List of Available Plugins
This is a page that contains a summarized introduction to various plugins that are pre-installed in the Omeka. For further information about these plugins, please visit their relevant GitHub or Omeka page.
For general information, visit Omeka Additional Infromation Page.
Accessibility Plus:
Accessibility Plus is a plugin that attempts to make the user experience more accessible by mainly providing alt-text for various pictures. Alternate Text or Alt-Text is the text that helps users understand the content of an image without needing to view the image. It is used by screenreader users, users with slow internet connections, and individuals with cognitive disabilities who need fewer distractions on web pages. Generally, web designers should take the time to handwrite alt-text for every image on their site. However, an Omeka developer may decide that a metadata element for an item may be a sufficient description for an image. This plugin allows developers to automate the process.
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Admin Tools:
Admin Tools is a plugin that enables the admin to have greater functionality and features. Once this plugin is activated, it increases the administrative functionality by adding more tools and features such as a cookie bar, database backup, public edit link, tags table, sessions table, user manual, and more. Furthermore, the plugin creates an Admin Tools page accessible to Super User from the admin navigation sidebar; through the page one can put the website in maintenance mode, clear the languages cache and create a backup copy of Omeka's database. The plugin's configuration page lets fine-tune these functions, plus many other ones.
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Batch Uploader:
Batch Uploader is a plugin that allows the uploading of a large number of files to Omeka, along with pre-populated metadata. It can also be extended by other plugins to support more import workflows. Please see the Batch Uploader Wiki for how to set up, use and develop new workflows for this plugin.
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COinS:
COinS is a plugin that allows the embedding of citation metadata into the pages of your Omeka Classic site for each item. COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is "a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML. When activated, the COinS plugin makes your items viewable to certain online bibliographic tools such as Zotero by automatically embedding citation metadata in your website. This plugin facilitates online research and interoperability with other systems.
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CSVExport:
CSVExport is a plugin that allows users to export item metadata to a CSV (comma-separated values) file, mapping elements to CSV column data. Each row in the file represents the metadata for a single item. This plugin is useful for exporting data from an Omeka site and editing that data in a spreadsheet or OpenRefine.
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CSVImport:
CSV Import is a plugin that allows users to import items from a simple CSV (comma-separated values) file, and then map the CSV column data to multiple elements, files, and/or tags. Each row in the file represents the metadata for a single item. It can be used for file importing, tagging imports, and undoing Imports.
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CSVImport+:
CSV Import+ is a plugin that allows users to import or update items from a simple CSV (comma-separated values) file, and then map the CSV column data to multiple elements, files, and/or tags. Each row in the file represents the metadata for a single item. This plugin is useful for exporting data from one database and importing that data into an Omeka site. In comparison to CSV Import, it has increased functionality and can help with more complex imports. It can be installed simultaneously with CSV Import.
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Dublin Core Extended:
Dublin Core Extended is a plugin that allows users to add the full set of Dublin Core properties to the existing Dublin Core element set in an Omeka Classic site. This includes element refinements and supplemental elements. Dublin Core is a metadata format that helps in standardized cataloging.
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Escher:
Escher is a plugin that allows the installation of Omeka plugins and themes from https://omeka.org and from the web (https://github.com and https://gitlab.com).
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Exhibit Builder:
Exhibit Builder is a plugin that allows users to develop online exhibits, or special web pages, that combine items from the Omeka Classic site and may include narrative text. Exhibits are composed of pages, generally an initial page that introduces your exhibit and subsequent pages composed of the items from your Omeka database that you wish to highlight and/or relate to each other. Exhibit Builder exhibits may be as short as one page or consist of multiple pages. You can make the pages of an exhibit hierarchical. The layout of exhibits in Exhibit Builder is highly customizable, with the pages composed of smaller units called blocks. There are three content block types that come with Exhibit Builder: file with text, gallery, and text block. Plugins, Geolocation, for example, can also be added to the content blocks.
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Geolocation:
Geolocation is a plugin that allows you to assign a location to items on your Omeka site. The locations are displayed on maps on the individual items pages and on a browsable map of all geolocated items.
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Hide Elements:
Hide Elements is a plugin that allows administrators to choose metadata elements to hide. Elements can separately be hidden from the edit form, displayed on the admin side, displayed on the public side, and the search form.
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Omeka Footnotes JS:
Omeka Footnotes JS is a plugin that allows users to add interactive JavaScript footnotes to exhibit pages and simple pages by extending the TinyMCE wysiwyg HTML editor.
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Search By Metadata:
The Search By Metadata is a plugin that allows a user to make it possible for visitors to your Omeka Classic site to see a browse page with items that share specific metadata (i.e., all items with Jackson Pollock in the Creator field). This plugin works very well with the Simple Vocab plugin for controlling metadata vocabulary.
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Simple Pages:
The Simple Pages plugin allows you to easily create web pages for your public site using a simple form. It requires no programming knowledge and optionally allows users to add basic HTML markup. Once you have installed the plugin, access the Simple Pages Browse page by clicking on the Simple Pages tab in the left-hand navigation of the admin dashboard to create, view, edit, and manage your pages.
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Simple Vocab:
Simple Vocab is a plugin that allows users to define a controlled vocabulary for any metadata elements on your Omeka Classic site. A controlled vocabulary is a list of predefined terms that are predetermined by an administrator or a group of researchers working on a project.
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