This document discusses several WordPress plugins that can add style and functionality to a website: - Slider plugins like Soliloquy allow users to easily create and customize image sliders with responsive designs and SEO-friendly captions. - Full Screen Background Images plugins let users upload and set background images that automatically scale to fit browsers on different pages and post types. - Advanced Custom Fields gives users greater design control by dividing content into customized sections and fields without formatting code. - Forms plugins like Gravity Forms allow creation of responsive contact forms with standard and custom fields, as well as scheduling and saving submissions as draft or published posts.

1. WordPress Plugins
To add Style to your Website

2. Slider
• Responsive!
• Really easy to use
• Flexible in terms of design
can use HTML in captions, add links easily
• SEO friendly
• Secure - audited by Mark Jaquith,
lead developer of WordPress, for security.
• Easy Video Integration

3. Setup is easy
• Create new slider
• Insert images and customise
• metadata and slider size and options
• Insert the slider into post with "Add Slider"
• button next to “Add Media”

4. Soliloquy Addons
With the developer licence and you can access all of these!

5. • Responsive!
• Really Easy to use
• Flexible in terms of design
• - slides can vary in height
• Uses WordPress media library
• and shortcodes

6. Setup is easy
• After installation, set up the plugin options
just once.
• Add images to posts and pages as you
build your site and use the [gallery] or [bxgallery]
shortcode to show the images in the bxslider.

7. Full Screen Background Images
• Upload and set an unlimited number of background images
• Images automatically scaled to fit the user’s browser
•
Set images to show on different contexts:
Global – show everywhere or
Category, Archives, Pages, Posts, Custom post types, Blog,
Front Page and Search
• Context hierarchy / fall back support for contexts.
If the current context doesn’t have an image set, then the
global image will be displayed
• Upload and set images directly from the post editor /
or from the plugin panel
• Option to fade images in when the page is loaded
Adjustable fade speed in admin
• Very efficient with minimal overhead

8. Full Screen Background Images

9. WordPress Plugins
To add Style
+
extra functionality

10. Rather than have all your content in the main content area, ACF allows you divide it into sections
Opening Statement
The Challenge
The Work
The Impact
Co-creators

11. Setup your fields
Set the Location –
this makes the fields show up in the
correct page or post

12. Add content using fields
• Easy to add content without having
to think about any formatting
(unless using HTML in fields)

13. Call the fields in your template

14. A customised CMS
• Gives you greater control
over the design
• Keeps the site looking perfect,
no matter who is editing it

15. Forms
• Responsive!
• Super Easy to use
• Standard Fields
• Pricing Fields
• Post Fields
• Schedule Forms
• Form Settings – title, description,
confirmation, notifications
• No need for Captcha, has a built
in honeypot!

16. Post Fields
• Allow people to contribute to
your website through a form
• You can decide whether it is
saved as a draft or published

17. Post Fields

18. Forms
•
The result
A website with content
contributed by your
visitors

19. Links
http://soliloquywp.com/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/bxslider-integration/
http://bxslider.com/
http://pippinsplugins.com/full-screen-background-images-plugin-pro/
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/
http://www.gravityforms.com/
www.thedesignweb.com.au