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.
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: “Enable replacing media files by uploading a new file in the “Edit Media” section of the WordPress Media Library.”
Plugin creator’s site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/
How to use: After enabling this plugin, you can replace a media item used in your site from within the editor window rather than needing to navigate to a different section of the administrator interface.
Content Views plugin
Description: “Query and display posts, pages in awesome layouts (grid, scrollable list, collapsible list) easier than ever, without coding!”
Plugin creator site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/
Examples: In this page there are three layouts of every post marked in the “Site management” category — grid, scrollable list, and collapsible list.