May 9, 2012

Dummy Content Generator, Admin Menu Management, Polls, Voting, and more on WordPress Plugins A to Z Episode 69

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Today’s show features an update silencer, A Dummy Content Generator, Location Based Content plugins, Admin Menu Management, Polls, Voting, and we cater once again to John’s Diablo Obsession with a new Diablo plugin! All coming up on WordPress Plugins A to Z!

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Plugins Reviewed by John

WP Voting 1.7

Version: 1.7
Author: Tristan Min
Last Updated: 211 days ago
Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.2.1
Downloaded: 8,556 times
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The Lowdown:
Seemed like it might be a nice plugin but I could not locate the proper way of getting it to work simply abandoned it.
Rating 1 Dragon

Cardoza Worpress Poll 0.8

Version: 0.8
Author: Vinoj Cardoza
Last Updated: 51 days ago
Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Downloaded: 5,360 times
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The LowDown:
Marked way down due to his ego of creating the icon for the menu bar to be his picture.
pretty straightforward in its setup, only places polls on the sidebar in a widget controlled by the pluginsettings. Seems pretty nice for simple polls nothing special here as it looks like it can be gamed since there is no way to lock it down aside from only allowing logged uses to vote. It does give some nice stats on the polls created. It as a couple of options that are not clearly explained but you can customize the widget displaying the poll for colour. All in all ok 1 point down for ego
Rating 2 Dragons

Diablo 3 Tooltip 1.0

Version: 1.0
Author: Marco Goetze
Last Updated: 20 hours ago
Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Downloaded: 6 times
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The Lowdown:
Ok in honor of the impending launch of Diablo 3 I had to try this out and especially it is so brand new I was #7 to download it I just had to.
It is simple enough all you do is activate it and then wrap the proper text from the Diablo website such as Apprentice Light Crossbow for the Demon Hunter then it will pop up the necessary info about that item in your site as a popup window it pretty nice except it is supposed to place a quick entry button in the editor but did not on my test site. So in honor of the fiery rains from hell stopping and starting your campaign in Diablo 3 give this one a try.
Rating 3 Dragons

Plugins Reviewed by Marcus

Silence!

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/silence/

Author: Alan Gabriel Dawidowicz
Requires: 2.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2012-4-30
Downloads: 60

Disables the plugin update checking and notification system.

This plugin disables the WordPress update notifications, as well as update notifications of different plugins. It is ideal to deliver a complete WordPress and not bother the user with alerts. Silence!
Please note!

It’s very important that you keep your WordPress plugins up to date. If you don’t, your blog or website could be susceptible to security vulnerabilities or performance issues. If you use this plugin, you must make sure you keep yourself up to date with new releases of your active plugins and update them as new versions are released.

Rating: 3 of 5

SCF Dummy Content

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scf-dummy-content/

Author: Steve C Fischer
Requires: 3.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2012-4-26
Downloads: 49

The plugin will populate your site with dummy, titles, contents, and even featured images. It can create posts, pages, or custom post types. It can also create terms for any registered taxonomies you might have.

There are a few different options to play around with.