It’s episode 205 and we’ve got plugins for WordPress Email Logs, Boosting Speed, Internal Post Notes, YouTube and a tried and true way to check for best practices in themes. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**

YouTube

• Version: 9.3
• Author: EmbedPlus Team
• Last Updated: 2 days ago
• Requires WordPress Version: 2.9 or higher
• Compatible up to: 4.1
• Downloaded: 754,507 times
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The Lowdown:

This freemium plugin offer a great way to embed YouTube videos and if you spend a few dollars you can add features like deleted video alerts analytics and fancy animations.

With a great search feature makes embedding videos easy either single or a playlist

some nice features in the free version and more to check if you go pro.

Rating 5 Dragons

Speed Booster Pack

• Version: 2.6
• Author: Tiguan
• Last Updated: 4 months ago
• Requires WordPress Version: 3.6 or higher
• Compatible up to: 4.0.1
• Downloaded: 32,297 times
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The Lowdown:

With a few clicks you can improve your site load speed, this plugin seems to work pretty well and is a breeze to setup.

Rating 5 Dragons
Highlight Search Terms

• Version: 1.3.9
• Author: RavanH
• Last Updated: 4 months ago
• Requires WordPress Version: 2.3 or higher
• Compatible up to: 4.0.1
• Downloaded: 33,523 times
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The Lowdown:

This great plugin adds nicley to the search plugin I reviewed last episode. It highlights the search terms making it easier to find what you were looking for in the results.

Rating 4 Dragon

*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**

Theme Check
https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/

An oldie but a goodie, and one we often forget about mentioning on the show. The theme check plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions.

The tests are run through a simple admin menu and all results are displayed at once. This is very handy for theme developers, or anybody looking to make sure that their theme supports the latest WordPress theme standards and practices.

Rating: 5 out of 5

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Internal Notes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/internal-notes/

This plugin adds a simple textarea to posting and page editing where you can type internal notes and miscellaneous notes related to this page or post.

Rating: 4 out of 5

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WP Email Logs Plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-email-logs/

Whenever any email sent via wordpress email function to any one any time, the plugin store the details to database table as logs to display. The site admin can see the list of all email list from wp-admin > Email Logs (left menu) > List of all email logs. It display mainly all the email list sent via wordpress funciton “wp_mail()” only. With each mail detail, it will stored from & to user ids, form & to email address, mail subject, mail content, component, type, send date etc…

Rating: 5 out of 5

Plugins Overview:

John’s Plugins: YouTube – 5, Speed Booster Pack – 5, Highlight Search Terms – 4

Marcus’ Plugins: Theme Check – 5, Internal Notes – 4, WP Email Logs Plugin – 5

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