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 The first step to changing your domain is to configure your new domain to point to the correct website. If you have not registered your domain. You will need … [Read more...]
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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...]
Go Live Update Urls – Version 6.8
Version 6.8.0 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version focused on introducing a script debug mode as well as gracefully handling invalid serialized data with missing classes. A Bit Delayed Version 6.8 of PRO has actually been available for a while now but we were waiting for completion of the new "skip rows" featured to be completed in version 6.5 of the basic plugin before writing this announcement. Now that both minor versions have … [Read more...]
Disabling WooCommerce Blocks
We are a big fan of the WooCommerce plugin for its stability and the ability to create our own custom templates. We are also a big fan of clean UX and performant enterprise level websites. One thing we have never been a fan of was WooCommerce Blocks. Don't get me wrong, the blocks are really cool. In a world of Full Site Editing it's reasonably necessary for WooCommerce to provide blocks for users to have the ability to build the site code free. Assuming you are working on a single site … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar – Gutenberg Blocks
Version 9.0.0 of both the basic version and the PRO version of Advanced Sidebar Menu are now available with support for Gutenberg blocks! Gutenberg blocks documentation may be found here. A Long Road To Get Here The first version of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin was released back in 2011. Over the past decade literally hundreds of tweaks and improvements have been made to the UX and functionality of the widgets to version 8.9. Turns out, if you want to take massively intuitive … [Read more...]
Gutenberg Block Editor – Translating TypeScript
WordPress versions 4.9 and below allowed you to translate text in your JavaScript by passing JSON objects via wp_localize_script. While this system works great it has some limitations. With the release of WordPress 5.0, support was introduced to allow developers to translate their theme or plugin directly within JavaScript. Translating in JavaScript has some nice benefits: The available tools work great if you are using plain JavaScript and no form of Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) in your … [Read more...]