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Time to dive in to the meat and potatoes of plugin depravity!

Off we go….

WordPress Plugins

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John's Plugin

Fast Index

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fast-index/

The Lowdown:

If you have an indexing problem on Google, you have to use this plugin. Working with Google API and fasted every plugin or SEO. When you publish new post, page or etc it will send your URL to Google.

Rating 4 Dragons

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Amber's Plugin

BibleUp

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bibleup/

The Lowdown:

I thought this plugin might be useful for anyone with a Bible oriented site. What this plugin does is define any Bible Verse in your posts with a little popup.

You will find the dashboard for this plugin under ‘Settings' -> ‘BibleUp'.

When you place any verse, like 1 Peter 3:15, there will be a popup that shows up over the verse name in your post or page once the plugin is activated. The popup will bring forth the verse quoted.

You have the ability to change the colour of the popup box's background, the text type, text size – and you can make it possible for a Dark Theme to work with it.

If you have a Bible site, or a client who does, this could be very useful indeed!

Rating: 5 Dragons

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John's Plugin

All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/

The Lowdown:

All-in-One Security (AIOS) is a security plugin designed especially for WordPress, now brought to you from the team at UpdraftPlus. Customers love All-In-One Security because it’s easy to use, and it does a whole lot for free.

All-In-One Security gives you Login Security Tools, to keep bots at bay and protect your website from brute force attacks.

The Web Application Firewall gives you automatic protection from security threats.

Rating: 4 Dragons

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Amber's Plugin

Limit Registration by Mail Domain

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ithabich-limit-registration-by-email-domain/

The Lowdown:

This is a bit of a different take on the registration limitation plugin.

Once installed and activated, you will find the dashboard for the plugin under ‘Settings” -> ‘Registration Limit by Domain Name'.

For this, you need to add the domains allowed. Not great if you have a wide open site available for anyone to join up to, though fantastic if you want the site to only be for the company and everyone has the same email domain.

This plugin only regulates registration for WordPress Core, so other plugins such as  2FA-plugins, BuddyPress, and WooCommerce may cause issues for registration. Be sure to double check that all registrations are working properly after any changes made.

Totally free plugin worth checking out. Could be a very useful plugin for you, recommend trying it out!

Rating: 5 Dragons

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We Interrupt the Meat and Potatoes of Plugin Depravity Edition to bring you our Donations Segment and to thank our Producers!

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Thank you, now back to the Meat and Potatoes of Plugin Depravity Edition!

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John's Plugin

Easy Forms for Mailchimp

https://wordpress.org/plugins/yikes-inc-easy-mailchimp-extender/

The Lowdown:

Easy Forms for Mailchimp allows you to add unlimited Mailchimp sign up forms to your WordPress site. You can add forms to posts, pages, sidebars and other widgetized areas. Your Mailchimp API Key connects your site to your account and pulls in all of your list information. List statistics can be viewed right from your dashboard.

Rating: 4 Dragons

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Amber's Plugin

MyWP Custom Login

https://wordpress.org/plugins/mywp-custom-login/

The Lowdown:

This is a great plugin for personalizing your website's login, and only making changes to that. I have found that a lot of the plugins with this feature only have it as an additional feature of something else – or it's an addon of another premium plugin.

You will find the settings for this under ‘Settings' -> ‘MyWP Custom Login'. Here you can change the following:

• Add your Logo and Customize your Title tag
• Change Logo Width and Height
• Define the Login Page Background Color
• Put a Background Image
• Customize completely your Login Form
• Remove links from the WordPress Login Page
• Delete the WordPress Text by default

Another cool feature about this plugin is that if you are using Erident Custom Login Plugin, you can import your settings.

Great free plugin, seems to play well with other too!

Rating: 5 Dragons

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ClassicPress

ClassicPress is at a crossroads right now, we aren't sure whether or not they are going to stick around. It seems that either option they choose will have a lot of hard bumps ahead – I hope that they manage to keep ClassicPress going, that they become super strong and amazing like I know they can, and that they manage to keep that part of themselves that caused us to like them so much in the first place.

…A little about ClassicPress for those who aren't sure: ClassicPress is WordPress frozen at version 4.9. Once WordPress moved to 5, they added in a whole lot of new folders, and the experimental additions to the Core started in earnest. ClassicPress is literally the Classic version of WordPress. A few plugins have been made over the years for just ClassicPress, though all Plugins compatible with WordPress 4.9 should work for ClassicPress.

To any ClassicPress user listening right now: I challenge you – yes YOU – to write a review of your favourite, or least favourite ClassicPress plugin, and send it into us! You can do so by hitting us up at https://wppluginsatoz.com/submit-plugin-review/!

…And feel free to add more to this section by reaching out to me at amber@wppro.ca.

ClassicPress Resource Section:

This information is like Fruit Cake! It doesn't wither away and will still be good years down the road so it's great for learning! Go and check this section out in our Show Notes if you have an interest!

…We have thrown some ClassicPress Resources in here for you – and they appear to have stuck like well cooked pasta! Glad you made it to this part of the notes since we only mention it lightly on the show – If we missed something, let us know!

…Learn more about ClassicPress 1.4.0 RC2:
…https://forums.classicpress.net/t/classicpress-1-4-0-rc2-release-notes/3785?fbclid=IwAR3wGK5IW8ssJ-XC4k7IiZMBtSjUTVN2pexk6ATCRvuMN-Fn-McOy-XJJv8

…ClassicPress Tutorials on their site:

…https://www.classicpress.net/category/tutorials/

…ClassicPress's “Must Have” Plugins List:

…https://forums.classicpress.net/t/must-have-plugins-list/1163

…ClassicPress Repository!!

…https://directory.classicpress.net/plugins They now have 71 plugins (and counting!) available.

…WordPress Plugin Section compatible with ClassicPress:

…https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/classicpress/

Questions, Notes, and Feedback from our Producers out there:

…Send us your thoughts and opinions, but most of all send us your questions! No such thing as a stupid question people! I was new not too long ago, and I know how overwhelming it can be stepping into this world at this stage – I know for a fact that questions you have are the same questions others out there have!

Hi Amber,

 

Thanks again to you and your dad for doing a great weekly show.

 

Just wanted to get your thoughts on doing updates to wordpress websites. I know never to update to a major version until the dot release comes out, but what about themes and plugins? Do you update them as soon as they come out or do you update them out of weekly basis or some other time basis?

 

Thanks,

 

Andrew

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Meetups:

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Random:

Remember you can check out our Show Notes on our site wppluginsatoz.com! There is extra information to grab up there that we don't even speak out loud on the show!

Today's Plugins we covered were:

John’s Plugins:

• Fast Index – 4
• All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall – 4
• Easy Forms for Mailchimp – 4

Amber's Plugins: 

• BibleUp – 5
• Limit Registration by Mail Domain – 5
• MyWP Custom Login – 5

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Q & A Time with Amber – Catch this info on our YouTube Channel

If you have questions you would like to have asked on the show, send them in to me at Amber@WPPro.ca – let's see if we can stump my dad!

• Say there is a plugin you really like and you can't find a replacement, though the developers no longer support it. How long is it safe to keep using it for?

• Are all free plugins considered open source? Or only the ones that state it?

I have a couple more questions for my dad just after the closing credits, for those listening elsewhere, you will have to make your way over to the YouTube's!

Questions asked after closing credits:

• Is it allowable to start supporting a plugin that is no longer supported yourself? As in give it your own updates so as to keep it functioning?

• When creating a plugin, how much has to be different from the original to pass as an original plugin?

One more time for the ways to contact us!

Our Brick and Mortar Address – just in case you decide to send along a gift!
(Especially art if you enjoy drawing – no matter what age!)

WP Plugins A to Z
C/O John Overall 
20-754 E Fairview Rd. 
Victoria, BC  V9A 5T9  
Canada

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