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WordPress / ClassicPress Tips & News for April 22, 2021

This weeks newsletter from: WordPress / ClassicPress Plugins News and Tips from WPPluginsAtoZ - The Longest Running WordPress & ClassicPress Plugins Podcast With Your Hosts Amber Overall & John Overall of JohnOverall.com

Last Week’s Show

It's a FLoC'ing Good Time It's Episode 508 - We have plugins for Watching the Earth, Making Sure it Fits, Searching, Login Controls, Tracking Sales, Going FLoC'ing Crazy...., and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z! Size Guarantee, NVV Login Control, Search Only Posts, Earthquake Monitor, Order Reports for WooCommerce, Disable FLoC Easily and ClassicPress options on Episode 508.  It’s Episode 508 – ‘It’s a FLoC’ing Good Time, with plugins for Watching the Earth, Making Sure it Fits, Searching, Login Controls, Tracking Sales, Going FLoC’ing Crazy …, and ClassicPress options. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Join Amber and John every Thursday at 11:45 am for the pre-stream and noon for the show!

 


The Contest

Enter The Contest to Win!!

Contests Powered by Simple Giveaways who kindly provides us with the premium version for our contests.

I do want to thank Charlie for coming to the aid of the show and getting our contests all organized. I also want to thank all the developers again for supporting our show with their plugin donations! Please check them out.

Short note about participating in the contests folks. Remember we go to great efforts to get these licenses and look for more participation from you the producers.

We are taking a hiatus from the contests until June 2021. Watch for more information on our social media pages.

Visit http://WPPluginsAtoZ.com/contests for more info.

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 or book an interview with John!

 


WP Plugins A to Z News

Note to the Artists who supporting us, we have a new system for submitting art work for the show https://wppluginsatoz.com/artwork/. You can also view the art work from the past. Currently you can see all the submissions for Episode 500 here https://wppluginsatoz.com/show-art-submitted/ and you can even vote on the art work. Please, get over there and vote!! Also, if yo have any feedback about the new system, please send it to us.

Yes, John is pimping out his daughter here, if you want to see her very pretty mug in the live stream it is now up to a $500 donation and until it happens that price will continue to go up… At the rate it is going she will never be live. Someone may want to start a Go Fund me to make her mug live.

Remember, you will want to hang around to the end of the show for our Q & A segment with Amber…. and to those listening on the podcast, you may want to check out the YouTube version which has some great discussions before the show starts…

In Other News

Microsoft releases first non-subscription Office 2021, LTSC previews
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-first-non-subscription-office-2021-ltsc-previews/

Multiple APT Groups Exploit Critical Pulse Secure Zero-Day
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/multiple-apt-groups-exploit-pulse

Cybersecurity Key Performance Indicators for Your Security Maturity Level
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/white-papers/cybersecurity-kpi/

Twitter is now letting everyone tweet pictures in 4K on Android and iOS
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22396245/twitter-4k-images-photos-android-ios-apps-update

Botnet backdoors Microsoft Exchange servers, mines cryptocurrency
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/botnet-backdoors-microsoft-exchange-servers-mines-cryptocurrency/

Why WordPress Users Should Consider Headless
https://torquemag.io/2021/03/headless-wordpress-pros-and-cons/?utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_source=twitter

How to Use WordPress and Sensei to Build a Learning Management System
https://pressable.com/2021/04/22/how-to-use-wordpress-and-sensei-to-build-a-learning-management-system/

NVIDIA staff suggests rolling back Windows 10 update to fix game issues
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/nvidia-staff-suggests-rolling-back-windows-10-update-to-fix-game-issues/

Google postpones page experience update rollout
https://searchengineland.com/google-postpones-page-experience-update-rollout-347862

WordPress News and Info

Siri spills the beans on Apple’s 4/20 event (BLAZE IT LOL) (thenextweb.com) – Siri offers up a date for for Apple to reveal new Ipad Pros, and possibly it’s AirTags smart tracker for 4/20. But Apple hasn’t agreed, it’s just Siri talking about it.

Cumulative Layout Shift Debugger (CLS) – webvitals.dev – good tool for debugging. Example of what this helps with: “Have you ever visited a website and was about to click a link to an article, and then… the layout suddenly moves, an ad appears, and somehow instead of clicking on the article you wanted to read, you click on the useless ad?”

WordPress Jobs | Post Status – A current listing of the WordPress jobs available for all those looking for a job. Currently 21 listings to look at.

Headless Form Submission With the WordPress REST API | CSS-Tricks (css-tricks.com) – For those of you using Headless CMS out there, here is a way to use a form withOUT REST API.

What’s new in Gutenberg 10.4? (14 April) – Make WordPress Core – What’s new in Gutenberg!

How to Enable Classic Editor in WordPress.com (lireo.com) – How to enable Classic Editor in WordPress.com

See EXPAND 2021 at GoDaddy Events GoDaddy Pro (Online) – Virtual Web Designer and Developers ‘get together’ for April 27-28, for those who are down with the virtual events that are now taking place.

Everything you need to know about… setting up an office space | Courier (mailchimp.com) – Offers up a fantastic guideline to those who are still struggling with figuring out how to make a space for working at home.

Patchstack Whitepaper: 582 WordPress Security Issues Found in 2020, Over 96% From Third-Party Extensions – WordPress Tavern (wptavern.com) – WordPress security issues from 2020 from third party’s – mostly from Patchstack recently re-branded as WebARX.

Apple is changing Podcasting
https://podcasters.apple.com/878-subscriptions

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-leads-the-next-chapter-of-podcasting-with-apple-podcasts-subscriptions/

Time to get the FLoC out of here
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/04/18/proposal-treat-floc-as-a-security-concern/

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

 



ClassicPress News and Info

Just a note for my ClassicPress listeners please send me info to help keep the ClassicPress section full.

 


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