If you’re not sure how to make publish.illinois.edu do what you’re thinking, taking a look through the plugins available here may help.
This site is using the Illinois Theme, but these plugins will also work with the other publish.illinois.edu themes as well.
Use the navigation above or the table below to look for the type of plugin you’re needing. Each plugin has its own categorized post (unless the plugin requires a page to work).
| Plugin name | Plugin description |
|---|---|
| Advanced Excerpt plugin | Allows you to automatically provide screen reader accessibility with the "Read more" text in order to improve your site's accessibility for the blind. |
| Akismet Anti-Spam plugin | Helps control spam in discussion areas. |
| All Meta Tags | This plugin helps you manage meta tags inserted invisibly in the headers of your site for search engine optimization. |
| Bellows Pro Accordion Menu | Bellows Pro Accordion Menu will create self-updating, page-relationship-aware navigation menus (similar to the Confluence Wiki’s self-updating menu). |
| Bluberry PowerPress (By request) | This plugin is used to publish podcasts and other multimedia offerings on publish.illinois.edu. (Not visible by default. Contact consult@illinois.edu to ask for it on your site.) |
| Contact Form 7 (by request) | Create one or more contact forms for your site. Use in combination with Really Simple Captcha. |
| Content Views plugin | Query and display posts and pages in several potential layouts without coding. |
| Custom Facebook Feed | Display Facebook posts on your WordPress site |
| Display Posts | Display Posts is automatically enabled on all Publish.illinois.edu sites, so that you can use a short code in angle brackets to display and format groupings of posts. |
| Duplicate Page | Makes a copy of a page, post, or custom post to use it as the starting point for another item. |
| Enable Media Replace plugin | Enable replacing media files by uploading a new file in the “Edit Media” section of the WordPress Media Library. |
| FancyBox for WordPress plugin | JavaScript lightbox library for presenting various types of media. |
| ICS Calendar | Embed calendar views and event lists with an ICS link from most calendars, including Illinois WebTools Calendar, Outlook, Office 365, Google, and more. |
| Illinois Site Templater - Basic | The Illinois Site Templater – Basic plugin is designed to create a basic website for an individual or small group, providing an outline and simple content structure along with embedded images that campus people can customize for their own needs. |
| Illinois Site Templater - Conference | The Illinois Site Templater – Conference plugin is designed to create a conference website that can be easily replicated and archived if your event is part of an ongoing series. It can also be adapted for use with workshops or other individual or recurring events. |
| Illinois Webtools Calendar Plugin | Creates a widget that can be inserted to include a Webtools calendar or the content of a page. You must have the Calendar ID and the Component ID for the calendar you wish to display. |
| Image Widget Plugin | A simple image widget that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site. |
| MathJax-LaTeX (By request) | MathJax enables enables rendering of embedded LaTeX or MathML in HTML pages. |
| Media File Renamer (By request) | Allows you to rename images and files in your Media Gallery. |
| MetaSlider | Creates sliders, galleries, and carousels. |
| Password Protected | Require people who wish to read your WordPress site to enter a password for access. Every reader will need to know the same password, so don’t use your NetID password for this — use a password you can share. |
| Relevanssi | Replaces the native WordPress search with a relevance-sorted search. |
| Table of Contents Plus | Creates tables of contents from headings used within a page or post; creates a site map based on pages or categories. |
| TablePress | Allows you to import and/or create sortable, filterable tables. (This table is built with TablePress.) |
| Timetable and Event Schedule | Allows you to create an automatically updating schedule by adding events |
| Widget Content Blocks | Creates a custom post type called “Widget Blocks” so you can create widget content just like you would create posts or pages. |
| Widgets on Pages | Add Widgets or Sidebars to Posts and Pages using shortcodes or template tags. |