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...]
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Go Live Update URLS – Version 5.2.0
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 … [Read more...]
A/B Testing In Under 90 Minutes
There comes a time in all our projects where we have a bright idea we think will improve user interaction. Maybe we want more users to signup to our feed. Maybe we want more users to buy our products. Whatever the case, we want to role out our idea which we "know" will achieve our goal. But wait....! What about social variables? Sometimes users just don't want to buy things or sign up for stuff. Sometimes users are online less often or have other life factors which affect interactions. Month … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 3.3.0
Today version 3.3.0 of Advanced Sidebar Menu Pro was released nearly 1 full month ahead of schedule. This pace was partially due to the increased budget for this plugin allocated this month and working ahead on the main feature in this release. This version introduced an often requested feature "Navigation Menus". You may now create a custom menu using the standard Appearance -> Menus screen: Then assign this menu to the new Advanced Sidebar Navigation Widget: That's it! … [Read more...]
Simple Links PRO – Version 1.2.0 – Released
It has been an excited week here at OnPoint Plugins! We are proud to announce the second release of this week is Simple Links PRO. Today version 1.2.0 was released to the general public! Over the past several weeks there has been some extensive planning and road-mapping for an upcoming refactor of the basic version of this plugin. It has become time to get this classic plugin into our modern code structure to allow faster and more stable enhancements. The majority of work done behind the … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 3.2.0
Today version 3.2.0 was completed and released to the general public. I know this feels like a rushed release due to version 3.1.0 getting released just 6 weeks ago, I can assure it was not. Last quarter was the most successful quarter on record in terms of the lowest number of bugs and highest number or positive feedback received in the history of OnPoint Plugins. This opened up a much larger allocation of resources toward plugin enhancements this quarter, shooting this plugin into the front … [Read more...]