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Thursday, March 12, 2015

WP Show Stats - Excellent WordPress plugin


It is very hard to find a WordPress plugin which can provide facilities where you can analyze how the WordPress elements are used. There are thousands of plugins available so it will make the job further difficult to find a correct plugin for your need. This WordPress plugin is the perfect analytics tool for WordPress site where you can see the statics about users, posts, pages, categories, tags, comments and custom post types using Google Charts. This plugin is providing wide range of charts and that will help analyzing how you have used all the WP elements in your site.

Specially when the blog is very large WP Show Stats provide a way to keep an eye on usage of pages, posts, users, custom post types, etc... and help to improvise the performance of the blog.

This WordPress plugin  embeds charts in your blog to show the usage and numbers related to blog you can say it is your personal dashboard.

There are 6 options in initial release of this plugin.

Overview
- Blog post statistics
- Page statistics
- User statistics
- Comment statistics
- Category statistics
- Tags statistics
- Custom post types and Other post types statistics

Users stats
- Year wise user registration
- Month wise user registration
- Role wise users
- Total users in each role

Custom post types stats
- Total number of inbuilt PT and CPT
- Records count of each CPT
- List of CPT and inbuilt PT

Categories Stats
- 5 Less used categories
- 5 Most used categories
- Unused/Used categories
- Child/Parents categories

Tags stats
- Most used tags
- Less used tags
- Used/Unused tags

Blog post stats
- 5 Longest posts
- 5 Shortest posts
- 5 Most commented posts
- Post by status
- Posts by year
- Posts by months/years

Comments stats
- 5 Most commented posts
- Status wise comments count
- Total comments
- Comments by year
- Comments by month
- Author wise comments


The plugin is advanced in terms of features and released recently but it is very useful to analyze the usage of WordPress elements like CPT, comments, post, categories, pages, users, etc... in your WordPress blog or site.

This is the best stat plugin for WordPress and, is exclusively for the users of WordPress, which let them know about how their site content is organized.

It is not related to visitors or traffic analysis.

Download plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-stats/


Friday, January 16, 2015

Another free and rich WordPress plugin to receive donation for a cause | WP Church Donation

There are lots of plugins available for WordPress to receive donation on your site for a cause or church, but I came across a new plugin which provides much more features and very easy to use that is WP Church Donation

With WP Church Donation plugin, church websites built with WordPress can accept donations from sponsors, donors, members, fans and supporters via Authorize.net credit card payment options.

Authorize.net is most widely used payment gateway to process payments online and accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover and other variants of cards and best option to receive payment online. Install WP Church Donation Plugin and get started to accept donations through Authorize.net with ease.

WP Church Donation plugin features:
  • Place donation form anywhere on the site using ShortCode.
  • Accept donation using Credit Card.
  • Integration of Authorize.Net payment gateway to receive donation.
  • Easy to use Authorize.Net payment gateway settings options at administrator area.
  • Facility to export donation and donors list for administrators.
  • List of donors along side with details for particular donation and donors at administrator area.
  • Dynamic thank you page content with editable content at administrator area.
  • Email notifications to donors and site owner(administrator) when donation made.
  • Easy management of content used in email notification.
  • Allowed custom donation amount.
  • Form validations for both client side(using jQuery) and server side(using PHP).
How to install and use WP Church Donation:


1. Installation with FTP

- Download wp-church-donation plugin.
- Extract plugin.
- Upload wp-church-donation directory to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory.
- Go to Plugins option from left menu and activate 'wp-church-donation' plugin from the list.
    
2. Installation with Upload method via WordPress admin panel

- Download wp-church-donation plugin.
- Go to plugins page by clicking on Plugins menu item from left menu.
- Click on 'Add New' option.
- Upload the 'plugin and activate.

3. How to configure Authorize.net payment gateway

- After activating the plugin, click on 'Auth.net Settings' menu option under 'Church Donation' from left menu.
- Enter your Authorize.net API credentials including 'Login ID' and 'Transaction Key'.
- There is a checkbox to enable test mode of Authorize.net, check to enable test mode and uncheck to enable live mode.
- Save settings.

4. How to customize email content, thank you message and description provided on the top of the donation form

- After activating the plugin, click on 'Content' menu option under 'Church Donation' from left menu.
- It will show inputs to add Donation page header and message, thank you message, email notification subject and content.
- Make changes according to your need.
- Submit.
 
5. How to keep track on received donations list and manage it

- Click on 'Church Donation' from left menu.
- You will see a list of donation entries.
- Click on view details link to see all the details related to that donation entry.
- Click on delete to remove the entry from list.
- Click on Export link at the top of listing to export all the entries in CSV format.

6. How to use WP Church Donation plugin at client side

- Place `[Show Church Donation Form]` in your content or `` in your template.


This plugin only available to users with Authorize.Net payment gateway to receive donations but it can be extended and added other payment gateways like PayPal, DataTrans, WorldPay, etc... to it with customizing this plugin.

Download plugin from here: WP Church Donation