It’s Episode 260 and we’ve got plugins for Optimizing Your Database, Widget Placeholders, Popular Posts, Future Posts, Inline Posts and more. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
Audio Player
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed
Subscribe to WPPlugins A to Z on Apple Podcasts | Podcast Index | Email | RSS
Thank Our Donors
We would like to thank our donors to the show, everyone who donates $50 or more will be acknowledged here with a mention and a link back to their page and all those below will be anonymous
This episode we would like to thank:
Thanks to all donors who cam in under $50
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions
- Version: 4.1.6
- Author: CAGE Web Design | Rolf van Gelder, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Last Updated: 4 weeks ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.8 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- Active Installs: 60,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Recently I had an issue where a site had become infected and it was scattered though the revisions of the website. This site had hundreds of revisions and I needed an easy way to clean it up. The plugins worked great for that as well as cleaning up several other areas of the database. It even has some settings you can set to help keep the database clean and running
Rating 5 Dragons
Restrict Role Login
- Version: 1.0.0
- Author: Konnektiv
- Last Updated: 2 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: WordPress 3.6.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
This Plugin allows administrators to restrict user login based on user roles. This is useful e.g. when you want anyone to register on your site but you do only want certain people (e.g. editors) to enter the logged in area.
The biggest use for this is to allow people to register on your site but to keep them from being able to login to the back end
Rating 4 Dragons
Inline Related Posts
- Version: 2.1.8
- Author: IntellyWP
- Last Updated: 2 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.2
- Active Installs: 6,000+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
This plugin make inserting in-line related posts a breeze. Install and run though the setup and away you go. It is a freemium plugin but the free version is pretty good
Rating 4 Dragons
*WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Placeholder it
This plugin contains a widget that can be used to show placeholders on widget areas where you still have to do some work. It uses the webservice of “www.placehold.it” to generate the image.
This plugin comes in handy if you have a customer that you would like to show the layout of their upcoming website and can use placeholders to show them the proportions and with the use of text, what comes where.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Google Analytics Popular Posts
This Google Analytics Popular Posts plugin queries Google Analytics for pageview data for your site and uses an algorithm based on publish date and total number of pageviews to determine a weighted pageview score for a post.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Future Posts with password
https://wordpress.org/plugins/future-posts-with-password/
This plugin allows you send someone a post with a key in the URL to check a future posts.
If you want to send someone a post for review before publication, now you can, without a user being logged.
Rating: 5 out of 5
John’s discussion this week about a project.
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions – 5, Restrict Role Login – 4, Inline Related Posts – 5
Marcus’ Plugins: Placeholder It – 4, Google Analytics Popular Posts – 4, Future Posts with password – 5
Commercial:
Time to do some promotions for my Beautiful Wife, Skye she has started writing again and is putting her short stories up on here website at RunnerSkye.ca there are some pretty great short stories with about one new one per week so go check them out at RunnerSkye.ca and please leave a comment for her.
Interact with your Hosts