Performance: how to speed up your radio station website

How to speed up your radio station website and increase the loading speed. [Updated April 2022] This article will explain how to achieve better performance and faster loading time with a little bit of effort and essentially for free, for your radio station website using the Pro Radio WordPress Theme. In the attempt to demonstrate the real results of our efforts and to adopt a scientific approach to our explanation, we will include real screenshots of the results achieved with our optimization process. The complete optimization path will count 10 steps, and we will list 11 in total including a first security backup. Backup your website Test to measure our initial loading time before the optimization Server check Server optimization Plugins optimization Page structure optimization Radio channel settings optimization Images optimization Caching CDN Security Final results 1. Backup your website […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme April 28, 2022

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Web Radio: How to Broadcast Live with a mixer from your laptop in 10 minutes

When you need to create a radio station there are many different things to know, but setting up the streaming environment is really not all that complex. Since many years one of our favorite broadcasting companies is Radio.Co, and our Pro Radio WordPress Theme can integrate a stream from radio.co seamlessly, displaying also song titles and artwork, and integrating the mobile and deskp streams in an excellent responsive manner. For this reason, we thought it was useful to repurpose a very good video tutorial created by Radio.Co about how to setup an audio stream for your web radio from your laptop. I want also to be very clear on the fact that we are not being paid by Radio.co nor we receive any affiliation reward for this post, it's just a very good streaming provider and they make excellent video […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme December 4, 2021

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30 MINUTES FREE VIDEO COURSE: How to create a new Radio Station Template with Elementor

If you want to build a brand new radio station website, and you're looking for the right website template, look no further! Pro Radio is the best WordPress theme you can find right now, most complete, easiest to use, cheapest and fastest! In this video tutorial, you can see how easy it is to create in 30 minutes a brand new home page from scratch using only Elementor, WordPress and the Pro Radio theme. If you're not subscribed yet, you can find at the end of this article the form to subscribe to our newsletter. You can get an immediate discount, and free Photoshop templates for your radio station, social pages and website! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi9RZnePNxs&list=PLQIOXbXtFjtgczoSCYGnG0eVcK-NM4E0e&index=17 What's in the tutorial This video lesson will show you how to create a new home page for your radio station. We start from a […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme July 24, 2021

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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. [lwptoc] 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 […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme April 6, 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 [lwptoc numeration="none"] 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 […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme February 28, 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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Radio show schedule: how to make a cross-midnight show program

Broadcasting programming usually covers from midnight to midnight, but due to recent changes on the common broadcasting software, it is now possible, using certain providers, to set a show across midnight, for instance starting at 11 PM and ending at 02 AM of the next day. The Pro.Radio WordPress Theme now allows this type of program, and in this article, you'll learn how to make it. [lwptoc] What is a cross-midnight show A cross-midnight show is a show scheduled with an end time earlier than the beginning time, intended to end on the day after. For instance, a show starting at 10 in the night and ending at 5 in the morning. This type of schedule is not very common, mainly because many broadcasting platforms only supports a standard program that goes from midnight to midnight. Anyway, nowadays, some platforms […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme December 14, 2020

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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

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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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How to start a radio station: Equipment you need to start bradcasting

To start your own radio station you will need some equipment. This list covers the basic options to build up a small broadcasting studio without investing a fortune. Update: at this link you can find our full guide on how to start a radio station. We will present the basic setup required for an automated broadcast, along with some live shows. This means you’ll need to create a weekly schedule of shows, with the right amount of podcasts, music, and recordings gathered ahead of time. Then, you need to prepare them to go on air. To start, you need a computer and some software. Then, once you’re ready, you can interrupt the automated broadcasting to take over with a live show, right from your home studio. This will require a few small pieces of extra gear that we will present […]

Pro Radio WordPress Theme June 26, 2018

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