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Page Excerpt
The Page Excerpt plugin gives pages the same excerpt functionality as posts. Excerpts are “optional, handcrafted summaries” that can tease your readers into exploring your content further. After installing this plugin, a new text box will be added to your … Continue reading →
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Leaflet Maps Marker
The Leaftlet Maps Marker is a really neat plugin that lets you easily pin, annotate, organize, and share locations using maps from Google, Bing, and OpenStreetMap. Using integrated address searches, you can easily locate sites, pin them with hundreds of … Continue reading →
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WordPress Google Fonts
The WP Google Fonts plugin is a great way to add different fonts to your site. Many premium themes provide built in font functionality, making this plugin unnecessary. But for many standard themes, you’ll need a plugin like this one … Continue reading →
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Pinterest Pinboard Widget
Pinterest Pinboard Widget provides an easy way to integrate Pinterest content into your WordPress site. Easy to use and to configure, the widget displays content from your Pinterest account, someone elses account, or from the generic “pinterest” account. Clicking on … Continue reading →
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Responsive Themes on the Commons
What’s a Responsive Theme? Responsive themes use fluid layouts, flexible images and media queries to make your site look and act great on a variety of devices. Sidebars and navigation menus collapse gracefully, and retain functionality. Approach designs vary, and … Continue reading →
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Regenerate Thumbnails
The Regenerate Thumbnails plugin comes in handy if you want to easily re-size an image’s thumbnail or a set of images’ thumbnails. Simply go to Settings>>Media and change the default size for your thumbnails. Then you have three ways to … Continue reading →
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Statistics For Your Site
Understandably, most admins wonder how many readers their site is attracting. On the Commons, there are three ways to quantify your readership on the Commons: Google Analytics, Jetpack Stats, and Clicky. By far the most powerful and complex is Google … Continue reading →
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Events Manager Plugin
If you have a WordPress site on the Commons and frequently announce or organize events, check out the Events Manager plugin. It is a neat way to manage and display upcoming lectures, seminars, conferences, meetings, etc. Each event is nicely … Continue reading →
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Anthologize
Grab, Craft, and Publish Anthologize is a powerful tool that lets you “grab” blog posts from your site or from an RSS feed, “craft” your content into a single document, with a title page, table of contents, and chapters, and … Continue reading →
