Batten Down The Hatches
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It's Episode 438 and I've got plugins for Which Elementor Addon, GM Block Bots, Login LockDown and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!
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Show Art: Angel Lemus
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I have a great set of plugins for you today!
Which Elementor Addon
https://wordpress.org/plugins/which-addon-for-elementor/
The Lowdown:
This is a great simple plugin that allows you to find out the widgets you used when you built out a website. simply install the go to a page you built with Elementor and then hover over the widgets. You will then see what plugin was used for that widget. This is a very useful tool when you remember doing something on a site and you want to duplicate it and just can't recall which plugin you used.
Rating 5 dragons
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WordPress News and Info
Gutenberg as a Full pagebuilder coming soon
https://make.wordpress.org/design/2019/12/07/gutenberg-phase-2-friday-design-update-41/
A bit late but still a warning to others
20 VPS providers to shut down on Monday, giving customers two days to save their data
https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-on-monday-giving-customers-two-days-to-save-their-data/
How Would You Know If Your WordPress Website is Hacked?
https://wpeasier.com/know-wordpress-website-hacked/
Johns news:
This not news but something I just want to vent about
Complaints about the WordPress plugins repo search function “Which Elementor Addon” does not even show on first page for its name?? WTF
Plugin Dynamics is starting to come to life and we have 4 plugins just about ready for general testing plus 3 more in the cue.
Date Calculator
Metric Conversions
Clock de Resistance
Tabular Data dynamics
In the development cue
The Tarot Reading plugin
Intranet Lockdown
All coming soon to https://PluginDynamics.com
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GM Block Bots
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gm-block-bots/
Simple easy way to stop a majority of bad bots to your website, this plugin is simple to use has no settings and blocks bad bots in the background. Check it out.
Rating 5 Dragons
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Login LockDown
https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-lockdown/
The Lowdown:
A simple way for you to add an additional layer of security to your site this plugin sets up to limit login attempts on your site by blocking IP addresses and ranges. You can determine what time period they fail over and how many attempts they get. If you need to and a mistake is made you can get in and free them up. Simple and easy way to add an additional layer of security.
Rating 5 Dragons
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:
Introducing the 2020 ClassicPress Management Committee
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/introducing-the-2020-classicpress-management-committee/1814
General info:
Web242
I'm delighted to announce Web242 Media is committed to launching full hosting support for @GetClassicPress.
https://twitter.com/Web242ca/status/1203788364425490432
ClassicPress Plugin
This is a recommended firewall plugin for ClassicPress
Shield Security: Protection with Smarter Automation
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/
Check this forum link for some info and it says the dev has committed to support ClassicPress
https://forums.classicpress.net/t/recommended-security-plugin-for-classicpress/1818
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 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/
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Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:
John’s Plugins: Which Elementor Addon – 5, GM Block Bots – 5, Login LockDown – 5
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