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Two Factor Authentication plugin icon

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://www.simbahosting.co.uk/s3/product/two-factor-authentication/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/two-factor-authentication/

Adds Two Factor Authentication (2FA) to your login.

Doesn’t actually work. When enabled it still allows a plain login and never challenges with a 2FA. After 2FA is enabled the user preference page isn’t accessible. Use WP 2FA instead.

this needs to be reworked and re-tested

WikiCreole-logo.png

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

archived: https://github.com/skrysmanski/blogtext/
closed: https://wordpress.org/plugins/blogtext/
was https://blogtext.mayastudios.com/
my fork: https://github.com/spiralofhope/BlogText/

Implements:



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Footnotes Made Easy icon-128x128

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes-made-easy/
https://github.com/sdobreff/footnotes-made-easy

A plugin to let you insert text mid-sentence between ❨❨ and )), and have it displayed as hover-text and a link to the bottom of the page with the text.

Easy to use and really nice!



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Security Header Generator icon

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/security-header-generator/
https://kevinpirnie.com/kevin-pirnies-articles/wordpress-plugin-security-header-generator/

Adds various security headers into your blog to appease checkers and possibly improve SEO.



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ideastocode - Enable SVG, WebP & ICO Upload

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >
WordPress SVG support >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-svg-webp-ico-upload/
https://ideastocode.com/plugins/enable-svg-WebP-ico-upload/

Exactly as its titled; enables WordPress SVG support, .webp and .ico

  • SVG Support has more advanced features, such as defence against XSS and Injection attacks.



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Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/

A tool to make it ridiculously easy to not just find and edit broken links, but has other features to apply to them, like changing their style.

Recommended by Internet Archive, which is good enough for me.




  • 2023-02-28 – 2.0 on WordPress 6.1.1, with PHP 8.1.16

    • I signed up to wpmudev.com but did not give my administrator credentials. I installed their plugin instead.
    • All the configuration and use are now totally different.
  • 2018-03-07 – (version not recorded) – on WordPress 4.9.4, with PHP 5.6.33

    • It’s still working fine.

Configuration

Settings are under Settings > Link Checker

blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=link-checker-settings

General

  • Check each link: 700

    • (this is a little less than a month)
  • [_] Send me e-mail notifications about newly detected broken links
  • [_] Apply custom formatting to broken links
  • [_] Apply custom formatting to removed links

Look For Links In

  • [x] Scheduled
  • [x] Draft
  • [x] Pending

Which Links To Check

  • [x] Plaintext URLs
  • [x] Embedded YouTube videos (old embed code)
  • [x] Embedded GoogleVideo videos
  • [x] Embedded YouTube playlists (old embed code)
  • [x] Smart YouTube httpv:// URLs
  • [x] Embedded Vimeo videos
  • [x] Embedded DailyMotion videos

Exclusion list

://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/
://blog.spiralofhope.com/?p=
://example.com
://www.example.com
://subdomain.example.com
://www.wowace.com/projects/
://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/
://archive.today/
://youtube.com/view_play_list?
://youtube.com/playlist?
://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?
://www.youtube.com/playlist?
://www.instagram.com/
://www.facebook.com/

Advanced

  • Timeout 90
  • Show link actions [x] Fix redirect

Usage

If you accidentally click dismiss link you can search your blog for removed_link.