New minor revision for GD Press Tools Pro is here. As it was announced, next major version soon goes into developement, and current 4.3 branch is now in bug fixing mode only. This version has latest updates and fixes: updates to sitemap generator and admin bar toggler.
Next major version for GD Press Tools Pro will go into development soon, and it will take some time to complete considering how many new features and improvements are planned for it. This is an overview of what you can expect in the new version, but this list is not complete.
New version and new set of security related features. Security panel has the spam tab and controls that will help you control IP addresses used to generate spam that you can’t fight any other way. New templates and more control is added to the maintenance mode.
New Dev4Press Updater version is just released, mostly for maintenance, but with few new features: support for new context help introduced in WordPress 3.3 and loading optimization for the admin side. There are couple of minor cosmetic bugs fixed in this version.
First xScape based theme in 2012 will be called Xposed. This will be HTML5 theme, it will have 4+4 built in color styles, one sidebar widgets area, one footer widgets area, static page showcase block, Nivo powered featured posts slider. This is portfolio, showcase and blog theme.
This is first basic performance testing for WordPress plugins in 2012, and it will include 30 plugins. They will be tested on how much resources they use to load, and not to tell you if the plugin is good or not. Plugins features and plugin code quality is not the reviewed here.
It is impossible to give detailed info about development that should span a whole year, but some plans are already made and it might be interesting to list them now that new 2012 has started. When this year ends, we will see how much of these plans have been completed.
Few days remain in 2011, and this is last release from Dev4Press in this year. Work on GD Press Tools Pro will resume later in January 2012. For new, this release brings several important changes and new features, better optimization for resource usage and number of bugs fixed.
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.
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.
One of the best things about WordPress are plugins. With plugins you can expand WordPress and make it into anything you need it to be. But, each plugin requires time for loading and processing and it takes up additional resources. How much exactly one plugin need?