A Smart Look at the Must Use Top 10 Plugins for Oxwall

What plugin is needed?

Which is the best option?

It’s no secret regarding the rapid growth of the Oxwall software nor the amount of social networking and dating websites powered by the Oxwall and Skadate platform. With that in mind questions like the ones above are bound to arise. Today we shall take a look at the top 10 plugins for Oxwall that will help you manage your Oxwall-powered social network or Skadate dating site and build a “user friendly” community.

Do not get it all wrong, the plugins that are shortlisted here are not necessarily the most good-looking plugin that gives your site ultra-modern look or the most expensive or high sounding plugins rather they are what I termed “core Oxwall plugins” and a must use for every Oxwall/Skadate powered site.

N/B: please note that the plugins listed herein  are the ones that are not installed by default in your website.

A Shortlist of the Top 10 Oxwall/Skadate “Core” Plugins

1. Smart Captcha

Is no coincident that this plugin made our top list, considering the enormity of it’s essence, it’s also no brainier that is one of the most needed plugin for every oxwall powered site.

The smart captcha plugin as the name implies, is a customizable plugin that gives your website captcha a smart look and protect your site with customizable questions that only human can answer, thereby, reducing the numbers of spam registration and prevent robots from creating spam accounts on your website.

Features of the Smart Captcha Plugin

1. Customizable Layout: The smart captcha plugin layout can be fully customized through the admin dashboard=> plugins=> installed=> smart captcha=> settings. Areas of customization include: the color & dimension (height & Width).
2. Custom Question: The plugin give you an option to add and delete captcha question and also provide a room for multiple answers. i.e you can add a question like: nine + 3 which have more than one answers (i.e twelve, 12).
3. Auto-Load:If you added more than one question, the smart captcha randomize your question for each visitor. N/B: It is recommended that you add at least 10  questions and ones very difficult for robots to answer e.g. Who is the president of the United States of America or even more, provide a different link and ask the user to tell the page color of the link you provided.
4. A Smart Look: This is probably the most less important factor to consider, but it comes quite handy if you are running a professional site. If you are “beauty freak” I can assure you that the smart captcha is a lot more flashy than you think or at least better than the oxwall default captcha.

Show me the Demo

Don’t be so fast, “the master of patience is the master of all things” viz… here it is….

Plugin title	Smart Captcha
Item published	Kairat Bakitow
Category	Authentication
Demo page	oxplugins.net/join
License	The BSD License
Description	Protect your site with questions that only a human being can answer.Requirements: Oxwall 1.5.2+

2. Google Analytics

This plugins helps you to monitor your site starts directly from your admin dashboard.

Plugin Details

Plugin title	Google Analytics
Item published	Oxwall Software
Category	System, Utilities
License	The BSD License
Description	Track your site visitor statistics with Google Analytics

3. Ultimate Landing Page (Facebook Clone)

Now fully compatible with Skadate platform! – A powerful fully responsive Oxwall application that let you have a professional landing page – customizable to your taste without breaking the bank.
The plugin allows you to setup a professional landing page for your social network/dating site. Though termed “Facebook Clone”, you can customize the look of your landing page through the admin dashboard.

Plugin Details

Plugin title	Ultimate Landing Page (Facebook Clone)
Item published	Ebenezer Obasi
Category	Interface, Optimization
Price	$16
Demo page	http://oxwall.ewtnet.us
License	OSCL
Description	Now fully compatible with Skadate platform! – A powerful fully responsive Oxwall application that let you have a professional landing page – customizable to your taste without breaking the bank.

4. PayPal Billing

If you are running a site that requires users to make payment, such as purchasing user credit, donation or if you are using the fundraisung plugin, then you need paypal billing as well.

Plugin Details.

Plugin title	PayPal Billing
Item published	Skalfa LLC
Category	Integrations, Monetization
Price	$20
License	OSCL
Description	Accept payments from users with PayPal payment provider

5. HTML Mail Weaver Oxwall/Skadate Plugin

Create your own professional e-mail template within a few minutes without any coding skills. Easily change texts, colors, fonts, pictures, alignment and see all your changes immediately in the live preview.

HTML Mail Weaver is a Skadate compatible Oxwall plugin that allows you to design beautiful email templates for your Oxwall/Skadate website. The plugin wraps all your outgoing emails from your Skadate/Oxwall within the HTML template you have designed.

Email Design Features of HTML Mail Weaver

• CUSTOM COLORS: Customize all colors for header, footer background, fonts and tables with color pickers
• EDIT FONTS: All fonts can be styled according to your corporate design. Headlines, content, order items, variations, footer, ….
• HEADER: Use your logo, a full width header or just a text header.
• FOOTER EDITOR: Your email footer can contain any formatted text, links or even images.
• SAVE DESIGN: Save your design and load it into workspace for re-use.
• RESPONSIVE: Emails are optimized for desktop and mobile email clients.
• MULTI-LINGUA SUPPORT: Currently, the plugin is available on English language. Users, however, are encourage to share their language pack with the community.

HTML Mail Weaver Plugin Details

Plugin title	HTML Mail Weaver
Item published	Ebenezer Obasi
Category	System, Utilities
Price	$149
Demo page	www.eobasi.com/projects/oxwall-html-mail/
License	OSCL
Description	Build beautiful responsive HTML Skadate/Oxwall HTML email templates, fully customizable without any coding knowledge. Create your own professional email template with your own logo within a few minutes.

6. Country Flag Extreme

For some reasons I believe that this is where oxwall missed it all, then one begins to wonder “how come this never occur to them”. This plugin will add a country flag option to your website.

Features of Country Flag Extreme

1. New profile field: This plugin will add a new profile questions that will show on your join page by default. This field gives you a complete countries list in a dropdown format and allows users to select only one country.
2. Profile Flag: The Country Flag Extreme plugin adds a sleek flag just below users avatar when their profile is visited. This option can be enabled by visiting the admin dashboard=> plugins=> Installed=> Country Flag Extreme=> settings, after installing the plugin.
3. Auto detect country: Country Flag Extreme plugin detect new users country based on ip during signup
4. Privacy settings: Users allowed to set who sees their country from privacy settings.

Plugin Details

Plugin title	Country Flag Extreme
Item published	Roderick
Category	Interface, Social networking
Demo page	oxwallplugins.top-motion.be
License	The BSD License
Description	Show user country flag.- Adds profile question for country- Auto detect based on ip on new user signup- Admin settings to show flag below avatar or in profile fields.- Privacy settings

7. Cache Cleaner Extreme

I must admit that this plugin changed my life… viz, saved me the stress of enabling and disabling dev mod from my cpanel. Now I can clear my cache directly from my admin dashboard=> plugins=> installed=> Cache Cleaner Extreme=> settings.

Plugin Details

Plugin title	Cache Cleaner Extreme
Item published	Roderick
Category	System, Utilities
Demo page	oxwallplugins.top-motion.be
License	The BSD License
Description	Clear the cache while NOT in DEV-mode- Template Cache- Backend Cache- Themes static contents- Plugins static contents

 

8. External NoFollow

Scare away spammers with this plugin, just incase you didn’t  notice  “spammers hates nofollow links just the way you hate spammers themselves” reason is because search engine pay no attention to links with the rel nofollow tag. This plugin will add a rel nofollow tag to all the external links in your website, I specially recommend this plugin to every social network site owner.

Plugin Details

Plugin title	External NoFollow
Item published	Purusothaman Ramanujam
Category	Authentication, Utilities
Demo page	oxwall-demo.iyaffle.com
License	http://www.iYaffle.com
Description	Automatically add rel=”nofollow” attributes for all external links to discourage spam bots. Not all search engines can parse this.

9.Top Users

A free plugin that let members rate other members profile.

 Plugin Details

Plugin title	Top Users
Item published	Oxwall CandyStore
Category	Collaboration, Social networking
License	The BSD License
Description	Top users plugin, enables profile rating

 

10. Advertisement

On a second thought, this plugin should be topping this list, though the last but no the least, the Advertisement plugin gives oxwall cms powered site owner the power to add advertisement code in their website. This plugin lets you add your custom html or JavaScript code such as adsense, chitika, addynamo, yahoobing media.net adds, etc. code in your global header, bottom section, individual pages and plugins.

Features of the Advertisement Plugin

1. Geo-targeting: This plugin features a geo-targeting option that enable you choose which country sees a particular ad.
2. Randomize Ad: This plugins also provide you with the option to place more than one ad in one ad space and automatically load different ad each time a page is been reloaded.

Plugin Details

Plugin title	Advertisement
Item published	Oxwall Software
Category	Monetization
License	The BSD License
Description	Simple banner ad management with geo-targeting