WordPress Plug-ins from A to Z

It's Episode 268 and we've got plugins for Post Shortcodes, Affiliate Links, Emailing Your Users, WooCommerce Product Tabs, Order Testing, and a new way to skip the dashboard on login.. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 267 and we've got plugins for Easy Back Buttons, Advanced backup Features, Featured Image Generators, Automated WordPress Download Directories, and Bulk Editing for Woo Commerce.. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 266 and we've got plugins for Quick View in WooCommerce, Speeding Up Your Site, Free Gifts for Your Ecom Shoppers, Protection against DDos Attacks, and Tracking how far down people scroll within Google Analytics.. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 265 and we've got plugins for Security Audit Logs, Registered Users, Disabling Auto Complete, Staff Directories, Yoast to WordPress API Callouts, and a great new plug that pulls any image on any website into your media library.. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 264 and we've got plugins for Inline Quizzes, Page Builders, Setting Appointments, Renaming Users, Facebook Messenger Integration, and Image Hover Effects.. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 263 and we've got plugins for Restricting Site Access, Locking Down Your Login, Tagging your Attachments, Hooking up a better forum, Admin Page Tools, and a WooCommerce plugin for tracking refunds.. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 262 and we've got plugins for WordPress Notifications, Image Zooming, GZip Minification, RestAPI User Interface, and two new plugins for dealing with Stage Sites.. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 261 and we've got plugins for Live search, Cookie Law Compliance, Content Expiration & Redirect, Database Resets and Exit Popups It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins

It's Episode 260 and we've got plugins for Optimizaing Your Database, Widget Placeholders, Popular Posts, Future Posts, Inline Posts and more. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 259 and we've got plugins for Detecting Virus Activity, Advanced Login Limits, Menu Duplication, WooCommerce, Buddypress and more. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 258 and we've got plugins for Unique Post Stat Tracking, Handling Free WooCommerce Downloads, Newsbars, Payment Gateways and a new plugin for keeping Dashboard Notes. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 257 and we've got plugins for managing Email Notifications, Back End FTP, a new front end page designer, recursive file name prevention and a plugin to help keep track of plugin modifications. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 100 It’s episode #100 and we’re talking WordPress and a recap of our first 100 episodes! All coming your way next on WordPress Plugins A-Z. WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast can be found on the iTunes Store here.   John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about? launching today the WordPress Medic Podcast find it at http://wpmedic.ca where I will be discussing in depth how to help your ailing Wordpress website help you through those tough times and interviews with experts from all over the World. Dont forget to head over to Social media camp Victoria @ http://socialmediacamp.ca/ and support me by commenting on my posts as linked below or even retweet them as it is a contest. http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/12/deck-your-wordpress-with-boughs-of-holly-for-a-wordpress-christmas/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/11/customize-your-wordpress-login-with-social-logins/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/wordpress-photo-galleries-made-easy/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/tune-wordpress-with-these-4-tools/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/11/useful-facebook-comments-on-your-wordpress-website/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/09/speed-up-wordpress-with-a-few-simple-clicks/   Listener Feedback / Audio Clips We have a few clips submitted over the last week that we’ll include on a future show, but be sure to visit our site and leave feedback about the show or any questions you may have about plugins or WordPress needs you’re looking for help on.   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** No plugins but some talking around WP 3.5 upgrading and what I found. I waited a few days this time to start the upgrade process and I am glad I did since from the time 3.5 dropped to when I started updating several of my most used plugins were updated and I have one plugin I raved about a couple of shows back SlideDeck seems to have some issue with 3.5 so on that site I had to revert back to 3.4. You have to love WordPress for ease of reverting back a version when all you have to do is re upload the previous version files and it drops back. Talk about having to revise my top 10 plugins seems that a couple of my fav top ten plugins have been incorporated into others and one has aged beyond showing in repository meaning they are over 2 years old, this is interesting to note a way that Automatic is trying to prevent people from using older plugins..     **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus**   Social Lock http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-lock/ Requires: 3.3 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Last Updated: 2012-12-10 Downloads: 181 Social Lock is like to download plug in protecting your download link behind social network like boxes. it force visitor to like tweet or share post. Rating: 4 out of 5 --   Screen Options and Help Show Customize http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/screen-options-and-help-show-customize/ Requires: 3.3.2 or higher Compatible up to: 3.5 Last Updated: 2012-12-14 Downloads: 245 This plugin allows you to set display options and getting help and in addition, change the display for each user role. Marcus’ Take: Rating: 4 out of 5 --   Author Recommended Posts http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-recommended-posts/ Requires: 3.3 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Last Updated: 2012-12-7 Downloads: 192 Simple Author Recommended Posts Plugin Author Recommended Posts lets you easily search and choose specific posts, pages and custom post types you want to associate to a post or page. You can add, reorder, remove selected posts for display via the simple drag and drop interface. Features   Simple clean styles for basic layout/structure Show/hide output title & featured images

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 99 It’s episode #99 and we’re talking plugins for Product Comparison, Holiday Displays, Unique ways to show a portfolio or sponsors, and we talk with Dave Jackson of the School of Podcasting and Weekly Web Tools. It’s all coming your way next on Wordpress Plugins A-Z. WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast can be found on the iTunes Store here.   John’s & Marcus Rant: Coming soon the WordPress Medic Podcast where I will be discussing in depth how to help your ailing Wordpress website help you through those tough times and interviews with experts from all over the World. Dont forget to head over to Social media camp Victoria @ http://socialmediacamp.ca/ and support me by commenting on my posts as linked below or even retweet them as it is a contest. http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/12/deck-your-wordpress-with-boughs-of-holly-for-a-wordpress-christmas/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/11/customize-your-wordpress-login-with-social-logins/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/wordpress-photo-galleries-made-easy/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/tune-wordpress-with-these-4-tools/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/11/useful-facebook-comments-on-your-wordpress-website/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/09/speed-up-wordpress-with-a-few-simple-clicks/ Looks like Marcus won WordPress 3.5 dropped today just shy of 30mil downloads of 3.4 Interesting Sites Running Wordpress: CIO.GOV is the home page for the US Government’s Chief Information officer, and it’s powered by Wordpress! I guess with someone smart enough to use Wordpress at the help of the USA’s information technology that at least one government worker’s salary is money well spent. Listener Feedback / Audio Clips We have a few clips submitted over the last week that we’ll include on a future show, but be sure to visit our site and leave feedback about the show or any questions you may have about plugins or Wordpress needs you’re looking for help on. World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: Wordpress 3.5 “Elvin” dropped today, named after Elvin Jones a prominent Jazz drummer. The biggest improvements is in dealing with Media. You can now edit the meta data of all your images, reorder them with drag and drop capability and there are improved upload options as well. 3.5 also includes the new Twenty Twelve theme, a responsive, retina ready Wordpress theme that’s worth playing around with. New users will also find a refreshing welcome screen, showing them a few tasks to get them started using Wordpress. There are also a lot of developer enhancements and additions that have been made, so look for a flurry of really cool plugins coming your way that take advantage of all these new capabilities, and as always you’ll hear about those first on Wordpress Plugins A-Z. -- And today we’re featuring a guest plugin analyst, we’re joined by Dave Jackson, the founder and host of The School Of Podcasting, Weekly Web Tools, The Marketing Musician Podcast and many others. Dave is not only an experienced podcast coach and instructor, but he’s also a rabid Wordpress enthusiast and advocate going back nearly seven years.   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** More ways to decorate your website for the holidays While I may have covered these last year I thought it would be nice to mention them again.   Snow, balloons and more Snowflakes (and more) falling down your blog! Inspired by the unforgettable xsnow. Since 0.8.0 images can float upwards too. You can add a little holiday cheer with some snow, balloons and more… like  falling Santas, trees or snow flakes all over. Add this great little plugin, which is also good for other festive occasions. A special treat of this plugin is you can limit it to specific pages.

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 98 It’s episode #98 and we’ve got WordPress Plugins for better avatar management, front end theme switching, interstitial ads, Core Control, Holiday Messages and Comment Removal. All coming up next on WordPress Plugins A-Z! WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast can be found on the iTunes Store here.   John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about? Coming soon the WordPress Medic Podcast where I will be discussing in depth how to help your ailing WordPress website help you through those tough times and interviews with experts from all over the World. Don't forget to head over to Social media camp Victoria @ http://socialmediacamp.ca/ and support me by commenting on my posts as linked below or even re-tweet them as it is a contest. http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/11/customize-your-wordpress-login-with-social-logins/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/wordpress-photo-galleries-made-easy/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/tune-wordpress-with-these-4-tools/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/11/useful-facebook-comments-on-your-wordpress-website/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/09/speed-up-wordpress-with-a-few-simple-clicks/ Listener Feedback / Audio Clips David with a question on WordPress Analytics alternatives to Google. Use open web Analytics http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ Now is your chance to get your questions answered! Just visit the site at wppluginsatoz.com and leave us a message for the show! **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Bulk Comment Remove 1.0 Version: 1.0 Author: Mike Strand Last Updated: 530 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3 or higher Compatible up to: 3 Downloaded: 15,160 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: Well from time to time the spammers get creative and manage to bypass everything and enter a bunch of spam comments and you need a quick and easy way to remove them. Well this is it simply install activate this plugin and go to tool menu select it and remove all comments that are currently awaiting approval. Rating 4 Dragons Core Control 1.1 Version: 1.1 Author: Dion Hulse Last Updated: 514 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.2 or higher Downloaded: 29,555 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The lowdown Although this plugin is old it still was useful for some quick diagnosis. Ok recently I had to help a client fix some usability issues due to his hosting provider being unreasonable in its usage allowance and well that’s a story for my new podcast.. Anyway I was looking for more ways to control things in the WordPress website and this plugin offered some ways in which you can control many aspects of the website.  You get the ability to disable problematic file system methods WordPress is using for upgrades You get the ability to disable the upgrades module completely sometimes this is useful, you can track the http module logging all outgoing http requests And a cron module another way to check on the cron jobs that are scheduled and need dealing with or deleted. Rating 3 Dragons Holiday Message 1.1 Version: 1.1 Author: Simon North Last Updated: 1 day ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.4 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 323 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The lowdown: Ok well its that time of year again time to decorate your website and pass along some cheer. This plugin does that very nicely simply install choose your graphic and the your message and it pops up on your site for your visitors to see. Rating 4 Dragons **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus** Better Avatars http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-avatars/Requires: 3.3 or higher Compatible up to: 3.