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Features Include
WP Essentials
An all-in-one bundle of essential plugins and functions
for all WordPress websites.
WP Essentials Free
The WP Essentails plugin can be found in the WordPress plugin directory.
Features Include:
- Sets search engine friendly permalink structure (if one hasn’t already been set.)
- Removes useless widgets from the dashboard.
- Removes superfluous meta tags from your theme head (including the WordPress version number.)
- Removes detailed login errors (for extra security.)
- Creates a new User Role and allows you to customise their access rights.
- For developers, enable the debug mode to include detailed PHP errors when developing your theme.
- WP Essentials can alert you to several potential problems that are important for when a site goes live. (Ensuring robots aren’t blocked, etc.)
- Change the quality of uploaded images to your website.
- Add custom thumbnail sizes for all images.
- The WYSIWYG editor comes with an email button for easily adding email links without any HTML knowledge.
- Allows you to add multiple tracking codes to all pages of your website.
Flickr Integration
- Include a Flickr feed either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget anywhere throughout your website.
- Includes a caching system to protect you from reaching your API call limit.
- Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.
Google Maps Integration
- Easily include multiple Google Maps throughout your site either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget.
- Includes options for setting the address, zoom level, etc.
Twitter Integration
- Include a Twitter feed either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget anywhere throughout your website.
- WP Essentials uses the new Twitter 1.1 API.
- Cache supported to avoid API limit calls.
Shortcodes
- Includes a simple shortcode for displaying today’s date.
- Customise the date format to whatever you want.
- Includes a simple shortcode for embedding any YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook videos anywhere on your website.
PHP Functions
- Custom Excerpt function lets you override the default WordPress excerpt with additional options.
- A Get Image Source function lets you get the image URL for any image uploaded to WordPress at any custom thumbnail size.
- An automatic link function lets you hyperlink any web or email addresses that may otherwise be plaintext.
- A Relative Time function lets you display dates and times in a relative manner (i.e. ‘5 minutes ago’.)
Limited Time Only!
Purchase a Premium license and recieve a 50% discount code.
Use it for a second domain or give it to a friend.
WP Essentials Premium
The WP Essentials Premium plugin includes everything from the basic version, plus…
- Multiple Twitter accounts.
Security & Backups
- Users will be automatically emailed any time their account is used to log in.
- Allows you to email yourself a database backup at any time.
- Includes an automatic weekly backup function that emails you with full database backups.
Custom User Roles
- Allows you to create multiple user roles and customise their access rights.
Instagram Integration
- Include an Instagram feed either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget anywhere throughout your website.
- Includes a caching system to protect you from reaching your API call limit.
- Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.
Holding Page
- Display a holding page with a custom title and message.
- Password protect your settings.
Custom Styling Options
- WP Essentials includes functions to render LESS or SASS files directly on the server before outputting the CSS to the browser.
- Choose between CSS, LESS or SASS.
Technical Support
- Direct technical support for the duration of your license.
- Free updates for the duration of your license.