====== 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 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]]