WordPress Plug-ins from A to Z

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 97 It’s episode #97 and we’ve got plugins for Project Management, Sliders, Image Sales Management, Comment Movers and security. All coming up next on Wordpress Plugins A-Z! Intro Music Here Introduce the Hosts 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? 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/2012/11/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/ Random thought only 23 days to the end of the world or at least the end of the Myan calendar I want a reservation at the Restaurant at the end of the universe..   Interesting Sites Running Wordpress: Household diva Martha Stewart has launched her blog at TheMarthaBlog.com using Wordpress. Rock band Motley Crue has also jumped into Wordpress, with the new band site completely redone and relaunched in Wordpress. Listener Feedback / Audio Clips Mini Marty has a question that refers to CSS more than the possible use of a plugin Now is your chance to get your questions answered! Just visit the site at wppluginsatoz.com and leave us a message for the show!   World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: The second release candidate for WordPress 3.5 is now available for download and testing. Wordpress 3.5 is scheduled for official release the first week of December, which would make Marcus the big winner in the release pool if this schedule holds true. Not as fun as winning the Powerball jackpot, but it’ll do. WordPress.com criticizes PayPal, credit card firms for restrictions, now lets you pay with Bitcoin   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** These two plugins  came about due to my recent development of a stock photo website. And plugins are finally starting to arrive at the point when they offer great ways of setting up and online stock photo website. Image Store 3.1.9 Version: 3.1.9 Author: Hafid R. Trujillo Huizar Last Updated: 24 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.5.0 Downloaded: 34,836 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: Ok this plugin I had tried to use once before about a year ago for a stock photo website but it had not reached at that time a point where it is very usable. Well that has all now changed with this plugin you can offer not only digital download but a way for people to buy prints. If offers several ways of listing the images and pricing options. I found it pretty easy to get setup for the most part only a couple of glitches in that the pricing menus is not completely obvious but easily solved by clicking a plus button.  Once folks pay for the images they get immediate downloads of them. You can also create password secure galleries for special offers and more. You can create complete galleries by uploading a bunch of images all at once. I have found some issues in getting it to display the way I want but this is probably due to my wanting it to fit my theme of choice. Rating 4 Dragons Sell Media 1.0.3 Version: 1.0.3 Author: Graph Paper Press Last Updated: 13 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.4 or higher Compatible up to: 3.5-beta Downloaded: 1,942 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage »

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 96  It’s episode #96 of WordPress Plugins from A to Z and we’re giving you plugins that Map Domains, New default welcome screen options, Link control, Linked in employment, Cron Management, and themed categories. ...

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 95 It’s Episode #95 and we’ve got plugins for eCommerce, Age Restrictive Content, Cart Sharing, Online Quizzes and plugins to embed a post within another post! It’s all coming up 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?   Shout Outs - Marcus would like to say hello to all at the OC Wordpress meetup. Marcus and his wife attended for the first time on Monday and had a great time learning more about what Jetpack does, a few framework discussions, and a rousing good time at the House of Brews after the meeting. Marcus will be presenting some new plugins at future meetings. If you’re in Orange County California and want to participate, check out http://www.meetup.com/OC-Wordpress-Group/ for meeting dates and more information. Listener Feedback / Audio Clips Jason Gardner Looking for theme that will allow multi-users to post articles. Also looking for the best plugin to use to promote featured articles based on how many comments or likes it has received. Wordpress Popular Posts http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/ WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog. Main Features Multi-widget capable. That is, you can have several widgets of WordPress Popular Posts on your blog - each with its own settings! Time Range - list those posts of your blog that have been the most popular ones within a specific time range (eg. last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc.)! Custom Post-type support. Wanna show other stuff than just posts and pages? Display a thumbnail of your posts! (see the FAQ section for technical requirements). Use your own layout! Control how your most popular posts are shown on your theme. Check the statistics on your most popular posts from wp-admin. Other Features Shortcode support - use the [wpp] shortcode to showcase your most popular posts on pages, too! For usage and instructions, please refer to the installation section. Template tags - Don't feel like using widgets? No problem! You can still embed your most popular entries on your theme using the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag. Additionally, the wpp_gets_views() template tag allows you to retrieve the views count for a particular post. For usage and instructions, please refer to the installation section. Localizable to your own language (See the FAQ section for more info). WP-PostRatings support. Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts! Automatic maintenance - WordPress Popular Posts will wipe out from its cache automatically all those posts that have not been viewed more than 30 days from the current date, keeping just the popular ones on the list! This ensures that your cache table will remain as compact as possible! Use this in conjunction with other plugins that import your social shares and Facebook wall comments into Wordpress as comments. This plugin should do the rest and be customizable to the point that you can include social stats and such. Joe Trent Loves the show on Stitcher. He’s found that the show has helped him to shave 10 seconds off his load time. Scott Johnson How safe is it to upgrade to a new version of Wordpress? When do you upgrade the site and not have to worry about the plugins not working? World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: Looks like I may loose seems WordPress 3.5 is in Beta 3 already http://wordpress.org/news/2012/11/wordpress-3-5-beta-3/   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce 1.6.5.2 Version: 1.6.5.2 Author: WooThemes Last Updated: 18 hours ago

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 94 It’s episode #94 and we’ve got plugins for getting cooking, getting users out of core WP functions, Making Announcements, Facebook Comments,  Custom Logins, and Social Login Sharing. It’s the show with 95 tabs open and just can’t quite figure out where that sound is coming from.. It’s 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? Looking for some help from listeners please head over to social media camp Victoria and check out my articles and please comment on them and share with everyone.. Here is a list of my articles. http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/wordpress-photo-galleries-made-easy/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/tune-wordpress-with-these-4-tools/ http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/09/speed-up-wordpress-with-a-few-simple-clicks/   Interesting Sites Running WordPress: THEROLLINGSTONES.COM The Rolling Stones (http://therollingstones.com) just went WordPress with their all new site relaunch in conjunction with their 50th anniversary tour. Very good looking site with a lot of classic stones iconography throughout the design and within page content.   Listener Feedback / Audio Clips Danny has some feedback about our security episode, pointing out his conclusion about VPS security. World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: NEW REVIEW TAB AT WORDPRESS.ORG Wordpress.org has just announced a new REVIEW tab that will accompany all Plugins and Themes! Finally we have something to act as a guide in determining how plugins and themes are from a user perspective. All plugins can be reviewed, both new and old. Just click the REVIEW tab and start sending your critique and feedback!   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** These WordPress Plugins will be some refreshers due to just having written extensive article on them SEO Facebook Comment 1.4.5.1 Version: 1.4.5.1 Author: Fabio Zaffani Last Updated: 167 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.9 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3.2 Downloaded: 89,492 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown on this plugin can be read about here http://wppluginsatoz.com/useful-facebook-comments-your-wordpress-website/ Rating 5 dragon Start with Social Login, Social Sharing & Social Commenting, with User Profile Data 3.1 Version: 3.1 Author: LoginRadius Team Last Updated: 25 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.5.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 45,571 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown on this plugin can be read about here http://wppluginsatoz.com/customize-your-wordpress-login-with-social-logins/ Rating 4 Dragons Custom Login 1.0.4 Version: 1.0.4 Author: Austin Passy Last Updated: 81 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.2 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 128,195 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown on this plugin can be read about here http://wppluginsatoz.com/customize-your-wordpress-login-with-social-logins/ Rating 4 Dragons **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus** Apollo Bar http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apollo-bar/ Requires: 3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Last Updated: 2012-10-25 Downloads: 142 The Apollo Bar is a really simple announcements and notification plugin. Used with Custom Post Type to publish announcements and cycle plugin to rotate messages with fade animation. There is a very simple administrative interface. Can be switched off and on the Apollo Bar and author logo, or you can choose the 3 color scheme. Marcus’ Take: This looked like a pretty good plugin on the surface,

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 93  It’s episode #93 and we’ve got some amazing new WordPress plugins that help you safely recover from disaster, access your Instagram photos, track your social shares, Quick Uploads, Pinterest, and a great new t...

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode #92 It’s episode #92 and we’re presenting a special WordPress Security episode, focusing on protecting your site and keeping your installations safe and secure with special guest Robert Vance from Eagle Advanced Programming. With Special Guest Robert Vance http://eagleapi.com/ 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 Find us on the iTunes Store here.   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Wordfence Security 3.3.7 Version: 3.3.7 Author: Mark Maunder Last Updated: 4 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 136,817 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: Well in my opinion on this plugins and I have covered it in the past but I have found it to be very useful in finding issues and helping to keep a site clean. Once installed and configured you can set it to block all access when someone tried to login with an invalid username and to stop access after simply trying to use the recover password form. You can also throttle usage when someone or a bot access the site too fast. It also will examine the plugins and theme and compare them to the files at the wordpress repository. It emails you when issues are found or if someone logs in. Rating 5 Dragons   WordPress File Monitor Plus 2.2   Version: 2.2 Author: Scott Cariss Last Updated: 134 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 30,237 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » the lowdown: Ok this is a simple plugin but excellent at what it does and has help me alot this past week. It monitors all your files and tells you when a file changes or if a file is removed or if a new one is added. You can set it to ignore things if you need to but on the whole it does a great job of notifying you of changes. I was able to stop hacker in their tracks when I got notification of file changes. Rating 5 Dragons   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus** Bulletproof Security http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/ Requires: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.5 Last Updated: 2012-10-22 Downloads: 364,720 WordPress Website Security Protection: BulletProof Security protects your WordPress website against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking attempts. One-click .htaccess WordPress security protection. Protects wp-config.php, bb-config.php, php.ini, php5.ini, install.php and readme.html with .htaccess security protection. One-click Website Maintenance Mode (HTTP 503). Additional website security checks: DB errors off, file and folder permissions check... System Info: PHP, MySQL, OS, Server, Memory Usage, IP, SAPI, DNS, Max Upload... Built-in .htaccess file editing, uploading and downloading. Marcus’ Take: I’ve used this on my client sites in the past with great success. It not only checks the sites for the usual nuisances, but has diagnostic and htaccess editing capabilities as well. Rating: 4 out of 5   Anti-Virus http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antivirus/ Requires: 2.8 or higher Compatible up to: 3.5 Last Updated: 2012-9-6 Downloads: 361,469 Scan & Notify AntiVirus for WordPress is a easy and safe tool to protect your blog install against exploits, malware and spam injections. Scan your templates now! Features Virus alert in the admin bar Cleaning up after plugin removal Translations into many languages Daily scan with email notifications Database tables and theme templates checks WordPress 3.x ready: both visually and technically Whitelist solution: Mark suspected cases as "no virus" Manual check of template files with alerts on suspected cases  

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 91 It’s Episode #91 of WordPress Plugin from A to Z and we’re sharing plugins that let you call it, edit it, shrink it and reserve it. It’s the show that saves you hours of review time, allowing you to create instead of complicate. It’s Wordpress Plugins A-Z! WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast an be found  on the iTunes Store here.   John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about? The Stitcher Awards are here! Nominate your favorite shows across 20 categories to help select the best of 2012. Submissions are open until October 19th and you can vote everyday. Happy voting!www.stitcher.com/stitcherawards iTunes updates Canada nothing listed #2 wordpress plugins no reviews US #1 wordpress plugins #4 wordpress: average rating 4.5 stars Thank for recent reviews in the last couple of months Lyria, Ileane, Mini-Mali and the Digital Celt appreciate the reviews Australia #12 wordpress #1 wordpress plugins: 3 reviews UK  #2 wordpress plugins 1 review thanks Halcyonmarie **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Thanks to Yoram Zara for this suggestion Call Now Button 0.0.1 Version: 0.0.1 Author: Jerry G. Rietveld Last Updated: 14 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 193 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: Simple install as usual then simply activate it and then enter your phone number to have them call with a single click. This is a great simple lazy and effective plugin and may increase the number of call from those mobile visitors. Rating 4 Dragons.   Ultimate TinyMCE 3.3   Version: 3.3 Author: Josh Lobe Last Updated: 1 day ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.5 Downloaded: 675,589 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown While I have not really been for for extending the editor inside WordPress I had run into this several time when working on client sites and about a month ago I added this plugin to my site because I need a couple things. I needed a simple way to add anchor tags and wanted to add hr bars to my posts. Instead of manually writing them into the posts I thought I would try this plugin to add it to the editor. Well along the way I discovered many of the other options of this plugin including the ability to add sub and superscripts, insert layers and more functional link inserter and editor and more. If you need to expand your posts try this plugin. Keep in mind it does require some setup but worth the time. Rating 4 Dragons.   Social Login, Social Sharing & Social Commenting, with User Profile Data 3.1 Version: 3.1 Author: LoginRadius Team Last Updated: 5 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.5.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 39,771 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: If you have a site that you have people logging in for whatever reason and regularly signing up on your site then this is your plugin to simplify that process. It allows you to setup logging in via Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google plus and more. It also adds social sharing buttons and allows visitors to share comments via their social logins instead of having to create one locally. One great part is it also creates a local account for them by sending them an optin email, in this way you can get them added to an email list or more depending on your site needs. It does require some setup for the different choices you make. well worth the time to setup and an excellent way to offer simple login to your website that is quick and secure. Rating 4 Dragons   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus**

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 90 It’s WordPress plugins A to Z episode #90, and we’ve got Geo-Redirection plugins, Screenshot tools, Exploits, Toolbars, and more. It’s the show that makes you glad you never tried Drupal. (And even if you did - we forgive you!) It’s Wordpress Plugins A-Z! WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com We can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. Find us on the iTunes Store here.   John’s & Marcus Rant: The Stitcher Awards are here! Nominate your favorite shows across 20 categories to help select the best of 2012. Submissions are open until October 19th and you can vote everyday. Happy voting!www.stitcher.com/stitcherawards   Listener Feedback / Audio Clips Question from Arlen about how someone know about plugin coding.   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Bottom 3 plugins from the popular list # 649, 50 and 51 well it was going to be any until I realized that were either broken or of no real value to general users so I pulled 3 random ones from popular, sometimes I forget how hard it is to find a plugin when you do not have a goal wow there is some crap out there The Bar Steward 1.2 Version: 1.2 Author: Lee Rickler Last Updated: 248 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3.2 Downloaded: 626 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The lowdown: A nice simple way to clean up your tool bar of unwanted and unneeded links added by the following plugins. Yoast WordPress SEO CDN Synch Tool NextGen Gallery BackWPup Social Metrics Ultimate Security Checker It works nice and simple and lazy rating 4 dragons All in One Webmaster 8.0.0 Version: 8.0.0 Author: icrunched Last Updated: 2 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.2 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 330,049 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The lowdown This is an all in one place to add your different codes for the webmaster tools accounts out there from Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog catalog and Facebook insights. As well as add you analytics codes and quickcodes to the header or footer and to do manual submission of your site. While I do not see a use for it myself since I have other plugins already doing these functions someone else may find this useful Rating 3 dragons   Exploit Scanner 1.3.1 Version: 1.3.1 Author: Donncha O Caoimh Last Updated: 101 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.3 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 371,756 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The lowdown This plugin is to help you find any issues on your website  and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Simply upload and run a scan after a fe min it will tell you if you any issues you need to address. Keep in mind the final readout is not always bad stuff but what it sees as possible, it found several things on my test site that are known to be good. Rating 3 dragons   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus** No Image Link http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-image-link/ Requires: 3.0.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Last Updated: 2012-10-9 Downloads: 21 Defaults the Image Link option when adding a photo to none. Marcus’ Take: This is a lazy plugin. Simple and easy to use. Install, activate and no longer be hassled by images that automatically link to themselves. Rating: 4 out of 5   GEO Redirector http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geo-redirector/ This plugin will allow you to redirect your URLs according to the visitors geographical location. And you can manage redirect the visitor given radius inside or outside a specific area. Requires: 3.0.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 89 It’s Episode 89 of WordPress Plugins A to Z and we’ve got plugins for enforcing word count minimums, online appointment schedulers, Issue Trackers, Browser and Benchmarking tools, and the laziest video carousel plugin ever! It’s the show that 4 out of 5 successful designers recommend.. It’s WordPress Plugins A-Z. WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com We can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. Find us on the iTunes Store here.   John’s & Marcus Rant: The Stitcher Awards are here! Nominate your favorite shows across 20 categories to help select the best of 2012. Submissions are open until October 19th and you can vote everyday. Happy voting!www.stitcher.com/stitcherawards The count down to episode 100 is starting, if you have any favourite tips, flubs from past episodes let me know I will bring them in for the show.. backup, backup and backup again Listener Feedback / Audio Clips Question from Dave Jackson from Weekly Web Tools regarding the “Bonus Information” item found at the bottom of wppluginsatoz.com with an orange colored tab. The plugin Dave is asking about is called the “Sliding Drawer” plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-sliding-drawer-content-area/) which we covered way back in January of this year in Episode #56.   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Random Plugin time for me since I have been simply polishing off websites this past week. Really Simple Issue Tracker 1.0 Version: 1.0 Author: Andreas Lundgren Last Updated: 3 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.4.2 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 74 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » TheLowdown: This seemed like a interesting new way to track a to do list of things I need to do on several websites that need to be completed or a new things come up for clients websites. Once you create a todo task you can then assign it to a person then choose the type of task and set a priority to fix it. And finally determine if it is still open or closed. It does not publish it to the front end. Going to give this a shot at entering tasks for a week and see how it goes.. Rating 3 Dragons   Advanced Browser Check 1.0.1 Version: 1.0.1 Author: Mattias Hedman Last Updated: 2 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 201 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » TheLowdown: You can determine to warn users visting your ewb site that if that have an old browser that they need to upgrade and that your site may not work properly for them. This I think is a nice little plugin if you are tired of trying to support older browsers. The one thing I as not too sure about was that they will not even be able to surf your site at all unless they click a provided link to upgrade, both good and bad here. Rating 3 Dragons   Benchmark 1.1 Version: 1.1 Author: Mark Maunder Last Updated: 8 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.4.2 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 105 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown this will run a test of your hosting for your wordpress website simple and quick it tests your CPU, Network and Database Query speed seems my servers perform about the industry average. I was hoping for much more but it is a good start. Rating 2 dragon   WP Really Simple Health 1.0 Version: 1.0 Author: Tiberius14 Last Updated: 246 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.3 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3.2 Downloaded: 1,017 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » Just an extra no rating     **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus** BookFresh - Online Scheduling http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/online-scheduling-and-appointment-booking/ Book appointments directly from your WordPress site!

WordPress Plugins A to Z #88 WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode. It’s Episode #88 and we’ve got Plugins that let you play favorites, Category Post limiters, Social Toolbar, Newsletter, WordPress Command Centre and a new plugin that will remove all technical distraction to your clients that log into your Wordpress site. It’s the podcast that Matt Mullenweg listens to with his media player tucked under his pillow... It’s Wordpress Plugins A-Z! WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com We can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. Find us on the iTunes Store here.     John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about? WordPress has been downloaded 18.5mil times for version 3.4 and because I felt like I was sleeping too much I am helping my daughter to start an online business more to come ..   Listener Feedback / Audio Clips Raffi with a question about registration plugins.. Check out these two plugins.. WP-Members or Premise **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Social Toolbar 2.1 Version: 2.1 Author: DaddyDesign Last Updated: 29 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.2 or higher Downloaded: 36,134 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: While the links here lead to the free version my review is on the paid version.. The free version seems to offer much of what the paid has minus a few special treats including more customizations than the other. So what did I find.. I used this on the redesign of a clients website One thing I really liked here was that you can control what pages it will display on or simply let it have the run of your site. It also has just about every social network you could want built right in all you need to do is add you link. And if thats not enough you can add custom ones. They also have some great training info built right into the plugin not that I used it since I tend to just dive right in unless I get stuck. I had no problem with this plugin and liked the many ways of adding social networks and customizing the bar at the bottom. About the only thing I thought might be nice was to have a way for it to auto fade out unless it was moused over. Maybe after a few seconds fade out and become transparent .. Might not be possible but a nice thought. Well all was great until I started testing the new site on IE and found that on the pages to display the bar the layout broke in a very bad way.. Have let developer know about issue maybe he can see why. Well when I went to fix this it was fine then about an hour later it was back must be something in my theme so I had to leave this as it was not necessary to launch the site but will come back to it. Rating: 4 Dragons Follow up re review of plugin Easy automatic newsletter 2.7 lite Version: 2.7 Author: PillarDev Last Updated: 6 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 9,444 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » While this is a beta of their pre release of a new paid pro version, I was checking to see how it improves over the last time I did this. What I found was that this plugin is easier to use than before they have made it easier to understand the cron that has to be placed in the system as well as adding a new wpcron for those who do not understand nor want to learn about proper cron jobs. The only thing I found I was wishing for was a easy way to import over the site sizeable database of users directly into this plugin. what I do like about it is that it automatically creates a newsletter based upon the content created in the past few days to month depending on the time you select. It is a much better newsletter going out than before but still has some limitations on the format of the newsletter. other than these two items I think it is a great plugin and make the job of sending newsletter easy and lazy.

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 87 It’s Episode #87 and we’ve got plugins for Redirection, Bulk Content Movement, Vimeo integration, RSS imports and more. It’s the WordPress Plugins Podcast that other designers don’t want you to know about.. It’s WordPress Plugins A-Z! WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com We can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. Find us on the iTunes Store here.   Marcus Rants: 500 Errors I was working on a client site and happened to be doing something that I haven’t yet had to do.. Create a new category. I decided to try this addition “in-post” and save some time. A second after I created the category, the whole site went to a 500 error. I refreshed.. Same thing. Switch browsers.. NOTHING. When times like this hit you as a designer or webmaster, its important to remember one important thing. DON’T PANIC! Sometimes WordPress is sensitive, like that old lamp you used to own with the electrical cord that had to be twisted in just the right way in order to get juice. But in this case, it’s a cord for every plugin you have installed! So when this happens to you, work backwards and work from the root level. Head to your WordPress install via FTP. Rename your plugins folder to plugins-temp. See if that fixes it (it will trick WordPress and remove all active running plugins). If not, rename your .htaccess file (if you have one) to .htaccess-temp and then refresh after 10-15 seconds. Did that fix it? Great! Now rename your plugin folder back to just plain “plugins” and refresh. Still working? OK, then it’s something to do with a particular plugin interacting with your htaccess file. In my case, this was a redirection plugin. There were existing 301 redirects in the .htaccess as well as a plugin in Wordpress trying to 301 the same pages. So in a nutshell.. 500 error.. reset your htaccess and rename your plugin folder. It’s a good first step to getting to the bottom of a problem. World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin that we both use and enjoy, as well as many of our listeners, has just been updated. The newest version (1.4) now allows you to place boxes side by side in posts, which is something that I have been bugging them about since I started using it. Good functionality improvement on a plugin with a 5 rating. Blogrolls Gone in WordPress. How to Save Your Links.   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Source Redirect Site 1.1.0 Version: 1.1.0 Author: Skashi and Lumo from Press Pixels Last Updated: 50 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 2,666 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: Ok the problem I have a client who has 2 parked domains on top of his site and we need ssl to work properly on the main one so if someone came in through one of the other domains we needed to get them into site properly before anything else happened. While this is a great freemium plugin the free version was not what I needed so had to opt for the paid one at $20 which allows for custom redirection setup.. Rating 3 Dragons Bulk Move 0.9 Version: 0.9 Author: Sudar Last Updated: 69 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 15,167 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: I needed a simple way to bulk move lots of posts from an older category to a newer one. The plugin turned out to be a very nice way to bulk move posts to a new category. As a warning once you move them there is no easy way to move them back so make sure you want to move them. Rating 4 Dragons   DM Albums 3.1.6 Version: 3.1.6 Author: Frank D. Strack Last Updated: 102 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3.2 Downloaded: 93,642 times WordPress.

It’s Episode #86 and we’ve got plugins for Dropbox integration, Gravity forms PDFs, Popups, Sharing Bars and a great new site manager plugin. All that and more coming up on Wordpress Plugins A-Z. This Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com We can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. Find us on the iTunes Store here. John’s & Marcus Rant: I’m excited I have been asked to be a guest blogger on two great websites one for the Social Media camp site here in Victoria http://socialmediacamp.ca/ My first poste goes up there on the 21st or thera bouts and the second is to be at DIY WP Blog at http://diywpblog.com/ my first post there will be in a few days.. Plus I will be having a few guest bloggers coming to my website soon and if you would like to be one in the future simply drop me a line. I really need to find a way to simply eliminate sleep from my schedule so I can get more done, you know with family life and work and hobbies it seems sleep just gets in the way. ( I am really feeling the need this past week to kill virtual monsters and demons in either WarCraft or Diablo3) On the fun side of life I went to the Great Canadian Beer fest this past weekend one of the premier beer festivals in the west. We had some great microbreweries here from all over including some for the down south The best beer I tasted there was from Dead Frog Brewery called Pepper Lime Beer.. (now this was probably the last hot weekend of the year here but I am glad cause now my computer won’t need ice to keep running) World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: With 60 Million Websites, WordPress Rules The Web. So Where's The Money?  -- a write up about the early days of WordPress WordPress 3.4.2 Maintenance and Security Release  -- so what is worse than updating a bunch of WordPress websites ----?? having to do it again 30 min later when a new security update drops, yes the new update is out and dropped 30 min after I had just updated a bunch of sites for their plugins. Sociable WordPress Plugin Security Warning -- seems there may be an issue with the plugin downloading an image from a compromised site which could affect you check the article.   **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** WordPress PopUp 4.3.2 Version: 4.3.2 Author: Barry (Incsub) Last Updated: 81 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3.2 Downloaded: 21,077 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: This is by far the best popup plugin I have used so far, it is easy to get setup and uses custom posts types for its content so you get to add anything you want the same as any other post, this includes their use of shortcodes. It has several rules you can apply like specific pages only, if they arrive from someplace special, how many times have they seen it and more. Rating 4 Dragons   Worpit WordPress Site manager This is a site manager software reasonably priced but since I was only testing I thought i would try for the 3 site trial by sending out the tweet. tweet went out but i did not get the additional 2 sites added to my account automatically..(well I was wrong here it took about 8 min for the additional sites to show up after the tweet) I did run into a couple of conflicting statements. If I had installed the plugin fist and signed up I should have been eligible for 3 websites according to the info in the plugin this from the plugin. Worpit is completely free when you want to admin up to 3 WordPress websites on a 30 day test after that it drops back to one site - Sign Up for a Worpit WordPress admin account here. Worpit Features [full details] 3 Free Sites For Life Manage all your WordPress sites in 1 place One-click Updates for WordPress.org Plugins, Themes and WordPress Core One-Click login to admin each WordPress website Price Lock - the price you pay now, you always pay.

It’s Episode #85 and we’ve got plugins for Recipes, Text Boxes, Featured Images, Instagram, Multisite plugin management and more. It’s all coming your way next on WordPress Plugins A-Z! WordPress Plugins A to Z Can now be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com ...

It’s Episode 84 and we’ve got WordPress plugins for eCommerce, Thumbnails, Post lists, a new Schema.org meta plugin, G+ Authors and a new way to embed Responsive Video. It’s all coming up next on WordPress Plugins A-Z! Jump to the 5 Dragon Plugin Aj...

It’s Episode #83 and boy do we have some great plugins for you this show. We’ve got plugins that manage Twitter, a way to embed static HTML into WordPress, a plugin that nukes every shred of content on your site, Analytics tools, and we’re counting WOR...