====== Plugins Guide ====== ===A Handy Guide to the Most Useful and Popular GS Plugins=== This is a list of a small selection of plugins submitted by users as particularly useful for specific purposes. For full details of these and other GS Plugins please see the full [[http://get-simple.info/extend/all_plugins.php|Extend]] listings for: * the plugin description, * the plugin's support topic and * the plugin author's home page ===== Admin ===== Multi-User: [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/multi-user/133/|Original version (Extend)]] / [[http://get-simple.info/forums/showthread.php?tid=1549&pid=49838#pid49838|Forked version 1.9.0]] (fixes some issues) * Allows multiple Admin User Logins * Controls access to different parts of the Backend [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/custom-title/240/|Custom Title]] * Allows direct input of text between the tags in the html <head> section. * Essential for SEO [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/page-edit-options/185/|Page edit options]] * Adds the following icon options to the "Pages Overview" page: - Ordered List Item - Edit Page - Create Child page - Clone Page - Menu Toggle - Private Toggle - View Page - Delete Page [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/updater/403/|Updater]] * Update GetSimple installation and plugins [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/gs-plugin-installer/955/|GS Plugin Installer]] * Easily install GetSimple plugins right from the admin area [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/sa-gs-admin-toolbar/483/|SA GS Admin Toolbar]] * Adds a Front-End (+ back-end) Administrative menu-toolbar [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/gs-custom-settings/913/|GS Custom Settings]] * Lets webmasters/ site managers, theme and plugin developers implement and use their own custom settings for output, configuration, and cross-plugin/-theme communication. [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/pubdate-fix-publication-date/318/|PubDate Fix]] * Makes GetSimple pages' pubDate field fixed and editable. Date/time-picker (optional) [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/markdown-editor/919/|Markdown Editor]] * Allows you to create and edit pages using the [[http://get-simple.info/forums/safelink.php?url=http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/|Markdown syntax]]. Existing pages created with the normal HTML editor will still use the default editor (CKeditor, raw HTML or whatever) ===== Blog, News ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/news-manager-updated/541/|News Manager (updated version)]] * news/posts are stored separately from pages * archiving (monthly/yearly) * tags * undo functionality * featured images/post thumbnails * post authors (optional) * basic + custom settings (layout, page navigation...) * sitemap integration * template tags * many languages included [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-special-pages/319/|I18N Special Pages]] + [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-search/82/|I18N Search]] * News/blog entries are just special pages with custom fields and thus automatically indexed by I18N Search * To avoid cluttering your admin pages view with news/blog entries, put all news/blog entries under common parents, install [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n/69/|I18N]] and hide these parents' children. * RSS feeds [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/pages-amp-comments/427/|Pages & Comments]] * posts are normal pages * comments system [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/gs-blog-v30/810/|GS Blog]] * posts are stored separately from pages * archiving * categories * post thumbnails * custom fields * external comments (disqus) [[http://get-simple.info/forums/showthread.php?tid=4911|Matrix Blog]] * requires The Matrix, I18N, I18N Search and Pagify plugins * template editing * categories * custom fields * I18N integration, I18N searchable * built-in comments system * gravatar support ===== Gallery ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/gsgallery-simple-image-gallery/85/|GSGallery]] * allows you to create multiple galleries of images with titles [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-gallery/160/|I18N Gallery]] * multiple gallery types (e.g. slide show, pop up) with titles, tags and texts * multi-language aware ([[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n/69/|I18N]]) * indexed by [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-search/82/|I18N Search]] [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/the-photo-gallery/151/|The Photo Gallery]] * the easiest way to present one folder of images, where the folder name is the gallery title and the file name is the image title [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/nanogallery4gs/630/|nanoGALLERY4GS]] * for displaying images pulled from Flickr and Picasa/Google+ photo albums. Mobile-friendly and responsive. ===== Item List, Product List, etc. ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-special-pages/319/|I18N Special Pages]] + [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-search/82/|I18N Search]] * All items are stored as pages with additional input fields * pages are automatically indexed for I18N Search * custom display of these special pages ===== Migration ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/ts-fastreplacer/799/|Ts-fastreplacer]] * Search and replace anything in the sites xml files [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/ts-tempreplacer/801/|ts-tempreplacer]] * Same as Ts-fastreplacer, but on the fly, doesn't change the xml files [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/ts-linkchanger/791/|ts-linkchanger]] * Converts urls on the fly, doesn't change the xml files [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/migrate/966/|Migrate]] * Automates URLs modifying in cases when site changes the domain address **There are also plugins which change absolute urls to relative:** [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/gsckerelativeurls/900/|GSCkeRelativeUrls]] * Changes ckeditors local links from absolute host, to relative root urls [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/absolute-link-fixer/743/|Absolute-link-fixer]] * Replaces all occurencies of current site path string to specified string, while saving pages ===== Multi-language Sites ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n/69/|I18N]] * multiple languages with custom admin pages view * language aware multi-level navigation * automatic thumb and image sizing ===== Multi-level Navigation ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/child-menu/40/|Child Menu]] * second level menu for your site [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n/69/|I18N]] * multi-language aware multi-level navigation * breadcrumbs [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/nested-menus/256/|Nested Menus]] * navigation with two levels ===== Multiple Content Areas ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-custom-fields/100/|I18N Custom Fields]] * GUI to add custom fields: text fields, dropdown boxes, check boxes and WYSIWYG textareas. [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/simple-input-tabs/523/|Simple input Tabs]] * Populating different number of content sections for different pages. [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-special-pages/319/|I18N Special pages]] * Define types of pages with custom fields, customized behaviour and customized display. ===== Search ===== [[http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n-search/82/|I18N Search]] * multi-language aware search * tag cloud, optional live search * extensible to index other plugins' content ======Links====== Back to the GetSimple Wiki [[:start|Contents Page]] ==Pages in this Section== ===Plugins=== * [[Plugins:installation|How to Install GetSimple Plugins]] * [[plugins:guide|Plugins Guide]] * [[config:multi-user|Multi-User Capabilities]]