Welcome to your monthly LifterLMS News You Can Use, November edition: #0010
Read About Recent Technical Product Updates (We’ve been busy)!
Updates
- Tested to WordPress 5.3.0-beta.2
- Upgrade UI on student course reporting screens.
- Added logic to physically remove from the membership level and remove enrollments data on related products, when deleting a membership enrollment.
- Lesson metabox “start” drip method made available only if the parent course has a start date set.
Bugfixes
- Fixed JS error when client-side event tracking settings aren’t loaded, thanks @wenchen!
- Fixed PHP warning resulting from drip the “Course Start” lesson drip settings when no course start date exists.
- Fixed fatal error encountered when reviewing an order placed with a payment gateway that’s been deactivated.
- Files Updated
- Templates Updated
LifterLMS Advanced Videos Version 1.0.0-beta.5
- Fix bug causing video progress to be checked on lessons without videos or with videos that aren’t supported by an available provider.
LifterLMS Authorize.Net Version 1.0.5
- Replace billing_phone with proper meta value phone when creating / updating a customer profile
LifterLMS Blocks Version 1.6.0
- Feature: Added form field blocks for use on the Forms manager.
- Feature: Add logic for logged_in and logged_out block visibility options.
- Update: Added isDisabled property to Search component.
- Update: Adjusted priority of render_block filter to 20.
- Bug fix: Import InspectorControls from wp.blockEditor in favor of deprecated wp.editor
- Bug fix: Automatically store course/membership instructor with post_author data when the post is created.
- Bug fix: Pass style rules as camelCase
LifterLMS Custom Fields Version 1.0.0
Initial public release
LifterLMS Version 3.37.0-beta.1
Form Management Improvements
- Forms (registration, checkout, account) are now managed via a block editor interface.
- Customize field labels, description, and placeholders in a simple WYSIWYG interface.
- Mark fields as required with a toggle.
- Reorder fields with drag and drop.
- Customize layout using block editor columns
- Use LifterLMS block-level visibility to conditionally display fields based on enrollment or logged in status.
Form Localization
- Added default country and state/region lists (see the “languages” directory).
- Country and state forms are now searchable dropdowns that adjusted based on the currently selected country.
- Each country’s locale information (such as what a “post code” is called and whether or not the country has states or post codes) will update automatically based on the selected country.
- Enqueue select2 on account and checkout pages for searchable dropdowns for country & state.
Updates
- New shortcode [user] which is used to output user information in a merge code interface.
- Improved form field generation via LLMS_Form_Field class.
- LifterLMS Settings: renamed “User Information Options” to “User Privacy Options”.
- Reorganized open registration setting.
- Use LLMS.wait_for() for dependency waiting.
- Moved checkout template variable declarations to the checkout shortcode controller.
- Removed field display settings in favor of form customization using the form editors.
- Organized function files. Some functions have been moved.
- Function llms_get_minimum_password_strength_name() now accepts a parameter to retrieve strength name by key.
- Use LLMS.wait_for() for dependency waiting.
LifterLMS Blocks v1.6.0
- Feature: Added form field blocks for use on the Forms manager.
- Feature: Add logic for logged_in and logged_out block visibility options.
- Update: Added isDisabled property to Search component.
- Update: Adjusted priority of render_block filter to 20.
- Bug fix: Import InspectorControls from wp.blockEditor in favor of deprecated wp.editor
- Bug fix: Automatically store course/membership instructor with post_author data when the post is created.
- Bug fix: Pass style rules as camelCase.
- Removed unused Javascript assets
- Remove unused bootstrap transiton and collapse scripts.
- Remove topModal vendor dependency.
- Remove password strength inline enqueues.
Bug fixes
- Only attempt to add a nonce to the datastore when a nonce exists in the settings object.
Deprecations
- Deprecated LLMS_Person_Handler::register() method, use llms_register_user() instead.
- Deprecated llms_get_minimum_password_strength() with no replacement.
Template Updates
- templates/checkout/form-checkout.php
- templates/checkout/form-gateways.php
- templates/global/form-registration.php
LifterLMS REST API Version 1.0.0-beta.8
- Return links to those taxonomies which have an accessible rest route.
- Initialize $prepared_item array before adding values to it. Thanks @pondermatic!
- Fixed sales_page_type not returned as none if course’s sales_page_content_type property is empty.
- Load webhook actions a little bit later, to avoid PHP warnings on first plugin activation.
- Renamed sales_page_page_type and sales_page_page_url properties, respectively to sales_page_type and sales_page_url according to the specs.
- Add missing quotes in enrollment/access default messages shortcodes.
- Call set_bulk() llms post method passing true as second parameter, so to instruct it to return a WP_Error on failure.
- Add missing quotes in enrollment/access default messages shortcodes.
- sales_page_page_id and sales_page_url always returned in edit context.
- Call set_bulk() llms post method passing true as second parameter, so to instruct it to return a WP_Error on failure.
Updates
- Added new LLMS_Membership class methods: get_categories(), get_tags() and toArrayAfter() methods.
Compatibility
- Fixed access plan description conflicts with the Classic Editor block. This also resolves compatibility issues with Elementor which uses a hidden TinyMCE instance.
- Changed pre_get_posts callback from 10 (default) to 15. Fixes conflict with Divi (and possibly other themes) which prevented LifterLMS catalog settings from functioning properly.
Bugfixes
- Added translation to error message encountered when non-members attempt to purchase a members-only access plan. Thanks @mrosati84!
- Fix return of LLMS_Generator::set_generator().
- Fixed a typo causing invalid imports from returning the expected error. Thanks @pondermatic!
- Fixed issue preventing membership post type settings from saving properly due to incorrect sanitization filters.
- Fixed issue where wp_list_pluck() would run on non arrays.
LifterLMS Rest API 1.0.0-beta.8
- Return links to those taxonomies which have an accessible rest route.
- Initialize $prepared_item array before adding values to it. Thanks @pondermatic!
- Fixed sales_page_type not returned as none if course’s sales_page_content_type property is empty.
- Load webhook actions a little bit later, to avoid PHP warnings on first plugin activation.
- Renamed sales_page_page_type and sales_page_page_url properties, respectively to sales_page_type and sales_page_url according to the specs.
- Add missing quotes in enrollment/access default messages shortcodes.
- Call set_bulk() llms post method passing true as second parameter, so to instruct it to return a WP_Error on failure.
- Add missing quotes in enrollment/access default messages shortcodes.
- sales_page_page_id and sales_page_url always returned in edit context.
- Call set_bulk() llms post method passing true as second parameter, so to instruct it to return a WP_Error on failure.
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