Dev4Press

Migrate installations to Freemius version of the plugin

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:03:41 +0000

Since January 17, 2025, all Dev4Press plugin licenses have been sold through Freemius. All downloads coming from Freemius licensing include the Freemius SDK, which handles licensing, upgrades, and plugin updates directly from the WordPress update system. Installing the Freemius integrated ...

Website Cleaning and Sweeping

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:23:26 +0000

The core of the SweepPress plugin is the Sweep panel where you can see all the registered sweepers, review all the information, get additional help about each sweeper, and run the sweepers. SweepPress will not register every included sweeper, because ...

Support for coreActivity Tracking

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:43:56 +0000

coreActivity plugin is a free plugin for WordPress developed by Dev4Press, and it can be expanded with more events, and handle tracking from other plugins too. To learn more about the coreActivity plugin, check out the plugin Home Page or ...

Expanding User Profile With New Pages

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:59:47 +0000

bbPress user profile has fixed number of user profile pages, and there is no clear (or simple) way this can be expanded. The process involves adding and processing new rewrite rules for new pages, processing the new page to load ...

Should you be using Captchas?

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:24:23 +0000

Captcha is a method that aims to determine if the website users are humans or bots. Captchas are seen all over the Internet since the 2007, and there are so many different versions of the system in use today. Captcha ...

Working With Prefixes And Groups

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:26:17 +0000

Two main panels for managing prefixes and prefix groups are the starting point to view, edit and add prefixes and groups. You can fist create groups, or you can first create prefixes, in both cases, you can assign prefixes to ...

Ultimate Guide To GD Topic Prefix Pro for bbPress

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:45:54 +0000

GD Topic Prefix Pro for bbPress implements very useful prefixes system allowing you better control over assigning, displaying and using prefixes for topics in the forums. Prefixes behave as tags, but prefixes are predefined by the website administrator, placed in ...

Widgets for bbPress

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 17:08:30 +0000

GD bbPress Toolbox Pro adds many new widgets for bbPress powered forums. Some widgets are designed to replace default bbPress widgets with a wide range of new and improved settings. Plugin version 7.5 has a total of 9 new widgets ...

Ultimate Guide To GD bbPress Toolbox Pro

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 13:17:51 +0000

GD bbPress Toolbox Pro is a feature rich plugin with over 50 features aiming to enhance and expand forums created with bbPress plugin. Prerequisites To use GD bbPress Toolbox Pro, you need to have installed and active bbPress plugin. This ...

All the Toolbox Features

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 16:31:05 +0000

GD bbPress Toolbox Pro has wide range of features included. All features are controlled via the Features panel. Features Panel All the features are listed here. Features can have settings, add new menu items, can be always loading, and features ...

Forum Based Settings Override

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:23:23 +0000

For each forum plugin implements a meta box that is used to override some of the plugin settings. Currently, this includes settings for attachments, private topics and replies, auto closing of topics and forum locking. Forum Overrides Metabox Each setting ...

Toolbox, bbPress And BuddyPress

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:51:55 +0000

GD bbPress Toolbox Pro is a bbPress plugin, but it does add few features related to BuddyPress for features that can be integrated into the BuddyPress. BuddyPress Requirements Due to the nature of the BuddyPress development, we can only test ...

What is Topic View in bbPress Forums?

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 29 May 2024 07:15:42 +0000

To learn more about topic views, check out this article, and to add more views, check out this feature.

bbPress Topic Views

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 29 May 2024 07:15:42 +0000

bbPress implements a very powerful feature for displaying list of topics based on the predefined criteria. These lists are called Views. And, bbPress implements a way for other plugins to register own views. Finally, you can display list of available ...

coreActivity: Plugin Introduction

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 05 May 2024 16:56:46 +0000

CoreActivity is a free plugin for monitoring and logging various activities of the WordPress powered website. The plugin is highly modular, with events registered and controlled by multiple Components.

SweepPress Pro: Plugin Introduction

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 04 May 2024 14:12:29 +0000

SweepPress is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin built around 45 different Sweepers for database cleanup , support for WP-CLI, and WP REST API to perform the cleanup operations. The plugin also features a powerful WordPress Metadata, Sitemeta and Options database table ...

SweepPress Lite: Plugin Introduction

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 04 May 2024 14:12:29 +0000

SweepPress is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin built around 42 different Sweepers for database cleanup (the Pro version has 45), support for WP-CLI, and WP REST API to perform the cleanup operations. The plugin also features a powerful WordPress Options database ...

Ultimate Guide To SweepPress Pro and Lite

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:20:27 +0000

SweepPress is a comprehensive set of tools for cleaning up the WordPress-powered website, getting more insight into some inner workings of the website, and other useful things to help you keep your website well maintained and free of unused data ...

List Of Sweepers

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:20:16 +0000

Posts Auto Drafts Remove auto draft posts. Code: posts-auto-draft Scope: Blog Quick Sweep: Yes Auto Sweep: Yes Sweeper Job: Yes Backup: Yes Monitor: Yes Requirements: High Spam Content Remove spammed posts. Code: posts-spam Scope: Blog Quick Sweep: Yes Auto Sweep: ...

Detecting Visitor IP

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:55:01 +0000

coreActivity depends on getting valid and correct IP from the website visitor. But, that is not as easy as it may look like, and getting correct IP depends on several factors. PHP $_SERVER array contains information about the server and ...

Integration in WordPress

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:01:53 +0000

While most of the coreSecurity Pro features are part of the plugin’s own set of pages under coreSecurity in the admin menu, there are several WordPress panels where coreSecurity Pro will add own controls, display additional content and more. Site ...

Plugin Support for Multisite Network

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:01:10 +0000

coreActivity has full support for the multisite network installations. If you run WordPress multisite, coreActivity can be activated only as Network wide plugin, and it will run across all the websites in the network. Main coreActivity panel is available under ...

How Activity Logging Works

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:01:08 +0000

Plugin logging core doesn’t log any events on its own. Plugin has multiple components that are loaded and active, and each component hooks into various WordPress actions and filters to detect changes or activities to log. When monitored activity happens, ...

Database Schema

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:01:07 +0000

Developer Knowledge LevelThis content is intended for WordPress developers, and it may require coding knowledge of WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript. Code examples provided here may contain errors or needs some additional coding. Make sure to test the code before using ...

List of Events

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:01:07 +0000

All supported coreActivity events are split into components. Components are split into categories. Here is the list of all components and events it has. Internal Internal (coreactivity/internal) Daily Digest digest-daily Weekly Digest digest-weekly Log Cleanup log-cleanup Auto Log Cleanup log-cleanup-auto ...

Components and Events

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:01:05 +0000

coreActivity plugin registers 20+ components, and each component registers one or more events. And, other plugins can register own components and add events. To track all that, and make sure that all events are logged correctly, all events are stored ...

coreActivity & Cache Plugins

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:01:04 +0000

How Cache plugins work Most cache plugins (including popular WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket…) are caching the full page response as HTML, and store that static HTML to load it later, bypassing WordPress loading and request processing ...

Vulnerabilities Related Updates

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:16:29 +0000

coreSecurity Pro can show vulnerabilities related to PHP, WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes. PHP When it comes to PHP, things can get quite complicated. There are multiple versions of PHP available, and each one has minor releases that aim at ...

Ultimate Guide to coreSecurity Pro

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:34 +0000

coreSecurity Pro is a feature rich plugin with over 30 features aiming to improve security of the WordPress powered websites. This includes antispam, firewall, security headers, login and registration protection, file scanner and more. Prerequisites Very important part of the ...

Security Inspection Tools

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:27 +0000

coreSecurity includes several tools that can analyse your website to give you information about security, DNS and response headers. More Inspector tools are expected in the future versions of the plugin.

All the Security Features

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:26 +0000

coreSecurity has wide range of features included. All features are controlled via the Features panel. Each feature has direct controls to enable or disable the feature, and additional icons linking to knowledge base, settings and panels that some features add. ...

List of Security Events

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:17 +0000

coreSecurity Pro integrates with coreActivity plugin for purpose of logging security related events, showing logged events, check the conditions for banning offending IPs and more. coreSecurity Pro can’t work properly without coreActivity plugins. coreSecurity Pro adds several new components with ...

Explaining The File Scanner

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:17 +0000

File Scanner is powerful diagnostics feature in coreSecurity Pro, and it has two main parts: Check out these articles to get in-depth information about both scanners, their goal, process and results. File Scanner Panel The File Scanner adds own panel ...

Database Schema

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:15 +0000

coreSecurity & Cache Plugins

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:13 +0000

Why is Media Library required for attachments?

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:41:56 +0000

All attachments uploads are handled by the WordPress Media Library, and plugin uses native WordPress upload functions. When file is uploaded it will be available through Media Library. Consult WordPress documentation about Media Library requirements.

Database Schema

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:00:44 +0000

Plugin Installation & Update

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:09:00 +0000

All Dev4Press plugins can be installed into WordPress using different methods. These include the use of the specialized Dev4Press Updater plugin (it can install and update all Dev4Press Pro plugins and addons), using WordPress directly, or using FTP. All three ...

Activities GEO Location

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:25:00 +0000

Based on the IP from the event, plugin can GEO locate the request source. The location can include country, state (or region) and city, and can also include latitude and longitude too. For statistical purposes and analysis of requests, it ...

Easy Social Networks sharing

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:21:02 +0000

CoreSocial is a powerful plugin that is easy to setup. When you install it for the first time, and go through the basic install panel, you will proceed to the About panel to learn more about the plugin, and then ...