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.