GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 44 - July 2019

Admin Menu Editor by Janis Elsts RATING ACTIVE INSTALLATIONS 300,000+ When you start installing a lot of plugins, it can be annoying to see them all take their predetermined spots on the Admin Menu. Some will find their home in Settings, others in Tools, and some will simply perch on the top level. With the Admin Menu Editor, you can show and hide menu items, rearrange them, move them to a different submenu, and even change permissions. This will keep your Admin Menu nice and tidy. Post Hit Counter by Hugh Lashbrooke RATING ACTIVE INSTALLATIONS 5,000+ We’re all using Google Analytics to track traffic and get insight into what’s going on, but it’s helpful to see which articles are the most popular right in the WordPress admin area. This little plugin tracks clicks to each post and displays them ev- erywhere you could possibly need them – in the post list, in the edit box, on the admin bar when you’re viewing the front-end, and there’s even a widget for most-viewed posts. Post Hit Count- er saves a lot of time, as you can easily identify the best- and worst-performing articles by sorting the post list. Widget Context by Preseto RATING ACTIVE INSTALLATIONS 70,000+ When you’re building a larger website, one of the most frustrating challenges is the inability to make widgets on sidebars appear the way you want them to. The behavior of widgets is dictated by the theme you use, and most theme developers just leave this at the base level, without much flexibility. Widget Context gives you full control over which widget is dis- played on which page, and the plugin works with any theme. When you’re building a larger website , one of the most frustrating challenges is the inability to make widgets on sidebars appear the way you want them to . Longtime GPWA member Dan Horvat has been described as a serial entrepreneur. He has been involved in the iGaming industry for over a decade on both the operator and affiliate sides in sports betting, and in 2017 he made the switch to casinos. WORDPRESS PLUGINS TO THE RESCUE! G P W A t i m e s . o r g 44