WordPress Plugins A to Z Episode 335 Christmas Displays, REST API, Car Dealerships
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It's Episode 335 and we've got plugins for Christmas Displays, REST API, Car Dealerships, User Migration and Facebook's Customer Chat. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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Today we are reviewing our usual allotment of six great plugins.
John
And first up I have
Christmas Calendar by CMobile
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmobile-christmas-calendar/
https://christmas.cmobile.se/en/
The Lowdown:
This plugin help you build an advent calendar into your web site where you can offer up something new everyday leading up to christmas. You can create specific landing URL for each and maybe offer up a special of some sort to your visitors. They do have a premium version of this plugin which allows you to expand it out a bit and have dynamic URL and QR codes and the ability to create your own coupons. Even have some stats to see how things are going. The basic looks like it could be an interesting way to gauge offering up 24 days of specials.
Rating 3 Dragons
Marcus
JS Vehicle Manager
https://wordpress.org/plugins/js-vehicle-manager/
Vehicle Manager provides the ability and functions to build a car dealership site. It is a is highly customizable interface and features of the custom Vehicle Manager. It comes with 190+ configurations and 18 shortcodes and also has its own login/register pages.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Our next couple plugins for you are
John
Rest Manager
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-manager/
The Lowdown:
While the use of this plugin is not explained very cearly it does appear it can helpl you speeed up your WordPress website by filtering which plugins can use which routes in the Rest API. This looks like it could be of bennifit but it will require you to upgrade your knowledge of the REST API and all it routes and how they imnpact your plugins. It looks like something you could quickly make a mess out of your website with. While just as easily making your site run faster.
Rating 3 Dragons
Marcus
Facebook Customer Chat
This is a plugin for the brand new Customer Chat Beta so you can try the Official Facebook Messenger on your own WordPress site.
You can find out more about the beta in Facebook’s post: https://blog.messengerdevelopers.com/messenger-customer-chat-open-beta-16b11879637
Rating: 4 out of 5
Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
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Well we finally got some feedback about the show from a listener who has stopped listening, according to his email. I am pretty sure for a long time I have come across as arrogant and tended to take things a bit to personal well that is and has been changing in my life.. He suggested we were begging too much on the show, and well as we wanted a value for value model and it does tend to sound that way. We are done with that though. He made some suggestions how how the reviews could be improved by talking about the code, the install base or the update cycles, but I have always felt this was not necessary. what is important about a plugin is how easy is it to use, does it solve a problem and can you make money with it.
The feedback is much appreciated J and hope your SEO business does well
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Our last couple plugins today are:
John
Christmas Greetings
https://wordpress.org/plugins/christmas-greetings/
The Lowdown:
This plugin looks to be a great way to say Merry Christmas and provide a discount to your site visitors as well. It has intergration into Woo Commerce to offer up-sell promotions and coupons with personalized messages. Another great way to get in the spirit of Christmas Spengin especially the spending on your website.
Rating 3 Dragons
Marcus
Migrate Users
https://wordpress.org/plugins/migrate-users/
Plugin helps to migrate users from any system to your WordPress website in few clicks
FEATURES:
-Import file format is .csv
-Map fields in a file to users meta fields
-Update existing users
-Log for the whole import process
-Simply adding and setting user meta fields
-Automatically send a link to reset password
-Configure it in 10 minutes
-Sample import file included
Rating: 4 out of 5
Closing out this Episode The Plugins we covered where:
John’s Plugins: Christmas Calendar by CMobile – 3, Rest Manager – 3, Christmas Greetings – 3
Marcus’ Plugins: JS Vehicle Manager – 4, Facebook Customer Chat – 4, Migrate Users – 4
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