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Top 6 Shortcode Plugins For A Highly Functional And Captivating WP Site

Want to integrate custom content on your website? Shortcode offers a great solution that can help you overhaul the look and feel of your site in a desired fashion. You can rapidly incorporate buttons, icons, or other elements of your choice for a page or a post and customize your site’s visuals in an appropriate manner.

Fortunately, after the WordPress 2.5 release that included the shortcode API, personalizing the look and feel of a WP site has become quite simple. There are several plugins and themes that embrace these APIs, users can streamline their choice and pick a suitable theme or plugin to efficiently and effectively tailor their website.

In this article, I will unleash a few proficient plugins that doesn’t let one to lose his implemented shortcodes (that helps create enticing design elements with a flair) whenever a WP theme is changed. Let’s have a glance into the best WP plugins that are available for free and are fabulous for enhancing the functionalities of a WP site.

 

1. WordPress Shortcodes

WordPress Shortcodes

WordPress Shortcodes plugin is quite popular across the globe for its blissful features and offerings. It includes a slew of resourceful elements that can enhance the entire visual appeal of your site. While enriching the design quality of elements, it also offers improved functionality for layout management, UI creation, Message boxes, buttons, etc., to link your site content with IDs, names and other helpful tools, instead of implementing the complete URL.

 

2. Shortcodes Ultimate

Shortcodes Ultimate

This is yet another highly popular WordPress plugin that ensures the prolific performance of your WP theme by including various resourceful elements. With this plugin, you can efficiently create buttons, sliders, boxes, responsive videos and a lot more attractive elements. It comes complete with a custom CSS editor, responsive design, rich API, custom widget, a code generator, more than 50 shortcodes and so forth. Moreover, you can also purchase its premium additional features like creators and skins to further improve your site’s design.

 

3. Easy Bootstrap Shortcode

Easy Bootstrap Shortcode

Easy Bootstrap Shortcode plugin conveniently incorporates Bootstrap style to your website. It is compatible with Bootstrap 3.2.0 and offers a great way to insert icons into WordPress editor. It offers TinyMCE Shortcode Buttons, by using which, Bootstrap style can be added to WP site. Moreover, it is also compatible with the Internet Explorer 7 or higher versions.

Although this easy-to-use plugin is available for free, there also exists a premium version of this plugin in the WP repository. Its pro version offers additional features, including over 100 shortcodes, slider support, filterable codes and a lot more.

 

4. Display Posts Shortcode

Display Posts Shortcode

For the folks who are looking for a plugin that can help them enlist posts without implementing any PHP code in their theme, the Display Posts Shortcodes will allow you to showcase your posts by using only one line of code. While displaying the post’s title, you can also include the excerpt of your post, date, and a suitable image. There is no default styling for this plugin, thus, you can organize and style the list in a desired fashion.

 

5. Olevmedia Shortcodes

Olevmedia Shortcodes

You can efficiently include numerous custom elements (like buttons, map, toggle, driver, recent posts, and so forth) in your content by using this plugin on your site. This brilliant plugin automatically includes a suitable shortcode and thus, you don’t need to learn the codes. Moreover, it ensures a flawless and absolute performance of elements irrespective of the screen resolution of the targeted device.

The plugin is absolutely simple to use with a drop-down menu, you just need to choose a requisite element and it will show you its preview. If you want to add added it into your site, you can configure it with some easy to follow steps.

 

6. WP Canvas – Shortcodes

WP Canvas - Shortcodes

Improve the look and feel of your pages and posts with this superlative plugin. This plugin also offers an easy integration of various elements in a website. It offers a plethora of elements within a drop-down menu displayed via brackets, and icons are included under the tab – Font Icons. You just need to select a desired icon or element and include your content within the code, the plugin will automatically include the shortcode in your post. It will, thus, enhance the appearance of your site with an astounding design.

 

There is no dearth of efficient and effective WP plugins that offer remarkable functions, and the above ones are known for delivering astonishing performances. You may choose any of them to proficiently manage your site customization with an amazing shortcode support to implement exquisite design elements with a breeze.

Author Bio:
Juana Steves is a software application developer for Xicom Technologies- a offshore software development company. She loves share information regarding PHP, Java, WordPress, Android application development tips & tricks.

Your Handy Guide on Building and Displaying Dynamic Menu in WordPress Pages

The default menu system available with WordPress offers you an incredible way of managing all the menus for your website in a faster and effortless way. Introduced along with the release of WordPress version 3.0, it is this menu system which has provided us the convenience of adding custom menus to different widgetized regions within the installed theme such as: header, sidebar etc. Plus, you can also avail the flexibility of adding extra menu areas to your WordPress theme. But, the need to hook a dynamic menu on a per page/post basis can be realized only by following certain steps. Continue reading this post to know more about creating a dynamic menu and displaying it on specific WordPress pages.

Dynamic Menu – What is it and why is it required?

Dynamic menus allow you to maintain the flawless hierarchy of different menu items available within the theme that’s displayed on a specific web page. A dynamic menu is usually added in the header section but can be added in the sidebar or footer of the site as well. The reason why such a menu is called “dynamic” is that all new menu items are automatically displayed each time a new subpage gets added into the WordPress website’s admin area. This means, you’re not required to spend your valuable time on creating menu item for every new subpage. The same would be automatically shown up in the main navigation menu. The thing that needs to be kept in mind here is that you’re supposed to create the dynamic menu in the WordPress admin panel.

Firstly, creating the dynamic menu in WordPress

Just go to your WordPress admin dashboard-> Appearance-> Menus, a pop-up similar to the one displayed below will appear on your screen:

create dynamic menu

On this screen, for the ‘Menu Name’ field, enter the name you want to assign to the dynamic menu that you’ll be creating. For instance, I have entered the name of dynamic menu as ‘Main Menu’. After this, simply click on ‘Create Menu’ button. A screen similar to this one will appear on your monitor:

create dynamic menu

On this screen, just check the option named as “Auto Add Pages” available under the Menu Settings. With this setting in place, every time a new sub-page is added to the site’s theme, a menu item for the same will be created automatically. Under the ‘Theme Location’ label, you’ll find two checkboxes viz: Primary Menu and Top Menu. You can choose either of the two checkboxes for specifying a suitable location for the newly created dynamic menu. Do remember each WordPress theme offers you different support for creating a dynamic menu. While some WordPress themes will allow you to add the menu to the site’s main menu, others will let you add the dynamic menu into the site’s footer. However, you’d rarely find a WordPress theme which permits you to add a dynamic menu to the website’s sidebar.

Some helpful insights on displaying the dynamic menu in a WordPress Page

While you’ll be using the WordPress built-in function i.e. wp_nav_menu() for creating dynamic menu item(s), the same function can be called for displaying the created dynamic menu. This WordPress function includes several parameters out of which theme_location and menu are the vital ones and have been explained below:

theme_location- calling this parameter will hook the created dynamic menu to the specified location. However, if the location where you plan to display the menu doesn’t exist, then you’ll be required to create one which must be further registered with register_nav_menu(). For example, if you want to specify the location for dynamic menu item(s) as the sidebar of the WordPress theme, then all you need to do is simply place the below line of code in your theme’s functions.php file:

<?php wp_nav_menu(array(‘theme_location’=>’sidebar’)); ?>

Menu: this parameter will call the created dynamic menu via its unique ID, slug or name.

That’s it for now!

Wrapping Up

Dynamic menus can not only add a unique tint of professionalism into your site, but they can even offer a wonderful browsing experience to the website visitors. Hope the above post would have helped you grab useful information on the method of creating and displaying the dynamic menus on multiple WordPress pages.

Author Biography:
Samuel Dawson has plenty of experience in the field of web design & development and he is working as Front-End Developer. He is expert in converting PSD to WordPress at perfect speed. He likes reading new things, technology.

Responsive2

Responsive2

Responsive2 is a fast, lightweight and minimal Joomla template for business and portfolio websites. This template has been built using the powerful Zen Grid Framework v4 that makes your website amazingly fast and mobile optimized. Easily create and control your layouts using the draggable layout tool. Zentools allows you to create responsive grids, slideshows, carousels, accordions and more. It also includes a range of menu tools for creating dropdown, vertical, accordion and offcanvas menus.

Features:

  • Fully Responsive Design
  • Fast and Lightweight
  • Built using Zen Grid Framework v4
  • Draggable Layout tool
  • Selective Bootstrap support
  • Extensive list of google fonts available
  • Zentools Responsive layout module
  • Offcanvas, megamenu and accordion menus
  • Built in CSS3 animations
  • Developer friendly tools and architecture
  • Back to top, Sticky Nav and Lazyload Image
  • Connect your social networks
  • Built in One page mode

Price: From $36.00

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Ecolife

Ecolife

Ecolife is a fast, flexible and responsive Joomla template suitable for business websites. This template features soft grunge elements and tasty textures which combined with powerful features to create a fast, flexible and slightly gritty theme for Joomla. It also features the ability to create a simple one page smooth scrolling design.

Features:

  • Fully Responsive Layout
  • A fast Joomla template
  • Built with Zen Grid Framework v4
  • Draggable Layout tool
  • Selective Bootstrap support
  • Extensive fonts available
  • All in one Zentools module
  • Offcanvas, megamenu and accordion menus
  • Built in CSS3 animations
  • Back to top, Sticky Nav and Lazyload Image
  • Connect your social networks
  • Built in One page mode
  • Developer friendly tools and architecture

Price: From $36.00

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Focus2

Focus2

Focus2 is a responsive Joomla photography template with a fullscreen background slideshow suitable for photographers to showcase their work on a large stage. It features a built in responsive slideshow that scales and morphs your images so that they fit in the browser window beautifully. The slideshow features thumbnail resizing, a download image button, slideshow duration and speed options, thumbnail navigation and more.

Features:

  • Fully Responsive Design
  • Super speedy template performance
  • Fullscreen background image slideshow
  • Selective Bootstrap support
  • Draggable Layout tool
  • Extensive list of google fonts available
  • Connect your social networks
  • Zentools Responsive layout module
  • Offcanvas, megamenu and accordion menus
  • Built-in CSS3 animations
  • Back to top, Sticky Nav and Lazyload Image
  • Built in One page mode
  • Developer friendly tools and architecture

Price: From $36.00

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