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It's Episode 449 with plugins for Making Time Work for You, Knowing Your history, Banishing Spammers to hell, and some ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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Producer Credits:

Show Art:

Angel Lemus of https://www.koadigital.com/

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Johns Rant:

Its episode 449 and I am still looking for more participation from you the producers this year as the sword of Damocles is still hanging over the show. Keep the feedback coming….. This is #9 of 52 episodes for 2020..

I am looking for guest hosts to appear on the show starting in March, It does look like I have a couple lined up and if you would like to join me as a guest host please reach out to me at john@wppro.ca You can also go to https://wppluginsatoz.com/guesthost

The world is a bit crazy right now from over worrying about a pandemic to banning hats at WordCamp. It seems people just don't stop and think anymore. If people took a few minutes to step back and consider situations then they will find more often than not things are not nearly as bad as it seems.

I have a little bit of WordPress drama in the news today and it is always so much entertainment just sit back much some popcorn and read the comments always great fun.

While the KungFlu may be of concern it is not nearly as bad as say the regular flu we deal with on an annual basis. Want to know why your not gonna die check out the No Agenda Show

Let get to the fun we have today.

WordPress News and Info

Love me some WordPress drama
On MAGA Caps and WordCamps — Just love the tolerance that happens..
https://wptavern.com/on-maga-caps-and-wordcamps

WordPress Vulnerability News, February 2020
https://www.webarxsecurity.com/wordpress-plugin-vulnerability-news-february-2020/

Free trojanized WordPress themes lead to widespread compromise of web servers
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/02/19/trojanized-wordpress-themes/

Automatic Theme and Plugin Updates Slated for WordPress 5.5
https://wptavern.com/automatic-theme-and-plugin-updates-slated-for-wordpress-5-5

Donor – Support

Show Producers

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I'd like to acknowledge all the producers who have supported the show in the various ways.

This weeks show Art Work comes from:

Angel Lemus of https://www.koadigital.com/

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.

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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:

News:

James Nylen a core lead at classic press has started a
[BETA] Fork of Elementor with ClassicPress support
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/beta-fork-of-elementor-with-classicpress-support/2161

Check out the interview I did with James & Michelle
General info:

ClassicPress Plugins

To Twitter

https://development.azurecurve.co.uk/classicpress-plugins/to-twitter/

Allows posts to be automatically tweeted when they are published.
Mark the Post tweet on publish/update? checkbox to post tweet when the post is published (works for both immediately and scheduled posts.
Set hashtags in the hashtags box; these appear after the tweet.
Save a draft of the post to see auto-generated default tweet and amend if necessary; to regenerate default tweet, clear Tweet field and save draft; post URL is represented by a %s placeholder.
Integrates with azurecurve’s URL Shortener for URL in tweet.

Rating 4 Dragons

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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 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

Timed Content

https://wordpress.org/plugins/timed-content/

The Lowdown:
There are times when you have content you need to appear and disappear on a set time basis. This is the plugin for you. it is easy to setup and have a quick button to create the short codes you need to set content between and allows the content to appear and disappear when you want it to.

Rating 5 dragons

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Simple History

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-history/

The Lowdown:
Finding out what your users are doing on a site or tracking what you have done can sometimes be important. There are lots of plugins that do this tracking some have more intense tracking than others. But if you are looking for a simple way of tracking what is going on this is a plugins for you.

You can even add you own event to be tracked by adding some code to your functions file. This is a great way to discover who made those updates who is logging in and more.

Rating 5 Dragons
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Disable Comments and Delete Comments :WP Remove comments and Disable Comments

https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments-permanently-in-one-click/

The Lowdown:
It happens you set up a site and forget to configure the comments or turn them off what ever your plans are. Then the spammers arrive and you suddenly have dozens to hundreds of spam comments on the site and well you don't want to have to manually remove them one by one.

This plugin has you covered you simply install it and then click a couple boxes then save all comments are removed the system is turned off and no more can arrive.

Rating 5 Dragons

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Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:

John’s Plugins: Timed Content – 5, Simple History – 5, Disable Comments and Delete Comments – 5, To Twitter – 4

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