WordPress Plugins A-Z #311 Managing Popups, Hiding Notifications
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It's Episode 311 and we've got plugins for Managing Popups, Hiding Notifications, Locking Down BuddyPress, Global Search and a New Look for your Old Admin Dashboard. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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It's Episode 311 and we've got plugins for Managing Popups, Hiding Notifications, Locking Down BuddyPress, Global Search and a New Look for your Old Admin Dashboard. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!Don’t forget you can get the show notes at:
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**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms Importer
Version:2.0
Requires:3.3 or higher
Compatible up to:4.1.41
Released:14 September 2011
Downloads:15166
Last Updated:09 February 2015
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
When it becomes necessary to switch your contact plugin from Contact Forms 7 to gravity forms, sometimes the biggest challenge is recreation of all the forms you have already. This plugin simplifies that task but allowing you to just import the form from Contact Form 7. The only caveat here is that sometime the conversion is not clean and you need to go in and fix a couple items. You will also need to re-setup the notifications for the form. All in all a pretty good plugin and does same some time.
Rating 4 Dragons
Hide All Notices
Version:0.4
Requires:3.0.1 or higher
Compatible up to:5.5.15
Released:13 August 2016
Downloads:24236
Last Updated:19 August 2020
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
If your tired of the questions from clients about the notices that occur from the various plugins and redundant update notices inn the Dashboard then this one is for you. Simply install activate and all those useless notifications go away and are hidden from view.. It does not remove the notices just hides them via CSS and get all notices using standard classes but some plugins do not use standard so may get missed. For what I was after and in need of it did a perfect job.
Rating 5 Dragons
Popup Manager
sent in by Janis Sprincis
Freemium plugin starting at $35 per quarter
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This is another plugin with this new type of pricing model I am beginning to see where there is a charge more often than once a year for the license. Look to be a new trend in licensing
The free version gives you 4 templates to choose from one image, one text and three email templates. You can get more templates by buying the seperatly starting at about $19 or subscribe to the full package. Setting up a popup is pretty easy with their interface but you will need the pro-version to make them real useful. Once complete you then place it in your site via short code so you can make specific popups per page or post. There does not seem to be a way to universally set it. While this can be useful it seems it could be additional work.
All in all not too bad for a popup manager
Rating 4 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
WordPress Lock for BuddyPress
Version:1.9.3
Requires:4.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.6.2
Released:11 June 2017
Downloads:23500
Last Updated:04 August 2024
Download Link:Click here
This plugin allows site owner to lock the different components on the site for non-logged in users such as the various bp components, the custom post types, the wp pages. The site owner can allow pages to be visible for non-loggedin users, else a locked message will be displayed on the page.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Admin Global Search
Version:1.0.0
Requires:3.3 or higher
Compatible up to:5.0.22
Released:09 June 2017
Downloads:2433
Last Updated:04 January 2019
Download Link:Click here
This is one of the best plugins that I've come across for a long time. It does exactly what it says. You can searh the entire site in this master global search que. Previously you would have had to search your MySQL database.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Flat Panel Admin Theme
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
Tired of the same old admin theme? Give the WordPress dashboard we all know and love a boost, with a splash of color, and a more refined flat panel design. You can easily change the colors to reflect the look and feel that best suits you and your website.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms Importer – 4, Hide All Notices – 5, Popup Manager – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: WordPress Lock For BuddyPress – 4, Admin Global Search – 5, Flat Panel Admin Theme – 5
Commercial / Promotions:
MARCUS: I'm promoting the Liftoff Summit put on by BobWP that is being held online on June 19-23, 2017. It's a free online conference. It’s all about WordPress and eCommerce. Whether you are running an online store, or monetizing your blog or site, they teach you about how to be successful with your site through content and social marketing, blogging and the tech stuff. There are over 20 speakers and it looks to be a great event.
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