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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 Extend listings for:

the plugin description,
the plugin's support topic and
the plugin author's home page

Admin

Multi-User: Original version (Extend) / Forked version 1.9.0 (fixes some issues)

Allows multiple Admin User Logins
Controls access to different parts of the Backend

Allows direct input of text between the <title> tags in the html <head> section.
Essential for SEO

Page edit options

Adds the following icon options to the “Pages Overview” page:
1. Ordered List Item
2. Edit Page
3. Create Child page
4. Clone Page
5. Menu Toggle
6. Private Toggle
7. View Page
8. Delete Page

Update GetSimple installation and plugins

GS Plugin Installer

Easily install GetSimple plugins right from the admin area

SA GS Admin Toolbar

Adds a Front-End (+ back-end) Administrative menu-toolbar

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.

Makes GetSimple pages' pubDate field fixed and editable. Date/time-picker (optional)

Markdown Editor

Allows you to create and edit pages using the Markdown syntax. Existing pages created with the normal HTML editor will still use the default editor (CKeditor, raw HTML or whatever)

Blog, News

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

I18N Special Pages + 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 I18N and hide these parents' children.
RSS feeds

Pages & Comments

posts are normal pages
comments system

posts are stored separately from pages
archiving
categories
post thumbnails
custom fields
external comments (disqus)

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

allows you to create multiple galleries of images with titles

multiple gallery types (e.g. slide show, pop up) with titles, tags and texts
multi-language aware (I18N)
indexed by I18N Search

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

for displaying images pulled from Flickr and Picasa/Google+ photo albums. Mobile-friendly and responsive.

Item List, Product List, etc.

I18N Special Pages + 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

Ts-fastreplacer

Search and replace anything in the sites xml files

ts-tempreplacer

Same as Ts-fastreplacer, but on the fly, doesn't change the xml files

Converts urls on the fly, doesn't change the xml files

Automates URLs modifying in cases when site changes the domain address

There are also plugins which change absolute urls to relative:

GSCkeRelativeUrls

Changes ckeditors local links from absolute host, to relative root urls

Absolute-link-fixer

Replaces all occurencies of current site path string to specified string, while saving pages

Multi-language Sites

multiple languages with custom admin pages view
language aware multi-level navigation
automatic thumb and image sizing

Multi-level Navigation

second level menu for your site

multi-language aware multi-level navigation
breadcrumbs

navigation with two levels

Multiple Content Areas

I18N Custom Fields

GUI to add custom fields: text fields, dropdown boxes, check boxes and WYSIWYG textareas.

Simple input Tabs

Populating different number of content sections for different pages.

I18N Special pages

Define types of pages with custom fields, customized behaviour and customized display.

Search

multi-language aware search
tag cloud, optional live search
extensible to index other plugins' content

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