It’s Episode 299 and we’ve got plugins for Free Shipping Threshold Notifications, Timestamps, One to One Communication in WooCommerce, Plugin Notes, and Integrating Postmates to WooCommerce. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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I’ve been testing out some sales report plugins for woocommerce this week and a couple of the suitable I’m trialing for a client are Ni WooCommerce Sales Report which has neat, printable data tables in the WordPress dashboard and WooCommerce Simply Order Export which you can use to setup automatic sales report summary emails. This donation is on behalf of Earth Anchor Systems, a Jezweb client that has created an innovative way to build garden retaining walls quickly and cheaply: https://www.earthanchorsystems.com.au/
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WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
Google Gets More WordPress.com Takedown Requests Than WordPress Itself – https://torrentfreak.com/google-gets-more-wordpress-com-takedown-requests-than-wordpress-170319/
An interesting article about how Google Processes more DCMA take-down notices that WordPress.com does along with other interesting tidbits of info about take down notices.
WordPress REST API Bug Could Be Used in Stored XSS Attacks – https://threatpost.com/wordpress-rest-api-bug-could-be-used-in-stored-xss-attacks/124294/
The recently patched WordPress REST API Endpoint vulnerability is the gift that keeps on giving.
Already responsible for more than one million website defacement and attempts to monetize some of those attacks, the flaw also opens the door to a separate attack.
Researchers at Sucuri who found the original bug on Monday disclosed details on how it could be leveraged to pull off a stored cross-site scripting attack.
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**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Last Modified Timestamp
Version:1.0.6
Requires:4.6 or higher
Compatible up to:6.7.2
Released:11 January 2012
Downloads:77080
Last Updated:02 December 2024
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This is a simple plugin that adds a new colums to your post list menu so you can sort your posst by when they wre last modified. This is a useful tool if you are regularly going back and updating posts or if you have multiple people work on content so you can know when was the last time it was updated.
Rating 4 Dragons
Plugin Notes
Version:1.6
Requires:3.5 or higher
Compatible up to:4.2.38
Released:25 October 2009
Downloads:13836
Last Updated:16 July 2015
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin allows you to add notes to each plugin so you can know what each plugin is for this is a gret way to be able to keep track of why you installed a plugin since many time the name for the plugin is not real clear on its use.
Rating 4 Dragons
WP Social Ninja
sent in by Hrove Krbavac
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
If you are looking for a way to add social share icons to your posts/pages this plugin may help in that task. Although when I went to test it it seems the plugin is incomplete in several areas and has some theme incompatibilities When I tried on one of my test sites it cause header errors but worked fine on my other test site. All in all not too bad but still a work in progress.
Rating 3 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Client Admin Message After Purchase for WooCommerce
Version:13.5
Requires:4.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.7.2
Released:15 March 2017
Downloads:37975
Last Updated:15 February 2025
Download Link:Click here
This plugin allows admin and client to communicate when WooCommerce order is completed. A button/link is added against each Order in My Account page to start/see messages. This is in place of email or anything else like Skype. It just captures all the messages and attachments within WooCommerce.
Rating: 3 out of 5
WooCommerce Postmates Integration
Version:1.5.0
Requires:4.7 or higher
Compatible up to:5.6.14
Released:13 March 2017
Downloads:2044
Last Updated:18 March 2021
Download Link:Click here
Using the Postmates Integration for WooCommerce plugin, you will be available to support on-demand deliveries to your customers.
Plugin Features:
- Flat rate charging for customers.
- Delivery status on order page.
- Custom shipping method title.
- Custom pickup notes for the courier.
- Backend delivery status on orders page
- Email admin in case of issues with the delivery submission.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Woo Free Shipping Bar
Version:1.2.7
Requires:5.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.7.2
Released:08 March 2017
Downloads:79984
Last Updated:25 April 2025
Download Link:Click here
The increase in sales and traffic to the website is a very important for a website or an online store. Customers making a purchase usually enjoy free shipping method. Woocommerce Free Shipping Bar allowing:
– Display the total amounts of customer to reach minimum order amount Free Shipping system.
– Display banner notification program Free Shipping.
– Show message successful when customers purchase to enough minimum amount Free Shipping or amounts missing to reach Free Shipping.
– Display progress with percentage amount current.
Important Notice:
Plugin works based on WooCommerce plugin.
Features
– Support users know how much they have purchased to receive free shipping
– Works on mobile! Turn on or turn off them.
– Detect User’s IP to get shipping method of their country.
– Direct adjustment progress bar will show: Background color bar, text color, background color progress bar, background color current progress bar, font-family, font size.
– Avaiable 3 styles to display progress bar.
– Avaiable 2 styles position to show progress bar.
– Enable or Disable percentage current.
– Custom message Anounce system.
– Custom message purchased.
– Custom message success.
– Custom message error.
– Set initial delay, time to display to show.
– Allow close progress bar.
– Allow hidden Progress bar from specific pages.
– FAST. Progress bar is lightweight and built to scale, so it won’t slow down your site (which can hurt your Google rankings).
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Last Modified Timestamp – 4, Plugin Notes -4, WP Social Ninja -3
Marcus’ Plugins: Client Admin Message After Purchase for WooCommerce – 3, WooCommerce Postmates Integration – 4, Woo Free Shipping Bar – 5
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