WordPress Plugins A-Z #286 GeoIP Detection, Floating Carts
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It's Episode 286 and we've got plugins for Measuring CPU and Host performance, GeoIP Detection, Floating Carts and a great new plugin for Importing Facebook Events to The Events Calendar. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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It's Episode 286 and we've got plugins for Measuring CPU and Host performance, GeoIP Detection, Floating Carts and a great new plugin for Importing Facebook Events to The Events Calendar. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!Don’t forget you can get the show notes at:
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Thank you Marcus and John for pointing out King Composer. I'm quite excited to try it out because it looks to have many improvements over visual composer which i'm a huge fan of. This donation is on behalf of Local Pest Control at http://www.localpestcontrol.com.au – Ian is one of our great WordPress clients in Newcastle, Australia.
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We have a contest and are giving away a Premium Licenses from Barn 2 Media for WooCommerce Product Table pro plugin that is a great way to sort your products into a table for easy use by your visitors. Check out the interview I did with Katie http://wppluginsatoz.com/wp-plugins-z-interview-show-8-katie-keith-barn2-media/ where she discusses this great plugin. Contest will run until Christmas Day so it will make a great Christmas present.
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WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
DDoS attacks via WordPress now come with encryption https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/12/14/ddos-wordpress-encryption/
How much should a custom WordPress website cost? https://poststatus.com/wordpress-website-cost/
14 Sneaky Online Tools to Help You Spy on Your Site’s Visitors https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/sneaky-online-tools-spy-on-site-visitors/
Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
We have a comment from Jermy at Jezweb about the chat feature on his site.
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
PHP/MySQL CPU performance statistics
Version:1.2.1
Requires:3.2.0 or higher
Compatible up to:5.6.14
Released:13 October 2013
Downloads:35158
Last Updated:27 November 2020
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin is for finding out how the server you are on is performing, it does a great job of performing some quick tests to see if you are on a quality server or not. This plugin runs some checks on your MySql to see how it is performing and then outputs the results to compare against some standards to see how your webserver is performing.
Rating 4 Dragons
wp Hosting Performance Check
Version:2.18.8
Requires:3.2 or higher
Compatible up to:4.9.26
Released:05 September 2016
Downloads:37983
Last Updated:24 August 2018
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin is for finding out how the server you are on is performing, it does a great job of performing some quick tests to see if you are on a quality server or not. This plugin will help you discover if your loading issues are server caused or from your theme or some other slow loading segment of your website. After install it monitors your website and you can let it run for a few days to see how your site is performing, you can also review the system info to find out what level of programs your server is running. Believe it or not there are still sites running on php 5.3 and below. as well as very old MySql all of these thing effect your site loading.
Rating 4 Dragons
GeoIP Detection
Version:5.4.1
Requires:5.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.6.2
Released:04 July 2013
Downloads:504243
Last Updated:17 August 2024
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin allows to have GeoIp detection on your site that you can then integrate into a plugin or theme to track visitors to your website. Currently I have used it in conjunction with the wp Hosting performance check plugin which countries visitors are coming from to help detect slow areas.
Rating 4 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Host Info
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
Have you ever needed to show some realtime server and execution environment information? Host Info will provide you more information on the webserver that´s hosting your WordPress site. I found this to be somewhat handy, though it didn't give me all of the stats that I might have wanted.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Woo Floating Cart Lite
Version:2.8.3
Requires:4.6 or higher
Compatible up to:6.6.2
Released:01 December 2016
Downloads:416409
Last Updated:04 November 2024
Download Link:Click here
An Interactive Floating Cart for WooCommerce that slides in when the user decides to buy an item. Products, quantities and prices are updated instantly via Ajax. This is a lot like many of the professional carts you have seen at the big retail stores. It's a nice way to keep the cart in view at all times.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Import Facebook Events
Version:1.8.1
Requires:4.0 or higher
Compatible up to:6.7.1
Released:14 December 2016
Downloads:223207
Last Updated:30 November 2024
Download Link:Click here
This plugin allows you to import events from facebook.com into The Events Calendar and Events Manager. If you are like me and use The Events Manager as your events plugin of choice, this plugin is a no-brainer as an extra add-on. As an add-on plugin this plugin needs The Events Calendar or Events Manager Installed and activated.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: PHP/MySQL CPU performance statistics – 4 , wp Hosting Performance Check – 4, GeoIP Detection – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: Host Info – 3, Woo Floating Cart Lite – 4, Import Facebook Events – 5
Commercial / Promotions:
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Just some reminders:
How to Contact Us:
John can be contacted at:
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on my website @ http://www.johnoverall.com/
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WordPress Emergency Support http://wppro.ca/wpemergency
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email: john@wppro.ca
Marcus can be contacted at:
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Marcus Couch can be contacted at his website at marcuscouch.com
- Twitter @marcuscouch
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