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It's Episode 434 and I've got plugins for Affiliate Commissions, Analytics in Your Dashboard, Image Sliders and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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Show Art: Angel Lemus

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I have a great set of plugins for you today!

Starting out I have a plugin that I have yet to use but felt you would want to know it exists. Keep in mind the ratings are based off the descriptions on their site and using their demo if available.

Sent in by Steve Wingert

CouponPanel

https://www.feeds4.com
https://www.feeds4.com/publishers/couponpanel/

What they say:
Feeds4 has released its newest plugin, CouponPanel. CouponPanel allows WordPress website owners to display relevant or targeted coupons and promotions to their visitors. WordPress owners only need to create a page on their site and insert our shortcode on that page to display a list or “panel” of valid coupons and promotions their visitors can use to save money on their online purchases.

CouponPanel users are in control of the data we deliver. The plugin allows users to either choose from 50+ predefined categories or CouponPanel users can curate their own list of merchants they feel will be the best match for their visitors.

Five things that make CouponPanel a great choice for any WordPress owner to install:

Content. Feeds4 maintains the coupon content. This means once the plugin is activated and the shortcode is entered, Feeds4 keeps the promotional content current via APIs. For busy influencers or website owners that rarely change their website, this can be a great solution for receiving ongoing, unique content, they don't have to maintain.

Monetization. All the content distributed by the CouponPanel plugin is affiliate marketing content that can earn the website owner revenue if a visitor uses a coupon and makes a purchase. Merchant relationships, tracking, reporting and payments are all handled by Feeds4 and visible through the Feeds4 publisher portal.

Curation. Plugin users can either pick a predefined category and get our recommended list of merchants and promotions for that category or plugin users can login to the publisher portal and curate their own choice of merchants they want to work with. Feeds4 offers publishers 6000+ merchant programs and 50+ categories to choose from.

Customization. The plugin is highly configurable. Plugin users can change the look and feel of the coupons using the CouponPanel content settings tab. The shortcode also has parameters that allow for further customization including inpost tagging and more.

Lastly the Cost. It's free! The plugin, the API, the service, our platform, everything. There is no cost to the WordPress website owner but we do split any commissions earned starting at 70/30 with 70% going to the publisher.

Please note, CouponPanel access is invite only. Not every website that applies for an API token gets approved and this is due to brand restrictions that might cause a conflict or WordPress websites that might not be a good fit for our advertisers.

Rating 3 Dragons

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WordPress News and Info

WordPress Security Tricks to Keep Your Business Website Safe
https://www.techiexpert.com/wordpress-security-tricks-to-keep-your-business-website-safe/

Skimmers for Both Magento and WordPress
https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/11/skimmers-for-both-magento-and-wordpress.html

WordPress sites hit by malvertising
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/11/07/malvertising-malware-sweeps-wordpress-sites/

Johns news:

Plugin Dynamics is starting to come to life and we have 4 plugins just about ready for general testing plus 3 more in the cue.
Date Calculator
Metric Conversions
Clock de Resistance
Tabular Data dynamics

In the development cue
The Tarot Reading plugin
Intranet Lockdown
All coming soon to https://PluginDynamics.com

Contest You Can Win a Premium Plugin License For:

Contests Powered by Simple Giveaways who kindly provides us with the premium version for our contests.

The Winner of the last contest for Social Rabbit is Sherri congratulations.
Social Rabbit Plugin reviewed in Episode 428. This is an excellent plugin to connect to your social networks and share out your content.
Find out more at Social Rabbits site https://alidropship.com/addons/social-rabbit/

Our next contest is coming soon

Visit http://WPPluginsAtoZ.com/contests for more info.

After you enter the contest remember to share on social media and you get more chances to win.

For all developers who would like to support the show. You can donate a premium license to be used in a future contest please go to WPPluginsAtoZ.com/PluginContest

Site Kit by Google

https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-site-kit/

The Lowdown:
With the disappearance of the connections to Google in many SEO plugins many have been looking for a way to get those insights back into their dashboard. It seems Google has released a plugin to bring all that info into your dashboard. Setup pretty straightforward and bring in the following info.
Site Kit shows key metrics and insights from different Google products:

• Search Console: Understand how Google Search discovers and displays your pages in Google Search. Track how many people saw your site in Search results, and what query they used to search for your site.
• Analytics: Explore how users navigate your site and track goals you’ve set up for your users to complete.
• AdSense: Keep track of how much your site is earning you.
• PageSpeed Insights: See how your pages perform compared to other real-world sites. Improve performance with actionable tips from PageSpeed Insights.
• Tag Manager: Use Site Kit to easily set up Tag Manager- no code editing required. Then, manage your tags in Tag Manager.
• Optimize: Use Site Kit to easily set up Optimize- no code editing required. Then, set up A/B tests in Optimize.

Here is a write-up about it from Google
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/site-kit-is-now-available-for-all.html

Not too bad released Oct 31 and now has over 50k installs

Rating 4 Dragons

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Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider

https://wordpress.org/plugins/master-slider/

The Lowdown:
If you are looking for a simple to use Image slider that has several options for displaying your sliding gallery this is one to have a look at. You will have to manually add all the images to the Gallery but it has a very nice display and integrates well into Elementor layouts. overall a pretty nice gallery plugin.

Rating 4 Dragons

ClassicPress Options

ClassicPress is a fast growing fork of WordPress that is starting to come into its own. ClassicPress is focused on Business Websites runs fast and is looking pretty good. There are a few plugins specifically for ClassicPress and all plugins for WordPress 4.9.9 work well on it. I do believe it has a future.

One thing I am looking forward to in the ClassicPress World is the expansion of the number of ClassicPress specific plugins and their own repository. Currently there are not a lot of ClassicPress specific plugins but I do know it is going to grow and I'll have to expand this segment then. Who knows, it could take over the whole show.

This week for ClassicPress I have:

News:

Now Accepting Self-Nominations for the 2020 CP Management Committee Elections
The deadline for self-nominations is November 20th at 11:59pm UTC
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/now-accepting-self-nominations-for-the-2020-cp-management-committee-elections/1679?u=codepotent

Full list of nominees
https://forums.classicpress.net/c/governance/2020-committee-candidates
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/about-the-2020-committee-candidates-category/1675

ClassicPress Plugin

Some big news in the community the Woocommerce plugin has been forked and will be Classic Commerce more information here
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/classic-commerce-roadmap-version-1-2/1668

ClassicPress Resources:

For some up to date news on ClassicPress check out the ClassisPress Club news
https://classicpress.club/
An alternate forum for the non-techies.

“Must Have” Plugins List
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/must-have-plugins-list/1163

To find a listing of ClassicPress specific plugins check out this link https://forums.classicpress.net/t/plugins-built-specifically-for-classicpress/1011?u=codepotent there is currently 37 42 plugins here and growing. I look forward to the day they have their own repository. I can still recall WP when it had a small repository.

CodePotent's plugin directory
https://codepotent.com/classicpress/plugins/

Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:

John’s Plugins: CouponPanel – 3, Site Kit by Google – 4, Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider – 4

Reminders / Commercial / Promotions:

The Latest Interview is out tsnd is with Kim Gjerstad from Mail Poet get it here https://wppluginsatoz.com/wp-plugins-a-to-z-interview-47-with-kim-gjerstad-from-mail-poet/.

The next WordPress Meetup in Victoria will be in November 28, 2019 in Victoria Topic to come and will be broadcast Live on YouTube. For location and more information Check them out at https://wppluginsatoz.com/meetup .

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