Interview 32 with Sean Conklin of Coded Commerce

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Today’s interview is with Sean Conklin from CodedCommerce.

We previously reviewed some plugins Sean has worked on. For example: Benchmark Email Lite, all the way back in Episode 73!

If you’re a plugin developer and you’d like to appear on the show, you can schedule an interview, donate your plugin for an upcoming contest, or submit your plugin for review.

For the last 2.5 yrs he’s been focusing on sites powered with WooCommerce. What makes WooCommerce great is it lets you customize, manage costs, and choose vendors much easier.

There’s also a ton of plugins if the basic settings/options aren’t enough. These range from WooCommerce official extensions that WooCommerce.com “sells” (A subscription that entitles you to 1 year of updates and support from the date of purchase) to Premium 3rd party plugins, and then there’s usually freemium ones on WP.org

Usually Sean helps with upgrading, infrastructure, and back-end.

In this interview he also discusses CRM and some wisdom about WooCommerce.

He writes code snippets to edit things that are company-specific or not working quite right. He uses the Code Snippets plugin, which is officially recommended by WooComerce!

Contact Sean at his website, CodedCommerce.com!

Interview 31 with Troy Dean from WPElevation

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Today’s interview is with Troy Dean from WPElevation focusing on their plugin, White Label CMS.

We reviewed this plugin in Episode 389 of the WPPluginsAtoZ show.

If you’re a plugin developer and you’d like to appear on the show, you can schedule an interview, donate your plugin for an upcoming contest, or submit your plugin for review.

This plugin was built so you can rebrand and remove most stuff your clients don’t need to see on the WordPress dashboard. It is not a CMS of its own.

Features:

  • Different profiles offer varying access to fit the different types of sites your client may have
    • Granular access
    • By default, clients don’t have admin access
    • Give them access to parts inside menu
  • Remove panels from dashboard and add your own
    • Uses raw HTML, so you can put in basically anything
    • For example: a video panel, Google analytics, RSS feeds, etc.
    • Works well in combination with Video User Manuals plugin
      • Over 80 videos covering several topics. New and updated videos come out often.
  • Replace the whole dashboard with a custom landing page

Find out more at-

www.wpelevation.com (their blog)
www.wpelevation.com/YouTube
www.wpelevation.com/Facebook

Interview 30 with Gulam Hemani from PieRegister

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Today’s interview show is with Gulam Hemani from PieRegister.

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This plugin was reviewed in Episode 384 of WPPluginsAtoZ.

PieRegister is a plugin for creating registration forms.

PieRegister Pro offers perpetual licensing – purchase once for the number of sites you need (1, 5 or 10) and use forever.
The free and premium comparison can be found at PieRegister.com/plan-and-pricing/

Features:

  • Drag and Drop editor
  • Role Based Redirection
  • Conditional logic
  • Invitation codes
    • You can restrict access by creating a set of invite codes then sending them to the people you want to register
  • Payment integration
    • PayPal, Stripe, and Authorize.net
  • Security features
    • Two Step authentication
    • Captcha
    • Time-Based submission filter
    • IP blocking
  • integration with Mailchimp

This plugin also includes themes for the forms to make them fit in with your website better.

Find more info, download, or purchase at PieRegister.com

Interview 28 with Corey Maass from Gelform talking about his plugin Kanban WP

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This interview is with Corey from Gelform.com on the pro version of his plugin Kanban For WP!

This plugin is for productivity. It embeds a kanban board into WP Admin to do project management, tracking, editorial calendars, and more.

What’s better about it compared to other services?

The original kanban board was invented by a Toyota employee. Kanban for WP turns this board in to a digital version. Unlike to-do lists, there are multiple columns with headers. These headers are “Ready,” “In Progress,” and “Done” by default.
Corey calls it “Project management times 10”

You can also track leads by renaming the headers– contacted, contract out, contract signed, etc. The boards are fairly customizable.

Kanban for WP is easy to set up.

The free version has a few limitations. It’s a pretty simple version. You only get 1 board. This is still great for individuals or small teams.
The pro version features multiple boards, advanced user management, task comments, and more. It’s great for bigger teams.

Reasons people like it:

  • Convenience! Everything is right in the WP admin dashboard.
  • Built in, meaning it’s private and safe.
  • New people can grasp it pretty quickly.
  • The overall status can be seen at a glance

Gelform offers many plugins. Kanban for WP is their primary. Some of their other plugins include Scheduled Tweets (reviewed in Episode 380 of WP A to Z), and other assorted smaller plugins. Find more about Kanban for WP Pro here, and their other plugins here.

Reminder: If you’re a plugin developer and you’d like to appear on the show, you can schedule an interview, donate your plugin for an upcoming contest, or submit your plugin for review.

Interview Show 20 with James Cantoni from WP compress

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Today's interview is with James Cantoni from WP compress and VC splitter.Today’s interview is with James Cantoni from WP Compress and VC Splitter about his plugin WP Compress.

WP Compress offers multiple compression modes, secure cloud backups, image resizing and more to slash your image file sizes and speed up your website. Compress and optimize images to shrink file size, improve load times and boost page speed scores in just one click.

Since the beta in October, several things have improved based on user feedback. They have improved speeds, added automation, and made some general improvements. There are three optimization levels: Lossless (which keeps as much quality as possible), Ultra (which makes files as small as possible) and Intelligent (which tries to find a middle ground)

What makes it different:

  • Ease of use
    • To install: sign up, download, and enter api.
    • Typically no more than 3-5 settings.
    • Automation settings to make life easier
  • Affordability
    • Other compression sites charge much more. WP Compress starts at $5/mo and goes up to $15/mo.
  • Automation
    • Compresses images at a set time (or times) daily, instead of compressing on upload which can interrupt you.

Features

  • Resizing of larger images (default setting resizes any large images to 2048 pixels or less, can be set lower)
  • prevents over-compression of images, has unlimited (no time limit)restore function and backups
  • Nearly everything is one-click (bulk, individual, restore, bulk restore, settings)
  • Backups are saved securely in cloud in case you want to restore the images

Use the code “a2z” to receive 5,000 credits to test with! Download at wpcompress.com

Reminder: If you’re a plugin developer and you’d like to appear on the show, you can schedule an interview, donate your plugin for an upcoming contest, or submit your plugin for review.

 

Today's interview is with Rameez Iqbal from WebCodingPlace.com on his plugin, Real Estate Manager Pro. This plugin is for people looking for an easy and beautiful way to list properties.

Interview Show 23 with Rameez Iqbal from WebCodingPlace.com

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Today's interview is with Rameez Iqbal from WebCodingPlace.com on his plugin, Real Estate Manager Pro. This plugin is for people looking for an easy and beautiful way to list properties.Today’s interview is with Rameez Iqbal from WebCodingPlace.com on his plugin, Real Estate Manager Pro. This plugin is for people looking for an easy and beautiful way to list properties.

Advantages of choosing this plugin:

  • Does not default to using Google Maps. This plugin has two map modes, Google Maps or Open Street maps. It is designed to look the same in both.
  • Some other plugins are not responsive
  • It is designed to look better than similar plugins.
  • Easy to use for people at all skill levels
  • You can have many agents managing their profiles and listings

About Ramiz: he’s worked on plugins for last 5 years, and is currently working on his Bachelor of Computer Science degree. He has 20+ Free Plugins and 15+ Premium WordPress Plugins.

Main features (as listed on their site, webcodingplace.com):

  • Support for both Google Maps and Open Street Maps
  • Responsive design- Touch enabled Gallery Slider is available for mobile devices.
  • Mortgage calculator widget
  • Front end management- Agents can create and edit properties from the frontend. They can also manage their profiles and listings without accessing the dashboard.
  • Very easy to customize

You can find Rameez’s work at:

Reminder: If you’re a plugin developer and you’d like to appear on the show, you can schedule an interview, donate your plugin for an upcoming contest, or submit your plugin for review.

Todays Interview is with Albert Harlow from WP Nearby Places a great new plugin using Google maps and places that allows you to showcase all the business and attractions near your business or apartment building using Google Maps.

Interview Show 22 with Albert Harlow from WP Nearby Places

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Today’s Interview is with Albert Harlow from WP Nearby Places a great new plugin using Google maps and places that allows you to showcase all the business and attractions near your business or apartment building using Google Maps.

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Using WP Nearby places is reminiscent of the days gone by where you would get the little attractions maps from a hotel, restaurant or other point of interest attraction. These little maps would show your what else was nearby such as other restaurants, bars, shopping, other businesses and attractions.

WP Nearby Places lets you easily create Google maps for your WordPress website with your specified location at its center. Website visitors will have the ability to quickly search what’s around your specified location like no other mapping plugin that uses the power of Google maps. WP Nearby Places also uniquely breaks down neighborhood locations by categories, such as Restaurants, Parks, Police and, depending which version you purchase, provides the location’s name, address, URL, website address, phone number and distance (in miles or kilometers) from the central location. There are 3 versions available: Basic (which is free and available through WordPress.org), PRO and Premium (which is offered here). For details about all our licensed versions available, including our exciting Add-ons, go to https://members.wpnearbyplaces.com/shop.

With a big thank you to Albert for offering up a couple of premium licenses for upcoming contests see our contest page for full details.

Todays Interview is with Albert Harlow from WP Nearby Places a great new plugin using Google maps and places that allows you to showcase all the business and attractions near your business or apartment building using Google Maps.

You can get the plugin here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-nearby-places-basic/
https://wpnearbyplaces.com/
Get a discount off the plugin by using the Coupon Code “FLASH” and get 25% off now at https://members.wpnearbyplaces.com/product/premium/

 

Today’s Interview is with Kirk Deis from The Bug Squasher a plugin that is designed to help with your site development and make the task of figuring out what your devs, your clients are talking about when they are trying to describe an issue.

Interview Show 21 with Kirk Deis from The Bug Squasher

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Today’s Interview is with Kirk Deis from The Bug Squasher a plugin that is designed to help with your site development and make the task of figuring out what your devs, your clients are talking about when they are trying to describe an issue.Today’s Interview is with Kirk Deis from The Bug Squasher a plugin that is designed to help with your site development and make the task of figuring out what your devs, your clients are talking about when they are trying to describe an issue.

It allows those who are logged in to be able to take screen shots of the issue then make notes on it and then they are sent to the master admin for the site. This is done by a button that floats to the side that you can now click on and not only does it send the screen shot it also send information about the type of browser being used the type of device and more so you can determine what is different for the user and track down the issue and get it fixed.

 

What sets it apart is its simplicity, precision, and universality.

 

* One line of code installs The Bug Squasher onto ANY framework

* It eliminates the need for endless email chains

* Handling website changes becomes easier than ever

* Just a few clicks communicates your ideas to everyone who needs to see them

* There are no user limits – no matter how big your team grows

 

… An Exclusive Offer just for WordPress Plugins A to Z listeners get a discount on the plugin of 20% off first month by using the code “Overall”

Find the Bug Squasher at https://thebugsquasher.com/

 

I’d like to introduce you to Kirk Deis. Kirk is a writer on Forbes, entrepreneur, and Founder/CEO of the digital marketing agency Treehouse 51. He has built two companies from the ground up and is excited to share his experiences building businesses upon WordPress – along with an exclusive offer just for the WordPress Plugins A to Z family.

 

Kirk is about to launch The Bug Squasher. It’s a powerful new project management tool that streamlines communications between developers/writers/designers, project leads, and clients.  He would love to give your audience the first look under the hood.

Today we talked with Alec Kinnear from Foliovision talking about their main product the FV Player pro plugin.

Interview Show 17 with Alec Kinnear from Foliovision

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Today we talked with Alec Kinnear from Foliovision talking about their main product the FV Player pro plugin.Today we talked with Alec Kinnear from Foliovision talking about their main product the FV Player pro plugin. This plugin allows you to display videos from virtually any source in your website. You get the ability to have videos from multiple sources. This give you the freedom to add videos from places such as Vimeo, Youtube, Amazon service and more all on the same site.

You can also serve secured videos and prevent piracy of your videos that need such protection. Some of the other advantages you get are the ability to add pre-roll and after roll ads, you can add ads in the middle. One of the interesting features I learned about is the transcript feature that will allow you to add a transcript to the video which allows your users to read though the transcript and then click directly to that point in the video.

We also covered up some of the other plugins created by Foliovision you can check out all their plugins and services here https://foliovision.com/store and be sure to scroll to the bottom to see their list of free plugins.

Look for more plugins from Foliovision being reviewed on WP Plugins A to Z podcast.

I interviewed Matt Giovanisci from https://www.getearnist.com/ talking to him about his plugin Earnist. This plugin is a premium plugin that starts at $49 a year and helps you pull together an easy to use listing of all your affiliate links

Interview Show 16 WP Plugins A to Z

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I interviewed Matt Giovanisci from https://www.getearnist.com/ talking to him about his plugin Earnist. This plugin is a premium plugin that starts at $49 a year and helps you pull together an easy to use listing of all your affiliate linksI interviewed Matt Giovanisci from https://www.getearnist.com/ talking to him about his plugin Earnist. This plugin is a premium plugin that starts at $49 a year and helps you pull together an easy to use listing of all your affiliate links.

It uses custom posts types to help solve this issue and creates a searchable data set for your links. It also has auto connection to Amazon in such a way they prices are always up to date.

The displays it creates make the links stand out and it even help you keep complainant with FCC regs on disclosure about the links being affiliate links.

All in all we had some great discussions about the plugin and Matt’s love of craft beer.

Enjoy the show.

You can get the plugin here https://www.getearnist.com/