Members sharing plugins and blocks

This month we merged our meetup with the Philadelphia WordPress meetup. Philadelphia will be hosting a virtual WordCamp Sept. 26, 2020, the Philly organizing team is working hard to create opportunities for meeting other users as well as educating people on many aspects of WordPress.

Here are links to the Plugins that were shared by our members this week.

Laura Byrne Cristino showed us “The Newsletter Plugin” and how it’s saving her non-profit 100’s of dollars. Free in the repository! https://wordpress.org/plugins/newsletter/

Matt Ryan introduced us to “Admin Columns“. This plugin will allow you to customize your admin view of Page, Post, Images, and even CPT views. This plugin can also be found in the repository https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/

Chris Diehl gave a walkthrough of Automattic’s – WordPress.com P2 system/theme (see it in action here) https://automatticwork.wordpress.com/ or set up your own https://wordpress.com/p2/ this is available for free with a WordPress.com account (which is also free).

Stephen Kriso discovery was WP Swift Control – this plugin can be used to customize your left sidebar admin experience for your customers. Hide or highlight items that your users need. https://wpswiftcontrol.com

Ken Kramer highlighted some of the awesome things you can do with images and conditional logic with the Gravity Forms plugin! This is a premium plugin but many in our group swear by it.

David Russel – Dave is looking for a way to build a better list with Gutenberg. More like a real outline with levels. If you know of something DM someone on the team.

Other links and cool stuff shared during the night:

WordCamp Colombia is coming in September – https://colombia.wordcamp.org/2020/

Need to downgrade your WordPress update? Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-downgrade/

Help Manage your Media Library – https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-assistant/

Did the WP 5.5 update break your old theme? A temporary fix is adding https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-jquery-migrate-helper/