At LUBUS, we have been fortunate enough to work on different kinds of projects, which have helped us learn & explore. WordPress. We try our best to avoid using plugins for everything. requirement that can be simply implemented with a few lines of code. But there are scenarios when plugins come in handy. For us, these plugins are tools & utilities that help us perform tasks during development. These plugins have been helping us a lot on our various projects. We are sharing them in a series of articles covering 5 plugins in each post, along with scenarios when we used them.
Note:
These plugins are to be used during development on your dev servers. Don’t keep them when you move to production.
Updating URL’s
Moving a WordPress website from development to production or migrating a website between servers is quite common. But with this, broken images are a common issue. Updating the URL in the SQL dump is not the best solution, as it doesn’t work well with serialized data. “Velvet Blues Update URLs” plugin comes in handy in those cases.
Regenerating Thumbnails
Often, we work on revamping projects that involve changing the size of thumbnails. Even during development, it’s common to tweak thumbnails. These changes do not apply to older images. To apply the same to existing images? “Force Regenerate Thumbnails” plugin comes to the rescue as it helps in deleting and regenerating new images as per the new size registered.
Generating Post Thumbnail From Post Image
When working on the revamping of an old design or migration from another system, we are left with a post without post thumbnails. We can add functionality to use the first image of the post. But we found “Auto Post Thumbnail”, it automatically generates the Post Thumbnail (Featured Thumbnail) from the first image in the post or any custom post type, only if Post Thumbnail is not set.
Converting Post Type
You might bump into a client project where everything is dumped into posts and categories, and for revamping it, it makes sense to separate them into custom post types. To enable the “Convert Post Types” plugin, it’s a perfect utility for converting lots of posts or pages to a custom post type (or vice versa). You can also assign new taxonomy terms, which will be added to the posts’ existing terms.
Switching Post Type
The above helps you with the bulk conversion of the post, but there are situations where we need to convert a specific post. We encountered the same with one of our client projects & “Post Type Switcher” plugin simply helped us do that.?This plugin adds a simple post-type drop-down to the post editor interface, allowing you to reassign any post to a new post type while editing your post.
Keep following this series to discover more helpful plugins. Have fun! 🙂
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