News, Tutorials & Guides

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

Announcing the Mirror Widgets Addon

May 15, 2019 · 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

April 30, 2019 · 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.

Announcing the Image Overlay Addon

April 18, 2019 · Announcements, Plugins

Add beautiful, customizable hover text overlays with animations to your images. Hover overlays are great for galleries, portfolios or any image that would benefit from displaying information on hover. Overlays can be deployed in seconds using the predefined light/dark themes or fully customized using the wide array of style and animation options.

Build Your Portfolio with Corp and Jetpack

April 15, 2019 · Announcements, Themes

We’re excited to announce Jetpack Portfolio support for our Corp theme. Jetpack Portfolio is a custom post type that allows you to easily add and manage your portfolio projects. A portfolio can be any body of work that you’d like to show off to your prospective customers.

10 Beautiful Google Font Pairings for 2019

March 28, 2019 · Tutorial

Choosing complimentary Google Fonts that match your website design and branding can be daunting. To celebrate the launch of our expanded Web Font Selector addon, we’ve selected 10 beautiful combinations for 2019, ready for your blog, portfolio or business focussed site.

Google Fonts Now in the Editor Widget

March 22, 2019 · Announcements

SiteOrigin Premium version 1.7 includes an exciting expansion to the Web Font Selector addon. It’s now possible to choose from over 900 beautiful Google Web Fonts, right inside the SiteOrigin Editor widget or any instance of the TinyMCE editor.