Summary: 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.
