Versionpress – version control for WordPress in development

Possibly the best thing about WordPress is how simple it makes most tasks. Just log in to the administration, click here and there and boom, you have three new plugins installed, a new theme activated etc. People love this, and we do too.

There’s a flip side to it, however. Once the site is deployed and used by real visitors, those buttons actually become sort of a threat to the site because they make all the changes irreversibly and straight in the production. That is a problem because 3rd party plugins sometimes have bugs, are incompatible with each other, the theme might need updates etc. There are ways to deal with it but it’s a tricky job – so tricky that over 70% of WP sites in Alexa Top 1 Million gave up on updates.

(more…)

Lemonberry Page Protect

Page protect is a free, open source plugin for WordPress to provide a simple method of restricting access to a group of (non-Wordpress) users.

Multiple groups can be defined and re-used of multiple pages.  The user controls allow change of password.

The administration page allows passwords to be changed, users to be added and groups to be defined.

 

(more…)

wp:Manage

At Lemonberry, we needed a administration system for managing our clients and their (mainly WordPress) hosting account.  (more…)