It’s episode 195 and we’ve got plugins for Custom Post Types, Activity Logging, User Roles, Easy visual page builders and a plugin to migrate Widgets from one site to another. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about?
Well I have to do some leather chewing, seems the wool was pulled over my eyes on the last show. The plugin Betterify turns out to be a joke and I fell for it hook line and sinkeer.. Seems that placeabo effect extends to the web as well as everywhere else.
WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
WordCamp Marcus talks about his trip to San Fransisco WordCamp and State of the Word with Matt.
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Premium Plugin
Toolset
The Lowdown:
This premium plugin suite contains several plugins of which I will be talking about 2 today there are 7 in total and as I use them I will ring them to the show. The complete suite is $149 and offers some great features when your doing a unique members site.
Starting with the Types plugin for custom fields and post types is a free one.. https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/
- Version: 1.6.3
- Author: OnTheGoSystems
- Last Updated: 6 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.4 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.0
- Downloaded: 503,416 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
This plugin is excellent for adding those unique fields and post types you may need in a custom membership site. You can add any type of field you want create custom taxonomy’s and more with this plugin.
Rating 5 Dragons
Toolset plugin 2
Access
This plugin is used for some advanced user management controls. With it you can create custom user roles and control the built in ones for WordPress. You also get the ability to create new roles and it has some great easy to use features for common plugins such as WooCommerce.
Rating 5 Dragons
Widget Importer & Exporter
- Version: 1.1.4
- Author: Steven Gliebe
- Last Updated: 1 month ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.5 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.0
- Downloaded: 121,424 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Do you ever build sites that are all the same plugins, theme and widgets? If you do this one is for you. It make the job of set up so very easy. Simply export your settings from main site import into the new one and everything is ready to go.
Rating 5 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Stream
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stream/
Stream is the easiest and safest way to track content changes happening to your WordPress site and then
view them in beautifully organized detail. This is an amazing tool to use if you have others using the
back end of your web site. I interviewed one of the developers on another show, and it does everything
that X-Team claimed and then some!
Rating 5 out of 5
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Plugin Mover
https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-mover/
If too many plugins appear in the WordPress admin sometimes the question appear if there is a way to move
them out of sight without deleting them. This plugin is able to do this task. Define a folder under Tools
-> Plugin Mover and then go to plugins admin page and choose to move plugins to your defined folder.
Afterwards you can see them by ftp in the defined folder.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Massive Visual Page Builder
https://wordpress.org/plugins/massive-visual-builder-page-layout-builder/
Build theme Pages visually using a wide set of widgets with full control to their layouts. This is a great starter set to visual page builders.
Rating 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Types – 5, Access – 5, Widget Importer & Exporter – 5
Marcus’ Plugins: Stream – 5, Plugin Mover – 4, Massive Visual Page Builder – 4
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