It’s Episode 301 and we’ve got plugins for Dynamic Custom Headers, WooCommerce Thumbnails, User Account Locks, Limiting IPs, and an On/Off Switch for the REST-API. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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John’s Rant: What to rant about?
Barn3Media just launched a fantastic WordPress-related competition that you would be interested in.
They are looking for ideas on the most creative way to list WooCommerce products. The prize is 3 licenses for thier WooCommerce Product Table plugin. You can read all about it at https://barn2.co.uk/competition-creative-woocommerce-ideas . They will publish every idea including a dofollow link to each entrant’s website.
WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
Marcus is now the Curator and Editor for all of WordPress at Smashing Magazine.
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Lock User Account
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The lowdown:
A quick simple way to lockdown users accounts.
Install and activate plugin, go to Users page, select users you want to lock/unlock and then select the action from Bulk Actions drop down. It has feature to add custom lock message to show on login screen for locked account. You can add your custom locked account message by going Settings and then click on General, there you can enter the message in field has label as Locked User Message.
Rating 3 Dragons
Limit Max IPs Per User
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin provides you a way to control how any different IP a user can login from and over what period of days. After they exceed the limit their logins are blocked. This could be used as a way to prevent account oversharing.
Rating 3 Dragons
Humanity
Version:0.0.4
Requires:2.7 or higher
Compatible up to:4.7.29
Released:26 March 2017
Downloads:776
Last Updated:01 April 2017
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
The plugin simply serves up the humans.txt file, this is a project from https://humanstxt.org/ which is a way to give credit to creators of a website without placing it on the front page.
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Dynamic Custom Header Replacement
Version:1.2
Requires:4.6 or higher
Compatible up to:4.8.25
Released:24 March 2017
Downloads:1476
Last Updated:26 June 2017
Download Link:Click here
This plugin allows the custom header image to be replaced by the featured image of the current post or page, if present. Otherwise the ‘default’ custom header image is used.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Turn Off REST API
Version:1.0.4
Requires:4.7 or higher
Compatible up to:5.4.16
Released:23 March 2017
Downloads:2078
Last Updated:01 July 2020
Download Link:Click here
While WordPress REST API vulnerability exploits continue this plugin effectively prevent and disable the used of REST API from accessing information from your website, this plugin return authentication error and disable all endpoints for any user not logged in on your website.
Rating: 5 out of 5
WooCommerce Thumbnails Upload
Version:1.0.0.0
Requires:4.0 or higher
Compatible up to:4.7.29
Released:22 March 2017
Downloads:988
Last Updated:22 March 2017
Download Link:Click here
This plugin allows you to have a drag and drop ability to add product image thumbnails directly onto the product list page. The custom thumbnails are easily viewed within the list and are easily changable.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Lock User Account – 3, Limit Max IPs Per User – 3, Humanity – 3
Marcus’ Plugins: Dynamic Custom Header Replacement – 4, Turn Off REST API – 5, WooCommerce Thumbnails Upload – 4
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Show History
As the Virginia slim ad used to say “You’ve come along way baby” Yes in the early episodes the sound was massively hit and miss sometimes I nailed it other times more often than not it was poor as some of the clips show but still I drove forward.
We have an early clip from episode 21 when Laura used to co-host with me.
A clip of me from episode 40 and 42 including the great intro music I once used..
and from episode 48 October 31 2011 the intro for Marcus done in take two since the first show did not even record Marcus.. have a listen
Included at the end of the show is a tribute to Steve Jobs I did check it out or just turn off the show at that point but enjoy..
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