Title: Nightingale Companion
Author: NHS Leadership Academy Digital Team
Published: <strong>22 de junio de  2020</strong>
Last modified: 11 de mayo de  2026

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# Nightingale Companion

 Por [NHS Leadership Academy Digital Team](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nhsleadership/)

[Descargar](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nightingale-companion.1.3.8.zip)

 * [Detalles](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/nightingale-companion/#description)
 * [Valoraciones](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/nightingale-companion/#reviews)
 *  [Instalación](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/nightingale-companion/#installation)
 * [Desarrollo](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/nightingale-companion/#developers)

 [Soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/nightingale-companion/)

## Descripción

NIGHTINGALE THEME MUST BE INSTALLED AND ACTIVE FOR THIS PLUGIN TO WORK

This plugin is a companion to the Nightingale theme. It is aimed at improving performance
and user experience on a site
 that uses the Nightingale theme. The plugin adds 
additional functionality to the theme, each component of which is enabled by default
on installation but can be switched off easily via the admin panel > Settings > 
Nightingale Companion

 * Disable Emojis – this disables the default emoji packages that ship with WordPress,
   which load on every single page
    of your site and impact performance and speed.
   This is a tiny tweak that has an incremental benefit.
 * LoadCSS – Removed as caused a number of conflicts with some WP plugins.
 * InstantPage – Removed as causing multiple issues on the sites.
    pages preloading
   when a user hovers their mouse over links. This does not, in fact increase load
   times but does appear perception of load times as those few partial seconds pre
   click are actually being used to start loading the next page.
 * DeferJS – Removed as caused a number of conflicts with some WP plugins.
 * Set Browser Cache – Removed as caused a number of conflicts with some WP plugins.(
   Recommend using CloudFlare or
    similar for better results)
 * Cleanup WordPress meta tags – removes lots of WP native tags included in the 
   header region.
 * Use Excerpts as Meta Description – WordPress automatically takes the first 55
   words of a post or page to create an
    excerpt (or you can manually add your own
   per page/post). This modification uses this excerpt to populate the meta description
   tag. If you have an alternative method of generating this meta tag, you should
   disable this option.
 * Modified the login page to use the theme design and layout
 * Adds the emergency alert header to the theme customiser

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## Instalación

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. 1. Install 
and activate the Nightingale theme from the appearance section of your WordPress
site. 2. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name` directory,
or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. 3. Activate
the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress 4. Functions that the plugin
adds can be activated and deactivated through the nightingale companion tab under‘
Settings’.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### Why isn’t this plugin working?

Please ensure that you have installed and activated the Nightingale theme on your
site. If the issue persists, please log an issue.

### Is this plugin restricted to only NHS Organisations

This plugin has been built specifically for use in the NHS, but it is open source
code and you are free to use it on any site.

### My site is doing weird stuff with loading or appearance. Why?

If you have other plugins running on your site, it is possible they do things that
this plugin also does and either
 conflicts or duplication is happening. Try disabling
options in the plugin to see what is causing the issue.

### Will this give me a perfect LightHouse score?

No. This improves the performance and accessibility of your site. But your site 
scores in LightHouse will also be
 influenced by your content, your server environment
and your other plugins running on your website. We have tested this with sample 
content on a site running the Nightingale theme, this plgin and the NHSBlocks plugin.
With these parameters, we generated a 100 score in LightHouse for the metrics of
Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO.

## Reseñas

No hay reseñas para este plugin.

## Colaboradores y desarrolladores

“Nightingale Companion” es un software de código abierto. Las siguientes personas
han colaborado con este plugin.

Colaboradores

 *   [ NHS Leadership Academy Digital Team ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nhsleadership/)

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## Registro de cambios

#### 1.3.8

-Adds login guard filter
 -Security update -License update -Adds SECURITY.md

#### 1.3.7

-Fix for floating social icons
 -Security update -Fixed emergency alert when last
updated date not set -Accessibilty improvemnt in emergency alert

#### 1.3.6

-Removed InstantPage

#### 1.3.5

-Fix php warning when there is no social sharing configured.

#### 1.3.4

-Fix issue with previous release process

#### 1.3.3

-Fix for plugin errors on activation

#### 1.3.2

-Fix for E_ERROR when upgrading from PHP 7 to PHP 8
 -Previous release issue fix

#### 1.3.1

-Fix for E_ERROR when upgrading from PHP 7 to PHP 8

#### 1.3.0

-Updated Dependancies and tested on new WP version

#### 1.2

Maintenance release:
 – Removed LoadCSS, defer JS to footer and cache options. All
three were minor performance improvements but introduced bugs with other plugins(
notably LearnDash, BuddyBoss and Events Calendar). With good server configuration
and usage of tools like CloudFlare better results can be achieved without damaging
functionality of third party plugins. – Corrected issue where styled login page 
would not inherit site colour settings from theme. It now does. – updated various
dependancy libraries for security and stability. – tested up to WordPress 5.8

#### 1.1.1

Added audio playback speed controls (under display section of settings)

#### 1.1.0

Security and stability update:
 Thank you to all users submitting feedback. – Javascript
loading has been combined, with a simplified control. Now you have the option of
deferring JS to after pageload, moving scripts to the footer, or both, or neither.–
Cache control has been improved to bust the cache for logged in users, so people
adding content or editing can see their changes reflected without doing a hard refresh.–
This release sees the removal of: – Retina Images – the theme instead uses WordPress
native multiimage display. – Update jQuery – WP core is updating jQuery through 
the next few releases, this feature is no longer required. – LazyLoading – as of
WP 5.5. this is a native function so does not need to be in a plugin. – Compress
HTML – this was breaking data reporting from Google Tag Manager and also impacted
some javascript triggers .

#### 1.0.5.1

Maintenance release

#### 1.0.5

Bugfixes:
 – corrected install routine to add correct default settings to plugin–
corrected check to see if child theme of Nightingale is in use, if so allow activation–
Added multisite functionality. If you have a previous version to enable multisite,
please remove the plugin and reinstall so that the install routine runs again to
activate this correctly. Feature additions: – Added social sharing buttons functionality.
This uses the addthis library and is configurable to be disabled, above posts, below
posts or both – Added editable title for social sharing region. Default is “Share
This:” – added update jQuery option to enable more recent version of jQuery to be
loaded to your WP install. Please note this may cause othe rplugins to fail. If 
enabling, use with caution and test thoroughly. Default is disabled. – Added blog
settings, allowing you to suppress featured images on individual posts/pages, add
an author bio section and add other posts by author section. – Added social widget
to allow you to link to your social channels using a panel of buttons that stick
to either the left or right of display. Configurable via Customiser > Social Widget,
includes FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn and RSS feed.

#### 1.0.2

Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Versión **1.3.8**
 *  Última actualización **hace 5 meses**
 *  Instalaciones activas **300+**
 *  Versión de WordPress ** 6.4 o superior **
 *  Testeado hasta **6.9.10**
 *  Versión de PHP ** 8.2 o superior **
 *  Idiomas
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nightingale-companion/) y [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/nightingale-companion/).
 *  [Traducir a tu idioma](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/nightingale-companion)
 * Etiquetas:
 * [nhs](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/nhs/)[theme](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/theme/)
 *  [Vista avanzada](https://es-ar.wordpress.org/plugins/nightingale-companion/advanced/)

## Valoraciones

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## Colaboradores

 *   [ NHS Leadership Academy Digital Team ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nhsleadership/)

## Soporte

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