It’s Episode 282 and we’ve got plugins for Login Timeout, Post Tables, Taking Donations, Coupon URLs and a new plugin for building and ordering a pizza with WooCommerce. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
WordPressWordPress Passes 27% Market Share, Banks on Customizer for Continued Success https://wptavern.com/wordpress-passes-27-market-share-banks-on-customizer-for-continued-success
WordPress Passes 27% Market Share, Banks on Customizer for Continued Success
WordPress now powers 27.1% of all websites on the internet, up from 25% last year. While it may seem that WordPress is neatly adding 2% of the internet every year, its percentage increase fluctuates from year to year and the climb is getting more arduous with more weight to haul.
In order to provide the best content-creation experience on the market, in any niche, WordPress has some major work to do. The software is in imminent danger of being eclipsed by newer competitors if its core features don’t improve, especially when it comes to customizing a new site. Jetpack cannot single-handedly solve WordPress’ onboarding problem. Read original article here…. wptavern.com
WordPress 4.7 Beta 4 is now available! https://wordpress.org/news/2016/11/wordpress-4-7-beta-4/
WordPress 4.7 Beta 4
WordPress 4.7 Beta 4 is now available!
This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.7, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip). Read original article here…. wordpress.org
As a warning to everyone to insure you contraol your data and back it up locally.
Upvato Backup Service Terminated by Storage Provider, Files May Not be Recoverable https://wptavern.com/upvato-backup-service-terminated-by-storage-provider-files-may-not-be-recoverable
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If you are a WP developer or designer, this should be an essential part of your podcast listening. Packed with tips and opinion, it has really helped us to stay on top of the latest plugins and see what can be achieved. Thanks from Market 2 All, mobile-friendly email newsletter tool! ~ Paul Mycroft
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
WP Login Timeout Settings
Version:1.1.3
Requires:3.0 or higher
Compatible up to:4.9.26
Released:09 July 2014
Downloads:13856
Last Updated:20 December 2017
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin helps you to keep control of your site especially if your users login from different computers What is does is allow you to override the default auto logout time. You can set a timeout for the remember me function also you can also set a shorter logout time for different roles. You can have it redirect to a special page for the auto logout. All in all it is a pretty good way to insure your users get logged out if they forget to do it themselves.
Rating 3 Dragons
Idle User Logout
Version:3.1
Requires:3.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.5.5
Released:22 May 2015
Downloads:27983
Last Updated:22 March 2024
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin help you deal with inactive loged in users, in paticulaer those that are loged in and have walked away from the screen and left it open. You can create a popup that reminds them they need to do something or it will log them out. This is a pretty good plugin to help insure the security of your website from useres that walk away and leve themselves loggin.
Rating 4 Dragons
Posts Table pro
Premium Plugin
The Lowdown:
This plugin works pretty great in helping you list up you posts and custom post types. It offers up great ways to sort the data by clicking the column at the top but its best feature seems to the the search function which does a pretty good job of helping you find something in your list of chosen posts. You can also control the look and feel with some custom CSS just add the necessary functions and away you go.
I did discover that it seems to have some issues in the MU enviroment or again it could be me and allo the plugins I run I will talk with the devlo-pers and see what we can find out.. You can hear more about this plugin and others that they creatye from the interview I did with katie from Barn2 media here https://wppluginsatoz.com/wp-plugins-z-interview-show-8-katie-keith-barn2-media/
Rating 4 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Custom Donations
Version:1.2.4
Requires:3.0 or higher
Compatible up to:4.7.29
Released:15 November 2016
Downloads:2151
Last Updated:07 February 2017
Download Link:Click here
This plugin allows sites to accept user-entered custom donation amounts through Paypal, including recurring donations. This plugin was created in response to Paypal changing the functionality of their donate buttons in October 2016 and allows users access to features which Paypal made harder to customize/access. This plugin features customizable options and text fields.
Rating: 4 out of 5
URL Coupons For WooCommerce
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
URL Coupons For WooCommerce gives store owners a unique link for each coupon on their site. Once visited this link will apply the coupon.
• Easy for customers, just visit the link for the coupon
• Hide coupon fields to increase conversions, but still allow them via coupon URLs
• Apply links to graphics or text to let customers to apply with a click
Rating: 4 out of 5
PizzaTime
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
Virtual Pizza Builder for WooCommerce. Features WooCommerce integration,
25 premade ingredients, Customisable ingredients, Left and right parts are customisable, Regular/extra portions, Photo and description of ingredients, Maximum number of ingredients limit, Pizza image adjusts on scroll, Responsive layout and Translation ready.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: WP Login Timeout Settings – 3, Idle User Logout – 4, Posts Table Pro – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: Custom Donations – 4, URL Coupons – 4, Pizza Time – 5
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