Description
All-in-one bundle of essential plugins and functions for all WordPress websites.
Features include:
Twitter Feed
- Twitter feed shortcode and widget available.
- WP Essentials uses the new Twitter 1.1 API.
- Filter your Twitter feed by hashtags.
- Cache system prevents API call limit.
Flickr
- Flickr feed shortcode and widget available.
- Cache system prevents API call limit.
- Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.
Google Analytics
- Allows you to add multiple tracking codes to all pages of your website.
Google Maps
- Easily include multiple Google Maps throughout your site either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget.
- Includes options for setting the address, zoom level, custom marker, etc.
The ‘Email’ Button
- The WYSIWYG editor comes with an email button for easily adding email links without any HTML knowledge.
Date Shortcode
- Includes a simple shortcode for displaying today’s date.
- Customise the date format to whatever you want.
Video Shortcode
- Includes a simple shortcode for embedding any YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook videos anywhere on your website.
Get Shortcode
- Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.
The ‘Cleanup’ function:
- Sets search engine friendly permalink structure (if one hasn’t already been set)
- Removes useless widgets from the dashboard
- Removes superfluous meta tags from your theme head (including the WordPress version number)
- Removes detailed login errors (for extra security)
The ‘User Roles’ function:
- Creates a new User Role and lets you customise their access rights.
Debug Mode
- For developers, enable the debug mode to include detailed PHP errors when developing your theme.
WordPress Error Reporting
- WP Essentials can alert you to several potential problems that are important for when a site goes live. (Ensuring robots aren’t blocked, etc.)
Media Image Quality
- Change the quality of uploaded images to your website.
Custom Image Sizes
- Add your own custom thumbnail sizes for your images.
Advanced PHP Functions
- Custom Excerpt function lets you override the default WordPress excerpt with additional options.
- A Get Image Source function lets you get the image URL for any image uploaded to WordPress at any custom thumbnail size.
- An automatic link function lets you hyperlink any web or email addresses that may otherwise be plaintext.
- A Relative Time function lets you display dates and times in a relative manner (i.e. ‘5 minutes ago’).
And more…
We’re always open to new ideas and suggestions for adding new features to the plugin.
WP Essentails Premium
A Premium version of this plugin is also available.
Features include:
Twitter Feed
- Supports multiple Twitter accounts.
Instagram Feed
- Include an Instagram feed either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget anywhere throughout your website.
- Includes a caching system to protect you from reaching your API call limit.
- Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.
Social Stream
- Combine Twitter, Instagram and Flickr into one social stream feed.
- Supports Isotope and infinite scrolling.
Login Notification
- Users will be automatically emailed any time their account is used to log in.
Holding Page
- Display a holding page with a custom title and message.
- Password protect your settings.
Unlimited User Roles:
- No restriction on the number of User Roles you can create.
The ‘Database’ functions:
- Allows you to email yourself a database backup at any time.
- Includes an automatic weekly backup function that emails you with full database backups.
Styling Options
- WP Essentials includes functions to render LESS or SASS files directly on the server before outputting the CSS to the browser.
- Choose between CSS, LESS or SASS.
Get Shortcode
- Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.