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Slider Revolution Responsive, WP Client Reports, AlertMe! – Automatic Post Update Notifications to Subscribers, and ClassicPress options in Episode 446

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Johns Rant:

Its episode 446 and its time find and regain some balance. Balance is coming to the show and my life. Today's show is a bit late today due to having a specialist appointment with the eye Dr. Support for the show is moving forward with new submissions and interviews. Let's keep this going I need your support to keep this show going there are lots of ways to support the show I will cover later…. This is #6 of 52 episodes for 2020.. Working to provide you with the best WordPress/ClassicPress show on the interwebs.

I am still looking for more participation from you my producers this year as the sword of Damocles is hanging over the show. keep the feedback coming.

WordPress News and Info

Native Lazy Loading Support Coming to WordPress
https://wptavern.com/native-lazy-loading-support-coming-to-wordpress

Join the Future of WordPress Themes Conversation: Theme Review Team to Hold Biweekly Discussions
https://wptavern.com/join-the-future-of-wordpress-themes-conversation-theme-review-team-to-hold-biweekly-discussions

Key Takeaways From the First ‘Future of Themes’ Meeting
https://wptavern.com/key-takeaways-from-the-first-future-of-themes-meeting

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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:

General info:

WPvivid Backup Plugin For WordPress or ClassicPress
https://www.xhostcom.com/wpvivid-backup-plugin-for-wordpress-or-classicpress/

ClassicPress Plugins

ClassicPress Widget Conditions

https://github.com/mathewcallaghan/classicpress-widget-conditions

ClassicPress, control where widgets appear on your site

This plugin adds a conditions panel that lets you configure widgets to appear or be hidden on certain pages.

Rating 5 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 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

Slider Revolution Responsive (premium $29)

https://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-responsive-wordpress-plugin/2751380

The Lowdown:
This is a premium plugin and now on ver 6 and while is is still one of the best sliders out there the new version is not as intuitive as it used to be. It had been a while since I had to create some sliders and when I jumped into it there was a pretty substantial learning curve. They have completely changed the interface and what used to be pretty intuitive is no longer.

The import process for a slider is no longer as easy as it used to be and while you can make some pretty complex sliders with it you are still having to navigate the way it now works.

Rating 4 Dragons

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WP Client Reports

sent in by: Jesse Sutherland

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-client-reports/

The Lowdown:
If you maange WordPress websites for clients this is something you may need . It allows you to make reports right on the website your managing.
The perfect report builder plugin for agencies, freelancers and site maintainers who regularly update their client’s sites on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis. The plugin tracks what updates have happened and records them daily.

You can use the beautiful reporting analytics screen to show what updates have happened within a custom amount of time such as last month, this month, or last 30 days.

Send an HTML email with update statistics whenever you complete updates to show the value of your work to your client or other site stakeholders. No PDF’s here, just a nicely designed email.

WP Client Reports Pro allows you to self brand the report with your logo and company colors. It also adds a number of integrations with other services and plugins to display their statistics.

Google Analytics
Gravity Forms & Ninja Forms
Uptime Robot & Pingdom
Mailchimp
WooCommerce

Rating 5 Dragons

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AlertMe! – Automatic Post Update Notifications to Subscribers

sent in by: Chris Raymond

https://wordpress.org/plugins/alertme/

The Lowdown:
AlertMe! places an email opt-in field to any page/post of your website, allowing your visitors to sign-up for email alerts whenever a page has been updated.

Why is this needed?: It's not uncommon to manage content on a website that often gets updated. But how do you inform your visitors of this update? AlertMe! was designed to solve this problem. Without the need of a costly email, or inbound marketing system, AlertMe! uses your website to automatically send simple email notifications to visitors when a post or page has been updated. Via the power of this simple email, it helps pull traffic back to your website.

Rating 4 Dragons

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Listener Feedback / Audio Clips

A Little feedback on a plugin I reviewed last show
IP Address Approval

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip-address-approval/

This from twitter
Thanks for taking a look at, and sharing, our plugin! Sorry we missed the Live Stream!! We thought the missing audio on YouTube was an issue on our end.. We'd like to address your concerns, and would have liked to be part of the discussion.. so again our apologies!
– Blog Owners Name (it's nice to know who we are talking to, and suppose to be talking to)
– Username (helps us with verification)
– Email (verification and communication)
– Blog ID (a number that is specific to 1 site in your WP account)
– Domain URL (Must match via API, this way no one can use your code on their site**yes it was happening, and was showing up as referral spam in the Site Visitor Log**)
– Current Theme Name (troubleshooting)
– WordPress Version (troubleshooting)
– Plugin Version (troubleshooting)
That said, you should be able to see why these things are important to us. It's also easier to see those details that the Site Owner might have not clue how to find, or it at least saves us the trouble of having to ask just so we can troubleshoot a possible conflict or issue.
As for the API.. We do provide a service, a service that comes at a cost to us.
Good news is, that we are usually running at 99.99% up-time (I can only see the last 90 days) and that 0.01% is probably an error on their end based on 1 min. pings.
On that note; User questions (thus far) are almost non existent because we like to be thorough. We make sure that we are satisfied, so you are too. Sometimes it may not be so apparent, but we've been here before and like to make things as easy as possible for all involved.

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Gutenberg Times
@gutenbergtimes
Thanks for the shout-out!
Appreciate it, John

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Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:

John’s Plugins: Slider Revolution Responsive – 4, WP Client Reports – 5, AlertMe! – Automatic Post Update Notifications to Subscribers – 4, ClassicPress Widget Conditions – 5

Reminders / Commercial / Promotions:

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