No Monkeying Around With WordPress Plugins

It's Episode 559 and we have plugins for Monkey Editing, Monkey Proposing, Dino Gaming, Floaty Buttons, Ice Creaming Elementor, Updating Foots… and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Snow Monkey Editor, CODE MONKEYS PROPOSALS – Easily create client proposals from your WordPress admin dashboard, Dinosaur Game, Click to Contact – Float Buttons, IceCream Elementor Addon, Update Your Footer WP……. and ClassicPress options on Episode 559.

John's Intro:

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…

Amber's Rant:

This is #19 of 52 episodes for 2022! Hope everyone got their taxes done – I know it's not fun, but it's needed. And remember, once your finished adulting, head out and get yourself a treat for doing so well at playing adult! Chores done, go play.

Do this with a friend and it makes the whole experience way more fun! Ice cream, or cookies, or fruit and yogurt, or a mocha thingy – any kind of awesome treat, and be sure to remove the socials and the media from the entire experience. It adds to the fun. Enjoy!

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:

WordPress Vulnerability Report – April 27, 2022 – This weeks plugins to look at are a few, the more popular ones being: Social Stickers, Advanced Uploader, Custom Tiny MCW Shortcode Button, th23 Social, WPC Smart Wishlist for WooCommerce.

There is also one theme that has since been patched, though be sure to update shortly! Fusion Builder.

MemberPress Plugin is locking users out after support license expires – MemberPress is a popular membership plugin for WordPress, though they have started locking users out of the plugins admin if they do not renew their subscriptions. WordPress subreddit lit up this last week with reports about it. This plugin does not have a free version that you can ‘scale down' to, and although the membership only costs $179 per year for one site, the fact that it now locks you out is kind of an issue for a lot of people, as cutting off access to the plugin's admin screens leaves users without the ability to manage the membership functions of their sites if their subscriptions lapse – so they can't get refunds, add new members, manage memberships, site activations, or do any other actions one can only do through the admin screen.

A pared back web font API may land in WordPress 6.0 … Or not… – The web font API was originally set to come in with WordPress 5.9, then it was shunted down to 6.0, and it is starting to look like it is going to be shunted yet again. Another feature that appears to have been shunted down the line, is ‘Post Author Name Block'. The Beta 1 is out, so you can go and play around with it to see for yourself how the features are doing.

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