10 New, Free WordPress Plugins (April 2016)
- Developer: ymjid
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.18.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
2 – Hosted Content Importer
The Hosted Content Importer allows you to display externally hosted content on your blog. Furthermore, certain parts of the external content on your website can be altered by other users without them needing access to your blog. The external content is easily integrated via shortcode.
- Developer: Bimal Poudel
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.18.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
3 – Bigboss All-in-One Facebook Social Widget
To me, this article is the most exciting one of each month. I love free WordPress plugins, as they allow me to extend my CMS of choice with useful features almost infinitely. You won’t feel differently either, thus, let’s not lose any time. We’ll take a dive into the almost infinite plugin index, and find the ten most exciting, most interesting, new, and free WordPress plugins for you.
10 Free WordPress Plugins (April 2016)
1 – Webinfos
Webinfos is especially attractive for plugin or theme developers. It creates an own dashboard widget which can display fully customizable messages on the user dashboard. HTML can be used for its creation. You can also implement videos, logos, and other file types within the widget.
- Developer: ymjid
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.18.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
2 – Hosted Content Importer
The Hosted Content Importer allows you to display externally hosted content on your blog. Furthermore, certain parts of the external content on your website can be altered by other users without them needing access to your blog. The external content is easily integrated via shortcode.
- Developer: Bimal Poudel
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.18.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
3 – Bigboss All-in-One Facebook Social Widget
This Facebook social plugin creates multiple widgets all of which provide important features for Facebook. This includes all buttons in all versions, a Facebook like box, Facebook embedded posts, and videos, as well as a Facebook comment widget.
- Developer: Bulbul Bigboss
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.16.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
4 – Wikilinker
The Wikilinker allows you to quickly put links to Wikipedia articles. A simple shortcode is all it takes. The plugin can ease work for people that have to reference Wikipedia a lot.
- Developer: dartiss
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.16.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
5 – CSV to HTML
When you want to create HTML tables based on a CSV file’s data, this plugin could be the one for you. It can create appealing tables, based on one or multiple CSV files when the CSV files are located in your upload folder.
- Developer: wibergsweb
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.16.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
6 – Enable Shortcodes inside Widgets, Comments, and Excerpts
This simple plugin allows you to use shortcodes within the comments, within widgets, and the category, tag, and taxonomy descriptions.
- Developer: Aftab Husain
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.16.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
7 – WP-Password-Protect-Publication
This plugin adds a password protection to the Publish box on the page for the creation of new articles. This is an effective way of preventing other authors from altering or prematurely publishing an article. After distributing a password, only the article’s author can modify or publish said article.
- Developer: Paul Bearne
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.16.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
8 – Eyga: HTTP to HTTPS link changer
A useful little plugin for all people that have converted their website from HTTP to HTTPS. The plugin turns all local, absolute links in your articles into the HTTPS version.
- Developer: DSmidge
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.13.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
9 – Elevated Comments
This interesting plugin implements the best comment as a quote into your articles. The “adaptive” speech analysis identifies the best comment and automatically puts it into your article’s upper third. The automatic implementation can be turned off for each article, and also, a shortcode can be used for the manual integration. This plugin should be attractive to all WordPress users with a high comment volume. You can find out more about the way it functions on the plugin’s homepage.
- Developer: Postmatic
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.14.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Homepage
- Download on WordPress.org
10 – Youtube Responsive Video Player
The Youtube Responsive Video Player Plugin optimizes the display of videos of all known services on smartphones. The smartphone’s screens are used optimally, and the aspect ratio is optimized and adjusted as well. This way, the videos embedded in the articles can be utilized significantly better.
- Developer: henri
- Work in progress: yes
- Latest version from: 04.14.2016
- Costs: free via WordPress.org
- License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Known Compatibility Issues: unknown
- Developer Homepage: Unknown
- Download on WordPress.org
Conclusion
This month, we found some really useful, yet free WordPress plugins. Some of them are meant for a rather narrow scope of application, but that’s exactly what makes them so interesting. The Wikilinker is fascinating, and the Youtube Plugin is almost a must. Which of this month’s plugin do you like the most?
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