Sidebars / Widgets
Sidebars
With "Viral News" theme you can easily create unlimited sidebars and assign them to unlimited pages. To start working
with the sidebars, go to Appearance => Viral News => Sidebars in your admin panel.
Sidebar position
Choose the default sidebar position (left / right) for preset sidebars like Archives, categories and blog single post.
Add sidebar
Create a new sidebar which can be later assigned to any page. Check the Setting the pages section of the documentation for more information on how to assign sidebars to your pages.
Screenshot 27: Add Sidebar
Custom sidebars
Sidebars should be preset on some pages like Archives, categories and blog single posts. You can achieve that with the help of this block.
Sticky options
Sidebars can scroll with the content when you scroll up and/or down - given that the sidebar length is shorter than the whole content length. You can also control the top / bottom margin between widgets if this option is active.
Widgets
The theme comes with 8 custom made widgets to provide some additional functionality and make your workflow even more convenient.
Social Links
Display icons for the more popular social services/websites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc...:
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Title
Actual widget Title, e.g. Recent works
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Target Window
Choose either open the social website url in the same or a new window.
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Position
Depending on whether the widget is displayed in Footer or in a sidebar it is applied different styling so make sure to choose accordingly.
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Bitbucket, etc...
There's a big list of popular social websites provided, just choose the ones that apply and fill in the URLs.
Screenshot 28: Social Widget
Blog Posts
Widget Lets you retrieve latest blog posts. The parameters are following:
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Title
Actual widget Title, e.g. Recent posts
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Number of Posts
Number of posts to display. Usually 1-5 makes sense.
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Other options
All options are self-explanatory so we won't cover them one by one here. The screenshot 29 summarizes all the available options.
Screenshot 29: Latest posts Widget
Instagram widget
Retrieve and display any user's latest Instagram posts. The parameters are following:
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Title
Actual widget Title, e.g. Latest from Instagram
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Username
Any existing Instagram username.
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Other options
All options are self-explanatory so we won't cover them one by one here. The screenshot 30 summarizes all the available options.
Screenshot 30: Instagram Widget
News Ticker widget
Retrieve and display posts specified as "Breaking" within a scrolling news listing widget. The parameters are following:
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Title
Actual widget Title, e.g. Latest from Instagram
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Number of posts to show
You might want to display only a part of breaking posts. Just specify the limiting number in this field.
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Post type
In some cases you might wish to display featured posts instead of breaking ones. The widget provides such option within this field.
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Sliding type
Choose between horizontal and vertical scrolling
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Sliding speed
Set in milliseconds. The reasonable number would be within 5000-10000 range (5-10 seconds)
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Widget background image URL
In some cases you might want to highlight a specific widget. Just provide the chosen image url into this field.
Screenshot 31: News Ticker Widget
Flickr Widget
Flickr widget lets you get and display images from any flickr account
having only account id.
Following are the parameters of the widget:
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Title
Actual widget title, e.g. Flickr Photos or Latest from Flickr)
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Flickr ID
Id of the user account in Flickr. If you don't know what your flickr id use the below link which leads to a handy online tool http://www.idgettr.com/ which lets you trigger your flickr id.
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Number of Photos
Number of photos to display. Keep lower than 20. Getting 9, 12 or 16 photos is perhaps the best option.
Screenshot 32: Flickr Widget
Special categories Widget
Retrieve and display the categories specified as "special".
Following are the parameters of the widget:
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Title
Actual widget title, if set in header as in the demo - better leave blank
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Style
Choose between 2 pairs of horizontal and vertical styles available
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Additional class
Will come handy in case if you want to add your own styling to the widget by overriding it within the new class specified in this field.
Screenshot 33: Special categories Widget