Please note: For security reasons, third party plugins are not allowed on NUsites. Below is a list of the plugins you may choose from.
To request a plugin that is available by request, please send an email to consultant@northwestern.edu with the subject line “NUSites Plugin Activation Request.” Please be sure to include the URL of your site with your request.
| Name | Description | Documentation | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Able Player | Accessible HTML5 media player | By Request | |
| Accessibility | Helps with a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes. | Documentation | Available |
| Accessible Content | Check your pages and posts for potential accessibility issues and get help with ensuring your content is accessible. | By Request | |
| Accessible Social Share | Adds accessible social share button to every post and page, so readers can easily share your content on their social networks. | Documentation | By Request |
| Advanced Custom Fields PRO | For adding custom fields to your WordPress edit screens. | Documentation | By Request |
| Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced) | 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Advanced Excerpt | Several improvements over WP's default excerpt. The size of the excerpt can be limited using character or word count, and HTML markup is not removed. | Available | |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Akismet Anti-Spam | Spam commenting service designed to reduce comment spam by checking the content of the comment anonymously with an online server, to determine whether the comment is spam or not. | Documentation | Available |
| Bulk Media Downloader | Allows users to select, zip and download multiple media files from their media library at the same time. | By Request | |
| Calendar+ | Provides an easy way to create, manage, and share your calendar and upcoming events. | Documentation | Available |
| Co-Authors Plus | Designed to allow you to assign multiple authors as a byline to a post, page or custom post type. | Documentation | By Request |
| CoBlocks | Add over twenty extra blocks to the block editor to creating a more page builder like editing experience. | Documentation | By Request |
| Comment Moderation E-mail only to Author | Send comment moderation notifications 'only' to the post author, not to the site administration address as configured on Settings > General, unless the author has no moderation rights. Once activated and the site admin is no longer notified about comments on posts by other authors. | By Request | |
| Contact Form 7 | Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. | By Request | |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| Cool Timeline | Create a beautiful vertical timeline that you can add to a page or post. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Custom CSS | Enables you to modify the theme’s fonts, colors, border and backgrounds by adding custom stylesheets to your blog. | Documentation | Available |
| Custom Post Type UI | Provides an easy to use interface for registering and managing your custom post types and taxonomy. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| DOGO Content Widget | Easily add DOGO widgets to your blog’s sidebar where you can display engaging content from one or more DOGO websites. | Documentation | By Request |
| Disable Comments Completely | Allows you to disable comments completely on your site or on specific post types. | Documentation | By Request |
| Divi Accessibility | Improve Divi accessibility in accordance with WCAG 2.0 guidelines. | By Request | |
| Divi Blog Extras | A powerful and highly customizable Divi blog layout plugin with Archive and Custom Post Type support. | By Request | |
| Divi Breadcrumbs Module | This plugin adds a Divi Builder Module which generates breadcrumb navigation menus. Each breadcrumb nav is highly customizable to suit every style imaginable. | By Request | |
| Divi Builder | The ultimate WordPress page builder. Already included and not needed when using the Divi or Extra theme. | Documentation | Available |
| Divi Map Module Extended | A Custom Map Module for Divi. Enhance the Google Map and impress your visitors with customized map design, custom pin icons and more! | By Request | |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Editorial Access Manager | Allows you to grant access to specific user groups or users to edit selected posts and pages. | Documentation | By Request |
| Embed Any Document | Quick and easy tool to help you embed any document into posts and pages. | Documentation | Available |
| Exclude Pages from Navigation | Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any "consumer" side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings. | Available | |
| Fancier Author Box | Used to add detailed author biography with links to your social media networks to your posts, pages and custom post types. | Documentation | Available |
| Featured Video Plus | Allows you to display featured videos on posts and pages. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Formidable Forms | Allows you to easily create forms of all shapes and sizes – and so much more. | Documentation | Available |
| Forums | Allows you to easily add forums to any page or post on your site. | Documentation | Available |
| GatherContent Plugin | Imports items from GatherContent to your site. | By Request | |
| Global Site Categories | This powerful plugin allows you to simply display a global category cloud for your entire WordPress Multisite network. How cool is that! | By Request | |
| Global Site Tags | This powerful plugin allows you to simply display a global tag cloud for your entire WordPress Multisite network. How cool is that! | By Request | |
| Google Calendar | Easily display your Google Calendars on your site using the Simple Calendar plugin. | Documentation | Available |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| H5P Campus | H5P Campus plugin | By Request | |
| HubSpot | Allows you to use HubSpot email marketing, CRM, forms, popups, and live chat on your site. | Documentation | By Request |
| Image slider with description | Image slider with description WordPress plugin is a Jquery based image slideshow script that incorporates some of your most requested features all rolled into one. Not only image this slideshow have images, title and description. We have option to enable/disable description in the slideshow. | By Request | |
| JSON feed | Provides feeds in JSON form. Once activated your new JSON feed is located by adding ?feed=json to the end of your site URL. | Documentation | By Request |
| Jetpack | Powerful plugin that adds several different features and tools to your blog. | Documentation | Available |
| LMS Integration | Connect your CampusPress sites with your LMS courses in Canvas, Blackboard or using LTI. | By Request | |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Mathematica Toolbox | A "toolbox" of shortcodes for people who write articles about Mathematica code/the Wolfram Language. Includes source code highlighting for Mathematica code/Wolfram Language, automated CDF embedding, Wolfram Cloud API utility shortcode, and a seamless cached interface to Mathematica.Stackexchange.com. | Documentation | By Request |
| Media Tree | Allows you to easily group files into categories and display them in “tree” view in a post or page using shortcode. | Documentation | Available |
| Mega Menu | Used to create stunning, highly customizable navigation menus for your site using a user-friendly drag and drop menu builder. | Documentation | By Request |
| Menu Icons | Provides an easy way to icons to your custom menu. | Documentation | By Request |
| MetaSlider | Enables you to quickly add a slideshow to posts, pages and sidebars. | Documentation | Available |
| Page Links To | Allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources. | By Request | |
| Pixabay Images | Find quality public domain images from Pixabay and upload them with just one click. | Documentation | By Request |
| Polylang | Used to create a bilingual or multilingual site. Write your posts, pages, categories, tags in the different languages and then readers click on the Language switcher to change to their language. | Documentation | By Request |
| Post Types Order | Allows you to change the order of any posts or custom post types. | Documentation | Available |
| Posts & Pages Restriction | 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| Print My Blog | Allows you to print your entire blog to paper, PDF, or eBook. | Documentation | By Request |
| Print Post and Page | Adds a print button to your posts and pages which readers can use to print the page. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| Publications Manager | An easy to use tool for organizing and displaying publications. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| RSS Featured Images | Automatically enables featured images in RSS feed. The RSS featured image size is set by theme. | Available | |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| 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. | Documentation | Available |
| Review Notifications | Notifies administrator when posts are submitted pending review. | Documentation | Available |
| Roles & Capabilities | Roles & Capabilities is a plugin that will allows you to manage user roles and capabilities and also assign capabilities to specific users. | By Request | |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| Search & Filter | Search and Filtering system for Pages, Posts, Categories, Tags and Taxonomies | By Request | |
| 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. | Documentation | By Request |
| Simple SEO | Quick and easy tool for building a solid foundation for an SEO-friendly website. | Documentation | Available |
| Simple Tooltips | Quick and easily tool to add tooltips to your text in posts and pages. | Documentation | By Request |
| Siteimprove | Integrates your site with Siteimprove. A siteimprove subscription is required to use. | Documentation | By Request |
| Sitemap | Creates a sitemap suitable for search engines that will be available at http://your.site/?dynamic-sitemap=1 | Documentation | Available |
| Slide-In | Add smooth slide-ins to your site to grab your visitors attention to share messages, content or to add a call to action like a Subscribe by Email form. | Documentation | Available |
| SyntaxHighlighter Evolved | Allows you to post source code for others to view by enclosing your code in shortcode which preserves its formatting while providing syntax highlighting for certain languages. | Documentation | Available |
| Table of Contents | Add tables of contents to posts, pages and sidebars. | Documentation | Available |
| 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. | Available | |
| User Widget and Profiles | A widget which displays blog participant info - number of posts and comments, and links to profile page | Available | |
| VR Viewer | Embed 360° photos and videos in posts or pages using the shortcode [vrview url="{URL}" stereo="false" width="100%" height="400px"]. | Documentation | By Request |
| 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 | Documentation | By Request |
| WP-CORS | Allows AJAX requests from other sites to integrate content from your site using the CORS standards. | Documentation | By Request |
| WP-Table Reloaded | This plugin allows you to create and easily manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. A comfortable backend allows an easy manipulation of table data. You can then include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML. | By Request | |
| Widget Importer & Exporter | Easily copy widgets from a site to a new site. | Documentation | By Request |
| Widgets on Pages | The easy way to Add Widgets or Sidebars to Posts and Pages by shortcodes or template tags. | Available | |
| Wiki | Lets you make as many wiki pages on your site as you’d like | Documentation | Available |