Today we have a new guest poster, Tom Walker, who writes about several organizational WP plugins.

With blogging’s ever-increasing popularity and the more it becomes entrenched in the mainstream, the need to maintain a sense of order and keep things tidy gains added significance. WordPress has a superfluity of tools and plugins to aid you when it comes to keeping your blog all ship-shape and Bristol fashion and here is a small selection of some of the better ones.

1. Organize Series & Organize Series Publisher

‘Organise Series’ is well designed and integrated into WordPress. Put simply, it lets you organise your posts into a collection of series – similar to categorizing your posts, except that within those categories posts are displayed in a definable sequence. Adding and deleting series is easily done via the ‘Manage Series’ page, where you can also add a short description and even an icon, should you so desire, with everything being presented neatly and easy on the eye. The plugin is customisable via its dedicated settings page, in which you may delve further into it’s inner workings and tinker away until it fits your blog perfectly. Altogether it is a well constructed package and it now comes bundled with the ‘Organise Series Publisher’ plugin, which slots in nicely and applies the final polish.

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2. NextGEN Gallery

This is quite possibly the best, most comprehensive image organising plugin available for WordPress, and there are plenty out there! The plugin appears within WordPress as it’s own drop-down menu and contains a host of features to explore, gradually gaining in complexity the deeper you plunge. ‘NextGEN Gallery’ acts as a one-stop shop for all your picture management needs and by first dividing things into galleries and then into albums, you are able to deal with large groups of images in a fast and simple manner, with a myriad of further applicable editing functions. To help you get the most out of it there are some nicely set-out, helpful guides and demonstrations located at the plugin’s website, which are well worth investigation.

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3. Easily Navigate WordPress Pages From Your Dashboard

OK, it’s perhaps not the most imaginative title but sometimes the simple things work best. The plugin does exactly what it says on the tin and allows you to browse through your WordPress pages via the dashboard using a classic hierarchy system of the sort used in Windows. Once activated, a widget appears on the dashboard in which you can expand or collapse parent pages in the usual manner and access sub-pages within a couple clicks of a mouse, making the plugin an extremely useful tool for navigating your site. That really is the extent of it but if you work with large amounts of pages on a daily basis then I guarantee that you will be thanking the gods (well, Tristan Botly at least) for bringing you this clever little plugin.

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4. Admin Management Xtended

Another plugin designed primarily for those using WordPress as a content management system, aimed at improving and accelerating your workflow by allowing you to edit the properties of posts and pages directly from their management screens. Actions are added to the ‘Edit Posts/Pages’ view in the form of icons which, when clicked on, allow you to instantly alter elements you could only previously access by digging deeper into the menu systems. Such things as the publication date and post/page slugs can be edited, as well as toggling post/page visibility and comment status. You can view post revisions and place your work into an order, either by directly inputing their consecution or by dragging and dropping them into place, again all from a single screen. Overall the plugin will change the way you work with WordPress, making the whole thing a quicker, simpler, less fussy affair.

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5. WP Post Sorting

This plugin lets you organise posts alphabetically by their titles within each category. In WordPress, posts are placed in chronological order by default but that is not always conducive to the way you work and, although there are a fair few plugins that can arrange posts by other means, there are not many that do so inside specific categories. Of those select few, this is possibly the swiftest and least complicated, sticking to its task with no restrictions. Future releases will add extra sorting options, such as for author pages, for tag pages or by custom fields.

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Tom Walker is a blogger and designer who works with an online store offering HP 338 ink as well as other print supplies. You can read more of his posts about print media design and advertising on his CreativeCloud blog.

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