Cornerstone

Description

Cornerstone makes WordPress practical for any type of site by enhancing its content management capabilities. Too long have we had to resort to hacks like using categories in menus to build a pseudo site structure (you know what I’m talking about).

Cornerstone enhances your WordPress site in several ways. One of the most useful features is one that allows WordPress to be used for sites that go beyond just blogging– Posts in Sections. Create a section, add posts to it, they show up when visitors navigate to that section. Simple as that. It really is, but because you’re awesome here’s a tutorial on how to do it.

Thanks for the Support!

The support from the users that love Cornerstone is huge. You can support Cornerstone’s future development and help to make it even better by donating or even just by sending me a nice message ??

Donate to Cornerstone

Features

• ”NEW: Content Types” – Add custom fields to default (posts, pages, etc.) and custom (events, properties, etc.) post types
• Posts in Sections (see above for more info. Why are you reading from the bottom up?)
• Structured permalinks – post permalinks are based on the section they are in (e.g. /section-name/post-name/)
• RSS for Sections – Let users subscribe to and receive updates for specific sections on the site.

Next Up

• Template functionality – enhanced page titles, featured content, etc.
• And more, which is where your feedback comes in.

Plugin home page

Screenshots

Installation

Install and Activate the plugin from the www.ads-software.com Plugins Repository

Tutorials

• How to Organize Posts in Sections with Cornerstone
• Cornerstone: Creating Custom Content Types in WordPress
• Cornerstone: Using Custom Field Data in WordPress

FAQ

Post your questions/comments at Cornerstone’s official issue tracker.

Reviews

Important extension to WordPress

Nikelaos June 9, 2020

I had a few difficulties using the plugin. It is important to be familiar with the template technique. Thanks to the friendly and patient support, I was finally able to set everything up as I wanted it. Thank you for this plugin!

Cornerstone disappointing and a total waste of time

fabsoftware February 11, 2017 2 replies

Why should installing a plugin be so hard! 1) find Cornerstone on the plugin store. 2) click install 3) click activate 4) find it on your list of installed and activated plugins. All works fine. But does absolutely NOTHING. No menu items, no settings link. So you could start trying to figure out why, but then that will waste another half an hour. Because there is nothing to discover. No warning messages, further hints at what you ought to do. It is not going to do anything. So don’t waste your time. I finally downloaded Live Composer instead. Immediately it worked. That made me feel that it was not me after all. To the developers: Instructions please guys. I am sure it’s great when it works. But do not assume new users to the plugin know how to navigate the installation procedures.

Does its job but breaks permalinks

palatino September 3, 2016 1 reply

I found the idea of this plugin quite useful so I was tempted to give a five star rating. But the permalink function is not fully configurable and does not work without trailing slashes which in some cases might be wanted. Since I found that a central part of the task the plugin should be used for is not functional I only gave it a 3 stars rating.

Revolutionary

allesauseinerhand September 3, 2016

Thanks to cornerstone and in combination with the theme X I’m able to mockup designs together with my clients, because it’s so easy and fast to use.

Great way to organize page content.

shaneparsons September 3, 2016

It does exactly what it’s supposed to and is extremely easy to implement!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

0.8.1

• Optimize: Confirm WordPress 6.4 Compatibility
• Optimize: Data validation/formatting
• Optimize: Internal code cleanup

0.8.0

• Update: Custom permalink structure option integration for WordPress 6.1+.

0.7.8

• Fix: Utilities: count() used on non-Countable value. (props @nikelaos)

0.7.7

• Fix: Spelling.

0.7.6

• Add: Block editor support for Custom Post Types (CPTs).
• Update: WordPress 5.3 Compatibility confirmed.
• Update: WordPress minimum version requirement (5.3).
• Fix: Plugin initialization.
• Fix: Display/Save custom field data in post/page editor.
• Fix: Display/Save section in Quick Editor.
• Optimize: Code cleanup.

0.7.5

• Update: Use plugin-specific text domain for localized strings

0.7.4

• Add: Text Domain header for translations

0.7.3

• Fix: Registration of Media field types
• Update: Confirm compatibility with WordPress v4.3.1

0.7.2

• Update: WordPress 4.2.3 support
• Optimize: Autoload classes
• Optimize: Remove legacy PHP code

0.7.1

• Update: WordPress 3.8 support
• Update: Readme content (description, features, links)

0.7

• Update: WordPress 3.6 support
• Update: Remove deprecated jQuery code
• Update: Remove legacy shortcode code
• Optimize: Custom content types only added to main and CNR-initiated queries (Props Andy Owen)
• Optimize: Remove legacy files/code
• Optimize: Permalink structure reset when plugin activated/deactivated
• Optimize: Post Editor: Update permalink preview when section changed
• Optimize: Improved client-side file loading
• Optimize: Encapsulate client-side code
• Fix: Custom content types not displayed in sections (Unflappable Andy)

0.6

• Add: Content type support
• Add: Media support
• Add: Display tagline in home page title
• Optimize: Internal performance
• Optimize: Code cleanup
• Fix: Section not always saved
• Fix: Section posts fetched prior to checking posts’ properties
• Fix: Pagination compatibility for WordPress 3.1+
• Fix: Various bug fixes

0.5.1b

• Structure
  • Fix: Section column duplication bug

0.5b

• Public beta