Drop Shadow Boxes Plugin

Drop Shadow Boxes highlight important content on your posts, pages and widget areas. Personalise the box with drop shadow effects like raised, lifted and perspective and choose whether the box has an inside shadow, outside shadow and rounded corners. The plugin includes a widget and shortcode builder with a preview so you can test your box before adding it. The shadows will display correctly on most browsers – some older versions of Internet Explorer may not display the shadows – but they will display the box with the content so nothing will be missing on the page.

See the examples of drop shadow boxes to see how the plugin performs on your browser:

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Instructions

The plugin itself doesn’t require any configuration. There isn’t a setting page.

You can access the widget from the Widgets dashboard page – drag, drop and configure as you would any other widget.

Look for the Drop Shadow Box block in the new block editor (Gutenberg).

The shortcode builder in the classic editor allows you to add Drop Shadow Boxes to posts and pages. You can access it from the media toolbar while you’re editing the post/page by clicking on the box icon next to the upload/insert media button.

Shortcode Reference

If you prefer not to use the shortcode builder, or if you’d like to modify an existing drop shadow box here’s the shortcode reference guide.

Example usage:

[dropshadowbox]your content[/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”left”]your content[/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox effect=”raised”]your content[/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox effect=”horizontal-curve-bottom” rounded_corners=”false”]your content[/dropshadowbox]

Shortcode Attributes:

align = [left/right/center/none] default: “none”

width = [width plus units e.g. “250px” or “50%”] default: not set

height = [width plus units e.g. “250px”] default: “auto”

background_color = [colour code or name e.g. “#A8A8A8” or “blue”] default:”#ffffff”

border_width = [width in pixels] default “2”

border_color = [colour code or name e.g. “#A8A8A8” or “blue”] default:”#dddddd”

rounded_corners = [true/false] default: “true”

inside_shadow = [true/false] default: “true”

outside_shadow = [true/false] default: “true”

effect_shadow_color = [red/green/blue/yellow/white] default: gray (known issue: this color option will not worrk for the effect “raised”)

effect = [name of the effect] default: “lifted-both”

Possible values for the effect attribute:
* none
* lifted-left
* lifted-right
* lifted-both
* curled
* perspective-left
* perspective-right
* raised
* vertical-curve-left
* vertical-curve-both
* horizontal-curve-bottom
* horizontal-curve-both

inline_styles = [true/false] default: “false” (only for use inside third party widgets and only works when allow_url_fopen is enabled in php.ini)

padding = [width plus units e.g. “250px” or “50%”] Defines the space between the box border and the box content. e.g. 20px. Default:10px;

margin = [width plus units e.g. “250px” or “50%”] Defines the space around the box. e.g. 20px. Default:not set;

max_width = [width plus units e.g. “250px” or “50%”] Defines the maximum width for the box e.g. 300px

min_width = [width plus units e.g. “250px” or “50%”] Defines the minimum width of the box e.g. 200px

Language Versions

Drop Shadow Boxes is currently available in English, Spanish (es_ES), German and Serbian.

Many thanks to Fabio Vogt for the translation into German.
http://www.fabiolous.de

And to Ogi Djuraskovic, First Site Guide for the Serbian translation
http://firstsiteguide.com

The shortcode builder will automatically switch to the language configured in wp-config.php.

If you’d like to contribute other languages please get in touch with me here:
http://www.stevenhenty.com/contact/
You’ll find the .po file in the plugin root. I’d be happy to link to your website but requests with spammy links will be ignored.

Support

If you find any that needs fixing, or if you have any ideas for improvements, please get in touch:
http://www.stevenhenty.com/contact/

Please also get in touch if you’re using the latest version of your browser but the shadows are not displaying.

1. Download the zipped file.
2. Extract and upload the contents of the folder to /wp-contents/plugins/ folder
3. Go to the Plugin management page of WordPress admin section and enable the ‘Drop Shadow Boxes’ plugin

1. 

   The block for the new editor (Gutenberg)

2. 

   Shortcode builder (Classic Editor)

3. 

   Widget options

4. 

   Example boxes

1.7.14

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.13

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.12

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.11

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.10

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.9

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.8

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.7

• Fixed an issue with the add box button in the classic editor.

1.7.6

• Added security enhancements.

1.7.5

• Bumped the tested up to version
• Updated the Freemius API.

1.7.4

• Fixed deprecation notice in the block editor
• Bumped the tested up to version
• Updated the Freemius API.

1.7.3

1. Fixed an issue where the height of the box doesn’t stretch to accommodate images that are left aligned inside the box.
2. Updated the Freemius API.

1.7.2

1. Fixed security issue.

1.7.1

1. Fixed missing colour settings in the new WordPress editor.

1.7

1. Fixed support for the new editor.

1.6

1. Added support for Gutenberg, the new editor.

1.5.8

1. Fixed an issue where a top level menu item may appear.

1.5.7

1. Added opt-in feedback system.
2. Updated version WordPress “Tested up to” and copyright notice.

1.5.6

1. Fixed a JavaScript error in the customizer.

1.5.5

1. Updated version WordPress “Tested up to”.
2. Fixed some coding standards.

1.5.4

1. Updated text domain
2. Updated default width to auto

1.5.3

1. Added the Serbian translation

1.5.2

1. Added support for WordPress 4.3

1.5

1. Added the margin, max_width and min_width attributes
2. Added “none” as an option for the “effect” attribute
3. Updated the default width option to not set

1.4.9

1. Added the padding attribute

1.4.8

1. Fixed more strict notices in PHP 5.4+

1.4.7

1. Fixed strict notices in PHP 5.4+

1.4.6

1. added inline_styles shortcode attribute
2. added German language translation

1.4.4

1. fixed PHP warning messages

1.4.3

1. fixed media button compatibility with other plugins
2. fixed localisation

1.4.2

1. changed icon for the new WordPress UI
2. fixed issue with multisite WordPress where icon wasn’t appearing

1.4

1. added shortcode attribute effect_shadow_color
2. fixed alignment to allow boxes to sit side by side
3. fixed plugin URI to point directly to the plugin page

1.3

1. added compatibility with the Ultimatum theme
2. fixed the rendering of the perspective-left effect
3. fixed the colour picker on the widget which failed to open on page load

1.2.3

Fixed an issue that affected the display of the widget in some themes

1.2.2

Fixed an issue that affected the creation of new pages and posts

1.2.1

Fixed an issue that affected the editing of pages and posts

1.2

1. added height attribute and options in the widget and shortcode builder
2. added background color attribute and options in the widget and shortcode builder
3. added color pickers

1.1

added height attibute

1.0

Version 1.0 release

0.3

Added a widget

0.2

• A couple of new effects, some fixes and now also available in Spanish.

0.1

• Initial beta release.