This month OnPoint Plugins hit another milestone, 1,000,000 downloads! What an amazing journey this has been and continues to be. It all started with a small problem I was trying to solve with sidebar menus that spawned an entire WordPress plugin business. At the time, I simply needed something that did not exist so I built it. Giving it to the WordPress community seemed like the right thing to do because I was using many other community plugins and wanted to be a team player. But then … [Read more...]
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Go Live Update URLS – Version 5.2.0
Today marks the day when version 5.2.0 of Go Live Update URLS was released into the wild! When the plugin was first written, the WordPress ecosystem included a few interesting variation of saving data but followed a fairly common pattern. Historically the main concern has been handling serialized data when doing database search and replacing. Handling serialized data was the sole purpose of this plugin's first version. Over the years, additional data patterns started showing up with … [Read more...]
A/B Testing In Under 90 Minutes
There comes a time in all our projects where we have a bright idea we think will improve user interaction. Maybe we want more users to signup to our feed. Maybe we want more users to buy our products. Whatever the case, we want to role out our idea which we "know" will achieve our goal. But wait....! What about social variables? Sometimes users just don't want to buy things or sign up for stuff. Sometimes users are online less often or have other life factors which affect interactions. Month … [Read more...]
Installing a PRO Plugin
All of our PRO plugins require the basic version to also be installed and active, so be sure to leave the basic version installed and active when upgrading to PRO. Basic versions may be found here: Installing the PRO version of the plugin FAQ Where do I enter my license? All OnPoint plugins have their license automatically included in the plugin code. You do not need to enter your license anywhere in the plugin. … [Read more...]
A Journey From Perfection To Rapid Project Deployment
A long time ago in a far away land (9 years and 1500 miles to be exact), I got my first full-time job in the technology industry. I was fresh out of college with an excellent education and lots of experience building and fixing home computers while running a small business out of my home office. I had almost no experience writing code for clients. Luckily the company who hired me trusted me to learn how to do what I was doing while I was doing it, which was a very lucky opportunity. I quickly … [Read more...]
Saying Goodbye To Cssnano
Edit 07/2025: At this time, cssnano has been receiving support again and is now compatible with PostCSS version 6+. postcss-clean has now fallen behind is not actively maintained. At the moment either cssnano or grunt-contrib-cssmin are probably the most compatible options. If you are like us and have no patience for community supported libraries routinely being abandoned, we wrote a Grunt plugin here which were are now using in our active projects. If you have been using PostCSS, … [Read more...]