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.

Matthew Batchelder

Zach Tirrell

<p>Make WordPress a better CMS. Create a post loop in a widget. Lazy load widgets. More shortcodes. More good.</p>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<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>The Breadcrumbs widget makes navigation throughout the site easier.</li>
<li>Category description widget can display the category description without requiring you to modify your theme.</li>
<li>The paged navigation widget makes it easier to display the number of pages in an archive.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ol>
<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>
</ol>
<h4>Fork me!</h4>
<p>This plugin is on Github: https://github.com/misterbisson/bcms</p>
<h4>History</h4>
<p>The bCMS plugin is derived from bSuite and includes many of the content management features and none of the cruft from that plugin. See <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bsuite" rel="ugc">the whole family of bSuite plugins</a>.</p>
<h4>Build status</h4>
<p><a href="https://travis-ci.org/misterbisson/bcms" rel="nofollow ugc">Master build status at Travis-CI</a>: <a href="https://travis-ci.org/misterbisson/bcms" rel="nofollow ugc"></a></p>


bCMS

A suite of tools that improve WordPress' CMS capabilities.

bSuite vs bCMS