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It's Episode 466 with plugins to Colour Your World, Zipping it all up, Insuring those products are available and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
Central Color Palette, Amazon Affiliate Product Availability Tracker, Export Media Library and other ClassicPress options in Episode 466
With great appreciation for the No Agenda Show and inspiration of ideas and the occasional stolen sound clip.
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Producer Credits:
Show Art:
Daniele Pais — https://danielepais.com/
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Johns Rant:
This is #25 of 52 episodes for 2020. Its Episode 466 and we are one week from being halfway into this crazy year and with another 6mth's to go it is time to step it up.
As we have just passed the longest day of the year…. we are now 25 weeks into 2020 and 14 weeks of the Rona, no one really knows what the world has in store for us. At the beginning of the year it was pretty optimistic, then for a couple months it was panic about the Rona then for a few weeks it was panic about the Riots and protests now we are back to being told to panic about the Rona. how about if people live their lives and take appropriate precautions to preserve health like humans have done for millennium. I am pretty sure the human race will make it though this disaster like it has so many others in the dark recesses of time.
These are indeed strange times to be alive and I am doing what I can to prepare my kids and grand-kids for what is coming.
The best things you can do is relax take a breath, buy a gun, go for a walk, build a garden and realize things not nearly as bad as the news says they are. So save your sanity and your Amygdala and find out why your not gonna die by listening to the No Agenda Show
I 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:
Proposal to Rename the ‘Master’ Branch of WordPress-Owned Git Repositories
more political correctness for the language police and in this article you can read that there is some dissent and in other languages the proposed words are just as bad it would seem. Yes words matter but to who do they matter? Seems to me to be feel good political correctness.
Google Core Web Vitals: What You Need to Know and Do
A new metric is coming down the pike for those overly concerned with Google analytics read what you need to know.
The Future of Building with WordPress and Genesis
The full site editor is being forced into the next release of WordPress find out some more here.
How to Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development
If you do local development this could help you solve a major problem.
Remote Workers Pose New Security Risks
Trivia:
Gotta bring this one back to the light
Matt's Famous Quotes
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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:
Classic Commerce Beta Release
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Just a note for my ClassicPress listeners please send me info to help keep the ClassicPress section full.
ClassicPress Resources:
For some up to date news on ClassicPress check out the ClassisPress Club news.
An alternate forum for the non-techies.
“Must Have” Plugins List
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
WordPress plugins
Are you looking for some great newly released plugins check this link
John's plugins
Export Media Library
Sent in by Angel Lemus
Version:4.0.2
Requires:4.7.10 or higher
Compatible up to:6.2.6
Released:01 July 2018
Downloads:438121
Last Updated:05 April 2023
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
Allows users to export the entire media library files as a compressed zip archive. Very simple to use, there will be an “export” option added to the Dashboard under “MEDIA”. It is open source and Free does exactly what it claims.
Rating 5 Dragons
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Amazon Affiliate Product Availability Tracker
Sent in by George Plana
Version:
Requires: or higher
Compatible up to:
Released:01 January 1970
Downloads:
Last Updated:01 January 1970
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
Frustrated with Amazon product links pointing to products that are no longer available, we created a simple plugin that checks all your posts and pages for Amazon product links and checks their availability.
In a matter of minutes you get a report of all your expired product links.
Keep your Amazon affiliate website healthy and maximize revenue. Don’t leave behind old Amazon links pointing to out of stock or unavailable products.
This simple plugin will scan your website for affiliate links pointing to Amazon, extract the ASIN and check it against the Amazon API to determine if it is still in stock, and can be purchased.
Rating 4 Dragons
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Central Color Palette
Sent in by Angel Lemus
Version:1.15.5
Requires:5.2 or higher
Compatible up to:5.3.18
Released:21 February 2015
Downloads:431833
Last Updated:16 August 2023
Download Link:Click here
The Lowdown:
This plugin allows you to manage a site-wide central color palette for an uniform look’n’feel. The palette of the new block editor and the Theme Customizer are supported, as well as the classic editor. You can define this central color palette through the settings menu. All plugins that make use of WordPress’ color picker can benefit from this plugin as well.
Also this plugin replaces the color picker for choosing a text or background color found inside the classic editor with a bigger and customizable color grid.
For an easy migration between WordPress installations you can export and import your palette settings and colors.
Rating 5 dragons
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Closing out this Episode the Plugins We covered were:
John’s Plugins: Central Color Palette – 5, Amazon Affiliate Product Availability Tracker – 4, Export Media Library – 5
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Matt's Famous Quotes
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