News, Tutorials & Guides

Tips, announcements, and in-depth guides to help you get the most out of SiteOrigin's WordPress tools.

A Custom CSS Guide to Page Builder Row, Cell & Widget Attributes

· Tutorial

Custom CSS is a quick and accessible method for hobbyists and developers to make style changes beyond what can be done using available settings. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the Page Builder Attributes tab and how it can be used when making Custom CSS changes. This brief guide is aimed at users with a basic understanding of CSS or those wanting to go beyond using the Visual Editor in SiteOrigin CSS.

Migrating Parent to Child Theme Customizer Settings

· Tutorial

A child theme ensures that your code-level customizations are kept safe and not overwritten during the theme update process. If you think you might need to make code-level customizations in the future, it’s best to make use of a child theme from the beginning of your WordPress site’s development. In this tutorial, we’ll look at what happens to your Customizer settings when switching to a child theme late in the development process and how to quickly resolve the problem.

Create WooCommerce Templates with Page Builder

· Announcements

Take control of your WooCommerce layouts with Page Builder. SiteOrigin Premium version 1.10.0 includes our new WooCommerce Templates addon which allows you to build custom Page Builder templates for the Product, Archives, Shop, Cart, Empty Cart, Checkout and My Account pages. Reorganize existing WooCommerce content or add new content, all in the familiar Page Builder interface.

Unique Page Styling with Custom CSS Body Classes

· Tutorial

The ability to make a rule specific to a post, page or group of posts is really useful and much easier than you might think. WordPress outputs class names into the body tag of each post or page, we can use those class names to prefix our CSS rules and thereby make them specific to the post, page or group of posts we’d like to target.

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Announcing the Mirror Widgets Addon

· Announcements, Plugins

We’re excited to announce that version 1.9 of SiteOrigin Premium introduces the Mirror Widgets addon. Create a widget once, use it everywhere. Update it and the changes reflect in all instances of the widget. The Mirror Widget addon is perfect for information or functionality that you’d like to insert in several places but manage in a single location.

Boost SiteOrigin Plugin Performance with Autoptimize

· Announcements

Autoptimize is our preferred plugin for reducing page size and improving load time, we use it right here on SiteOrigin.com. In our latest release of the Widgets Bundle, version 1.15.6 we’ve added a filter which prevents the exclusion of the /uploads/siteorigin-widgets/ folder, ensuring Widgets Bundle stylesheets are concatenation and minified.