Version 9.2 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This release introduced search and select for excluded menu items. Search and Select Excluding Previously, if you wanted to exclude a page or category from a single menu, you had to: Locate the id of the page or category. Enter the id into a text field within the block settings. Try to remember what item the id corresponds to. Not anymore! We've rebuilt the exclude UX from the … [Read more...]
Go Live Update Urls – Version 6.10
Version 6.10.0 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version focused on supporting uncommon data edge cases. This plugin now supports literally every known data type found in a WordPress database. Serialized Data Key Support Until now, this plugin would only replace URLs found in the values of serialized database data. Now URLs are replaced in the keys as well. For example, if the following object is stored in the database. Running … [Read more...]
Go Live Update Urls – Version 6.9
Version 6.9.0 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version focused on improving the URL testing feature and the corresponding UI. Introduced "Fix All" Button for Test Results The Test Results screen has always supported automatically fixing issues by clicking the "Fix" button. Now there is an available "Fix All" button which allows you to fix everything at once. After fixing each item, the test will automatically recheck the, … [Read more...]
Pointing a Domain to a Server Using Your Hosts File
The Purpose of a Hosts File In order for a domain to point to a server it must be mapped to a DNS resolver. For instance if you type onpointplugins.com in your browser, you are sent to IP address "108.62.123.43" and the website loads. Almost always, the DNS resolution happens through an exchange of DNS servers both within your computer, router and servers located in the cloud. A Hosts files allows you to override all other DNS resolvers in favor of file's contents for specified domains. … [Read more...]
How to Change Your Domain Name on WordPress
You've decided it is time to change the domain on your website. Maybe you are doing a rebrand or switching a testing site to the live domain. Whatever the reason, the process for changing the domain on a WordPress site is reasonably straightforward. This article will take you through the process. Setting Up Your New Domain. Changing The Domain Name In WordPress. Redirect Your Old Domain. Notify Search Engines. Setting Up Your New Domain The first step to changing your domain … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 9.1
Version 9.1 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This release focused on adding new features to the category menus and management. Show Post Counts for Categories The WordPress core's categories list block includes support for showing the count of the posts assigned to each category in the menu. This "Show post counts" feature prompted users of our Categories menus to also request said feature. In the past we have always directed our users … [Read more...]