Abbas S

This plugin helps to create a widget and shortcode to create featured blogs.
Following are the things done
A settings page created for featured. 
You can enter the blog id in the blog id: text box in the settings page and click on get blog details button . 
This will fetch( by AJAX ) get the blog name , blog link , and blog Avatar ( based on the avatars plugin ). 
It will also add two buttons 
 Add this blog -> Which will add this blog to the featured blog list 
Can -> it will not add the blog to the featured blog list. 
Then saving the settings will save it. The settings are saved different for each blog . 
Then the user can use the widget as follows . 
Drag the widget on a widgetize area. 
Enter the blogids in the widget , then those blogs will be used as featured blogs. 
If nothing is entered in the bloglist the blog list from the settings will be taken. 
The user can use the short code as follows
The user can specify the blog list in short code argument. For e.g:- [multisite_featured_blogs blogids=”3,2″].The those blogs will be displayed in the featured blog list. 
If the user passes no argument then in case the featured blog list will be taken from the settings. For e.g:- [multisite_featured_blogs]
This plugin was done as a part of some work done for http://premium.wpmudev.org/ , but was later not released. 
Thanks for all the help for this plugin from WPMU Dev

Multisite Featured Blog

This plugin helps to create a widget and shortcode to create featured blogs

Karthik Thayyil

tanmaynikam

stephin gasper

This plugin helps you mark any word in your post and add some engaging content to it. 
With this plugin — 
* You can explain your words better than ever before. 
* Add highlighting points to validate your facts, add a supporting story to a scenario or an image gallery. 
* With advanced support for shortcodes, you can add related posts, related products, offers — everything that you can imagine. 
* Support for Contact Form 7 makes it easy to get direct leads from almost every single page. 
* Increase engagement, reduce bounce rate, increase leads through your blog.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Vue.js For Fast Rendering– The plugin uses Vue.js for the rendering logic. The sidebar renders almost instantaneously once the data is received. Caching of ajax responses helps ensure that a ajax call is made only once in the frontend.</li>
<li>Support for shortcodes– The content of the words is rendered in the same way a post content is rendered. This allows you to put the same content on the sidebar that you can put on your page or post.</li>
<li>Preview as you type– Word Preview is available in the Add, Edit , List page, which makes it easy to see your output while you create the word. 
> Note: Sidebar’s content inherits css of the page, the preview at the backend page will differ from that in the fontend.</li>
<li>Support For Contact Form 7– The plugin also supports CF7 scripts. This allows you to put contact form 7 in any word’s content and get leads within any page/post.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Future Plan</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improve Vue.js part of code.</li>
<li>Add support for page builder like Visual Composer, Elementor etc.</li>
<li>International language support.</li>
<li>Add unit test for both js and php code.</li>
<li>Setup a build process in GitHub for public contribution.</li>
</ul>

Word's Content

Word's Content plugin helps you explain things better and increases reader's engagement.

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