WordPress Plugins Hidden Gems

It's Episode 557 and we have plugins for Zero Gravity, Floating Pixels, Maintaining the Mode, Mass Reset, Everything PDF, Easy Merging… and ClassicPress Options. It's all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Gravity Forms Zero Spam, Sebastian, WP Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon, Mass Users Password Reset, WordPress to PDF, Download as PDF Document of Any WordPress Post Types, Download Post as PDF, PDF Viewer, PDF Block, View PDF on WordPress – Document Engine, EasyMerge……. and ClassicPress options on Episode 557.

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 #17 of 52 episodes for 2022!

I hope everyone is looking forward to Easter! I've always been interested in Ester, who I understand is the original Goddess of Easter. She is a very interesting character, and required a lot of worship – specifically from young men – and now we eat chocolate and eggs and go a-hunting for the multi coloured eggs!

I've called April the month of all seasons here on the Island for years 'cause we really never know what the next day will bring to us… but hopefully it turns out pretty and not snowing on Easter weekend for us! And may the sun shine and the North Wind calm itself for all our listeners out there as well!

As always, gotta remind everyone to put the media aside and spend some time with family and friends! This weekend is a perfect excuse to remove thyself and 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:

Critical Vulnerability Fixed in Elementor Plugin Version 3.6.3 – The most recently released version of Elementor has a fix to a vulnerability that is allowing any authenticated user, regardless of their authorization, to change the site title, site logo, change the theme to Elementor's theme, and worst of all, upload arbitrary files to the site. This article goes through explaining how this vulnerability exists, how it works, and about the patch. They note a few times that they are still gathering information about this vulnerability.

WordPress Vulnerability Report – April 13, 2022 – There are a lot of plugins with issues to look at this week; most of the plugins on the list are Wbcom Designs Plugins – BuddyPress – Activity Social Share, Create Group Type, Ads, Search… It appears that Wbcom Designs Plugins has been working hard to fix some vulnerabilities. Be aware if you use Wbcom Designs Plugins – BuddyPress; some of the plugins are in the ‘fixed' list above, so be sure if you use these guys to check back every day to see what has been fixed and what has not – but do also keep an eye out for any other plugins you may be using.

WordPress performance team puts controversial WebP by Default Proposal on hold after critical feedback – The new feature WebP images on upload by default for new JPEG uploads has created some serious technical concerns in the WordPress Community.