It’s Episode 257 and we’ve got plugins for managing Email Notifications, Back End FTP, a new front end page designer, recursive file name prevention and a plugin to help keep track of plugin modifications. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
A Quarter of All Hacked WordPress Sites Can Be Attributed to Three Plugins
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Manage Notification E-mails
- Version: 1.2.0
- Author: Virgial Berveling
- Last Updated: 6 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 4.0.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.4.3
- Active Installs: 2,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
This plugin help you deal with the issue of duplicate emails being sent out when you have a membership site. It stops all the default emails that WorPress creates and allows you to use only the ones provided by the membership plugin you are using.
Rating 5 Dragons
WP Unsafe Comment Links
- Version: 1.0.2
- Author: Jason Witt
- Last Updated: 6 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 4.5.2 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Do you get lots of comments and sometimes they leave links in thier comments for your visitors. This plugin will help you protect your sites reputation by checking all links against the Google Safe Browsing API. If it finds a bad link it replaces it with a warning that it is unsafe link.
Rating 3 Dragons
Plugin Modification Date
- Version: 1.0
- Author: kiranpatil353, clarionwpdeveloper
- Last Updated: 3 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0.1 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
The Lowdown:
This is a simple plugin that can help you know when you last updated a plugin on your site. Just turn it on and it now show you the column with the last date the plugin was modified.
Rating 5 Dragons
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Elementor
https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
Elementor is a drag and drop frontend page builder that gives you the power to design stunning page designs in an intuitive & lightweight interface.
Rating: 3 out of 5
FTP – File & Folder Manager
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ftp-access-file-manage/
WitFTP is a smart, fast and lightweight file manager plugin. It operates from WordPress back-end so you don’t have to use any FTP program anymore. You can browse folders, create, edit, copy, move, delete, search, upload and download files and much more.
Features
Browsing files and folders
Showing names, file sizes, file types and permissions
Copying, moving and deleting files
Searching for files and folders
Uploading and downloading files
Creating new files and folders
Changing files and folders permissions (chmod)
Zip / UnZip files and folders
Rating: 5 out of 5
Unpredictable Image Filenames
https://wordpress.org/plugins/unpredictable-image-filenames/
Most cameras and smartphones number their images in a predictable format. For example, iPhones use the format IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg, etc. If you upload IMG_0345.jpg to a post and publish it and then upload IMG_0346.jpg to a post that you are not yet ready to publish, someone could guess the URL of IMG_0346.jpg and see it before you’re ready.
The Unpredictable Image Filenames plugin renames image files when you upload them to a sufficiently unguessable name. For example, IMG_0345.jpg could be renamed 334AB1E8-28AB-4BE1-882D-3C112E95F055.jpg, and IMG_0346.jpg could be renamed A67C9CF9-0BB5-4FB4-AD03-DCB294F853EC.jpg. Try and guess that!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Manage Notification E-mails – 5, WP Unsafe Comment Links – 3, Plugin Modification Date -5
Marcus’ Plugins: Elementor – 3, WitFTP – 5, Unpredictable Image Filenames – 4
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