Today we’re launching our huge rewrite of the PlusKit with faster publishing, more robust @import, and more precise controls. All built in from the ground up for RapidWeaver 7.
Super Fast
We’ve streamlined, optimized, overhauled, and rewritten PlusKit’s publishing/export engine. Some changes were tiny, some were huge, but the overall effect is that PlusKit is now faster? How much faster? Well it will depend a great deal on how you’re using PlusKit, but we’ve measured real-world documents where extensive PlusKit @import use was improved by over 400%. Wow!
Precise Control
PlusKit is for power users. And power users need precise control over their environment. We’ve added detailed controls for almost every feature inside of PlusKit – and disabled most of the slow stuff by default. Now you can enable just the bits of PlusKit you need and ignore the rest.
Built for RapidWeaver 7
RapidWeaver 7 comes with a ton of new features to improve performance: threaded export, lazy file opening, and threaded saving – just to name a few. We’ve rewritten the export engine inside of PlusKit to smoothly work with these features and allow robust operation even with challenging setups.
Note: If you’re still using an earlier version of RapidWeaver just still with PlusKit 3.
We have, for about a year, done all the support, maintenance, and update for LogHounds plugins without asking for any additional payments. But this was a major update – with a huge rewrite to the engine and months of work.
So for this one I decided that it was time to pass the hat around. Occasionally I have to – the kids always seem to need new shoes.
@timmytoad - Normally I’d point you to our plugin archive – but our archive doesn’t currently have PK 3 at the moment. I’m updating it as we speak!!! Soon!!!
If you need help locating a serial number (yes, even from LogHound days) feel free to contact us: http://yourhead.com/support and Christi will find dig through the old databases for you.
@Isaiah Can you share more about the search feature? Looking at the product page, I’m excited. Will it Search within blog pages, too (plugin blog pages and otherwise)?
@chet - I’ll be perfectly honest. Search is not new. It’s been part of PlusKit since I can remember – so probably 5-10 years ago. And like a lot of the legacy features of PlusKit it’s largely unchanged in this version.
You can find the search feature in the Edit menu. It says, “Find Plus” or use Cmd-Shift-F
In some pages (like Styled Text pages) Find Plus searches the Styled Text content itself. In other pages that are more complex and/or don’t have any styled text content – it will search the exported content (the HTML output).
This means that it can search even some pretty hard-to-search stuff (like Stacks pages). It doesn’t have super-powers tho – there are some hard limits – some content like Flash, SVG, content inside of <frame> elements, etc – is probably going to get skipped.
I think this find tool often gets overlooked. I have to say I hardly knew about it when I took over maintaining PlusKit. If you notice any problems or think of any ways to improve it, please let me know. It needs more fans like you pushing that feature forward.
To be honest? I was planning to abandon PlusKit reading all the issues due to improving RapidWeaver technology but considering the upgrade price of 10 bucks, the openness and effort you have put into it to keep us running here, and the fine-grained controls: it is no-brainer to do a paid upgrade so I just did .
I assumed I could set up a search for my site visitors to use… Never Assume…
Thanks for the great upgrade just the same. Isaiah, you are one of the finest developers I know. Your products are excellent as is your service. Without you I would have left RapidWeaver long ago. This is not a slam on RapidWeaver, it is an acknowledgement of how important Yourhead is for me.
Purchased this immediately. However, it has broken my site. I @import a stacks page into the side bar of the home page at bethelfreebaptist.com. This worked on the previous version, but doesn’t on PK4. I’ve enabled the ‘stacks’ section in the config and it works in Preview, but not when published. Any ideas?
@doone128 - There are millions of possible use cases in PlusKit. Without more specific info I’d just be guessing – which would almost certainly just send you off in the wrong direction.
I’d recommend sharing the file with me. If you can share just a specific few pages in question that will make the support go much faster as I’ll be focused right on the problem without any other distractions.
