WordPress Plugins for Social Login, Recipies, Facebook Comments & more
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WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 94
It’s episode #94 and we’ve got plugins for getting cooking, getting users out of core WP functions, Making Announcements, Facebook Comments, Custom Logins, and Social Login Sharing. It’s the show with 95 tabs open and just can’t quite figure out where that sound is coming from.. It’s WordPress plugins A-Z.
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John’s & Marcus Rant: What to rant about?
Looking for some help from listeners please head over to social media camp Victoria and check out my articles and please comment on them and share with everyone.. Here is a list of my articles.
http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/wordpress-photo-galleries-made-easy/
http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/10/tune-wordpress-with-these-4-tools/
http://socialmediacamp.ca/2012/09/speed-up-wordpress-with-a-few-simple-clicks/
Interesting Sites Running WordPress:
THEROLLINGSTONES.COM
The Rolling Stones (http://therollingstones.com) just went WordPress with their all new site relaunch in conjunction with their 50th anniversary tour. Very good looking site with a lot of classic stones iconography throughout the design and within page content.
Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
Danny has some feedback about our security episode, pointing out his conclusion about VPS security.
World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
NEW REVIEW TAB AT WORDPRESS.ORG
Wordpress.org has just announced a new REVIEW tab that will accompany all Plugins and Themes! Finally we have something to act as a guide in determining how plugins and themes are from a user perspective. All plugins can be reviewed, both new and old. Just click the REVIEW tab and start sending your critique and feedback!
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John**
These WordPress Plugins will be some refreshers due to just having written extensive article on them
SEO Facebook Comment 1.4.5.1
- Version: 1.4.5.1
- Author: Fabio Zaffani
- Last Updated: 167 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.9 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.3.2
- Downloaded: 89,492 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown on this plugin can be read about here
http://wppluginsatoz.com/useful-facebook-comments-your-wordpress-website/
Rating 5 dragon
Start with Social Login, Social Sharing & Social Commenting, with User Profile Data 3.1
- Version: 3.1
- Author: LoginRadius Team
- Last Updated: 25 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.5.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.4.2
- Downloaded: 45,571 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown on this plugin can be read about here http://wppluginsatoz.com/customize-your-wordpress-login-with-social-logins/
Rating 4 Dragons
Custom Login 1.0.4
- Version: 1.0.4
- Author: Austin Passy
- Last Updated: 81 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.2 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.4.2
- Downloaded: 128,195 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
The Lowdown on this plugin can be read about here http://wppluginsatoz.com/customize-your-wordpress-login-with-social-logins/
Rating 4 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus**
Apollo Bar
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apollo-bar/
Requires: 3.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4.2
Last Updated: 2012-10-25
Downloads: 142
The Apollo Bar is a really simple announcements and notification plugin. Used with Custom Post Type to publish announcements and cycle plugin to rotate messages with fade animation. There is a very simple administrative interface. Can be switched off and on the Apollo Bar and author logo, or you can choose the 3 color scheme.
Marcus’ Take: This looked like a pretty good plugin on the surface, as I needed a good announcement bar to use. I found the options rather limiting and it didn’t do exactly as I asked when using shortcodes and embedded images in the post edit that was supposed to be my “announcement”. I thought this would be great for breaking affiliate item alerts, etc, but I’ll have to keep looking.
Rating: 3 Dragons
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User Admin Simplifier
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-admin-simplifier/
Requires: 3.0.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4.2
Last Updated: 2012-11-1
Downloads: 407
Lets any Administrator simplify the WordPress Admin interface, on a per-user basis, by turning specific menu sections off.
Marcus’ Take: It’s about time that we as developers and administrators have the option to define the specific roles of each user type. This plugin does just that, limiting what a user can and cannot see in the dashboard when they log in. The one thing I didnt find is the ability to limit someone to only specific categories and post types, which is what I really needed for a specific project.
Rating: 4 Dragons
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Kitchenbug
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kitchenbug/
Requires: 3.2.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4.2
Last Updated: 2012-10-29
Downloads: 69
Kitchenbug is the ultimate tool for food bloggers, providing full recipe nutritional analysis, rich-snippets compliance, unit conversion and more.
Marcus’ Take: This plugin is great for anyone wanting to display recipes on their WP installation. It does US to Metric conversions, adjusts for the amount of servings based on user input, and can automatically calculate the nutritional value of each recipe. It also has an option to print and save the recipe for later. Quite a lot of features in this new plugin. Took one point away because of the signup to kitchenbug.com but all in all this is a really great plugin.
Rating: 4 Dragons
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