Author: Sydney823

HubSport

What does it do? HubSpot’s official WordPress plugin allows you to add forms, popups, and live chat to your website and integrate with the best WordPress CRM.

Details:  HubSpot enables you to grow your business better. It helps turn visitors into leads, nurture them into customers, and measure your business growth.

With HubSpot’s free plugin you can easily:

• Engage visitors with live chat and chatbots, and convert leads with forms & popups.
• Build beautiful, responsive email newsletters inside WordPress, and nurture your leads with marketing automation campaigns.
• Manage your entire contact database with HubSpot’s free CRM, and group contacts together with the built-in list builder.
• Measure your business growth in real-time with easy-to-understand analytics dashboards.

Positive Reviws:

“Supportive” 

Prompt and tech savvy support! Always nice to know we’re speaking the same language instead of going through support tiers. Thanks again for the quick fix guys!

“Serves its purpose and great support” 

As a startup company we use HubSpot since very recently and we are delighted with its features. It is making our soon to launch new WordPress-Woocommerce website the HUB for communication and sales. And we appreciate very much their support! 

Negative Reviews: 

“No WP user identification” 

Doesn’t identify logged in WP users by default in chat or analytics. You need a bunch of additional code to get this to work. This is a basic function that zendesk & tawk.to do out of the box with their WP plugins.

“Too big, too slow, won’t deactivate”

I think the title says it all, not worth it.

Tried to deactivate on my site, got a popup asking “why?” and no matter what option I chose, the page refreshed and nothing happened. Tried to contact support and they told me to clear my cookies, which of course made me leave the live chat, then they refused to reconnect me, I got a message saying “no one is in the office now” like 2 minutes later at 2 in the afternoon.

I just want this plugin off my site already!

I like this plug-in it has many features that will be useful once I start to regularly use my site.

WP Optimize 

What does it do? WP-Optimize makes your site fast and efficient. It cleans the database, compresses images and caches pages. Fast sites attract more traffic and users.

Details: 

It does it in three clever ways:

• It allows you to clean and optimise your database.
• It gives you the option to compress your images.
• It allows you to cache your pages, for super fast load times (read more caching information below).

Positive Reviews: 

“Great cache plugin! (3 benefits in 1)”

Simply great for your website. Even the free version is more than enough!

“Great Plug-In”

Plugin made very well and very functional, we are using it for a long time and has never given problems. 

Negative Reviews

“Fix this” 

I’m a huge fan of wp-optimize. Used it for years … no problems.

However recently, often after creating a post, in two or three hours, all the styling is removed leaving a blue and white mass of mess.

So I turned off (new and improved?) minify on the plugin and guess what? The problem disappeared. Cost me enormous amount of time and money. Time I would rather spend on content rather than chasing sloppy development.

This after a couple of weeks trying to find the problem. As with most plugins (and their updates), coders are sloppy. I protect my site against hackers but the biggest threat to it is updates.

Here’s an idea. Before damaging people’s websites and costing them money, get the damn update correct.

I hate being used as a beta test.

“Crashed” 

First plugin ever to crash my site and database. Had to do a database repair to get my site working again. Couldn’t repair table wp options.

Fonts Plug-In, Google Fonts Typography

What does it do? The easiest to use Google Fonts Plugin. No coding required. Optimized for Speed. 1000+ font choices.

Details:  The Google Fonts library currently contains 998 unique fonts. This plugin allows you to easily use any of them on your WordPress website.

You’re not stuck with one font for the entire website, you can easily choose one font for headings and another for your content.

It’s hard to know which font will look good on your website, that’s why we’ve included a live preview feature. That means you can test each font and see a live preview of how it will look with your content instantly.

Once you’ve found a combination you love, you can press save and make the changes publicly visible.

Positive Reviews: 

“Super easy, made a average theme POP. :)”

You know when you find a theme that is otherwise great but the fonts just make you despair a bit? This plugin fixed it super easy, every aspect one-by-one if you wanted to, but also allows quick default font settings so that you can change the look of the website super fast, and make it match your company’s chosen fonts (as long as they’re from/at Google fonts.) I’ve tried a couple of these, not all of them, but this one I don’t feel like I need to move away from as it does everything I wanted it to do better than I expected.

“Good”

Enough to customize web font

Negative Reviews: 

“Not great”

I like this plug in, it has a wide variety of font choice that I will be able to use to make my portfolio look better and more branded for my portfolio.