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Clean up Admin & easy user registration

1. Social Connect
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   Social Connect

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   Social Connect adds social login buttons on the login, register and comment forms of your WordPress site.

   The buttons offer login and registration using a Twitter, Facebook, Google, Yahoo or WordPress.com account.

   It makes it super easy for new members to register with your site and existing members to login.

   Props

   Special thanks to:

   • markusdrake for patches and helping in the support forums;
   • L D for patches and helping in the support forums;
   • Geodanny for helping in the support forums; and
   • Wirone for polish translation and patches.

   And everyone else in the forums sharing the fixes they find and answering each others questions.
2. Dashboard Commander
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   Dashboard Commander

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   Command your admin dashboard. Manage built-in widgets (Right Now, Recent Comments, etc.) and dynamically registered widgets (Google Analytics Summary, WP E-Commerce Dashboard, etc.). Hide widgets depending upon user capabilities.

   This plugin is based upon Dave Kinkead's Dashboard Heaven plugin and extends it to support dynamically registered widgets, such as dashboard widgets that are added by a plugin.

   After installation access to all dashboard widgets is removed, then you can use the options at Settings > Dashboard Commander to configure the minimum access level for each widget.
3. Admin Menu Editor
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   Admin Menu Editor

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   Admin Menu Editor lets you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change access rights, and more.

   Features

   • Edit any existing menu - change the title, access rights, menu icon and so on.
   • Sort menu items via drag & drop.
   • Move a menu item to a different submenu via cut & paste.
   • Hide/show any menu or menu item. A hidden menu is invisible to all users, including administrators.
   • Create custom menus that point to any part of the Dashboard or an external URL.

   The Pro version of the plugin lets you also import/export menu configurations, make menu items open in a new window, and use shortcodes in the Dashboard menu.

   Suggest new features and improvements here

   Notes

   • If you delete any of the default menus they will reappear after saving. This is by design. To get rid of a menu for good, either hide it or set it's access rights to a higher level.
   • If one of your menu items is only visible in the editor but not the Dashboard menu itself, make sure its "Custom" checkbox is ticked. The plugin will usually do this for you when you create a new menu.
   • You can't lower a menu's required access rights, but you can change them to be more restrictive.
   • In case of emergency, you can reset the menu configuration back to the default by going to http://example.com/wp-admin/?reset_admin_menu=1
4. Simple Local Avatars
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   Simple Local Avatars

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   Adds an avatar upload field to user profiles if the current user has media permissions. Generates requested sizes on demand just like Gravatar! Simple and lightweight.

   Just edit a user profile, and scroll down to the new "Avatar" field. The plug-in will take care of cropping and sizing!

   Unlike other avatar plug-ins, Simple Local Avatars:

   1. Stores avatars in the "uploads" folder where all of your other media is kept
   2. Has a simple, native interface
   3. Fully supports Gravatar and default avatars if no local avatar is set for the user
   4. Generates the requested avatar size on demand (and stores the new size for efficiency), so it looks great, just like Gravatar!
   5. Let's you decide whether lower privilege users (subscribers, contributors) can upload their own avatar
5. WP Biographia
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   WP Biographia

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   This plugin allows you to add a customisable biography to posts, to RSS feeds, to pages, to archives and to each post on your blog's landing page. It integrates out of the box with the information that can be provided in each user's profile and supports custom post types. Display of the Biography Box can be suppressed on a global or per user basis for posts, pages and custom post types.

   Settings and options include:

   1. Choose when to display a Biography Box; on the front page, in archives, on individual posts, pages, or any other custom post type and in RSS feeds.
   2. Choose the border style and background color of the Biography Box
   3. Choose the amount of user profile information displayed in the Biography Box
   4. Choose the avatar image size
   5. Choose to display the Biography Box at the top or the bottom of content (universally)
   6. Choose to suppress the display of the Biography Box for pages, posts and posts/pages on a per user basis

   The plugin expands and enhances the Contact Info section of your user profile, adding support for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Delicious, Flickr, Picasa, Vimeo, YouTube and Reddit profile links as well as Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Jabber/Google Talk instant messaging profiles. Your Contact Info links can then be displayed as part of the Biography Box, either as plain text links or as icon links.

   The plugin also has an added filter and shortcode ([wp_biographia]) to add further customisation. For example, if you use page templates to display custom post types on your blog, you can simply use filter ('wp_biographia_pattern') to decide how you'd like to customise. If you want the Biography Box to appear at the bottom but on archive pages, you want them at the top, then the filter can do that as well, or simply use the shortcode to control where it appears in a post of any post type. For more information on how to use the [wp_biographia] shortcode, see the Shortcode Support And Usage section.

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