Best Wordpress Plugins

byDreamer56

2.8K followers

8 years ago

Hey Y'all,

Happy Sunday/Monday to everyone. Remember we can only fail if we give up.

This morning Jovo had a question about The WordPress plugin OneSignal Web Push Notifications. It appears to be a great tool. This is what it promises.

OneSignal is a complete push notification solution for WordPress blogs and websites, trusted by over 45,000 developers and marketers including some of the largest brands and websites in the world.

After setup, your visitors can opt-in to receive desktop push notifications when you publish a new post, and visitors receive these notifications even after they’ve left your website.

We make it easy to configure delivering notifications at preset intervals, targeting notifications to specific users, and customizing the opt-in process for your visitors.

Features:

• Supports Chrome (Desktop & Android), Safari (Mac OS X), and Firefox (Desktop) on both HTTP and HTTPS sites.
• Automatic Notifications - Send notifications to followers every time you publish a new post. Or set up a reminder that gets automatically sent to them if they haven’t visited for a few days.
• Targeting Segments - Send notifications to specific visitors based on language, number of times they’ve visited your blog, or even set up your own user attributes that you can target.
• Opt-In Customization - Choose when and how to ask your visitors to opt-in to browser notifications. Customize the prompt they first see.
• Real Time Analytics - See your notifications being delivered in real time, and watch them as they convert into visitors.
• A/B Testing - Try out different messages to a smaller set of your visitors to figure out which messages are more effective and then send the more effective message to the rest of your visitors!
• Scheduled Notifications - Schedule notifications to be delivered in the future, based on a user’s time zone, or even based on the same time of day they last visited your website.

All completely free. No fees or limitations.

I have had such a good time helping members with their theme problems on my theme test site that I put together a site to test plugins.

Best WordPress Plugins

While I was creating this site Jovo found his answer from a sharp young member of WA with a great comic book site. His name is Moussa Khan. I have had the pleasure of getting to know him a bit. If you have a minute you might want to stop by and say howdy. I wish I would have discovered WA at his age!

Of course there wasn't even an internet way back then. And I don't remember if we had electricity or not.

Moussa's Profile Page

Here is the link to his blog on the installation of that plugin.

Setting up OneSignal

I am still going to install this plugin on the new site. The phrase "free" worries me. With all this plugin offers there might be a hook somewhere. One of my main concerns is the possibility of the developers to send their own material to my visitors email.

If you have any other plugins you want tested, or are having problems with them holler at me, or leave them below. Also if you would like to know if a certain plugin in is slowing down your page load time that can be tested also.

Have an enjoyable productive week!

Until next time,