of buildings in 2D so they can easily build skyscrapers and homes of the people. This is the most famous product by Adobe and available for business use in office and student use for learning.

As these are the extra ordinary Software and Tools for your computer to develop and create amazing things in a digital world. You will need a license for some of these software items and for this you can rely on a reseller.

In my recommendations you can rely on adobe reseller in Pakistan as they are really quick at their services and providing you licenses for almost every digital product of adobe and autodesk in a reasonable price and they are the certified license reselling partners at Adobe.

9 Ways to Double your Twitter Followers Everyday 2019



If you are looking to get genuine Twitter Followers and boosting your followers count then try this guide about how to work on these 9 steps for growing your Twitter followers and double the list everyday ...
Social media optimization is now taking entrepreneurs to the next levels and many of the beginners at digital marketing are gaining more and more followers on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram.

With lots of changes in social media network algorithms and search engines, everybody have to do something unique for gaining more exposure. At Twitter gaining a rich followers list is crucial step as almost everybody on Twitter can easily hit 100 followers in just one week of joining Twitter but after that first 100 followers it becomes harder to gain another set of 100 subscribers.

Still there are some ways to double your Twitter Followers everyday. If you are also looking to grow your following on Twitter then don't just wait for a magic to happen as it will not happen till you make some changes and do optimize your Twitter profile as it requires. So read this checklist of top 9 ways to double your Twitter Followers everyday.

9 Real Ways to Grow Twitter Followers

 If you are looking to get twitter followers fast than others and get them for free then this simple guide is for you. However! Before touching the exact ways I would love to ensure some basic things about Twitter, and that basic things/statistics/facts are:

• Twitter is at 330 million active monthly users
• Katy Perry is on Top of Twitter with most followers
• Ellen Degeneres is the person who have sent a most retweeted tweet
• Twitter didn't invented the hashtag feature
• Over 500 millions Tweets are being sent on Twitter
• Over 80% user of Twitter are using it on Mobile devices

These are some basic facts which you should know about Twitter and let's read how you can get more followers on your Twitter profile and impress your readers, clients and friends:

1. Complete the Profile

 In just 160 for your Twitter bio you have to give an impression of yourself and convince your profile viewer to follow you and just the Bio. You need to focus on other things like:

• Adding a professional profile image
• Uploading and designing a great cover photo
• Creating a unique user name

The more you make your profile searchable the more people will look at your profile and follow you. So try to add hashtags in your profile bio like if you are an entrepreneur then you should write a bio like:

Hey, I am an #entrepreneur and working #online for years now.... etc 

I just want to show you that you can use hashtags in Twitter bios so try the trendy hashtags of your industry so it will help others find you easily.

2. Like

 After creating a complete profile at Twitter you don't have to start following people. Instead you should start liking tweets from trends of Twitter. As at the left side you can see trending topics and hashtags (if on mobile you will see them in search option) try some of the hashtags from there and like the best tweets.

After this step you will start receiving some followers and this will actually increase your chances of getting followed by many and many more relative people. Make sure you are having these tips in your mind before liking any tweet:

• Its relevant to your niche/industry
• You love that tweet and don't want to go without expressing your thoughts
• Use relevant hashtags to your industry and be industry specific
• Try to like tweets with zero likes or more than 100 likes (it makes sense)

You can also try replying to some tweets you are liking, it will increase your chances of being noticed.

3. Twitter Chats

 This may sound interesting to you as Twitter is not known for the chat-option like WhatsApp and Facebook. But still there's a unique style of Twitter for chats and that is the key to get more Twitter Followers and gain exposure for making your brand recognizable and you can also make use of social media management toolsto get more insights for your Twitter chats.

You can start a Twitter chat in:

• Pick a topic you are expert in
• Create a hashtag around that topic
• Now post a weekly question to answer tweet and name it a Twitter chat
• You can promote it to gain some initial boost
• Reply to the Tweets which are using your hashtag and reply to retweets and comments

As our goal is to double Twitter followers everyday, you can start creating Twitter chats and keep on answering and retweeting what others say about your chat and also follow people who are professionals in your industry and interacting with your chats, so they will follow back.

4. Follow your FnF members

 After doing some of the above things you should start following your friends and family members on Twitter and ask them to follow you back. By this you will have a strong base of followers and thus new viewers of your Twitter profile will be impressed and likely every new viewer will follow you.

You can also follow your colleagues and people you know from your work and ask them to follow you too. Also make them engage with your chats and let them explore what you are doing at Twitter.

With this I suggest you to follow some news portals and government officials for getting new updates on national to international happenings and also follow big players in your industry. Like in tech industry you can follow Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates or other great people.

5. Tweet

 After-all, its all about Tweeting your thoughts and let the world know what you have to say about a particular thing/topic.

You should keep on tweeting a lot (at-least 5 tweets a day on different hours) and make your followers know you and keep themselves engaged with your name. In my suggestions you should do these things for tweeting to gain more followers:

• Tweet about trendy topics with hot hashtags
• Always use some hashtags
• Create one poll every 2nd day
• Use images in your tweets

People loves to watch videos on Twitter too, so try to add some videos. You should keep your Twitter profile fresh so that you will get more followers who are searching for a resource to get updates on an industry.

6. Engage your Twitter Followers

 Engaging your Twitter followers is one of the most crucial things you have to cover for gaining more followers everyday and then doubling them everyday. The question is how we can easily engage our Twitter followers and keep them in the know? and the answer is:

• Reply to their comments/replies
• Like their retweets
• Reply on their retweets
• Mention their handles/usernames in your tweets
• Retweet what they have tweeted about you
• Like their retweets about you

And keep on doing these things and always listen to your followers, as they will guide you to create an out-standing clash of twitter on your profile.

Tip: You should create your twitter username with having your brand in mind and your twitter username should be the same as on other networks. For checking availability can use a free Username Checker tool. 

7. Schedule your Evergreen Tweets

 If you are from an industry where you are posting evergreen content then you schedule some tweets so that they will be published when you are not at your internet access area. Even if you are not from an industry where you can post evergreen content then you can use Quotes to share on a daily basis.

You can easily create scheduled tweets with your blog content or use other tactics and put everything on autopilot for up to a whole year. Yes, you can make everything automatic using Missinglettr a social media automation platform.

I use it to share my evergreen content on my Twitter profile so that I don't have to post manually as this tool is working for me on autopilot. You can use it for free and get one free campaign every month. It will also auto create your tweets and add relative hashtags which will help you a lot in increasing your Twitter followers count.

8. Invest to Promote your Profile

 Investing real money in promoting yourself or your business at Twitter is what you have to do at a stage. If you are looking to really grow your followers list and make them have doubts about yourself that you are a professional and well mannered person then you should try Twitter ads and get more followers with branding.

You can promote your Twitter profile with other tactics like:

• Adding it to your advertisment campaigns at other outlets like Facebook and Google Ads
• Putting your Twitter username as Twitter.com/UmerIdrisi on your business card and other print material
• Telling people about your Twitter profile in events and gatherings
• Add a Twitter follow button to your blog or business website

This will boost your authenticity and people will start following as a personality or a professional who is serious with his business.

9. Hire Freelancers

 There are people we call Freelancers and I am one of them. In freelancing world everybody is an expert in his/her own verticals and if you can understand then you can hire a freelancer who is expert in social media management and optimization or social media growth hacking expert.

On platforms like Fiverr, Freelancer, Guru and others you can easily find a social media promoter or expert in just $5 to $150 who can really make it a lot more easier to get Twitter followers and keep them coming to you.

You can ask that freelancer to work on your behalf and make your profile look more professional. You can set a payroll for monthly work and let the freelancer do everything for you.

You can also collaborate with social media influencers or simply ask them to retweet your tweets for a price.

So, this was my guide on how to increase Twitter followers in just 9 steps also double them everyday. If you need more tips for twitter followers then comment below and tweet this article.

Fintech In Asia – A Necessary Future 2019

The future of FinTech in Asia is as a steady development as the future of electric vehicles in California – it’s going to happen. It’s not surprising, then, that Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2018 drew some of the world’s top tech firms and, of course, tens of thousands of attendees. China Mobile, China Telecom, China Transport Telecommunication Information Group, China Unicom, Datang, Dell, Ericsson, Nokia, OnStar, PwC, Qualcomm, Samsung LSI, Visa, vivo and Volkswagen, among others, were there to present their tech to the Asian market, and the world.

It’s impossible to miss all the talks surrounding the enormous potential for FinTech in the Asian market. With factors like personal income growth and increased consumption contributing to the rapid development of the region and, as such, customer needs, the demand for services presented at MWC Shanghai was clear: mobile banking, online payments and money transfers were the central topics of the event, with industry’s leaders making the future of FinTech in Asia amongst the most-discussed topics at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2018, with the strategic importance of synergy between Financial and Communication industries impossible to downplay.

Currently, the competition between MNOs is cutthroat, and the customer churn is at an all-time high, so retaining customers is the utmost priority for any MNO on the market.

Already you can see, how Mobile Network Operators are looking into offering their clients enhanced financial products, with the likes of micro loans, micro insurance, international remittance, and peer to peer payments, with those products becoming not just a Value Added Service for the MNO, but a key strategic interest, a way to make sure its customer base is going to grow. So can these industry behemoths, whose number of clients is often in the hundreds of millions, quickly build, deploy, and market mobile financial services, to stay ahead of the curve, or do they turn to outside FinTech companies for help?

Among the numerous B2B products presented by the FinTech sector is Any2Any – a platform that integrates into the existing infrastructures of MNOs and MVNOs in order to provide financial services to their respective clients. It was launched by CreditPilot – a company with two decades of experience in the FinTech industry and bold plans to expand into the Asian market. Any2Any seamlessly integrates into MNOs and MVNOs infrastructure to to provide financial services to their clients.

CreditPilot, a FinTech spin-off from Megafon – Russia’s leasing MNO –  started with payment kiosks, but was soon offering its services to MNOs, Service Providers, banks, and even utility companies that needed bespoke FinTech solutions to present to their clients. Now, it provides platforms for MNOs and MVNOs, including retail fintech, and Enterprise Scale Payments Infrastructure.

At MWC Shanghai 2018, it was especially noted how the business-to-business sector is a growing part of these events, as companies gather not just to impress the end consumer with the latest gadget, high-speed frequency, or never-before-seen piece tech, but to forge links with other companies, and come up with solutions for the ever-changing landscape – societal, economical, and technological. The FinTech industry is strategically placed between these huge market players, such as national MNOs, with the potential to take these companies ahead of the curve, and ensure their growth – and the region’s – for years to come.