Dev4Press» timer Tag Archives, page 1 of 1 | Dev4Press

GD Press Tools 3.4.1 Pro / 2.4.6 Lite

MillaN — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:23:19 +0000

Minor updates to both Pro and Lite version, with focus on Auto Tagger. Tagger works fine, but it turns out that it needs few more status messages to better explain to users how the tagger works. Pro version contains few fixes and changes to maintenance mode.

Auto tagger works as a background process, and when it starts it can take hours to finish depending on number of posts that need to be processed. And while the tagger is working, you can close the browser, do anything else. So messages are updated to let users know what is going on better. Also timer is added for the current job processing.

Maintenance mode is now properly setting 503 header while active for both feed requests and all the pages. Maintenance mode is exclusive for Pro version only.

GD Press Tools 3.4

MillaN — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:31:26 +0000

GD Press Tools 3.4 Pro is now released. We are well under way to 3.5 and more importantly to 4.0 release, that is in development. This time, several bugs are fixed and you will see first changes to the plugin panels organization, and few minor new features.

User Columns

Users panel grid is expanded with one more column for last recorded user activity. This tracking is added few weeks ago, so you might not have too much data recorded yet, but over time you will have clear picture when users have been active on the website.

GDP_R print function and CSS and JS it uses are now embedded into the page. Both these are very small, and it’s not really good to link two additional files, it’s better to move them into the page.

WP Hooks panel is gone, and added to Environment panel. Hooks will be improved soon with more debug usage and added to footer like SQL queries. Dashboard widget is updated and styled better, and number of minor bugs are fixed.

In about 2 weeks time, 3.5 will be released, that’s a bit later than I first expected, but it will be worth the wait.

GD Press Tools 3.3

MillaN — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:20:35 +0000

GD Press Tools 3.3 Pro is released. This version starts the changes that will result in 4.0 version in about months time. New feature added in this version is Maintenance Mode. Check out the roadmap for the plugin to see what’s coming in 3.5 and after that in 4.0.

Maintenance Mode Settings

To control maintenance mode, new tab on Settings panel is added with many options. You can select template for rendering mode message that will be displayed to users who are not allowed during maintenance period. Right now there is only one template and more will come. Also, xScape themes will all support this and will hook into the plugin to add on templates for this mode.

You can set timer and restrictions. Timer is only there to inform users when will be site staring normal work, it’s not used by the plugin to stop maintenance mode. You need to do it yourself. You can use GD Press Tools dashboard widget to enable or disable maintenance mode.

Default Maintenance Template

Restrictions will be expanded later with IP options, specific user ID’s… Info about mode is always visible in the footer and if you want with notifications on top of every page.

Default template is very simple as you can see from this image on the right.

If you notice any problems with this new feature, please leave a comment or forum topic and describe what the problem is.