It’s Episode 271 and we’ve got plugins for Enhancing Buddypress Activity Feeds, Menu Duplication, Changing Default System Emails, Podcast Players, and Creating a Services Section.. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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We have a plugin Review from Jeremy at https://Jezweb.com.au
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Menu Duplicator
- Version: 0.4
- Author: Jeremy Ross
- Last Updated: 3 weeks ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 4.6
- Active Installs: 100+
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown:
Needing to create a duplicate of a menu for many reasons and one of the best is because you want to try out different menus . This plugin is simple and easy to use. Turn on activate and you go select the menu to duplicate give it a name and your done easy peasy.
Rating 5 Dragons
Services Plugin For WordPress
Premium Plugin submitted by Shawn DeWolf
The Lowdown:
This is a simple plugin to add to your site that will allow you to create a services section of your site, using custom post types you create all your services with images then you can display it on a single page with short codes. A nice simple plugin to help you create that service section
Rating 4 Dragons
WordPress Podcast Player
submitted by Dan Berry
Premium Plugin
The Lowdown:
While this is a pretty great addon player for your website and podcast I ran into issues using it in a MU environment it kept not saving the episode and settings. On the test site it seemed to be ok. What is does is add some additional work if you already use something like blubrry. But it does add a couple great things to your show by allowing you to add notes that will appear below the show at specific times and have some automated links to download the show. All in all I tough it would be a great idea to add in just did not get it to work correctly in MU environment or it could be a conflict with the many other plugins on the main site.
Rating 4 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
BuddyPress Activity Plus
BuddyPress Activity Plus adds Facebook-style content sharing buttons to the BuddyPress activity feed so users can quickly share articles, videos, and images with others.
Paste in a link and BuddyPress Activity Plus will automatically pull content snippets for fast sharing. Preview and edit content before posting, add your own commentary and auto-pull titles, descriptions, and thumbnails.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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WD Instagram Feed
Instagram Feed WD allows displaying Instagram feeds based on public Instagram accounts and hashtags. You can create mixed feeds based on multiple accounts, multiple hashtags or any combination of both with Pro version.
Rating: 4 out of 5 (Pro version is 5/5 though!)
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WP Better Emails
All emails from WordPress (lost password, notifications, etc.) are sent by default in text/plain format. WP Better Emails wraps them with a much better looking customizable HTML email template and lets you also set your own sender name and email address. I liked this, but the table layout made aligning a company logo with text almost impossible. Otherwise it worked great for getting rid of the admin user as the primary sender/reply to on system emails.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Menu Duplicator – 5, Services Plugin For WordPress – 4, WordPress Podcast Player
Marcus’ Plugins: BuddyPress Activity Plus – 5, WD Instagram Feed – 4, WP Better Emails – 4
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