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...]
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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...]
Plugins Mega Menu
During one of our UX audits we discovered a bottleneck for users trying to access the documentation areas of our plugins. The path required a user to start at an individual plugin page and use the links within to arrive at the documentation. For prospective members, this process followed the natural path. For existing members this process added 1-2 extra clicks to arrive where intended. Introducing the New Mega Menu Hover over the "Plugins" menu item in the header of this website to … [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: Improved browser performance. Greater customizability. Support for any number of custom icon sets. Universal … [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: Locate the id of the page or category. Enter the id into a text field within the block settings. Try to remember what item the id corresponds to. Not anymore! We've rebuilt the exclude UX from the … [Read more...]