WordPress Plug-ins from A to Z

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 52  Nov 30, 2011 Today's show brings in some great membership plugins as well as a TOS plugin and a couple others that will make your WordPress website the envy of all your friends. John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about? making fun of spammers, seems I have been targeted by SEO spammers and others that think I need help ( well I might but not in that way) I figure if they can find me something must be happening otherwise how else do they manage to contact me.. lets take this most recent one and the first spam comment to get though in almost a year “by MarciaDale --http://www.johnoverall.com The internet has become the world’s marketplace. You can do business all over the world. But you have to stand out from your competition. It’s all in the website, linking, keywords — all the tools of Search Engine Optimization. We know them. Let us show you how we can help you.” My guess is it got though because they used my own domain as the one in the url box and damn they almost seem sincere.... Shout Outs: Adam @ Integrity Solutions his plugin theme scheduled themes. Check out @runnerskye 2012 YYJ Run for Cancer Calendar at http://www.yyjrunforcancer.com Something new list of interesting sites that run on WordPress: Ministry of Transportation BC World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: WordPress the most popular open source CMS for second year running WordAds Opens Monetization to Free WordPress Blogs WordPress.com launches WordAds to help you make money from your blog http://elliottback.com/wp/why-my-wordpress-site-is-so-much-faster-than-yours/ List of Plugins: -----Johns Plugins------- Membership Version: 2.0.6 Author: Barry (Incsub/WPMU DEV) Last Updated: 189 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.1.4 Downloaded: 34,557 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they Say: Membership transforms your WordPress website into a fully functional membership site. Provide access to downloads, online content, videos, forums, support and more through flexible membership levels and options. Simple to use, flexible - this plugin will meet all of your membership site needs. Want to create a site like GigaOm, Izzy Video, PSD Tuts? Now you can do it, easy! You can use Membership lite to create... A WordPress membership site, offering resources, forums, downloads, videos, support and more... with two different levels of membership and complete customizations. Multiple membership sites on a WordPress MultiSite install - so any user of your site can have their own membership site. What we Say: This one also has a premium version but in the case of that if I cannot get the free one to work properly I will not spend the money on premium. What I found is that it is pretty easy to get all set up instructions are pretty easy but I ran into one major glitch. Every time I tried to register it would lock up on the second page of registration requesting to select a subscription but unable to select it. Finally had to abandon it due to this issue. Rating 3 Dragons due to issue around the registration page. Free WP-Membership Plugin 1.1.8 Version: 1.1.8 Author: Ben M. Ward Last Updated: 72 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.8.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 699 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they say: Protect your content with Levels. Levels can protect Posts, Pages and Categories. Levels are not sequential, they are more like groups. Currently the Payment gateways are non-functional due to stripping out the copy-protection during the open sourcing process. These will be restored over time, including: PayPal, Authorize.net and Google Checkout. The primary repository for Free WP-Membership is at GitHub. The project home page is at Free WP-Membership. What we say:

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 51 -- Website Portfolio Plugin plus Today's show brings in a couple of plugins that will help you make life simple on your WordPress website including but not limited to a portfolio plugin, theme management for ...

WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 50 Tuesday November 16, 2011. More great lazy plugins that will help you make life simple on your WordPress website and even a premium plugin review. John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about? Announcing the la...

Today's show brings in some great lazy plugins that will help you make life simple on your WordPress website and ushers in a great direction for the show. Tuesday November 8, 2011. John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about? How about some WarCrack rants... A little whining about top 10 lists damn they permeate the web it is time I think for  new number to be chosen suggestions anyone.. Targets for hacking my take on why Apple is still not hacked as much and why WordPress is a target vs say Drupal.. Some discussion about number of plugins used--- What is a good number?? Also our new Goal of discovering lazy plugins.   Shout Outs: Yup a couple Out to Casey someone who has listened for a while and submitted a plugin for a review coming up in a new episode along with possibly an interview. Stefan who had some trouble putting a comment due to my spam filter... Hmmmmm Manny who likes the addition of Marcus as co-host   Something new list of interesting sites that run on WordPress:   World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: Still in the news timthumb issue how to avoid a costly WordPress hack Check out the Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner from the repository. You know misery likes company and even Yoast can get hacked Why not updating your Core, Themes & Plugins is Stupi Big News! Blondish.net Will Be Carrying WordPress Topics Once Again Wordpress sites hacked to lead to malware sites Gravity forms dropped 1.6 and a few days later 1.6.1   List of Plugins:   -----Johns Plugins------- Simple Tags Version: 2.1.1 Author: Amaury BALMER Last Updated: 83 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 890,866 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage »   What they say: Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect tool to manage perfectly your WP 3.0 and 3.1 terms for any taxonomy It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of new functions   What we say: This is a plugin I have covered before but I recently discovered a couple other great uses I had overlooked before. It has the ability to mas edit your keywords/terms and to have them automatically added to your posts/pages it will even go back to old content and add them. Listen for more on this plugin and how to use it. Used it to clean up allot of junk from a converted site from Joomla Rating on this is 5 Dragons   WP SlimStat Version: 2.5.1 Author: Camu Last Updated: 12 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3 Downloaded: 108,282 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they say: powerful real-time web analytics plugin for Wordpress. Spy your visitors and track what they do on your website. Main Features Supports both InnoDB and MyISAM (autodetect) Tracks Google Plus One and Facebook Like clicks Tracks known commenters, screen resolutions, spammers and other browser-related parameters The best country, browser and platform detection ever seen, thanks to Browscap and MaxMind Filters visits based on IP addresses, browsers, referrers, users and permalinks View and admin access can be restricted to specific users World Map What we say: I found this to be a pretty decent stat plugin that gives allot of data and seems to be lightweight and fast. It gives you to option to have its own menu or place it in the top dashboard menu. Grest info on recent search terms, traffic sources, most popular pages and so much more.. Dont forget the extra plugin for the dashboard widgets and short codes..  Rating on this is 4 Dragons   SEO Smart Links Version: 2.7.4 Author: Vladimir Prelovac Last Updated: 58 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.3 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3 Downloaded: 492,205 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage »

This episode marks the one year anniversary of this show and the introduction of a new co-host tune in and listen. John’s Rant: What to rant about? This is the one Year anniversary of the show. The world ended over the weekend in case you missed it. Make note about the end of the World that didn’t happen again on October 22.. F**ing hackers/spamers/phisers again.. another waste of my morning clearing out the damn phishers. Partly my fault I got caught by the bad headspace2 issue when it occurred a few months back. Change in the ranking system going forward simple 0 to 5 dragons now no more knights since the dragons ate them all. also I have a dragon graphic  that I will be using soon. This one.. Summary Podcast Stats Total Downloads: 12,828      Speaking at WordCamp Victoria 2012.. http://www.wordcampvictoria.ca/speaker-biographies/ MARCUS COUCH - BIO / INTRO Marcus Couch has been an innovative force in new media and Internet marketing for the last decade. He has initiated successful online campaigns for Sony, AOL, Yahoo Business, Godaddy, Columbia Pictures and hundreds of other prominent online companies. As the Director of Marketing for Entrepreneur Media, Marcus ran all online marketing operations for entrepreneur.com, Entrepreneur Press and Entrepreneur magazine. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Increase Visibility, a digital marketing agency located in Southern California. Marcus is one of the founding pioneers in the technology of podcasting and new media. Throughout his nearly 7 years of podcasting he has utilized Wordpress throughout, and also used it on nearly 300 other client projects. Shout Outs: One this week Yoram thanks for the great comment.   Something new list of interesting sites that run on WordPress: World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: Gravity Forms v1.6 Release Candidate 5 Released WordPress 3.3 Beta 2is out now means we are getting close, my prediction release on Halloween.. Some kind of monster haiku.. An opinion about the new fly-out menu system. Old image resize script leaves 1 million Web pages compromisedtimthumb issue Avast warns of web attacks from WordPress flawproof that when your popular you get attacked.. Lowering the Price for Site Analyses by Yoast Dress Up Your Site with WordPress Halloween Plugins   List of Plugins:   My YouTube Videos Version: 1.1 Author: Sebs Studio (Sebastien) Last Updated: 450 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.7.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.0.5 Downloaded: 3,780 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they say: Displays your latest uploaded videos from your YouTube account on a full page or in your sidebar using the widget. What we say: Ok this one is pretty simple and only has one real function and that is creating a list of videos for any YouTube username. You choose how many to display and decide to either have them in the sidebar via widget or in a post. It only creates a list with thumbnails nothing more. Ranking: 2 dragon   Video Gallery Version: 1.0.5 Author: Gürkan Oluç Last Updated: 13 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 3,343 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage »  What they say: With this video gallery plugin, you can create galleries from your youtube, vimeo and dailymotion videos. You can embed your videos as a gallery or single video. What we say: OK I had to abondon this one as I do not read german and all the backend setting for this plugin where in German.. Sorry it looked promising.. Ranking: Not Ranked   Video Sidebar Widgets Version: 5.2 Author: Denzel Chia Last Updated: 14 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.8.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 89,632 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What They say:

This week we are covering mobile device plugins that will automatically create mobile themes for your site. John’s Rant: What to rant about? Hmm a rant a rant my kingdom for a rant... Ok I really do have something you will just have to listen to hear about it.. It is my opinions about copyright law and the ludriciousness of it all. here is a great place to start on your road to craziness http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide   Shout Outs: None this week   Something new list of interesting sites that run on WordPress: Cicil Service UK http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/   World of WordPress News: WordPress 3.3 is now in beta stage you can get it here to play with it.. I don’t think I like the flyout menues they always drive me nuts hope it is made an option not the only choice.. I look forward to drag and drop uploading though.. http://wordpress.org/news/2011/10/wordpress-3-3-beta-1/ List of Plugins: WPTouch: Version: 1.9.34 Author: BraveNewCode Inc. Last Updated: 52 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 2,600,368 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they say: WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices. The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to touch mobile visitors, without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme. What I Say: I have been using this plugin for sometime now and enjoyed quite well, lately I have been running into issues with it though. I went to show it off on a couple of website I had it installed on because someone was asking about a mobile theme for WordPress. Of course this was when he plugin decide that it would no longer work correctly just to show how chaos is really in charge of the world and not me like I generally believe. This plugin gives you a nice interface for configuration and is pretty straight forward to use. You can choose the home page landing page, decide on icons, choose the menu settings and more. If your trying to monetize you can even add your google adsense code to it. Like I said I had found this to be a great plugin for mobile until recently, not sure why recent issues have not had a chance to look into them. One drawback is theme customization is limited unless you buy the pro version. Rating 2 Dragons Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin: Version: 3.9.3 Author: Rich Gubby Last Updated: 130 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.1.4 Downloaded: 53,039 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they say: Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes. Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren't dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer. What I say: This one was new to me so here is what I found.. Received some errors on install some sort of parse error. It has some pretty extensive configurations to accomplish a bit more time than I had to devote to this one. It did look like you can choose many settings and even place adverting code into it. One of the basic setting required an API key from Wapple though they don’t make it easy to find.. All in all this one required a fair bit of time to get up and running. Rating 2 Knight WP Mobile Detector: Version: 1.7.1 Author: Websitez.com Last Updated: 43 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 46,191 times

This week there is no rant, no plugins this is a special episode of WordPress Plugins from A to Z and my tribute to the man I respected but disliked at the same time. Steve Jobs the leader for Apple Computers died on October 5, 2011 at his home surrounded by his family the way we all want to go I think. Listen for the full tribute and my feelings about Steve Jobs. My views on Steve Jobs are that he was a great man who changed the world, the impact of his passing will be felt for many weeks to come. The passing of Steve will make many people rethink what they are doing with their lives. If his death has an impact I feel it will have people thinking about the great people who have passed though the human race in the past 100 years. Some links to articles on Steve Jobs http://mashable.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-quotes/#28611-12 http://sharmaaman.posterous.com/was-steve-jobs-indispensable-to-apple http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/ http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/06/on-steve-jobs/ Below is Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Controlling the Appearance of Your Widgets on a per page/post/section basis. John’s Rant: What to rant about? Since podcast is overdue and falls past the much anticipated Apple iPhone announcement, I will throw my 2 cents into the arena just for fun.   Shout Outs: One this week Rew at beforesite.com thanks for the great comment.   Something new list of interesting sites that run on WordPress: none interesting this week.   World of WordPress News: WordPress 3.3 will flip the (Java)script on you Klout Quietly Adds WordPress.com to Klout Scores ThemeGarden scaling back, refocusing as an alternative marketplace Meta Review: WooCommerce plugin from WooThemes 5 questions to ask when deciding whether to use Drupal or WordPress 5 Free Genesis Child Themes   List of Plugins: This week it was a bit of a pain locating the plugins as you can hear about in the podcast. Widget Wrangler 1.3.2 Version: 1.3.2 Author: Jonathan Daggerhart Last Updated: 42 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 5,599 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they say: Widget Wrangler is a plugin for WordPress that gives administrators a clean interface for managing widgets on a page by page basis. Widget Wrangler provides widgets as a post type, gives you the ability to use existing WordPress widgets (called 'Cloning'), and provides shortcode support for individual widgets. Create and manage multiple sidebars (groups of widgets) per page.   What I say Nice little plugin but a bit much if you’re planning to turn site over to you client. Rating >>> only 1 knight Display Widgets Version: 1.20 Author: Stephanie Wells Last Updated: 120 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.8 or higher Compatible up to: 3.1.4 Downloaded: 81,451 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » What they say: Change your sidebar content with different pages. Avoid creating multiple sidebars and duplicating widgets by adding check boxes to each widget in the admin (as long as it is written in the WordPress version 2.8 format) which will either show or hide the widgets on every site page. Great for use with the Thesis WordPress Theme (aff link), or just to avoid extra coding.   What I say: May work well with standard themes but since I do most of my development in genesis it does not seem to work to block widgets from main page. Rating >> 1 Knight   Dynamic Widgets Version: 1.4.2 Author: Qurl Last Updated: 32 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.9.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 74,753 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage »   What they say: Dynamic Widgets gives you full control on which pages your widgets will appear. It lets you dynamically hide or show widgets on WordPress pages by setting conditional logic rules with just a few mouse clicks. No knowledge of PHP required. No fiddling around with conditional tags.   What I say: This one is great simple and does what it says it will do. Listen to podcast for full info on this one. Rating 3 Dragons   Some Terms here for plugins: Nothing special this week..   In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts: An interview with the creator of the File Monitor plugin coming soon, just as soon as I can schedule it up.   Video Plugins Membership Plugins WEBphysiology Portfolio   How to Contact Us: Laura how can you be contacted: on my website @ http://www.lauramathes.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Tefnuit or even like me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LauraMathescom   John can be contacted at: on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom  

John’s Rant: What to rant about? Well I have a great story about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac you will just have to listen to find out about it. What else has peved me this past week? tune in and listen to it all.   Shout Outs: One this week One going out to Stefan   Something new list of interesting sites that run on WordPress: Shoreline Community School Assoication   World of WordPress News: Major Releases of BuddyPress and bbPress The WordPress community has a lot to be excited about this week. BuddyPress and bbPress have pushed out major new releases today. WordPress users looking for a simple way to enable forums and/or add social media features should take a look. ... WordPress malware spreading —Sophos He said an initial investigation showed malicious code managed to inject itself into the PHP code used on some websites running WordPress. “(This means that) if you visit them when running Internet Explorer you could be exposing yourself to a malware ... List of Plugins: Discussion about a great plugin we found and put in a test site only to find a few days later it has been removed form the repository and the company is offering a new way of doing it. Plugin called onswipe and creates a great interface for iPads. you can get it from here if you would like it. since it is GPL I can give away copies of it. Get the plugin now..   WP Ecommerce: Version: 3.8.6.1 Author: Instinct Entertainment Last Updated: 10 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Downloaded: 1,341,473 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » We make setting up an ecommerce shop easy, and with over 1.3 Million downloads, we have unparalleled experience. Features: WordPress Integration Easy to install WordPress plugin Works with any standards compliant WordPress theme Plays well with other Plugins Supports regular WordPress widgets, as well as a few snazzy ones of our own Utilizes shortcodes and template tags (just like WordPress) Works out-of-the-box with WordPress MU (make sure you use sub domains with your MU setup) 100% Customizable A designers dream – use your own HTML & CSS and have complete control over the look and feel of your. store Easy to modify templates What I think about this plugin now, well I have not used it in sometime as it was not where I needed it to be about a year or so ago. I recently came back to it to re-examine how it has developed since last I used it. This plugin has improved dramatically and I can once again recommend it although I have discovered a flaw that I initially missed and that is it has no place for tracking your suppliers/vendors. I give it a nice 2 Dragon Rating Some Terms here for plugins: Nothing special this week..   In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts: An interview with the creator of the File Monitor plugin coming soon, just as soon as I can schedule it up.   Video Plugins Membership Plugins WEBphysiology Portfolio   How to Contact Us: Laura how can you be contacted: on my website @ http://www.lauramathes.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Tefnuit or even like me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LauraMathescom   John can be contacted at: on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom   Some of the music provided tonight from Mevio's Music Alley. Check it out at 'music.mevio.com http://music.mevio.com

A Wandering Mind is a Dangerous Thing -- WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 43 Just some news and information thius week due to workload and other distractions I was unable to create a specific plugin for folks. John’s Rant: Yup there is one but train wrecked while loading the page to write them down.. For the most part though since last podcast I have been moving into new office, playing catchup on my work and making a brief trip down to the States.   Shout Outs: One this week None   World of WordPress News: State of the Word 2011 news from WordCamp SF   List of Plugins: None this week as I have been pretty busy moving and other things.   Some Terms here for plugins: Nothing special this week..   In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts: An interview with the creator of the File Monitor plugin coming soon, just as soon as I can schedule it up.   Video Plugins Membership Plugins WEBphysiology Portfolio   How to Contact Us: Laura how can you be contacted: on my website @ http://www.lauramathes.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Tefnuit or even like me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LauraMathescom   John can be contacted at: on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom   Some of the music provided tonight from Mevio's Music Alley. Check it out at 'music.mevio.com http://music.mevio.com

Just a couple of simple plugins this week to make your life easier with your WordPress website. WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 42 The Answer to Life the universe and everything.. but What is the Question...   John’s Rant: Well I should have knocked on wood when I did the last show seems a couple days later the hackers/spammers have shown up again this time in a more insidious manner.. Yes they should all burn in hell.. It was coming from an offsite advertisement that was being served by my sites..   Shout Outs: One this week I would like to thank Rew for letting me know about the issue with my site it helped me solve it before it became a problem thanks..   World of WordPress News:   http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/08/wordpress-slider-plugin.html   WordPress SEO by Yoast, version 1.0   No More Ad Free WPCandy List of Plugins: Just a couple simple plugins I needed to solve a couple of issues..   First off we have: Blog in Blog ·  Author: Tim Hodson ·  Dragon Rating: 3 Dragons ·  Downloaded: 31,883 times ·  WordPress.org Plugin Page » ·  Plugin Homepage »   I liked this for is simplicity and ease of use to fix a main page issue where I needed to hide some special categories in a standard theme by Artisteer. What they say about it: Blog-in-Blog allows you to use the WordPress platform for it's CMS features, but still have a blog page on your site. Posts selected by category, post type, tag or any combination thereof, can be used to feed the 'special' blog page, and can optionally be hidden from the home page. You can have more than one category hidden from the homepage (not post types or tags).   and next we have: Recipe Press ·  Author: grandslambert ·  Dragon Rating: 4 Dragons ·  Last Updated: 182 days ago ·  Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher ·  Compatible up to: 3.1.4 ·  Downloaded: 18,672 times ·  WordPress.org Plugin Page » ·  Plugin Homepage »   I have now used this plugin on a couple of websites for creating a recipe book. You can check it out here at http://www.ManfreedintheKitchen.com I have found this plugin to be great and pretty easy to use. What they say about it: Turn your WordPress 3.0 site into a full fledged recipe sharing system. Allow users to submit recipes, organize recipes in hierarchal categories, make comments, and embed recipes in posts and pages.   Some Terms here for plugins: Nothing special this week..   In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts: An interview with the creator of the File Monitor plugin coming soon, just as soon as I can schedule it up.   Video Plugins Membership Plugins WEBphysiology Portfolio   How to Contact Us: Laura how can you be contacted: on my website @ http://www.lauramathes.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Tefnuit or even like me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LauraMathescom   John can be contacted at: on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom   Some of the music provided tonight from Mevio's Music Alley. Check it out at 'music.mevio.com http://music.mevio.com  

This week I am covering something a little different instead of a set of plugins to compare I am doing something on some replacement plugins for was a staple in my library. Auto Tagger & Yoast SEO John’s Rant: What to Rant on, well it been so bus...

This week I cover the fantastic plugin to monitor your files in your WordPress install. This plugin will help you keep an eye on your files for any unusual changed or additions to your site. John’s Rant: Fu****ing hackers well I spent the better part of a day lost to hackers this is a musing though found in one of their files ---- // This file is protected by copyright law and provided under license. Reverse engineering of this file is strictly prohibited. make sure to use the plugin WordPress File Monitor Well you when they say it rains it pours well it has been pouring on me lately, not that I am complaining it is just making it difficult to do all the fun stuff like this podcast. In face my business has been picking up so nicely lately I have had to place clients into a 2 week wait list before I can get to their job it is actually a nice feeling. When this keeps up long enough I may have to raise my rates, but the biggest benefit of this is that I get to choose my clients not take them because I am starving and need the work. I don’t have to discount anything it is all great. Found on a different site another issue this times with wpsuper cache being hacked and them changing my htaccess and adding a rdirect to a f***ing zip file of some sort. Shout Outs: One this week Going out to the guys at Event Espresso thanks for your support this week while in the middle of site development. World of WordPress News: Great article on an exploit http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/hackers-attack-zero-day-flaw-in-wordpress-themes/9181 List of Plugins: The paypal plugin for gravity forms works like a hotdamn Discussion of the file monitor program for WordPress: Author: Scott Cariss WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » Monitors your WordPress installation for added/deleted/changed files. When a change is detected an email alert can be sent to a specified address. Features Monitors file system for added/deleted/changed files Sends email when a change is detected Administration area alert to notify you of changes in case email is not received Ability to monitor files for changes based on file hash, time stamp and/or file size Ability to exclude files and directories from scan (for instance if you use a caching system that stores its files within the monitored zone) Site URL included in notification email in case plugin is in use on multiple sites Ability to run the file checking via an external cron so not to slow down visits to your website and to give greater flexibility over scheduling Ability to set file extension to be ignored or only scanned. Some Terms here for plugins: Nothing special this week.. In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts: Video Plugins Membership Plugins How to Contact Us: Laura how can you be contacted: on my website @ http://www.lauramathes.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Tefnuit or even like me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LauraMathescom John can be contacted at: on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom Some of the music provided tonight from Mevio's Music Alley. Check it out at 'music.mevio.com http://music.mevio.com

John’s Rant: Nothing really to rant about this week, been a good week with little to complain about. I did finish selling my soul to Apple though and got myself am iPad and do enjoy it a bit and have begun to find it useful in business. Shout Outs: None this week World of WordPress News: mostly quiet this week as I have been preoccupied with other things. List of Plugins: Had a great interview with the creator for Event Espresso Seth Shoultes who joined my to talk about his plugin and it past present and future. While trying not to show my love for this plugin but if your looking for a great plugin to handle event and event registration that even works on WordPress MU then this is the one for you. But I will let Seth say it all. Some Terms here for plugins: Nothing special this week.. In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts: Video Plugins Membership Plugins How to Contact Us: Laura how can you be contacted: on my website @ http://www.lauramathes.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Tefnuit or even like me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LauraMathescom John can be contacted at: on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom Some of the music provided tonight from Mevio's Music Alley. Check it out at 'music.mevio.com http://music.mevio.com  

John’s Rant: A good ramble about the loading article and updates to it "So really, don't use just /%postname%/ as your permalink structure.". http://digwp.com/2011/06/dont-use-postname/ Why pages for a website charge piss me off now... Shout Outs: Yea we have one. Thanks Jim World of WordPress News: WordPress 3.2 is out read more here List of Plugins: This week I have no plugin just a discussion on WordPress MU and WordPress 3.2 and some other random stuff. Notes for setting up WordPress MU see these great link to tutorials. http://wpveda.com/how-to-enable-multiple-site-network-option-in-wordpress-3-0/ http://wpveda.com/wordpress-3-0-enable-wordpress-multisite-tutorial/ There is one other step that needs to be done and it seems I have lost the bookmark I had for the page so I will explain in full geek-speak here. You need access to your server root, then you need to edit your apache config file, then you need to add the following line to the virtual host for the specific domain. ServerAlais yourdomainname.com *.yourdomainname.com This need to be right above the servername in the virtual host file. In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts: Video Plugins Membership Plugins How to Contact Us: Laura how can you be contacted: on my website @ http://www.lauramathes.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Tefnuit or even like me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LauraMathescom John can be contacted at: on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom Some of the music provided tonight from Mevio's Music Alley. Check it out at 'music.mevio.com http://music.mevio.com