The Find My Blocks plugin has been a part of our Outcome Labs toolset since just after Eddy Sims released it in December 2019. The "Find My Blocks" plugin helps you identify where WordPress blocks have been used on your site. We were very happy to hear Morgan Hvidt picked up support for the plugin earlier this year. He recently released a major rewrite that we are very impressed with.
Checking out the new WordPress plugin, AAA Option Optimizer, from Joost de Valk, the founder of Yoast and one of the principals of Emilia Capital. It just released, but it looks like it will be a useful tool to clean out the "clutter" on your WordPress site.
Export Media Library is our latest WordPress plugin recommendation. On two recent projects, we needed to export the content of the WordPress Media Library. We needed just the original images, not all the generated thumbnails. After some searching, we found the Export Media Library plugin developed by Canadian Andrej Pavlovic.
Wordfence has detected four vulnerabilities in the Ninja Forms plugin. Due to the severity of the exploits, an immediate update of the plugin is recommended.
Because developing blocks requires using a different tools, there have been several initiatives introduced to simplify this. Justin Tadlock just did a review of one of the latest offerings, Genesis Custom Blocks.
On October 23, 2020, The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team disclosed several vulnerabilities in Ultimate Member, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. The issue has been addressed and we recommend updating immediately.
Every month the folks over at iThemes do a nice recap on Wordpress plugins that were added or updated in the past thirty days. For October, they highlighted three that we are researching as possible additions to our toolset here at Outcome Labs.
Today's recommended read is a good overview from NOUPE of recent vulnerabilities discovered in a number of leading Wordpress plugins.