WP Essentials

All-in-one bundle of essential plugins and functions for all WordPress websites.

Features include:

Twitter Feed

• Twitter feed shortcode and widget available.
• WP Essentials uses the new Twitter 1.1 API.
• Filter your Twitter feed by hashtags.
• Cache system prevents API call limit.

Flickr

• Flickr feed shortcode and widget available.
• Cache system prevents API call limit.
• Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.

Google Analytics

• Allows you to add multiple tracking codes to all pages of your website.

Google Maps

• Easily include multiple Google Maps throughout your site either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget.
• Includes options for setting the address, zoom level, custom marker, etc.

The ‘Email’ Button

• The WYSIWYG editor comes with an email button for easily adding email links without any HTML knowledge.

Date Shortcode

• Includes a simple shortcode for displaying today’s date.
• Customise the date format to whatever you want.

Video Shortcode

• Includes a simple shortcode for embedding any YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook videos anywhere on your website.

Get Shortcode

• Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.

The ‘Cleanup’ function:

• 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)

The ‘User Roles’ function:

• Creates a new User Role and lets you customise their access rights.

Debug Mode

• For developers, enable the debug mode to include detailed PHP errors when developing your theme.

WordPress Error Reporting

• WP Essentials can alert you to several potential problems that are important for when a site goes live. (Ensuring robots aren’t blocked, etc.)

Media Image Quality

• Change the quality of uploaded images to your website.

Custom Image Sizes

• Add your own custom thumbnail sizes for your images.

Advanced 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’).

And more…

We’re always open to new ideas and suggestions for adding new features to the plugin.

WP Essentails Premium

A Premium version of this plugin is also available.

Features include:

Twitter Feed

• Supports multiple Twitter accounts.

Instagram Feed

• 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.

Social Stream

• Combine Twitter, Instagram and Flickr into one social stream feed.
• Supports Isotope and infinite scrolling.

Login Notification

• Users will be automatically emailed any time their account is used to log in.

Holding Page

• Display a holding page with a custom title and message.
• Password protect your settings.

Unlimited User Roles:

• No restriction on the number of User Roles you can create.

The ‘Database’ functions:

• Allows you to email yourself a database backup at any time.
• Includes an automatic weekly backup function that emails you with full database backups.

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.

Get Shortcode

• Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.