Faculty Websites is a managed WordPress hosting environment. This means that you cannot install or modify themes or plugins. This makes Faculty Websites a more stable and secure environment as all plugins and themes have gone through a strict code review for security, stability, and compatibility and are centrally updated. You can focus on your content and not worry about updates and security.
The good news is that we have a large library of plugins available to help extend the functionality of your website.
Current Plugins (as of October 2022)
All of these plugins are available to site administrators from the Plugins menu in the dashboard. Simply find the one you want to try and click “Activate“. The linked plugin titles go to the support page where you can learn more about how to use them.
| Plugin Name | Description |
|---|---|
| A-Z Lists | Allows you to insert an A-Z index into a page or post. It’s a quick and easy solution for situations where you need to list a large number of items in a filterable and easily searched A-Z list. |
| Accessibility | Helps with a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes. |
| Accessible Content | Check your pages and posts for potential accessibility issues and get help with ensuring your content is accessible. |
| Accessible Social Share | Adds accessible social share button to every post and page, so readers can easily share your content on their social networks. |
| Advanced Editor Tools | Adds extra features like tables, emoticons and custom font families to your visual editor’s toolbar and gives you more control in what's included in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress. |
| Advanced Settings | Adds extra configuration options for greater control over your site including which posts appear on your front page, the order posts displayed, featured images, display full content or excerpt, prevent file downloads and add custom JS or CSS code to header or footer. |
| Advanced Tables | Advanced solution for creating and managing table. Ideal tool for large tables that require visitors to sort, filter, search data. Can also import a range of file formats including Excel spreadsheets to create tables. Powered by the TablePress plugin. |
| Bulk Media Downloader | Allows users to select, zip and download multiple media files from their media library at the same time. |
| Calendar+ (An Accessible Events Calendar) | Provides an easy way to create, manage, and share your calendar and upcoming events. |
| Co-Authors Plus | Designed to allow you to assign multiple authors as a byline to a post, page or custom post type. |
| CoBlocks | Add over twenty extra blocks to the block editor to creating a more page builder like editing experience. |
| Comment Moderation Email only to Author | Send comment moderation notifications 'only' to the post author, not to the site administration address |
| Content Update Notification | Designed to notify by email anytime a post or page is published or updated. Ideal for multi-author sites where administrators need to be alerted to content change for review or regulatory compliance. |
| Cool Timeline | Create a beautiful vertical timeline that you can add to a page or post. |
| Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings | Polls allows you to create and manage polls inside your site dashboard. Ratings can be displayed above or below posts, pages and comments. Ratings enables your readers to vote on content shared on your site. |
| Custom CSS | Enables you to modify the theme’s fonts, colors, border and backgrounds by adding custom stylesheets to your blog. |
| Customizer Export/Import | Allows you to export or import customizer settings so you can perfect the look of a theme on a site then export and reuse your theme presets on numerous sites. This is a quick way to apply the same theme settings to multiple sites. |
| Disable Comments Completely | Allows you to disable comments completely on your site or on specific post types. |
| Disable Tracking and Statistics | Activate to disable Google Analytics tracking and statistics functionality completely. |
| Divi Accessibility | Improve Divi accessibility in accordance with WCAG 2.0 guidelines. |
| Divi Builder | The ultimate WordPress page builder. Already included and not needed when using the Divi or Extra theme. |
| DOGO Content Widget | Easily add DOGO widgets to your blog’s sidebar where you can display engaging content from one or more DOGO websites. |
| Duplicate Posts & Pages | A quick way to duplicate or copy a post or page, including the title, contents, tags and categories so you can re-use an existing post or page easily with minimal effort. |
| Edit Flow | Designed for group blogs, such as newspaper sites, where the blogging team uses it for collaboration and management on publishing posts. Includes a calendar, custom post statuses, threaded commenting in the post editor for private discussion between writers and editors and more. |
| Editorial Access Manager | Allows you to grant access to specific user groups or users to edit selected posts and pages. |
| Embed Any Document | Quick and easy tool to help you embed any document into posts and pages. |
| Fancier Author Box | Used to add detailed author biography with links to your social media networks to your posts, pages and custom post types. |
| Footnotes | Provides an elegant and easy to add footnotes to posts and pages. Type them inline in your post in square brackets like this: [1. This is a footnote.] Each footnote must have a number followed by a period and a space and then the actual footnote. |
| Formidable Forms | Allows you to easily create forms of all shapes and sizes – and so much more. |
| Forums | Allows you to easily add forums to any page or post on your site. |
| Google Calendar | Easily display your Google Calendars on your site using the Simple Calendar plugin. |
| Google Tag Manager | Allows you to add Google Tag manager to your site without having to add the Google Tag manager code snippet into your theme. |
| Jetpack | Powerful plugin that adds several different features and tools to your blog. |
| Lightbox for Images | Adds an overlay that goes over the site and shows the larger version of the image when a reader clicks on the image so that readers can view without navigating away from the page. |
| Live Shortcodes | Lets you quickly and easily add cool things to posts and pages such as accordions, toogles, tabs, diviiders, buttons, RSS with minimal effort by configuring and inserting shortcode. |
| Media Tree | Allows you to easily group files into categories and display them in “tree” view in a post or page using shortcode. |
| Mega Menu | Used to create stunning, highly customizable navigation menus for your site using a user-friendly drag and drop menu builder. |
| Menu Icons | Provides an easy way to icons to your custom menu. |
| MetaSlider | Enables you to quickly add a slideshow to posts, pages and sidebars. |
| Pixabay Images | Find quality public domain images from Pixabay and upload them with just one click. |
| Posts & Pages Restrictions | Limit access to certain posts or pages so that only logged in users are able to view the content in those posts or pages. Useful where you want parts of your site accessible to all visitors while restricting access to certain posts or pages to specific readers. |
| Press This | Quickly share text, images or videos from any website via a post from your blog without having to visit your dashboard using a bookmarklet to your browser’s toolbar. |
| Print, PDF & Email by PrintFriendly | Optimize your posts and pages for printing and lets your readers download or email a PDF version of your posts or pages. |
| Public Post Preview | Enables you to give a link to other people so they can preview your post before it is published without being added as a user to your blog. |
| Publications Manager | An easy to use tool for organizing and displaying publications. |
| PublishPress Future | Allows you to add an expiration date and time to posts which you can configure to either delete the post, change it to a draft, or update the post categories at expiration time. |
| Regenerate Thumbnails | Regenerate thumbnail sizes for one or more images that have been uploaded to your media library. Helpful for fixing image issues caused when switching to a new theme that uses featured images of a different size compared to your previous theme. |
| Restricted Site Access | Used to limit access to your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specified IP addresses. It’s a good solution for Extranets, publicly hosted Intranets or when you want to limit access to your site while it is under construction. |
| Review Notifications | Notifies administrator when posts are submitted pending review. |
| RSS Featured Images | Automatically enables featured images in RSS feed. The RSS featured image size is set by theme. |
| Safe Redirect Manager | Allows you to redirect your site, pages or posts to new URL’s. |
| Scroll To Top | Adds a Scroll Up button to your site that allows readers to go back to the top of the page with just a click. |
| Simple Google Search | Replace your search results with the ones provided by Google. Your site must be set to 'Allow search engines' in Settings > Reading to use. Set up your search engine at cse.google.com then add your "Google Search Engine ID" in Settings > General. |
| Simple SEO | Quick and easy tool for building a solid foundation for an SEO-friendly website. |
| Simple Tooltips | Quick and easily tool to add tooltips to your text in posts and pages. |
| Sitemap | Creates a sitemap suitable for search engines |
| Slide-In | Add smooth slide-ins to your site to grab your visitor's attention to share messages, content or to add a call to action like a Subscribe by Email form. |
| Table of Contents | Add tables of contents to posts, pages, and sidebars. |
| Term Management Tools | Used to reorganize your tags and categories to merge terms, set parent terms or convert terms from tags to categories or vice versa. |
| User Widget and Profiles | A widget that displays blog participant info - number of posts and comments, and links to profile page |
| Widget Importer & Exporter | Easily copy widgets from a site to a new site. |
| WP SMO | Designed to optimize your content for social networks by improving the way your content is displayed when shared on a social media website by adding Twitter cards and Open Graph meta tags |