WordPress Plugins A-Z #301 Dynamic Custom Headers, WooCommerce Thumbnails

It's Episode 301 and we've got plugins for Dynamic Custom Headers, WooCommerce Thumbnails, User Account Locks, Limiting IPs, and an On/Off Switch for the REST-API. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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It's Episode 301 and we've got plugins for Dynamic Custom Headers, WooCommerce Thumbnails, User Account Locks, Limiting IPs, and an On/Off Switch for the REST-API. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!It's Episode 301 and we've got plugins for Dynamic Custom Headers, WooCommerce Thumbnails, User Account Locks, Limiting IPs, and an On/Off Switch for the REST-API. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**

Lock User Account

The lowdown:
A quick simple way to lockdown users accounts.
Install and activate plugin, go to Users page, select users you want to lock/unlock and then select the action from Bulk Actions drop down. It has feature to add custom lock message to show on login screen for locked account. You can add your custom locked account message by going Settings and then click on General, there you can enter the message in field has label as Locked User Message.
Rating 3 Dragons

Limit Max IPs Per User

The Lowdown:
This plugin provides you a way to control how any different IP a user can login from and over what period of days. After they exceed the limit their logins are blocked. This could be used as a way to prevent account oversharing.
Rating 3 Dragons

Humanity

The Lowdown:
The plugin simply serves up the humans.txt file, this is a project from http://humanstxt.org/ which is a way to give credit to creators of a website without placing it on the front page.

**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**

Dynamic Custom Header Replacement

This plugin allows the custom header image to be replaced by the featured image of the current post or page, if present. Otherwise the ‘default’ custom header image is used.
Rating: 4 out of 5

Turn Off REST API

While WordPress REST API vulnerability exploits continue this plugin effectively prevent and disable the used of REST API from accessing information from your website, this plugin return authentication error and disable all endpoints for any user not logged in on your website.
Rating: 5 out of 5

WooCommerce Thumbnails Upload

This plugin allows you to have a drag and drop ability to add product image thumbnails directly onto the product list page. The custom thumbnails are easily viewed within the list and are easily changable.
Rating: 4 out of 5

Plugins Overview:

John’s Plugins: Lock User Account – 3,  Limit Max IPs Per User – 3, Humanity – 3
Marcus’ Plugins: Dynamic Custom Header Replacement – 4, Turn Off REST API – 5, WooCommerce Thumbnails Upload – 4

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