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Plugins covered this episode: WP Clean Fix, Private Facebook, Share and Get it, Easy Digital Downloads, WP Gift Certificate Reloaded Lite 1.27, List Sub-Categories.
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John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about?
A report back on the caching plugin, DB Cache Reloaded Fix found that it conflicts with event espresso causing it not to carry forward pricing.
Shout Outs:
Shoutout from Marcus to Mark Fail, the developer of PremiumPress (premiumpress.com). Mark has a great set of WordPress themes, and really helped me out with a banner customization issue for one of my sites, https://hostingpromocode.com Thanks Mark!
Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
Clip from David Dell in Australia with a question about importing lots of audio clips to a WordPress installation. https://dd3.tv
World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
**** Plugins Reviewed by John ****
WP CleanFix 2.3.1
- Version: 2.3.1
- Author: Giovambattista Fazioli
- Last Updated: 196 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.9.1 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.1.4
- Downloaded: 46,906 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
What they Say:
WP CleanFix is a management tool for for check, repair, fix and optimize your WordPress blog. The Ajax interface allow to manage all status in one only page! Remember: This software is free. You don’t need to donate money to support it. Just talk about it.
FEATURES
- CleanFix Tools
- Extends HTML Editor: fontname, size, color, extra tags
- Remove Frontend admin bar
- Database Tables optimization
- Check/Remove for unused UserMeta
- Check/Remove for Post Revision and Trash
- Check/Remove Auto Draft Posts
- Check/Remove Edit Post Lock
- Check/Remove for unused Post Meta
And more…….
What I say:
Pretty nice once you find the new menu link under the main dashboard menu.. There really needs to be some consistency on how plugin menus are created. It show you all the places on your site that need to be cleaned up and with the click of a button it does just that it even optimizes your database for you. You can even go to the advanced and adjust your html editor size and font use and limit your excerpt length. All in all pretty decent it even has a find and replace feature for post and page content.
Rating 5 Dragons:
Share And Get it ! 1.00
- Version: 1.00
- Author: Share & Get is powered by Viuu / Via Internet UK LTD
- Last Updated: 157 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.8 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.2.1
- Downloaded: 1,597 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
What they say:
Share&Get it ! automatically provides you with either Facebook fans or Twitter followers in return for downloadable files. Once you’ve installed Share&Get it ! on your WordPress website, your number of visitors will dramatically increase in no time. To obtain such great results, you only need to copy/paste the shortcodes you get when setting up the buttons.
Those buttons enable you to share any type of content from music, photos, videos, wallpapers to Ebooks, software, tutorials, icons, Web resources and so much more.
It’s now time for you to do the maths: One download = One new Facebook fan or One new Twitter follower
Easy translation made possible
Share&Get it ! is a piece of cake to translate! Our built-in files help you get the job done.
What I say:
It is pretty straightforward to setup and get a button created it even works quite nicely. I am only concerned about one thing they run it through their website when connecting it wih twitter and probably facebook since I only tested twitter. Due to that I had to mark it down.
Rating 4 Dragons
From the new this week
WP Gift Certificate Reloaded Lite 1.27
- Version: 1.27
- Author: GC Development Team
- Last Updated: 35 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.3.1
- Downloaded: 180 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
What They Say:
WP Gift Certificate Reloaded Lite is a plugin which allows you to manage and sell printable gift certificates on your website. You can sell them to your visitors, and accept payments via PayPal. It’s easy, install the plugin and open new feature for your customers!
How the plugin works?
FRONT END
The visitor view part of the plugin consists of simple form where your visitors can purchase gift certificates.
Front end workflow. Let’ imagine that I sell gift certificate for visiting museum, and you are the visitor who purchases the certificate.
- You fill up the form and click “Continue” button. Then system asks you to confirm your action.
- You click “Confirm” button and being redirected to PayPal, where you can pay for certificate(s).
- After successfull payment you receive e-mail (it is sent to your PayPal e-mail address) which contains link to printable gift certificate.
- You click this link and see printable gift certificate(s), see below:
- You print this certificate and bring it to ticket booth of my museum.
- I scan QR Code and being redirected to certificate page where I can see certificate details and manage it. (For example, I can see transaction details and mark certificates as redeemed).
- Then I allow you to visit museum. This is just particular situation how the plugin might be used. You can use it for selling any gift certificates. Unlimited possibilities.
If you require more features/functions, please visit the website for more information.
What I Say:
Damn it actually works with no effort what else can I say just what I was looking for.
Rating 5 Dragons
**** Plugins Reviewed by Marcus ****
Private Facebook
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-facebook/
Private Facebook is a simple plugin for allowing a certain list of persons by their Facebook account. Users can ask for permissions to read the blog, then you’d have to approve them so they can read it.
Marcus’ Take: This is a really cool start to a plugin that I’d like to see expanded. Easy to set up but a bit difficult to get all your FB friends connected to it.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Easy Digital Downloads
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/
Sell digital downloads through WordPress with this complete digital downloads management plugin
This plugin is very much still in beta. Use on production sites is not yet recommended
Selling digital downloads is something that not a single one of the large WordPress ecommerce plugins has ever gotten really right. This plugin aims to fix that. Instead of focusing on providing every single feature under the sun, Easy Digital Downloads trys to provide only the ones that you really need. It aims to make selling digital downloads through WordPress easy, and complete.
As this plugin is still in beta, it is strongly encouraged that you submit your feedback and bug reports to the project’s Git Hub page.
Features of the plugin include:
- A cart system for purchasing multiple downloads at once
- A complete promotional code system
- Many payment gateways. PayPal and Manual are included by default with Stripe, PayPal Pro, PayPal Express, and others available as add-ons (once the plugin is out of beta)
- Complete payment history
- User purchase history and ability to redownload files
- Multiple files per downloadable product
- Customizable purchase receipts
- Earnings and sales charts
Marcus’ Take: Excellent start to something that I’m looking forward to using in the future. If you are looking for a digital download solution, you’ll want to give this one a look.
Rating: 3 out of 5
List Sub-Categories (LSC)
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-sub-categories-lsc/
This plugin enables a widget that lists only sub categories for the current category page.
Features:
- Write your own custom widget title.
- Select which categories to use the widget on.
Marcus’ Take: I was looking for a plugin to display sub-categories for a client site I am working on. This one did the trick! Simple and Easy!
Rating: 4 out of 5
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How to Contact Us:
John can be contacted at:
on my website @ https://www.johnoverall.com/ or you can follow me on Twitter @Ahkonsu or even like me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JohnOverallcom
email: dragon@wppluginsatoz.com
Marcus can be contacted at:
Marcus Couch can be contacted at his website at marcuscouch.com on twitter @marcuscouch and on facebook at facebook.com/marcuscouch
email: marcus@wppluginsatoz.com
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