The True North for WordPress Plugins

It's Episode 553 and we have plugins for Block for Events, Memory Logging, Download Delay, Starbox Humans, Simple Box, Complianz… and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Events Block For The Events Calendar, Memory Meter – View and log memory usage and memory limits, Files Download Delay, Starbox – The Author Box for Humans, Simple Author Box, Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent……. and ClassicPress options on Episode 553.

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 #14 of 52 episodes for 2022! Spring is in the air! For those of you who live on the ‘Wet Coast', this means warmer rain! Woot! And for those of you who live inland, I THINK this means that you will now have less snow – not entirely sure since I have pretty well spent my entire life on one coast or another…

Either way, it's time for the spring cleaning to start kicking in where we all start opening our windows and letting in the fresh air, start going though everything that has built up over the winter and chucking things out, passing stuff along – remember to throw on some awesome tunes and spend the time with family and friends. I challenge everyone to try and make someone you know and love laugh so hard they feel like they are going to pee themselves!!

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 – March 23, 2022 – Only two to worry about this week! And both are at medium danger level: Sassy Social Share, and NS WoCommerce Watermark. Check out your plugins, if you have these be sure to deactivate them – delete if you aren't using them.

WordPress Community Team Reconsiders Guidelines for In-Person Regional WordCamps – Community Team Representative Hari Shanker is looking for feedback on the discussion about in-person regional events before April 4, 2022. The organizers are discussing relaxing a number of guidelines, including some for regional online WordCamps in order to help keep communities connected. If you are interested, follow the link above and join in on the conversation!

Block accidental edits of shared content with the Lock Reusable Blocks Plugin – WP Tavern does a great job going through this new plugin created; it allows users to group one or more blocks in the post editor, save them, and reuse anywhere blocks are supported. Very neat, I can see how this will be very useful in groups working on the same thing!

The Archeo WordPress Theme blends Mayan History with Magazine-Style Block Patterns – I think this is so cool! I personally love history, and I love seeing it come to life like this!! Worth checking out if you were ever into the history magazines growing up.