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...]

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...]

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...]

Version 6.7.0 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version focused on providing more information when domain tests fail. Unable to Verify Whether This Site is Accessible There are a few cases where the plugin is unable to verify whether a new URL will be accessible on the current site after update. These cases include but are not limited to: The Old URL does not match the current site's domain.Really nothing to check here as we're not … [Read more...]

Version 8.9 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. Version 8.9 focused on proving a more robust API for working with excluded menu items. Excluding of Individual Items From the beginning, it has always been possible to provide a list of excluded ids to the various widgets using filters or settings. This version introduced the ability to target specific ids for exclusion without requiring a list of all excluded. New Filters Each widget now … [Read more...]

Version 6.6.0 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version focused on upgrading React and Node behind the scenes to modernize the codebase and improve performance. What's New? This is great question! Version 6.6 had very little effect on the UX since the last version. Think of it as more of a major maintenance release. The Go Live plugin is a very powerful tool. It is critical we keep the plugin up to date and functioning correctly. We … [Read more...]