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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Relevanssi
Description: This plugin replaces WordPress search with a relevance-sorting search.
… Read the rest “Relevanssi” Creator’s site: https://www.relevanssi.com/user-manual/
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 (by emailing consult@illinois.edu and asking for the MathJax-LaTeX plugin to be enabled on whichever PIE site you tell us), 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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Description: The easiest way to add Widgets or Sidebars to Posts and Pages using shortcodes or template tags.
… Read the rest “Widgets on Pages” Plugin creator’s site: https://datamad.co.uk/widgets-on-pages
How to use:
- Because this is an optional publish add-on which isn’t available by default, email us at consult@illinois.edu
Custom Facebook Feed
Description: Display Facebook posts on your WordPress site.
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How to use:
- An administrator should log in and scroll down the list of left hand menu options (beyond the usual Plugin section). “Facebook Feed” will be one of the items listed.
TablePress
Creator’s description: “TablePress allows you to easily create and manage beautiful tables. You can embed the tables into posts, pages, or text widgets with a simple Shortcode. Table data can be edited in a spreadsheet-like interface, so no coding is necessary.
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Description: “Integrates FancyBox 3 into WordPress.” (FancyBox’s own site adds “JavaScript lightbox library for presenting various types of media.”)
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Example: This gallery uses the default settings in FancyBox for WordPress to embed a collection of sample images.