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Created by: Casey Bisson

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bSuite is a set of tools that help surface interesting and popular stories as well as improve WordPress’ CMS capabilities and usefulness as an application platform. Available widgets can show most popular posts, recently commented posts, or related posts (can also add a listof related posts to the bottom of the post content). Added shortcodes help organize content, allowing you to list all sub-pages of the current page or list all headings within the page. Another shortcode will render RSS feeds into a page or post. See the screenshots for more.

Stats

  1. Tracks page loads across your WordPress site
  2. Works with caching plugins
  3. Shows you what’s popular, what’s growing in popularity, and what’s declining
  4. Shows you what categories and tags are most popular
  5. Tracks the search terms readers use to find your site (and highlights those terms on the page)

Widgets

bSuite widgets include:

  1. Post Loop allows you to build your own, um, post loop, and put it anywhere a widget will fit.
  2. Pages replaces WP’s built in Pages widget and adds the option to expand the page list to include the parents and immediate children of the page your currently viewing.
  3. bSuite Popular Posts
  4. bSuite Related Posts
  5. bSuite Recently Commented Posts

Shortcodes

Built-in shortcodes allow you to:

  1. Embed an RSS or Atom feed into a post or page
  2. Include the content or excerpt from one post or page in another.
  3. Automatically build an index of headings on a page and create a table of contents to it (with links to anchors on the page)
  4. Embed a list of pages or sub-pages on a page or post
  5. Embed Slideshare items
  6. Embed Wufoo forms

Screenshots

  • Search word highlighting is back! Seen here in <a href="http://borkweb.com/">Matthew Batchelder</a>'s post on <a href="http://borkweb.com/story/faster-page-loads-with-image-concatenation">improving page load times with concatenated images</a> (found via a search for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=image+concatenation+borkweb">image concatenation</a>).
  • bSuite quick stats.
  • <a href="http://borkweb.com/">Matthew Batchelder</a>'s <a href="http://borkweb.com/story/ajax-templating-and-the-separation-of-layout-and-logic">use of</a> the <code>[innerindex]</code> shortcode. <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/bsuite/shortcodes/">Innerindex</a> automatically generates a list of headings in the page, with links to jump to them.
  • <a href="http://www.plymouth.edu/library/">Lamson Library</a>'s <a href="http://www.plymouth.edu/library/by-subject/art-history">use of</a> the <code>[list_pages]</code> shortcode. <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/bsuite/shortcodes/">list_pages</a> automatically generates a list of child pages for a given page.
  • The sharethis feature, as implemented at <a href="http://library.plymouth.edu/read/222334">Lamson Library</a>.
  • <a href="http://spiralbound.net/">Cliff Pearson</a>'s page loads report.
  • <a href="http://spiralbound.net/">Cliff Pearson</a>'s use of the bSuite bStat popular posts widget.
  • <a href="http://spiralbound.net/">Cliff Pearson</a>'s use of the bSuite Recently Commented widget. This widget differs from the built in Recent Comments widget in that it only shows posts, not individual comments.
  • The <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/bsuite/machine-tags">machine tag</a> input field in the edit post and edit page screen.
  • The bSuite options panel.

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