It’s Episode 255 and we’ve got plugins for cleaning your Media Library, image enhancements for Visual Composer, Stopping Bots, Custom Bulk Post Delete and a new plugin that integrates live chat with Slack. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Media Cleaner
Freemium Plugin
- Version: 3.2.0
- Author: Jordy Meow
- Last Updated: 1 day ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.5 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- Active Installs: 40+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Before using this plugin insure you have a complete backup of all files!!!!! Now if you have been at your site a while or even if you have just done some random uploading over any amount of time you will have many extra media files that are unneeded and unattached to any post.
This plugin is pretty simple to use just install, scan and choose for deletion any images it finds.
The Pro version located here https://apps.meow.fr/media-cleaner/ is only $14 and gives ability to not only scann media files but the uploads directory..
Rating 4 Dragons
StopBadBots
- Version: 1.0
- Author: Bill Minozzi
- Last Updated: 3 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
One thing you will discover if you have not already seen it is the number of bots that will hoit your site draining resources. This plugin make the job of blocking thoise bots an easy task. It provides a default list of the biggest violaters and you can add more to a custom black list. A few simple clicks and your off.
Rating 5 Dragons
tree website map
- Version: 1.0.0.6
- Author: wp-buy
- Last Updated: 2 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.9 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- Active Installs: 900+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
The Lowdown:
This is a great plugin for instant creation of site maps you can display to your users, I know they are no longer the rage but they still com in handy from time to time. This plugin create both a vertical and horizontal map you can insert into a post with a short code.
It creates pretty decent sitemap that you can customize up and a bit and if you have your images set it will even set those for you in the horizontal map. All in all pretty good plugin.
Rating 4 Dragons.
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Image Hover Effects – Visual Composer Extension
https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-hover-effects-visual-composer-extension/
Image Hover Effects – Visual Composer Extension is an amazing plugin that will allow user to add 40+ hover effects to images with captions.This add-on add 20 circle and 15 square CSS3 transitions of hover thumbnail to the Visual Composer. Most of the transitions have 4 type of directions, thumbnail support lightbox or custom link, give user a lot of flexibility to add a grid gallery.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Drift
https://wordpress.org/plugins/drift/
Live Chat With Your Customers in real-time, right from Slack. Integrates seamlessly with HubSpot, Marketo, Mailchimp, Zapier, Intercom, Salesforce, Segment and 100s more.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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WP Bulk Post Delete
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bulk-post-delete/
Allows one to bulk delete WordPress posts according to the specified conditions such as date range, post status, category.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Media Cleaner – 4, StopBadBots- -5, tree website map – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: Image Hover Effects – Visual Composer Extension – 4, Drift – 5, WP Bulk Post Delete – 4
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