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It's Episode 454 with plugins for Membership, File Management, Log-out Management, and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

File Manager, Inactive Logout, Ultimate Member – User Profile & Membership Plugin, and other ClassicPress options in Episode 454

According to the Meuller Report your are listening to, “WP Plugins A to Z The Best ClassicPress/WordPress Podcast in the Universe ”

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Show Art:

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Johns Rant:

Its episode 454 and I am still looking for more participation from you the producers this year as the sword of Damocles is still hanging over the show. Keep the feedback coming….. This is #14 of 52 episodes for 2020..

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/

Now 14 weeks into 2020 and now 2 weeks into the isolation game and while the world has changed in many ways my life has not changed at all..

In some places we are definitely heeded towards a dystopian future and in others people and communities are coming together to get though the challenge that has been placed in before us. As a race humans will survive and we will move into our new future but many sections of society will never be the same again.

We now have a new term that will become the norm after all it takes about 2 weeks to develop a habit and about a month to solidify it. The new term is “Social Distancing” and it is anything but Social it is “Anti-social Distancing” but it is becoming the new norm

So Relax people take a breath 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 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

7 signs you have a bot problem
https://www.ns8.com/en-us/blog/post/7-signs-you-have-a-bot-problem

How to Redirect Users after Login in WordPress
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/wordpress/redirect-users-after-login-wordpress

Using Zoom while working from home? Here are the privacy risks to watch out for
https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/using-zoom-while-working-from-home-here-are-the-privacy-risks-to-watch-out-for/

WordPress Security Threats in 2020 and How to Prevent Them
https://torquemag.io/2020/03/wordpress-security-threats-in-2020-and-how-to-prevent-them/

Virtual Meetups & Events
https://mycamp.rocks/meetups/

Address To Impress: 9 Of The Best WordPress Email Marketing Plugins
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/best-wordpress-email-marketing-plugin/

Stop Image Scraping: Why Hotlink Protection Doesn’t Work
https://blogaid.net/stop-image-scraping-why-hotlink-protection-doesnt-work/

WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” Includes Improved Editor, New Blocks, and Developer APIs
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-4-adderley-released-includes-improved-editor-new-blocks-and-developer-apis

New in WordPress 5.4: The Ultimate Guide
https://blogaid.net/new-in-wordpress-5-4-the-ultimate-guide/

Donor – Support

Show Producers

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:

Angel Lemus of https://www.koadigital.com/

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 a 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:

News:

Replacing ClassicPress Cron with system cron
https://www.azurecurve.co.uk/2020/03/15/

Good post on turning off the sudo cron function for ClassicPress and replacing it with a real cron job

General info:
Congrats to
WordPress superstar Jeff Starr's free WP plugins have just surpassed 1 million users. Most notably, more than 500,000 of those users are from his “Disable Gutenberg” plugin. Just sayin'.
Twitter quote “Feeling grateful: my collection of free #WordPress plugins just surpassed 1 million users :)”
https://twitter.com/perishable/status/1240811965494132738

side note to this the total active installs of plugins blocking Gutenberg is
roughly 8 million that says allot about what poeple think i believe.

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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 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

The story of my life is to over complicate things and recently was no different when I was working on a new membership site to allow file uploads and to protect the files from prying eyes. I was going about it in an overly complicated way and once I got into it I discovered some great plugins that allow you to create a membership site that will allow people to upload files and images in such a way that you can protect them from the outside and all direct access. Here are those plugins.

Ultimate Member – User Profile & Membership Plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/

The Lowdown:
This membership plugin is easy to use and setup have some good extensions and the free version gives you pretty much everything you need to make a great membership site to help lock down your site. You gain the ability to create and manage unique user profiles to allow specific needs.

You can protect the whole site or just specific sections with ease, set different levels of access for different members.
and more.

Rating 5 Dragons

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Inactive Logout

https://wordpress.org/plugins/inactive-logout/

and pro addon

The Lowdown:
Forcing users on a membership site to be logged out can be an important part of your site security. This plugin does that by timing them out and then logging them off and if you add in the pro version for a few bucks you can force them to be logged out the moment when they close the browser.

Rating 5 Dragons

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File Manager

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-manager/

and pro and dropbox addon

The Lowdown:
I have covered this before but I have not covered the premium addon. With that you can integrate this pretty well into the membership plugin above to allow users to have their own select directory that they can upload to and not see anything else. This is a great way to allow your members to share folders or files in a secure way.

You can also get the add-on for Dropbox that allows you to integrate it there.

Rating 5 Dragons

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Listener Feedback / Audio Clips

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On piece of feedback was simple enough request

Hello,
I'm out of beer now. Can you please send some? Thank You

Listener Questions
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Enter The Contest to Win!!:

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Both support licenses are valued at $300 and the coupon is good for one redemption. You choose which version best suits your needs.

For more about this plugin check out the Interview with Seth Shoults

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For all developers who would like to support the show. You can donate a premium license to be used in a future contest please go to WPPluginsAtoZ.com/PluginContest

Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:

John’s Plugins: File Manager – 5, Inactive Logout – 5, Ultimate Member – User Profile & Membership Plugin – 5

Be sure to stick around after the show for some great music from No Agenda will only be availbe on the YouTube version of show.

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