Preying on WordPress Plugins

It's Episode 565 and we have plugins for Clock Toc, Twitt Graph, Twitt Cards, Sugar Lite, Event Prime, Registering with vCita… and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Clock Tik Tik, Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags, JM Twitter Cards, Simple Event Management – Sugar Calendar (Lite), EventPrime – Online Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets, Event Registration Calendar By vcita……. and ClassicPress options on Episode 565.

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 #24 of 52 episodes for 2022!

It seems that the warmth has arrived here on the West Coast finally! Although it's really wet… I don't think I have ever really experienced more than a short sprinkling at a time of warm rain here on the Island, but we have had a lot of it recently! Kinda cool!

I hope everyone out there is remembering to get outside, rain or shine, to at least get a little exercise! Get out there and be totally silly with the kids or your friends, stomp in puddles like when you were a kid – believe it or not, it's absolutely exhilarating and as much fun as playing DND! Also, nothing raises your spirits like being a kid for a while.

Go be a kid.

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

News this week:

WordPress Vulnerability Report – June 8, 2022 – Great long list of fixes for plugins this week! For the vulnerable plugins, there is also, unfortunately, a long list. A few that caught my eye are: MailPress, WP Sentry, Tiny Contact Form, Social Share Buttons by Supsystic, Mini Oranges Limit Login Attempts and their Malware Scanner – there are a lot. And I know I recognize quite a few this week, so be sure to check your and your clients sites!

WP Engine acquires Delicious Brains Plugins – Including the popular developer favourite Advanced Custom Fields.

The Plugins bought are:

Advanced Custom Fields,

WP Migrate

WP Offload Media

WP Offload SES

Better Search Replace

I am really not overly happy about this; I love Delicious Brains, I love the way they do things and the way they make things and the way they themselves work. WP Engine is not Delicious Brains. Things will change, and usually when I love a plugin it seems, and they sell it off, everything I love about the plugin tends to vanish. >< HOPEfully this is not the case here, and my fears are in vane!

Groundhogg acquires HollerBox, a powerful popup and Lead Generation WordPress Plugin! – Hollerbox has been bought, hopefully they treat this plugin with the love and respect it needs to continue being loved by the users!

InstaWP gets seed funding from Automatic – InstaWP, initially thought to be a disposable plugin, is meant to make it much easier to create a WordPress site without the work of doing it yourself. Trying to make it easier for everyone – personally I hope it does not work overly well otherwise the likes of us will be put...