Advertising, Personalization, Universal Type Sizes, a Uniqule New Carousel and more on Episode 73 WPPlugins A to Z

Summary: It’s episode #73, and we’ve got plugins for Advertising, Personalization, Universal Type Sizes, a uniqule new carousel, and a new plugin that lets you target your posts to individual users. All that and more coming up next on Wordpress Plugins A-Z. This Podcast Can now be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com John’s Rant A Ramble about what a great place Victoria is , Social Media Camp Victoria and of course Diablo3. The sad state of the top 5 or 7 or 10 plugins depending on what article you read. Seems they all have the same thing to say. Never going outside the box. Guess I will be doing my article soon of the real top five or actually 15 that I put on every site. Or even an up and coming top list of plugin failures. Shout Outs: Gerald MephisSewingMachine.com thanks for the email Listener Feedback / Audio Clips Gordon Drayson from Drayson Design in the UK sends in a question about managing multiple wordpress installs with a WP Management tool. Marcus has used Wordpress Manager DX before with some pretty good success in the past, might be worth a look. (wpmanagerdx.com) List of interesting sites that run on WordPress: http://www.sitepronews.com/ World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: WordPress 3.4 Release Candidate 3 **** Plugins Reviewed by John **** WP AdCenter (Premium Plugin) The Plugin site at WPAdcenter.com The Authors Site http://kooc.co.uk/ where they have a few other plugins The Lowdown: After install head over to its menu The only setting to make is paypal address seems it does not offer the sandbox top bad. The you need to set up your zones, packages and campaigns. Then set up at least one advertiser so you can test it out. The one problem I ran into was lack of documentation until I went duh!! Check the zip folder for info and there is a link to complete online documentation on how to use it. It uses widgets to place your ad block a nice feature or get the code and place that. It is either php code or short code nice feature. Adding the ads was pretty easy after that and so was setting up the payment page now just sit back and let the cash roll in. Rating: 4 Dragons I have a coupe plugins from the same authors Sean & Randy over at beAutomated.com First is one that seem like allot of fun more than anything else. beCounted 1.0.2 Version: 1.0.2 Author: beAutomated Last Updated: 7 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.2 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3.2 Downloaded: 1,183 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: Ok what can I say it can also be used for serious stats presentation but I found it to be much more for fun than anything else. simply install activate and add your stats and credit line. It can be good fun. Rating 3 Dragons Now onto a serious note for a plugin Benchmark Email Lite 2.3 Last updated June 5th Author: beAutomated The Lowdown: First you will need an account at Benchmark email http://benchmarkemail.com wwhere you get a 30 day free trial after that it costs not sure how much did not examin thier services. I had a little trouble locating my API key at benchmark but the instructions from the plugin where pretty good only missing one line look for small link to generate your API key. I do like the one feature I noticed in tier plug ins and that is to limit what page to show it on. It works very nice and if you have more than one list you choose it when setting up the widget plus a couple other base settings. All in all pretty nice plugin that has a widget that conforms to your theme quite nicely.  And if you want to place elsewhere they have the code ready to go for you. And you can send any post as an email right from the posts edit area. Where you can schedule it or send now. It send a pretty nice email but I would want to edit up what it send I am sure that can be done somewhere. Rating 4 dragons