Loops ‘n Slides is a simple yet powerful free plugin that allows you to build posts loops based on custom queries, and display them using a shortcode; eventually as a carousel of slides. Optionally, it will display your image galleries as carousels.
Display any posts you want… Create a loop that will display exactly the posts you want; filtered by tag, category, by post author… any WordPress Query works !
…The way you want… You can choose among several templates to display your loop, or use your own one !
…Anywhere you want ! With this simple shortcode: [loops-n-slides id=XXX]
Carousels: Just click the Carousel Checkbox when editing a loop, it will be displayed in a nice, slidy way. You can define global options for the carousels, or/and define them for each loop. (powered by OwlCarousel)
Carousel galleries: Optionally, enable carousels for your image galleries, globally or for each gallery.
Totally Free: There is NO premium version for this plugin, because it is totally free. Of course, donations would be very appreciated.
Creating and editing playlists is a piece of cake (not to mention the Tracklist Importer): Add or remove tracks on the fly, reorder them, favorite a track or a tracklist, export…
Tracks
When editing a track, you can query details from music services like MusicBrainz (The Open Music Encyclopedia) or Spotify.
Tracks can be favorited by your users frontend, or added to any new playlist on-the-fly.
Track Links
You can attach a bunch of links to any track; including links that can stream audio (Youtube, Soundcloud, audio files…) directly to our player!
Autolink (requires an API key)
If you don’t attach links to your track manually, you can enable our autolink module. It will search for remote links and attach them to your tracks automatically.
Radios
Radios are how we call live playlists. Those playlists are synced with remote webpages or services (a Spotify URL, a XSPF file, etc.),, and are refreshing seamlessly after a user-defined delay.
Import XSPF playlists using the Tracklist Importer. If you have an API key, you could also import playlists from various services: Last.fm, Spotify, SoundCloud, Deezer, Musicbrainz, Radionomy, Hypem, 8tracks, BBC, indieshuffle, Online Radio Box, radio.fr, RadioKing, Reddit, SomaFM, Soundsgood,… Custom setups are also available, if you are somewhat familiar with CSS Selectors.
Our player uses of the MediaElement.js library, which is native in WordPress. It supports audio (& video) files, but also links from various services like Youtube or Soundcloud. It has been extended with various features built on top of it, like a tracks queue or a Last.fm scrobbler.
Social
Last.fm
In addition of being able to scrobble on Last.fm, every track favorited by a user connected to his account will also be loved on that service.
BuddyPress
Users profiles will get a new music section that lists the user favorite tracks, tracklists, and the ones he created. It will also fire new BuddyPress activity items.
Those are optionals, but are nice features to a solid plugin. Consider getting one as a nice way to support the work done – hundred of hours – , and to ensure its durability.
Donate
Whatever, if you like this plugin, please also consider making a donation. This would be very appreciated !
Pinterest Importer allows you to connect to your Pinterest.com account; to grab all your pins (including from secret and optionnally followed boards); and to import them in WordPress.
The difference with other plugins is that it is not based on the (very limited) official Pinterest API; which also requires SSL. This means that you can make a full backup (instead of getting only the last x pins); but it also means the plugin may broke one day or another. Better use it quick !
Nice GUI
Uses a custom post type, which makes it easy to use specific theme templates or capabilities, etc.
Get pins from regular boards, secret boards and followed boards (optional).
Assign a WordPress category to each of your board (or let us handle it automatically)
Supports both image & video pins; and sets automatically the corresponding post format
Downloads original HD images from pins.
Can be used on an ongoing basis : pins will not be imported several times
Backup & display the pin metadatas in a metabox
Set pin creation date as post date
Handles hashtags, which are converted to post tags
bbPress Pencil Unread display which bbPress forums/topics have already been read by the logged user; and adds classes to forums/topics so you can customize your theme easily. Compatible with BuddyPress Groups Forums feature.
For forums, it checks if the user has read all topics since last visit.
For topics, it checks if the user opened the topic since it was last active.
Mark as read (optional) mark all topics of a forum as read.
Bookmarks : (optional) adds a link after the topics titles; that goes directly to the last read reply of a topic.
Option to set as read topics that where created before the user’s registration
