Today, the latest and final version of Dev4Press Updater plugin is released – 4.8.1 will show deprecation notice for the Updater. And, there are more things happening behind the scenes of the Dev4Press website that will be revealed soon.
The collapse of MyCommerce (our payment processor and merchant of record) has forced us to speed up the schedule, accelerate the switch to Freemius integration, and rebrand all the plugins by removing the GD prefix.
Without any previous announcement, MyCommerce (our payment processor and merchant of record) parent company, Digital River, has filed for insolvency and suspended all the operations with developers and companies selling through them.
In December this year, Dev4Press will celebrate its 15th birthday. Many changes will be made leading up to this anniversary, and the goal is to finish all the planned changes during the next 2025 year.
For the past 15 years, Dev4Press has been using MyCommerce (formerly ShareIt) as a selling partner and payment processing, and there are no plans to change that. But, we would like to offer some alternatives regarding payments.
The updated Dev4Press.com website is now available. In the past three weeks, work has been done to change the website’s structure and improve many visual, SEO, and internal elements.
Starting in June 2024, the MO translation files will be handled differently inside the Pro plugins distributed from the Dev4Press website. This change will affect all plugins when they are updated to shared library version 4.9.
By popular request, Dev4Press now includes setup packages that can be purchased along with the plugin licenses and include plugin setup and training with the Dev4Press Support team via Meet, Zoom, or Skype.
The end of 2023 brings a significant change in the pricing structure for most Dev4Press plugins, and the base prices for many plugins (including our most popular GD bbPress Toolbox Pro plugin) are lower than ever before.
It has been a long time coming, but, the work has begun on the new plugin that aims to bring a wide range of tools to bbPress forums related to content moderation. The plugin is expected to be released early next year.
I am happy to unveil a new GitHub project today, CSP Library or Content Security Policy Library. The project aims to collect and maintain the list of websites and services, with the rules required for various CSP directives.
For the past few years, plugin icons have changed a few times, but they never looked quite good or how I wanted them to look. So, in the past few weeks, I dedicated time to carefully constructing (almost) all the new plugin icons.
