Welcome to the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Today we’re looking at Plugins Overview.

If you’re working with the NZRT WordPress setup, this episode gives you a clear picture of the plugin ecosystem that keeps everything running. There are nine active plugins in total, and they cover four main areas: media management, data import, navigation, and content flexibility. One thing worth noting right up front is that Dolibarr integration is handled separately through agent REST API calls using the nzrt-tools MCP server, so there is no plugin bridge needed between WordPress and Dolibarr. That’s all taken care of at the agent layer.

Now let’s walk through the nine plugins one by one so you know what each one does.

First up is SmartSlider3 Pro, made by Nextend. This one handles your hero sliders and image galleries. If you see a visually polished sliding banner on an NZRT page, that’s SmartSlider3 doing its job.

Next is JC Importer. This is a CSV and data import utility, originally from the Joomla ecosystem but used here on the WordPress side. When you need to bring in bulk data from a spreadsheet or CSV file, this is your tool.

Third is Menu Icons, made by Icomoon. This gives you an icon-based menu system, so you can add visual icons alongside your navigation menu items instead of plain text links.

Fourth is YouTube Mass Videos Importer. The name tells you exactly what it does — it lets you embed large numbers of YouTube videos in bulk rather than adding them one at a time.

Fifth is Featured Image Plus, made by Pix. This extends WordPress’s default featured image handling with additional options, giving you more control over how thumbnail and hero images behave across different post types.

Sixth is Pages with Category and Tag. By default, WordPress doesn’t let you apply categories and tags to pages, only to posts. This plugin adds that taxonomy support so your pages can be organised the same way your posts are.

Seventh is Post Type Switcher, made by johnbillion. This is a conversion utility that lets you change a piece of content from one post type to another, for example turning a post into a page or vice versa, without having to recreate it from scratch.

Eighth is WPCat2Tag Importer. This one handles category-to-tag migration, which is useful when you want to reorganise your taxonomy and move items that were filed under categories into tags instead.

And ninth is the Kadence theme, made by Kadence WP. While technically a theme rather than a plugin, it’s listed here because it functions as the flexible block-based foundation the site is built on and is managed alongside the plugin stack.

All nine of these are currently active.

Now, if you ever need to install or reinstall any of these, the plugin zip archives are stored in the NZRT vault. The folder structure there mirrors the plugin names, so you have subfolders for the video embedder, featured image plus, JC Importer, menu icons, the SmartSlider3 Pro package, pages with category and tag, post type switcher, WPCat2Tag importer, and the YouTube mass videos importer. To activate any of them, you go to WordPress Admin, then Plugins, then Add New, and use the Upload Plugin option to push the zip file directly.

To put the full picture together, it helps to think of the plugins in four groups. For media, you have SmartSlider3 Pro, the YouTube importer, and Featured Image Plus. For content organisation, you have Pages with Category and Tag, WPCat2Tag Importer, and Post Type Switcher working together to give you a flexible taxonomy system. For admin and data tasks, JC Importer handles bulk data ingestion and Menu Icons tidies up the navigation. And as mentioned at the start, Dolibarr sits outside this plugin layer entirely, connected through the agent REST API rather than any WordPress-side bridge.

That’s it for this episode of the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Thanks for listening.