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It's Episode 483 with plugins for Images, Delivery Dates, Gifts, Partial Payments, Favourite Boxes, Barcodes, and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
Deposits and Partial Payments for WooCommerce, WP Image Sizes, Order Barcode Plugin, Select Delivery Dates Woo, Halloween Box, Gift Hunt, and ClassicPress options in Episode 483.
John's Intro:
With great appreciation for the No Agenda Show for their inspiration of ideas and the occasional stolen sound clip.
This is a value for value show and I look forward to everyone providing some value back.
Before I get started, you will want to hang around to the end of the show for our segment with Amber…. Also to those listening on the podcast, you may want to check out the YouTube version which has some great discussions before the show starts…
Producer Credits:
Show Art:
Angel Lemus — http://www.koadigital.com
All the show notes can be found at: WPPluginsAtoZ.com
Johns Rant:
The Answer to Life the Universe and Everything……………………..
This is #42 of 52 51 episodes for 2020. Its Episode 483 and we are now only 9 weeks away from the end of the year and the show is moving into new directions. We are now 43 weeks into 2020 and 32 weeks of the Rona, I find it hard to believe they are still pushing this crap on us, but I guess they need to keep the sheepole scared for the great reset.
If you want your life and sanity back now is the time to turn away from Social Media and the M5M folks. Claim back your sanity and life. Go out into the real world without a useless paper mask, meet and talk to real humans, relax and do not be afraid.
Find yourself an Oasis like the one at The Rogues Tavern, a place where you can check out from the world, unplug and recharge your soul.
Heal Your Soul in a few short weeks by:
Minimizing or eliminating your M5M exposure,
Stop using FaceCrack
Make your own little part of the world a better place to be.
Inspire others around you to do the same.
Don't worry about things you cannot control.
Stop accepting and doing things that are not be your best interest.
Work in your best interest while at the same time respecting and helping others, the rewards will follow.
We 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:
The 2020 WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report
https://developer.yoast.com/blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: October 2020, Part 2
https://ithemes.com/wordpress-vulnerability-roundup-october-2020-part-2/
Nailing First Time User Experience (FTUE) for WordPress Plugins & Themes
https://freemius.com/blog/first-time-user-experience/
Clear your mind
https://www.inc.com/bruce-eckfeldt/how-to-clear-your-mind-so-you-can-do-your-best-work.html
The hall of shame via Automattic:
transparency.automattic.com/tag/hall-of-shame/
Matt's Famous Quotes
https://www.idrlabs.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg.php
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Off we go into the meat and potatoes, Into the depths of plugin depravity…..
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.
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 55 57 58 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
Are you looking for some great newly released plugins check this link
https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/new/
John's plugin
Deposits and Partial Payments for WooCommerce
https://wordpress.org/plugins/deposits-for-woocommerce/#description
The Lowdown:
If you're building out a WooCommerce store and looking for a way to possibly increase sale this may work for you. This plugin will allow you to set a deposit your clients can pay for your product or service.
The main limitatiion on the free version is that they can only do either a deposit or pay in full in same order you need the pro version to allow both.
Rating 4 Dragons
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Amber's Plugin
Select Delivery Dates Woo
https://wordpress.org/plugins/select-delivery-dates-woo/
The Lowdown:
A plugin designed for Convenience.
Description:
I wasn't able to fully test this one out, though it seems fairly straightforward.
A bit of warning, it is rather far down the page when you are searching up the plugin, so don't just look for it in the first few rows.
Total freebie, and brand spanking new!
You download the plugin, activate it, and it automatically becomes an option for your customers.
So far as I can tell, you can't tell it to deliver the next day. If the general delivery date takes 8-12 business days though, as a customer, you can choose which date it arrives at your door step – which could be VERY useful for those of us who are not home on particular days of the week!
This seems like a total steal at the moment, I recommend you go and check it out.
Rating 5 Dragons
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John's plugin
WP Image Sizes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-image-sizes/
The Lowdown:
Gaining control of the images on your site seems to be the biggest item for speed and appearance when using WordPress. This is another image management tool you may want to look at. This one helps with control of all the various image sizes created for your site.
It will allow you get rid of the junk sizes and to only create the ones you need. If you jump to the pro, you can even create them on the fly.
This looks to be a pretty good plugin to gain control of you image issues.
Rating 4 Dragons
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Amber's plugin
Halloween Box
https://wordpress.org/plugins/halloween-box/
The Lowdown:
Looking for something kinda Gothic yet tasteful?
Description:
Very simple, total freebie, and brand spanking new!! Less than 10 downloads even!
Download it, activate it, and it turns all of your posts into a black box with a tasteful selection of carved pumpkins at the bottom.
I personally love this plugin, easy peasy, and very tasteful!
Go check this out if simple and easy and tasteful decoration is your thing.
Rating 5 Dragons
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John's plugin
Order Barcode Plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/order-barcode-for-woocommerce/
The Lowdown:
This is a plugin to help enhance your tracking for orders placed in your WooCommerce store. It creates a unique barcode for each order that integrates into WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips this barcode can be used for all your tracking purposes.
Rating 4 Dragons
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Amber's Plugin
Gift Hunt
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gift-hunt/
The Lowdown:
Last Halloween plugin of the year!
Description
Cool thing about this is not only for Halloween. It has a collection of ALL the major holidays, as well as a couple of other pictures that are not holiday related at all!
Now, this DOES have a PRO version, but the free version is just as awesome, I think. Unfortunately, with the PRO version keeping things back DOES cost them a whole Dragon Point.
What this is about is: Creates a pop up ‘gift' for people who spend long enough on your site.
Once the person clicks on the ‘gift', they will fill out a form with their info which you can than collect and grow your business, and they get a ‘gift' of your choosing in return! Very useful!
You don't need WooCommerce, or any specific theme to use this either.
It's a bit of a long form to fill out at first, but it is well worth it since you can simply change the icon that appears depending on the season, or simply deactivate the ‘gift' for when you don't want to have it going.
I would definitely recommend this for people looking to grow their business, and also, the fact that you can make it full of Halloween awesomeness, certainly cool!
Last chance to decorate for Halloween!
Happy Halloween Everyone!
Rating 4 Dragons
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Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
Listener Questions
Hello from Ladysmith, John!
Hope you are well down in Vic, I continue to be entertained by your podcast with your daughter. Great addition.
What is your opinion of the Wordfence plugin?
I was told once by a web host that it is a resource hog but I am watching their weekly YouTube live and considering bringing it back into my recommended plugins. I used to have it on a lot of sites but removed it.
Any advice is appreciated o maybe you have an anti-malware favourite plugin. Thanks.
All the best,
Paul
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Enter The Contest to Win!!:
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I do want to thank Charlie for coming to the aid of the show and getting our contests all organized..
We have a new contest
Contest runs from October 22 until November 3rd winner announced November 5th.
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A few of the features of this plugin are Email campaign management, Email sequencing, 360 degree view while integrating with several 3rd party tool and a few webhook connectors.
This is for a LIFETIME license. Lifetime licenses are not available to purchase, so the value of this giveaway is $129 per year for life.
Go to fluentCRM’s site to learn more about this plugin.
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The Plugins We covered were:
John’s Plugins: Deposits and Partial Payments for WooCommerce – 4, WP Image Sizes – 4, Order Barcode Plugin – 4
Amber's Plugins: Select Delivery Dates Woo – 5, Halloween Box – 5, Gift Hunt – 4
Trivia:
Matt's Famous Quotes
https://www.idrlabs.com/quotes/matt-mullenweg.php
Reminders / Commercial / Promotions:
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****Show segment Q & A Time ——- Catch this info on our YouTube Channel*****
Questions and Answers –
What exactly is Caching? Is WordPress caching different from caching on your own computer?
Closing out this Episode
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