We are pleased to have Dev4Press provide us with 3 lifetime standard plugin licenses to their plugin bundles. They offer premium and free plugins, xScape Themes Framework with premium themes developed exclusively for the WordPress CMS Platform.
GD Press Tools Pro
GD Press Tools is a collection of various backup, administration, database, SEO, cron job scheduling, security, debug, tracking, sitemaps generator and other maintenance tools. The plugin expands and improves WordPress panels and features and can help with everyday website tasks and development. Latest version of the plugin is 4.0.9, with work on major updated 4.1 starting soon adding many more new features and improving existing ones.
Important GD Press Tools Pro Links:
Overview of GD Press Tools Pro Features
- WordPress Multi site: Full support for network mode and multisite installations with menus available for sites and network mode dashboards.
- Database Tools: Cleanup, repair, drop, empty tables. Display tables structure and status.
- Backup Tools: Full and partial database backup, full and partial files backup, schedule backup jobs, upload archives to Dropbox, Amazon S3, FTP, Rackspace Cloud and Google Storage.
- Registrations And Users Management: Tracking users activities, restricting registrations, prune users, auto filter for spam registrations, extra contact fields.
- Security Tools: HTAccess tweaks, file system permissions, scan URL’s for injections attacks, security advisor, remove header elements.
- Cron Scheduler: List of jobs, run or remove jobs, scheduler periods for cron jobs editor.
- Administration Tools: Reset sidebars, change username, custom gravatars.
- Maintenance Mode: Custom templates, timer, HTTP messages, customizable text.
- Server Info: PHP information, PHP constants, MySQL information.
- Advanced Debugger: Floating or embedded debug window with info about WordPress, plugins, core environment, PHP warnings and errors, deprecated functions. Expandable.
- Logging and Tracking Tools: Pretty print functions, preview of JSON and PHP serialized data, log anything for debugger display.
- File Manager: Browse WordPress Instalation, edit plain text files: php, txt, css..., upload files and create folder.
- XML Sitemaps Generator: split sitemaps by content and size, support for custom post types and taxonomies support, search engine notifications, XSLT transformation file, auto build files, calculated priorities, exclusions of content and expanding maps.
- WordPress Integration: Extra columns for various editors, additional dashboard widget controls, delayed RSS feeds publishing and customization, control WordPress updates.
- SMTP Settings: override default WordPress email sending with custom SMPT or with GMail account, customizable email and sender name.
- Post and Terms Tools: Auto Tagger, duplicate posts, pin posts to dashboard, advanced options setting from post editor widget, delete revisions.
- Meta SEO Tools: Advanced robots meta tag panel, meta tag language, search engine validation, post based robots meta tags.
- Various Tweaks and Tools: disable auto save, disable flash uploader...
Backup
With GD Press Tools Pro you can make backups of database, files or both. Each backup job can contain multiple tasks and can be scheduled to run at any time. Tasks can be full backups or partial only some folders, use of exclusions, with extra support for multisite installations and backup of individual sites files. The plugin can use different backup methods. Created archive can be uploaded to Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Storage, Rackspace Cloud or any FTP. For each archive detailed log is saved.
Security
The plugin adds many useful security related features including tweaks that are added to .htaccess file, changes to file permissions, filtering of users registrations for spam users, pruning inactive or spam users, customizable filters for users username, email or domain used, limitation of usernames and passwords. Security Advisor panel shows recommended and optional security features to use and configure.
XML Sitemaps Generator
Allows for dividing different content types into separate files with splitting by map size and supporting any website size with using very little resources to build a sitemap. For each content type you can specify priority and change frequency using constant values or some of the built in calculation methods. Maps can be generated on content change, manual or scheduled to run at a specified time. Major search engines can be notified about new maps.
WordPress Integration
GD Press Tools Pro has tons of small features that integrate into many WordPress panels, adding columns, tweaking behavior, controlling plugins, themes and core updates and much more. The plugin allows setting of SMTP settings for mail functions in WP to use custom SMTP server or GMail servers.
Powerful Debugging
The plugin adds many debug related functions for displaying complex data in compact tree like form, display serialized and JSON content, logging of any object or message and more. Core of the system is a debugger panel that can be integrated into the Admin Bar or added to the footer. Debugger shows all relevant WP and runtime information, with SQL Queries run by WordPress, all PHP warnings and errors when possible, deprecated functions, individual plugins and more. Debugger can be expanded with additional panels.
Plugin Editions and Licenses
Lite edition of the plugin has only 15% of features that are available in Pro edition, and Lite is not supported. Pro edition comes with full support and access to regular and beta updates while the license is valid. All Dev4Press plugins have an auto update feature through centralized Updater plugin. Both Standard and Developer license allow use of Updater directly from WordPress to install or update plugin. Developer license also includes SVN access (on request), and email ticket based support. Both licenses give access to the support forum, documentation and tutorials (video and text).
How to Win?
To participate in the contest and win a lifetime standard plugin license you just need to post a comment below and include a couple of words stating why you would like to win. The winners will be selected randomly, from the comments below. Please enter a valid email address.
The competition will be open until this Saturday, 4th June 2011. Winners will be announced on this article and will be contacted via email.
Good luck!
Here Are The 3 Lucky Winners
We are glad to announce the 3 lucky winners for the Ultimate WordPress Administration Plugin giveaway. They are:
- James Kyle
- Robert Thomas
- Nathália
Winners will be contacted through email soon. If you are one of them and have not received an email from us or our sponsor by next week, please contact us.
Thank you for all your support. For sure, we will be organising more giveaway contest so everyone will have a chance to win, stay tuned!
Been using wordpress for a while, this plugin looks awesome, would really help!
This would simplify my daily work a lot... :)
This is the giveaway of this month. almost all the stuff is packed in this plugin.
I would love to use it in my personal website.
I would like to win this theme because of it's use of my personal web site & blog.
Wow! I had not seen this plugin, I would love to use it on my site and praise it where I can..
Randomly.. really?
This plugin would be extremely useful to me!
This plugin looks great. It has a lot fo feature and now i'm obliged to use a large number of plugins to do the same things!
Really hope to win this to simplify my life :)
Now , that would make me my client's hero! :-)
It's the security aspect that most interests me. I'm so paranoid about my sites getting hacked due to my own incompetence or ignorance. Anything that can help put my mind at ease would be worth using.
i would really love to have this plugin to explore and expose more about wp pugin. Surely it's appreciated to get this plugin form yours. BTW, happy 2nd anniversary and gudluck :)
I would like to win this GD Press Tools Pro because of
it's use of our studio personal web site & blog.
Tjeerd
I'd use these plugin bundles intensely to develop awesome sites in WordPress.
I've been running wordpress on various projects for about 5 years now and one of my biggest worries is about security and time management. It takes time to get everything working right on a blog and these plugins seem to be a fantastic way to cut that time down
I'd love to win this because I help a number of non-profits with their WP sites and this would make it a lot easier.
This plugin looks excellent, and would replace several others I'm running now to get the same functionality. I would *very* much like to get my hands on this.
Because I am just setting up a business, this plugin can be very helpful on my site in the near future!
This would make my workload much lighter. Plus, then I wouldn't have to worry about clients having to learn how to do these jobs themselves.
hook it it! i want it!!
This plugin would reduce the amount of other plugins that would be needed, which would reduce the server load and time required to update each plugin.
This plugin will help me in all of my jobs! Great features included! Hope i can grab a copy!
I have many small business client websites who need this type of plugin to avoid many hours of headaches and worries, especially with the backup feature.
I would really love to use this plugin in my work. :)
Having a quick glance of your server as a whole would be great!
This plugin looks excellent, if I don't win, I will purchase the plugin anyway.
yey
With so many different plugins installed, this application would help immensely in scheduling, debugging etc.
Thanks for sharing!
Looks great - I may even buy the product if I don't win...!
;-)
I can barely administrate my life, so with this plugin I'd be able to at least administrate the websites I build with WordPress.
Oh, and it would be the first time I win one of these giveaways.
The plugin does seem to have a lot of features and I think they could benefit the site I am working on.
A brilliant plug-in with all the necessary bells & whistles to make life so much easier!
Just getting starting with WordPress and I love plugins/apps that have lots of cool features, like this plugin does. Does it also do windows?
This is an awesome plugin. I would like to have it. Thanks
Cool! I want this for my blogs
You just make my day with this giveaway :) It would really help me out with my blog that I`m still working on. Just needed something like this.
Seems that this is a great tool for all web admins out there. Simple and efficient.
I have never had contact with paid plug-ins for WordPress. About this the first time I hear it. It seems to me extremely useful.
truly one of the most excellent plugins out there! I need it!
I would like this to use on my brand new review site I'm currently building in WP
This would be a great feature to add to the several WordPress sites I run as well as useful for my fiancée's website. I also do freelance and could add it to that.
Thanks!
Excellent plugin with lots of options. So i wanna win
Would use it on my upcoming blog
this plugin will make most of the tasks simple. So i want to win it
From the review looks like this product is worth much more than any others.
Just look at the "Overview of GD Press Tools Pro Features" in this post. Who will want to loose such a giveaway
Will use it on my upcoming student network site.
this plugin would simplify many of the tedious tasks
I no more have to break my head over some of the things that this plugin does. good luck to me. definitely want to win this
Being a freelancer i will use this on my clients site. Excellent giveaway. thanks much to 1extrapixel
Being a novice to wordpress this plugin would be very helpful for me.
I like the debugging part of this and would like explore more of this plugin. Looks like one hell of a product :)
WordPress has grown leaps and bounds in the past 2 years. Thanks to themes and plugins like these. A real awesome one this is. Will be very happy to win this
I already use Milan's GD Custom Posts and Taxonomies plugin on http://photoblogstop.com, and would really enjoy using the GD Press Tools plugin as well. Milan does a great job of keeping his plugins up to date with the latest version of WordPress.
Great Giveway, it will be useful on wordpress sites to handle different sector with one tool "GD Press Tools".
Hi!! i want too..
because this plugin all in one.
so i can minimize using a lot of plugin..:)
Looks like a very proficient tool for me as I have several WP sites. I could definitely use this. I wish I win it. Thanks for organizing this giveaway. Jay
This looks like a great tool that could combine a couple of needed plugins into one. I would love to use this on a site that I have to manage, but don't want to sit over daily.
A great innovation again from Dev4Press. Thanks!
Kudos also to Onextrapixel Team! Timely updates as always.
Keep rockin'
I am a new promising designer and developer, this pluging looks quite useful - it will be so much great help.
I would like to try this promising plugin
Great giveaway. I would love to use it in my client's website.
I Like control my site with very cools adminstration Plugins. WordPress Giveaway it's ideal for this.
Looks like a great plugin. Hope to get a chance to win this.
Count me in for the contest. It's a great plugin with tons of features.
Hi everyone, thank you for your support. The contest is closed.
The winners are listed at the end of this article. Thank you!