Blog – CodeerMeneer

The latest news on all of the Companion plugins for WordPress. And other stuff too, sometimes.

WordPress 5.5 versus Companion Auto Update

Obviously, some of you wondered what the difference would be between the default WordPress method and the one offered by Companion Auto Update and I figured I'd quickly write a blog about it, explaining the differences.

Papin Schipper13 August 2020

Companion Auto Updates’ most requested feature is here (sort of)

You guys love the update log, we've been getting nothing but positive feedback on it. But the one thing most of you would like to see added to it was the ability to see if it was a manual update or automatic update.

Papin Schipper5 June 2020

Companion Sitemap Generator <3 Gutenberg

Version 4.0 brings a fancy new Gutenberg block to the plugin with even more options than the shortcode had.

Papin Schipper3 January 2020

Companion Auto Update and it’s future: What you’ll (probably) see in the nearby future

On this page you'll see features that we're planning to add to Companion Auto Update in a future update of this plugin.

Papin Schipper26 November 2019

Companion supports #TeamTrees

There’s countless reasons why we need trees in our lives and personally we love this charity. The fact that just $1 plants a tree sounds like an amazing deal and we thought we could help out a bit.

Papin Schipper5 November 2019

Pimp your XML sitemap using a stylesheet

XML sitemaps are.. ugly.. okay sure, they’re meant for search engines and not for us humans, but still.. they ugly.

Papin Schipper20 September 2019

Update time: Companion Sitemap Generator

In the last months one of my plugins that gaint a lot of attention was Companion Sitemap Generator. This plugin that let’s you create sitemaps and edit your robots file was my first plugin but somehow wasn’t picked up untill short ago. Altho I’ve been updating it regularly you guys still missed a few features […]

Papin Schipper30 June 2018

It’s time for another update to Companion Auto Update. And it’s a big one

We figured it was that time again, that time where Companion Auto Update for WordPress gets another update. And this time it’s a big one. Version 3.0 of our plugin brings two new features that many of you have requested over the past months. We know it took us long enough, but better to do […]

Papin Schipper10 February 2018

What is browser caching? And how do you do it?

With each update from searchengines like Google and Bing the speed of your website becomes more and more important and recently even Facebook started changing their algorithm so that faster sites will be shown more often than slower site. Now I think most developers will use tools.pingdom.com to check the speed of a site and what can be […]

Papin Schipper15 November 2017

First update for Companion Revision Manager

It’s been a few days since the initial release of Companion Revision Manager but it’s already update time. Today (8/12/2017) update 1.1 was released to the WordPress plugin directory. What’s new? This update isn’t one that comes with a big changelog as I’m really trying to push stable updates on this one and test everything […]

Papin Schipper12 August 2017