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WP Easy Gallery Version 4.3.3

WP Easy Gallery version 4.3.3 is now available for download in the WordPress plugin repository. This new plugin update includes several enhancements, in the front end gallery display, the admin section and under the hood.

Front-end WP Easy Gallery Enhancements

Front-end gallery enhancements made for WP Easy Gallery version 4.3.3 include CSS refinements for the default thumbnails styles. The fade-in and fade-out thumbnail hover effects are now a bit smoother and make better use of CSS3 transition easing.

Gallery Management Changes

The changes to the admin panel include:

  • User Interface refinements have been made to the admin console to allow easier navigation between galleries and images.
  • The image upload button style has been changed to match the other buttons for UI consistency.
  • The length of the image property text boxes have been increased when adding and editing images in the gallery.
  • Bug Fix – extra slashes were being added when image titles with quotes are being editing. This has been corrected.

Code Changes to WP Easy Gallery

WP Easy Gallery version 4.3.3 also had several code changes ‘under the hood’ were also made to make the gallery plugin more efficient.  The gallery style options has been re-worked to help eliminate extra javascript files that were previously needed for loading the various gallery display options.

Try out these new enhancements for free by downloading at the WordPress Plugin Repository: WP Easy Gallery – WordPress Gallery Plugin

If you are ready to take your galleries to the next level go for WP Easy Gallery Pro

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Custom Post Donations Version 4.2 Released

Custom Post Donations Version 4.2 Released! This update to our PayPal donation plugin includes better form styling, due to adding a default style sheet. As a result of adding the style sheet, the donation forms now have a more unified look and feel. Version 4.2 has also been tested to be 100% compatible with WordPress 4.8.

Custom Post Donations Version 4.2 Released

Both the free and premium version have this newly updated feature. You can download this update at the links below.

Custom Post Donations
Custom Post Donations Premium

Check out some examples of the updated form styling at the links below:

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5 eCommerce WordPress Themes to Boost Profits in 2017

eCommerce WordPress Themes

Nothing can be more crucial to your online business success than a killer website design. Therefore, I have selected a short list of some premium eCommerce WordPress themes that could help put you boost your business profits in 2017.

There are so many things to think about when setting up and running an eCommerce based WordPress website. ‘Am I reaching my target audience?’, ‘Are my products going to sell?’, ‘Is my site optimized for performing well with high traffic?’, etc. Of course, high on that list would be picking the right eCommerce theme to deliver the right branding message and showcase your products in the best possible light. With that in mind, let’s jump into the list.

TrueShop – Multipurpose WordPress Theme

TrueShop - Mulitpurpose eCommerce WordPress Themes

Trueshop is a WooCommerce WordPress theme that is perfect for fashion WooCommerce projects. It represents what WooCommerce customers want to see in a theme including intuitive design, robust performance and eCommerce functionalities.

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Handy Shop WooComerce WordPress Theme

Hand Shop - eCommerce WordPress Themes

Handy Shop is fully integrated WooCommerce theme. I included this theme in the list because it offers a high level control over the look and feel. Some of the best features include: drop and drag visual page builder features, ajax shopping cart, tracking trending products and more.

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Eva – Responsive WooCommerce Theme

Eva - eCommerce WordPress Themes

I like Eva because it is a Modern Fully Responsive Retina Ready Woocommerce theme. The Eva theme is suitable for any kind of shop like cloth, electronics, furniture, accessories, watches or any other.

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Gatcomart – Multipurpose WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Gatcomart - eCommerce WordPress Themes

Gatcomart is another highly flexible new theme for fashion or purely digital store with a fresh modern design. This theme includes many great features like mega menu, slider, page builder, product quick view, wishlist, compare, zoom.

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80’s Mod – Build Your Store with A Vintage Styled WooCommerce WordPress Theme

80' Mod - eCommerce WordPress Themes

I love this theme because it is integrated with the bulk of such advanced features which make online shopping so attractive and convenient. The theme has six novel and fresh homepages to cater to your taste for a specific look and feel. The back-end gives you surplus power to personalize the homepages through Visual Composer. There is also the facility of front-end editing, which is so easy, fast and enjoyable.

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I hope this short list of eCommerce focused WordPress themes gives you a good starting place in your search for making a more profitable online presence.

Enjoy!

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Customization in 2017 – Make WordPress Core

WordPress theme customization in 2017

One expectation I want to start with is, customization isn’t just improving the Customizer — our goal is to improve the entire process of setting up a site, from initial installation to something you’re comfortable launching, to making changes to an existing site that has been live for some time. To that end, our goal is to help people accomplish the following:

“I want to make a site that I’m proud of that helps me succeed.”
“I want to make a site my clients are proud of that helps them succeed.”
The current customization flow in WordPress doesn’t generally facilitate either of those goals without a great amount of work, prior knowledge, and often a lot of additional development. That’s fine if you’ve hired an agency, or you’re a developer building yourself a website — but not fine if you’re a freelance site builder/implementer (a market I see every day in my local community) or are trying to build something for yourself with limited time and budget. If you can install WordPress, either manually or through a host, we should provide you with the tools to build out a website that accomplishes your personal and business goals.

Source: Make WordPress Core

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WordPress 4.7 Feature Proposals

WordPress 4.7 Feature Proposals & Merges

Three proposal posts have been published and approved since our last update: All five of the major customize feature projects proposed for WordPress 4.7 have been successfully merged (in order): Create pages within live preview during site setup – #34923, #38013, #38164 Add new pages while building menus and setting a static front page; outline your site directly in the customizer. Improving sliding panels UI – #34391, #34343, #29158 Customizer navigation is now fast.
Source: 4.7 – Make WordPress Core

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WordPress version 4.5.3 Released

WordPress version 4.5.3 Released to Fix Vulnerability

WordPress version 4.5.3 was released several hours ago by the WordPress Core team. This update is a maintenance and security release that fixes a vulnerability. This security expolit allows hackers to bypass any password protected post. Since this is a high severity security exploit, it is recommended that you update your WordPress core as soon as possible to close any possible security gaps in your site.

Vulnerability Information

WordPress allows you to create posts that are protected by a password and only users with that password can then gain access to the post.

The team over at WordFence discovered a vulnerability on May 3rd that allowed any user with an unprivileged account to bypass the password protection WordPress provides. Consequently, anonymous attackers are able to exploit this vulnerability and gain access to password protected posts on websites where registration is open.

The severity of this exploit was listed as 7.5 (high).

All of our plugins have been tested against this new WordPress core and are compatible.

Here’s is more info about this specific vulnerability from the WordFence team:
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/06/wordpress-core-vulnerability-bypass-password-protected-posts

Also, here’s more info on the full list of vulnerabilities patched in WordPress 4.5.3:
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3/

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Javascript error after WP 4.5 update

Many people have been experiencing the dreaded Javascript error after WP 4.5 update. Basically, jQuery appears to have stopped working after the update and features on their sites are no longer working.

I’ve had a few clients contact me regarding this, some for our plugins and others for sites I maintain. While the problem does not exist in any of our plugins, I thought I would share what I’ve learned and how I was able to fix the problem.

Javascript error after WP 4.5 update

If portions of your WordPress site have stopped working, like dynamic navigation, hide/show elements, galleries, etc. you may be experiencing this issue as well.

If you view the Javascript console window (F12 in Chrome) you may find an error similar to this:

‘Syntax error, unrecognized expression: a[href*=#]’ or

‘Syntax error, unrecognized expression: a[href*=#]:not([href=#])’

The error is caused by any jQuery code snippet that contains something similar to the following expression: ‘a[href*=#]’ or ‘a[href*=#]:not([href=#])’. This snippet would most likely either be injected into the page, or loaded as a javascript file, by a plugin or theme. You can search your page source (view source), or click on any of the javascript file links, and do a search for the text that appears after the colon in the JS error you found.

Syntax error, unrecognized expression: RESOLVED

What I had to do on client site was to actually search each and every javascript file to find the where the format error was located. Once I found the offending code, I modified it to include quotes around the attribute values.

In this case: ‘a[href*=#]‘ became: ‘a[href*=”#”]‘. Once all of the code changes were in place and uploaded to the site – VIOLA!! Everything was back to working the way it should be.

WP 4.5 and jQuery Syntax Error

The main issue has been caused by the bundled jQuery that comes with the WordPress core has been updated to version 1.12.2. This new jQuery version is much more strict on the syntax passed in. This means the problematic snippets need to have the ‘href’ attribute value wrapped in quotes to be valid and quiet down the jQuery police.

Here some mentions of the problem in the WordPress forums: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-45-and-jquery-syntax-error

And here it is again on the jQuery GitHub Repository: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/2885