WordPress Plugin Presentation: Lucky 7 with Joe A. Simpson Jr. at WordUp Pompey

Welcome to WordUp Pompey! 18th November 2020 @wppompey #WPPompey #OnlineWPMeetup www.wp-pompey.org.uk /about-wordpress-meetups/code-of-conduct/ Agenda 19:00 - Connect to Zoom and socialise 19:10 - Organiser s introduction 19:15 - Joe A Simpson Jr pre-recorded video Lucky 7 - : Don t Install ANYTHING til You Hear This WordPress Plugin Presentation 20:00 - Live Q & A with Joe 20:45 - Wrap-up

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WordPress Plugin Presentation Lucky 7: Don t Install ANYTHING til You Hear This WordPress Plugin Presentation Joe A Simpson Jr Joe works at Metro Los Angeles, one of the largest transit agencies in the US, working to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. When their Lead Developer and CSS expert both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design (sans child theme) and the rest is history. Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted, focusing first on doing the things he truly loved WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and truly giving back. He actively contributes to the WordPress Community, founding the WordPress Santa Clarita Valley and Elementor Santa Clarita Valley Meetups, speaking or volunteering at WordCamps, and is the Lead Organizer for WordCamp Santa Clarita.

WordPress Plugin Presentation Lucky 7: Don t Install ANYTHING til You Hear This WordPress Plugin Presentation Joe A Simpson Jr YouTube: https://youtu.be/sHmkYBrpKsM Slides: http://bit.ly/joesimpsonjr-owpm

Interactive questions Slide Question Options 25 How many is too many plugins? 25-50, 0 < 20, 0 < 5, No limit 40 Which plugin is the most downloaded of all time? Akismet, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Contact Form 7, JetPack, Yoast SEO From Herb What about Single Block plugins? As these are new, very few of them will have a large install base, total downloads or reviews. Subset of wordpress.org/plugins/browse/blocks From HM& AL We recently encountered some performance problems with a number of plugins. At least one is in our top 7. What do we do? Deactivate: Broken Link Checker, Simple History. Deactivate: WordPress SEO while editing files with lots of links. Raise performance issue.

Joes Lucky 7

Some of tonights answers The RSVP Question was: Which 7 plugins do you always install and why? Replies: Non specific - - - - - - None. I m just learning It depends on the build / site (2) No need to install plugins just for the hell of it. No reply (12) No opportunity to reply (4) .is the first name that comes to mind, I'm not a dev, hope that s ok :-)

Some of tonights answers The RSVP Question was: Which 7 plugins do you always install and why? Reason Plugins Anti spam Akismet, Disable comments, Stop Spammers Replies: Meetings The Events Calendar Forms VFB Pro, Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7 Security Wordfence, iThemes security, WPS hide login, Shield eCommerce WP Simple Paypal Shopping Cart, WooCommerce, YITH WooCommerce Performance WP Optimize, LiteSpeed cache, Smush, Minify, Short Pixel SEO Yoast SEO, SEO Framework, ACF for Yoast, RankMath Custom content Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Custom Post Type UI Layout, navigation, design TablePress, CC Child pages, Easy Fancybox, Social Media Widgets Page builder / Editor Elementor, Elementor Pro, Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Kadence Starter Template Backups & migration UpdraftPlus, Duplicator (Pro), Better-Search-Replace Analytics Jetpack, Official Stat Counter Accessibility WP-Accessibility Other Jetpack, CMP, ManageWP, Maintenance, Hello Dolly, What s My Template, Cyr-To-Lat, Imsanity, Regenerate Thumbnails

Record your favourites Find out about a registered user s Favourite plugins at profiles.wordpress.org Eg https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/#content-favorites Favourite some yourself. Maybe consider rating them. Choose from your Favourites when installing plugins. Did you know you can Favourite themes as well?

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WordPress plans - 2020 Main goal of 2020 is Full Site Editing ( FSE ) via Gutenberg 17 November 18 November 1 December 8 December 5.6 RC1 Gutenberg 9.4.0 5.6 RC2 WordPress 5.6 https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2019/12/05/wordpress-major-release-schedule/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/5-6/ https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/08/13/wordpress-5-6-release-planning/ WordPress 5.5 included a navigation menus block automatic updates for plugins and themes a block directory XML sitemaps lazy loading and updated Gutenberg to the latest release version WordPress 5.6 scope A navigation menus block Automatic updates for WordPress core Widgets editing areas New default theme incl. FSE compatible PHP 8 support, remove PHP 5.6 support Public beta of Full Site Editing ??? And new features from the block editor

Twenty Twenty-One The new default theme to be shipped with WordPress 5.6. A Full Site Editing version of this theme is also being developed. See also

Other #OnlineWPMeetup events From https://wpcalendar.io/gb/ @wpcalendar.io https://wpcalendar.io/online/ Two other events today: Wednesday 16th Where Topics Edinburgh 18:00 Speaker to be arranged Manchester 18:00 Check https://mwug.uk Earlier today: London WooCommerce Meetup https://www.meetup.com/London-WooCommerce- Meetup/members/ have a weekly Zoom 1pm to 2pm. Next week: Warwickshire, Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham And two Elementor meetups

wppompey review 2019 Date Agenda Notes Attendees Members 16 Jan Website Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) @yoast 16 95 20 Feb Lightning Talks Various 12 102 20 Mar Why and how to do a website health check @missjwo 17 104 17 Apr Useful Accessibility Tools @coolfields 16 110 15 May Lightning Talks Part Two Various 18 114 19 Jun Steps to make your brand engage @yellobrand 13 115 17 Jul Migrating our business to the cloud @wfckeego 21 123 18 Sep Clinic Various 10 124 16 Oct Content is King, with Lesley Hussell, Editing Edge @editingedge 19 128 20 Nov How to Build an Accessible WordPress Theme, with Graham Armfield, Coolfields @coolfields 13 131 18 Dec Lightning talks. Xmas special Various 15 133

wppompey plans - 2020 Date Agenda Notes 15 Jan 2020 Clinic Hands on Problem Solving Run by organisers 19 Feb 2020 Nightingale: How Gutenberg can save the NHS money and improve health outcomes. Tony Blacker Remote talk 18 Mar 2020 Virtual Meetup trial. #virtual #trial 15 Apr 2020 Build, maintain and sell a WordPress Plugin Lessons learned. Robert Windisch @nullbytes #OnlineWPMeetup 20 May 2020 Lightning Talks: My favourite plugin with Steve Wood, Bernhard Kau, Herb Miller #OnlineWPMeetup 17 Jun 2020 Build your WordPress website in 21 steps. Vicki Jakes #OnlineWPMeetup 22 Jul 2020 How to build a WordPress website Part Two Paul Tansom, Scott McKeown and others #OnlineWPMeetup 19 Aug 2020 Plugin Kollektiv - Bernhard Kau, Torsten Landsiedel and Simon Kraft #OnlineWPMeetup 16 Sep 2020 What s new in WordPress 5.5. and how to use it. #OnlineWPMeetup Date: 3rd Wednesday of every month Start: 19:00 End: 21:00 16 Dec 2020 Seasonal Quiz and Social 21 Oct 2020 Gutenberg the block editor. Belinda Mustoe #OnlineWPMeetup 18 Nov 2020 WP Plugin presentation Joe A Simpson Jr #OnlineWPMeetup #OnlineWPMeetup

wppompey plans - 2021 Date Agenda Notes 20 Jan 2021 Managing client relationships Chris Churchill, Abha, David X et al. Questions needed. #OnlineWPMeetup 17 Feb 2021 Taking a plugin from pre to post Gutenberg. Meg Phillips. Questions needed. #OnlineWPMeetup 17 Mar 2021 TBC Sales funnels. Yvette Sonneveld & panel #OnlineWPMeetup 21 Apr 2021 Full Site Editing Is it for themers or can anyone do it? Herb & FSE experimenters. Depends on when FSE goes into core: 5.7 / 5.8 ? #OnlineWPMeetup ? 19 May 2021 TBC Accessibility any recommendations? #OnlineWPMeetup ? 16 Jun 2021 Lightning Talks #OnlineWPMeetup 21 Jul 2021 #OnlineWPMeetup 18 Aug 2021 Depends on WordCamp Brighton maybe online #OnlineWPMeetup 15 Sep 2021 #OnlineWPMeetup 20 Oct 2021 What s in WordPress 5.8 / 5.9 #OnlineWPMeetup 17 Nov 2021 More lightning talks #OnlineWPMeetup 15 Dec 2021 #OnlineWPMeetup Date: 3rd Wednesday of every month Start: 19:00 End: 21:00

Some WordPress trivia WordPress 5.5 downloaded 59 million times Gutenberg 9.4.0-RC1 released yesterday WordPress is 6385 days old Don t forget: there s a capital P in WordPress. 7,956 themes 3,958 themes are Popular Gutenberg s 713 days old 58,134 plugins

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