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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
Blog, News
- news/posts are stored separately from pages
- archiving
- tags
- undo functionality
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
- 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 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.
- define item types as a collection of input fields
- create and list items on your pages
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
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
Search
- multi-language aware search
- tag cloud, optional live search
- extensible to index other plugins' content
Admin
- 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
- 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
- Update GetSimple installation and plugins
- Adds a Front-End (+ back-end) Administrative menu-toolbar
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