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WordPress / ClassicPress Tips & News for April 29, 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

Aces over Queens It's Episode 509 - We have plugins for Mail Tracking, Business Directory, Migrations, Custom user Profiles, Registration Management, and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z! WP Mail Logging by MailPoet, All-in-One WP Migration, Web 2.0 Directory Plugin, RegistrationMagic - Custom Registration Forms and User Login, User Registration & User Profile – Profile Builder, WP User Manager - User Profile Builder & Membership and ClassicPress options on Episode 509.  It’s Episode 509 – ‘Aces Over Queens, with plugins for Mail Tracking, Business Directory, Migrations, Custom User Profiles, Registration Management, 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 support us, we are now out of artwork for the show!!  Please tap into your creative juices to create some more of your unique and creative images for us to exhibit on the show.

Check out the 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

The global chip shortage is going from bad to worse. Here’s why you should care
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/the-global-chip-shortage-is-going-from-bad-to-worse-heres-why-you-should-care/ar-BB1gbBaJ

WordPress London Meetup – April 2021 | Meetup – happening today (April 29, 2021)!! A ‘live event’ that is actually virtual talking about the hidden features of WordPress.

News – Become an Early Adopter With the Gutenberg Plugin – WordPress.org – Explains why you need the plugin to use Gutenberg on WordPress.

https://wptavern.com/gravity-forms-2-5-launches-with-an-overhauled-ui-and-focus-on-accessibility – I have a feeling this is going to become a common theme for popular plugins.

WooCommerce Pricing: The Costs of an Online Store | Elementor – For beginners, actual costs on running an online shop.

Google Delays Page Experience Ranking Signal Rollout until June 2021, Adds New Report to Search Console – WordPress Tavern (wptavern.com) – this explains what the ranking is all about and how it works. There is a helpful FAQ link on this page.

Performance vs. Functionality – Bejamas – good article on difference between functionality over performance, and why performance is now trumping functionality.

Android has a unique life-saving feature that you won’t find on any iPhone
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/android-has-a-unique-life-saving-feature-that-you-wont-find-on-any-iphone/ar-BB1gc7mt

7 Insanely Effective Ways How to Write Tweets that Drive Traffic
https://nealschaffer.com/how-to-write-a-tweet-drive-traffic-twitter/

Babuk ransomware readies ‘shut down’ post, plans to open source malware
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/babuk-ransomware-readies-shut-down-post-plans-to-open-source-malware/

WordPress News and Info

Companies Running Competitive Ads Against WordPress May Soon be Banned from Sponsoring WordCamps
https://wptavern.com/companies-running-competitive-ads-against-wordpress-may-soon-be-banned-from-sponsoring-wordcamps

IE 11 Support Phase Out Plan – Make WordPress Core – be aware! if you use Internet Explorer 11, you will no longer have support for WP 5.8. The plan is to move to 5.9 and beyond shortly after.

PSA: Remove Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons Plugin Immediately (wordfence.com) – Vulnerability found in this page builder addon where attackers can upload malicious PHP files to WP site and achieve remote take over.

Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Elementor Impact Over 7 Million Sites (wordfence.com) – vulnerabilities found in Elementor – have been patched, though you will want to make sure that you have updated to the latest version in order to make sure that your site is not vulnerable.

Recent Patches Rock the Elementor Ecosystem (wordfence.com) – A recently updated list of the plugins for Elementor that have been found to have vulnerabilities. Be sure to check this out if you are using Elementor.

Creative Commons Search to Relaunch on WordPress.org – WordPress Tavern (wptavern.com) – Mullenweg has acquired Creative Commons Search Engine in an attempt to bring free source photo’s to WordPress.

News on the FLoC in the Core – I separated this out from the other news because it is such an issue right now, it deserves it’s own little area.

WordPress Contributors Propose Blocking FLoC in Core – WordPress Tavern (wptavern.com) – What the contributors are purposing.

#53069 (Consider implications of FLoC and any actions to be taken on the provider (WordPress) front) – WordPress Trac – the ticket to track the FLoC and any actions to be taken by WP about it / towards it.

Opting your Website out of Google’s FLoC Network – Paramdeo Singh – How to opt out of Googles FLoC Network using the various options, example HTTP and NGINX.

Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) – Article on why Googles FLoC is a terrible Idea. Goes through the various points on what it does and how it does it, and why it affects you and your customers.

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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