News

Redesign of the Simple:Press website

We are excited to announce a major redesign of the Simple:Press website! The old website has been around for quite some time and has accumulated a lot of baggage over the years. In order to make it easier to evolve the website, we have decided to start anew with a fresh installation of WordPress and […]

Call For Beta Testers / Simple:Press 6.3.0

Simple:Press 6.3.0 is almost ready for release but it needs to be tested on some real-world sites first. If you have a staging site and are a Silver/Gold/Platinum customer please contact us for a beta copy along with updated versions of the plugins and themes. If you’re not using any of our plugins, you can […]

2nd Quarter 2019 Progress Report: New Plugins and Recent Updates

Over the last couple of months we’ve been busy making tweaks and enhancements to a number of our plugins and themes. The result of this work can be see in the following updates: New Simple:Press Core Release Version 6.2.0 Simple:Press is now available in the WordPress.org repository. This release includes the following changes: New: SVG […]

New Release: Simple:Press 6.2

In this new version of Simple:Press, we will be focusing on providing additional options for selecting icons that can be used in Forum Lists, Ranks and Reputation. This is a small, incremental step in focusing our attention on the overall User Interface and User Experience in Simple:Press. Introducing SVG Icon Sets In version 6.1 and […]

Simple:Press Version 6.1 Now Generally Available

Simple:Press 6.1 was released to the wordpress.org repository earlier today. Included are a few bug fixes and some minor new features along with the first pass of our new licensing infrastructure.

Call For Articles – $300.00

Have you used the Simple:Press WordPress forum plugin for a while and know how to really make it work for you? And maybe even know how to make it work for others? If so, you might be the perfect person to write an article or two for our site. Why would you want to do […]

Free Silver Level Subscription To Simple:Press? Learn How You Might Get One Here

Unfortunately this offer is no longer available – the project is in full swing at this point with all volunteer slots filled. Introduction We just finished up an analysis of what new functions our customers require from Simple:Press where we learned that the most wanted feature was a new, more modern/simpler theme. Accordingly we have […]

Coming Soon: Ads Plugin for Simple:Press

We’ve been hard at work on a new plugin that will help you more easily manage your forum ads inventory. If you’ve had to resort to child themes to insert ads into areas of your forum, those days will soon be behind you! The new plugin has a dual hierarchy for displaying ads – Ad […]

Coming Soon: Major Update To The Topic Status Plugin

It has been a while since we’ve focused on our plugins but 2019 will likely be a year where we introduce new plugins and offer enhancements on existing ones. Now that version 6.0 of our free core plugin is out the door on WordPress.org and seems relatively stable, we can start to pay attention to […]

Transitioning To GIT for Version Control

Introduction For most of Simple:Press’s life, version control has been done using Subversion (aka svn). Subversion is a great centralized version control system in use by thousands of companies. However, over the last few years, developers have been moving towards a more decentralized and ‘smarter’ version control system known as git. Even Microsoft, with their […]