How to open a PDF file in lightbox popup in Divi theme

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Divi of Elegant Themes is a popular WordPress theme and features a powerful drag & drop WordPress page builder. This tutorial will guide you how to open a PDF file in a lightbox popup in Divi page builder.

There are 3 steps in this tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Lightbox and Wonder PDF Embed
  • Step 2 - Upload PDF file to WordPress Media Library and get the URL
  • Step 3 - Activate PDF lightbox popup on button, image or text:
    • Open PDF lightbox popup when clicking a button
    • Open PDF lightbox popup when clicking an image
    • Open PDF lightbox popup when clicking text

At the end of the tutorial, we will also discuss how to automatically open a PDF lightbox popup on page load.

  • Additional 1 - Automatically open PDF lightbox on page load
  • Additional 2 - Open the lightbox only once

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How to only display one category in a WordPress gallery with multiple categories

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In this tutorial, first we will learn how to create a WordPress gallery with multiple categories. A demo created with the tutorial is as follows: WordPress Gallery with Category Filter. You can click the category buttons on top of the WordPress gallery to show different categories.

In some cases, you may want to add the same WordPress gallery to other webpages, but only want to display one of the category. In the second part of the tutorial, we will learn how to only display one of the categories by using gallery shortcode attributes.
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How to automatically open a lightbox popup on page load

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This tutorial will guide you how to automatically open a lightbox popup on page load. You can display image, webpage, PDF document, YouTube, Vimeo or HTML5 video in the lightbox popup.

There are three steps in the tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Lightbox
  • Step 2 - Get the URL of the image file, PDF document, HTML video file, YouTube or Vimeo embed URL
  • Step 3 - Add HTML code to the WordPress page to create an auto popup

In step three we will learn how to add the HTML code to WordPress classic editor, Gutenberg editor and Elegant Themes Divi page builder.

We will also discuss how to popup the lightbox only once and how to autoplay YouTube, Vimeo and HTML5 videos on lightbox popup and close the lightbox automatically when the video ends.

  • Additional 1 - Autoplay YouTube, Vimeo and HTML5 video and close the lightbox automatically when the video ends
  • Additional 2 - Popup the lightbox only once

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How to create an accessible WordPress HTML5 video player

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Accessibility is very important. Player controls in video players are normally buttons. They are not seen by screen readers which makes the player not accessible for blind and vision impaired people.

This tutorial will guide you how to add extra text controls that can be read by screen readers. The text controls include play video, pause video, fast forward, rewind, mute/unmute and go fullscreen.

The tutorial will also show you how to add accesskey attribute to the text controls so the command can be activated with shortcut keys.
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How to send automated MailChimp welcome email to WordPress popup subscribers

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This tutorial will guide you how to send automated welcome email to MailChimp subscribers that subscribed from WordPress popup forms created with the Wonder Popup plugin.

Wonder Popup is a WordPress popup plugin to create lightbox popup forms, embed forms, corner slide-in forms and notification bars that can help you get more newsletter subscribers.

For how to create an email subscription popup form with Wonder Popup, please view the tutorial: How to create WordPress email subscription popup for MailChimp.
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How to display YouTube view count in WordPress YouTube carousel

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This tutorial will guide you how to create a WordPress YouTube carousel and display the YouTube video view count. There are 4 steps in the tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Carousel
  • Step 2 - Add YouTube videos or YouTube playlist to the carousel
  • Step 3 - Display YouTube video view count
  • Step 4 - Publish the carousel

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How to apply for a Google Drive API key

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This tutorial will guide you how to apply for a Google Drive API key. You can use the key to generate Google Drive direct download links for image, audio and video files hosted on Google Drive: Google Drive Direct Link Generator for Image, MP3 and Video Files.

There are 4 steps in this tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Log into the Google Cloud Platform
  • Step 2 - Create a project in Google Cloud Platform dashboard
  • Step 3 - Enable Google Drive API
  • Step 4 - Create a Google Drive API key

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WordPress HTML Content Slider

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This tutorial will show you how to create a WordPress HTML content slider by using the plugin Wonder Carousel.

You only need to select images, enter text or HTML code for title and description, select a skin, the plugin will create an HTML content slider that you can add to a WordPress page or post.

There are 4 steps in this tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Carousel
  • Step 2 - Add images, enter text or HTML code for title and description
  • Step 3 - Select an HTML content slider skin
  • Step 4 - Publish the slider

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How to play DailyMotion videos in WordPress carousel

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This tutorial will guide you how to play DailyMotion videos in a WordPress carousel. You can play the video in a lightbox popup when clicking an image in the carousel.

There are 4 steps in this tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Carousel
  • Step 2 - Create a new carousel
  • Step 3 - Play DailyMotion video in a lightbox popup when clicking an image in the carousel
  • Step 4 - Publish the carousel

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How to create WordPress Logo Carousel

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This tutorial will guide you how to create a WordPress logo carousel. You can link the logos to webpages, configure the carousel to auto scroll and pause the carousel on mouse over.

There are 4 steps in the tutorial:

  • Step 1 - Install Wonder Carousel
  • Step 2 - Create a new WordPress carousel and add logo images
  • Step 3 - Configure the WordPress logo carousel to auto scroll
  • Step 4 - Publish the WordPress logo carousel

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