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Updating Dev4Press website

MillaN — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:10:46 +0000

It’s been a while since the Dev4Press website is redesigned, and it’s time to make some changes. The theme used will remain the same (lightScape), but will get new color scheme and few more visual improvements. Data organization will be changed a lot to rely fully on custom post types.

Right now, most of the plugins and themes pages are done with, well, Pages. But, maintaining that is not that easy anymore, so, I have decided to introduce 2 more post types (3 in use now) for plugins and themes. This will allow for more compact data storing and much better display of the relevant plugins and themes information.

Current support forum is powered by old bbPress 1.0 standalone. Now is a good time to replace it with new bbPress 2.0 plugin version, and this will be done as a part of update. Unfortunately, due to incompatibility, old attachments will be lost from the new forum. All files will be saved, but they will not be available for download. On case to case basis, I can import old attachments using new system if needed. In most cases this will not be necessary, since most uploads were for bug reports, and these bugs are likely fixed by now.

Website conversion will be done over the following weekend (16 to 19 September 2011). I expect at least several hours of downtime during direct server work to convert data, update files and test everything.

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Install and update xScape based themes

MillaN — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:00:28 +0000

There was a lot of talk before on how to install and update themes, but now, with the release of new Dev4Press Updater 1.5 that can also install themes, here are 2 video tutorials and list of previous posts dealing with the process of installing and updating any of the xScape based themes.

Before the first part and manual theme installation video, here is the list of previously published tutorials you need to check out:

Requirements and Installation: http://dv4p.com/uj
Upgrade backup of changed files: http://dv4p.com/11g
Setting and using Theme Upgrade: http://dv4p.com/11h

Part 1: Manual Installation via FTP

Part 2: Using Dev4Press Updater

As you can see, using Updater is much easier to get themes up and running, and to update them when new versions are released, and it’s a method I would recommend to use. To get this plugin check out your user account panel:

Download Dev4Press Updater: http://www.dev4press.com/user/updater/

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First round of Dev4Press fixes

MillaN — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:21:36 +0000

In the last few days there were several bugs found on Dev4Press. Some of them were minor (that includes styling issues on some pages and some IE incompatibilities), and some were more serious (broken contact form and broken download links).

To keep track of everything that’s going on with the website, I have set up a Changelog page that has a list of all changes to the Dev4Press website. So, first round of fixes include fixed contact form and fixed download links. Also, I have improved support for IE6 browser with several styling issues fixed and few more transparent images use pngfix.

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