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It's Episode 444 and I've got plugins for Stock Photography, Lazy Loading, Newsletters, and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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Producer Credits:

Show Art: Angel Lemus of https://www.koadigital.com/

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Johns Rant:

Its episode 444 half of the perfect 888 and well it is the rise of a new dawn and The Monsoons have returned to Victoria for some wet cost weather,time for some water walking, hunkering down in the Brewery Overlook hoping I wont float away. . We are off and I hearing from folks again and it seems all is not lost lets keep this going…. This is #4 of 52 episodes for 2020.. Working to provide you with the best WordPress/ClassicPress show on the interwebs.

I am still looking for more participation from you my producers this year as the sword of Damocles is hanging over the show. The feed back is starting to pick up but keep it going.

WordPress News and Info

Yoast SEO Tweaks to Perform Right After WordPress Setup
https://www.easywp.com/blog/yoast-seo-tweaks/

How to Load WordPress Faster by Reducing TTFB?
https://wpfrank.com/load-wordpress-faster-by-reducing-ttfb/

Critical WordPress Bug Leaves 320,000 Sites Open to Attack
https://threatpost.com/wordpress-bug-leaves-sites-open-to-attack/

WP Time Capsule and InfiniteWP WordPress plugins are affected by security flaws that could be exploited to take over websites running the popular CMS.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/96477/hacking/wordpress-plugin-flaws.html

Researchers find serious flaws in WordPress plugins used on 400k sites
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/researchers-find-serious-flaws-in-wordpress-plugins-used-on-400k-sites/

Winners, losers and fallout from Google’s plan to drop cookies
https://digiday.com/marketing/winners-losers-fallout-googles-plan-drop-cookies/

Show Producers

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Or something I may not have thought of.

I'd like to acknowledge all the producers who have supported the show in the various ways.

This weeks show Art Work comes from:

Daniele Pais of https://danielepais.com/journal

This week's Executive Producer/'s are:

A big thank you to all our Producers who came in under $50 and to those who have set up weekly subscriptions they will remain anonymous and I thank you very much.

All these small subscriptions really help the show out.

A big thank you to those who have hired me because of the Podcast, thank you that is as good as donating to the show..

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:

Quiet week for Classsic press this week.

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

Random Links to ClassicPress supporters

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/

WordPress plugins

StockPack

https://stockpack.co/pricing
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stockpack/

Calara Ionut
https://www.derikon.com/

The Lowdown:
I fyou use any of the following Stock image suppliers Unsplash, Adobe Stock, Pixabay and Deposit Photos you will want to lookinto this plugin as it make it easy to connect your site up to them and quickly access the stock images and then iport them into your Website.

This is a freemium plugin but they have a very generous package of allowing up to 50 requests per hour not too sure if this means downloading 50 iimages or if you get to load up to 50 images to choose from per hour. On the whole it looks like the free version would serve most people well.

Rating 4 Dragons

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Lazy Load for GMaps

https://wordpress.org/plugins/lazy-load-for-gmaps/

The Lowdown:
if you are reaching for thay elusive 100% on Google Pagespeed this may help you get there when your using Google maps. Since odly enought while Google promotes speed many of thiuer serives do nothing but slow down your site.

using this is not as simple as most google maps in that you have to build out your short code manuall it appears but it could be of great help to you.

Rating 4 Dragons

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Talking about MailList Plugins and services
While I have a couple of email plugins to talk about I wanted to reference this article since it does what I don't have the time for at the moment and that is comparing different services.

MailPoet and WordPress Newsletter Plugins vs Mailchimp and Drip
https://deliciousbrains.com/mailpoet-wordpress-newsletter-plugins-vs-mailchimp-drip/

You might also check out this plugin

Boldermail

https://wordpress.org/plugins/boldermail/

The Lowdown:
This is a premium service but may be well worth your while to check out if your getting tired of the others or simply looking for a solution.

Rating 4 dragons

You may also want to check out

Mail Poet

This is a great plugin and listen to the interview I did with Kim Gjerstad from MailPoet to find out more.

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Hi John, I'm a few weeks behind on listening, but just heard your rap-up on 2019. Just wanted to let you know we're still out there listening and appreciate all the work and effort that goes into the podcast. I'm not developing a lot of new sites at the moment, but appreciate knowing what's out there when I do. Keep up the great work and I hope you have a super 2020.

Tim

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Closing out this Episode the Plugins I covered were:

John’s Plugins: StockPack – 4, Lazy Load for GMaps – 4, Boldermail – 4

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