It’s Episode 302 and we’ve got plugins for Google Calendar, Site Attack Blocking, Checking your Posts with Copyscape, WooCommerce Images and a plugin to list your stock portfolio. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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John’s Rant: What to rant about?
Barn3Media just launched a fantastic WordPress-related competition that you would be interested in.
They are looking for ideas on the most creative way to list WooCommerce products. The prize is 3 licenses for thier WooCommerce Product Table plugin. You can read all about it at https://barn2.co.uk/competition-creative-woocommerce-ideas . They will publish every idea including a dofollow link to each entrant’s website.
WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
5 Simple Ways To Secure Your WordPress Website, Without Plugins
Your Regular WordPress Maintenance Checklist
WooCommerce Unveils Collaborator accounts:
You’ve been asking us to make collaboration on WooCommerce store development easier, and today we’re pleased to announce Collaborator Accounts for WooCommerce.com. Once added, collaborators (i.e. a developer or client) are able to manage downloads, subscriptions and tickets with permissions you set.
4000 WordPress Sites Infected by Installing Fake Plugin
About 4,000 WordPress websites have been infected with malware that disguises itself as a search engine optimization plugin to attract unwary webmasters. The fake plugin is called WP-Base-SEO and is based on a legitimate SEO module so it is easily overlooked during security scans and seems to be a viable tool by a web team intent on boosting its traffic. What the plugin actually does is create a backdoor to the victimized site. This is yet another reason to support and listen to this show, as we spot these things regularly. As a listener to the show, you know that the plugins we talk about are safe.
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
repubHub Headlines Widget
sent in by: Dan Sauerhaft
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This is a pretty easy way to add trending news and or new from specific sources to your website via a sidebar widget. You can adjust the settings to drill down to specific categories and regions and limit the number of articles to appear. It is a pretty good way to get additional content to your site that is relevant.
Rating 4 Dragons
WP Block
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
You can prevent most of the common attacks simply by keeping plugins, themes and the core WordPress framework updated
What it does
* Disables access to admin for everyone except admins and editors
* Disables the use of WPScan, a tool commonly used by hackers to attack WordPress
* Blocks hackers from scanning your website for admin users, vulnerable themes, vulnerable plugins and exposed files
* Reduces the load on your server
* Prevents access to sensitive files
rating 4 Dragons
Stock Market News
Version:1.9.17
Requires:3.1 or higher
Compatible up to:6.6.2
Released:16 January 2017
Downloads:26655
Last Updated:19 July 2024
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
provides the means to display a list of stock market news, for any given stock exchange and symbol. Over 65 different stock exchanges and a large number of market indices, currencies and commodities are supported.
It not too bad requires some effort to get it fully setup and running but can provide some useful info. You have to create an account on thier site to get the API key.
Rating 3 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Google Calendar List View
Version:7.2.1
Requires:5.4 or higher
Compatible up to:6.6.2
Released:09 April 2017
Downloads:17428
Last Updated:25 August 2024
Download Link:Click here
The plugin is to create a shortcode for displaying the list view of a public Google Calendar. Shortcode: (Put the shortcode on a post or page.). Remember that this is a basic text list view. It does seem unformatted out of the box so you will have to make some CSS modifications to get it to work perfectly formatted within your site.
Rating: 4 out of 5
WooCommerce Image Annotator
Version:1.0
Requires:4.1 or higher
Compatible up to:4.7.29
Released:09 April 2017
Downloads:772
Last Updated:09 April 2017
Download Link:Click here
If you want to add more value to your WooCommerce site by giving more reasons for your customers to buy your product, this plugin is right for you. It will allow you to extend the way you expose your product through annotation of those products in live pictures.
Best of all, this plugin is accompanied with a friendly and responsive user interface for both the frontend and the backend sides. You can annotate, save, display your image, then go back and edit it by adding different products on top of your image.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Postscape
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The plugin connects to Copyscape API to check if published posts are original or not. It prevents posts from authors and contributers to be published if they are not original. Also it adds a button for admins and editors on every post page to query Copyscape for this post.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: repubHub Headlines Widget – 4, WP Block – 4, Stock Market News – 3
Marcus’ Plugins: Google Calendar List View – 4, WooCommerce Image Annotator – 5, Postscape – 5
Commercial / Promotions:
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My new and improved Membership Coach program is your go-to resource for all the Training, Advice, and Support needed to Develop and Grow a Profitable Membership Site. Be sure to head over to MembershipCoach.com and get on the waiting list for the first sessions, launching soon. You can also follow @membershipcoach on twitter to get the latest release dates and news. Signups are now active and Pre-Launch Enrollment is open!
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