UO Blogs: List of Available Plugins

Overview

  • Plugins can extend and expand the functionality of your blog. To activate a plugin, follow these instructions:
    • Go to Plugins in your dashboard.
    • Click Activate below the desired plugin.
  • For detailed instructions on how to activate plugins, see Activating Plugins.
  • Below is a list of available plugins and a description of that plugin:

Information

Plugin Description
Accessibility Helps with a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes.
Accessible Social Share Adds accessible social share button to every post and page, so readers can easily share your content on their social networks.
Advanced Editor Tools Adds extra features like tables, emoticons and custom font families to your visual editor’s toolbar and gives you more control in what's included in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.
Advanced Tables Advanced solution for creating and managing table. Ideal tool for large tables that require visitors to sort, filter, search data. Can also import a range of file formats including Excel spreadsheets to create tables.
Calendar + Provides an easy way to create, manage, and share your calendar and upcoming events.
Custom CSS Enables you to modify the theme’s fonts, colors, borders, and backgrounds by adding custom stylesheets to your blog.
Divi Accessibility Improve Divi accessibility in accordance with WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
Divi Blog Extras A powerful and highly customizable Divi blog layout plugin with Archive and Custom Post Type support.
Divi Breadcrumbs Module This plugin adds a Divi Builder Module which generates breadcrumb navigation menus. Each breadcrumb nav is highly customizable to suit every style imaginable.
Divi Builder The self-proclaimed "ultimate WordPress page builder."  Already included and not needed when using the Divi or Extra theme.
Embed Any Document Quick and easy tool to help you embed any document into posts and pages.
Footnotes Footnotes provides an elegant and easy way to add footnotes to posts and pages.
Formidable Forms Formidable forms allow you to easily create drag-and-drop forms, quizzes, polls, tests, and more.
Forums Allows you to easily add forums to any page or post on your site.
Help Scout Desk Allows for Help Scout conversations to be easily displayed on your site, with the ability to create new conversations and reply to existing ones.
Jetpack Allows you to post content to your blog from your email and utilize other WordPress features.
JSON Feed Provides feeds in JSON form. 
Live Shortcodes Lets you quickly and easily add cool things to posts and pages such as accordions, toogles, tabs, diviiders, buttons, RSS with minimal effort by configuring and inserting shortcode.
Media Tree The Media Tree plugin allows you to easily group files into categories and display them in “tree” view in a post or page using shortcode.
Page Links To This plugin allows you to point pages or posts to a URL of your choice. 
Password Protect Selected Content Allows you to password protect selected content within a post or page while the rest of content remains public.
Polylang Used to create a bilingual or multilingual site. Write your posts, pages, categories, tags in the different languages and then readers click on the Language switcher to change to their language.
Post Voting Allows visitors to vote on your site's content.
Print, PDF and Email by PrintFriendly Print Friendly and PDF plugin creates a button to add to your blog. The Printer Friendly and PDF button allows you to automatically create printer-friendly PDF versions of your pages.
Syntax Highlighter Evolved Allows you to post source code for others to view and provides syntax highlighting for certain programming languages.
Table of Contents  Add tables of content to posts, pages and sidebars.
Term Management Tools Used to reorganize tags and categories to merge terms, set parent terms or convert terms from tags to categories or vice versa.
UO Banner and Footer  Add the UO Banner to most themes.
UO Libraries Widget  Allows creation of Library Widget that provides a shortcut to catalog searches, online chat, and custom search for UO-available databases by topic.
Wiki Allows you to add a wiki to your blog.
WP Audio Player  An easy way to embed an audio file in your posts using the responsive and touch-friendly audio player.
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