Fitting Into the New Box
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It's Episode 442 and I've got plugins for Blocking Bots, Stopping the Nagging, Better Email Delivery, Editor Enrichment, Better Seo and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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Johns Rant:
Well we are off and I have started to hear from folks again and it seems all is not lost but lets keep this going…. This is #2 t of 52 episodes for 2020.. Getting back to my roots to help insure the shows viability and see if the community still wants it around.
I am looking for more participation from you my producers this year and if it does not appear I may just retire the show. I have had very little in feedback over the past 9 months and well I have no idea if people like it aside from the downloads which have been off.
WordPress News and Info
The first of Gutenberg news
https://gutenbergtimes.com/rethinking-themes-in-wordpress/
are we headed back to GEOCities
WP Engine will no longer support .htaccess with release of PHP 7.4
https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/wp-engine-deprecating-htaccess-php-7-4/
Upgrading to PHP 7.4 and Deprecating the .htaccess
https://wpengine.co.uk/support/htaccess-deprecation/
How to Reduce HTTP/S Requests in WordPress
https://www.wpexplorer.com/reduce-https-requests-wordpress/
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Off we go into the meat and potatoes
ClassicPress Options
ClassicPress is a fast growing fork of WordPress that is starting to come into its own. ClassicPress is focused on Business Websites runs fast and is looking pretty good. There are a few plugins specifically for ClassicPress and all plugins for WordPress 4.9.9 work well on it. I do believe it has a future.
One thing I am looking forward to in the ClassicPress World is the expansion of the number of ClassicPress specific plugins and their own repository. Currently there are not a lot of ClassicPress specific plugins but I do know it is going to grow and I'll have to expand this segment then. Who knows, it could take over the whole show.
This week for ClassicPress I have:
News:
The latest version of Elementor is no longer useful for ClassicPress. I briefly touched on the article in last weeks show and after the show did some more research and attempted to update in on WP Plugins a to Z. It seems the blood letting has begun for plugins and themes.
ClassicPress Plugins
Enriched Editor for ClasicPress
Revisiting Codepotents replacement for tiny mce
https://github.com/codepotent/Enriched-Editor
In my main ClassicPress install i was using TinyMce as I had not made the time to change it out and saw a regular error about it being in conflict. I installed the Enriched editor from CodePotent and it is seamless to clearing out TinyMCE.
fantastic Plugin that I had reviewed about a year ago in Episode 403 and still gets high marks
Rating 5 Dragons
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Rank Math
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/
This is not only a great plguin tools for SEO in Classicpress but works great in WordPress. It looks to be way better than Yoast more comprenhensive and better at Rich Snippets. The setup is easy and it even pulls all info oveer from Yoast. Check this one out.
Rating 5 Dragon
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Random Links to ClassicPress supporters
ClassicPress Resources:
For some up to date news on ClassicPress check out the ClassisPress Club news
https://classicpress.club/
An alternate forum for the non-techies.
“Must Have” Plugins List
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/must-have-plugins-list/1163
To find a listing of ClassicPress specific plugins check out this link https://forums.classicpress.net/t/plugins-built-specifically-for-classicpress/1011?u=codepotent there is currently 37 42 plugins here and growing. I look forward to the day they have their own repository. I can still recall WP when it had a small repository.
CodePotent's plugin directory
https://codepotent.com/classicpress/plugins/
WordPress plugins
Stop WP Emails Going to Spam
Sent in by Thomas from my training video on Appointments plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-wp-emails-going-to-spam/
The Lowdown:
This is a great plugin to help you get the emails from your website delivered and stop them landing in the spam folders of your users. Simple to use and setup
Rating 5 Dragons
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StopBadBots
Suggest by William Sergio Minozzi
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stopbadbots/
The Lowdown:
This plugin stop the bad bots from using up your site resources without the need for connecting to a third party service. A great easy plugin to get setup. They do offer a premium version for additional security.
Rating 4 Dragons
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WP Remove Admin Register Nag
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-remove-admin-register-nag/
The Lowdown:
This is another way to get those nags out of your admin dash panel in a simple easy way. It just add some CSS code to your site and hides all those registration nags.
Simple easy
Rating 5 Dragons
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John: I enjoy your show, however the Classic Press bias has caused me to consider un-subscribing. It might be good to splinter the show in two wppluginsatoz & wppluginsatozclassic
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I have started to receive plugins again for reviews and will start getting them int with next show.
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Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:
John’s Plugins: Stop WP Emails Going to Spam – 5, StopBadBots – 4, WP Remove Admin Register Nag – 4, Enriched editor for ClasicPress – 5, Rank Math – 5
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