Casey Bisson

<p>bSuite is a set of tools that help surface interesting and popular stories as well as improve WordPress’ CMS capabilities and usefulness as an application platform. <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/bsuite/widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">Available widgets</a> can show most popular posts, recently commented posts, or related posts (can also add a listof related posts to the bottom of the post content). <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/bsuite/shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Added shortcodes</a> help organize content, allowing you to list all sub-pages of the current page or list all headings within the page. Another shortcode will render RSS feeds into a page or post. See <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bsuite/screenshots/" rel="ugc">the screenshots</a> for more.</p>
<h4>Stats</h4>
<ol>
<li>Tracks page loads across your WordPress site</li>
<li>Works with caching plugins</li>
<li>Shows you what’s popular, what’s growing in popularity, and what’s declining</li>
<li>Shows you what categories and tags are most popular</li>
<li>Tracks the search terms readers use to find your site (and highlights those terms on the page)</li>
</ol>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<p><a href="http://maisonbisson.com/bsuite/widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">bSuite widgets</a> include:</p>
<ol>
<li>Post Loop allows you to build your own, um, post loop, and put it anywhere a widget will fit.</li>
<li>Pages replaces WP’s built in Pages widget and adds the option to expand the page list to include the parents and immediate children of the page your currently viewing.</li>
<li>bSuite Popular Posts</li>
<li>bSuite Related Posts</li>
<li>bSuite Recently Commented Posts</li>
</ol>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p><a href="http://maisonbisson.com/bsuite/shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Built-in shortcodes</a> allow you to:</p>
<ol>
<li>Embed an RSS or Atom feed into a post or page</li>
<li>Include the content or excerpt from one post or page in another.</li>
<li>Automatically build an index of headings on a page and create a table of contents to it (with links to anchors on the page)</li>
<li>Embed a list of pages or sub-pages on a page or post</li>
<li>Embed Slideshare items</li>
<li>Embed Wufoo forms</li>
</ol>


bSuite

A suite of tools used to help surface interesting and popular stories as well as improve WordPress' CMS capabilities as an application platform.

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Shahid Ajmeri

<p>Assistant is a free plugin that allows you to work more efficiently in WordPress. It’s a huge time saver and fun to use!<br />
Assistant is a stand-alone tool that provides shortcuts to common tasks, and will help you work more freely without needing to go to the WordPress admin as much.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Access the front-end UI from anywhere (posts, pages, archives, etc…)</li>
<li>Get a glance of your recently edited posts on the home screen.</li>
<li>Search WordPress directly from the frontend.</li>
<li>Quickly find posts, pages, and custom post types with the content app.</li>
<li>Upload media to WordPress media library by dropping files on the Media app.</li>
<li>Keep an eye on comments and updates for themes and plugins</li>
<li>Add custom labels to posts or pages to help organize your site while you work.</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin also connects your sites to <a href="https://assistant.pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Assistant Pro</a> – a cloud storage platform designed specifically for WordPress assets. Use the cloud to enhance staging/production workflow, streamline your design processes, and facilitate team collaboration. Assistant Pro is not just an awesome cloud storage platform, perfect for organizing and finding your favorite WordPress assets, it’s a better way of working across all your WordPress sites.</p>
<ul>
<li>Store page builder and block editor templates you’ve created in the cloud. Works with the Block Editor and most popular WordPress page builders</li>
<li>Organize your site’s assets (media, posts, pages, page builder templates and WooCommerce products/coupons/orders) into libraries you can access from anywhere.</li>
<li>Works with a variety of common WordPress page builders (Gutenberg, Beaver Builder, Elementor, Divi and Visual Composer)</li>
<li>Delight your team with seamless staging to production workflows</li>
<li>It’s made by the Beaver Builder Team, which means awesome support!</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also try Assistant on a <a href="http://demo.wpbeaverbuilder.com/?new=assistant" rel="nofollow ugc">demo site here</a>.</p>


Assistant – Every Day Productivity Apps

Assistant is a plugin that allows you to work more efficiently. It provides you shortcuts to common admin tasks on the front-end of your website.

bSuite vs Assistant – Every Day Productivity Apps