Bob Vandevliet

Adds essential functionalities to your WordPress installation.


 WordPress is a great CMS! But, in my opinion, it lacks a small number of essential functionalities. Of course, separate plugins can be found for that, but they often do much more than essentially required and, partly as a result, may adversely affect the security and speed of the website. That is why I have collected the below functionalities in one efficient and lightweight WordPress plugin.


 The following modules are available:
<ul>
<li>Security</li>
 Basic security options and brute-force protection. 
 Only administrator users can see and manage this module.
<li>Development Mode</li>
 Easy toggling WP_DEBUG or make your website accessible for logged-in users only. 
 Only administrator users can see and manage this module.
<li>Login Form</li>
 Change the WordPress logo shown above the login form to your own brand’s logo. 
 Only administrator users can see and manage this module.
<li>Google Analytics</li>
 Implement Google Analytics using gtag.js. 
 All users that can edit pages can see and manage this module.
</ul>

 After activation of the plugin, each module is available in the admin dashboard as if it had always been there out of the box. You decide which modules to enable, which gives you the freedom to disable a module if you prefer to use another plugin for it instead.

Essentials

Adds essential functionalities to your WordPress installation. Security and development options, Google Analytics and more.

Sridhar Katakam

This plugin enables HTML5 support for elements like the search form and adds (what I consider to be) some essential CSS – for example, to make all the images responsive when using the <a href="https://oxygenbuilder.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Oxygen</a> visual site builder.
There are no settings for the plugin. Just install and activate.
Details:
<ol>
<li>Enables HTML5 support for comment list, comment form, search form, gallery and caption elements.</li>
<li>Adds some CSS from <a href="https://hankchizljaw.com/wrote/a-modern-css-reset/" rel="nofollow ugc">Modern CSS Reset</a> for
<ul>
<li>setting a min-height of 100vh for the <code>body</code> element.</li>
<li>removing default padding, default margin and list styles on <code>ul</code> and <code>ol</code> elements that have a class set.</li>
<li>inheriting font rules for inputs and buttons.</li>
<li>removing all animations and transitions for people that prefer not to see them via <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-reduced-motion" rel="nofollow ugc">prefers-reduced-motion</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Adds CSS for
<ul>
<li>making all images responsive and setting their <code>vertical-align</code> to <code>top</code> so they don’t take up an extra pixel space at the bottom.</li>
<li>WordPress <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Wrapping_Text_Around_Images" rel="nofollow ugc">image alignment classes</a>. This is useful for <a href="https://wpdevdesign.com/how-to-wrap-text-around-images-in-oxygen/" rel="nofollow ugc">wrapping text around images in Oxygen</a>.</li>
<li>making the <a href="https://wpdevdesign.com/how-to-fix-wordpress-toolbar-submenu-links-issue-with-fixed-header/" rel="nofollow ugc">admin bar sub menu items visible when using fixed header in Oxygen</a>.</li>
<li>making <code>label</code> elements visible which Oxygen, for some strange reason, seems to set the display of to none.</li>
<li>handling screen reader text for form labels when HTML5 output is enabled (which this plugin does).</li>
<li>aligning search form’s input and button side-by-side and changing header search form’s input width to <code>auto</code> from 100%.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Automatic Installation</h3>
Search for <code>oxygen essentials</code> from within your WordPress plugins’ Add New page and install.
<h3>Manual Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Click on the <code>Download</code> button to download the plugin.</li>
<li>Upload the entire <code>wpdevdesign-oxygen-essentials</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the <code>Plugins</code> menu in WordPress.</li>
</ol>

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