Grab your coffee and brace yourself — it’s Episode 15 of Plugin Pulse, and this week we’re going full unplugged and unfiltered with “Dashboard Invasion: Unwanted Menus from Plugin Hell”!

Host John Overall flies solo (with live Google Meet guests welcome — max 2 people, come hang!) and dives head-first into the chaos that’s hitting WordPress dashboards right now. We break down the latest drama: the IconicWP brand shutdown and Liquid Web fallout (plus Barn2’s killer alternatives guide to keep your store running smooth), the new “vanity plugin filters” mess that’s cluttering the plugins page, and why the whole community is fired up about admin-screen etiquette.

On the brighter side, we geek out over WordPress 7.0’s massive refresh — AI Connectors, Command Palette, responsive block visibility, and more — plus hot SEO/AI shifts like Google’s AI Overviews, the rising LLMs.txt standard, and Elementor’s new “Generate Website Markdown” trick for instant agent-ready scores. We also drop a 5-Dragon review of the brand-new WPBuoy Endpoint Manager (finally tame those sneaky REST API endpoints!), shine the spotlight on WellPlayedWP’s 22-plugin membership as this week’s Featured Promotion, and share a quick functions.php hack to kill Elementor AI nags for good.

Unpopular opinions, live plugin testing, community love, and a big call to support the show through time, talent, or treasure — it’s all here.

Tune in now at wppluginsatoz.com or catch the full replay wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t forget to join the live Google Meet every Monday at 12pm PDT — link drops at showtime on the site. If you’re getting value, throw some back via the Treasure Donations page and keep the Pulse beating strong!

See you in the dashboard… if you can still find it under all those menus. 🚀🐉