🧩 Widgets, Shortcodes And The Plugin Family

The theme gives you ready-made pieces to drop into your pages and footer: widget patterns, a library of shortcodes you fill in and copy, and a block for every ResultsAiX plugin you have installed. You never have to build a button, a box or an FAQ by hand.

Widget areas:

The theme has two widget areas under Appearance, Widgets:

• Footer Extra: at the top of the footer, above the link columns, in every layout.
• Sidebar (Optional): beside posts and pages once you switch the sidebar on. See Layouts And The App-Style Member Portal.

The Widgets screen is dressed in the theme's font and colours, so what you build looks like the finished footer.

Ready-made footer blocks:

1. Go to Appearance, Widgets and open Footer Extra.
2. Press + and open the Patterns tab.
3. Pick one of the theme's footer blocks. They are grouped together, one click each.
4. Edit the words, then press Update.

The blocks are:

• About this site: a short who-we-are, started from your site's tagline (Settings, General).
• Latest articles: your five newest posts with dates.
• Latest videos: your newest YouTube videos as small thumbnails that open in a lightbox.
• Browse by topic: your categories as a clean list.
• Search the site: a search box in the theme colours.
• Get help: the support link, so a stuck reader always has somewhere to go.

The Shortcode Studio:

A shortcode is a short piece of text in square brackets that WordPress swaps for something real when the page loads. The Shortcodes tab shows each of the theme's shortcodes with plain words on what it is for, boxes to fill in, a live preview drawn in your theme's style, and a Copy button.

1. Open ResultsAiX Theme, Shortcodes.
2. Find the one you want and fill in the boxes.
3. Watch the live preview on the right. That is what your visitors will see.
4. Press Copy, then paste it into any page, post or training and save.

What is in the Studio:

• Button: one clear thing to click, Solid or Outline, Normal or Big.
• Checkout Button: a buy button for any checkout link (see below).
• Call To Action Box: a framed box with a heading, a line of copy and a button. It takes heading, text, button_text and button_url.
• Notice: a coloured callout, Information, Success or Warning, written as [raix_notice type="info"]your words[/raix_notice] with type info, success or warning.
• FAQ Accordion: questions that open when clicked.
• Video: a YouTube or Vimeo address that resizes properly on phones.
• Sliding Banner and YouTube Channel Feed.
• Share Buttons and Share This Quote.
• Training Grid, Latest Posts ([raix_updates count="3"], your newest posts), Progress Bar and Member First Name.
• Show To Signed-In Visitors, Show To Signed-Out Visitors and Support Link ([raix_support text="Get Support"], which points at your support link address).

Shortcodes in the block inserter:

Every one of these is also in the block inserter. On any page press +, type what you want, such as faq, button, checkout or video, and insert it with example wording already filled in.

The Checkout Button:

[raix_checkout] takes any checkout link, such as a payment link, a PayPal button or a cart page, and draws a buy button. Its boxes are Button text, Checkout link, Price, After the price, Was (struck through), Badge above, Note under the button, Trust chips (separated by |), Second link text, Second link and Open in a new tab.

The theme never touches the money. The link you already have does the selling and delivery.

Counting what you have:

• [raix_count] shows how many pages or posts you have, for example [raix_count type="post" cat="updates"], so a number on a page is never out of date. It also takes parent, title_like, tag, tax and term.
• [raix_new days="7" count="5"] lists what is new on the site lately. Add by="modified" to list what changed instead of what was published.

The plugin family:

The Plugin Family tab shows every ResultsAiX plugin with a line on what it does and a Check it out link. Anything running on this site is marked Installed. The theme works on its own, and each plugin fits straight into it when you activate it:

• Family Actions: every post and page has a Family Actions tab in the ResultsAiX panel, where you switch an installed family plugin on for that one page. The theme hands it the page when it loads. Plugins that fit a page but are not installed are listed under Also available, each with a Get it link, and See the whole family opens the Plugin Family tab.
• The Family Plugin Block: anything an installed family plugin can show, as one block with a live preview. Type the plugin's name in the inserter. It only lists what is actually installed.

A real example:

Rosa's footer has the About this site block, rewritten in her words, and the Latest videos block. On her course page she uses the Call To Action Box with the heading Ready to grow more? and the button Start lesson 1, and an FAQ Accordion with three questions about the course. Her sales page has a Checkout Button pointing at the payment link she already uses.

Tips:

• Start from the Studio's live preview, then paste. It is quicker than trying shortcodes by hand.
• Use Show To Signed-In Visitors to put a Welcome back line on a page that everyone can open.
• Members-area shortcodes are covered in The Member Dashboard And Training Library.