How to create your community radio forum in bbPress

The Pro Radio theme for WordPress just got better! You can now create your own forum easily and without extra costs, with the popular bbPress plugin, perfect for your fans, community, and listeners. What is bbPress The free plugin bbPress is an add-on for your WordPress website to add forum functionalities such as discussion and user management. You can turn your entire website into a forum, or just add the forum as part of your existing website. The plugin bbPress is fast and light, open-source, and easy to use. It was created back in 2004, to manage the official WordPress.org support forums. One of the key concepts of this plugin is simplicity: in fact, it doesn't overload your website with a bloat of options and heavy functions but focuses on the core essential features to run a forum, such as […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme April 6, 2021

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The 7 Must-Have Radio Schedule Features for Your Website

The show's schedule is core functionality for a healthy and engaging radio station website. Its relevance is clear when you see the radio from the point of view of a listener: not every show has the same appeal on every listener and is important to know when your favorite DJ or speaker will be on air. Just think about the show schedule that still is part of many printed magazines, and used by the people to remember when to tune in. The thing is clear: let your fans know when to come back for more! Also, as explained in our previous post, Pro Radio adds stunning features to a radio show page, making it a mini-website for the DJ of the show. But how hard is it to create and maintain a schedule? if you ever had to deal with […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme March 18, 2021

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The 20 Radio Station Widgets for Elementor that you wish you knew before.

The easiest way to build a website for your Radio is for sure using the most popular builder on the market: Elementor. But its native widgets do not cover the specific requirements that your radio station website has. This is why, with the Pro Radio theme, we added for your WordPress website a huge amount of unique, efficient, and easy-to-use custom widgets, specially crafted for radio station websites. In this article, we will make an introduction to the most important ones, and explain how they work and how they look. The possibilities are really endless, so we will just see some quick examples for each one of them. So, here we go with: The Most Important Widgets for Elementor in a Radio Station Website Custom buttons The custom buttons added by the Pro Radio theme for WordPress are more than […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme March 15, 2021

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10 Must Have Radio Show Features for a Radio Station website

To get more listeners, you need better radio show pages. Each radio show must represent its speakers and DJs at its best. In this post you'll have a list of the 10 most important pieces of information for your radio shows, crafted after years of research and analysis on thousands of popular radio stations. So, here it comes the... List of top features for a radio show page 1. Catchy featured image Visual appeal is a fundamental aspect of online communication, and your radio shows make no exception, even though the nature of the radio is mainly auditive and textual, when visiting a website even the eye wants its part, so a cool picture for your radio show is very important. With the WordPress theme Pro Radio, for instance, you can easily add a featured image for every show. […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme February 28, 2021

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Free template for your radio station YouTube Channel

If you run a radio station and have a YouTube Channel, a cool cover template is what you need! No subscription, totally free, no newsletter sign up! The design is inspired by the original Pro Radio WordPress theme, so, if you need this theme with default colors, that's already fitting your style! This week we offer a free template for any Youtube radio station channel, download it and start editing. Contents of the Radio Station Photoshop Templates for YouTube: Radio station YouTube channel header template (MAIN-youtube_header.psd) Radio Station Youtube Video cover template (MAIN-youtube_video_thumbnail.psd) The content of the download: The templates have been created by Pro Radio and are 100% Royalty free. You are free to edit them and create your own version, change the name of the radio, the logo, the shows, the pictures and the colors. Instructions […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme February 17, 2021

Free radio templates

Instagram post template for radio stations – Free Download

Promote your radio on Instagram using these free templates for Photoshop (or Photopea) on your Instagram page! No subscription, no registration, no email sign up, just download and use! The design is in line with any website, especially if created with the Pro Radio WordPress Theme! Contents of the Radio Station Photoshop Templates for Instagram: This pack comes with 3 free templates for your radio station Instagram channel: MAIN-instagram_post_portrait.psd MAIN-instagram_post_square.psd MAIN-instagram_story.psd These Instagram Post templates have been created by Pro Radio and are 100% Royalty-free. Make your professional radio station Show promotion, you are free to edit them and create your own version, change the name of the radio, the logo, the shows, the pictures and the colors. The post templates for Instagram (IG) are ideal for promoting a particular radio show, or any of them! Your DJs will be […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme February 15, 2021

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How to make a custom radio player in Elementor using the Pro Radio WordPress Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XdB2l7DGtk With the Pro Radio WordPress Theme and Elementor you can now create unlimited radio payers, with any shape, size and position. You can build them to stay inside of the content of a specific page, to appear as popup player, or even to stick to a fixed position in any page. This quick tutorial will show you an simple example usage and building process: you'll see how to create a custom player, and how to set it as default player across the entire website, replacing the original player bar. First of all, we build a custom MegaFooter. Then, using Elementor, we add a Custom Player to the page. This new widget, included with any Elementor standard license, has more than a hundred options to craft any sort of player, including the option to display titles, song album and artwork, […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme January 2, 2021

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WordPress Radio Player: why is Pro Radio the best plugin?

The radio player is the most important part of a radio station WordPress website. After building the players for OnAir Classic, OnAir 2, Vice, Kentha, and WPcast , we thought it was time to put together any best feature in a single, powerful and flexible WordPress music player, for the Pro Radio theme. Pro Radio is a WordPress Theme for radio stations that comes with its own radio player, featuring all of the most important functionalities for radio station websites. The player is, in fact, compatible with all of the most popular streaming providers and has all of the key features that any radio station should have, including non-stop play functionality, great customizability, and compatibility with custom mp3 sources as single tracks. This article will show you why the Pro Radio streaming player for WordPress is the best choice for […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme October 26, 2020

Web Radio Tutorials

How to install the Pro.Radio WordPress Theme

This article will explain how to correctly install the Pro.Radio WordPress theme for radio stations. Installing the Pro.Radio WordPress Theme and Child Theme Pro.Radio WordPress Theme is the most powerful and professional WordPress theme for a radio station and it comes with the regular theme installable zip file and with the child theme. A child theme is basically an empty box made to contain any template that you want to change compared to the original theme version. Using a child theme is extremely useful if you want to do code changes to the original template files, because once you place them in the child theme folder, the upcoming theme updates will not delete your customizations. Maybe you are not planning on doing any code change right now, but it will eventually come the day where you want to change somehting […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme September 21, 2020

Web Radio Tutorials

How to install WordPress using cPanel and Softaculous

Hello and welcome to this new tutorial about WordPress. WordPress is a widely used free and open source content management system (CMS) to create websites. This platform is the required software to run our radio station (WordPress) theme, and can be easily installed in different ways. The standard old-school installation is based on a manual process, and requires to upload the WordPress files via FTP, create a database and manually configure the CMS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rG2L1vrGNE Nowadays fortunately we have a much faster option, that is Softaculous, usually provided within any cPanel hosting account. Softaculous is an App manager and allows to install and manage several popular CMS. Installing WordPress with Softaculous is much easier and is takes only a few clicks and fields compiling, allowing to skip the nerdy stuff that nobody likes. In this tutorial we will show you how […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme August 28, 2020

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