A Drop cap is the first enlarged letter of an article or paragraph which drops up to two or more lines. These are often seen at the beginning of magazines, novels and some newpapers where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of the first sentence and drops down to the fourth or fifth sentence. WordPress users can use dropcaps in their posts, pages and other custom post types with shortcodes.
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In general most WordPress button plugins provides you shortcodes for inserting various kinds of buttons in a post, page and other custom post types. In this tutorial we are discussing about a completely different plugin which provides you a visual way of adding CSS buttons inside the post editor screen and to your themes.
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It can be used for showing anything using a percentage progress meter inside your posts, pages, widgets and even theme files etc. Awesome Progress Bar is the new WordPress plugin you can use for showing progress of your website, your products, you can compare things and more. The plugin provides you various shortcodes for adding progress bars in WordPress. See it live working here.
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Shortcodes are the special tags like [a-shortcode-ex] which replaces the tag with some other content on the frontend. By default shortcode usage is only limited to WordPress posts, pages and custom post types but there is a very easy function in WordPress called do_shortcode() which enables you to use any shortcode with in your theme files, the PHP template files.
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We have spend hours in selecting and providing you very cool list of some of the best shortcodes and accordions which gives you power to transform your free simple WordPress theme into a professional looking theme loaded with cool amazing features. You can use them for beautifying your website like adding awesome buttons to editor which provides you plenty of handy shortcodes for bootstrap based designs, buttons, frames, responsive embeds, icons, lists, infoboxes, responsive video embeds and loading your website with many great packs of shortcode styles.
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Many website owners doesn’t know that WordPress now already provides you a built in audio player. Yes, you can use it without installing any addon, you can either insert the URL of your audio file (one on a line) and the oEmbed will work itself or you can upload and insert audio file just like any other image file from your media library and the WordPress will add appropriate shortcodes by itself.
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If you are blogging from a very long time and established a blog with huge amount of content, then the default WordPress archives widget is ofcourse not for you, it can be pretty long and messy. Here’s the solution, in this tutorial we will show you how you can display archives a good looking compact form instead of displaying a long list of months.
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If you have a YouTube channel for your website, you can very easily display all latest videos from there to your WordPress site either by using a widget or by using shortcodes inside you pages etc. Youtube Channel Gallery lets you display a YouTube video and a gallery of thumbnails for a YouTube channel.
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Sometime back we posted a tutorial on how you can easily make all your website images fluid i.e., responsive and make them look nice on all screen sizes, no matter what the width and height you have given. We also posed a tutorial on keeping YouTube and Vimeo videos proportional and smooth according to the screen width. Here we are not discussing about any new plugin but the most popular Shortcodes plugin known as Shortcodes Ultimate, the plugin supercharges your WordPress site with a wide range of shortcodes which can easily be inserted using its easy shortcode generator. Same plugin can be used for embeding YouTube, Vimeo and all other kinds of videos very easily.
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Super Socializer is the brand new WordPress plugin that comes packed with various social features including Social Login, Social Commenting, Social Sharing, Social Feed and more. The plugin is free and provides you trendy themes with Social Login and Sharing icons and loading time is optimal.
Earlier we have discussed about the plugins that lets you add shortcode boxes showing all active shortcodes of your website. Now this tutorial is on a new plugin that makes things go more easy. EDD Shortcode Menu is the new addon for popular Easy Digital Downloads plugin. This new addon simply activates a TinyMCE button for generating shortcodes of Easy Digital Downloads right from the visual editor present in add new & edit post pages.
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Nextend Accordion Menu provides you a beautiful menu widget with accordion feature. The menu is user-friendly and highly customizable and provides you complete control over menu levels, colors, animation effects and more (DEMO). To start simply install and activate Nextend Accordion Menu plugin. After activation you can create and customize accordion menus from Dashboard -> Accordion Menus page then you can display them using its widget or shortcode. For step by step usage instructions follow its online official documentation here.
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Unlike to posts, WordPress pages allows you to create sub/child pages of any page. This is done from page attributes widget present on Dashboard -> Pages -> Add New page. By default WordPress doesn’t provides you any option for listing child pages but most WP themes allows you to show them as dropdown menu in navigation. Now this article is on few good WordPress plugins you may use for listing child pages on their main parent page so that you can make things easy for your visitors specially if you are not showing them on navigation.
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You must have seen websites and magazines with text that has been highlighted using a colored background (mostly yellow) like old days text highlighter pen. Now with RAD Text Highlighter you can show important text highlighted inside your WordPress posts, pages and other custom post types etc simply by enclosing the text in a shortcode.
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Sitemap Shortcode is a sitemap plugin with feature to include total sitemap of your website inside a post, page, custom post type, widget or any other shortcode supported area.
To use this new plugin simply install and activate it. Upon activation use the shortcode inside your post, page or other content type and see how it works by viewing the post in frontend.
The tutorial is on activating WordPress shortcodes functionality in comment’s form so that you can enable your commenters to use some shortcodes (assigned by you) while writing any comments on your website. Shortcode in Comment is a handy plugin for this. The plugin lets enable decide which shortcodes you would like to enable in the comment form.
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It is ofcourse not easy to remember all shortcodes you have active in your WordPress installation unless they provides you shortcode generator etc. This tutorial is on new WordPress plugin that simply displays a list of all the shortcodes available for use on the post and page edit screens.
Install and activate Edit Screen Shortcode Lister plugin. Upon activation the plugin automatically starts displaying all active shortcodes your WordPress site has.It produces a clean, easily accessible list of all the custom/third party added, and WordPress default shortcodes that you are able to use inside your posts and pages. This way you can easily use your shotocodes by copying them right from the post edit screens. Now it is no more difficult to remember them all.
Restaurant Menu Manager is the brand new WordPress plugin you can use for creating beautiful restaurant menu in your WordPress site, you can easily group different menu items like Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Desserts, etc. You can also group entries with entry tags or Vegetarian, Sandwiches, Salad, Soups, etc. and then finally display them using a list or jQuery based accordions or tabs.
The plugin uses default WordPress functionality of custom post types, taxonomies, and custom meta fields and lets you easily import and export all your data. The plugin provides you following main features:
Install and activate Restaurant Menu Manager. After activation the plugin adds a new post type in WordPress admin section. Using this new post type you can create your restaurant menu entries, types and add tags etc.
Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery accordion tabs.
Restaurant menu displayed in jQuery tabs.
Restaurant menu displayed in simple list.
Add New Restaurant Menu Entry screen.
All Restaurant Menu Entries Screen.
How to display the menu on your site in simple list?
[rm-menu]Displaying restaurant menu in a jQuery accordion with collapsible tabs for different menu types, use
[rm-menu display=’accordion’]For displaying your menu in jQuery tabs, then add this shortcode:
[rm-menu display=’tabs’] Learn more about shortcode usage.Light Shortcode is the new TinyMCE shortcode generator for WordPress sites. The plugin provides you shortcodes for Button, Icon, Box, Highlight, Divider, Toggle, Google Map, Accordion, Pricing Table, Tabs, and Grid etc.
Light Shortcode button
Example shortcode (Price Tables)
Simply install and activate Light Shortcode plugin. Upon activation it adds a new TinyMCE button in WordPress visual editor. You may use the button and insert special looking content while creating new or editing an old blog post, page or any other custom post type etc without painful of manual coding. Check out its Live Demo & Documentation.
Sliding Contact Form By FormGet is is a powerful form builder tool with lots of form building features. Using this new plugin you can capture your site visitors information, you can build unlimited contact forms in some seconds. It provides you a beautiful AJAX powered contact form builder with drag and drop interface.
The plugin is easy to use. Simply install and activate Sliding Contact Form By FormGet. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Contact Form page and from there you can start creating your contact forms. Its admin area interface is intuitive & easy. Contact Us button can be set in at any of the given direction(left, right or bottom) you set, you can show it on every page on your website or you can display form on individually on pages, post, widgets and sidebar.
The good thing about this new contact form plugin is that it flawlessly redeems FormGet to your website, now no more swapping between your website to edit contact forms, you can view submission and copy code. It lets you manage your FormGet account from your wordpress dashboard, so can take advantage of all FormGet great feature without leaving your editor.
With brand new WordPress Canvas Shortcodes plugin you can quickly insert Accordion, Tabs, Toggle, Columns, Testimonials, Borders, Buttons, Full Width, Notifications, Google Maps, Social Icons, Progress Bars, Pricing, Highlights, Custom HTML, Code etc in your website pages using its fast shortcode generator.
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