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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 [[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 <title> 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

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