Finding Gold in Plugins
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It's Episode 435 and I've got plugins for Cleaning Your Assets, Adding Scripts, Creating a Table of Contents and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
Asset Cleanup Plugin for Page Speed, SOGO Add Script to Individual Pages Header Footer, Table of Contents Reloaded and ClassicPress options in Episode 435
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Show Art: Angel Lemus
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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.
We have a special one today a review sent in by a Producer.
Sent in by Frintz Barnes of https://BizProMedia.com
Fritz Barnes has been full-time in IT since 1985, self-employed since 1993, and has been building websites since 1999. In early 2001, Fritz invented WordPress. Wait, no he didn't…but he did launch a website that used a custom CMS – hand-coded in notepad – before that was even a thing, two years before WordPress was born.
In 2012, Fritz re-branded as <a href=”https://bizpromedia.com“>BizProMedia</a>, where he provides web design and development and related services to his clients.
Asset Cleanup Plugin for Page Speed
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-asset-clean-up/
This plugin is written and maintained by Gabriel Livan, a UK-based WordPress full stack developer. Livan is a Certified Codeable WordPress Expert and a TopTal (top 3%) Developer.
As of this writing (October 2019) the plugin is has over 40,000 active installations, and a solid 5-star rating with over 300 reviews.
The idea is to identify resources (css, javascript) that are loading on pages where they are not needed, and disable them on those pages.
This will have a number of benefits for your website. Faster page loads means happier visitors and a happier Google. It also means fewer HTTP requests, fewer conflicts, cleaner source code and server log files, and more. See the plugin's page in the repository for a long list.
The plugin has a number of other features, some of which overlap with what many caching plugins and CDN's also offer.
This is a plugin that does require some technical knowledge to use, and will take some time to configure.
I have just started dabbling with this plugin and I love the concept. Overall, so far I think this is a great plugin, and an important addition to your arsenal of tools for optimizing your sites.
He did not give a rating for me and since it has a Pro version it gets
Rating 4 Dragons
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WordPress News and Info
Millions of Sites Exposed by Flaw in Jetpack WordPress Plugin
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/millions-of-sites-exposed-by-flaw-in-jetpack-wordpress-plugin/
Security News in WordPress 5.3
https://blog.wpsec.com/security-news-in-wordpress-5-3-2/
7 Essential WordPress Tips You Need to Know This Year
https://donklephant.com/7-essential-wordpress-tips-you-need-to-know-this-year/
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
Intranet Lockdown
All coming soon to https://PluginDynamics.com
Contest You Can Win a Premium Plugin License For:
Contests Powered by Simple Giveaways who kindly provides us with the premium version for our contests.
The Winner of the last contest for Social Rabbit is Sherri congratulations.
Social Rabbit Plugin reviewed in Episode 428. This is an excellent plugin to connect to your social networks and share out your content.
Find out more at Social Rabbits site https://alidropship.com/addons/social-rabbit/
Our next contest is coming soon
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SOGO Add Script to Individual Pages Header Footer
https://wordpress.org/plugins/oh-add-script-header-footer/
The Lowdown:
There are times when you want to add scripts or additional code site wide and there are times when you only need it on a specific page. This plugin helps with the latter one, when you only need to add a script to a page or two. This simple to use plugin allows you to add your code to specific pages or even to the whole site if need be.
Rating 5 dragons
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Feedback is great and I do listen, I had a suggestion last week to improve my show notes and that is coming from this episode forward.
Thanks to G
Who pointed out the misspelling we had going on for many episodes in our show art we have moved on from being the WPPUGins show back to the WPPLUGins show. We are pugs no more……Plus a couple other things he noticed that I fixed.
Www.gerbengvandijk.nl
The Netherlands
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Table of Contents Reloaded
https://wordpress.org/plugins/table-of-contents-reloaded/
The Lowdown,
On the occasional project I have needed to create a Table of Contents to be listed in a side bar or on a seperate page. This is an excellent plugin for that it is a continuation of an older plugin that was picked up by Yehuda Hasine and allows for easy presentation of a table of contents on your site. With several short codes you can control how it looks and what to display.
Rating 5 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:
The Self-Nominations for the 2020 CP Management Committee Elections
Full list of nominees
https://forums.classicpress.net/c/governance/2020-committee-candidates
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/about-the-2020-committee-candidates-category/1675
General info:
Random Links to ClassicPress supporters
ClassicPress Plugin
From Codepotent
Update Manager RC1 is out!
https://codepotent.com/update-manager-rc1-is-out/
Some big news in the community the Woocommerce plugin has been forked and will be Classic Commerce more information here
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/classic-commerce-roadmap-version-1-2/1668
Essential plugins/extensions for Classic Commerce
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/essential-plugins-extensions-for-classic-commerce/1073
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 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/
Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:
John’s Plugins: Asset Cleanup Plugin for Page Speed – 4, SOGO Add Script to Individual Pages Header Footer – 5, Table of Contents Reloaded – 5
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