Author: Sydney823

Sucuri Security

 

What does it do? The Sucuri plugin provides the website owner the best Activity Auditing, SiteCheck Remote Malware Scanning, Effective Security Hardening and Post-Hack features. SiteCheck will check for malware, spam, blocklisting and other security issues like .htaccess redirects, hidden eval code, etc. The best thing about it is it’s completely free.

Details: Sucuri Inc. is a globally recognized authority in all matters related to website security, with specialization in WordPress Security.

The Sucuri Security WordPress plugin is free to all WordPress users. It is a security suite meant to complement your existing security posture. Currently the ownership of this plugin was transferred to GoDaddy.

It offers its users a set of security features for their website, each designed to have a positive effect on their security posture:

• Security Activity Auditing
• File Integrity Monitoring
• Remote Malware Scanning
• Blocklist Monitoring
• Effective Security Hardening
• Post-Hack Security Actions
• Security Notifications
• Website Firewall (premium)

 

 

Positive Reviews; 

“great and powerfull plugin”

This plugin save my time and money recently by hacker. great plugin thanks for great work

 

“Excellent plugin and support”

 I’ve been using Sucuri for many years now and have found them to offer excellent protection, along with support that is WAY above the norm. Though I’m not very technically savvy, their support team took time to explain things and to offer helpful advice about how to improve security and speed. In these days of malware, etc. I wouldn’t be without Sucuri. And I have GREATLY appreciated their help on several occasions when there were malware or other issues that either took down my site or affected its speed and functionality. Great product and team!

 

Negative Reviews: 

“Very Bad”

I had a very bad experience with SUCURI, I subscribed with a business subscription for $500, and they put my website offline for 2 days, a lot of problems, they don’t care about the website at all, support team without support skills, they badly modified dozens of server configuration files, and they destroyed everything claiming that they cleaned up malware, besides all of this, they don’t have a support chat, the response to the ticket after many hours with no solutions, I believe they’re teaching themselves using clients as learning materials.

After all, I ended up working on fixing the files, hiring professionals to fix what SUCURI corrupted, and migrating to another server since they had the access and they kept logging in and changing files…

It was a complete disaster.

Less than a week with this experience, they refused to refund after all.

 

 

 

“Stay Away from the Firewall it Does Not Work”

The firewall is a complete mess, geoblocking never works and my account got hacked several times. I open the ticket to fix this issue and it took several days for a response. Also this guys they have access to your account and they mess up several of my files. Right now i just lost my online business due to a mess they did with my files. My website was fine before… without this firewall! Also they have a certain limit to block the ip, is not like the other plugings that has unlimited ip blocking. Just stay away from this terrible firewall, they will log into your account without you knowing and mess up your files and is the worst firewall to use for your business.

What does it do? The Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog.

 

Details: Did you remember to write a post for next Tuesday? What about the Tuesday after that? WordPress doesn’t make it easy to see when your posts are scheduled. The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog. 

Positive Reviews: 

“Great plugin for managing your posts”

If you need a post-management plugin, Editorial Calendar is the greatest choice.

 

“Amazing Calendar that Shows the Post Category”

I have tried four different editorial / content calendars and was unsuccessful in finding one that did what I wanted.

My needs were simple — show me my scheduled posts in a different display color for each category without making me choose a drop down and viewing categories separately. I wanted one calendar to show my what was scheduled; and to use color to indicate the category of the scheduled post.

Editorial Calendar is doing exactly what I need when none of the others I tried did. I agree with the previous reviewer that the code for this calendar should be part of the WordPress core.

Highly suggested.

 

“Amazing !”

That is what I’m looking for … It works perfect !!!

 

Negative Reviews: None

I like this plug in a lot. It makes it easy when scheduling posts and was easy to use.

Visualizer: Tables and Charts for WordPress

What does it do?: A simple, easy to use and quite powerful tool to create, manage and embed interactive charts into your WordPress posts and pages. The plugin uses Google Visualization API to render charts, which supports cross-browser compatibility (adopting VML for older IE versions) and cross-platform portability to iOS and new Android releases.

 

Details: Visualizer: Tables and Charts for WordPress plugin is a powerful and easy to use plugin used to create, manage and embed interactive, responsive charts & tables into your WordPress posts and pages.

The plugin uses Google Visualization API, DataTables.net and ChartJS to add responsive & animated charts, graphs and tables, which support cross-browser compatibility and display perfectly on mobile devices. You can greatly customize all aspects of the charts and tables, and import the data from Excel, CSV, Google Sheets and more!

 

 

Positive Reviews: 

“Excellent Plug-in”

Easy to use. Good appearance

 

 

”The best one I found” 

After trying a couple of options, this was the one that worked the best.

 

Negative Reviews:

“Visualizer Table Won’t Show Up for Normal Users”

Visualizer table won’t show up for normal users. It only works for Admins

 

“Broken”

Tried to update a simple data set, and after clicking save chart, it dumped the value column. All my data is lost.

 

 

I like this plug in however, I am not sure how useful it will be for my portfolio. I think the graphs would be good for a business website. They were easy to use and put together.

Smush

What does it do? Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free WPMU DEV WordPress Smush API.

 

Details: 

-Optimize images, turn on lazy load, resize, compress & improve your Google Page Speed 

• Lossless Compression – Strip unused data and compress images without affecting image quality.

• Lazy Load – Defer offscreen images with the flip of a switch.

• Bulk Smush – Optimize & compress up to 50 images with one click.

• Image Resizing – Set a max width and height and large images will scale down as they are being compressed.

• Incorrect Size Image Detection – Quickly locate images that are slowing down your site.

• Directory Smush – Optimize images even if they are not located in the media library.

• Automated Optimization – Asynchronously auto-smush your attachments for super fast compression on upload.

• Without Monthly Limits – Optimize all of your images up to 5MB in size, free forever (no daily, monthly, or annual caps).

• Gutenberg Block Integration – View all Smush stats directly in image blocks.

• Multisite Compatible – Offers both global and individual Multisite settings.

• Process All Your Files – Smush will process PNG, JPEG, and GIF files for optimum results.

• Super Servers – Smush images with no slowdown using WPMU DEV’s fast, reliable Smush API.

• Convert to WebP (Pro Only) – Upgrade and automatically serve images in Next-Gen WebP format.

• Configs – Set your preferred Smush settings, save them as config, and instantly upload to any other site.

 

 

 

Positive Reviews: 

“It just works”

 

It does a good job reducing the file sizes.

 

“Great plugin to handle images”

Easy and great. It does what it should. Great job!

 

Negative Reviews: 

“REMOVED ALL IMAGES; DO NOT INSTALL”

This plugin removed all of my images on my website, do NOT install this trash plugin.

The amount of people who complain about this VS people who hadn’t run into this problem *yet* is too small to be noticeable in the reviews section, but make no mistakes, this problem happens consistently for a small percent of people who install this plugin.

RUN A BACKUP ON YOUR WEBSITE BEFORE SMUSHING!

This plugin is trash and EVERYONE should be careful before activating – you either lose all your images or everything works decent and you save 13% on your image sizes.

Reached out to developers and still haven’t heard back in 13 days… what a shame.

 

“I’d give it less than a star if I could”

I downloaded “smush” to compress my images as recommended by a website training course I signed up for…. DISASTER! After almost a whole day of apparently compressing the images, my site wouldn’t load at all!! No access to half my pages! I reversed the process which involved staying up til 3am to keep the screen open as it will abort if the screen goes off apparently, and still it’s taken me the whole weekend to put everything back in order as it interfered with my top bar menu, footer, all sorts of things I didn’t really think it’d need to touch. This was the ONLY plugin that I had installed (I always activate one at a time, till I make sure they work, thankfully!) Gutted! I still need to compress my images but very very nervous to try now! By the nature of my business, I need to include a LOT of images on my site. I’m using the ASHE PRO theme and have the latest versions of WP and PHP. I have no idea what went wrong but I would NOT recommend this plugin to anyone!

 

 

I like the plug-in, I think i will be very useful and convenient. By using this plug-in, I won’t have to resize pictures in photoshop.