Media Manager Plus features include:

• Easily insert images into your posts and pages via the WordPress Media Manager
• Built in OAuth authentication for security and ease of use
• Simple intuative interface
• Deep integration with WordPress and the the WordPress Media Manager
• Full support for captions, alignment and links
• Built in “Safe Mode” (for filtering NSFW, nude or explicit images)

Download the Media Manager Plus WordPress Plugin

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We just want to take this opportunity to again thank the community for all their support over the years. It fills us with warm fuzzies knowing that people are still continuing to make their websites look beautiful with one of our scripts. And to celebrate we’re offering a whopping 50% off the Nivo Slider WordPress plugin for the next 24 hours. Simply use the promo code NIVO2MILL at checkout to get 50% off any license of the WordPress plugin.

So be quick and get the plugin while the offer lasts.

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• [New] Option to specify how many images to show
• [Fixed] Small bug fixes

One-click automatic upgrades are now available via WordPress or you can download the latest version via the link in your receipt email.

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• [New] Added 500px, Flickr and Instagram integration
• [New] Option to specify how many images to show
• [New] Option to disable menu based on user role
• [Changed] Automatic upgrades now powered by WP Updates

One-click automatic upgrades are now available via WordPress or you can download the latest version via the link in your receipt email.

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• [New] Added 500px, Flickr and Instagram integration
• [New] Option to specify how many images to show for non-Manual sliders
• [New] Option to disable menu based on user role
• [Changed] Updated Nivo Slider jQuery plugin to v3.2
• [Changed] Automatic upgrades now powered by WP Updates
• [Changed] Made edit/delete buttons on slider thumbs more obvious
• [Fixed] Added return param to nivo_slider() template tag
• [Fixed] Bug if only one image uploaded slider doesn’t show

One-click automatic upgrades are now available via WordPress or you can download the latest version via the link in your receipt email.

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Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the carouFredSel WordPress Plugin. Since we acquired carouFredSel last October we have been busy working away on making an awesome WordPress plugin to make carousel’s in WordPress stupidly simple. Now it’s finally here!

Head on over the to the carouFredSel WordPress Plugin page to find out about all the awesome features we have packed into the plugin.

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The Design

First of all we needed a new design, and a new logo. So we got in touch with James McDonald (who we’ve worked with before) who was more than happy to take on the redesign Dev7studios. It was no small task as we wanted to pull a lot of content into a single site and this made it challenge to make the site look and work beautifully without overwhelming users. James did a great job and we love the final outcome.

We also got in touch with Jord Riekwel to do a professional logo design for us. We really appreciated his efforts, especially considering he had never done a font logo before. We wanted to portray our professional, minimal ethos without taking ourselves too seriously and again we love what he came up with.

The Development

Once the design was done we set about building the site as a WordPress theme (we develop with WordPress every day so that’s what we use to power the site). This was actually a huge challenge as we wanted to make the theme as flexible and “future” proof as possible. This meant using custom page templates with a few custom meta box settings along with the Content Parts plugin for the tabs on the product pages.

The page titles, subtitles, the “Download” and “Buy” menu dropdowns, the custom buttons in the Mailing List section and even the content in the product feature section (at the top of product pages) are all custom settings which can be set via the page editor in WordPress. This makes adding and maintaing products a breeze without having to touch any code. Not everything could be totally “code-less” however and we used totally custom page templates for our Web App products.

We also did a fair bit of “eating our own dog food” too as we use the Nivo Slider and Showcase WordPress plugins throughout the site. We also used our Lean Slider for the homepage slider and Dropit for some of the dropdowns throughout the site.

The Deployment

After about 4 months of development we finally managed to put the site live. We spoke to our friends at NodeKi who provided us with a beast of a server (Dual Hex-Core Intel CPU’s, 22GB RAID-10 SSD etc) and the site was live!

We use some of our favorite WordPress plugins to power the site include Yoast’s SEO and Google Analytics plugins, Contact Form 7 as well as our own URL & Path Shortcodes plugin to keep everything easy and W3 Total Cache to keep everything speedy. We also use good old Akismet to keep the spam out and WP Highlight.js to provide some code syntax colouring.

So that’s what went in to building the new Dev7studios. If there is anything else you’d like to know about then please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments.

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As the company has grown, along with the number of products and the size of the team, it became clear to us that having everything under one roof was a far better way to manage our products and build our brand. So we hope you love the new site. A big thanks has to be given to James McDonald for the amazing site design, and Jord Riekwel for our lovely new logo.

We hope you enjoy browsing through the new Dev7studios.com and would love to hear any feedback you might have. To keep up to date with all the new awesomeness that will be coming your way in the coming months you can follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook or use the form at the bottom of the contact page to sign up to our mailing list.

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