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WordPress Plugins A-Z #318 Email Downloads, Subscribe to Comments

It's Episode 318 and we've got plugins for Email Downloads, Subscribe to Comments, Post Type Convertors, Stock Photos, Shortcodes for WooCommerce Fields and Blocking User Accounts. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It's Episode 318 and we've got plugins for Email Downloads, Subscribe to Comments, Post Type Convertors, Stock Photos, Shortcodes for WooCommerce Fields and Blocking User Accounts. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!It’s Episode 318 and we’ve got plugins for Email Downloads, Subscribe to Comments, Post Type Convertors, Stock Photos, Shortcodes for WooCommerce Fields and Blocking User Accounts. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Get all the grisly Plugin details and full access to the complete show notes on our website WPPluginsAtoZ.com! You can follow the show on Twitter at @wppluginsatoz, and join our Facebook at WordPressPluginsA2Z for the latest in WordPress Plugin related news - some we come across in-between shows, and some we talk about on our weekly show.

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WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:

Does Your WordPress Site Need a Terms of Service?
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/creating-terms-of-service/

Does Your WordPress Site Need a Terms of Service?

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/creating-terms-of-service/So, today, let’s talk about why your WordPress site most definitely needs a Terms of Service page. Then I’ll walk you through how to get one set up using a plugin.

The Terms of Service page—also referred to as the Terms of Use, Terms & Conditions, and sometimes merged with the Privacy Policy—is a necessary piece of every WordPress site. It doesn’t matter if visitors don’t read it. By simply having one created, you’re protecting your business from undue harm. Read original article here…. premium.wpmudev.org

 

5 Cool Examples of Microinteractions for a Better WordPress UX
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/microinteractions-wordpress-ux/

5 Cool Examples of Microinteractions for a Better WordPress UX

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/microinteractions-wordpress-ux/A good microinteraction should facilitate or embellish an otherwise tedious task in a very subtle way—a bad microinteraction can ruin your experience with a website or product. Even though they’re “micro,” it doesn’t mean that microinteractions can’t have a big impact on the way users interact with your website.

A microinteraction refers to any small interaction the user has with a product. For example, turning your alarm off on your phone and then swiping (or using your thumbprint) to unlock it are two separate microinteractions. Read original article here…. premium.wpmudev.org

 

How to Uninstall a WordPress Plugin (the Proper Way)
https://kinsta.com/blog/uninstall-wordpress-plugin/

How to Uninstall a WordPress Plugin (the Proper Way)

https://kinsta.com/blog/uninstall-wordpress-plugin/With over 50,000 WordPress plugins on the repository alone, it’s more than likely you’ll test out and compare a few different ones to accomplish tasks or solve problems on your site. When you’re done with one, you simply uninstall it by deactivating and deleting it right? Wrong, the issue with doing it this way is that it can leave behind tables and rows in your database, and over time this can add up quite quickly, which in turn can affect your site’s performance and even cost you money on disk space. Today we are going to show you a few tips on how to uninstall a WordPress plugin the proper way to ensure your database stays small and snappy. Read original article here…. kinsta.com

 

Listener Feedback / Audio Clips

SpeakPipe from Craig to clarify something from last episode.

iTunes Review

United States
3 Stars
XM Radio Fan
Where’s the content?

Fella’s I’m nearly 16 minutes into a PodCast you’ve created and thus far I’ve heard nothing relating to the plugins or topic of the PodCast. I love the hustle you have done in order to push out this many PodCasts and I am just a random guy that is looking for some fresh ideas, but 16 minutes in and still no content or getting to the topic at hand? I stopped listening and closed it out. My tip would be to jump right into the content – leave the small talk and other things to the topic at hand.

After the first topic – mention that the section you just heard was sponsored by XYZ Company – no need to state how much they donated as it cheapens the tone and message. I’d be more inclined to visit a sponsor if I knew it wasn’t being read to me merely bc they gave $50. No need to specify over and over for donors – if your content is solid people will contribute – but listeners are not normally going to sponsor something of this nature – the author of the plugin would however.

Why aren’t we hearing a raffle for a free premium plugin or gain some funding by the author? Surely $50 to $100 is cheap if you can prove your demographics and listeners are over the standard amatuer PodCast and I’m sure it is as you’re indexed well within the term WordPress. When you’re doing a PodCast – people expect a small 15-30 second intro and then a host to come on and jump right into content. To wait 16 minutes is far too long and you will never expand and grow your audience if they’re having to sit idle that long – time is too valuable and people listen to this on lunch breaks and short on time… your adandon rate is going to be high at this rate and most people don’t even bother to fast forward. Two key points: 1.) Keep your intro no longer than 2 minutes. 2.) Monetize yourself throughout the PodCast and focus more effort on sponsoring segments and less on shoutouts for $50. All my best fella’s. DB

John’s Rant: What to rant about?

We now have training videos up and on-line part of the WP Plugins network you can find them here at https://suportsam.dev.cc/category/public-wordpress-training-videos/ or here https://suportsam.dev.cc/category/members-wordpress-training-videos/ new videos being done weekly.

Comment on how the last few weeks that several of the WordPress websites are coincidentally putting out articles on the exact same plugs we just reviewed in the show, and if they are getting the idea from us it would be nice if they credited us.. We talk about them on Monday and about Wednesday, Thursday their articles come out.

**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**

Subscribe To Comments Reloaded

https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/

Version:240119
Requires:4.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.4.3
Released:30 September 2010
Downloads:945374
Last Updated:19 January 2024
Ratings:
4.5
(4.5 star out of 5)

Subscribe To Comments Reloaded

By reedyseth, camu

https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/

Version:240119
Requires:4.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.4.3
Released:30 September 2010
Downloads:945374
Last Updated:19 January 2024
Ratings:
4.5
(4.5 star out of 5)

This plugin was reviewed in Episode 68 https://wppluginsatoz.com/comment-and-permalink-helpers-multiple-feature-images-social-timeline-and-genesis-all-on-wordpress-plugins-from-a-to-z-episode-68/

Re-reviewed in Episode 318 of the WP Plugins A to Z Podcast

I have been using this plugin for quite a while now since 2012 when it was reviewed. This is a great plugin that will encourage your site visitors to subscribe to the comments on a post. This will help keep them coming back to your site. They can also subscribe without even leaving a comment. Using this plugin you can track the subscribers to your site as well as send notifications to them of new comments. They can also unsubscribe ass well as manage their subscriptions to multiple posts.

Rating 4 Dragons

Email to Download

Requested find by Craig
https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-to-download/

Version:3.1.0
Requires:4.5 or higher
Compatible up to:5.4.15
Released:25 September 2015
Downloads:16934
Last Updated:16 June 2020
Ratings:
3.5
(3.5 star out of 5)

The Lowdown:
If your looking for a plugin to capture emails and then allow a download like Craig is then this may just be the ticket for you. Inn its base form it captures email addresses then send a download link to your visitor, if you go for the addons starting at $19.99 you can have those emails go straight to Mailchimp or Mailpoet. Now this plugin does require adding a small bit of code to your config file and you will need to flush the permalink to insure it works correctly.

Configure it to your liking and then add downloads build a short link and then publish the page.

Rating 4 dragons.

Stock Photos

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stock-photos/

Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Ratings:
0
(0 star out of 5)

The Lowdown:
Well this one fell flat could not get it to perform a search for images.

Rating 2 Dragons

WooCommerce ‘Email Money Transfer’ Payment Gateway

https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-email-money-transfer-gateway/

Version:2.6.0
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:6.0.7
Released:17 June 2015
Downloads:45940
Last Updated:01 October 2022
Ratings:
5
(5 star out of 5)

With 99 pages of recommended plugins 2,970 I though I would try one I have never used. Fromm page 77
The Lowdown:
now while this plugin applies to our Canadian listeners it is still good to know if you help or dow businness inn Canada, This plguin created a Interac E-Transfer payment gateway that makes the process of getting them to send e-transfer and security question and code an easy task without the risk of using s standard code.

Rating 5 Dragons

**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**

Woocommerce Product Shortcodes

https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-product-shortcodes/

Version:2.2
Requires:4.3 or higher
Compatible up to:5.3.17
Released:30 July 2017
Downloads:10649
Last Updated:27 June 2020
Ratings:
4.7
(4.7 star out of 5)

Sometimes you need to refer to a product in a post, page or on your homepage with reference to a price, product name or SKU.
With this plugin, you can replace the static text with a shortcode so the values are pulled dynamically from your woocommerce store. This is especially useful when referring to the price as this can change regularly leaving old static text out of date.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Post Type Manager

https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-manager/

Version:1.2
Requires:3.0 or higher
Compatible up to:5.5.14
Released:29 July 2017
Downloads:1241
Last Updated:01 September 2020
Ratings:
5
(5 star out of 5)

This plugin adds a post-type drop-down to the post editor section, you can change any post to a new post type. You can Change Page to Post, Change Post to Page, Change Post to Custom or Change a Custom post to Custom post

Rating: 5 out of 5

Block User Account

https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-user-account/

Version:1.3.1
Requires:6.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.5
Released:24 July 2017
Downloads:4979
Last Updated:16 December 2023
Ratings:
4.3
(4.3 star out of 5)

Every now and again, for whatever reason, you may need to restrict the access of an individual user. Most commonly we have to delete or alter the account to a lower level, only to restore it back later. This plugin takes care of all that in one click.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Plugins Overview:

John’s Plugins: Subscribe To Comments Reloaded – 4, Email to Download -4, WooCommerce ‘Email Money Transfer’ Payment Gateway – 5

Marcus’ Plugins: WooCommerce Product Shortcodes – 4, Post Type Manager – 5, Block User Account – 5

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