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<a href="http://synved.com/wordpress-shortcodes/" title="WordPress Shortcodes – beautiful elements to spice up your site" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Shortcodes</a> is a free WordPress plugin that brings an amazing set of beautiful and useful elements to your site. The plugin comes bundled with the full set of elements, all absolutely free of charge.
Learn how you can use WordPress Shortcodes to <a href="http://synved.com/blog/help/tutorials/wordpress-shortcodes-for-import-export-safe-urls/" rel="nofollow ugc">easily create import / export safe links to images and any other content</a>!
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<h4>Eager to get a functioning example of how the shortcodes elements look and feel?</h4>
Look at some basic example shortcodes on the <a href="http://wpdemo.synved.com/stripefolio/shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripefolio demo site</a>. Note that the demo site only presents a limited subset, the best way to test the full set is to install the plugin and try it yourself!
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If you want to take it to the next level and hugely improve the appearance of the elements and make them look more professional, you might want to consider purchasing the <a href="http://synved.com/product/wordpress-shortcodes-slickpanel-skin/" title="Transform the look of many elements in the Shortcodes plugin!" rel="nofollow ugc">SlickPanel skin</a>.
There are many different kinds of elements that cover all your requirements. These include functionality for User Interface creation, Layout management, Lists, Buttons, Message boxes, smart links to easily link contents on your site without using full URLs but with IDs or names and a bunch of other useful tools such as the ability of adding hidden content in posts/pages, useful for making notes or comments.
Just use the intuitive shortcode editor to create a message box, error box or warning message on your site. Or create multi-column layouts, a fancy button, a highly stylized link card, a list of items with icons (like a feature list), or combine multiple nested shortcodes to create for instance a list of links or a list of buttons and much more.
The shortcode editor presents a very intuitive and easy to use interface, with many built-in presets that make inserting many commonly needed default shortcodes in your posts/pages a breeze! If you want you can also get <a href="http://synved.com/product/wordpress-shortcodes-extra-presets/" rel="nofollow ugc">over 30+ extra useful amazing presets</a> for covering almost all needs.
The plugin offers all common jQuery UI functionality as well like jQuery UI Accordions (called sections inside WordPress Shortcodes), JQuery UI Tabs, jQuery UI buttons and so on. The UI tabs provide many different features including full SEO compatible selection of active tab without need for JavaScript.
The plugin also offers conditional shortcodes that allow to render content only based on certain conditions, such as only if the user is logged in or if the user is an administrator, an editor, author or has a custom capability or if the current post is password protected or if it has a featured image (post thumbnail).
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>26+ shortcodes and different elements!</li>
<li>Create tabs, sections/accordions, layout, lists, links, buttons and more!</li>
<li>Tabs are SEO friendly and work flawlessly without JavaScript!</li>
<li>Fully WordPress compliant, using latest standards</li>
<li>Quick and easy to use shortcodes editor with instant previews</li>
<li>Shortcodes editor allows for easy insertion in posts/pages!</li>
<li>The shortcode editor has full support for default presets and you can get <a href="http://synved.com/product/wordpress-shortcodes-extra-presets/" rel="nofollow ugc">many extra useful presets</a></li>
<li>Layout shortcodes allow for tight content organization</li>
<li>Link shortcodes make importing and exporting content across sites much more reliable</li>
<li>Links support a simple to use but powerful template system to tweak what is displayed and how it looks</li>
<li>The custom template system makes it extremely easy to create custom author and post cards with thumbnails</li>
<li>Shortcodes to hide content for adding comments and notes to posts and pages</li>
<li>Many parameters for ultimate customization</li>
<li>All parameters are documented in detail in the shortcodes editor</li>
<li>Conditional shortcodes to show/hide content based on specific checks or conditions</li>
<li>Many useful lightweight icons provided built-in</li>
<li>Easy to adjust the look of shortcodes with built-in custom CSS field</li>
<li>Optional slick and <a href="http://synved.com/product/wordpress-shortcodes-slickpanel-skin/" rel="nofollow ugc">professional skin available</a></li>
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<h4>Example Shortcodes</h4>
The following will create a series of 2 jQuery UI tabs on your site: 
 [tabs] 
 [tab title=”Tab 1″] 
 Tab Content 1. 
 [/tab] 
 [tab title=”Tab 2″] 
 Tab Content 2. 
 [/tab] 
 [/tabs]
The following will create a series of 2 jQuery UI accordions on your site: 
 [sections] 
 [section title=”Section 1″]

 Section Content 1.
 
<pre><code>[/section]
[section title="Section 2"]

Section Content 2.

[/section]
[/sections]
</code></pre>
The following shortcode will create a list of links to various kinds of content on your site: 
 [list icon=link] 
 [item][link_post id=82 /][/item] 
 [item][link_post id=66 /][/item] 
 [item][link_page name=”typography” /][/item] 
 [item][link_page id=27 /][/item] 
 [item][link_category slug=”parent-category-iii” /][/item] 
 [item][link_media id=6229 /][/item] 
 [item][link_media title=”Ice Pathway” /][/item] 
 [/list]
The following will create a multi-column layout with a table in each column: 
 [full] 
 [half flow=”start” extend=”yes”]
 position 1:1position 1:2 
 position 2:1position 2:2
<pre><code> [/half]
 [half flow="end" extend="yes"]
 <table border="1"><tr><td>position 1:1</td><td>position 1:2</td></tr>
 <tr><td>position 2:1</td><td>position 2:2</td></tr>
 </table>
 [/half]
[/full]
</code></pre>
The following will create conditional content only displayed when the post has a specific tag of “myposttag”: 
 [condition check=”post_has_tag” param_1=”myposttag”]
Test POST has TAG
[/condition]
The following will create content conditionally shown only when the post is a specific format of “mypostformat”: 
 [condition check=”post_format_is” param_1=”mypostformat”]
Test post format
[/condition]
This conditional shortcode will check for the post info of “review_status” is set to “reviewed”: 
 [condition check=”post_info_is” param_1=”review_status” param_2=”reviewed”]
This post has reviews
[/condition]
<h4>Related Links:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://synved.com/wordpress-shortcodes/" title="WordPress Shortcodes – beautiful elements to spice up your site" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Shortcodes Official Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://synved.com/product/wordpress-shortcodes-slickpanel-skin/" title="Transform the look of many elements in the Shortcodes plugin!" rel="nofollow ugc">SlickPanel skin to make the elements look more professional</a></li>
<li><a href="http://synved.com/product/wordpress-shortcodes-extra-presets/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extra presets addon provides many useful additional presets</a></li>
<li><a href="http://synved.com/blog/help/tutorials/wordpress-shortcodes-icons/" rel="nofollow ugc">List of icons usable in shortcodes like buttons and lists</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wpdemo.synved.com/stripefolio/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripefolio theme demo</a> where you can see some of the shortcodes in action</li>
<li><a href="http://synved.com/stripefolio-free-wordpress-portfolio-theme/" title="A free WordPress theme that serves as a readable blog and a full-screen portfolio showcase" rel="nofollow ugc">The free Stripefolio theme</a> the Official page for the theme in the above demo link</li>
</ul>

WordPress Shortcodes

An amazing set of great shortcodes: SEO-ready tabs, accordions, buttons, links to any content, author cards, lists, layouts, conditionals and more!

Calin Vingan

SEO Squirrly

SEO Plugin Expert Florin

How Do I Get Support For This Plugin? 
If you want more Social Icons and Premium Support, that also comes with High Priority, go to:
<a title="Support and PRO for Starbox" href="https://starbox.squirrly.co/" rel="nofollow ugc">SUPPORT for Starbox Plugin</a>
We added new features in the PRO version (see in the videos):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkqPPQ6gaM 
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Demo Starbox PRO v2: From Customer App to Author Box Customized on the Front-End." width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4_xSLNBCb90?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> 
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Starbox PRO v2 Walkthrough" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uUP1rtQu5is?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYXSl09qzCw
We’ve added many options for our PRO users and the new highly visual themes will be the game changers you’ve waited for.
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans 
While search engines and other software that read your site care about files like robots.txt, you need Human readers to actually engage with your content and fall in love with it.
Humans look at beauty more than anything else (as you most probably already know, men and women alike). That’s why you’ll get an Author Box that’s gorgeous to look at and it makes your readers click all the way through to see more about the Authors.
Now, if you have just yourself as an Author on your site, or a super-star team of Authors, you’ll love Starbox. You can choose from the professionaly built themes and landscaping. If you are the super-star type, or want to boost social proof, place your Author Box on top of the page, so that your Human readers will know that they’re reading stuff that a real awesome person has written.
You want the classy, bottom-of-the-page Author Box? You can choose that one as well.
And if your star Authors want different things, satisfy their needs by allowing them to place their Author Box at the top or bottom, with the default theme, or a better looking one. You can make each of them shine in their own way.
The Social Profiles of your writers will be obvious and clickable, getting you Humans that will engage with content on your blog and also on your social media streams.
Because your authors are stars or will be very soon, Google Authorship and Facebook Authorship are here for them with Starbox, and it’s just type->click->boom! to set up. Amazingly easy.
Are you afraid of having to spend too much time setting Starbox up? Don’t worry. You’re covered by our “For Humans” guarantee. With NO coding or complicated menus whatsoever, you’ll set your Author Box in a matter of minutes. And since we took a lot of care regarding all the coding, it will work well and you won’t have to worry about that.
You’ll build up some good social proof, you’ll give your Human readers a sense of quality and they’ll be happy to return for more (which will help you with the search engines who track your site).
If you’re doing the tech stuff on your site or want to know what Starbox’s inner workings are all about, here’s a list:
<ul>
<li>HTML 5</li>
<li>Google Microformats (vCard), to display Rich Snippets in google search results</li>
<li>Easy to customize for each Author</li>
<li>You’ll get Google Authorship on your hands 🙂 For all your authors.</li>
<li>Have it work only on blog posts, only on pages, or both!</li>
<li>Links to the social media profiles of your authors: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr, Youtube, Vimeo</li>
<li>Each of your Authors can have a different set of social media profiles added</li>
<li>Links to all the articles written by that author</li>
<li>A section that displays the latest posts of a certain author</li>
<li>Themes to choose from</li>
<li>Themes setup for each individual Author, to really make them shine</li>
<li>You Can set the Name of the Author</li>
<li>You Can set the Job Title of each Author</li>
<li>Can set Company (with a link to the company’s site)</li>
<li>Each Author can make the Author Box look like it’s her own</li>
<li>You can choose not to display it for certain authors</li>
<li>Removes any other author box from the page, so that there aren’t duplicates</li>
<li>Enables you to upload your own image (so that you won’t need a Gravatar)</li>
<li>Paragraphs in the Author Bio to have a better looking text</li>
<li>Displays the Author Box in the special pages built for each author.</li>
<li>Special Pages for your authors</li>
<li>Works even with sites that have woocommerce or other ecommerce plugins</li>
<li>Add Starbox in your post’s content or wordpress widgets using the shortcode [starbox] or [starbox id=USER_ID]</li>
</ul>
So get your very own Starbox now:
<ol>
<li>Your Authors will become real Stars</li>
<li>Your readers will notice the persons behind the articles better</li>
<li>It increases your social proof and credibility as an Author</li>
<li>It will increase the subscriber numbers across social media channels</li>
<li>Your readers will feel like they know you better and feel a connection, so they’ll return more often</li>
<li>You know that right now for Google it matters a lot that you have returning visitors (because it means your site is: quality)</li>
<li>You’ll get Google Authorship on your hands 🙂 For all your authors.</li>
</ol>
Download it from the WordPress directory and try it out. Having an author box after posts will certainly increase engagement and help your authors grow their authority on the web.

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans


I love that plugin, but I'll probably have to switch to another solution since I'd like to go multilingual. Unfortunately, Starbox doesn't seem to be compatible with WPML. That's unfortunate for Starbox lovers.


Seems not compatible with WPML

Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship

WordPress Shortcodes vs Starbox – the Author Box for Humans