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Coming Soon: GD bbPress Toolbox Pro 5.2

Development for GD bbPress Toolbox Pro 5.2 is mostly done, and it will be released on Thursday, May 24, 2018, to celebrate the plugin’s sixth birthday on May 27th.

As you may know, GD bbPress Toolbox Pro shares a birthday date with WordPress. One may 27th, WordPress will celebrate the 15th birthday and GD bbPress Toolbox pro with celebrate 6th birthday, so we will (as usual) have a double celebration next Sunday.

Attachments Upload Directory settings
Attachments Upload Directory settings

Anniversary edition of the GD bbPress Toolbox Pro with version 5.2 brings many new features, almost all based on the feedback from plugin users. Version 5.2 includes following new features:

  • Replacement search widget with extra options
  • Change the uploads directory to store attachments
  • Change roles for using the canned replies
  • Hide user profiles from the non-logged visitors
  • Show search form on top of the forums/topics templates

And more updates and fixes:

  • Improved auto load of CSS/JS files
  • Various styling improvements
  • Various widgets improvements

If you have any more suggestions, please let me know. I can’t guarantee that everything can be added to this version, it depends on the time available and complexity of the requested features.

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GD bbPress Toolbox Pro
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Milan Petrovic
Milan Petrovic

CEO and Lead developer of Dev4Press Web Development company, working with WordPress since 2008, first as a freelancer, later founding own development company. Author of more than 250 plugins and more than 20 themes.

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