During one of our UX audits we discovered a bottleneck for users trying to access the documentation areas of our plugins. The path required a user to start at an individual plugin page and use the links within to arrive at the documentation. For prospective members, this process followed the natural path. For existing members this process added 1-2 extra clicks to arrive where intended. Introducing the New Mega Menu Hover over the "Plugins" menu item in the header of this website to … [Read more...]
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Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 9.3
Version 9.3 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This release focused on improving accordion functionality and browser performance. Accordion Icons are Now SVG Icons displayed on accordions have now been converted from front icons to SVG elements. Using an SVG instead of a font icon provides the following enhancements: Supporting SVG also opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities when used with the … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 9.2
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: Not anymore! We've rebuilt the exclude UX from the ground up to bring you a slick and intuitive UX which you'll appreciate. The original text field has been replaced with a new component which looks like … [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...]