WP Plugins A to Z Episode 324 Spam Removal, Products Coming Soon
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It's Episode 324 and we've got plugins for User Spam Removal, Products Coming Soon, Layered Popups, Weather Alerts,White Labeling and new upgrades to the Media Player. 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 a plugin that help you clean up spam registrations
User Spam Remover
https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-spam-remover/
The Lowdown:
If you run a membership site or an e-store of any kind you will eventually run into the spam registrations. Or in one case I recently had the site had been left fallow for a while and the registrations just accumulated to the tune of 24k. I was looking at a daunting task of cleaning up this mess and found this fantastic plugin that gets in there and lets you clean accounts based on age and usage I was able to get this mess cleaned up in about 20 min vs. the hours or the headache of going though the database to get it cleaned up.
Simple enough to use install activate and then set age threshold and go, you can leave it to automatically remove the accounts or do a manual removal which drops them at a rate of 1k per click.
A fantastic plugin
Rating 5 Dragons
Marcus
Page Layered Popup
https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-layered-popup/
This is a forked upgrade of the layered popup plugin with the added ability to show a full page as popup, as well as show as a splash screen to your site.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Our next couple plugins for you are
John
White Label CMS
https://wordpress.org/plugins/white-label-cms/
The Lowdown:
When turning over a site to your clients many times you will want to simplify the dashboard for them so they don't have to deal with allot of the information that does not relate to their business. This plugin allows you to white lable WordPress and to remove all that junk from the dash board which is distracting and do some branding customizations. This will give you some personalizations to the dashboard setting the site apart from the norm.
Rating 4 Dragons
Marcus
WP Media Player Addons
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-player-addons/
This is a lightweight plugin, basically an addon for the existing media player of WordPress. The default media player is not so responsive in every theme. Also looks a little bit dull and old fashioned. This addon for default media player adds some additional functionality.
Works with any theme you use.
Fully responsive.
Styles the video & audio players / playlists in a better way
Loop button for audio player
Album art added to audio player
Track title, album & artist name added to audio player
Shuffle & repeat button for audio playlist
Fallback album art
2 colors available for each player or playlist (select skin directly from post editor)
Enhanced video subtitle visiblity
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Our last couple plugins today are:
John
National Weather Service Alerts
https://wordpress.org/plugins/national-weather-service-alerts/
The Lowdown:
With all the crazy weather right now this is a great plugin to add national Weather Service Alerts to your website. Once install you do have to add a couple things. You need to build the tables from the setting page and add your maps API to display google maps. You then display it on your site using short code listing the city, state zip ect.. This could be a useful plugin if your providing information on your site.
Rating 4 dragons.
Marcus
Woocommerce Products Coming Soon
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-products-coming-soon/
One of the most glaring oversights in WooCommerce is the ability to preview upcoming items. Usually you would want to use this when you have new design concepts or product that is coming. This plugin allows you to take preorders for it without actually running the order until the item arrives.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Closing out this Episode The Plugins we covered where:
John’s Plugins: User Spam Remover – 5, White Label CMS – 4, National Weather Service Alerts – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: Page Layered Popup – 4, WP Media Player Addons – 5, Woocommerce Products Coming Soon – 4
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