It’s Episode 235 and we’ve got plugins for Scheduling your Home Page Content, Measuring your Body Mass Index, Creating Coupons, Author Widgets, WooCommerce Invoicing and a better way to handle External Links. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Coupon Creator
- Version: 2.1.1
- Author: Brian Jessee
- Last Updated: 18 hours ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.3.1
- Active Installs: 9,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
The Lowdown.
I had a client in need of offering a coupon that could be printed for her services. This simple plugin does just that. You create the coupon and the freemium version creates a nice simple ciupon of you want fancy get the pro version. Once created you can add it as a short code to the landing page after signing up foir an email list then it is also emails out for them to use from thier email or phone.
Rating 4 dragons
Meks Smart Author Widget
- Version: 1.0.8
- Author: MeksHQ
- Last Updated: 1 month ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.3.1
- Active Installs: 9,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown
Was hard to find a good plugin to display the author info and customize it a bit, this might be a great one for developers. I had to replace what we were using on the old wpplugins website and this is what I settled on to display the info about myself and Mracus. The biggest problem I faced was I wantd to only display our info consistantly across the website and most plugins wanted to cahnge the info on a perpost or page basis per autor. This turned out to be pretty nice.
Rating 4 Dragons
WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips
- Version: 1.5.24
- Author: Ewout Fernhout
- Last Updated: 2 weeks ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.5 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.3.1
- Active Installs: 30,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
One of the strangest things about Woocommerce is the lack of a simple function such as printing invoices and packing slips. This plugin solves that in a great way by creating a PDF you can download or print. Simple yet effective andsolves a major issue.
Rating 5 Dragons.
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Homepage Scheduler
WP Homepage Scheduler is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to set up a schedule for which page will be used as the static frontpage on your WordPress website.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Simple BMI Widget
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-bmi-widget/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-bmi-widget/
Medicine has created a formula (BMI or Body Mass Index) to calculate your ideal weight range to be in good health. This plugin go to the essential by calculating your BMI and giving the interpretation of it. The evaluation is for adults only.
You can select to display the widget in two ways : * Metric (meters and kilograms) * Or imperial (inches and pounds) It’s available in English, French and Portugues (Brazil).
Rating: 3 out of 5
SEO External Links
Keep visitors on your site by automatically changing the link target to open in a new tab/window when click on an external link contained in your site
Rating: 4 out of 5
John’s discussion this week about a project.
The launch of the new WPPLugins Ato Z website. This one was a challenge due to how I moved it from a stand alone wordpress to part of a WPMU website. It is the first Live component in the soon to be launched WPSupport.ca network of websites. The biggest challenge was getting everything moved over and finding replacement plugins for the ones that would not work in an MU environment.
So lets talk about the challenges of moving to MU and should you do it.
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Coupon Creator – 4, Meks Smart Author Widget – 4, WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips – 5
Marcus’ Plugins: Homepage Scheduler – 4, Simple BMI Widget – 3, SEO External Links – 4
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