Plan for success with WordPress Plugins

Easier YouTube Embeds, Locking User Accounts, Facebook Site Invites, User Activity, Plugin Version Monitors, and Activity Logs

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WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 112

It’s episode #112 WordPress Plugins A to Z and we’ve got plugins for Easier YouTube Video Embeds, Locking User Accounts, Facebook Site Invites, User Activity, Plugin Version Monitors, and Activity Logs. All this and more coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z.

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Interesting Sites Running WordPress:


http://chuckyeager.com
The official website of US Air Force General Chuck Yeager, the world’s first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound. Why it’s in the Showcase: The subject matter, rare historic documents and unique historic full-screen background photographs, and its innovative use of jQuery.

 

Listener Feedback / Audio Clips

Dave at TopekaDesign.com  has a question about Thickbox Content and a Suitable Audio plugin for one shot audio files.
an Idea might be to use slide deck

 

**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John**

Recent Revisions 1.1.1


The Lowdown:
In my search for a tracking plugin to track post revisions this one came up and it show all recent post revisions on your dashboard.. This is a great quick way to see any changes anyone has made to the site. Unfortunately this is all it really does..
Rating 3 Dragons

 

Simple History 1.0.9

The Lowdown:
This plug was discovered during my search for monitoring for a clients site who needed to know what the assorted editors were doing and editing.. While it tracks all usage such as plugin install activation and removals it has a limitation of only tracking the last 60 days. But it does do a great job of tracking all changes that happen to the site so you can see what people are up to.
This gives you a page where you can examine everything on your site from:
Attachment |
Comment |
Plugin |
Post/Attachment |
Post/Encyclopedia |
Post |
Settings page |
User

Including making check by individual user all in all a great little tracking plugin to see what is happening on your site.
Rating 4 Dragons

 

WP-Activity 2.0

 

The Lowdown
While this one does tracking it is more along the line of who logs in and what they did when they logged in. did they create a post create a user ect.. It does tell about comments added and stuff deleted. In actually this one help with a site that was compromised  a couple weeks back. When a client had an ex employee who knew an admin login to the site and came in and started deleted products from the estore.. This tracking helped us track their IP and when and what they deleted so we could fix it easier.. let that be a lesson that if an employees leaves the first thing you need to do is change all password to any account they might have access to.

Rating 4 Dragons

**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus**

Account Lock

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/account-lock/

Requires: 3.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.6
Last Updated: 2013-3-10
Downloads: 33

This plugin enables administrators to lock user accounts without deleting the users posts and contents.

Account Lock is a state of the art WordPress Plugin which enables administrators to lock user accounts without deleting the users posts and contents. Locked users will not be able to login or reset their password. All content created by users whose accounts are locked keep accessible by website visitors.

Main features

 

  • Prevent users from login in to the Dashboard via the “Edit User” Screen
  • Prevent users from reset their passwords if their account is locked
  • See the current account status in the user management
  • Fast status change directly from the user management page


Rating: 3 out of 5

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Facebook Friends Inviter

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-friends-inviter/

Requires: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5.1
Last Updated: 2013-3-10
Downloads: 81

Add an Invite Facebook Friends button to any WordPress website with the Facebook Friends Inviter Plugin.

This WordPress plugin adds customizable text links and customizable graphic buttons that are visible to anyone who visits your WordPress site. Buttons can be added using widgets and shortcodes.
Features

  • Facebook Requests Graphic Button
  • Facebook Requests Link Button
  • Seamless friend requests selector
  • FB Friends request widgets – as many widgets as you want to use
  • FB Friend inviter shortcodes – as many shortcodes as you want to use
  • Customizable link text
  • Customizable button
  • Put the button or text link anywhere within your site
  • Set button/text width
  • Set button/text alignment


Rating: 4 out of 5

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Rather Simple YouTube

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rather-simple-youtube/

Requires: 3.3.2 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5.1
Last Updated: 2013-3-10
Downloads: 16

A rather simple YouTube plug-in that allows the administrator to fill in a YouTube user and select a video to embed into a page.

This plug-in is different than others because it requires no pasting of special URL's or remembering embed codes. The first step is to fill in your own (or someone else's) YouTube username in the settings page. After this you can select any of your uploaded videos in the included widget.

Rating: 4 out of 5

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