The March 2015 East Bay WordPress Meetup focused on premium plugins, including Gravity Forms, Gravity+ (More) Stripe, Gravity Forms User Registration, BackupBuddy, Justified Image Grid, FacetWP, CSV Import Suite WooCommerce Extension, Product Bundles WooCommerce Extension

1. March 15, 2015

2. EastBayWP.com

3. Our Meetup.com Page
http://www.meetup.com/Eastbay-WordPress-Meetup/

4. Ongoing Sponsor: Page.ly
http://page.ly/

5. INTRODUCTIONS
1. Name
2. Company (if appropriate)
3. WordPress background
4. Favorite Premium Plugins

6. Members’ Favorite Plugins
• Gravity Forms
• Gravity+ (More) Stripe
• BackupBuddy
• Sucuri Scanner
• Bulletproof Security Pro
• iThemes Security Pro
• Oasis Workflow
• Ultimate Member
• Visual Composer
• WP101
• AMR Users
• UpdraftPlus Premium
• VaultPress
• Soliloquy
• Events Calendar Pro
• EventON
• Justified Image Grid
• CSV Product Import Suite
for WooCommerce
• Product Bundles for
WooCommerce
• FacetWP

7. Plugins Worth Paying For
Premium Plugin Showcase

8. SALLIE GOETSCH
http://rhymeswithsketch.com/

9. BackupBuddy
https://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/

10. BackupBuddy
• $80 2-Site License (annually)
• Back up just the database or the whole
site
• Scheduled Backups
• Off-site Backups (Sallie uses Amazon S3)
• Site Migration (great tool for developers
who work locally)

11. BackupBuddy Admin

12. Events Calendar Pro
https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-events-calendar-pro/

13. Events Calendar Pro
• $89 Single Site (annually)
• Add events as custom post types
• Recurring and Multi-Day Events
• Multiple views for event pages: Photo,
List, Calendar, Map
• List & Calendar Widgets
• Good Support Forum & Docs
• Ticketing add-ons for EventBrite, EDD,
WooCommerce, Shopp, WP-eCommerce

14. Events Calendar Pro Photo View
• Masonry
Grid
• Featured
Image
• Title
• Dates
• Excerpt

15. Events Calendar Pro Single Event
• Title
• Date(s)
• Featured Image
• Description
• Export to Google
Calendar
• Export to iCal
• Details/Organizer
• Map/Venue Details
• Related Events

16. FacetWP
https://facetwp.com/

17. FacetWP
• $49 Annually (infinite sites) with
discount for renewal
• Allows site users to narrow search
results
• Create Facets (search filters) based on
categories, tags, custom fields
• Create templates to display your items
using standard WP loop code

18. FacetWP: Facet
Facets are UI elements (checkboxes, dropdowns, etc.)
used to filter, or “drill down”, content listings. FacetWP is
unique because facets are “aware” of each other. If a
user interacts with one facet, then other facets on the
page will react as well.

19. FacetWP: Template

20. FacetWP: All Teachers

21. FacetWP: Teachers in CA

22. Gravity Forms
http://www.gravityforms.com/

23. Gravity Forms
• Developer License $199/year
• Includes Basic & Advanced Form Add-Ons
• Build forms by dragging & dropping fields
• Use Conditional Logic to display fields
• Auto-populate fields
• Create paged forms
• Create post entries, payment forms,
WordPress users, etc. from your forms

24. Gravity Forms: Edit Form

25. Gravity Forms: Form Front End

26. Gravity+ (More) Stripe
https://gravityplus.pro/

27. Gravity+ (More) Stripe
• $49 annually (single site)
• Recurring payments
• Coupons
• The ability to save credit cards instead of
charging them
• Stripe webhook notificationsIntegration
with the Gravity Forms User Registration
Add-On

28. Gravity+ (More) Stripe: Rules
• Transaction Type
• Form
• Map Gforms Fields
to Stripe Fields
• Currency
• Coupons
• Alternate Charge
Options (save card,
authorize)

29. PIETER HARTSOOK
http://hartsook.com/

30. Justified Image Grid
http://justifiedgrid.com/

31. Justified Image Grid
• $28 Single Site License at CodeCanyon
• Creates masonry grids of post/page
featured images for graphical navigation
• Can replace the default WordPress
[gallery] shortcode
• Eye-popping numbers of options and
presets
• Creates galleries from Facebook and
Flickr albums

32. ANCA MOSOIU
http://techliminal.com

33. Community Events
https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-community-events/

34. Community Events
• $89 Single-Site License
(annually)
• Add-on for Events
Calendar Pro
• Allows users to submit
events
• Allows users to edit
their events
• Option to charge
users to submit events

35. Product CSV Import Suite
http://www.woothemes.com/products/product-csv-import-suite/

36. Product CSV Import Suite

37. Product CSV Import Suite
• $199 Single Site License
• Export products as CSV, update, and
import back to WooCommerce
• Makes updating prices, etc. much easier
when you have numerous products
(Anca is using it on a site with thousands
of products and variations)

38. Product Bundles (WooCommerce)
http://www.woothemes.com/products/product-bundles/

39. Product Bundles
• $49 Single-Site License
• Create and sell product packages by
bundling simple, variable or even
downloadable products together.
• Bundle simple subscriptions with
physical products.
• Support for Product Add-ons,
Subscriptions and Composite Products.

40. Product Bundle Creation

41. EVE LURIE
http://evelurie.com/

42. Gravity Forms for Membership

43. Gravity Forms for Membership
• Relies on the User Registration Add-on
(comes with Developer License)
• Combine with Members plugin to create
roles for new users
• Combine with AMR Users plugin to
create member directory
• Charge for membership using PayPal
Add-On