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How We Increased Performance On Our Site By 300%
A few days ago we moved our site from Liquid Web to our new FireupWP and WPCloudDeploy project platform. This new platform allows us to use dedicated cloud VMs from places like Digital Ocean, Linode and Vultr. We pay the cost of the VMs with no markup which provides huge savings over regular hosts. We…
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Short Take: How To Fire Up Your Own WordPress Server
There are many reasons to run your own WordPress server. If this is something you’re thinking about, there are a number of resources that you can tap into in order to make this happen. In this article we provide two resources you can use to get the job done.
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New Simple:Press Forum Theme: Modern 2020
A new default theme is coming to Simple:Press Forums with the release of Simple:Press Forums 6.5.0. Features of this theme: More modern looking with larger default font sizes and button sizes. Less use of tiny icons More color customization options Better display on mobile More white space Just like our previous default theme, Barebones, you…
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Writing Custom Importers For Simple:Press Forums
Introduction Simple:Press has an importer plugin that imports data from a variety of legacy forum systems including bbPress, wpForo and Asgaros. One of the objectives when we created the importer was to make it easy for your average developer to quickly create an importer for any forum. To that end we included a framework that,…
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Deprecation and End-Of-Life Support Policies
Introduction The Simple:Press WordPress Forum plugin has been under continuous development for 12+ years now. In that time, we have included features that made sense at the time but no longer makes sense now. And, we have had numerous versions in that time frame, some with security issues that have since been resolved. It is…
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Security Release: Simple:Press Version 6.8.1
A researcher out of Germany, Laokoon Security, recently reported a couple of security related issues they uncovered during an audit for one of their clients. These issues have been resolved in Simple:Press V 6.8.1. If you’re running any version earlier than this you should upgrade ASAP. If for some reason you’re still running Version 5.x…
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Simple:Press Release 6.6.6
WordPress 5.9 is the gift that keeps on giving… This time around we’ve had to patch the drag-and-drop JS component in it to make it compatible. Upgrade to Simple:Press 6.6.6 to get the fix. The update should be in your WordPress automatic updates page. We’ve tested the fix with WP 5.8 and 5.9 but not…
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WordPress 5.9 & Simple:Press Forums
WordPress 5.9 introduced a new type of theme – the Full Site Editing theme where all components of the theme (including headers and footers) are blocks. This is a radical change to WordPress themes. But, the good news for Simple:Press is that we can still work with these new themes with a couple of minor…
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Simple:Press Forums – Minor Releases 6.6.1 – 6.6.3
Simple:Press forums 6.6.x was released a few months ago and since then we have pushed a number of minor releases to tweak some things. These are the changes that were made: 6.6.3 Tweak Add a new overlay to the default 2020 theme to match the WP 2021 theme. The new overlay is the default on…
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What’s New In Simple:Press Forums 6.6.0
Simple:Press Forums 6.6.0 introduces two new major features and a lot of improvements to one of the existing features. And, of course, some bugs were stomped.
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How We Increased Performance On Our Site By 300%
A few days ago we moved our site from Liquid Web to our new FireupWP and WPCloudDeploy project platform. This new platform allows us to use dedicated cloud VMs from places like Digital Ocean, Linode and Vultr. We pay the cost of the VMs with no markup which provides huge savings over regular hosts. We…
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New Simple:Press Forum Theme: Modern 2020
A new default theme is coming to Simple:Press Forums with the release of Simple:Press Forums 6.5.0. Features of this theme: More modern looking with larger default font sizes and button sizes. Less use of tiny icons More color customization options Better display on mobile More white space Just like our previous default theme, Barebones, you…
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Now Available: SPMS Version 2.7
Version 2.7 of Simple:Press Member Subscriptions is now available. It includes more than two dozen fixes and tweaks.
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Creating Simple:Press Plugins: Hello World!
Introduction This is the first in a series of articles that will cover how to create Simple:Press plugins. It requires that you have some familiarity with creating and deploying standard WordPress plugins. If you understand the WordPress plugin building process then a Simple:Press plugin just requires building upon that knowledge. Creating a Simple:Press plugin generally…
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Creating Simple:Press Plugins: Adding Settings
Introduction This is the second in our series of articles on constructing plugins/extensions specifically for Simple:Press. If you need a refresher you can find the first article here: Hello World! In this article we will take a look at how you can add settings to the Simple:Forum admin area that your plugins can use. Almost…
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Creating Simple:Press Plugins: Adding Component Settings
Introduction This is the third in our series of articles on constructing plugins/extensions specifically for Simple:Press. Here are links to the first couple of articles: Hello World! Adding Settings In this article we will discuss how to create a separate screen for component settings that will be located under the Simple:Press FORUM->COMPONENTS area in wp-admin.…
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Creating Simple:Press Plugins: Using POST OPTIONS
Introduction This is the fourth in our series of articles on constructing plugins/extensions specifically for Simple:Press. Here are links to the prior articles: Hello World! Adding Settings Adding A Component Menu Item In this article we will discuss how to add an option on the front-end under POST OPTIONS. Just so that we’re clear, here…
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Creating Simple:Press Plugins: About Authorizations and Permission Sets
Introduction This is the fifth in our series of articles on constructing plugins/extensions specifically for Simple:Press. Here are links to the prior articles: Hello World! Adding Settings Adding A Component Menu Item Using POST OPTIONS In this article we will veer away from heavy coding and instead discuss the security model that underlies Simple:Press. To…
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Creating Simple:Press Plugins: The NEW POST Class
Introduction This is the sixth in our series of articles on constructing plugins/extensions specifically for Simple:Press. Here are links to the prior articles: Hello World! Adding Settings Adding A Component Menu Item Using POST OPTIONS Authorizations and Permission Sets In this article we will engage in an extensive discussion of one of the more important…
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Writing Custom Importers For Simple:Press Forums
Introduction Simple:Press has an importer plugin that imports data from a variety of legacy forum systems including bbPress, wpForo and Asgaros. One of the objectives when we created the importer was to make it easy for your average developer to quickly create an importer for any forum. To that end we included a framework that,…
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Short Take: How To Fire Up Your Own WordPress Server
There are many reasons to run your own WordPress server. If this is something you’re thinking about, there are a number of resources that you can tap into in order to make this happen. In this article we provide two resources you can use to get the job done.
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