Glimbyte

<p>Glimbyte Starter Sorter adds three productivity features to the WordPress Plugins screen: a sort toolbar, date tracking columns, and a persistent Extensions menu in the admin bar.</p>
<h4>Extensions Menu in the Admin Bar</h4>
<p>An Extensions item is added to your WordPress admin bar and stays visible on every page — including the front end of your site when you are logged in as an administrator. This means you can jump straight to plugin management without navigating through the sidebar, from wherever you are on the site.</p>
<p>The dropdown includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Installed — go straight to your plugins list</li>
<li>Add New — jump directly to the plugin installer (shown only to users with the install_plugins capability)</li>
<li>File Editor — open the plugin file editor (shown only when file editing is enabled)</li>
<li>Active (N) — filtered view of active plugins, with a live count</li>
<li>Inactive (N) — filtered view of inactive plugins, with a live count</li>
<li>Update Available (N) — shown only when updates exist, with a live count</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sort Toolbar</h4>
<p>A toolbar appears above your plugins list with one-click sort buttons for Name, Author, Installed Date, and Activated Date. Click once to sort ascending, click again to reverse. Sort preferences are saved per user and persist across sessions.</p>
<h4>Date Tracking Columns</h4>
<p>Two new columns — Installed and Activated — are added to the plugins list table. Plugins installed after activating this plugin show exact timestamps. Pre-existing plugins fall back to their file modification date, marked with a tilde (~) to indicate the date is approximate.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Extensions menu in the admin bar, accessible from any admin page or the front end of the site</li>
<li>Live plugin counts for Active, Inactive, and Updates Available shown in the dropdown</li>
<li>Capability-aware links — Add New and File Editor only appear to users with the relevant permissions</li>
<li>One-click sorting by Name, Author, Install Date, or Activation Date</li>
<li>Ascending and descending toggle with a second click on any sort button</li>
<li>Sort preference saved per user, persists between sessions</li>
<li>Installed Date and Activated Date columns in the plugins list</li>
<li>Accurate timestamp tracking for plugin activations, deactivations, and new installs</li>
<li>File modification date fallback for pre-existing plugins, marked with ~</li>
<li>No external scripts, no database tables, no configuration required</li>
<li>Fully translatable (text domain: glimbyte-starter-sorter)</li>
</ul>


Glimbyte Starter Sorter

Sort plugins by name, author, install date, or activation date. Includes an Extensions menu in the admin bar for instant plugin access from any page.

andplus

<p>If your site already outputs schema, you may see <strong>multiple JSON-LD script blocks</strong> in <code>wp_head</code>. That can mean <strong>overlapping entities, harder-to-review markup, and a higher risk of inconsistencies</strong>—with no single place to see how Organization, site, and content link together.</p>
<p><strong>ANDPLUS-SchemaBridge</strong> outputs <strong>one</strong> JSON-LD block containing a single coherent <code>@graph</code>, so core types (Organization, WebSite, WebPage, Article, Product, and related items) can stay <strong>linked in one graph</strong>. It is designed to <strong>reduce duplication</strong> and make it easier to run this plugin <strong>alongside</strong> other SEO tools by tuning which types you output in settings.</p>
<p><strong>Core features (no payment required):</strong> JSON-LD generation and Schema Monitor work out of the box. No API key is needed for those features.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unified schema graph:</strong> Output supported schema types in one JSON-LD block (<code>@graph</code>)</li>
<li><strong>Organization & brand:</strong> Configure organization source, name, URL, logo, and sameAs links</li>
<li><strong>Flexible content mapping:</strong> Map archives, taxonomies, and post types to appropriate schema types</li>
<li><strong>Schema Monitor:</strong> Run <strong>manual</strong> checks on URLs you register in wp-admin (this package includes <strong>one</strong> monitor URL). An optional add-on adds higher URL limits, <strong>scheduled</strong> checks, and reporting.</li>
</ul>
<p>Optional AI interpretation is available when you provide your own OpenAI API key (BYOK). <strong>Nothing is sent to OpenAI until you enable and use that feature.</strong></p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Single JSON-LD block in <code>wp_head</code> (one unified @graph)</li>
<li>Designed to reduce duplication and conflicts with other SEO plugins</li>
<li>Supports Organization, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, Article, Product, LocalBusiness</li>
<li>Flexible mapping for archives, taxonomies, and post types</li>
<li>Simple Schema Monitor with manual checks</li>
<li>Optional AI interpretation via OpenAI (BYOK)</li>
<li>Japanese admin UI included</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Support is limited. We may not be able to respond to individual requests.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin may contact external services only when you enable the related features. There is no background tracking of visitors for advertising.</p>
<h4>OpenAI (optional, BYOK)</h4>
<p>Used when you save an OpenAI API key and enable AI interpretation for schema monitoring. Requests go to the OpenAI API (<code>api.openai.com</code>) to send the <strong>monitoring/check context and prompts</strong> you trigger (e.g. interpretation of schema check results). Nothing is sent until you run a feature that calls the API. You supply your own API key; billing and data processing are governed by OpenAI.</p>
<ul>
<li>Terms of use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Schema monitor: fetched URLs</h4>
<p>When you run a schema check or (with the Pro add-on) scheduled monitoring, the plugin requests the <strong>URLs you configured</strong> in the monitor (and related resources such as the canonical page) over HTTP/HTTPS from your server. No third-party analytics service receives this data; only the targets you entered are contacted.</p>


ANDPLUS-SchemaBridge

JSON-LD piles up from themes, blocks, and SEO plugins. One @graph in wp_head links Organization and content—less duplicate markup.

Glimbyte Starter Sorter vs ANDPLUS-SchemaBridge