WordPress Plugins A-Z #317 Caldera Forms, Post Carousel & Slider
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It's Episode 317 and we've got plugins for Caldera Forms, Post Carousel & Slider, Facebook Messenger, Before and After Images, Robot Fireworks and your listener feedback. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
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Marc-Antoine Minville
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John’s Rant: What to rant about?
We now have training videos up and on-linepart of the WP Plugins network you can find them here at http://wpsupport.ca/category/public-wordpress-training-videos/ or here http://wpsupport.ca/category/members-wordpress-training-videos/ new videos being done weekly.
Comment on how the last few weeks that several of the WordPress websites are coincidentally putting out articles on the exact same plugs we just reviewed in the show, and if they are getting the idea from us it would be nice if they credited us.. We talk about them on Monday and about Wednesday or Thursday their articles come out.
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John Overall**
Post Carousel & Slider
sent in by Aeonian
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-types-carousel-slider/
The Lowdown:
This is another post slider plugin but does seem to be a bit easier than some I have used to create a post slider. It has custom post type support, you can include or exclude categories, show posts of only a certian tag and you can also show posts based on a keyword search. Determine how many posts to appear per page, choose a layout from full width to grid style set you excerpt length and then insert it via short code into the site.
Rating 4 Dragons
Rocket Fireworks
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rocket-fireworks/
The Lowdown:
This comes from the last page of recommended plugins.
In honor of The WP Plugins show approaching Episode 320 and that we now have Training videos starting to appear I thought I would play a little with some celebration plugins. This one is simple yet effective every time a page is loaded it created about a 5 to 10 second barrage of fireworks that explode in multi colours on the page then stops. There are not settings just install and activate and it works. A great way to celebrate.
Rating 3 Dragons
WP Live Messenger
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-live-messenger/
The Lowdown:
If you are like most every other business out there you have a FaceBook page for it we are no different stop in and like us at https://www.facebook.com/WordPressPluginsA2Z and what this plugin will do for you is to allow your site visitors to start a FB messenger conversation with you. pretty simple to get up and running just place your FB url in the setting and it set an icon on your site that can be clicked to start a conversation.
Rating 4 dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus Couch**
Caldera Forms
https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/
Caldera Forms is a different kind of WordPress form builder. With its intuitive drag and drop interface, it’s never been easier and less stressful to create forms for your WordPress site that look awesome on any device. The visual editor simplifies form building for WordPress. Set up your form with multiple columns, add additional pages, and funnel user responses with conditional logic to get more robust data and relevant information from your customers and visitors.
Zotabox Facebook Messenger Live Chat
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/zotabox/
Support your customers via Facebook Live Chat. Start conversation on your website. Take advantage of Facebook Messenger with over 800 million active monthly users. This plugin is Free and convenient. Permenant chat history available for both store owner and customer. Zotabox includes 20+ Free and Premium on-site marketing tools to boost your sales and get more subscribers. This is a freemium plugin with lots of other options added for a small cost.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Twenty20 Image Before-After
https://wordpress.org/plugins/twenty20/
Twenty20 is the WordPress plugin of TwentyTwenty script that developed by Zurb team. This sparked a few new ideas on how to do something similar for our own needs. It had to swipe between two images to show “before” and “after”. Most of all, it had to be responsive. This plugin takes all of that into account with a great before and after image tool that beats all others I have tried.
Rating 5 out of 5
Plugins Overview:
John’s Plugins: Post Carousel & Slider – 4, Rocket Fireworks – 3, WP Live Messenger – 4
Marcus’ Plugins: Caldera Forms – 5, Zotabox FB Messenger – 4, Before and After – 5
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