As you know, that can always be interesting. So welcome again everybody. If you're just joining us in zoom pop up in the chat, say hi, this is where we're, this is where you're logging in from today. Stacy, logging in from the doctor's office that is really terrible. Sorry about that.
All right, we should have captions now. I'm not canceling Christmas No. No the holiday plugins will be next week during the best of which by the way is no limit. When is that is it next week? It is next week, right? Yeah, next week. Next week. Next Monday is the best next Tuesday is the best out plug in Roundup. Again, good afternoon, everybody. Good evening. Good morning, wherever you happen to be in the part of this world today. As you are joining us pop up in the chat, say hello. And I've dropped in again the handout for today that has a much better than average list of plugins I will say
it is quite good. high hopes for this one. I think you all will be pleased Yeah, that's
kind of a nice little addition there and then Stacey the caption so you can
read while waiting. Hey, Barbara, good to see you.
Again, if you're just joining us in San pop up in the chat, say hello. Tell us where you're logging in from today. We've got about two and a half minutes before we get started. Link to the handout is there in the chat ready to go. Glad you're all here we have a really good list of plugins today. Happy happy happy for this one. Stacy, what was the name of the plugin to use during development to hide the site and allow the client that is
called my private site? It's an original name right?
If you search for my private site, there it is. It's also if you download the the the handbook from the course last week it's in that it's in the list and the plugin list. been around a long time works really well. Alright folks, about a minute and a half before we get started if you're just joining us in zoom pop up in the chat, say hello. Tell us where you're logging in. From today. And out link is there in the chat. We'll get started here in just a little bit yeah, that's gonna be a little bit tricky. Alright folks, about a minute to go before we get started. There are some membership plugins that do something like that. Sue, I know you've got something that does something like that, don't you? Low key i Good luck on that. I think sue, sue Don't you have like a membership plugin you use that does like ultimate member does that. There it is. I know Sue. I remember Sue has talked about you doing something like that with something with people. Particularly nonprofits. Yeah. All right, just about ready to go folks. If you don't have the handout. There's the link in the chat. Follow along with us. They're really really good list this month. I am not happy about this one. Yeah, Heather, fixed budget 20 members and that's the thing where you kind of have to set expectations right? Like, we can do a lot but it's gonna cost you money and if you don't have the money then it's like I would like to have a Ferrari in my garage but I don't have the money for that. Right. But a Ferrari would get me from point A to point B so much faster and better style. It would be just better for my life in general. But I don't have you know half a million dollars to draw. Alright, folks, it's three minutes after so I'm going to start us officially and let's get this plugin roundup underway, shall we? Well, good afternoon, everybody and welcome to the plugin round up here on iThemes Training. It is December 2022. My name is Nathan Ingram. I'm the host here at iThemes Training and every month we take a look across the WordPress plug in directory. And we pull in about a dozen or so plugins that we think are pretty cool and interesting and share those with you here on this very webinar. If you're just joining us in the chat, say hi and tell us where you're logging in from today. You will also find a link to the handout which I am about to put on the screen right there it is the plugins for December 2022 If you're watching this on the replay, click the Download handout button that is directly underneath this replay. One thing I will note it is customary for our December plugin round up that we do holiday plugins and basically because I'm gonna be honest, we forgot to do that. So we're gonna do that next week. Next week is the best I've started to watch down there. I know everybody logged in today hoping to see the holiday list. And I'm gonna be honest, like we've been we were working on this list and we were so overwhelmed by the sheer awesomeness of the plugins involved that yeah, totally forgot to add the holiday plugins no snow today but that only makes the best of even better right so if you are signed up for the monthly plugin roundups, you should also be automatically signed up for next week's lips. Next week's roundup which is the best I've right here it is one week from today and on that auspicious webinar we will have our I themes WordPress holiday plug in power pack. So that'll be a lot of fun, right it will be extra long. That is That is true. All right, let's get started, shall we? Again, if you're just joining us one more time, I will put the slide link or the handout link in the chat. I can type There we go. And let's get started, shall we? We're going to come out strong today with a great little plugin called D picture. Now, you may notice there's a little blue paragraph at the top of today's handout and that is because it's our little disclaimer I'm going to start adding because I don't want anybody to get the idea that those of us who have played with these plugins have thoroughly tested for compatibility and security and spent hours on each one of these plugins. That's we thought they were interesting. We played them a little while we thought these are cool. These have promised we're going to share these these are not exhaustively tested. Okay, so just take all that in mind. This is you know, just some things we thought were cool and you as a delightful WordPress user that you are should do some, you know, tinkering and testing and all of that stuff. Yes, we did not test these on PHP 8.1. Because in our experience in this past week, on the agency side things have you know, blown up a little bit with PHP seven point what are we covering useless plugins? Of course not everyone on this list is awesome, we think are promising. How's that promising? And we're gonna start off with Okay, everybody loves sliders right. Sliders are great. Okay. Now see, that was a trap. It was a trap. Because sliders can be really great depending on the situation, right. So I do not like using sliders in the homepage hero area, as in the sense of height. Stacking is events or pieces of information under there, because people don't typically scroll through but if you use sliders as an element, like on a product page or something like that, to cycle through different features and and engage the user more, that's a really great use for a slider. So it's not that sliders aren't always awful. It's just where and how they're used. So with that being said, let me show you what I think. In all the years I've been doing WordPress and web things, and I started in 1995 This is I think, I can say without caveat, the best slider plugin I have ever seen. Like for real, it is called the pictor. And there is a pretty powerful free version right here in the WordPress plugin directory. So let us go over and activate the pictor oh look, I just had an update. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna apply the update because I don't know what might break. Okay, depict her. So depict her is quite a it's quite a plugin. It has its own user interface. And I'm just going to show you that does have a pro version as they will remind you of frequently within the plugin. We're just going to open up this particular slider. Now the editor is going to pop open a new window, and that just behold the awesomeness that is about to happen here. It's better if you have a wide screen monitor that you can spread this out on. Oh, it does have a little onboarding flow, which is kind of nice. But oh my look at all of the things all of the things you can do. It's really easy to edit the different pieces. This is a demo slider that we imported and all of these things you know, they all have, you know, settings and things that you can configure. You can start from scratch or just use one of their demos. You know, you can drop in buttons, you can loop you can, you know, do animations on every little bit and piece of what's going on here. Look how this looks. So it's super powerful even in the free version. And take a look will You at that slide. Is that not just gorgeous? So we can advance our slides. Is this not amazing? Yeah, it is nicer than slider revolution. Ah, then it's asking you about accessibility. Just a moment sir. We will get there. This is also navigation if we go to the Maldives so these are video background, right? And this is from this is one of the free starter templates. Alright, how does it look on mobile? Great question. Let's do us a little mobile test shall we? Alright, we have Blisk running here so here it is on the iPhone 13. Look at that. And here it is on an iPad. Isn't this nice? Clicking navigating. It's a little taller than I probably would want but we got a lot of header room up here. So if this was actually at the top of the site, it would be about right. Look at that. Navigation. Isn't that nice? By the way, this also swipes like that swipe. Pretty cool right?
Now the neat thing about this is here in the editor, there it is. You can I've got to find where it is, again, it has mobile views, where you can see it right here. So here's my tablet view and I can click and move things around. Here's my mobile view. See it even shows me kind of the screen size, and I can just move things around per viewport. Isn't that awesome? And this is free. Now if you wanted to upgrade to the pro version, it's not terribly expensive. They started $39 a year per site with multiple site discounts. I mean that to me
for this feature set pretty stinking good.
What's the downside?
I mean, no, no, it's pretty
good. They've done this. So if you have the problems that sliders have had in the past, as Ben mentioned earlier, accessibility and SEO, right. And those issues are kind of similar like are there appropriate tags involved? Can you navigate this with a keyboard? Are the images and videos and so forth? lazy loaded? And the answer to all that is Yes, look. So if I'm navigating, oops, let me get to someplace above here. All right, let me navigate navigate navigate navigate navigate tabbing tabbing. I getting tab navigation here and I was earlier on if it's because I'm logged in. But as far as SEO goes
these are H tags. That's an h2.
Like you're picking up your your content. Well. Yeah, and I was tabbing through this because I'm not logged in or whatever. But I you know, it's sliders are never going to be the best thing for accessibility, particularly for visually impaired people. But if you got images here, they're going to have alt text. So there's no alt text defined on this image, but it will have alt text available. And there'll be able to process straight through the the diff tree to see what's going on there. So I mean, as far as sliders go, I mean, this is this is pretty amazing, particularly in the free version. So I would say play with it. See what you think because you might find that you really really liked the picture. Ben is the video loading from a stock server? That is a great question. These videos are not on WP Nathan. I imagined that is pulling them in from some other place would have to go in and find all of that general. Video I don't see the place to define that. Let me see datasource No. Oh, here's another thing.
Look at this. It will pull data like from
posts. Like you can have a post feed pulling into this with featured images and titles and stuff from posts. In the pro version, you can do pages WooCommerce products, think about that. animations and things in scrolling through. That's I mean, there's a lot of thing. Also, they're going to set up data feeds from social platforms like Facebook and Instagram. So think about pulling Instagram photos through this. There's a lot of potential here. It's fairly new, a lot of development still happening but again, just do a little research play with it. See if it's something you like. This is a pretty neat plugin. So any other questions or comments before I move on simply because we're already 15 minutes into the roundup and I've only gotten through one plugin. Pretty cool, right? Not bad for slider All righty, let us move on to the next one, which is let me deactivate the picture because you know, plugins. Alright, next up we had a few block plugins in the roundup here. So those of you building with blocks, you're really going to like these. So a couple of these are from some friends of mine that have a company called Block styles. This is really Sivan and James try on. If you're a word camp person, you may know James as the wobbu guy. He's the one that does the little wobbu pins. Anyways, great developer and they've got a company called Block styles that is building a lot of different block type plugins. And the first one is called styles library. So if you've been following in the news roundup, you know that there the block styles are becoming a core WordPress thing. And there's a block library that's out there. And so what block styles allows you to do is set up your own styles, save them into your own block library, but also pull in from external sources in the WordPress block styles library. So let me get rid of that modal and activate block styles. Where is it on? That
styles library? Styles library, there it is. And let's just take a quick look here Alright, so here
we just have a simple page that is made in the block editor. And there's a couple of things here. Look right here. There's a new icon called styles library. And it loads a very familiar modal, where all these are out in the cloud, different buttons and so forth. But look, I can define my own categories.
There's my hero image.
There's my Infoboxes that happened to appear on this page as well. So I can save my designs in the block library. I can pull in my own designs to other sites. I can also make use of other predefined patterns and this is an area of WordPress. That is going to just grow because people are adding to the block library all the time. So it's very similar to the Kadence block library. This is just
something that is broader in WordPress. Pretty cool stuff. Yeah, so
it's similar to reusable blocks, but it lifts them up into making them more searchable and accessible throughout. Any questions or comments on that one that is called the styles library. And blocks are your thing that's something you may want to really look at because it can be a very powerful ally in your development process.
Alright, let's move down the list
to a plugin that if you are starting to experiment with the site editor, formerly known as full site editing, this is something you definitely definitely want. This is called Missing menu items. And I believe I shared the story in some round up maybe it was the news roundup or sometime recently anyway, we launched our word camp Birmingham site where can't Birmingham is going to be the first word camp of the year in 2023. February 4 And fifth down here in Birmingham, Alabama. And we built our site using full site editing. It's at WP y'all dot com. And I want to say that it about killed me. It was very difficult things are hard to find in the site editor and the same folks that block styles have created a plugin that adds items to the Appearance menu, reusable blocks, navigation menus, templates and template parts that probably really shouldn't be there. It's kind of hard to find those things. And as you're experimenting with full site editing and I think you should just getting used to what the capabilities of WordPress are and what the evolution is going and how the trends are going. This is a plugin you want to add because it's going to it doesn't add anything other than easily accessible links to things that you're going to want to get to it just makes getting around in the site editor a lot easier. So nothing really to demo here because we're not using a full site editing theme here. But play around with this if you're doing full site editing and you will thank me for that link. So that is missing menu items
from block styles.
Alright, let's do a couple of more block plugins here. These are very simple but very helpful, particularly if you are working in accessibility. So there's a couple of blocks here are actually it's a couple of extensions for the block editor that can help you meet those W CAG guidelines. Let me activate these two plugins abbreviation button and long attribute. So there's a breviary ation button and long our lang attribute and activate both of those and let's go into our accessibility plugins page here. Alright, so, there is a particular
HTML five
elements that you may or may not be aware of called AB br, or a Berber Berber There we go. The abbreviation element is an html5 tag that you appropriately would wrap around an abbreviation like WIC ag here, which stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Right and that abbreviation tag tells assistive technology like a screen reader, that this word that it's about to read is an acronym or an abbreviation for something and it will supply that what the abbreviation is for to the person using assistive technologies. So for example, if right here with WIC AG, if we're going to say right here we have this new abbreviation element that this plugin adds to the block editor. What is the abbreviation description? Well, it stands for web content. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
So we're going to paste that.
Now in Kadence. This does something a little weird, because Kadence actually has styling for abbreviation elements. With many things are not going to have this and so you're not going to see this dotted underline, but just look what's happening in the code. Right here in the code. You'll notice that it's adding this tag around this word that we wrapped it around so we've got the appropriate way with accessibility to add the the title or what does this actually mean to the abbreviated term. Now, over here, you'll notice that it's in the global Kadence styles. We've got this text decoration underline dotted. And so we you can turn these off in your own CSS. But yeah, so if you're using this throughout your site, and you're using Kadence, I'd probably turn off the underline and turn off the cursor that changes to a question mark. There are probably other plugins that would allow you to turn this into a tooltip. Like if it's an abbreviation element, pull that up into a tooltip. There's probably plugins that do that this one doesn't. It just gives us the abbreviation element. But if you're doing accessibility, this is something to be aware of. And this is a block that can help you ramp up your content game just a little bit if that makes sense. Any questions or comments on that?
Now similarly, the lang attribute block it works the same way. So if we go right in here, and here's a, you know, they have no, they have no idea what's going on if you say sailor v. So this is a term in the French language. So we can drop down our list here and do lang attribute and you do the two letter A brief the common two letter abbreviation for the language. So this is French. Now what that does on the front end is wrap that term in a span did we Oh helps want to update the page? Generally Helpful. So down here, you can see the span the Lang equals French the class equals lang attribute that is the appropriate way again, to tell assistive technology. This is a French term and so it can help to change the pronunciation correctly or whatnot. So those are two blocks that can help you with content to correctly identify certain elements of content for people who use assistive technology. So up your accessibility game with those couple of plugins. Any other questions or comments? About those two, before I move on? Okay, next on the list is one that's kind of interesting. For those of you who are Gravity Forms fans, and this is called Hero for Gravity Forms. Maybe they're going to add some more stuff to this plugin. I would really call this really cool date picker for Gravity Forms or something like that. It's a little more spot on because that's what this plugin does. It extends the date picker and gives us some pretty cool additional functionality. If you are already active if you are using a forms that have the date picker involved, I would strongly encourage you to look at this one because it does a couple of things. Let me actually get the page where this form lives. Okay, so here's just a basic form, and it has a date picker. And this is the typical Date field. But once we have this hero for Gravity Forms plugin active, it gives us a couple of options. So first look here. It lets us enable date filters. Like for example, I want to only enable people to select today and future dates or I want to only allow them to select future dates or only weekdays. So if we say today and future dates, that's what was on there. Let's look at this page. Here it is on the front end and if we click our date picker, look, it has grayed out past days, and it has circled today which is pretty cool. There is an option under appearance here where it says highlight today that's where that's turned on. To get this red circle around today. Pretty nice. Also, there's a few different animations for how does the date picker appear? We could do let's do blinds, save that. So it sort of pops in with a little blind type effect. Scrolling down, so if you're using Gravity Forms, Date fields, that's pretty nice. It also by the way, when it has to do with today and future days and so forth, you might think well there may be some timezone issues involved. And it does actually have a timezone option under a dance. Yep. So the timezone can either be for the user that's on the page now or what the server timezone is so you can let it you know, whose date are we using in this case? I probably use the server. So Ben gravity wiz has some things like this. Yeah, this is a single plugin and there is a pro version. Of course it has more options for date filtering, as well as animations and other things. So this does some of the things that gravity was does Yeah.
All right. Questions or comments on that one? Okay,
let us move to this month. What could possibly go wrong plugin and it is called
sequel buddy. This plugin
is by a very reputable development group called delicious brains, which you may have heard of delicious brains is a well known long established WordPress development shop that has focused most of their work on things having to do with the WordPress database and they have developed a plugin that gives you functionality very, very similar to PHP myadmin. Except it lives on the back end of the website. Yes, it does. So let's activate SQL buddy. And look what we get. See a set of tools. Yes, tools and SQL buddy. It's actually a pretty nice interface. And this looks and feels just like PHP myadmin. So we could let's say we need to do is look at maybe the WooCommerce action schedule. Let's dig into that. And here's all the tables and so forth and I can actually take a look at those and edit the values right here and that's pretty nice for inside of WordPress, right. We can go directly into you know, start at it from the table view. That's where actually where we already were. So you get access to all database and you can edit each of the fields here so that yeah, so this is why everything you both are saying in the chat. Heather says concern of security issues. Barney's like what could go wrong? Exactly. That's why I've called this What could possibly go wrong plugin right. Or, you know, like Ben is saying select all drop, that would be bad. So here's the thing. This is one of those plugins that I would never ever, ever in a million years leave on a site for all of those reasons. However, if there's a case where you need to do something in the database, and you can't get access to the PHP myadmin for some reason, here's a way to install a plugin and go do your thing and deactivate it and be gone. However, of course, this goes without saying you can destroy things really quickly here, especially if you don't know what you're doing in the database. So you always want to have a good backup and you always want to make sure you know what's going on.
So there you have it. It's a powerful plugin.
It's really well executed. There's a nice search here. You can filter and turn on and off columns and it's really powerful and well done. It's also like a loaded gun. Okay, it could be it could be really really bad in the wrong situation. In fact, I am going to deactivate it
right now.
But you know, this is one of those you might want to keep in your toolbox in case you have a situation that you need to get into the database and you can't so with that being said, Any questions or comments about SQL buddy? Oh, the things WordPress developers come up with right. Okay, let's move on to a couple of WooCommerce plugins Challis, a couple of little add ons for WooCommerce. Neither of them are super complicated, but they can be very useful if your situation requires it. So this is a plugin called estimated delivery date per product for WooCommerce. So what this is going to allow you to do is add a little note on the WooCommerce short description area that lets a person know when is the estimated delivery date for this product or you can even change the text to say that you know, this will be shipped in seven days or whatever. So like a shipping time you know there's much lead time or a delivery time whatever like that, depending on the situation. If it's if it is a if it's a WooCommerce site where you know you're doing manual deliveries or something like that this can be really helpful. So let me activate estimated delivery date per product for WooCommerce. Once that is activated under WooCommerce. We now have a menu item called product test date. And you can say is it only four? Is it available for all products or whatever? Here's the default time seven days. We want to display this on the product page. Is it going to be on the single product summary there at the top? Or do you want to put it around the cart or quantity buttons or whatever you can decide where the message is placed? Do we want to hide it if it's a backward a lot a lot of options here. This is also helpful because clearly the people that developed this plugin English was not their first language and so there's a there's a grammatical error right here which is neither here nor there. I can only speak English worth anything. So I'm not definitely not criticizing anyone's use of another language. But the basic text here says this item will be delivery on so I mean obviously that needs to be changed or you know, you could say this item will be shipped in blank days. Right so that might actually be a more use more widely used case than this. So maybe there's a lead time before you can ship something. So we'll just leave that there and save changes. Now once that's there. It we can go to products. And let's just edit our amazing car here. By the way, if we view this, you'll see where it's located. This item will be shipped in December the 13th. Let's see we'll change that
down here. Not sure why it's saying that. That's interesting. sure whether it's giving us a day there like a date, or did I was that one of the options ah delivery date format. Seven days okay. That
was what I'm supposed to do. Yeah, okay. So that you can actually change sorry, change the delivery date format right there. So this item will be shipped in we should probably make that say on. And we had seven days from today, which will be December the 13th. See how that works. Now this is displaying the default. So let's turn this off for all products and I think we can just simply add it here. No, I guess not. Yeah, there goes this item will be delivered on December the eighth. So we'll say we'll change that over here to shipped on. So you can just do it per product and turn off the global. So helpful if you have a situation where there's a lead time and shipping or if you want to actually specify a delivery date X number of days from today. This is a great little plugin that pretty simply allows you to do that. Alright, next up here is bulk price update for WooCommerce bulk price update for WooCommerce. So this is helpful in the situation where you've got a bunch of products and you want to raise everything 10% or a certain number of dollars at a particular time. So let me just activate this plugin
and we're going to go to if this is one of those plugins that it decides it needs to live right up here, this is probably a plugin I wouldn't leave on the site. So I guess this doesn't bother me as much as others do. But this should not be a top level menu. So you can say I want to use all products or just certain category of products. I want to raise it a percentage. Watch this lets the owner raise everything 10% And you can round off the price like $5.20 rounds to five $5.90 rounds to six. So we'll round off the price effect the regular and the sale price. I'm going to submit this book got a select Category, test products. You can select multiple categories if you want. Hit Submit and it's going to give you a preview of what everything's going to be. So our update here's from 27 to 30. From here, it's from this didn't have a price from five to six, and so forth and it's not live until I actually say submit then it'll go through and update all those prices and that price has changed on the product. It's not dependent on this plugin being active anymore. So you could actually pardon me, you could actually deactivate this plugin once this was done. So simple way to quick update products by a certain percentage and be done with it right that is bulk price update for WooCommerce. Alright, any questions or comments about that plugin?
All right, one more WooCommerce product
and it is called add product to cart via URL. Now this is pretty cool. How many of you if you are if you have any commerce store yourself or if you're doing or helping clients with E commerce? Either you are they are sending out product emails to clients or promotional emails about certain products. And frequently what we do is we just link them to the product page, right? But wouldn't it be great if we could put a link in the email that was Act would actually just add the product to the cart. Now you can do that using the product ID that you know WooCommerce has a hidden link and I've given you an article here on business Blumer, which is a really great website for WooCommerce stuff. If you see what the product ID is, this is the magic link your domain slash Add to Cart, the ID and the quantity like this but it's likely a typical client for example, may not know how to do that. So what this plugin does is gives a front end interface for generating these links. It's really pretty cool. I could see any of my clients that run an e commerce Store being able to use this so add a product to cart via URL is already active.
So let's look at
this. So what it gives us is a shortcode right here, WC cart URL form. And when we look at this on the front end of the site here's what we get. It's a form that lets me pick from my current products. So let's say I want to sell some hiding lemurs. With one quantity, I can actually stack up multiple products in this link. Let's do some glowing trees. And then we're gonna get this URL. It puts the URL right here, copy this URL, and we're done. Like this is the URL that we can link our button to. Isn't that cool? So you would you can hide this page from the site. Let me copy the URL. It's not copying for some reason. Okay, so here I am in an incognito window. Here's our link. And this should add both of those products to our cart on WP Nathan there it is. Look at that. Straight to straight to checkout. Isn't that great?
So really simple
way to add or to make these. These cart links front end little wizard creates a little copyable URL, and you're done. You can stack up as many products as you want and set the
quantities for each.
So that is add product to cart via URL. Questions or comments on that one. Again, I would make this page password protected or something to keep the general public from getting to it. I mean, they can't really do anything with it, but I wouldn't want to be showing that to the public on our website.
Okay, scrolling down
the list to a plug in called delete unscaled images. Now back in WordPress 5.3. WordPress added something to core that automatically reduces large image sizes down to 2560 pixels. This was because people were uploading 10,000 pixel wide images from their digital cameras and it was making gigantic images inside of WordPress. So this the core function in WordPress is very simple. It takes the you know the image size and it reduces it down so that it's no more than 2560 pixels in any dimension. The problem is and what a lot of people didn't realize is WordPress still keeps those full size images out there. You don't see them but they're out there. They're just taking up space on the website. So it may be that you noticed whenever 5.3 came out, that would have been what for about four years ago, maybe you noticed your backup size is getting larger and larger and it's because it was backing up those original images that you thought Maybe those were being deleted, but they were not. So no cluttering up all that space. What this plugin does, I'll just activate it. It's very simple. It goes in and deletes all of those full size images, delete unscaled images, it's active we go here to media, delete unscaled you just click this button, click this link right there, and it goes out and deletes everything. Now obviously, deleted here is forever. So you'll want to make a backup just in case something's there that doesn't need to be deleted or whatever. But this this should, especially if you have a lot of media on your site, and especially if the media that's there started out as ginormous images. This will, you know it's going to make your whole file size your whole site size smaller. It's going to free up a bunch of space on your server that's really not being used for anything helpful. So that is a very simple little plugin that adds this link to delete all of those unscaled images that WordPress leaves out there. Any questions or comments on this one delete unscaled images yeah bleedy Exactly. This really can save a lot of space. Alright, let's go to the next one. This is called Media Search Plus. So the Media Library Search is it's okay it searches file names pretty well, or titles of images pretty well. This plugin extends the search function so that it will also when you do a search in the media
library. For example, here
the standard media search, it's now with this plugin active it will also search the media ID, the title, the caption, the alt text and the description, which is super helpful. So let's say right here in this I'm not even sure what this was from some demo. We did have something here's a chair and we're gonna say our alt text is funky blue chair. All right, and with this plugin active, called Media
Search Plus if we now search for funky we'll get the chair. So that's really
helpful especially for sites where you're doing well with alt text and captions and so forth. This is really great to help you find images that you know may be named something bizarre that you would never guess. Right? So this is super helpful. That is media Search Plus, very helpful for sites with large media libraries where alt texts and things like that are being used. And the file name is IMG 5624 dot jpg, right? Impossible to find things. Media search plus any questions or comments on that one? David has a question about the previous plugin does does this
delete unscaled images
only delete the ones that WordPress scaled? Yes. So what this does is delete those large oversized images that WordPress has scaled down at 2560. And that giant image is just sitting out there in your uploads directory taking up space. WordPress isn't even going to access it like it's just sitting there. It's going to delete those that are just taking up space. Yep. Not just all unscaled I believe that's correct. Yeah, you'll want to test that but I didn't test that particular function. But yeah, it's supposed to just deal with the ones that are large, you know, this large images but test that and make a backup first. Okay. Anybody else on that one? Let's before we move on. Okay. We're in the homestretch. And we got some great plugins to wrap up with today. The first is what I think you'll love, which is called user
toolkit, user toolkit. So we've done a bunch of
different plugins over the years that lets you switch users or do different things based on you know, to your user list. This one is probably the best of all of them.
User toolkit. So with this active, look what we get
immediately added to our user list, we're going to see some things we're going to see the users ID number that can be very helpful if you're trying to set up a query or do some things. This is the date and time at which this user registered. This is the user's last login all of these by the way, are sortable. Isn't that cool? And they're registered dates are sortable, as are their IDs. Also, we have this really interesting little toggle here called active. When you toggle this user off, the user is still there, their password is still there. It doesn't go out and delete any posts or pages or whatever that they've created. It just makes it where they can't log in. So this is really helpful for a situation like you have a support account on a website. It's like an admin account that you give out to a plug in support or whatever that wants to access your site. When they're done. You can toggle it off so you don't have to recreate it next time. You can just toggle it right back on. Isn't that cool? So user toolkit, super helpful one of the neatest additions to useful additions to the user. List that I've seen
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oh, Deb. Yes, sorry. It does. Also, let me make sure the plug in that we've usually used for this is called user switching. It's been around forever, John Blackburn and contributors. This is kind of the classic user switching plugin. Notice. It is not active. And here we still have the same switch to so we can switch to our editor user.
And there we go. Now what I don't know is how to switch back
okay, I mean, you've just done something bad. Had a lock. I don't know how to switch back. That's problem. So we'll just start relog in interesting. Okay, I'm back calculate the plugin.
Now it's really helpful for this user list, and especially for toggling on and off users. Super helpful. That's called user toolkit. Any other questions? Or comments about that one? All right, Last and certainly not least, is this month's love it or hate it plugin. Now when we were evaluating a list of this month, potential plugins, I gotta say, I
every time I see one of
these UI upgrades for WordPress, I Oh, it's it's to me. It's like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Okay, it's like she can't help himself but to try to kick the ball and every time he you know, Lucy pulls the ball out of the way. And Charlie Brown falls on his back and says Good grief, right? So that's what the admin UI plugins are to me, like I want them to be I want them to work. I really want something to tweak it, make the admin UI a little better or whatever. And every time I test one, I'm like, Good grief. This is not one of those plugins. This is actually pretty cool. It is called UI press. And it is far beyond just an admin color scheme. It does lots of neat things. To the extent that
I am warning you.
I am warning you ahead of time. Before you test this plugin. Make sure you don't have any scheduled appointments for the next couple of hours because you will go down a rabbit hole on this one. It has got so many things and so many possibilities that you're gonna be you're gonna look down at two hours later. I promise you I'm not saying that happened to me necessarily. But you know, just be aware that this is one of those plugins that we'll send you you will geek out on playing around this plugin. Okay, so enough of that. Let's activate UI press, shall we? You I press light there is of course a pro version that has more things and
what just happened? Wait a minute. Maybe it's confused
because I logged out with the other user. Let's try this again.
Okay, it's all good
that that browser tab was still stuck on the other user.
Okay, here is our new UI. And you might be thinking, I've seen stuff like this before, right? Let
me tell you what you haven't seen before. What you haven't seen before. is the ability to up date.
Let's see. That whilst it Wait, wait, wait, wait. Chris, where do I go? Tools Thank you. Tools. And maybe it's settings. UI Builder. There it is. Okay. So here's where it gets fun. UI Builder. Here's
the one that we're actively working on right here. And notice you can apply roles and users to your various templates that you create. Let's edit this. We really need a very wide monitor is helpful. Look, it's like blocks Okay, and look, here's the layout of our dashboard. Let's say we like let's say we want to put a I don't know some tabs up here at the top. We're just going to drag these around. And here's a tab, another tab and we can put content in the tab. I need to put something in the heading. Let's just watch this say and let's go back to wide. This is kind of hard to do on a smaller screen. Let's go back to the dashboard look at the top. There's tabs. As my dashboard loads there's the heading text I put in yes it has dark mode with toggle. Think of all the things you can do here. Look at all the blocks that you can drag and drop settings UI Builder edit this really need a wide monitor work with this. Okay, look at all we've got. We've got accordions, there's our dark mode that we dropped down here and exit to dashboard heading, HTML Pro version, icons, images, videos. Look at this different layouts of containers with rows of responsive grid, a slide out panel, holy cow. The thing about being able to design a UI for a client with this, y'all this is pretty cool. They can put breadcrumbs I actually have breadcrumbs up here. Full Screen toggles date ranges, all these things, post table searches. It has a form that you can create like for support. You can drop into the pro version. It's got Google Analytics stuff. I mean, this is a full UI Builder. Oh soup. This is not a WordPress blocks. This These are little block content blocks just for this UI builder. So this has nothing to do with the WordPress block editor at all. Stacy, can you hide parts of the dashboard with this? I think so. Like I've got I've not spent I spent just enough like I was geeking out on all this. I did not try the hiding of the menu. Items with this. Chris, did you try that? That may be a pro version thing. Oh look. It has responsive editing. So you can even design it to look differently in tablets. And mobile versus desktop. Let's see settings library
Yeah, I would have to you have to play around with that a little more to see I will try here. Hang on. Admin Menu Settings. Oh look. Walk options. Here's your this is what I'm saying. There's 8 million things in here. Admin Menu Settings, block container menu headers.
Classes. I don't know that this is you'd have to play around with it and see what's possible.
It's just so much here.
Yeah, this this would be worth. I mean, just install it when you have a little time. Play around with it and come up for air and a couple hours and see what you've come up with. Sherry, can you save what you do and do it on another website? That's a great question that I don't know. The answer to. I'm gonna guess that there's got to be a way to do that. I mean, there's got to be a way and it may be again in the pro version
we're gonna check out the pro version. If you want to go back to the admin area, you click here it takes you back to the regular WordPress admin. Yeah, Elizabeth, there's gotta be a way I'm sure that there's got to be a way to export this. I'm just not. We got to get into it and find out. Yeah, in pro it's got to be in Pro. But I agree with you Elizabeth. If you had to do this, every site much will match. All right, that is UI press. Like any final questions or comments on that one really cool plugin and the first WordPress dashboard. Skin that I've actually liked. I actually kicked the ball this time
about that. Okay,
that brings us to the end of the December plugin Roundup. We are doing holiday plugins next Monday during the best of webinar, but for now it's time to vote. What is your favorite plugin of the roundup one vote one vote only please. Favorite plugin of the round up, delete images depict her hear from you in the chat your vote. These will all go into the round up on Tuesday of next week.
User toolkit user toolkit pictor. User toolkit user toolkit the vector,
the picker I think that's going to be at user toolkit and depict her another vote for delete images user toolkit and depict her with an honorable mention to deleting images. There are winners. Again, as we mentioned during the pre show, I believe it was the webinar for the best of is coming up on Tuesday, one week from today. This is when we take a look at all these that we voted up from July through December of this year. If you've not yet signed up for that one, there's the link to do so. If you're signed up for plugin roundups, you should be on that list automatically. But if you want to make sure you can register again for the best off webinar and it's during that webinar at the end where we'll be doing the traditional I themes holiday plugin power pack to put snow and music and all that stuff all over your website. It's always a lot of fun. Alright folks, that is going to wrap it up for us today. For those of you who are members, we have our recap for fly 2022 tomorrow and office hours on Thursday. i That's gonna do it for now. We'll see you back here tomorrow for fly members here on I iThemes Training, where we go further together.