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

Craig F.

All-in-one bundle of essential plugins and functions for all WordPress websites.
<h4>Features include:</h4>
Twitter Feed
<ul>
<li>Twitter feed shortcode and widget available.</li>
<li>WP Essentials uses the new Twitter 1.1 API.</li>
<li>Filter your Twitter feed by hashtags.</li>
<li>Cache system prevents API call limit.</li>
</ul>
Flickr
<ul>
<li>Flickr feed shortcode and widget available.</li>
<li>Cache system prevents API call limit.</li>
<li>Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.</li>
</ul>
Google Analytics
<ul>
<li>Allows you to add multiple tracking codes to all pages of your website.</li>
</ul>
Google Maps
<ul>
<li>Easily include multiple Google Maps throughout your site either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget.</li>
<li>Includes options for setting the address, zoom level, custom marker, etc.</li>
</ul>
The ‘Email’ Button
<ul>
<li>The WYSIWYG editor comes with an email button for easily adding email links without any HTML knowledge.</li>
</ul>
Date Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Includes a simple shortcode for displaying today’s date.</li>
<li>Customise the date format to whatever you want.</li>
</ul>
Video Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Includes a simple shortcode for embedding any YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook videos anywhere on your website.</li>
</ul>
Get Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.</li>
</ul>
The ‘Cleanup’ function:
<ul>
<li>Sets search engine friendly permalink structure (if one hasn’t already been set)</li>
<li>Removes useless widgets from the dashboard</li>
<li>Removes superfluous meta tags from your theme head (including the WordPress version number)</li>
<li>Removes detailed login errors (for extra security)</li>
</ul>
The ‘User Roles’ function:
<ul>
<li>Creates a new User Role and lets you customise their access rights.</li>
</ul>
Debug Mode
<ul>
<li>For developers, enable the debug mode to include detailed PHP errors when developing your theme.</li>
</ul>
WordPress Error Reporting
<ul>
<li>WP Essentials can alert you to several potential problems that are important for when a site goes live. (Ensuring robots aren’t blocked, etc.)</li>
</ul>
Media Image Quality
<ul>
<li>Change the quality of uploaded images to your website.</li>
</ul>
Custom Image Sizes
<ul>
<li>Add your own custom thumbnail sizes for your images.</li>
</ul>
Advanced PHP Functions
<ul>
<li>Custom Excerpt function lets you override the default WordPress excerpt with additional options.</li>
<li>A Get Image Source function lets you get the image URL for any image uploaded to WordPress at any custom thumbnail size.</li>
<li>An automatic link function lets you hyperlink any web or email addresses that may otherwise be plaintext.</li>
<li>A Relative Time function lets you display dates and times in a relative manner (i.e. ‘5 minutes ago’).</li>
</ul>
And more…
We’re always open to new ideas and suggestions for adding new features to the plugin.
<h4>WP Essentails Premium</h4>
A Premium version of this plugin is also available.
Features include:
Twitter Feed
<ul>
<li>Supports multiple Twitter accounts.</li>
</ul>
Instagram Feed
<ul>
<li>Include an Instagram feed either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget anywhere throughout your website.</li>
<li>Includes a caching system to protect you from reaching your API call limit.</li>
<li>Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature.</li>
</ul>
Social Stream
<ul>
<li>Combine Twitter, Instagram and Flickr into one social stream feed.</li>
<li>Supports Isotope and infinite scrolling.</li>
</ul>
Login Notification
<ul>
<li>Users will be automatically emailed any time their account is used to log in.</li>
</ul>
Holding Page
<ul>
<li>Display a holding page with a custom title and message.</li>
<li>Password protect your settings.</li>
</ul>
Unlimited User Roles:
<ul>
<li>No restriction on the number of User Roles you can create.</li>
</ul>
The ‘Database’ functions:
<ul>
<li>Allows you to email yourself a database backup at any time.</li>
<li>Includes an automatic weekly backup function that emails you with full database backups.</li>
</ul>
Styling Options
<ul>
<li>WP Essentials includes functions to render LESS or SASS files directly on the server before outputting the CSS to the browser.</li>
<li>Choose between CSS, LESS or SASS.</li>
</ul>
Get Shortcode
<ul>
<li>Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.</li>
</ul>

Alternatives to WP Essentials

Top alternatives