It’s Episode 512 – ‘Charging Forward’, with plugins for Filling Your Time, Tracking Email, Social Sharing, Simplifying Things, Going Fishing, and ClassicPress options. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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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.
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We are taking a hiatus from the contests until June 2021. Watch for more information on our social media pages.
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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…
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Googles Project Starline – very Star Trek. – Who knew that hologram tech would actually come to the fore so quickly? I think it’s pretty nifty.
AccessiBee and other overlay products are coming under fire due to their 3rd party overlay coding! Open letter from advocates and developers calling on industry to unite against the accessibility of these technologies.
WordPress Business Cheat Sheet for selling Themes and Plugins – Not a bad list to go through.
Random note on how much your private information is worth on the dark web.
Looking for work? – here’s the current job listings for WordPress.
SEO tips and practices from WP Rocket
Persistent Dismissible – a bit of code to help with centralizing/minimizing ” code required to execute multiple different calls and checks to the User Meta and User Options APIs inside of WordPress Core.” To be a little more clear, the creator states this: “How many times have you written some WordPress code to help you with storing the state of whether-or-not a logged-in user clicked “dismiss” on an admin-area notice, promo, or banner? Yeah. Us too.”
Google Quantum Computer by 2029!? – And they aren’t the only ones. IBM is in the race as well! Interesting read if nothing else.
Hackers hide in your network for up to 11 days before attacking says this report.
CryptoCurrency Glossary – from DogeCoin to BitCoin.
Auto Bot for CryptoCurrency Trading how to guide!
Not news, but a warning to those who listen about old tricks being used in spam again. Recently I have been receiving on my honeypot emails, simple emails saying that I have exceeded my allocated space please click below to fix.
WPTavern discusses vax stats requirement – Heads up if you are wanting to join a WordCamp in person, you may be required to give your private medical information, stating whether or not you have had the vax. Not cool in my opinion.
Rebranding Plugins may be the new fad – Next up for Plugin Rebranding and Repurposing: Profile Press Plugin! It is now known as: WP User Avatar Plugin! This plugin is now full fledged user registration, profile, login, and membership management plugin rather then single purpose custom-avatar solution plugin.
Massive updates to Gutenberg 10.6 that include (but are not limited to) duotone filters, query pattern carousel, and most used tags selector.
WordPress 5.7.2 now available! Short cycle security release is what they are calling this – the next major update will be in the 5.8.
Top 10 Threat detection – for common threats vexing cloud customers whether the business is huge, medium, or small.
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
Just a note for my ClassicPress listeners please send me info to help keep the ClassicPress section full.
WordLift has released a new version that is compatible with ClassicPress
https://twitter.com/GetClassicPress/status/1390024809791246339?s=20 https://twitter.com/GetClassicPress/status/1390024809791246339?s=20
https://twitter.com/GetClassicPress/status/1390024809791246339?s=20
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