Plugins

Activated Plugins:

  1. Authors Widget– Shows the list or cloud of the authors, with the number of posts, link to RSS feed next to their name, avatar.  It is useful in a multi-author blog, where you want to have the list in the sidemenu.
    1. See Sidemenu for example.
  2. Category Posts Widget– Displays the most recent posts from a certain category.
    1. See Sidemenu for example of “Restaurant” category posts.
  3. Fourteen Colors– Allows you to re-color Twenty Fourteen theme.  It provides two color pickers, which control: Header/Sidebar/Footer Background Color, Featured Content Background Color, Link Color, Search Bar Color, Navigation Menu Hover Colors, Text Selection/Highlight Color, Audio/Video Player Colorschemes, and more.
    1. http://sites.lafayette.edu/twentyfourteen/
  4. iframe– Provides the replacement of the iframe html tag and accepts the same params as iframe html tag does.  You may use iframe shortcode to embed content from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps or from any external page.
    1. http://sites.lafayette.edu/plugins/iframe-plugin/
  5. Math Jax-laTeX– Enables rendering of embedded latex or mathml in HTML pages.  The mathjax javascript is inject on-demand only to those pages which require it.  This ensures that mathjax is not loaded for all pages, which will otherwise slow loading down.
    1. http://sites.lafayette.edu/plugins/mathjax-latex/
  6. Mini Twitter Feed– Puts Twitter on your WordPress blog, you can add your tweets or the tweets from the folks you like, lists, queries..  You can display up to 100 tweets within 7 days.
    1. See Sidemenu.
  7. Thirteen Colors– Easy way to customize the colors of the Twenty Thirteen theme.  Also allows for integration of a custom header image in your colors.
    1. http://sites.lafayette.edu/twentythirteen/
  8. TinyMCE Advanced– Allows you to add, remove, and arrange the buttons that are shown on the Visual Editor.  You can configure up to four rows of buttons including Font Sizes, Font Family, text and background colors, tables, etc.Some additional features include support for creating and editing tables, more options for inserting lists, Search and Replace in the editor, and ability to set Font Family and Font Sizes.
    1. http://sites.lafayette.edu/plugins/plugins/tinymce-advanced/ ‎