News, Tutorials & Guides

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

Introducing the Accordion Widget

· Plugins

Accordions are a great way to organise your pages. Whether you’re creating a frequently asked question page, a services page or just a general information page – accordions help you fit a lot of information into a small amount of space. In the Widgets Bundle 1.10.0 update, we’re introducing a brand new, powerful Accordion Widget. […]

Are WordPress Themes Customizable?

· Themes

WordPress themes can be customized in several ways depending on the extent to which you are wanting to change your themes look and feel. From powerful theme customization settings built right into the WordPress Customizer, to add-on plugins and real-time CSS Editors like SiteOrigin CSS.

Page Builder Cell Vertical Alignment

· Plugins

Page Builder 2.5 introduced an additional setting called, “Cell Vertical Alignment”. A powerful feature that allows you to control the alignment of cells within each row. You can choose from one of four vertical alignment options. Let’s take a look. Page Builder Cells Page Builder Cells are directly related to row columns. A single row […]

Lightbox Added to SiteOrigin Premium

· Announcements, Plugins

We’re excited to announce a new addon for SiteOrigin Premium, the lightbox. A lightbox showcases images and galleries in an overlay that dims surrounding content and focusses your user’s attention. From SiteOrigin Premium version 1.0.4 onwards you’ll be able to add a lightbox to the following SiteOrigin Widgets: SiteOrigin Image Widget SiteOrigin Image Grid Widget […]

What is the Difference Between Fixed and Parallax Background Images?

· Plugins

Fixed and parallax background images are a great way to add beautiful imagery to your website. But what exactly is the difference? To answer this question effectively, I have created some visual examples using SiteOrigin Page Builder and Widgets Bundle Plugins to provide a little help. These examples will assist in clearly explaining the difference […]

Masonry Blog Layout Added to Unwind

· Announcements, Themes

We’re pleased to announce our Unwind theme (awesome for blogging and WooCommerce) now has a Masonry blog layout. If you’ve never seen Masonry in action, check out the demo. Be sure to resize your browser to see the effects. Unwind now offers five different blog layouts to choose from. The blog layout setting can be […]