Version 7.1 of the free Go Live Update URLs plugin is now available and ready for general use. This release introduces an entirely new serialized data handler that improves both performance and security. It is rare for us to write a release blog post for a basic plugin update, but this one is incredibly powerful and deserves to be announced. New Serialized Data Handler While we hadn't seen any user issues with the previous structure, much of it was designed over 10 years ago. We were … [Read more...]
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Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 9.11
Version 9.11 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version brings support for ordering categories and pages by their custom title as well as resolving edge case bugs and collisions. Ordering Links By Custom Titles Both category and page menu support setting a custom title for links in the menus. A custom title allows you to customize the display in the menus wherever the category or page is displayed. This has always worked fine when … [Read more...]
Retrieving Customers Subscribed to a WooCommerce Product
On many of our clients' ecommerce sites, we use the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin to manage recurring products or memberships. In some cases we need to retrieve a list of all customers who are actively subscribed to a particular product. Common Solution The generally accepted solution for listing the customers is to retrieve a list of subscriptions and loop through each one to retrieve the customer. It looks something like this. This works fine for small sites with a couple … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 9.10
Version 9.10 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. This version brings a new order option for Page menus, architectural and tooling improvements, and many quality of life fixes and improvements. New Order Option for Page Menus From the beginning, you have been able to order the pages displayed in menus using various fields like titles or page order. Now you may also choose to order pages by ascending or descending order. Ordering by … [Read more...]
Go Live Update Urls – Version 7.1.2
Version 7.1.2 of Go Live Update Urls plugin is now available and ready for general use. Version 7.1.2 focused on code improvements and tooling updates. Part of our ongoing maintenance to keep the plugin sleek and working with new versions of servers, WordPress and browsers. NodeJS Version 22.21.1 We use NodeJS tools for building the plugin assets as well as running unit tests against the TypeScript code. We updated the underlying node version and packages to support the latest LTS … [Read more...]
Advanced Sidebar Menu – Version 9.9
Version 9.9 of the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin is now available and ready for general use. Version 9.9 brings new ordering options for Category menus, performance improvements and architectural changes as building blocks for future versions. This version includes 87 commits with over 170 files being changed. This article could easily be 10 pages long and still not cover all the little improvements made in this version. Instead of covering everything, I'll highlight the most interesting … [Read more...]
