This is the second post in what will become a monthly series highlighting any new features, functionality, or bug fixes on the OpenLab that are relevant for OER sites.
New Plugins and Themes
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- Mammoth .docx converter plugin: allows for easier copy and pasting from Microsoft Word without losing formatting, which should be helpful in adding materials like a syllabus to an OER site. Something to keep in mind with this plugin is that the more semantic the Word doc is (e.g. use of Heading and paragraph styles), the better the formatting will translate to posts and pages. Claire Cahen, an OpenLab Digital Pedagogy Fellow, has written a helpful post about the plugin and its functionality.
- OpenLab Twenty Thirteen: This is a child theme of Twenty Thirteen. The only difference between the two is that activating the theme also automatically activates the plugin, Breadcrumb NavXT, which adds breadcrumb links to pages, making it easier to navigate sites that might have a large number of pages. The plugin may be deactivated if you don’t want to use breadcrumbs, but it is only compatible with the OpenLab Twenty Thirteen and OpenLab Twenty Sixteen themes.
- Shortcodes Ultimate plugin: provides more than 50 shortcodes that can be used in the post or page editor to add different kinds of functionality and visual elements, such as dropcaps, accordions, tabs, sliders, and more, to posts and pages. You can preview the available shortcodes on the plugin site.
- Search and Filter plugin: allows you to add advanced options for searching and filtering posts on your site, such as the ability to allow people to filter posts by tags within particular categories, and more.
Credits
This post is adapted from the monthly series This Month in the OpenLab, written and published on the Open Road blog by the OpenLab community team.
