This month OnPoint Plugins hit another milestone, 1,000,000 downloads! What an amazing journey this has been and continues to be. It all started with a small problem I was trying to solve with sidebar menus that spawned an entire WordPress plugin business. At the time, I simply needed something that did not exist so I built it. Giving it to the WordPress community seemed like the right thing to do because I was using many other community plugins and wanted to be a team player. But then … [Read more...]
Go Live Update URLS Version 5.2.0 = Bulletproof
Today marks the day when version 5.2.0 of Go Live Update URLS was released into the wild! When the plugin was first written, the WordPress ecosystem included a few interesting variation of saving data but followed a fairly common pattern. Historically the main concern has been handling serialized data when doing database search and replacing. Handling serialized data was the sole purpose of this plugin's first version. Over the years, additional data patterns started showing up with new … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu Pro 3.0
Last summer while visiting a good friend mine in Minnesota, I took a hard look at my architecture and decided it was time to give it an overhaul. The biggest challenge was bringing my great processes and tools into the mix while still maintaining PHP 5.2 compatibility. When it comes to things like unit testing and code sniffing, the general consensus is, "Can't be done with PHP 5.2". I was not satisfied with that answer so I took a crack at it. After spending many many hours, I not only … [Read more...]
Introducing – Simple Links Pro
To celebrate my Simple Links plugin hitting 200,000 downloads last weekend I dedicated some hard time in the lab to get Simple Links PRO out of beta and into general release status. A BIG thank you to all the beta testers who used the plugin for the past few months and gave feedback to get it production ready! Super pleased to announced that Simple Links Pro version 1.0.0 was release to the public yesterday! Since release, I have been getting great feedback from customers and have already … [Read more...]
Taming CMB2
If you're reading this post, chances are you have used CMB2 to make awesome meta boxes. Or maybe you are considering using CMB2 to create meta boxes. The gist of CMB2 is simple. This library is awesome! It is a developers dream for making meta boxes through the different WordPress types. All of the special field types that you used to have to build from scratch using html and js are now as easy as setting a few keys. (Disclaimer: I am not the author of CMB2. While I have contributed to the … [Read more...]
WP 4.3.0
I just released a full set of plugin updates to verify compatibility with version 4.3.0 which is slated to be available on August 18th. These updates include all of my premium plugin as well as free ones. Be sure to click that handy little update link when you get a chance to make sure everything continues to work flawlessly. In all honesty nothing was going to break with any of my plugins. The worst possibility is you would have seen some deprecated warnings in your debug log ( harmless but … [Read more...]