Plugins

Kadence Blocks Gutenberg Plugin

The same speaker at the meet-up who recommended the Calendar plugin, also recommended Kadence Blocks, a Gutenberg plugin. Last December, in the post I wrote about WooCommerce themes I had tried, I mentioned a theme by Kadence.

I was impressed last night with all the things that the Kadence Blocks can do. After the meet-up I went to the Kadence website.

I see that in addition to the free standard Kadence Blocks they market an Advanced WooCommerce plugin that does more.

The features that interest me are variation swatches, custom cart messages that target specific carts, and a category description area below the category images. That last feature saves having to use Advanced Custom Fields to accomplish that job. The question in my mind is whether this plugin plays nicely with the Yoast SEO plugin and recognise one another.

Calendar Plugin

One of the speakers at our last WordPress meetup suggested this calendar plugin.

It’s called Modern Events Calendar Lite and it describes itself as a responsive, mobile-friendly tool for managing events in websites. The speaker demonstrated it and it looks pretty impressive. That said, I have not used it, so I am putting it here as a reference for as and when I might need a calendar.

WP Reset

WP Reset By WebFactory Ltd resets the database and deletes posts, pages, comments, and every user except the one logged in. Unless you tell it otherwise, it does not delete the media files, plugins, themes, or uploads.