I’ve been trying to get back into the “coding rhythm” after a lot of distractions recently. Helping out at my son’s school swim lessons. Counseling friends and family on business matters, family matters. Business trips and other things that are very non-techie. I’ve managed to get a few things done over the [...]
20
May
A Plugin To Help Find Plugins
WordPress approved my latest plugin project this morning and the first iteration has just hit the WordPress Plugin Directory. I finally broke down and spent a day writing a plugin to help WordPress site admins and developers find quality WordPress plugins. There are plenty of good plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory. There are [...]
20
May
Daily Update: Store Locator Plus 3.11.1 / Pro Pack 3.11.1
Just got back from a weekend business trip to Atlanta and wrapped up the patches for Store Locator Plus 3.11.1. You can always find the change log at the Release Notes page, here is the summary of what was released today: Store Locator Plus 3.11.1 Fix: address without geocodes are highlighted again. The highlight bar [...]
14
May
Enhanced Map v0.8 Released
A minor patch for Enhanced Map, which in retrospect should have been labelled a patch release “3.7.11″… too late now… is out. It fixes the map settings “center map at” feature, which broke when 0.7 when the center_map_at=”<blah>” shortcode attribute was added.
13
May
Manipulating the Store Locator Plus Search Form
A request that often shows up in the forums is “how do I put the find locations button next to the search form”. This example explains how I used Store Locator Plus to tailor the map interface to our needs. The map site is built on the WordPress 3.5 Twenty Twelve Theme with [...]
12
May
What’s New : Mid-May Store Locator Plus Releases
Here is what is new for the mid-may updates of Store Locator Plus and the add-on packs. Store Locator Plus Version 3.11 Edit Latitude and Longitude Previously a Pro Pack feature, editing the latitude and longitude of an existing location is now part of the base plugin. Manage Location Interface Tweaks The rows on the [...]
09
May
Daily Update : SLP 3.11 Is In Testing
There is a lot of stuff coming for the next Store Locator Plus release including an update to Enhanced Map, Pro Pack, and Tagalong add-on packages. There have been a number of bug fixes as well as some notable internal updates that have bumped the next Store Locator Plus version from the “patch release” version [...]
07
May
Tracking Down WordPress Plugin Problems
With WordPress it is very easy to debug the activation process of a plugin and get a detailed log file of exactly what is going on. I use this method to look at activation problems with Store Locator Plus on various servers. Most often I uncover server security settings that are too strict, [...]
07
May
Daily Update, Trello, BrowserStack
The past few days I’ve been mostly working on client projects related to the plugins, helping people with their websites and server issues, and dealing with my own server issues. Along the way I’ve learned some new tricks. Tagalong 0.9 Tagalong version 0.9 is in development. I am working through some reported bugs and [...]
05
May
Daily Update & Notes : Enhanced Map / W3 Total Cache
I’ve been working mostly on support issues and paid customization work the past few days, in addition to trying to do some system admin on my own servers. You can read about those trials & tribulations on my other blog posts. This post is about product progress and some operational notes related to Store Locator [...]
04
May
WordPress Site Performance
The Charleston Software Associates web server came crashing down again this afternoon. About once-per-month the server has been going into an unresponsive state. Today I finally had enough logging turned on to track down the issue. The problem? The Apache web server was running out of memory. The server was not under [...]
26
Apr
WordPress Security Issue: W3 Total Cache / WP Super Cache
A security vulnerability that may allow remote users to execute PHP code on WordPress sites running the W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache plugins was reported over a month ago. Both plugins have posted security patches recently. I know there are at least a handful of users of the Charleston Software Associates [...]
24
Apr
Daily Update : Store Locator Plus
There are a few things going on with Store Locator Plus that have been precipitated by some paid customer support and customization work. Store Locator Plus 3.10 The next release will be version 3.10. The minor version number has been changed as there is a significant difference in SLP 3.10 that is coming… Pro Pack [...]
24
Apr
Back To The Keyboard
After spending a week in Boston for what I can only say was an “eventful” week, I am back at the keyboard with plenty to do. There is plenty to do over the next couple of weeks: Handle paid support requests. Review the forums. Prioritize any bugs reported. Start the next build cycle for [...]
12
Apr
CSA Plans : Upgrades and Subscriptions
I have started to received a few emails regarding the future plans around Store Locator Plus and the proposed upgrade and subscriptions model. Hopefully this post will answer those questions. Add-on Pack Upgrades In the not-so-distant future upgrades to the add-on packs will not longer be free. Security patches or patches to maintain compatibility with [...]
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