Premium WordPress Plugins of the Month: January 2017

For a start, the left-hand admin menu can be completely customized – we’re talking a new color scheme, over 4,000 icons, and ten separator styles. More impressively, however, you can actually re-organize the familiar menu layout using drag-and-drop. For example, if there’s a plugin you use again and again, why not put it at the top of the menu for easier access? You can even use this feature to add new items to the WordPress menu.

The Admin Menu Tweaker plugin has another important function, too: you can use it to define the permissions for certain user roles or even individual users. This is ideal for situations when a particular user doesn’t fit neatly into one of the default user roles – such as admin, author, contributor, etc. You can simply tailor that user’s permission levels, giving them the freedom to complete the tasks you need from them. Helpful, right?

Better Page Management Pro is another plugin that enhances and upgrades the WordPress back-end in lots of cool ways. For a start, rather than listing all of your posts or pages in the traditional way, the plugin displays thumbnail previews of each. You can re-order your posts and pages using drag-and-drop, or jump directly to a full-size preview at the click of a button.

Talking of previews, Better Page Management Pro also ships with a responsive preview function. This allows you to switch between mobile, tablet, and desktop view so that you can test how your content looks on differently-sized screens.

The developers are very ambitious, and there are a number of new and exciting features in store. These include dashboard themes, project management tools, custom post type integrations, and several “top secret” features – there are plans to make the plugin extendable, too. This is definitely one to watch and could be a “must have” plugin in the not-too-distant future. Get in ahead of the curve by purchasing today at a heavily discounted price.

The plugin introduces a variety of new elements, most notably a brand new carousel slider feature. You can populate these carousels with all kinds of content – images, logos, testimonials, team members, blog posts, and even WooCommerce products. Each carousel offers plenty of customization options, too, with a choice of styles, layouts, sizes, and scroll buttons. You can also build a custom color scheme and upload a custom background image for them, giving you a platform to show off your creative flair.

Other modules include an Instagram image grid and, my personal favorite, interactive promos – I strongly recommend that you click the demos to see these in action.

If you run more than one website, it can be useful to make your networks as interconnected as possible. WordPress Multisite Shared Media is an interesting new plugin developed for this very purpose.

The plugin’s name is a dead giveaway: it lets you share your images between all of your connected websites. In fact, it applies to anything uploaded to the WordPress media library.

All you have to do is upload a media file once, and then you can access it from any of your other websites. This can prove a real time-saver if you’re regularly re-using images across your entire portfolio.

Visual Composer extensions are among the most popular plugins on CodeCanyon from both a developer and a customer perspective. There are a number of them released every month, and they immediately jump right up the best-seller lists.

This month, we want to feature the Kaswara addon – an excellent “all-rounder” Visual Composer extension, offering a huge amount of versatility.

For starters, Kaswara introduces a whopping 45 elements. These include: