It’s Episode 233 and we’ve got plugins for Featured Screenshots, A Dashboard heading editor, Simple Link Sharing, Extended Site Icons and a fun Halloween Countdown Timer. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
PCF Halloween Countdown
- Version: 1.1
- Author: PC Futures
- Last Updated: 2 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.3.1
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
The lowdown:
A simple fun plugin to share the joy that Halloween is coming. Use a short code to palce it on your site and away you go. You need to add some custom css to pretty it up so a bit more work that I had hoped.
Rating 3 Dragons
WP Featured Screenshot
- Version: 1.3
- Author: Allyson Rico, Robert Macchi
- Last Updated: 1 week ago
- Compatible up to: 4.3.1
- Active Installs: 10+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
This is a very useful plugin if you need to capture screen shots of website and add them to your posts. Simply add the plugin then when you go to add new media use the screenshot link to grab a screenshot. very nice works well
Rating 5 dragons
simply share links using bubbles
- Version: 1.1
- Author: David Alcaraz Moreno
- Last Updated: 1 week ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.5 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.5.2
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Add some interesting bubbles to your site sharing links and other information the free version is pretty nice and interesting. If you want more tweaks to it you need to go pro for only $9. All in all pretty nice
Rating 4 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Replace Default Words
This plugin helps you replace words in WordPress core, themes and plugins. This means you can change “Posts” to “Articles” or whatever you want. Good for dumbing things down for a client.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Site Icon Extended
This plugin takes the new Site Icon feature in WordPress 4.3 even further. New extended features include adding more icon formats for improved cross-browser compatibility. This includes adding more icon sizes for the default icon and Apple Touch Icon to better support different resolutions, generation of an .ico file to use for the general shortcut icon. It also generates a browserconfig.xml file to support Windows 8.1 and adds a Customizer field to specify an icon background color used by some Windows devices.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Crop and Resize Images
With the help of this plugin you will be able to resize to any dimmension and crop all images from your WordPress library. The plugin introduces a visual and very simple to use image editor. The cropped image will retain the aspect ratio defined by WordPress so no more missing important parts from your images. Everything stays in view!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Halloween Countdown – 3, WP Featured Screenshot – 4, Simply Share Links Using Bubbles – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: Replace Default Words – 4, Site Icon Extended – 4, Crop and Resize Images – 5
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