Enhance the Aspen Theme
Get the free Aspen Shortcodes and Widgets Plugin!
The Aspen Shortcodes and Widgets plugin provides a collection of useful shortcodes and widgets
to make it even easier to customize your site.
See
Aspen Plugins for complete details.
Shortcodes and Widgets included:
- [aspen_slider] - Perhaps the best, most flexible slider plugin available.
Based on bxSlider, this slider is responsive, and will show images, videos, and virtually any
other HTML content.
- [aspen_show_posts] - Show individual posts based on many options - category,
title, and more.
- [aspen_tab_group] - Add content to a tabbed box.
- [aspen_youtube] - Show your YouTube videos responsively, and with the capability
to use any of the YouTube custom display options
- [aspen_vimeo] - Show your Vimeo videos responsively, and with the capability
to use any of the Vimeo custom display options
- [aspen_show/hide_if_mobile] - Show or hide content on mobile devices
- [aspen_iframe] - Quick and easy display of content in an iframe
- Plus many more shortcodes
- Aspen 2 Column Text Widget - Add text into two columns in a widget
- Aspen Per Page Text Widget - Add a text widget on a per page basis
You have Aspen Shortcodes and Widgets Plugin installed.
See the Dashboard : Appearance : [Aspen Shortcodes] menu for settings and help.
Get Aspen Plus for more premium Aspen features
You can extend Aspen's features by getting the Aspen Plus Plugin. Aspen Plus adds useful new options to the Aspen admin tabs
- many you've probably already noticed mentioned on the existing option tabs.
Premium features included with Aspen Plus:
- More General Appearance Options - Specify brackground images for specific areas
- More Font Options - Specify fonts for specific items, plus easily add from hundreds of Google Fonts
- More Header Options - Easily make your header full-width
- Add Extra Menus - Add extra menus to your site using the Aspen Plus Vertical Menu
Widget, or the [aspen_extra_menu] shortcode
- Additional Post Specifics Options - Define totally custom post top and bottom info lines
- More Footer Options - Make your footer full-width
- More <HEAD> Section Options - define custom PHP actions and filters for WordPress
- Additional HTML Insertion Areas - 10 new HTML insertion area
- More Per Page HTML Insertion Options - Define HTML insertions on per page basis
- CSS from file - Use a file for generated CSS rules instead of inline in <head>
Get Aspen Plus Now!
Visit AspenTheme.com/plus/
now to get your copy of Aspen Plus.
Aspen Plus Features - You are using Aspen Plus, Version ' . ASPEN_PLUS_VERSION . '. Thank you.' . "\n";
do_action('aspen_plus_admin','aspen_plus_admin');
}
if (!function_exists('aspen_plus_plugin_installed')) {
add_action('aspen_plus_admin','aspen_plus_admin_actions_free');
function aspen_plus_admin_actions_free( $action ) {
switch ($action) { // search code for list of actions supported by Aspen Theme
case 'fonts':
aspen_plus_fonts();
break;
case 'footer_opts':
aspen_plus_footeropts();
break;
case 'general_appearance':
aspen_plus_genappearance();
break;
case 'header_opts':
aspen_plus_mainopts_header();
break;
case 'head_section':
aspen_plus_adv_head();
break;
case 'html_insertion':
aspen_plus_html_insertion();
break;
case 'post_specifics':
aspen_plus_post_spec();
break;
// cases with no Plus extensions
case 'admin_options':
case 'content_areas':
case 'help':
case 'layout':
case 'links':
case 'menu_bar':
case 'mobile_opts':
case 'process_options': // ignore submitted options
case 'save_restore':
case 'show_subthemes':
case 'site_opts':
case 'widget_areas':
break;
default:
// echo 'Aspen Plus Extra Admin: ' . $action . '
';
break;
}
}
function aspen_plus_intro($title) {
echo ''. "\n";
}
function aspen_plus_fonts() {
aspen_plus_intro('Aspen Plus Font Options');
?>
Aspen Plus gives you much better control of your fonts. In addition to specifying a base font
for content and titles, you can specify any standard web font for many specific areas such as menu bars, widget areas,
captions, links, and more. In addition, you can specify and use any of the hundreds of fonts available from
Google Fonts. In addition to font family, you can specify font weight, style, variant, and size.
Aspen Plus allows you to specify a full-width footer with a simple check-mark.
Coupled with the same capability for the header, you can easily have wide headers and footers.
Aspen Plus allows you to specify a background image for specific areas
on your site, including a full screen site bg image, background images for the wrapper,
header, container, content, sidebars and more. You easily pick any image from your
Media Library to use as the background image.
Aspen Plus allows you to specify a full-width header with a simple check-mark.
Coupled with the same capability for the footer, you can easily have wide headers and footers.
For advanced users, Aspen Plus allows you to write complete PHP functions
that can define WordPress actions and filters used to format and control much of the content
output of your theme. Much of what previously required defining a child theme can be
done with the Actions and Filters feature of Aspen Plus.
Aspen Plus includes these additional HTML Insertions areas:
- Mobile: Header Insert Code
- Desktop: Header Insert Code
- Pre-Main Code
- Pre-Container Code
- Post-Post Content Code
- Pre-Comments Code
- Post-Comments Code
- Pre-Footer Code
- Pre-Left Sidebar
- Pre-Right Sidebar
Aspen Plus includes the ability to define custom top and bottom post meta info lines.
You can define any combination of labels, icons, and elements like categories, author, dates, and custom text
to replace the default meta info lines.