It’s Episode 266 and we’ve got plugins for Quick View in WooCommerce, Speeding Up Your Site, Free Gifts for Your Ecom Shoppers, Protection against DDos Attacks, and Tracking how far down people scroll within Google Analytics.. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
WP Super Speed
- Version: 1.1
- Author: Bhavinder Singh
- Last Updated: 2 weeks ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0.1 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.3
- Active Installs: 60+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
The Lowdown:
This plugin promises to help reduce your system resource usage in particular CPU and RAM. All you need to do is install it an activate it no configurations. It seems to help but the difference was small. All in all a pretty nice little plugin that does wok in the MU environment.
Rating 4 Dragons.
Protection Against DDoS
- Version: 1.4.1
- Author: Aimbox
- Last Updated: 2 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.5.2 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.3
- Active Installs: 200+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
A simple but yet effective plugin to help protect your site from attacks. Just install and activate and you have instant protection from attacks. This plugin works by setting a cookie in the users browser to see if they can log in. If it does not detect the cookie they are bounced and since bots do not cache things this will help bounce them from your site.
Rating 4 Dragons
WordPress Inspector
- Version: 1.1.0
- Author: MailMunch
- Last Updated: 3 months ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0.1 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.5.3
- Active Installs: 200+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
A simple plugin to perform simple checks on your site to see how well it is performing it takes you to https://wordpress.inspector.io for a check but the results page do not tell you a whole lot when things are wrong.
Rating 3 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
WooCommerce Quick View
WooCommerce Quick View allows users to get a quick look of products without opening the product page.Customers can navigate from one product to another using next and previous product button.
Features
-Add a button in product loop to open a modal window with the product summary using ajax
-Product image , title, price, quantity and add to cart button will be shown on popup .
-Disable “Quick View” on mobile.
-Set a label for the “Quick view” button.
-Easy to use
-Developer friendly & easy to customize
-Customize style of modal
Rating: 5 out of 5
SMNTCS WooCommerce Free Gift
SMNTCS WooCommerce Free Gift is a lightweight plugin to give away free gifts to your WooCommerce customers. It allows you to set a threshold in which customers spend a certain amount to qualify for the free gift. It has messages like “Spend another $4.88 to qualify for a free gift” or once it’s been reached, you can exclaim “Yeah! You have $85 in your cart, you qualify fot this free gift”. It then gives a button to allow the customer to accept the free gift and adds it to their order.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Easy Scroll Depth
Add a Scroll Depth to Google Analytics to track how far users scroll down on a page. This is nothing new, but this is the first plugin that I’ve used that actually works in Google Analytics. I’ve tried for over a year to get this part of Analytics to work and finally came across this new plugin.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: WP Super Speed – 4, Protection Against DDoS – 4, WordPress Inspector – 3
Marcus’ Plugins: WooCommerce Quick View – 5, WooCommerce Free Gift – 5, Easy Scroll Depth – 5
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