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Shiny New Plugins: Nostalgia, Feedback, and Competition
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Shiny New Plugins: Nostalgia, Feedback, and Competition

April 15, 2024April 15, 2024

This round of new, free WordPress plugins gave me some nostalgia! Softaculous!? Also see my summary of the design updates to the forums and plugin directory.

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Shiny New Plugins: #DoingItWrong, Slow Traction, and a Pay-what-you-want monetization strategy!?

March 4, 2024March 6, 2024

In this round-up, I get reflective about the freemium model and how we generate reviews, and highlight some bad trends in some new plugins.

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Shiny New Plugins: Tables, and Video, and Flies, Oh My!
Shiny New Plugins WordPress

Shiny New Plugins: Tables, and Video, and Flies, Oh My!

February 18, 2024February 18, 2024

What’s a shiny new plugin without a sense of whimsy? Whether its AI or just a fly on your page, you’ll want to see these shiny new plugins.

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Shiny New Plugins

Reintroducing Shiny New ̶T̶o̶y̶s̶ Plugins

February 5, 2024February 6, 2024

“Shiny New Plugins” is a blog series where I cover some of the newest plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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Shiny New Toys: WP Forms, LoftBuilder, Unit Testing, and more

March 15, 2016January 23, 2023

Each week we review the latest, shiniest new plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory and discuss whether any of them are worth paying attention to or not. We call this weekly report: Shiny New Toys.

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Shiny New Toys: SaaS, SaaS, and more SaaS

March 9, 2016

Shiny New Toys is a weekly report of the latest, free-est, shiny new plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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Shiny New Toys: Politics!

March 7, 2016January 23, 2023

This round of Shiny New Toys is all about a big taboo: Politics! Here’s 8 free plugins to help you do political advocacy on your WordPress website.

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Shiny New Toys: Platform 5, Instant Articles, Content Experiments and more

February 29, 2016

This past week the WordPress Plugin Directory added some full-featured new plugins including Pagelines Platform 5, Facebook Instant Articles formatter, Simple Google Experiments, and more.

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Shiny New Toys: PayPal Events, Pushchamp, and Chord Charts

February 25, 2016

New plugins allow you to sell event tickets, make chord charts, present within WP, enable browser notifications, and publish from Facebook.

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Shiny New Toys: LifterLMS, Stuttter, Pull Quotes, and more

February 16, 2016

Despite only 139 new plugins added, there’s a couple serious contenders this week that might deserve their own dedicated posts later.

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