You must have planned something to tackle WordPress projects this year. You are certainly looking forward to your clients demands and needs to create a website that is up to expectation and works well for your client. You also have a responsibility towards yourself to use the best resources available and become more productive.
For this roundup we have chosen some of the Best New WordPress Plugins released recently and are useful for your needs. Following WordPress Plugins are absolutely free and come with number of features to achieve several purposes to meet client’s requirements. So here are the new WordPress plugins for April 2015 which we believe are useful and you should explore and store to your arsenal. Enjoy !!
1. WP Star Rating
WP Star Rating allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and products in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin supports use of cache plugins and dynamic loading of data using ajax.
2. WP Autoset Featured Image Plus
If post doesn’t have a set featured image, WP Autoset Featured Image Plus check if text contains an image. If yes, set this as featured image, if not, you can set any external url image. Otherwise, leave field empty. Easy and fast!
3. R3DF Multisite Language Indicator
A plugin that adds language indicators, either a flag, locale or language, beside the site title of sites to help identify similarly named sites in multilingual multisites. This is most helpfull in sites with admin language selectors, where the admin language does not reflect the site language.
4. Postpone
Postpone helps you easily select when you want to publish a post or a page. Postpone a post/page by: 1 hour, Tomorrow 8 am, Tomorrow after lunch, Tonight, Next monday or Next month.
5. WP Ultimate Post Grid
Use WP Ultimate Post Grid to create responsive grids for your posts, pages or any custom post type. Optionally add an isotope filter for any taxonomy associated with those posts. Grid and filter can be added anywhere with their own shortcode.
6. The Video Popup
A Pop-up launches when you visit certain websites. Their main aim is to try to catch the visitors attention and to bring something to their notice. As the plugin name suggests, it will help you pop-up videos on your site.
7. Easy Error Reporting
This plugin helps to debug in production environment. On installation, the Subscribers and Visitors will not see the PHP errors, warnings or notices but Administrators, Editors, Authors and Contributors will be able to view and debug. The error reporting level can be set from WP Dashboard >> EER Settings section for each user type.
8. WP Illegal Copy Notice Append
This plugin appends a notice/warning along with a credit link from the original source, to any content that is illegally copied from your site (including content that is copied from your feeds by content scrapers). Works silently in background.
9. WP Globus Featured Images
WPGlobus Featured Images is an extension to the WPGlobus plugin. It allows setting featured images separately for each language.
10. Shortcode Factory
Shortcode Factory offers a wide range of ready-to-use short codes for your daily WordPress operations. There are plenty of short codes available at hand. We have tried to bring most common to most wanted features of WordPress, to these short codes.
11. Merge+Minify+Refresh
This plugin merges/concatenates Cascading Style Sheets & Javascript files into groups. It then minifies the generated files using yuicompressor (for CSS) and Google Closure (for JS). Minification is done via WP-Cron so that it doesn’t slow down the website. When JS or CSS changes files are re-processed. No need to empty cache!
12. Better Ads
Better Ads makes your ad management as simple as should be. All you need is to provide the code of your ad from admin panel. It includes a very simple user interface in the admin panel. Paste your ad code in the input and save. And the plugin will manage the rest. You’ll see the ads placed in the middle of your single posts. It’s that simple!
13. WP Central Posts Network
This plugin adds a UI on the main site admin panel of a Network that let you choose posts of any site of your network and associate it with sections that you must define via a hook filter. Then you can show up this section on the front of your main site via a simple API.
14. WP Post Status Notifications
This plugin lets you configure email notifications for post/page status changes.
15. Time Lord
Time Lord is a plugin which allows you to schedule the publication of part of your content on a set date. It can also calculate age based on a set year in the past or the estimated time if the year is set in the future.
