All-in-One WP Migration Google Drive Extension, Plugins Garbage Collector, Advanced Database Cleaner, and ClassicPress options in Episode 421

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It's Episode 421 and I've got plugins for Migrating WordPress, Garbage Collection, Database Cleaning, and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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I have a great set of plugins for you today!

Starting out I have a plugin that I have yet to use but felt you would want to know it exists. Keep in mind the ratings are based off the descriptions on their site and using their demo if available.

sent in by:
Angel Lemus

All-in-One WP Migration Google Drive Extension (Premium Plugin $99)

https://servmask.com/products/google-drive-extension

What they say:

Export and import to and from Google Drive
Lifetime license with lifetime updates
Use on any number of websites that you own
Backup scheduler with hourly, daily, and weekly options
Unlimited Extension included
WP CLI commands
Premium support

Google Drive Extension extends the functionality of the All-in-One WP migration plugin, connecting it to your Google Drive account. This facilitates importing and exporting your website/network of sites directly between your Google Drive cloud space and your website.
The tool works as an extension to the plugin, so All-in-One WP Migration plugin is required to be installed in order to work.
The Google Drive Extension settings appear in the dropdown of the All-in-One WP Migration plugin in WordPress once the extension is successfully installed and activated:
Extension for All in One WP Migration that enables using Google Drive for imports and exports.

This is a great solution if you already have All in One Migration. By using a google drive you are outside the hosting environment and you do not have to locally deal with your clients backups. It lets you schedule the frequency of backups, works great.

What I say:
There is very little info on their website aside from price and its basics, they do have a pretty good documentation on how to use it there though.

Rating 4 Dragons

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WordPress news and info

Unauthenticated option changes in WordPress Simple 301 Redirects Addon Bulk Uploader plugin.
https://blog.nintechnet.com/unauthenticated-option-changes-in-wordpress-simple-301-redirects-addon-bulk-uploader-plugin/

Some fresh #WPDrama
Proposal to Auto-Update Old Versions of WordPress to 4.7 Sparks Heated Debate
https://wptavern.com/proposal-to-auto-update-old-versions-of-wordpress-to-4-7-sparks-heated-debate

How to Test WordPress Site Backups
https://www.wpexplorer.com/test-wordpress-site-backups/

Automattic Acquires Tumblr, Plans to Rebuild the Backend Powered by WordPress
https://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-tumblr-plans-to-rebuild-the-backend-powered-by-wordpress

Johns news:

Plugin Dynamics is starting to come to life and we have 4 plugins just about ready for general testing plus 3 more in the cue.
Date Calculator
Metric Conversions
Clock de Resistance
Tabular Data dynamics

in the development cue
the Tarot Reading plugin

All coming soon to https://PluginDynamics.com

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Contest win a Premium Plugin License For:

Contests Powered by Simple Giveaways who kindly provided us with the premium version for our contests.

Winner of the magic Tool Tips for Gravity Forms is Ken thanks to everyone who entered.

The current contest is running until September 4th, 2019 and we are giving away a license for the Magic Conversation for Gravity forms plugin from the makers of WP Payper view.

Magic Conversation For Gravity Forms is a conversational form WordPress plugin that let’s you convert a Gravity Form into a conversational web form.
The plugin provides a chat style conversational interface that provides a more user-friendly alternative to the standard form check it out here https://magicconversation.net/

Check out the Interview with Russ Mate from WP Pay Per View talking about this plugin and others that they create.

Visit http://WPPluginsAtoZ.com/contests for more info.

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Plugins Garbage Collector

https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-garbage-collector/

Version:

Requires: or higher

Compatible up to:

Released:01 January 1970

Downloads:

Last Updated:01 January 1970

Ratings:

(0 star out of 5)

Download Link:Click here

The Lowdown:
Upgrading an older WP website or inheriting an older website will at time require cleaning up the Database of leftover and orphan tables from long removed plugin that do not cleanup after themselves kinda like toddlers.

Looking at the DB you may not easily be able to determine which table belong and which ones have been abandoned and left for dead. This plug help with that clean up process. It scan's though your database and your plugins to determine which plugins are still using which tables.

With this list in hand you are now able to start the cleanup process and improve you Db performance. It works very well but be careful it may list tables that could still be in use alsways make a backup of your database before starting just to be safe.

Rating 5 Dragons

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Advanced Database Cleaner (freemium $29)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-database-cleaner/

Version:

Requires: or higher

Compatible up to:

Released:01 January 1970

Downloads:

Last Updated:01 January 1970

Ratings:

(0 star out of 5)

Download Link:Click here

The lowdown:
This is another plugin to clean up your database which goes a bit firther than the garbage collector, aside from being able to clean up you orphan tables you can also clean up old revisions, old drafts and more.

Cleanup database includes:
Delete old revisions of posts and pages
Delete old drafts of posts and pages
Delete old auto drafts
Delete pending comments
Delete spam comments
Delete trash comments
Delete orphan postmeta
Delete orphan commentmeta
Delete orphan relationships
Delete orphan dashboard transient feeds
You can choose what items to clean-up
You can schedule your database clean up to run automatically
Optimize database and improve website speed
You can schedule your database optimization to run automatically
View and clean cron tasks (scheduled tasks)
View and clean tables
View and clean options
Supports multisite installation

Some of the best features for the plugin however aare needd to do a good cleanup so you will need the premium version.

Rating 4 Dragons

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:
Listen to the Interview with James Nylen and Michelle Coe from ClassicPress Two of the Leads for the ClassicPress Team, Michelle Coe (lead designer), and James Nylen (lead developer) it is a great interview so follow the link to listen to it.

The ClassicPress Milestone v1.1.0 target date for release is Wednesday, July 24, 2019. We’ll be updating our GitHub milestone regularly as we prepare for the release – feel free to check in there or in the #core channel in Slack for updates.

General info:

Article from CodePotent

A Custom Utility Plugin for your ClassicPress Site
https://codepotent.com/create-a-custom-utility-plugin-for-your-classicpress-site/

Utility Plugin Boilerplate for ClassicPress
https://codepotent.com/utility-plugin-boilerplate-classicpress/

For some up to date news on ClassicPress check out the ClassisPress Club news

My experiment with migrating a fully mature WordPress website over to ClassicPress and record the results of that for people to see. The videos is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-CPOcOljqA on our YouTube channel. I have completed the conversion of WP Plugins A to Z dev site to Classic press and it went quite well and all my plugins have continued to work well. Now the process of completing the theme update.

ClassicPress Resources:

The ClassicPress Club
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 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.

https://www.ceikay.com/

Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:

John’s Plugins: All-in-One WP Migration Google Drive Extension – 4, Plugins Garbage Collector – 5, Advanced Database Cleaner – 4

Reminders / Commercial / Promotions:

I have a new Interview coming up next week with Kathy Zant from Wordfence look for it.

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