It’s episode 215 and we’ve got plugins for testing plugin speeds, auto posting to social networks, disk usage, Gravity Forms A/B Testing, and WooCommerce Bulk Price Changes. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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Short, Suite & Good for you too!
in iTunes by Masked_Matinee from USA on March 1, 2015
A fun and informative show that gets down to the Meat & Potatoes fairly quickly and manages to stay on target every episode. It’s one of my ‘must listens’.
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Really good podcast
in iTunes by p_r_i_m_e from UK on February 2, 2015
Up to date, regularly updated podcast, useful for any one running a wordpress website, beginner or pro
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Discover Amazing Plugins
in iTunes by Richard Farrar from UK on October 3, 2014
With 1,000s of possible WordPress plugins to choose from, Marcus and John take the hassle out of it for you by reviewing a selection of useful plugins on a weekly basis. Being WordPress professionals they know what they’re talking about and can separate the wheat from the chaff. Excellent podcast for all WordPress administrators.
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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Disk Usage Sunburst
- Version: 1.0.0
- Author: RAIDBOXES.de
- Last Updated: 6 hours ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.1.1
- Downloaded: 7 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Wondering what the makeup of your files are in your website install? This plugin help you discover what the makeup of your site is. It creates a starburst image showing what is taking up space in your install. This is a great way to determine how your file structure is and what files are taking up space on your site. If you have a large site the image can be a bit slow to load for you and if there are limitations on your server it may be slow. Not a bad way to check out what is in your sit though.
Rating 3 Dragons
NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster
- Version: 3.4.16
- Author: Next Scripts
- Last Updated: 2 weeks ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.4 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.1.1
- Downloaded: 1,677,377 times
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- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Looking to publish to more social networks from your website, this plugin will help you do that it can publish to Blogger, Delicious, Facebook, Google+, Linked In, Pinterest, Tumbler, Twitter and WordPress.com. With the pro version you can customize the Facebook and Google+ post. This plugin seems to do a pretty nice job and replaces two other plugins. All in all pretty nice.
Rating 4 Dragons.
Plugins Speed Test
- Version: 1.1
- Author: Csaba Kissi
- Last Updated: 2 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0.1 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.1.1
- Downloaded: 135 times
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- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Use this plugin to help determine the impact your plugins are having on your site loading. It does seem to have limitations to only the plugins from the WordPress repository. Simply install and activate and then lists your installed plugin and it will tell you the impact on your site, the resources added and the number of tables used and the impact on your home page and post page. A little bit of info to help you figure things out.
Rating 3 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Gravity Forms A/B Testing
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-ab-testing/
A simple extension for Gravity Forms that allows users to do A/B Testing using a simple shortcode: Comma separate the different gravity form ids in the ids parameter. The title, description and ajax parameters are by default false, and are optional.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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WhatsApp Sharing Button for Jetpack
https://wordpress.org/plugins/whatsapp-jetpack-button/
This supplies additional Jetpack sharing WhatsApp Button for your website. A lot of people use WhatsApp, and this is a cool way to get shares into it via WordPress. Remember that Jetpack is required though.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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WooCommerce Bulk Percentage Pricing
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-bulk-percentage-pricing/
You can now use this WooCommerce plugin to automatically update your store prices for all products at once by percentage.
Rating 4 out of 5
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Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Disk Usage Sunburst – 3, NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster – 4, Plugins Speed Test – 3
Marcus’ Plugins: Gravity Forms A/B Testing – 4, WhatsApp Sharing Button for Jetpack – 4, WooCommerce Bulk Percentage Pricing – 4
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