If you've been watching our support area lately you probably have noticed the last month has been a complicated time for us dealing with numerous cases of reporting menus disappearing from sites using our Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin. With 10s of thousands of websites using the plugin and thousands of sites using widget settings in various states from more than 10 years of installs, tracking an issue can sometimes be a daunting task requiring careful analysis and resolution. Now that … [Read more...]
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Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 9.5
Version 9.5 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. Version 9.5 focused on modernizing the plugin code to put it inline with recent versions of WordPress core. The changes listed in this article are actually a combination of version 9.4 and 9.5. Version 9.4 created the foundation for changes in 9.5. CSS Class Targeting for Menu Styles Until now the menu styles were rendered to the site while targeting the id of the menu. It looked something … [Read more...]
Go Live Update Urls – Version 6.12
Version 6.12.0 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. The focus of this version was to bring real time history to the workflow. Real Time History The site address history feature has always recorded changes made to the site's URL via either the WordPress general settings or by running the Go Live tool. In the past when viewing the tools page, you could see a list of previous site addresses. To view newly used URLs, you had to refresh the page. We … [Read more...]
Case Study: Plugin Demos
From the beginning of our PRO plugins, we have received many contact form submissions requesting a demo of our plugins. Over the years we have pointed users to various examples or explanations of how a plugin functions for their use case. Now, after a few rounds of scope and extensive development we have launched demonstrations of our plugins. Challenges We realized early on the biggest challenge for demonstrating our plugins was going to be that the plugins are largely WordPress admin … [Read more...]
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...]