It’s Episode 258 and we’ve got plugins for Unique Post Stat Tracking, Handling Free WooCommerce Downloads, Newsbars, Payment Gateways and a new plugin for keeping Dashboard Notes. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
post-views
- Version: 2.6.4
- Author: Suny Tse
- Last Updated: 4 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.8 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.4.3
- Active Installs: 10,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
This is for those of you who like your stats and want to know how many times a post has been looked at, it give some crazy amount of charts and let you know how often a post has been looked at.
Rating 4 Dragons
WP – jNewsbar Plugin
Premium Plugin
The Lowdown:
Available at CodeCanyon this is a pretty good newsbar plugin that places a footer or header floating newsbar that pulls your posts and you get to determine what pages to show it on you can even create multiple bars. While it is pretty good the one thing lacking I found was the ability to set per category.
Rating 3 Dragons
WP Dashboard Notes
- Version: 1.0.8.2
- Author: Jeroen Sormani
- Last Updated: 2 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.8 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- Active Installs: 9,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
If you have a site with multiple admins you will find from time to time it is necessary to communicate with about things that need to be done. There are multiple ways to acomplish this but a great one I found is the Dashboard notes. This plugin allows you to create sticky notes for the dashboard of your WordPress admin. You can give the notes multiple colours if your inclined the notes stand out when you log in so you eye is drawn to them to look at. This is a quick easy plugin to use and works very well
Rating 5 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Download Now for WooCommerce allows users to download products from the product page without going through the checkout process. If the product is downloadable and the regular price is 0.00, the “Add to Basket” button is replaced with a “Download Now” button. The plugin can be customised from the settings link on the plugin page. You can change the button text, whether it shows for sale items to, and you can even customise the button CSS styles!
Rating 4 out of 5
This plugin for woocommerce lets you select the available payment gateways for each individual product. You can select for each individual product the payment gateway that will be used by checkout. If no selection is made, then the default payment gateways are displayed. If you for example only select paypal then only paypal will available for that product by checking out.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Hide Price of the products on shop and product detail page until user is not logged in or until password is entered.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: post-views -4, WP – jNewsbar Plugin – 3, WP Dashboard Notes – 5
Marcus’ Plugins: Download Now – WooCommerce – 4, WooCommerce Payment Gateway Per Product – 4, Hide Price Until Login – 5
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