If you haven’t installed the old version of the Plugin and Widget installed on your Wordpress site or blog, please to go Step 1 below to start the setup process. If you have the old version of the Plugin and Widget installed on your Wordpress site or blog, please first follow these steps to remove the old Hispanic Wire Client Plug in and Widget. Then, after having completed that, please come back to this page and follow the steps below to install the new Plug in and Widget. The good news is that the new Plug in has an auto-updater built-in so it will update automatically with a simple click when new updates become available. In other words, you don’t have to uninstall and reinstall anything else in the future.
- Step 1. Uninstall the previous version
- Step 2. Install the Wordpress Plugin
- Step 3. Create the new page http://www.mydomain.com/noticias-newswire
- Step 4. Generate the Noticias Newswire Short Codes
- Step 5. Inserting Short Code on Widget section
- Step 6. Inserting Short Code on Page created in Step 2
Step 1. Uninstall the previous version
If you have the previous version, please uninstall it first.
Step 2. Install the Wordpress Plugin
1. After downloading the Plugin from this URL path https://www.noticiasnewswire.com/placements/noticias-newswire.zip, please go to the "Plugins" section in your Wordpress admin environment, and select the option "UPLOAD" to start uploading the "Noticias Newswire" plugin.
2. Choose the plugin zip that you downloaded from this link on noticiasnewswire.com: https://www.noticiasnewswire.com/placements/noticias-newswire.zip
3. Once the plugin is installed, you must activate it like shown in the image below by clicking "Activate Plugin"
4. Once the plugin is ready, the next step is to generate the code for the widget.
Step 3. Create the new page https://www.mydomain.com/noticias-newswire
Please create a new page in your website where you will list all post entries. Name that page /noticias-newswire/ so the URL becomes -> https://www.mydomain.com/noticias-newswire
Step 4. Generate the Noticias Newswire Short Codes
1. First, you need to generate a shortcode to be inserted in the widget. You will generate that code on this page www.noticiasnewswire.com/placements/#widgetparameters where you can choose all the parameters to personalize the Noticias Newswire widget.
We highly recommend to select the following options for your widget:
- Enter your website or blog URL: This is the domain name where you will list the post entries from Noticias Newswire. For example: https://www.mydomain.com
- Number of Posts for Widget: Value between 3 and 10
- Do you want to include excerpt from Posts? In Widget and Page
- Do you want to include "Post Date"? Only Widget
The other options will depend on your specific needs for the widget.
2. Click on "Generate Code" button so that you generate two copyable shortcodes:
Step 5. Inserting Short Code on Widget section
1. Open the Wordpress Admin panel of your website, and go to the Widget section. Then, you must drag and drop the TEXT widget inside the section where you want it be displayed. In the image below, for instance, this widget will be inserted into the Sidebar section.
2. Copy and paste into this widget the shortcode that you generated from www.noticiasnewswire.com/placements/#widgetparameters. Example of shortcode generated for widget:
[noticias-newswire logo="Yes" title="Noticias Newswire" language="en" category="" thumbnail="Yes" num_posts="3" post_date="Yes" widget_size="" widget_width="" widget_height="" widget_color="inherit" show_description="Yes" font="Arial" mainpage="https://www.mydomain.com/noticias-newswire" target="sidebar" viewmore="Yes" pagination="No"]
Remember, this link https://www.mydomain.com/noticias-newswire must be replaced for the link pointing to your page, where you will show each post entry from Noticias Newswire.
3. Click on "Save" button and your widget is ready to be displayed.
IMPORTANT OBSERVATION
If after adding the shortcode, the text copied in the widget is displayed in your browser like shown in the image below, then you need to troubleshoot following these guidelines: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode or http://stephanieleary.com/2010/02/using-shortcodes-everywhere/
Currently, the shortcodes in WordPress are processed only in post/page content. You can include them in other though, if you enable them for each field you want. Here’s how to use shortcodes in widgets, excerpts, comments, theme files, user descriptions, and category/tag/taxonomy descriptions.
Text Widgets: It’s easy to make shortcodes workable in text widgets. Just add the following to your functions.php file:
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
The second line is the one that makes the shortcodes work, but you'll want to include both. If you check "add paragraphs automatically" on the widget, WordPress will apply the auto filter — the one that turns your line breaks into paragraph and break tags. If a shortcode is on its own line, it would normally get wrapped in a paragraph tag. The first line prevents that from happening.
Step 6. Inserting Short Code on Page created in Step 2
1. Go to the page created in step 2, paste there the shortcode generated in Step 3, as shown in screenshot below:
[noticias-newswire logo="No" title="" language="en" category="" thumbnail="Yes" num_posts="10" post_date="No" widget_size="" widget_width="" widget_height="" widget_color="" show_description="Yes" font="Arial" mainpage="https://www.mydomain.com/noticias-newswire" target="fullpage" viewmore="No" pagination="Yes"]
2. After saving those changes, you should be able to view the page with the full list of post entries, as shown in screenshot below:
3. You can also view the individual pages showing each post entry by clicking on each post title:
