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The reason behind this decision is that we simply don’t have the time for it. We had extensive number of client projects in the past 1 year and expect to have even more of them in the next few years.

So plugin development has become a very low priority for a-idea studio. Actually I have been oscillationg over whether to really cancel the development of these plugins or only put them on hold for a while…

Well, they have been put on hold for more than 6 months now and I still didn’t have the time to add a line of code to them. So decided to shut down our plugin-dev projects.

I am actively using it, what kind of fate awaits me then?

Well, you can use them as long as you’d like to and as long as they are compatible with your WordPress version.

The documentations for all 3 plugins will be available on this site for a while into the future. But once I realize there is no-one using them, I’ll just remove them as that content won’t be relevant any longer.

Hey, I am a developer and love your plugins, can I take over the development?

Absolutely. And I would be more than happy if someone continued the journey. It would mean that all the hard work I’ve put into them won’t be just trashed.

In this case please drop me a message using our contact page.

For all the existing users of the plugins – thank you for your support so far. It is a bit sad day for me too, but I have some more important things to do at the moment, so had to make this hard decision.

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Bye, bye, Adriatica!

After a long idle period we decided to dump our non-released theme, Adriatica. It was a simple business decision. It would have needed too much efforts to make it good enough while the competition on the market is tough and our time is very limited.

At least, we’ll have more time to focus on our plugins from now.

Site update

We have rebuilt the a-idea site from the basics. While the changes are small in the front end, there had been lot of changes in the back end. The change was necessary as the old version was running on Adriatica, so we had no choice but to move away from our discontinued theme.

However, we made the new site’s look very similar to the old one – with some fine-tuning. So the branding and the look&feel is the same here as before…

Plugin updates

All our plugins got a new update today. For a-folio and a-staff plugins this was a backend update only: we have updated the only TPL Framework that works behind these plugins.

WP Slide-up box goes a-boxes

For our oldest plugin, WP Slide-up box it was a big change. First of all, the plugin’s name was changed to a-boxes to better fit into our plugin branding line. However, we will use the old and the new names beside each other for a while to make the transition easier.

The Shortcode Generator has got a preview mode. So now you can see the changes right inside the Shortcode Generator screen, without leaving wp-admin.

The new Shortcode Generator with the visual Preview

Another bigger improvement is that now you can use default values for the shortcodes, making it easier to create similar sliding boxes using a-boxes 1.0. For the full list of new features and bugfixes, please have a look at the plugin’s changelog.

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