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:

Other features - mentioned in description boxes



You have Aspen Shortcodes and Widgets Plugin installed.
  See the Dashboard : Appearance : [Aspen Shortcodes] menu for settings and help.



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Aspen Shortcodes and Widgets 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 Shortcodes and Widgets 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 Shortcodes and Widgets 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 Shortcodes and Widgets 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 Shortcodes and Widgets 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 Shortcodes and Widgets.

Aspen Shortcodes and Widgets includes these additional HTML Insertions areas:

Aspen Shortcodes and Widgets 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.