It’s episode 188 and we’ve got plugins for Google Fonts, Removing old post dates, External Link Handling, SEO and a way to offer a ride to your site viewers. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Easy Google Fonts
- Version: 1.3.1
- Author: Titanium Themes
- Last Updated: 4 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.9 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.9.2
- Downloaded: 67,992 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-google-fonts/
The Lowdown:
well this is a sweet plugin that makes changing the font anywhere on your site a breeze, simply install activate and use the customizer built into WordPress and bobs your uncle.
Rating 5 Dragons
SEO Plugin by SQUIRRLY
- Version: 3.3.4
- Author: cifi, calinvingan, florinmuresan
- Last Updated: 22 hours ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.3 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.0
- Downloaded: 595,863 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/faq/
The Lowdown:
So what is Squirrly aside from how my kids seem to act when ever I have to get something done..
Well it is a 3rd party service that connects to your WordPress website and helps you do your SEO as your write. It helps you find images, relevant tweets, WordPress.com article quotes, comments and inspirational quotes to add to your post. It has some analytics, while this looks pretty good and on the small scale will be great it is a freemium service if you want to do more than 3 posts a month 5 keyword searches. This looks pretty great but is a new cost.
Rating 4 Dragons.
WP External Links (nofollow new window seo)
- Version: 1.54
- Author: Victor Villaverde Laan
- Last Updated: 3 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.4.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.9.2
- Downloaded: 90,666 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-external-links/
The Lowdown:
This plugin give you compete control over how your external links appear and are acted on, You can easily add nofollow and external to all links leaving your site. As well as ignore ones you want to get the juice. Add an icon to external links and even add a custom class for total control and domination. and as a treat you can determine where in the menu you want to see this item. A great simple plugin to manage your external links/
Rating 5 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
WP Old Post Date Remover
Removes the date stamp from posts older than 2 weeks, while leaving the date stamp on newer posts. Ideal for blogs with evergreen content.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A wordpress plugin which is simply allow you to import your youtube video feed as a post within every 30 minutes. Anyone can import their youtube feed as post. Post can be searchable or manageable to use anywhere of the wordpress blog.
Rating: 4 out of 5
WP Taxi Me
This plugin adds either in the main text or a widget the ability to order a taxi direct from your mobile site to your business using Uber. You can encourage users to register for Uber using an optional setting as well. The plugin hides itself if the user isn’t on mobile, but users can still register for Uber.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Easy Google Fonts – 5, SEO Plugin by SQUIRRLY -4, WP External Links – 5
Marcus’ Plugins: WP Old Post Date Remover – 4, YT Feed to Post – 4, WP Taxi Me – 4
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