It’s episode 204 and we’ve got plugins for Facebook Feed Embedding, Self-Expiring Sticky posts, Admin Bar Tools, Better Search and a great new plugin for importing and exporting settings from the customizer! It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Better Search
- Version: 1.3.5
- Author: Ajay D’Souza
- Last Updated: 3 weeks ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.0.1
- Downloaded: 32,827 times
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A pretty decent search replacement with some nice customizations, it lets you do better searching throughout your site. You can control the output with css and it has a nice search widget.
Rating 4 Dragons
Custom Admin Bar
- Version: 1.3.1.1
- Author: Ve Bailovity (Incsub)
- Last Updated: 7 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.0.1
- Downloaded: 33,745 times
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- Plugin Homepage »
The lowdown:
This admin menu customizer allows you to customize the admin bar with your own logo and the ability to add specific links to it that can be of help when you need to add info for your users to contact you or to link to some training material.
Rating 5 Dragons
Helpful Information
- Version: 1.0.2
- Author: Gabe Shackle
- Last Updated: 8 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.x or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.9.0
- Downloaded: 1,162 times
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- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
This plugin add some great information to your admin bar some of it very helpful if you are a developer. Includes such things as what scripts are being called, what style are being used on a page. What plgins are being included and more.
Rating 5 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
FaceBook Feed
https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-feed/
The Facebook Feed Plugin allows you to easily display a customizable feed of your Facebook Page on wordpress website.
It lets you easily add Facebook Feed using the shortcode , display all Post Types, and even display Events from Facebook Feed.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customizer Export/Import
https://wordpress.org/plugins/customizer-export-import/
The Customizer Export/Import plugin allows you to export or import your WordPress customizer settings from directly within the customizer interface. If your theme makes use of the WordPress customizer for its settings, this plugin will help you.
Exporting customizer settings is easy. Click the export button from within the customizer and a file will automatically begin downloading with your settings. Export files are named after your theme and can only be used to import settings for the theme or child theme that they came from.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Expire Sticky Posts
https://wordpress.org/plugins/expire-sticky-posts/
A simple plugin that allows you to set an expiration date on posts. Once a post is expired, it will no longer be sticky.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Better Search – 4, Custom Admin Bar – 5, Helpful Information – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: FaceBook Feed – 4, Customizer Export/Import – 5, Expire Sticky Posts – 4
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