Created by: Enea Overclokk
You MUST always do a backup before install it and always test it in a dev environment.
If you have any trouble open a ticket.
If you have any feature requests or code issue open a ticket on github.
ItalyStrap will add powerful features to your WordPress site.
Advanced Control Manager is also on GitHub.
I developed this plugin with many features because I need them in all sites created for my clients, it also extends the ItalyStrap Theme Frameworks functionality, but it works fine with all WordPress themes.
Think about Advanced Control Manager like a Jetpack with many functionality that make your site more powerful and extensible, for example: Lazy load for image with srcset support, widget and shortcode for Twitter Bootstrap Carousel (with lazy load support), widget for displaying lists of posts type with a lot of options like popular posts, last posts, related posts and so on, there are a lot of functionality, see above for the full list of featured.
This plugin is fully developed in OOP. It utilizes DI Container, Dependency Injection, Polymorphism, Inheritance, etc.
If you are a developer you can extend it with his API (Dev docs coming soon).
Some functionalities need to be personalized with lines of code, for example if you use the new widget for displaying posts you have to add your own CSS style to make it look like your site (you can add it in ACM > settings > Style > Custom CSS or in your theme style.css), I’m working on building some basic code snippets and documentation, but I need a lot of time to do it, please be patient with me :-).
This is my thanks for what WordPress has given to me.
If you want to contribute click here do a fork and do a pull request to the Dev branch ๐
To do so you can add define( 'ITALYSTRAP_BETA', true );
to your wp-config.php
file, REMEMBER that you have to do this in a development enviroment, do not do this in a production site and do always a backup.
Lazy Loading of embedded video
Breadcrumbs Make your WordPress site SEO friendly with Breadcrumbs and Schema.org and get Google rich snippet in SERP, fully customizable for your purpose (ItalyStrap breadcrumbs class is 10 times faster than Yoast Breadcrumbs ๐ ).
LazyLoad Lazy load images to improve page load times and server bandwidth. Images are loaded only when visible to the user. This functionality is forked from lazy-load plugin with my improvements. It also works with ItalyStrap Bootstrap Carousel, srcset and sizes.
Schema.org Local Business A simple Widget to add Schema.org Local business in your widgetized themes (sidebar, footer, …)
This widget will add microdata information about your site for SEO purposes.
This widget was present in my ItalyStrap theme framework forked from Roots theme with some improvements of mine, now I’ve done more improvements thank to this tool shared from Luca Bove on google plus.
Posts Widget This adds a widget for displaying posts with a lot of options, you can create a related posts, posts from any taxonomies, pages, and mmore, in a future release you have also the power to change the template.
Custom Style Now you can add your custom style in single page or in the entire site, you can also add custom css class and ID attribute in single page or in the site.
Google Analytics You can add Google Analytics snippet to your theme, this is a simple functionality that add the GA snippet to wp_footer
hook
And many more
Note: This plugins is localized/ translatable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin and for validating the “Poedit Editor”.
Idea Behind / Philosophy: A plugin for improve and add some powerful improvement to your site. I’ll try to add more features if it makes some sense. So stay tuned :).