Welcome to your monthly LifterLMS News You Can Use, January edition: #0012. Happy New Year and happy one year anniversary to our newsletter!
Read About Recent Technical Product Updates (We’ve been busy)!
LifterLMS Version 3.38.0-beta.2
- Update LifterLMS Blocks to v1.7.3.
LifterLMS Blocks Version 1.7.3
- Move form ready event from domReady to block registration to ensure blocks are exposed before blocks are parsed.
LifterLMS Custom Fields Version 1.0.2
- Update JS bundle dependencies.
- Allow custom forms to be displayed in the post table list.
- Initial public release
LifterLMS Custom Fields Version 1.0.1
- Fix the LifterLMS core requirement check used on plugin load.
LifterLMS Version 3.38.0-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 Stripe Version 5.1.0
- Upgrade to the Stripe API Version to 2019-12-03.
- Fix an issue verifying webhook event receipts from Stripe.
- Use wp_strip_all_tags() in favor of strip_tags().
- New transaction creation date is now specified using llms_current_time().
- Use the last successful transaction time to calculate from when the previously stored next payment date is in the future.
- Fixed an issue causing transaction post titles to be recorded with missing data due to invalid strftime() placeholders.
- Update LifterLMS Blocks to v1.7.2: fixes a bug causing the block editor to encounter a fatal error when accessing custom post types that don’t support custom fields.
LifterLMS Blocks Version 1.7.2
- Bug fix: fix issue causing the block editor to encounter a fatal error when using custom post types that don’t support custom fields.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug causing certificate template exports to export the site’s homepage instead of the certificate preview.
- When exporting a certificate template, use the post_author to determine what user to use for merge code data.
- Revert Accounts settings tab page id to “account”.
LifterLMS Blocks v1.7.1
- 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.
- Update: Added filter, llms_block_supports_visibility to allow modification of the return of the check.
- Update: Disabled block visibility on registration & account forms to prevent a potentially confusing form creation experience.
- Update: Added block editor rendering for password type fields.
- Update: Perform post migrations on current_screen instead of admin_enqueue_scripts.
- Update: Update various dependencies to use updated gutenberg packages.
- Bug fix: Fixed a WordPress 5.3 issues with JSON data affecting the ability to save course/membership instructors.
- 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.
- Bug fix: Fixed an issue causing “No HTML Returned” to be displayed in place of the Lesson Progression block on free lessons when viewed by a logged-out user.
LifterLMS Blocks Version 1.7.1
- Bug fix: Fixed a WordPress 5.3 issues with JSON data affecting the ability to save course/membership instructors.
- Update: Added filter, llms_block_supports_visibility to allow modification of the return of the check.
- Update: Disabled block visibility on registration & account forms to prevent a potentially confusing form creation experience.
- Update: Added block editor rendering for password type fields.
- Added an action llms_certificate_generate_export to allow modification of certificate exports before being stored on the server.
- Don’t unslash uploaded file tmp_name, thanks @pondermatic!
- TwentyTwenty Theme Support: Hide site header and footer, and set a white body background in single certificates.
- Renamed setting field IDs to be unique for open/close wrapper fields on the engagements and account settings pages.
- Removed redundant functions defined in the LLMS_Settings_Page class to reduce code redundancy in account and engagement setting page classes.
- The LLMS_Settings_Page base class now automatically defines actions to save and output settings content.
LifterLMS Advanced Videos Version 1.0.0-beta.8
- Fix duplicate slash in textdomain path.
- Only modify core client-side tracking settings for lesson post types.
- Only retrieve cascading options only for course and lesson post types.
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