It’s episode 218 and we’ve got plugins for Facebook Post Embedding, Reading Position Indicators, External Link Handling, Display Widgets, Bulk Page Creation and Tag Clouds. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**

WP External Links

• Version: 1.62
• Author: Victor Villaverde Laan
• Last Updated: 4 days ago
• Requires WordPress Version: 3.6.0 or higher
• Compatible up to: 4.1.1
• Downloaded: 125,810 times
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The Lowdown:

Sometime when links are created in your site they lead offsite and you need an easy way to handle the opening of pages, setting up a no follow tag and more. With this plugin you can determine if they open in a new page, what content is affected, set some SEO settings like no follow, title and external. If you want to get fancy you can even add icons. This is a pretty nice plugin.

Rating 5 Dragons.

Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget

• Version: 2.7.2
• Author: Rickard Andersson
• Last Updated: 12 months ago
• Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.9.2
• Downloaded: 200,841 times
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• Plugin Homepage »

The Lowdown:

I know Tag clouds are no longer in vogue but sometimes you need them on a site for a real reason. I needed it for Canada Stock Photography to create a colourful tag cloud to make it easy for people to navigate to different tags for image types easy. It is simple to install and configure and looks good along the way. Check it out.

Rating 4 Dragons.

Display Widgets

• Version: 2.03
• Author: Strategy11
• Last Updated: 1 year ago
• Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher
• Compatible up to: 3.8.3
• Downloaded: 525,532 times
• WordPress.org Plugin Page »
• Plugin Homepage »

The Lowdown:

Times are when you need to hide or show a widget on particular posts or pages. This is a simple and lightweight plugin to do that for you. After installing it when you go to your widgets you will now have a new section in the widget that allows you to show or hide the widget based on pages, posts, categories and taxonomies. An easy way to control your widgets.

Rating 4 Dragons.

*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**

Easy Facebook Post Feed
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-facebook-page-feed/

Easy Facebook Post Feed, allow users to display a customizable and responsive Facebook feed. It’s quickly to use by widget or shortcode anyway.Customize layout option like: color, border, number of post to display, choose to display image, width and height (px and % for responsive); Widget and Shortcode available: ; It works with Facebook API and it’s simple to set up: just enter your page id and Facebook API
Languages available: English, Italian.

Rating 4 out of 5

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Quick Bulk Post & Page Creator
https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-bulk-post-page-creator/

A handy WordPress plugin for batch creation of posts and pages in your preferred hierarchy. Indispensable tool for WordPress developers.

Rating 4 out of 5

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Reading Position Indicator
https://wordpress.org/plugins/reading-position-indicator/

Create a vertical progress bar to show how scroll progress of current single entry

Rating 3 out of 5

Plugins Overview:

John’s Plugins: Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget – 4, WP External Links – 5, Display Widgets – 4

Marcus’ Plugins: Easy Facebook Post Feed – 4, Quick Bulk Post and Page Creator – 4, Reading Position Indicator – 3

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