WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 44
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John’s Rant: What to rant about?
Well I have a great story about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac you will just have to listen to find out about it.
What else has peved me this past week? tune in and listen to it all.
Shout Outs: One this week
One going out to Stefan
Something new list of interesting sites that run on WordPress:
Shoreline Community School Assoication
World of WordPress News:
Major Releases of BuddyPress and bbPress
The WordPress community has a lot to be excited about this week. BuddyPress and bbPress have pushed out major new releases today. WordPress users looking for a simple way to enable forums and/or add social media features should take a look. …
WordPress malware spreading —Sophos
He said an initial investigation showed malicious code managed to inject itself into the PHP code used on some websites running WordPress. “(This means that) if you visit them when running Internet Explorer you could be exposing yourself to a malware …
List of Plugins:
Discussion about a great plugin we found and put in a test site only to find a few days later it has been removed form the repository and the company is offering a new way of doing it. Plugin called onswipe and creates a great interface for iPads. you can get it from here if you would like it. since it is GPL I can give away copies of it. Get the plugin now.. [download id=”4″]
WP Ecommerce:
- Version: 3.8.6.1
- Author: Instinct Entertainment
- Last Updated: 10 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 3.0 or higher
- Compatible up to: 3.2.1
- Downloaded: 1,341,473 times
- WordPress.org Plugin Page »
- Plugin Homepage »
We make setting up an ecommerce shop easy, and with over 1.3 Million downloads, we have unparalleled experience.
Features:
WordPress Integration
- Easy to install WordPress plugin
- Works with any standards compliant WordPress theme
- Plays well with other Plugins
- Supports regular WordPress widgets, as well as a few snazzy ones of our own
- Utilizes shortcodes and template tags (just like WordPress)
- Works out-of-the-box with WordPress MU (make sure you use sub domains with your MU setup)
- A designers dream – use your own HTML & CSS and have complete control over the look and feel of your. store
- Easy to modify templates
What I think about this plugin now, well I have not used it in sometime as it was not where I needed it to be about a year or so ago. I recently came back to it to re-examine how it has developed since last I used it. This plugin has improved dramatically and I can once again recommend it although I have discovered a flaw that I initially missed and that is it has no place for tracking your suppliers/vendors.
I give it a nice 2 Dragon Rating
Some Terms here for plugins: Nothing special this week..
In closing here is what is coming in future podcasts:
An interview with the creator of the File Monitor plugin coming soon, just as soon as I can schedule it up.
Video Plugins
Membership Plugins
WEBphysiology Portfolio
How to Contact Us:
Laura how can you be contacted:
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Hi John, great show as usual.
Loved the *rant* your Mom’s a playa! Reminds me of a story about the rolling stones opening the door at a chemist to let my Gran out, this was back in the 60s. All she said about them was “they seamed like nice boys”.
I was looking into the OnSwipe plugin (if it’s the same one) it is still up at wordpress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/onswipe/
What concerned me was the support forums, tons of folks are have issues with the plugin. (link: http://wordpress.org/tags/onswipe?forum_id=10) and not one response from the developer.
So lets hope that they don’t go pro before they work out the bugs.
Cheers – get healthy and keep doing these shows – Thanks Rew
Hi Rew,
Thanks for the good work on the show glad to hear folks are enjoying it.
I am sure my mom was a playa in her day…
I have had no issue with Onswipe and I did notice it was back in the repository a couple days later strange guess they pulled it then put it back. Seems they have gone pro already and will probably stop support for the plugin too bad I really like it..
John