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Dev4Press 2023: A Year in Review

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

2023 is ending soon, and this is a great time to look back on everything that happened with Dev4Press and Dev4Press plugins for WordPress this year and offer some glimpses into what to expect in 2024. This year, we have ...

Improve bbPress performance with Booster

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 06:30:02 +0000

Booster is part of the GD bbPress Toolbox Pro plugin since version 7.0, and it aims to significantly improve database query performance for many bbPress features, regardless of the forum size.

Easier knowledge base code documenting

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:34:00 +0000

New GD Knowledge Base Pro 6.0 has been expanded with new blocks that will simplify code documentation. These new blocks are highly configurable, and you can practically change everything, including labels for all the included elements.

Support for PHP 8.1 and 8.2 in plugins and WordPress

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:05:00 +0000

In December 2022, PHP 8.2 was released. PHP 7.4 has reached the End Of Life stage and is no longer officially updated or supported, with PHP 8.0 only getting securing fixes, making PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2 the only officially supported and updated releases.

5 features to enhance user experience in bbPress-powered forums

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

User Experience is a very important factor when it comes to any website, and even more when it comes to forums, because users expect to be able to navigate the forums easily and feel comfortable adding content and managing their own content.

SweepPress Pro in action: Cleanup of Dev4Press website

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0000

SweepPress Pro plugin has recently got a brand new 3.5 release, and this post will showcase a real cleanup process done here on the Dev4Press website, comparing estimates to real values as reported by the database. Now, this cleanup process ...

5 features for using bbPress for support forums

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:30:00 +0000

One of the main uses for any forum software is to provide support and for users to discuss features, ask for help, and more. But, there are many things that bbPress lacks to be considered a full-fledged solution for support use.

Development plans for the first half of the year

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

The new 2022 has started a few days ago, and, as always, we all hope that it will be better than the previous one. And, it is the right time to share with all of you some of the plans I have for Dev4Press development for the first 6 months of 2022.

Retrospective of the year ending

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:48:23 +0000

nly a few days have left until the end of 2021, and I wanted to take a look back and review important events, releases, what was done right and what plans failed to complete, and how this year will help shape the next one.

Evolving the plugin interface

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:13:28 +0000

Way back in 2014, GD bbPress Toolbox Pro 3.0 was released, introducing the new interface for the admin side panels and settings, and in the years to come, all the Dev4Press plugins have been updated to use the same interface.

Get modern design bbPress forums with GeneratePress theme and Quantum plugin

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:00:00 +0000

GeneratePress is a very popular and modern WordPress theme, that works great with bbPress, but the forums will not look their best, because of the old and very much outdated styling and layout coming from bbPress. bbPress plugin includes default ...

5 features to improve users engagement in bbPress powered forums

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

bbPress plugin creates lightweight forums for WordPress, and while that may be enough for some use cases, most forum owners realize that they need more advanced features to improve user engagement.

Dev4Press History: GD Press Tools

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:00:18 +0000

GD Press Tools is one of the oldest plugins I made, and the first one that was offered as a Pro plugin on Dev4Press website back in 2009. The first stable version of GD Press Tools was released on WordPress.org ...

Dev4Press History: Website Redesigns

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:29:45 +0000

Since 2019, each new website design had an internal design version number. Current website design is version 7. And, every design version is based around the theme developed by Dev4Press.

Dev4Press History: First website

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:02:53 +0000

Dev4Press website dedicated to premium WordPress plugins has been launched on December 15, 2009. But, I have bought the domain almost a year before, because I liked the domain name.

Dev4Press is 9 years old!

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:15:27 +0000

On December 15, 2009, GD Press Tools Pro plugin was released for sale on the new website, and Dev4Press project was born. And, this Saturday, we celebrate the 9th birthday.

WordPress 5.0: Should you update or wait?

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 10:26:35 +0000

As it stands right now, WordPress 5.0 will be released sometime on December 6, 2018. With all the controversy related to the Gutenberg (or Block Editor), question is, should you update now, or wait?

Gutenberg or Classic editor? Why not both?

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:30:42 +0000

WordPress 4.9.8 was released last week, and it is the first WordPress release that includes the dashboard callout for testing the upcoming editor, codename Gutenberg.

Happy New 2018

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 18:13:19 +0000

The new 2018 year has just started, but there are a lot of things to do already, starting with the changes to the Dev4Press website, improvements to renewal process and few more things.

Year in Review: Dev4Press in 2017

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:27:11 +0000

With only 2 days remaining in 2017, it is a great time to look back and summarize this passing year, celebrate a Dev4Press birthday and take a look at what to expect in 2018.

Security related HTTP Headers, Part 3: Content Security Policy

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:16:52 +0000

Content Security Policy (or CSP) is very complex and powerful security-related HTTP header, that might be complex to implement, but essential in limiting what browser is allowed to load when browsing your website.

Security related HTTP Headers, Part 2: Referrer Policy

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:00:33 +0000

Referrer Policy is a new HTTP header drafted in 2015, implemented last year. This header controls referrer header value browser sends when the user is navigating away from your website pages.

Security related HTTP Headers, Part 1: Introduction

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:00:01 +0000

Response to each request made to the server from the client side (browser) returns the content and the special block with HTTP response headers containing various information about the content.

Dev4Press development moving from SVN to Git

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 17 May 2017 13:31:47 +0000

For the past 8 years, all Dev4Press plugins, themes and other projects were managed through the SVN repositories. And, now Dev4Press has switched to Git. Here is why, where and how.

Security Hardening: 6 Months Overview

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:00:42 +0000

Dev4Press server started experiencing occasional problems with overload in back in July. The problems started getting worse in August and September. And, the investigation lead to some interesting findings.

Year in Review: Dev4Press in 2016

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:00:08 +0000

Now, that only a few days remain before this 2016 comes to the end, it is a very good time to take a look at everything, the good and the bad, that has happened this year on Dev4Press.

Beware of pirated plugins and themes

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 13:13:12 +0000

Many WordPress users, in the attempt to save some money, instead of purchasing plugins (or themes), they are searching for pirated versions of popular premium plugins and themes and use them instead.

Improving security leads to better website performance

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:00:47 +0000

reCAPTCHA for comment spam prevention

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 07:00:29 +0000

One of the most popular and very effective methods to combat spam is to use some form of captcha protection. But, captchas can lead to poor user experience. reCAPTCHA by Google is a quite different captcha trying to minimize user interaction.

Login Honeypot to fight comments spam

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 26 May 2016 17:00:53 +0000

There are many ways to fight spam. And, spam delivery method will largely influence the way to fight it. Honeypot on the login form is very effective if your website is free for anyone to register.

In-depth analysis of comment spam

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:00:50 +0000

Before we get to methods to fight comment spam, it is very important to understand how spammers and spambots work, what methods they use, what types of comments they are posting.

Comment spam: how does it work?

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:00:30 +0000

Any WordPress website that allows comments or implements forum (bbPress or something else) attracts comment spam. If you ever wondered how comment spam finds your website, this is a good place to start.

Dev4Press in 2011: Year In Review

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:00:17 +0000

It is a last day of 2011, and I will try to summarize the last 365 days in the life of Dev4Press. But first, I would like to thank to all my faithful users that supported me and my projects over the years and I do my best to improve all my plugins and themes in the coming 2012.

Do you really need Akismet?

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:55:36 +0000

I never had problem with paying for services or products (after all, I run commercial plugins and themes business myself), and I planned to upgrade my Akismet license since they introduced the strict payment plan. But, than I discovered that I don't really need Akismet at all.

Dev4Press in 2010: The Final Report

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:31:42 +0000

Tomorrow, Dev4Press website enters it's third year. And while 2009 was warming up year, 2010 is the first full year Dev4Press was dedicated to premium WordPress development and support for both themes and plugins with additional work on many interesting projects.

Is paying for plugins inevitable?

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:50:40 +0000

For the last few days there is an open discussion on Weblog Tools Collection website about paying for plugins as a trend for 2010. There were a lot of comments and different opinions about the subject, and I will try to go over the subject again.

Why I hate Mozilla Firefox…

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:39:21 +0000

I know that many people will be offended by this post, but I know that I am not the only one having so many troubles with Firefox. For years Firefox was getting worse with every new version. Before you start throwing rocks at me, please read the post to find out why I hate Firefox, and why they need to release 64bit version, yesterday.