It’s episode 193 and we’ve got plugins for getting visitors to provide you a backlink, Restricting System Edits, Custom Twitter Integration, Site Font Roulette and a great new WordPress based support ticket system. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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[/dropshadowbox]*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Jet Tweet
* Version: 0.0.3
* Author: zourbuth
* Last Updated: 1 year ago
* Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
* Compatible up to: 3.5.2
* Downloaded: 2,353 times
* WordPress.org Plugin Page »
* Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Looking for a great little twitter feed plugin, wel I sure was and after all the changes Twitter made in the past year to thier API most of my favorites had quit working and I needed a new one recently. You get allot of customizations for the twitter feed and even a choice of where to pull it from. You can pull from the home timline, the user timeline, mentions individule tweets. You get some great css controls ove the apperance and more. If you opt for the premium version you get a few more feature.
Rating 4 Dragons
Widget CSS Classes
- Version: 1.2.6
- Author: C.M. Kendrick
- Last Updated: 7 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.3 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.9.2
- Downloaded: 52,186 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
There will come a time when you need to customize a sidebar widget and you can of course search for the specific instance to do this and creates custom CSS but the easy way is to add a plugin to add custom classes to each widget so you can tweak it the way your want it to be tweaked. This plugion handles that task with ease add it activate add your class and teak your css a great pliugin that just works.
Rating 5 Dragons.
Comic Sans Roulette
- Author: Dustin Filippini
- Last Updated: 19 hours ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.8.3
- Downloaded: 3 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Ok this one is just plain funny, a great joke to play on your buddy who just loves comic sans (insert scarsasm here) since we all know how much comic sans is loved by the world. This is simple and easy just install and activate and the visitor to the site has a 1 in 10 chance of getting all fonts as comic sans.
Rating 4 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
System Edit Restriction
https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-edit-restriction/
No-one will be able edit/modify system files(theme+plugins) from Dashboard,even admins. Only from FTP can be edited… Secure to your site!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
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JS Support Ticket
https://wordpress.org/plugins/js-support-ticket/
JS Support Ticket is a trusted open source ticket system. JS Support ticket is a simple, easy to use, web-based customer support system. User can create ticket from front-end. JS support ticket comes packed with lot features than most of the expensive(and complex) support ticket system on market. The best part is, It completely free
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Link to Us – SEO Widget
https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-to-us/
Let your visitors link back to your site with this simple but effective widget. After plugin activation you will be automatically redirected to your widgets page so you can configure the Link to us widget in your sidebar.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Jet Tweet – 4, Widget CSS Classes – 5, Comic Sans Roulette – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: System Edit Restriction – 4, JS Support Ticket – 5, Link to Us – 4
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