Year in Review: Dev4Press in 2016
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.
Plugin and Plugin Pack changes
The new version of the Dev4Press Network website brings some important changes to all plugins (including some updates to prices) and change of Plugin Pack into Plugin Club Membership.
No more Dev4Press themes for WordPress
This is one of the hardest decisions I had to make when it comes to Dev4Press: Dev4Press will no longer make or sell themes for WordPress. From now on, the primary focus is on WordPress premium plugins.
In-depth analysis of comment spam
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.
Book: WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook
WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook book is published by Packt Publishing and written by Yannick Lefebvre. Book contains 80 practical step-by-step problems with easy to follow solutions to most common problems developer can have when creating plugin for WordPress.
Dev4Press Updater 2.0
Major update for Dev4Press Updater is here, and 2.0 version brings rewrite of the big parts of the install and upgrade procedure to solve problems on restrictive server setups, improves plugin core and adds new panels for news and promotions, and improves overall visual experience.
What will we get with WordPress 3.4?
WordPress 3.4 Beta was released next week, and it is a good time to see what to expect from new version. Right from the start, I must say that I am disappointed with current development of WordPress and that this new version makes even previous WordPress 3.3 looks good.
GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools 1.5 Lite
New Lite version is released with updates for WordPress 3.3 and improvements in plugin loading and optimization. There are some cosmetic changes in this version, minor changes in the core for registration of post types and taxonomies and improvements to readme file.
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.
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.
WordPress Benchmark: 3.0 vs 3.1 vs 3.2
With release of new WordPress 3.2, it’s very interesting to see benchmarked performance of last 3 major versions, and how far the new WordPress has come. This is first benchmark post with the results of the performance of the WordPress administration side. Second one coming in the next couple of days.