add-ons Archives - WordPress Rich Snippets

Now You Can Purchase Add-ons Separately

Published: July 26, 2015 Hesham Zebida

So, we’ve been asked repeatedly if there is a plan to sell our add-ons separately. Well, it was in our plans, but we had to take sometime to modify our add-ons for this change. Today, we’ve updated our website, now you can go a head and purchase your favorite WPRichSnippets add-ons from our add-ons page.

We think of this as a win-win situation, so if you run a single website, you can purchase WPRichSnippets add-ons your website need and save money. For us, this is also great because we can sell more and make our members happy with their purchases.

Add-ons Licenses

There is three options for purchasing add-on licenses:

Single Site license.
1 to 5 Sites license.
Unlimited Sites license.

Each add-one license purchase includes one year of support and add-on upgrades. Licenses can be renewed if they got expired (after one year) with only 40% of the original price.

Add-ons Automatic Updates Progress

We’ve mentioned automatic add-ons updates in one latest blog post. The work still in progress, we’ve updated about 50% of our add-ons to support automatic updates at this point and looking to be done with this in the coming couple of weeks.

Once we are done with updating all add-ons, we will release the new updates to test them out.

If you are a Professional or Ultimate license holder, you will see new licenses issued on your account, use these licenses to activate add-ons and start getting automatic updates and upgrades for add-ons installed on your website.

Check our Add-ons Prices, and stay tuned for our next update.

Adding Licensing and Automatic Upgrades for all of our Add-ons

Published: June 20, 2015 Hesham Zebida

We have been planning on offering automatic upgrades in all our add-ons. The process wasn’t easy because we have been using another membership management system in the past, which wasn’t native to WordPress, it was a stand alone software.

Finding a Native WordPress Solution

So, we had to change all that and switch to a native WordPress solution, we thought working with one platform may be the best, especially that we want to have control over each part of our website to provide a better service for our members. Actually, this will be a win-win, it’s great for us too, simply because we will be updating the add-ons more often and make sure everyone gets those updates, so no outdated code on our members’ websites.

Easy Digital Downloads Wins!

Researching for a solution didn’t take time, really! It was so clear that the winner is Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) plugin..

Thanks to the awesomeness of Easy Digital Downloads plugin and its Software Licensing extension, licensing and automatic plugin upgrades is possible! EDD utilize similar methods as WordPress.org dose for notifying users of updates.

When?

We’ve already started coding since last week, and results has been great!

As you might know, we are manage several plugin add-ons for WPRichSnippets, this means we will have to update them all. The way how we will handle this update is to create a master code that we can drop inside each add-on, then make sure everything works fine.

We’ve got our new code ready and tested in one of the add-ons, so we are going to move on updating the rest of add-ons. Expect changes to be made to our website through the next couple of weeks.

So, in the coming days, we will complete this integration and issue license keys for our add-ons. We will make sure that license keys are generated for all past purchases, so if you are already a member, you will be issued new license keys to activate auto upgrades feature for add-ons.

Stay tuned!

WPRichSnippets V 1.2.3 and CTA Add-on 1.7 Enhancements and Tweaks Release

Published: June 19, 2015 Hesham Zebida

We’ve got a couple of updates to share with you today. The first is for the WPRichSnippets plugin, there is no bug fixes in this update, it’s more about enhancements! We’ve added a few enhancements to the plugin in this 1.2.3 release.

The second update is for the Call To Action add-on (CTA), we’ve just released version 1.7 with a few enhancements and a fix for schema markup.

We recommend that you update the WPRichSnippets plugin to the latest version, also if you are using the CTA add-on, then please make sure you get this update.

WPRichSnippets Plugin Changes

Here is the changelog details in Version 1.2.3

Bug Fixes:

* None.

Enhancements:

* Enhanced inserting item description, now it is added via meta tag.
* Hardened assets folder by preventing direct access to all sub folders.
* Added alternativeHeadline meta to Article schema type.
* Added letter-spacing to .rating class style.
* Added new style for CTA add-on Rating headline.
* Added margin below Pros and Cons headline.
* Changed the star icon in admin bar to Google developers icon.
* Modified post meta text from No Rich Snippets to No Schema.

CTA Add-on Changes

Here is the changelog details in Version 1.7

Changelog:

– Added new style class for Rating headline.
– Remove a line break after Rating headline.
– Fixed description markup.
– Modified text on add-on settings page.

If you already a member, and you have a valid license key, you should see an update notification for WPRichSnippets plugin in your website’s dashboard in the coming hours, you can then start with updating the plugin within your dashboard.

If you aren’t a member yet, join us now!

For the CTA add-on, you will need to download it within your account and install the latest version 1.7 manually. Add-ons have not gotten auto updates yet, we are planning to add this feature pretty soon.

Till that time, we wish you success.

DataTables Add-on Release: Display Data Tables for WPRichSnippets Plugin

Published: June 7, 2015 Hesham Zebida

We are so excited to announce the releases of our latest add-on, the DataTables add-on for WPRichSnippets plugin.

Thanks to the DataTables jQuery plugin’s advanced controls, the new add-on allow you to list big data in sortable and searchable tables.

You can display a table like the one above via a shortcode, there is several parameters you can use to control what entries to show.

The DataTables add-on settings is pretty simple, it give you control over what functionality to enable on the data table (example: search, pagination or sorting).

This add-on is available for free to all members who has the Professional and Ultimate licenses. If you have bought one of those licenses, then you can go ahead and download the add-on within your account.

Sneak Peek of the New DataTables Add-on

Published: May 25, 2015 Hesham Zebida

Since WPRichSnippets is used to serve different types of websites, our members always asking for better and different ways to display their review entries. Fortunately, we can make this possible by extending the plugin functionality via add-ons.

We had a Ranking Table add-on for a while, which has been used by several members. But it’s not supporting display of big data, so we thought to come up with a new add-on to allow displaying big data with pagination and search functionality. We’ve found DataTables jQuery to be the best for our add-on.

DataTables Add-on

The new coming DataTables add-on will allow you to:

Display entries in a sortable table.
Have pagenation.
Have a search functionality.
Have control over what elements to show.

The DataTables add-on has a shortcode to display the table with many useful parameter to give you control over what type of data to display, it will work great on the front or home page of your website, also you can dedicate special pages to list entries of different types on different data tables.

See it in action

View a live DataTable demo.

We’ve working on finalizing the new DataTables add-on to be released this week, so stay tuned.