Description: Contact Form 7 can be used to create one or more custom contact forms for your site.
Contact Form 7’s WordPress site
Two partner plugins that are strongly encouraged to use with Contact Form 7:
Contact Form 7 is available to PIE users by requesting it from the Publish.illinois.edu… Read the rest “Contact Form 7”
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.… Read the rest “Password Protected”
Description: This plugin replaces WordPress search with a relevance-sorting search.
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.… Read the rest “Relevanssi”
Description: Display Posts allows you easily list content from all across your website.
Creator’s site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/
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.… Read the rest “Display Posts”
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.… Read the rest “Widget Content Blocks”
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.… Read the rest “Enable Media Replace 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.… Read the rest “Content Views plugin”
Description: “Easily and safely add your custom meta tags to the WordPress website’s head section. This is a must have tool for authors and website’s owners.”
Plugin creator’s site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-meta-tags/
This plugin helps you manage meta tags inserted invisibly in the headers of your site for search engine optimization.… Read the rest “All Meta Tags”
Description: “Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from spam. It keeps your site protected even while you sleep.”