Clearing the Deck
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It's Episode 475 with plugins for Cleaning the Dashboard, Triggering, Rick Rolling, Deep Sixing the Spammers, Cornholing and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
Popup Trigger URL for Elementor Pro, Portfolio Gallery – Image Gallery Plugin – Premiuim, Disable Admin Notices individually, Validator.pizza, Secret Image Slide and Tune, Cornify for WordPress and ClassicPress options in Episode 475
John's Intro:
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Producer Credits:
Show Art:
Angel Lemus — http://www.koadigital.com
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Johns Rant:
This is #34 of 52 51 episodes for 2020. Its Episode 475 and the AI overlords seem to be enjoying themselves, creating all kinds of havoc on the internet and computers everywhere. Ditch the overlords and find yourself an Oasis like the one at The Rogues Tavern someplace where you can check out from the world and unplug. We are now 35 weeks into 2020 and 24 weeks of the Rona, Masks are all the rage now be sure you have one stuffed in your pocket ready to go. Just think you can use them for TP if you get desperate.
The new narrative is rolling out and the opportunities have never been better in the world; all you need to do is grab them while they are in front of you. But be sure to stock some stuff away for the rough times though.
The new programming is closer to completion and the M5M is finding it harder to keep the population scared, but have no fear, WP Plugins A to Z is here to lift your soul.
What you can do to help your soul:
Minimize or eliminate your M5M exposure,
Work on your own little part of the world to make it 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.
We have some news from the world of WordPress for you today as well as some great plugins.
Let's get to the fun we have today.
WordPress News and Info
News this week:
New Plugin Displays WordPress Environment Type for Admins
https://wptavern.com/new-plugin-displays-wordpress-environment-type-for-admins
Elementor 3.0 Allows Users to Create a Personalized Design System
https://wptavern.com/elementor-3-0-allows-users-to-create-a-personalized-design-system
Introducing Elementor 3.0: Design System Features, New Theme Builder & Significant Performance Improvements
https://elementor.com/blog/elementor-3-new-professional-features/
Hackers actively exploiting severe bug in over 300K WordPress sites
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-actively-exploiting-severe-bug-in-over-300k-wordpress-sites/
An Honest Guide to the Best SEO Plugin for WordPress
https://wpshout.com/best-seo-plugin-wordpress/
Some numbers about the official WordPress plugin directory
https://neliosoftware.com/blog/some-numbers-about-the-official-wordpress-plugin-directory/amp/
Trivia:
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
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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:
ClassicPress Plugins
Plugins Compatible with ClassicPress
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/plugins-compatible-with-classicpress/2451
Classic Commerce now available in 12 languages
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/classic-commerce-now-available-in-12-languages/2457
List of Plugins Developed for ClassicPress
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/list-of-plugins-developed-for-classicpress/2456
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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 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
sent in by: Angel Lemus
http://koadigital.com
Disable Admin Notices individually
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-admin-notices/
What Angel says:
This plug in allows you to disable annoying notices on the Dashboard panel. You can turn off notices forever individually for themes, plugins and WordPress itself. The Hide admin notices plugin adds “Hide notification forever” link for each admin notice. This method will help you to disable only annoying notices from plugins and themes, but important error notifications will continue to work.
The Free version works well, and the payed version ads a few more option to disable ad redirects, and other notifications in other areas of WordPress.
I give this one 4 Dragon rating
Johns Take:
It looks to be a great plugin but has its own bit of irony built right in. Here is a quote from a review on the plugin from Jose who gave it a 4 star “Really good. It just didn't get the 5th star because the warning to purchase the Pro version of the plugin itself keeps popping up.”
Since the plugin has a feature to stop this exact behaviour I found this funny..
Rating 4 Dragons
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Amber's Plugin
Validator.pizza
https://wordpress.org/plugins/validator-pizza/
The Lowdown:
This plugin is for preventing disposable emails from being used when people sign up or comment on your website. Essentially, this is supposed to stop spammers.
Description
Works right out of the box, and is totally free!
You plug it in and let it go! Seems to work as it says it does. Neat little plugin! nice and easy, no settings to go to though.
Now, if you have upgraded your WordPress to the latest version, it hasn't been tested with the newest version yet, so beware, it may not fully work. It doesn't break the site on this version though, so all is well in that aspect.
I am not totally sure how well it works, it seemed to be in working order, but this is one of those plugins where you would need to have it running for a while before you really know how well it is working.
Rating: 4 Dragons
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John's plugin
Sent in by: A WP Life Free & Premium Plugin And Theme Store
https://awplife.com/
Portfolio Gallery – Image Gallery Plugin – Premiuim
https://awplife.com/wordpress-plugins/portfolio-filter-gallery-wordpress-plugin/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/portfolio-filter-gallery/
What they say:
The best of the best Filter gallery plugin with multiple option for WordPress website.
Create a gallery with multiple categorized images, assign filters to images and publish the gallery using shortcode.
The plugins has 200+ 5 star rating on WordPress.
The plugin offer more extra features and templates design.
Free version also available on WordPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/portfolio-filter-gallery/
Thanks
A WP Life
Johns take:
This looks to be a pretty good image gallery plugin that will allow you to display images in several ways. A couple things I noticed, which are probably fixable but did not dig that deep, is that many times the images are not always the same size which for some is important others not so much. All in all it seems pretty smooth and as I got a look at the premium version I'll give this one a ….
Rating 5 Dragons
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Amber's plugin
Secret Image Slide and Tune
https://wordpress.org/plugins/secret-image-slide-and-tune/
The Lowdown:
Want to give people a random treat? How about a picture of a cat dancing to The Kitty Cat Dance?
Description
Totally awesome plugin; you plug it in and set up the picture and the music you want, and set the 10 digit code you want. Totally works, even with the latest version of WP.
Fix this up on your site by setting an image to slide across your browser to your desired tune by entering the correct secret code on your keyboard.
You can either leave this for people to try and find on their own, or you can tell people about it.
Rating: 5 Dragons
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John's plugin
Sent in by Angel Lemus
http://www.koadigital.com/
Popup Trigger URL for Elementor Pro
https://wordpress.org/plugins/popup-trigger-url-for-elementor-pro/
What Angel says:
Currently you can trigger Elementor Pro’s popups by click only on buttons or links inside Elementor.
This plugin will help you to trigger your Elementor Pro’s popup from anywhere even outside the Elementor’s content.
When looking at the Pop up window you have the shortcode on the far right, this adds an URL tab where you copy the Pop-ups URL and add it to any LINK element be it text or a button etc.. Using the URL is much easier than Elementors method of triggering Pop ups. This plug in is a hug time saver.
Johns Take;
If you are using Elementor pro and looking for an intersting tool to improve your popups this may be a plugin for your to add to your site. It will allow you to link that popup to anything you want in your site bypassing the limitations in Elementor.
Rating: 5 Dragons
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Amber's Plugin
Cornify for WordPress
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cornify-for-wordpress/
The Lowdown:
Need something to prank someone with? How about sparkly unicorns popping up on the screen? This will do the trick if a person is inactive for too long on your site.
Description:
You just plug this in, and it activates it.
A not great thing about this, is that it only takes about 30 seconds of inactivity on the site before the shiny sparkly unicorns start popping up.
They just start popping up, and so do rainbows! Shiny, sparkly unicorns and rainbows. It's pretty fun to watch. And mildly mesmerizing too.
Works with the latest version of WordPress, and totally worth plugging in for for a laugh.
This was initially invented for an April fools joke.
I don't like that it only takes about 30 seconds of inactivity though, and there are no settings to make the time longer.
Rating: 4 Dragons
I wanted to make mention of WP Pranks https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pranks/. I was really excited to see this one work, it seems like it would be a fantastic prank plugin!
Unfortunately though, it didn't work on either of the sites I checked out. One was updated to the most recent version of WP, and the other had the last version.
It doesn't have any settings, but it seems to be fairly up to date. I wanted to say that if there are any developers out there who have a sense of humour and are willing to put the work into making a fantastic prank plugin, please do, and then send me the result! I'm totally into pranks! Let me know also if there are any awesome prank plugins out there, 'cause it would be fun to pull some pranks on April fools.
Never on clients of course, but totally on friends and family.
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Closing out this Episode the Plugins We covered were:
John’s Plugins: Popup Trigger URL for Elementor Pro – 5, Portfolio Gallery – Image Gallery Plugin – Premiuim – 5, Disable Admin Notices individually – 4
Amber's Plugins: Validator.pizza – 4, Secret Image Slide and Tune – 5, Cornify for WordPress – 4
Trivia:
Matt's Famous Quotes
https://www.idrlabs.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg.php
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