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Milan Petrovic

GD bbPress Attachments 1.5.2

Minor update for GD bbPress Attachments plugin brings updated German and Serbian translations, updated readme.txt file, topic/reply admin side meta box shows attachments upload errors and plugin option for REL tag for images is expanded to allow adding of topic and reply ID.

Review of WordPress 3.3

New WordPress is here, and it is first major release in the past 3 years I have mixed feelings about. It has several interesting features for developers, but it doesn’t offer anything that important for most WordPress users, with a small drop in the overall performance on admin side.

Plugin: YOURLS WordPress to Twitter

There are many services to shorten links, including one supported by WordPress, but if you have a great short name domain, best thing to do is to have your own service to shorten links. And to power it, best solution available is YOURLS and its WordPress to Twitter plugin.

Monthly plugins resource usage testing

Earlier this month I have published test of 35 plugins and their impact on the loading of WordPress. Based on interest for that article, I will not stop there. Each month new tests with more plugins will be conducted to help users and to help developers to make better plugins.

WordPress Benchmark: 3.0 vs 3.1 vs 3.2 vs 3.3

WordPress now has 4 versions in 3.x line. With slow adoption rate for previous two major versions, despite great 3.2 release, question is will the new WordPress 3.3 manage to persuade users to upgrade? This benchmark will try to give, at least, partial answer to that.

GD Products Center Pro 0.8.8 Beta

New beta version for GD Products Center is here, fixing several bugs (some rendering issues and saving some of the properties) and adding more new features: single latest/random product widget, simple and advanced paging for archives and some more plugin core changes.

GD Unit Converter 1.1.0

After few minor revisions of the plugin, here is the ‘major’ update to 1.1.0. GD Unit Converter got many new conversion unites in the past couple of months, and this new version has been optimized to use less resources and not load at all on the front end side of the website.