Dear radio owners and web designer thanks for following us and welcome to our new bulletin about the Pro Radio updates and innovations.
After 1 year from the launch of our brand new radio station theme for WordPress, we are happy to announce the version 2.0 of Pro Radio.
This new version introduces a great amount of innovations, new features, customizer options, radio station support for new providers, and a ton of new demo templates for your radio station.
We had to work very hard to put all of this together but we’re finally here, so let’s see which are the biggest innovations of this version.
- 1. 7 New demos added, for a total of 8 demos and 100+ templates
- 2. Support for new streaming formats and providers
- 3. Elementor performance improvements
- 4. The new Pro Radio Elementor Widgets plugin also adds new customizability options and possibilities:
- 5. Added proxy connection for activation and installations
- 6. Added new team member icons
- 7. Added breadcrumbs
- 8. New Off Canvas design options and features
- 9. New location for social icons
- 10. Customization options for the caption separators
- 11. Pro Radio bonus download templates
- 12. New demos included
- 13. All demos are included!
- 14. Build your new radio website today!
- 15. Download a coupon code and bonus Photoshop templates
7 New demos added, for a total of 8 demos and 100+ templates
With the new Pro Radio version we went from 20 to over 100 available demo templates, across 8 different radio station demo installers. You can now choose among different styles, and they all come with free Photoshop templates to create your own featured images.
Support for new streaming formats and providers
The built-in radio player is now supporting 17 different streaming formats, since 3 new have been added: Jazler, streamerr.co, Laut.FM and Securesystems.
The list of supported formats is now the following:
- MP3 or AAC (optionally with text feed)
- Shoutcast
- Icecast
- ICY metadata
- Radio.co
- Airtime
- Radionomy
- Live365
- RadioKing
- Azuracast
- RadioJar
- Maxcast
- RadioBoss
- Laut FM
- Jazler
- Streamerr.co
- Securesystems
To implement your radio channel please find here the related documentation.
Elementor performance improvements
The Pro Radio template for WordPress comes with a super powerful add-on for Elementor, which contains more than 37 special unique widgets for radio stations, among which you can find the shows schedule, post carousels and sliders, custom players, and much more. This powerful plugin has now been optimized for a much faster performance result.
The new Pro Radio Elementor Widgets plugin also adds new customizability options and possibilities:
- Added an Exclude by Category parameter to every grid, list and carousel widget
- Added a single show timetable, to display the events occurring for a specific radio show using Elementor
- Added a custom height parameter for the 3D header widget
- Added the option “radio channels” to post grids, now allowing to create an archive of playable radio channels
- Post grid and carousels: added options to change font size, padding, colors, hide and show metas and functions
- Social icons: added 10 design and colors options
- Software icons: added 10+ customizability options
- Social icons: added Tik Tok and Twitch icons
- Categories grid: added filtering and ordering parameters
- Categories grid: added a lot of new design options
- Buttons: added 10+ customization design options
- Added option for custom post types to the custom slider
Added proxy connection for activation and installations
After noticing that some servers had issues connecting to our repository, we now added a new proxy mirror, allowing a better compatibility wth any external hosting provider. The proxy can be enabled from the admin console.
Added new team member icons
Team members have now 3 new icons: website, email, TikTok and Twitch
The new Pro Radio V2.0 now has a new option to display the breadcrumb navigation in the header, with full Google Pages markup for optimal indexation, and multiple design options.
New Off Canvas design options and features
From the WordPress live customizer you can now choose a new Off Canvas section, and customize the design options for the slide-in sidebar. Among the options you can choose, there are background, text color, radio channels list, size and padding.
In the WordPress off-canvas sidebar you can now add social icons, and set the design of your creation
Customization options for the caption separators
You can now customize the design of captions and separators by tweaking several parameters.
Pro Radio Academy free access
There is now free access to our advanced courses, where you will see full lenght lessons of advanced usage examples for our radio station theme, including multiple setup examples of radio station channels, advanced usage of radio schedule functionalities, advanced podcasting techniques, integration with ITunes and Google podcast, importing podcasts from external RSS feeds, advanced use of the customizer, and much more!
Pro Radio bonus download templates
Tons of free Photoshop templates have been created for you, in style with our new demos, and are ready to create your radio station brand image: Facebook headers and posts, Twitter, Instagram stories, Youtube headers and covers and more! Plus TONS of free photoshop templates to create your own featured images in style with the demo of your choice, directly downloadable from your WordPress Admin Pro Radio Page.
New demos included
These are some screenshots of some of the new demos available with the Pro Radio theme for WordPress:
All demos are included!
Any new demo is included with the Pro Radio theme for WordPress! using the one-click demo import, your website will look exactly like the demo.
Build your new radio website today!
If you don’t have a radio website yet, or need to build a new one, Pro Radio is out of any doubt the most professional theme you can find. And, for a little more discount, you can also subscribe to our newsletter, and receive a coupon code straight in your inbox, along with other free bonus downloads for your radio station. Pro Radio comes with more than 100 Radio station templates, and 8 different unique Demo installers. Your radio website can be up and running in 10 minutes! Discover more info about Pro Radio for WordPress.
