Category: Plug-in Review

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.

Elementor 

What does it do? Drag and drop page builder, pixel perfect design, mobile responsive editing, and more. 

 

Details: With Elementor, you’re editing the site live, and simultaneously see exactly how it looks like. Elementor features live design & inline editing, so the whole process of writing and designing is done directly on the page, with no need to press update or go to preview mode. It also works perfectly with or without Gutenberg.

 

You can create websites that have that certain ‘designer touch’. Among our design features are: Box Shadows, Background Overlays, Hover Effects, Headline Effects, Animations, Shape Dividers, Gradient Backgrounds and much more.

Elementor Website Builder comes with an exclusive toolset, that lets you create a truly responsive website in a whole new and visual way. From different font size, padding and margin per device, to reverse column ordering, this is the most powerful mobile site builder for creating perfect responsive websites.

 

 

 

Positive Reviews: 

 

“Excellent” 

 

This plugin is great

 

“Works” 

I use this for my website and it has reliably worked for sometime. I like it and depend on it. Highly recommend if you are willing to play around / sit through tutorials to learn more about how to make the most use out of it.

 

Negative Reviews: 

“Very bad” 

 

The worst editor I ever seen!.

Very unstable and very slow.

 

“Garbage” 

This stupid do-all thing can’t even make a 2-column dropdown menu.

 

I did not hate it, but I don’t think I would use it very often. Many of the feature require Elementor pro, which means you need to pay. It mainly had positive reviews, however many of the negative reviews said it was slow. It is a drag and drop page builder and was easy to use and figure out, but it also had many tutorial options and videos.

Rollback Update Failure
What does it do? Feature plugin to test plugin/theme update failures and rollback to previous installed packages

Details: When updating a plugin/theme, the old version of the plugin/theme gets moved to a wp-content/upgrade/temp-backup/plugins/PLUGINNAME or wp-content/upgrade/temp-backup/themes/THEMENAME folder. The reason we chose to move instead of zip, is because zipping/unzipping are very resources-intensive processes, and would increase the risk on low-end, shared hosts. Moving on the other hand is performed instantly and won’t be a bottleneck.
If the update fails, then the “backup” we kept in the upgrade/temp-backup folder gets restored to its original location
If the update succeeds, then the “backup” is deleted
2 new checks were added in the site-health screen:
Check to make sure that the rollbacks folder is writable.
Check there is enough disk-space available to safely perform updates.

Positive Reviews:
“Wow”

That is great! I have just one question! How many times this plugin could roll back a theme or a plugin update, can it roll back for example three steps back? Thank you for your answer in advance!

No Negative Reviews

Font Awesome
The official way to use Font Awesome Free or Pro icons on your site, brought to you by the Font Awesome team. (social media icons)
Our official plugin lets you use Font Awesome the way you want:
Use Pro or Free icons.
Leverage the latest release or a specific version of our icons.
Choose the tech, either SVG or Web Font.
Take your pick of loading your icons from our classic Font Awesome CDN, or use Font Awesome Kits – the easiest and most efficient way to use Font Awesome icons on the web.
Turn on automatic compatibility for Font Awesome Version 4 if you – or your plugins – are still using Version 4 syntax.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues when multiple versions of Font Awesome are loading on your site from other plugins/themes, which can cause unexpected icon display or technical issues.
Make things even awesomer using icons from Font Awesome Version 6.
Use your uploaded icons from your Pro Kits.
“Just works”
This works perfectly for me where others didn’t.

“Love this plug in”
Just as the name implies – awesome plugin! I use it for all of the pages & posts on my site & the icons are super easy to add with the Visual Composer website builder frontend editor. Would recommend checking it out!

“Poor patronising customer service”
Font didnt work within the plugin it was linked to and then when I asked them about it, was told I wont help you unless you pay, read the instructions or ask the forum. Thats like me going into a shop and being told I will only answer your question if you give me money, but read the the tag info or ask another customer.

“Couldn’t save those changes”
I just can’t save my settings. Any idea how to get this working??

I like that this plug in automatically includes Font Awesome, which means you don’t have to do it manually.