Small Plugins is built by Once Coupled. Most of our plugins are requested by Food Bloggers. We’ve been a proud member of the Food Blogger Pro community for years, having published over 1,000 helpful responses to questions, and we even offer special discounts to Food Blogger Pro Members.
The most impactful plugins we recommend to our bloggers:
- Automatic Block Inserter: bulk insert content in custom locations to easily edit site-wide.
- Advanced List Extension: easily create custom lists (like this one!) within recipes & posts.
- Category Labels Block: help readers quickly identify what’s important & navigate based on their preferences.
- Featured Comment Block: easily highlight comments from your audience, without having to copy & paste!
- Form Tags for Recipes: easily send readers recipe information and grow your email list.
- Image Overlay Cues: automatically count recipe process shots for easier post updates or add custom overlays like “reader’s favorite”.
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Why these plugins?
You want to (1) simplify your workflow while (2) adding custom features. 😻
Small Plugins is committed to providing bloggers with custom functionality using the modern technology of WordPress blocks.
Plugin #1
Automatic Block Inserter
Our top-recommended plugin helps you add content all across your site with almost no effort.
Gone are the days of editing every single post and inserting the new block you want to see. Use ABI to mass-insert a block at the same place in every since post.
Having trouble with blocks that are supposed to show up in every post, but they’re breaking the layout of existing blocks? ABI has the solution for that, too.
Plugin #2
Advanced List Extension
Notoriously difficult-to-style lists just got an upgrade! Use emojis for bullet points, add background circles to numbers, change colors for each list–the sky’s the limit!
Plus, you don’t need hacky classes to continue on restart numbering. Use the built-in “start value” and it just works.
We love this plugins because we love lists! And this brings a more attention-grabbing user experience to readers.
Plugin #3
Category Labels Block
Ever wanted colorful indicators to showcase gluten-free recipes, or easily differentiate food vs craft posts? We’re talking Skinnytaste- or Wholesomelicious-style labels.
Then this is the plugin for you. On each post, you can help readers quickly identify what’s important. On pages or in the sidebar, you can visually display all the relevant categories.
A UX-must for sites that have distinct content columns and want to help users navigate based on preferences.
Plugin #4
Featured Comment Block
Easily highlight comments from your audience, without having to copy & paste!
Forget about finding a positive comment, copy/pasting it into the post, adding the author name, and writing a heading like “5-star review”.
With this plugin, you will select the comment from a drop-down list, and both the rating and author will be auto-added alongside the comment content.
Plugin #5
Form Tags for Recipes
This is Lauren’s personal favorite, because she. has. opinions.
Specifically, she’s been very outspoken about ’email me this recipe’ call-to-actions being misleading and further breaking trust with readers.
This plugin fixes that: include simple recipe information, like the ingredients or the instructions, inside your recipe notification.
Plugin #6
Image Overlay Cues
Last but not least, we think this plugin might actually end up as your favorite. If you’re editing images in Canva to create grids for step-by-step photos with numbers… have we got good news for you.
This beauty will automatically count–and display that counter on–recipe process shots.
And coming soon? The ability to add custom content to the overlay. So the first image in a post could have a badge that says “readers favorite”. Cool, right?
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Don’t experts recommend removing plugins?
Why would I add more?
The Myth
There’s a common misconception that having lots of plugins is inherently bad.
The Facts
The grain of truth is that more plugins–or more code–increase risk, nothing more or less.
We recommend all six, in addition to your current plugins
I don’t know about you, but I love going out for tapas 🫓🥖🧆🥟🍡. I’m able to sample a variety of foods without filling up on any one dish. That’s the thing about meals… you can only eat so much!
Plugins are the same: they come in bite-size plates or full-blown meals with leftovers you take home & never eat.
When people say “that’s too many plugins, you might get hacked” it’s like saying “you ate too many dishes, you might get food poisoning.” You aren’t at risk of food poisoning because “6 dishes are safe but if you eat a 7th dish you’re in trouble.” The risk comes from the increased potential of getting something of bad quality.
You don’t want a giant meal with 6 sides that you don’t like. You want to customize the experience and try each dish that interests you.
That’s what Small Plugins is about: tapas-sized plugins. Little fixes that carry less risk because they aren’t bloated. I’ll bet you 20 of our plugins will still be less code than a bigger popular plugin, like WP Recipe Maker.
As a blogger, you want to minimize the number of bloated, all-in-one plugins that contain large amounts of code. As a development agency specializing in bloggers, Small Plugins writes clean code to provide bloggers with custom functionality tailored to the niche’s needs. Read more about why plugin size matters.
