It’s Episode 312 and we’ve got plugins for Talking like a Pirate, WooCommerce for Logged-In Users, Gravity Forms CSS, Admin Notices, Tracking Site Changes and integrating ChatBots into your WordPress site. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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Promotions from Marcus Couch:
X² Marketing is your full-service digital marketing and brand development agency. Whether you are a solo entrepreneur, small business or enterprise level company; power up your marketing with X2. From WordPress to ClickFunnels, Landing Pages to Social Campaigns, SEO, Paid Ads, Infusionsoft management and more. Visit X2marketing.com and get in touch with Marcus about your digital marketing needs.
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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**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
KJM Admin Notices
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin allows you to create admin notices that will popup for your other uses to see when they login. It is a pretty good way to communicate some notices, changes or other updates that happen to the site in which your users need to know about. You can even styling them with colour codes so they are better noticed when users login.
Rating 4 Dragons
GravityWP – CSS Selector
Version:1.0.2
Requires:3.0.1 or higher
Compatible up to:6.4.4
Released:10 June 2017
Downloads:42068
Last Updated:12 December 2023
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
If you use gravity forms you have at least once used the Gravity custom CSS and to do that you had to add to your custom css. With this plugin it ass a new selector to the appearance tab when editing the fields of your form making the task of using the custom CSS for Gravity Forms an easier task.
Rating 5 Dragons
Ye Old Pirate
Version:1.05
Requires:4.4.10 or higher
Compatible up to:5.8.9
Released:15 June 2017
Downloads:688
Last Updated:11 July 2021
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
Well this one is ahead of the international Pirate day on September 19, 2017 but you may as well be prepared. It is mostly for fun and has no other purpose than that but you can have some sun with it. What it does is change out some words on your site such as the,yes,stagnant,hey,call,crew,clothes,work shy,beggars,afraid which are then changed into Pirate lingo.
So get Ya old pirate lingo set to to concur the high seas of the Internet.
Rating 3 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Chatbot for Facebook
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
Chatbot for Facebook leverages Personic’s out of the box Chatbot and integrates it with your WordPress site to deliver content via Chatbot to your subscribers.
The content of your blog posts are formatted so that they render correctly in Facebook Messenger. Your blog content is also automatically posted onto your Facebook page.
Chatbots are rapidly becoming the most powerful way that brands connect with their audience. This plugin helps you break into the world of chatbots with Personic’s bot creator and integrate it with your WordPress content. I’ll be talking about more and more in the Chatbot space as we move along in time with the show. It’s something I am very interested in and starting a new company around in the near future.
Rating: 5 out of 5
WooCommerce For Logged Users
Version:1.3.0
Requires:3.0.1 or higher
Compatible up to:6.5.2
Released:16 June 2017
Downloads:20211
Last Updated:03 April 2024
Download Link:Click here
Sometimes you want to restrict your shop to members or people that are registered customers of your site. With this plugin you simply activate the plugin and users not logged will be redirect to “My Account” page to login or register before they are allowed to see the store. I can think of a hundred different scenarios where you would want to limit your WooCommerce pages to only registered, approved and logged-in users. This set it and forget it plugin is great for doing just that.
Rating: 5 out of 5
WP Blame
Version:2.1.5
Requires:4.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.5.2
Released:16 June 2017
Downloads:1230
Last Updated:28 March 2024
Download Link:Click here
WP Blame makes it possible to keep a log of everything that has happened on your WordPress website so you can stay in control, even while your away. Sometimes it can be hard to keep track of everything happening on your website, so WP Blame will log certain actions for you and organize them into a readable table for you to review later on. Whilst this plugin doesn’t keep a log of absolutely everything you can do within WordPress, it keeps a record of most actions.
By default, only changes including but not limited to posts, pages, plugins & themes are logged due to the way WordPress works. If you are using this for a client, there is a whitelist that you can enable to remove yourself from the audit trail. In this circumstance, you might as well call this one client tracker, as you could completely monitor what a client changes in the tracked metrics I spoke about earlier.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: KJM Admin Notices – 4, GravityWP – CSS Selector – 5, Ye Old Pirate – 3
Marcus’ Plugins: Chatbot For Facebook – 5, WooCommerce For Logged Users – 5, WP Blame – 4
Commercial / Promotions:
MARCUS: I’m promoting the Liftoff Summit put on by BobWP that is being held online on June 19-23, 2017. It’s a free online conference. It’s all about WordPress and eCommerce. Whether you are running an online store, or monetizing your blog or site, they teach you about how to be successful with your site through content and social marketing, blogging and the tech stuff. There are over 20 speakers and it looks to be a great event.
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