Summary: 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!
