Description: Media File Renamer allows you to rename files based on what you want them to be, not what WordPress defaults to. (Helpful when you have newer versions of a graphic or PDF that you want to keep at the same location and WordPress would auto-rename them to something else.)
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Table of Contents Plus
Description
The Table of Contents plugin can be used to add a table of contents that is generated from the headings you’ve used within a page or post. It can be configured to either insert itself automatically, to wait for a certain number of headlines to insert itself, or to only do so when called with a short code.
Duplicate Page
Description: Duplicate an existing page, post, or custom post to use it as the starting point for another page.
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How to use it:
- Enable the plugin in your Dashboard’s Plugins listing.
- Click the Settings link in the Duplicate Page entry on the Plugins listing.
Contact Form 7
Description: Contact Form 7 (in combination with Really Simple Captcha) can be used to create one or more custom contact forms for your site.
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Contact Form 7 is available to PIE users by requesting it from the Publish.illinois.edu
Password Protected
Description: The Password Protected plugin allows you to 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.
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Description: This plugin replaces WordPress search with a relevance-sorting search.
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The default WordPress search assumes both that the site will be made of blog posts and that the most recent posts are by definition the most relevant ones.
MetaSlider
Description: “Create a powerful, SEO-optimized slider, gallery, or carousel in minutes with the world’s #1 image and photo plugin!”
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How to use: Detailed information is available from MetaSlider’s Documentation pages.
For a quick start:
- Select the MetaSlider item from the left-hand menu in your dashboard.
MathJax-LaTeX
Description: MathJax enables enables rendering of embedded LaTeX or MathML in HTML pages.
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Available by request from the publish.illinois.edu team, this plugin has been used by math and physics-related sites to enable easier display of mathematical formulae.
Display Posts
Description: Display Posts allows you easily list content from all across your website.
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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.
Widget Content Blocks
Description: This plugin creates a custom post type called “Widget Blocks” so you can create widget content just like you would create posts or pages. You can show these “Widget Blocks” by dragging a “WYSIWYG Widget” widget to one of your widget areas and selecting which widget block to display inside it.
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