WP Plugin Reviews

The What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin is one of the reasons I got hooked on Wordpress. It showed me the easy to add marketing plugins that exist. Before Wordpress everything seemed a struggle.

WWSGD to its friends provides a way to show different messages to new and returning visitors. So you can change the message you give. The video gives you some ideas of how to use this plugin.

There are more advanced plugins of this type but it is a great start.

<strong>Rating:</strong> 4/5

<strong>Version Reviewed: </strong> What Would Seth Godin Do 1.7

<strong>Plugin Page:</strong> http://richardkmiller.com/wordpress-plugin-what-would-seth-godin-do

Flexipages widget gives a nice page list with control over how sub pages are displayed. Good plugin for page heavy websites such as corporate websites. A little imagination and playing with your templates combined with this plugin can give you some very advanced looking navigation.

Rating: 5/5

Version Reviewed: Flexi Pages Widget 1.6

Plugin Page: http://srinig.com/wordpress/plugins/flexi-pages/

The GD Star Rating Plugin is a granddaddy, monster of a plugin which does something so simple as providing a quality rating system. However it has so many custom changes you can make and is super flexible. From star ratings to thumbs up system to multi-rating blocks for product feature reviews.

You can try out the rating system below to rate each plugin. This is a long video and will be followed by another one once I have spent some more time with this. Great for review type websites.

Rating: 5/5

Version Reviewed: GD Star Rating 1.8.1

Plugin Page: http://www.gdstarrating.com/

Simple plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin. It allows you to easily exclude pages from the menu.

Rating: 5/5

Version Reviewed: Exclude Pages 1.8

Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/