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HighEdWeb16 Links and Notes

October 18, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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WordPress for the 99% from Stephanie Leary

See also Getting to WordPress from WPCampus 2016 for tips on moving content from old sites into your new enterprise offering.

Plugin List

Network-activated

  • Advanced Custom Fields
  • BE Subpages Widget
  • CAS Maestro
  • Display Posts Shortcode
  • Enable Media Replace
  • Genesis Grid
  • Gravity Forms
  • Image Widget
  • JP Custom CSS
  • JP Widget Visibility
  • Menu Social Icons
  • My Eyes Are Up Here
  • Related Posts By Taxonomy
  • Safe Redirect Manager
  • Seamless Sticky Custom Post Types
  • Simple Page Ordering
  • Term Management Tools
  • WCAG Fields for Gravity Forms
  • WP Post Type Archive Links (no longer needed! Use “All…” at top of CPT menu checklists)
  • WP Editor Widget
  • WP Help
  • WP REST API (built into core as of 4.7!)
  • WP REST API Custom Fields (built into core as of 4.7!)
  • WP101

Search plugins (pick one)

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  • SearchWP
  • Google CSE

Optional

  • Download Monitor
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  • Soliloquy
  • WP LaTeX
  • Visualizer

Custom Code

Pages

  • List child pages on empty parent pages
  • Redirect private pages to login screen with a message
  • Redirect imported pages

Post type archives

  • Course table listing with Genesis table loop
  • Subdivide a custom post type archive by taxonomy term
  • per-post-type sidebars

Taxonomy archives

  • Deep taxonomy hierarchies
  • Add term argument to post type archive links
  • Shared taxonomies: add post type argument to taxonomy term links
  • Shared taxonomy archive titles
  • Shared taxonomy archive breadcrumbs
  • Shared taxonomies: replace posts loop with list of post type archives
  • Infer post_type when the query var is not set

Footer elements

  • Synced required links
  • Customizer text field for simple footer information
  • Rich text from ACF options page for complex footer information

Microtext changes

  • Post title placeholder text
  • Title of meta boxes
  • Text within meta boxes
  • ACF message fields, field descriptions, and placeholders

Network administration

  • WPCAS fork and Network Username Restrictions Override fork
  • Give new network users a default role on the main site
  • Redirect user to their primary blog dashboard if not allowed on this blog
  • Redirect user to main site dashboard if not allowed on this blog

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This is an excerpt from Content Strategy for WordPress.My latest books are Content Strategy for WordPress (2015) and WordPress for Web Developers (2013). Sign up to be notified when I have a new book for you.

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