Lighting Up The New Year With WordPress Plugins

It's Episode 543 and we have plugins for Rocket Fire, Mojo Authentication, Confetti, Hot Swinging Images, Newspapering Style, Date'n'Time Shortened… and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Rocket Fireworks, MojoAuth Passwordless Authentication, Confetti, Swinging Hotspot Interactive Images, Newspaper Columns, WP Date and Time Shortcode……. and ClassicPress options on Episode 543.

John's Intro:

Welcome to the new year! Let's see what 2022 has in store for us.

This is a value for value show and I look forward to everyone providing some value back.

Before I get started, 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…

Producer Credits:

Executive producer:

Nobody this week. Maybe next week!

Show Art:

Greg's Graphics (Greg Holdsworth) — https://gregsgraphics.com

All the show notes can be found at: WPPluginsAtoZ.com

Check out all the art work at https://wppluginsatoz.com/show-art-submitted/

To Submit Artwork go here https://wppluginsatoz.com/artwork/

Amber's Rant:

This is episode #1 of 52 episodes for 2022! We sorta skipped over the end of the 2021 show, decided to take our own advice and spend some quality time with family and friends.

And some good booze too of course. 😉

The snow has decided to give us one more good kick before heading off for a bit, and dump enough snow and freezing rain on us to keep us inside. Hopefully everyone out there is either keeping warm and staying in, or at least enjoying whatever it is that takes you out into this!

Remember, keep in touch with your family, be sure they know where you are so that if anything goes wrong help can find you. Stay safe and warm everyone!

Rinse and repeat as often as needed.

We have some news from the world of WordPress for you today as well as some great plugins.

News this week:

iThemes part 1 Vulnerability report: January 2022 – First report for 2022! Main concerns are: LabTools, Domain Check, Error Log Viewer, WP Visited Countries Reloaded, Learning Courses, Perfect Survey – this one had 5 major errors and the plugin was closed down. These are the ones you will want to deactivate and delete.

iThemes part 4 WordPres Vulnerability Report: December 2021 – For those that need a peek at the vulnerability report part 4, here it is! The main ones to worry about this time around are: Comment Engine Pro, .htaccess Redirect, Parsian Bank Gateway for WooCommerce, Real WYSIWYG, Link List Manager, Simple Image Gallery, WooCommerce EnvioPack, Magic Post Voice, H5P CSS Editor, duoFAQ, Magic Post Voice, and WooCommerce myghpay Payment Gateway. There are a lot in this list, but if you are using any of these, the best option is to deactivate and delete as there are no known fixes for the issues these have.

5 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch Out for in 2022 – This kind of stuff normally goes into the extra's, but this is a really good one to know and keep an eye out f...