Wordpress: plugins (list and how to)

List of plugins available on our server

Plugin	Comment
Accordion Shortcodes	Shortcodes for creating responsive accordion drop-downs in your pages or posts. Adds buttons in the TinyMCE text editor
AddToAny Share Buttons	Social Media Share buttons for your pages including AddToAny’s universal sharing button, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, WhatsApp and many more.
Advanced Custom Fields	Used by certain themes to add extra fields to populate the pages. The field “include External Page” is using this plugin for instance.
amr shortcode any widget	Include any widget in a page for any theme. [do_widget widgetname ] or [do_widget "widget name" ] [do_widget id=widgetnamedashed-n ] or include a whole widget area [do_widget_area] .
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget	Adds a new “Visual Editor” widget type based on the native WordPress TinyMCE editor.
Broken Link Checker	Checks your site for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
Campus Directory	Manage a staff directory.
Carousel Slider	Create Image, Logo, Video, Post Carousel. When created, you get a shortcode to be included in your post/page.
CentAUR Feed	Insert a JSON export from CentAUR. After activating the plugin, use dedicated shortcode.
CMS Tree Page View	Adds a tree view of all your pages. Makes the navigation easier than the default WordPress list presentation. Use the tree view to edit, view, add pages and search pages (very useful if you have many pages). And with drag and drop you can rearrange the order of your pages.
Crayon Syntax highlighter	Used for advanced code display (such as c++, python, fortran…)
Content Views	Query and display posts, pages in nice layouts (grid, scrollable list, collapsible list). Generates a shortcode to be included in your page/post.
Disable Comments	Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. We don’t host proper blogs on this platform and comments should be disabled to prevent spamming.
Display Posts Shortcode	Display list of posts in a page or post. Possibility to include excerpt, picture, etc.
Duplicate Post	Adds a one click link to duplicate pages or posts. Useful when creating very similar pages…
Equation Editor	Adds buttons to insert equations in your page / post. You can use Latex code too.
Feed Them Social (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc)	Create and display custom feeds for Facebook Groups, Facebook Pages, Facebook Events, Facebook Photos, Facebook Album Covers, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and more.
jQuery Colorbox	Will load pictures in a nice overlaid box. Various styles available
Ninja Forms	Webform builder. Can be used to create a contact form, or a registration form for instance.
Oasis Workflow	Manage the edition and publication process of your pages and posts with a workflow.
Page Builder by SiteOrigin	Used to manage advanced looking pages, with columns, boxes, etc.
Redirection	Redirect any URL. Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
RSS Feed News Blocks Free	Show RSS Feed on your posts and pages with shortcode. Create RSS Feeds News Blocks like Popurls, Alltop, Netvibes Theweblist.
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle	A collection of widgets, mainly to be used in the SiteOrigin page editor.
Smart Slider 3	Create sliders of pictures, posts or anything else! Sliders can then be inserted in pages, posts or as widgets.
Tabby Responsive Tabs	Create responsive tabs inside your posts, pages by adding shortcodes. Activate “TinyMCE tabs” to get the associated buttons in the text editor.
TablePress	Create nice, sortable tables. Put them in text content using shortcodes.
Tabs Widget for Page Builder	Bootstrap tabs widget for use in Page Builder by SiteOrigin
The Events Calendar	Create and advertise events.
TinyMCE Advanced	Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.
TinyMCE tabs	A simple TinyMCE Plugin to add tabs into posts or pages. Requires the plugin “Tabby Responsive Tabs”
UoR Big File Uplaods	Activated on request by system engineers to temporarily allow you to upload bigger files.
WordPress Importer	Necessary when making an import from an old WordPress website.
Youtube Showcase	Create YouTube video gallery with responsive frontend.

Plugin

Comment

Accordion Shortcodes

Shortcodes for creating responsive accordion drop-downs in your pages or posts. Adds buttons in the TinyMCE text editor

AddToAny Share Buttons

Social Media Share buttons for your pages including AddToAny’s universal sharing button, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, WhatsApp and many more.

Advanced Custom Fields

Used by certain themes to add extra fields to populate the pages. The field “include External Page” is using this plugin for instance.

amr shortcode any widget

Include any widget in a page for any theme. [do_widget widgetname ] or [do_widget "widget name" ] [do_widget id=widgetnamedashed-n ] or include a whole widget area [do_widget_area] .

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget

Adds a new “Visual Editor” widget type based on the native WordPress TinyMCE editor.

Broken Link Checker

Checks your site for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

Campus Directory

Manage a staff directory.

Carousel Slider

Create Image, Logo, Video, Post Carousel. When created, you get a shortcode to be included in your post/page.

CentAUR Feed

Insert a JSON export from CentAUR. After activating the plugin, use dedicated shortcode.

CMS Tree Page View

Adds a tree view of all your pages. Makes the navigation easier than the default WordPress list presentation. Use the tree view to edit, view, add pages and search pages (very useful if you have many pages). And with drag and drop you can rearrange the order of your pages.

Crayon Syntax highlighter

Used for advanced code display (such as c++, python, fortran…)

Content Views

Query and display posts, pages in nice layouts (grid, scrollable list, collapsible list). Generates a shortcode to be included in your page/post.

Disable Comments

Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. We don’t host proper blogs on this platform and comments should be disabled to prevent spamming.

Display Posts Shortcode

Display list of posts in a page or post. Possibility to include excerpt, picture, etc.

Duplicate Post

Adds a one click link to duplicate pages or posts. Useful when creating very similar pages…

Equation Editor

Adds buttons to insert equations in your page / post. You can use Latex code too.

Feed Them Social (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc)

Create and display custom feeds for Facebook Groups, Facebook Pages, Facebook Events, Facebook Photos, Facebook Album Covers, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and more.

jQuery Colorbox

Will load pictures in a nice overlaid box. Various styles available

Ninja Forms

Webform builder. Can be used to create a contact form, or a registration form for instance.

Oasis Workflow

Manage the edition and publication process of your pages and posts with a workflow.

Page Builder by SiteOrigin

Used to manage advanced looking pages, with columns, boxes, etc.

Redirection

Redirect any URL. Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors

RSS Feed News Blocks Free

Show RSS Feed on your posts and pages with shortcode. Create RSS Feeds News Blocks like Popurls, Alltop, Netvibes Theweblist.

SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle

A collection of widgets, mainly to be used in the SiteOrigin page editor.

Smart Slider 3

Create sliders of pictures, posts or anything else! Sliders can then be inserted in pages, posts or as widgets.

Tabby Responsive Tabs

Create responsive tabs inside your posts, pages by adding shortcodes.
Activate “TinyMCE tabs” to get the associated buttons in the text editor.

TablePress

Create nice, sortable tables. Put them in text content using shortcodes.

Tabs Widget for Page Builder

Bootstrap tabs widget for use in Page Builder by SiteOrigin

The Events Calendar

Create and advertise events.

TinyMCE Advanced

Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.

TinyMCE tabs

A simple TinyMCE Plugin to add tabs into posts or pages. Requires the plugin “Tabby Responsive Tabs”

UoR Big File Uplaods

Activated on request by system engineers to temporarily allow you to upload bigger files.

WordPress Importer

Necessary when making an import from an old WordPress website.

Youtube Showcase

Create YouTube video gallery with responsive frontend.

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