Review:
neo Universe - Jonas Gruber - Bach & Gruber Holding Ltd.

I got early access to all plugins via the neoUniverse plugin from the neoWP team. With a single installation I was already done with the setup. As a photographer I have a lot of images on my website and therefore my requirements for a media plugin are very high. neo Universe is the only media plugin I need. Everything is already included: Renamer, Replacer, Optimizer, image editing and more. The topic "media in WordPress" is really completely covered with this one plugin.

During the beta test I already had the chance to create some animations. It’s child’s play. There are a variety of ways to control and modify the animations, especially the playback on the frontend. What I especially liked was the integration of scroll and hover animations, which give my website that extra something. For example, I created a graphic that builds itself piece by piece when you scroll to that section. That gives my website additional expressive power.

I discovered neo Draw when I was looking for Paint for WordPress and found exactly that. A very intuitive and powerful drawing tool. Unlike Paint, neo Draw has well-chosen color palettes. 😉 I especially like the unified drawing look with the matching font. The whole design looks very coherent and well thought out. The built-in icon library includes emojis, a wide selection of icons and even animated GIFs. You can also add your own images, GIFs and icons to the drawings. Thanks for the valuable tool!

I had the opportunity to test neo Draw more closely during the development phase. The plugin is super-fast and perfectly integrated into WordPress. Editing the drawings is possible directly in the page builder. The raw data is embedded in the image file and can be easily transferred to another domain by downloading the file. It's amazing that the drawings are still displayed even if the plugin is deactivated. Very nice! Everything is very high quality and reliable. The developer also responds to technical questions immediately. I'm very satisfied.

A software developer from neo WP gave me early access to neo Draw. I actually just wanted to create a few drawings until I realized what’s possible with neo Draw. You can draw anything easily: logos, icons, tables, decorations, ... You can also draw and paint over existing images. With the link function I even drew my own buttons and linked them. Especially brilliant is that everything can be animated with just one click, which looks very impressive.

As a beta tester I was allowed to test neo Optimize extensively. What is very well solved in neo Optimize is that all images and the entire content folder remain untouched. The plugin creates thumbnails in a separate folder and leaves the database 100% unchanged. I have not seen such a solution in any other media optimize plugin so far.

In an early test version neo Optimize completely impressed me. Once activated, everything runs by itself - exactly how you want it. Images are automatically optimized and cached on the first page load without having to worry about anything. I especially like the image quality setting with direct preview of the compressed image. It is simply a thoroughly successful plugin that works reliably and absolutely convinced me. The neoTeam did a great job.

I'm generally cautious with renaming plugins because they've often broken references and PHP arrays in my database. That's why I put neo Rename through its paces on a test instance. What can I say? I couldn't break neo Rename. The plugin simply detects every image reference hidden anywhere in the database. Whether in post content, an ACF field or your own JS code. I especially like that the plugin shows me where the image is used before renaming. That gives me extra confidence.

I was able to use neo Rename in beta testing. It is simply reliable. As a professional photographer I use many images and regularly update them on my website. With neo Rename I keep titles and alt tags consistent. This plugin saves me a lot of time.

Straight away: I'm looking forward to the release of neo Library. Everything that bothered me about the WordPress media library is simply better with neo Library. One example is the ability to infinite-scroll instead of constantly switching between pages. When you reach the bottom, the library has already loaded more images. That saves me a lot of time and nerves. Another point is the fast preview that shows not only images but also videos and PDFs. With one click you can rename, duplicate, view enlarged, and even edit images. I'm sure my wish to be able to find duplicate images will be implemented soon. 😉 Dear neoTeam, I'm thrilled! Keep it up!