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A closer look at the WordPress projects, ideas and community behind @marcusdowning.
01 / A body of work
Public projects and source-backed details. A place to discover the work and follow it back to its home.
Install and rating summaries cover 11 available first-page projects, not an estimate for the whole portfolio. Install counts are source-reported figures, not unique people.
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Change the default text and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a jQuery character counter and limiter.
02 / The project library
Showing 1–11 of 11 plugins
Create a faceted search interface for any post type.
★ 1.0 · 1 source ratings · v2.0
WordPress pluginReports if your WordPress site has any known vulnerabilities.
Explore features on the official listing · v1.0Quickly adjust the order of child pages.
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Source: · Snapshot checked Oct 19, 2026. Excerpts and selected activity; details may change at the source.
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Change the default text and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a jQuery character counter and limiter.
★ 5.0 · 1 source ratings · v0.7Add document icons and file sizes to links
Explore features on the official listing · v1.4On a multisite network, this makes a child site use the main site's categories and taxonomies instead of its own.
★ 3.7 · 3 source ratings · v1.0Adds an "Identifier" column showing a post of page's slug, just after the Title column.
Explore features on the official listing · v1.0Tested up to 3.2.1 Stable tag: trunk Add columns to the All Posts, All Pages and custom post types for any taxonomies.
★ 5.0 · 1 source ratings · v1.1Add page-specific widget areas to templates with a Sidebars: header:
Explore features on the official listing · v1.3Adds tha ability to show only a submenu with wp_nav_menu().
Explore features on the official listing · v1.2Adds a third column on the Edit Post screen.
★ 5.0 · 2 source ratings · v2.0