Version 9.6 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. Version 9.6 focused on phase 2 of bringing code modernization and flexibility between the PRO and basic versions of the plugin. There is a lot of "nerd" information in this article. Phase 2 of Code Modernization Back in our last minor 9.5 version we completed phase 1 which laid the groundwork for phase 2. Now that the dust has settled on 9.5 and over 90% of our users are on 9.5 or newer, … [Read more...]
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Go Live Update Urls – Version 6.13
Version 6.13.0 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. The focus of this version was to set the stage for using modern development practices. PHP Based Translations WordPress 6.5 included the ability to load translations from a PHP array instead of just .mo file files for greatly improved translation performance. The Go Live plugin now generates .php translation files to take advantage of the new translations system. You will see a nice performance … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar – Menus Disappeared
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...]
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...]