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WordPress 3.3 – what’s new?

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

WordPress 3.3 Beta 1

WordPress 3.3 Beta 1


Congratulations!
WordPress.org announced that WordPress version 3.3 Beta 1 is available.
Do not hurry to grab it and update your production blog. Beta 1 is published for testing purposes only. It still can have critical bugs, even if it looks stable enough. So beta-testers are welcome! If you have test playground for new WordPress toy – just install it there and enjoy.
You can download WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 here.
Download of WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 is available here.
Download of WordPress 3.3 Beta 3 is available here.
Download of WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 is available here.
Try the latest Beta, test it, find bugs and report WordPress community and developers team.
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Jumpple WordPress plugin review

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Is Jumpple plugin makes the job

Who makes the job?

Jumpple WordPress plugin which calls itself “Your website keeper” is developed by Jumpple.com. Plugin offers you free and easy way to protect your online presence via real time notifications if something is wrong with your website.
Jumpple offers these services:
- 24×7 site monitoring;
- Website/server – Configure how frequently you want to check website status (up/down) using TCP, HTTP, Ping and DNS checks;
- Latency – Monitor how long it takes your site to load to ensure an optimal user experience;
- Content – Check for missing keywords to protect your homepage from content errors and/or defacement.
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Lock s2Member roles during plugin update

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Do not reset s2Member WordPress Plugin Roles

s2Member Roles

Data: You use s2Member WordPress plugin from PrimoThemes successfully.
For those who don’t know, this plugin supports powerful membership capabilities, protect members only content, integrates with PayPal, supports recurring billing, custom pages for registration, etc. It is a right tool if you wish to sell some of your blog content to your subscribers or just restrict access to some posts, pages or downloads.
Finally, you know s2Member and WordPress good enough to make your own changes to its user permissions systems. You edited one of S2member created user roles: “s2Member Level 1″, “s2Member Level 2″, “s2Member Level 3″ or “s2Member Level 4″ and you added some new capabilities to it. You can use User Role Editor WordPress plugin, which helps you make such changes very easy.
Problem: You lose all your custom changes to the s2Member user roles after every s2Member plugin update. What’s going wrong? What to do? Who can help?
Decision: Read this post to know how to leave your customized s2Member user roles unchanged.
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Limit comments moderation

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Limit comments moderation

Limit comments moderation

Who can moderate post comments in WordPress? There are: post author, editors, administrators, that is all users who can edit post for which the comment is sent. Let’s suppose you don’t wish that your authors and editors have ability to moderate comments. How to achieve that? If you look at WordPress capabilities list you find fast the ‘moderate_comments’ capability. So quick decision is to turn off ‘moderate_comments’ capability for the ‘Author’ and ‘Editor’ roles. It’s simple task with the help of User Role Editor WordPress plugin. But you will discover soon that it’s not enough. Why?
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Hide draft and pending posts from other authors

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Hide drafts and pending posts

Hide drafts and pending posts

You don’t like that contributors and authors of your multi-authored WordPress blog see not published post titles of other users. You wish to hide from user all posts in the ‘draft’ or ‘pending’ states. You are in the right place. Let’s see how to achieve this.
WordPress has filter ‘views_edit_post’ where you can modify the list of views available to the user when he clicks ‘Posts” or ‘All Posts’ links at his dashboard.
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User Role Editor WordPress plugin 3.2 is published

Monday, July 25th, 2011

User Role Editor 3.2

User Role Editor 3.2

New feature is added to version 3.2: if you run multi-site WordPress network, User Role Editor will automatically duplicate all roles from the main blog (blog with mininal ID) to every new created blog.
Some fixes, refactoring and logic change were applied to code to enhance its productivity. There were some complaints for PHP timeout error after trying to open plugin Settings page.
Thanks to Grant Norwood for code fix to hide PHP warnings he met during plugin usage.
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User Role Editor WordPress plugin 3.2 Beta

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

User Role Editor WordPress plugin 3.2beta

User Role Editor 3.2b

Version 3.2 of “User Role Editor” WordPress plugin is near to its release. I invite you to participate in testing cycle. If you have testing WordPress installation, please help to test this version in order to exclude bugs before send it to WordPress repository. I tested it at my developing environment, for single site and multi-site WordPress installations. Be sure however, that you have fresh backup copy of your WordPress database before setup this early version on the production site.
What’s new in version 3.2?
- According to suggestions of multi-site WordPress networks owners “User Role Editor” will automatically duplicate roles from the main blog to every new created blog. Thus, there is not necessary to copy every custom added, modified role from the main blog to the new created one manually.
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