Oracles & Angels
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It's Episode 460 with plugins for What the Future Holds, Sanitizing SVGs, Sticky Headers, Lots of Colour, Displaying Posts and Images and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
Central Color Palette, Sticky Header Effects for Elementor, Safe SVG, Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more, Ultimate Carousel For Elementor, Tarot Card Oracle and other ClassicPress options in Episode 460
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Producer Credits:
Show Art:
Sherri Lynn
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Johns Rant:
Its episode 460 and while there is participation this week from you the producers I am still looking for more and while this is helping to push the sword of Damocles off to the side a bit further. Don't Let Up, Keep the feedback coming….. This is #19 of 52 episodes for 2020..
As we are now 19 weeks into 2020 and 8 weeks into the isolation/lock down game. Our government overlords are coming to their senses at least here in Beautiful BC as they have given us permission (thank You Overlords) to finally get out and meet in groups this May long weekend. I think this beats my record grounding as a teenager. You will just have to imagine what I did to earn that grounding..
So its party time this long weekend, get out and do something.
These are strange times indeed.
So, relax folks take a breath, go for a walk, build a garden and realize that while our world is now changed forever we will get though it. Save your sanity and your Amygdala and find out why your not gonna die by listening to the No Agenda Show
I do have more show spaces coming up for guest hosts, if you would like to join me as a guest host on the show please reach out to me at john@wppro.ca You can also go to https://wppluginsatoz.com/guesthost/
Today we have a Guest host who has contributed to the show in several ways from submitting plugins to providing most of the great art that has been showcased. He is a graphic designer with years of experience and seems to enjoy WordPress.
Joining me today is Angel Lemus.
I have some news from the world of WordPress for you today, as well as some great plugins.
Let get to the fun we have today.
WordPress News and Info
Before we jump into the news, a quick question about WordPress.
WordPress has seen some boosts during the Rona Virus and I am wondering how many other CMS systems and quick builders have had a boost also. What will happen to the leader as they head down what I feel are crazy paths?
News this week:
Bringing Back Blogs in the Age of Social Media Censorship
https://wptavern.com/bringing-back-blogs-in-the-age-of-social-media-censorship
ClassicPress free plugin roundup May 2020
https://www.zigpress.com/classicpress-free-plugin-roundup-may-2020/
How to Prevent Your Clients From Accidentally Deactivating Plugins
https://torquemag.io/2020/05/prevent-clients-deactivating-plugins/
Where Gutenberg Went Wrong: Theme Developer Edition
https://wptavern.com/where-gutenberg-went-wrong-theme-developer-edition
Whether you like the block editor is of little consequence when there is no buy-in from theme authors.
Bringing Back Blogs in the Age of Social Media Censorship
https://wptavern.com/bringing-back-blogs-in-the-age-of-social-media-censorship
Great article about censorship.
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
https://kinsta.com/webinars/speed-up-wordpress/
WordCamp Spain 2020 Q&A: Matt Mullenweg Discusses Virtual Events, Decoupled WordPress, and the Future of Page Builders
https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-spain-2020-qa-matt-mullenweg-discusses-virtual-events-decoupled-wordpress-and-the-future-of-page-builders
Some thought by our benevolent Dictator himself in particular the veiled message that most page builder are going the way of the Dodo.
Trivia:
Matts Famous Quotes
https://www.idrlabs.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg.php
Donor – Support
This Show will not work without you the producers as it is a Value for Value model meaning if your'e getting any value out of it then give some value back and help the show out.
I'd like to acknowledge all the producers who have supported the show in the various ways over the last week.
This weeks show Art Work comes from:
Sherri Lynn
This week's Executive Producer/'s are:
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.
All these small subscriptions really help the show out.
A big thank you to those who have hired me because of the Podcast, thank you that is as good as donating to the show.
You can Support the Show by:
Donating money to help the show Donations of $50 and over are credited with an Executive Producer Credit in the Show Notes, and their note is read out on the show.
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You can also create a monthly donation at Patreon
Or something I may not have thought of.
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:
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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 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
Angel's Plugin
Central Color Palette
https://wordpress.org/plugins/kt-tinymce-color-grid/
Manage a site-wide, central color palette for an uniform look’n’feel.
Rating
John's Plugin
Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more
https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/
The Lowdown:
This is a great plugin that gives you a short code to allow displaying posts just about anywhere you can place a short code. You can limit the display by category, setup a grid display and more. Check this one out.
Rating 4 Dragons
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Angel's Plugin
Sticky Header Effects for Elementor
https://wordpress.org/plugins/sticky-header-effects-for-elementor/
Sticky Header Effects for Elementor adds useful options that are missing from the “sticky” header feature introduced in Elementor Pro 2.0. Giving users the option to change the background color and height when the visitor starts scrolling down the page. This allows for a “transparent” menu effect that can become any color, semi-transparent or solid, once the visitor begins to scroll.
Rating
John's Plugin
Ultimate Carousel For Elementor
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-carousel-for-elementor/
The Lowdown:
This is a pretty great plugin for you. Elementor users to display a great looking carousel on your pages. You can create carousels out of just about anything check this one out.
Rating 4 Dragons
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Angel's Plugin
Safe SVG
https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/
Allow Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) uploads.
Rating
John's Plugin
Tarot Card Oracle
https://wordpress.org/plugins/card-oracle/
The Lowdown:
Become your own Oracle, you can use this to create Tarot reading off your website and pass them along. It will allow you to use any deck you have and define the positions and more.
Rating 4 Dragons..
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Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
Hello John,
Your podcasts are great and well formatted.
Question: I enjoy coding text only websites.
May I directly code everything HTML/CSS in WordPress?
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Richard Hopp
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I get busy and have a narrow focus so loose track of things please help out here if you can.
*** request for you the producers*** Still need
Hi John.
Been a while, and hopefully everything is going well for you over there.
Wondering if I could pick your brain on a plugin needed for a client? They want to be able to send a quote from WordPress for some products and service, and have the client able to log into WP to approve/question/pay for the quote.
I didn’t see anything in Woocommerce to manage something of this scope, and was wondering if you had any other recommendations?
Keep the faith on the podcast, man. We’re still listening!
Marv
Listener Questions
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With thanks back to Martin who won this contest last time. He realized there were no projects he could use it for so it has been recycled back into the show. So we once again have a contest running to give away the key for Event Espresso.
We have a new contest and we are giving away a license for Event Espresso. Running May 8, 2020 until June 10, 2020
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Closing out this Episode the Plugins We covered were:
Brian & John’s Plugins: Central Color Palette – , Sticky Header Effects for Elementor – , Safe SVG – , Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more – 4, Ultimate Carousel For Elementor – 4, Tarot Card Oracle- 4
trivia:
Matts Famous Quotes
https://www.idrlabs.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg.php
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