Building MD into a membership
Pay attention over the next couple of weeks as I rebuild this site. All kinds of new MD content and releases will follow sooner than you think. This year I’m going to the next level. Welcome to the MD Labs.
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The latest notes & site activity from the MD Labs.
#NoCacheNovember
Let’s play a game this month called #NoCacheNovember. The goal is to find out if your site can survive a whole month without a cache plugin enabled. Cache plugins improve site performance but tend to cover up big mistakes that lie under-the-hood (and make it hard to see new changes!). What will you learn about[...]
Start the day
Starting the work day by setting up a new site on MD for a small client project then moving to work on a LearnDash integration into another new site later. The best way I’ve found to keep improving the core of MD is to use it on different kinds of websites and plugins, then pass[...]
Stream dropin update
The Stream dropin has come a long way in just 2 days and it is really fun so far. The point of this thing is simplicity and making it fast to post quick updates and share content from all over your site. Here’s how simple the interface is to create what you see now:
When adding something new, always take away
Between the admin panel redesign and scripts reorganization, MD4.8.4 weighs slightly less than it did in the previous version of MD. Yes, that even includes the new Stream Dropin! While the rest of the web grows larger and more chaotic with each new feature MD gets leaner and more efficient as it bulks up!
MD Settings Panel Redesign
After a couple of years staying the same, I pulled an all nighter to redesign the MD admin panel. The redesign moves the settings panel to the first page of the MD admin, and also eliminated a ton of clutter that the old Dashboard added. Shooting to have this released in MD4.8.4.
Working on The Stream
I’ve wanted a way to quickly communicate on the blog without writing huge posts. The time it takes to produce quality content and quickly post short updates are in conflict with one another. So how can we combine the brevity of social media and longform content together? Let’s make our own stream…