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Much like modules, plugins extend the functionality of EE. Plugins are more limited than modules in that they cannot store information, but are used for changing the behavior of tags or adding functionality “on the fly.”
There is information on this Wiki for the following plugins:
* Keywords
* Feed Enclosures Plugin
Here are plugins (in alphabetical order) that are not listed at the EE Plugins site:
* AllowPHP
* Browser Info - allows you to display information about the user’s browser.
* Browser Sniff - allows you to find browser name and version and use them in EE conditionals.
* Cacher - Caches stuff to retrieve later. It does somewhat what the Reeposition plugin does, but works across templates.
* Category Expander
* Category Id - Allows you to find category id. Use found category id as parameter of other tags.
* Child Categories - Allows you to to display a list of subcategories for a given category and list of entries posted into each subcategory.
* Clear Entry Views Plugin
* Cookie Plus - Set and get cookies.
* CSVee—Attain CSV files for custom SQL queries.
* Custom Text Plugin—displays text from system language files as specified by the {exp:custom_text} tag.
* Date Compare
* Developer Plugin - After adding the plugin tags to a template, and if you are logged in as a Super Admin, a small tab appears at the top left. Clicking this opens a pane with 6 tables of data: Weblogs, Member Groups, Categories, Weblog Fields, Admin Quicklinks and Weblog Entries. Each table line has shortcut links that will open that specific item in the CP in a new window.
* DynoCat Category plugin
* Entries List - (was Category Posts) Allows you to find titles, url_titles, weblog names, weblog urls and category names of all entries posted to certain categories and/or to certain weblogs.
* Entries Number - Allows to find number of entries posted into certain weblogs and/or into certain categories and/or having certain url_title or entry_id. Use the number found in conditionals.
* EntryData - Get custom fields without exp:weblog:entries
* Entry Id - Allows to find entry id of the entry which belongs to certain weblog and/or is posted into category having certain id number and/or has certain url_title.
* Excerpt - This plugin is designed to be wrapped around the {full_text} variable on your search results template.
* Extract URL Plus - More functionality for your perusal.
* Find and Replace Plus - Find and replace characters in text. Mark area in which you want replace operation to happen.
* GeeVar allows you to create global variables using the control panel’s publish and edit interface (related forum thread).
* Landing Page—allows you to display relevant entries when a visitor is referred to your site from a search engine.
* LG Multi Language - Simple and easy to install frontend language switcher.
* List Contents - allows you to specify a path (not full URL) and it will iterate over the contents and print an ordered or unordered list of the files.
* Localized Text Plugin—localized text string variable loader.
* LogMeIn—automatically log a site visitor in from any template without having to collect details from them, great for SAEF.
* Loop Plugin—allows you to perform loops within any template without having to enable php.Related forum thread.
* Maximum Posts Reached—Enables you to set a number of posts allowed per member group via an SAEF.
* Meta Words—Get most frequent words for a template.
* MP3 Info—This plugin can be used to extract header information from a given mp3-file.
* navTrail
* Number To Date - purpose of this plugin is to assist in ordering of entries which have titles
containing numbers.
* Pager Plugin - plugin to split a field into multiple pages, without having to do the multi_field pagination trick
* PHP Markdown Extra—Updated version of Markdown plugin that utilizes Michel Fortin’s additions
* PHPStringFun - Gateway to PHP’s string functions without needing to activate PHP in a template
* Random Sticky - Randomly reassigns the ‘sticky’-flag(s) in a given weblog in fixed intervals.
* Redirect To you will be re-directed to the URL specified in the location parameter.
* Reeposition - allows you to move content from Point A to Point B (related forum thread)
* Repeet (beta)—Displays Repeating Entries (related forum thread).
* Search Marker - when using the EE search module this plugin highlights the search terms on the search results page
* Search Term—Format your search result excerpts, Google style!
* SEO gadget - display various search engine stats from your referrer log.
* Session Variables - allows you to store variables in PHP’s native session (related forum thread).
* Sliced Typography
* Subcategories - will let you show a list of subcategories for a given category.
* Subsegment - Split url segment into subsegment array and find any subsegment. Use subsegment as parameter of other tag.
* Tag Limit—Limit html output by tag.
* Template Language
* Traverse Segments - Allows to return the value of a certain URI segment working from the end of the URI backwards.
* Trimmer—Cuts X characters from the beginning and / or the end of a given text and returns the trimmed string.
* Weblog URL - Allows to find weblog url as specified in weblog preferences.