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It's Episode 482 with plugins for Social Sharing, Downgrading, In the Box, Security, Samhaim Decorations, and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe, WP Hide & Security Enhancer, WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version, Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page, ShareMe Simple Social Share Plugin, HelloWoofy.com and ClassicPress options in Episode 482.
John's Intro:
With great appreciation for the No Agenda Show for their inspiration of ideas and the occasional stolen sound clip.
This is a value for value show and I look forward to everyone providing some value back.
Before I get started, you will want to hang around to the end of the show for a new segment with Amber…. Also to those listening on the podcast, you may want to check out the YouTube version which has some great discussions before the show starts…
Producer Credits:
Show Art:
Angel Lemus — http://www.koadigital.com
All the show notes can be found at: WPPluginsAtoZ.com
Johns Rant:
This is #41 of 52 51 episodes for 2020. Its Episode 482 and we are now only 10 weeks away from the end of the year and the show is moving into new directions. We are now 42 weeks into 2020 and 31 weeks of the Rona, I find it hard to believe they are still pushing this crap on us, but I guess they need to keep the sheep people scared for some reason.
Now is the time to turn away from Social Media and the M5M folks. You need to reclaim your sanity and life back. Time to get out, meet and talk to real humans, relax and do not be afraid. Find yourself an Oasis like the one at The Rogues Tavern, a place where you can check out from the world, unplug and recharge your soul.
You can Heal Your Soul in a few short weeks by:
Minimizing or eliminating your M5M exposure,
Stop using FaceCrack
Make your own little part of the world a better place to be.
Inspire others around you to do the same.
Don't worry about things you cannot control.
Stop accepting and doing things that are not be your best interest.
Work in your best interest while at the same time respecting and helping others, the rewards will follow.
WordPress News and Info
Before we jump into the news, ……
I want to talk Premium Plugin licenses….. We are heading into a new world for plugins. I have only seen a couple so far but it will be mainstream soon. That is the Trial-Ware plugins.
I make my clients all buy their own licenses when they need premium plugins, which will be more int he next few years as we enter the era of Trial-Ware plugins vs the Freemium model we are now in.
News this week:
3 Essential Rules For WordPress Code Security
https://wpkraken.io/blog/wordpress-code-security/
WooCommerce Tests New Instagram Shopping Checkout Feature, Now in Closed Beta
https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-tests-new-instagram-shopping-checkout-feature-now-in-closed-beta
WordPress Caching: The Essential Guide
https://ithemes.com/wordpress-caching-essential-guide/
WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/13/wordpress-can-now-turn-blog-posts-into-tweetstorms-automatically/
New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now
https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/chrome-zeroday-attacks.html
The Incredible Story of the Great Cannonball Boom
https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-cannonball-boom?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
The hall of shame via Automattic:
transparency.automattic.com/tag/hall-of-shame/
Matt's Famous Quotes
https://www.idrlabs.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg.php
Donor – Support
Talk about about what the value for value model is and why we are trying to use it. Explain why I do not have advertising, affiliate links ect.
Show Producers
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I'd like to acknowledge all the producers who have supported the show in the various ways over the last week.
This weeks show Art Work comes from:
Angel Lemus — http://www.koadigital.com
This week's Executive Producer/'s are:
A big thank you to all the Producers who came in under $50 and to those who have set up weekly subscriptions they will remain anonymous and I thank you very much.
All these small subscriptions really help the show out.
A big thank you to those who have hired me because of the Podcast, thank you that is as good as donating to the show.
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Or something I may not have thought of.
Off we go into the meat and potatoes, Into the depths of plugin depravity…..
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:
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Just a note for my ClassicPress listeners please send me info to help keep the ClassicPress section full.
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 49 50 52 55 57 58 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
Are you looking for some great newly released plugins check this link
https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/new/
John's plugin
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe
https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightbox-photoswipe/
The lowdown:
I was in need of a simple lightbox to add to a site I have been working on. and this one fit the bill quite well. Simple and easy enough, it creates a pretty good looking lightbox and has a few settings you can adjust to make it a bit better. Just install, adjust and it works great even on a site using the horrible Divi theme system.
Rating 5 Dragons.
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Amber's Plugin
Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-halloween-decoration-for-your-page/
The Lowdown:
This is a totally awesome kind of Halloween creepy!
Description:
Total freebie, exceedingly creepy. It has spiders and bugs that start crawling across the page – and they are creepily realistic.
A little odd to get going though – once you have the plugin activated, you need to go into your sidebar settings, click on Halloween, and then you get the options for whether you want bugs or spiders or both of these creepies crawling across your pages on your sites.
Highly recommend it for creepy factor for Halloween!
Rating 5 Dragons
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John's plugin
WP Hide & Security Enhancer
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-hide-security-enhancer/
The Lowdown:
This is another security plugin to enhance the security of your WordPress website. Setting it up it changes the path for your login page to help create security by obscurity. It does also help with many other areas of your site to increase the security.
Main plugin functionality:
- Custom Admin Url
- Block default admin Url
- Block any direct folder access to completely hide the structure
- Custom wp-login.php filename
- Block default wp-login.php
- Block default wp-signup.php
- Block XML-RPC API
- New XML-RPC path
- Adjustable theme url
- New child Theme url
- Change theme style file name
and more
Rating 4 dragons
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Amber's plugin
ShareMe Simple Social Share Plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareme/
The Lowdown:
This one is hot off the press! Less than 10 downloads; and it seems like it would be very useful for those who need social media – especially with all those changes we have been hearing about to FB and what not.
Description:
This one is pretty awesome, I gotta say. Another total freebie first of all, and it's really simple!
Simply download it, activate it, and it places itself at the bottom of every one of your posts and pages. Very cool!
Not much else to say on this one, easy as 1 2 3 really. Go check it out for yourself, makes life just a little easier!
Rating 5 Dragons
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John's plugin
WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-downgrade/
The Lowdown:
This is a pretty cool plugin I came across while working on another website that I was doing some updates on. What it does for you is locks your current version of WordPress and if you, or someone, upgrades it, this plugin makes downgrading a simple task. It also helps prevent someone from upgrading unless they disable this plugin.
Rating 5 Dragons
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Amber's Plugin
HelloWoofy.com
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hellowoofy-com/
The Lowdown:
This plugin is not actually about dogs, FYI.
Description:
Another one hot right off the press for ya, with less than 10 activation's.
This is a pretty awesome new little plugin, an another total freebie it seems.
What this does for you, is it auto posts your blogs on a schedule for ya!
You have to make an account with hellowoofy.com in order to get this working (which I don't entirely like), but it seems worth it! Easy to use, easy to set up. Very good for beginners or people who just don't have enough time to do absolutely everything themselves.
Go and check this out. If there are any glitches in this brand new plugin, let me know!
Rating 5 Dragons
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Contests Powered by Simple Giveaways who kindly provides us with the premium version for our contests.
I do want to thank Charlie for coming to the aid of the show and getting our contests all organized..
We have a new contest
Contest runs from October 22 until November 3rd winner announced November 5th.
FluentCRM is a Self Hosted Email Marketing Automation Plugin for WordPress. Manage your leads and customers, email campaigns, automated email sequencing, learner and affiliate management, and monitor user activities and many more in one place; without ever having to leave your WordPress dashboard!
A few of the features of this plugin are Email campaign management, Email sequencing, 360 degree view while integrating with several 3rd party tool and a few webhook connectors.
This is for a LIFETIME license. Lifetime licenses are not available to purchase, so the value of this giveaway is $129 per year for life.
Go to fluentCRM’s site to learn more about this plugin.
Enter to win and remember to share this contest with friends to earn extra entries to the contest.
Visit http://WPPluginsAtoZ.com/contests for more info.
For all developers who would like to support the show. You can donate a premium license to be used in a future contest please go to WPPluginsAtoZ.com/PluginContest
The Plugins We covered were:
John’s Plugins: Lightbox with PhotoSwipe – 5, WP Hide & Security Enhancer – 4, WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version – 5
Amber's Plugins: Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page – 5, ShareMe Simple Social Share Plugin – 5, HelloWoofy.com – 5
Trivia:
Matt's Famous Quotes
https://www.idrlabs.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg.php
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****Show segment Q & A — Catch this info on our YouTube Channel*****
Questions and Answers –
How DO you find the plugin you are looking for? Is there a trick to the key word, or something like that?
How do you connect posts into the categories you make for them?
How do you figure out what is going on with the site page when you can't figure it out immediately? Like, if there is an issue with the font or colouring of the page somewhere?
(try to create chatter with these questions)
Closing out this Episode
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