WP Essentials

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.

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Installation

1. Upload the ‘wp-essentials’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to WP Essentials page in the Admin menu and set up your options from there.

FAQ

If you have any questions, please visit www.wp-essentials.net/docs.

Reviews

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

3.0

• WordPress 4.6.1 compatible.
• Plugin update to coincide with new website.
• Removed Facebook Fanbox and added Facebook Page Plugin.
• Removed custom font icons and replaced with Font Awesome.
• Error reporting list now supports Font Awesome list icons.
• Updated Flickr links to use user ID instead of username.
• Media is now an option to turn on or off for tweets.
• Fixed link_tweet() bug for auto-linking content.
• Emoji support for Twitter.
• Plugin page now loads help content dynamically. (Allows me to push docs data without plugin updates.)
• Removed old naming convention for PHP functions.
• Updated shortcodes to use ‘wpe_’ naming convention.

2.3

• WordPress 4.5.3 compatible.

2.2

• WordPress 4.5 compatible.
• Fixed IE wmode issue with embeded video.
• Case-sensitive uploads are now independent of the “Clean Up” function.

2.1

• Deprecated video shortcode.
• Updated Twitter feed to include media attachments.
• Updated to 4.4 compatibility.

2.0.4

• Fixed GA tracking code bug.

2.0.3

• Updated GA tracking code
• Added GA outbound link tracking

2.0.2

• Expanded cropping options to Custom Image Sizes.
• Added extra checks to avoid Mobile_Detect.php conflicts.

2.0.1

• Fixed critical image quality bug.

2.0

• Force lowercase names to file uploads.
• Added Demographics support to Google Analytics.
• Added HTTPS support.
• Fixed ampersand bug in Twitter.

1.10.3

• Fixed Flickr DB truncate bug.
• Added new Custom Image Sizes option.
• Removed frameBorder attribute from video iframes.

1.10.2

• Upgraded to WordPress 4 compatibility.
• Fixed Vimeo playback bug.
• Rewrote Flickr functionality.

1.10.1

• Fixed Admin menu font icon.

1.10.0

• Added IP address to login notifications.
• Added Submenu for better navigation.
• Added Facebook Video support to [wpe_video] shortcode.

1.0.9

• Replaced Glyphicons with font icons.

1.0.8

• Added ‘None’ option to Styling
• Renamed PHP Function names to include wpe_ naming convention.
• Fixed jQuery conflict bug with public JS.
• Added responsive CSS to WP Essentials admin page.
• Improved navigation when handling errors and warnings.

1.0.7

• Increased Twitter count from 20 to 200.
• Added Twitter interaction links.
• Added Custom Marker option to Google Maps.

1.0.6

• Added ‘admin’ username check.
• Added new Facebook Like Box options.
• Tidied up Settings page.
• Improved Twitter DB updates.

1.0.5

• Added echo or return options to Excerpt function.
• Fixed a bug to reduce database calls.
• Updated to WordPress 3.8.1 compatibility.

1.0.4

• Updated [video] shortcode to stop conflicting with the native WordPress shortcode.
• Fixed Client Role bug which wouldn’t let new users add client roles.
• Updated to WordPress 3.8 compatibility.

1.0.3

• Added Sidebar Title options to the following Widgets: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Google Maps
• Added the new User Roles function

1.0.2

• Updated all links to wp-essentials.net

1.0.1

• Fixed <PHP5.3 issue with a function in cleanup.php

1.0

• Initial release