Today a brand new version of the Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO plugin was released to the general public! New mandatory PHP version requirement. For over a year the required version of PHP for this plugin was set to PHP 5.4. To give any users who were still on legacy versions of PHP time to update we maintained PHP version 5.2 compatibility. In preparation of the new PHP requirements for WordPress Core, this version officially removes support for PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 in favor of the stated … [Read more...]
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Go Live Update Urls – Version 2.6.0
Today a brand new version of the Go Live Update Urls PRO plugin was released to the general public! The most notable addition to this plugin is a WP-CLI command. Now you may update your site using the command line. Extremely simple options allow you make this plugin part of your Devops or Continuous Integration workflow. Translations for all languages were also updated in this release, as well as some code related improvements. Enjoy! … [Read more...]
New Products Business Model
If you are an existing customer you may have noticed a new section in My Account named "Subscriptions". This may also be named "My Subscription" if you have a single active subscription. Based on the feedback I have been getting, there may be some confusion why this section exists. This post should clear things up ?. Historically, all plugin purchases have come with a permanent license and subscriptions were not offered. Over the past year or so, the plugin userbase has grown at an … [Read more...]
Case Study: Displaying Highlighted Search Terms With Limited Content
As the content of a WordPress site grows (using this site as my case study) search results will also grow. Typically on a WordPress site the search results will either show the post content, the excerpt, or a limited version of the content. WordPress does not highlight the words in the content which match the search terms, nor does it automatically display the relevant sections of a post's content when using the excerpt or a limited version of content. This can lead to potentially unintuitive … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 3.7.0
Version 3.7.0 of Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO is now available to all PRO users and may be updated through the WordPress Admin or downloaded through the Downloads area. This version adds a couple of useful features which will automatically work without changing any settings: There are a few other "under the hood" improvements and some new unit tests which provide improved stability. … [Read more...]
Node As A CLI
This is an exhaustive article on creating command line run scripts/executables with node and how it all works. It is broken into sections for convenience if you are looking for a specific topic. Otherwise, grab a coffee and prepare to learn more than you ever wanted to know about node cli. For the purpose of this article the words package and project are interchangeable and both mean a node app which is defined by the package.json standard. For the purposes of this article all project … [Read more...]