LifterLMS Version 3.36.0

September 16, 2019 / Release Notes / / Leave a Comment
User Interaction event and session Tracking

  • Added user interaction tracking for the following events:

  • User sign in and out.

  • Page load and exit (for LMS content)

  • Page focus and blur (for LMS content)

  • And more to come

  • Interaction events are grouped into sessions automatically. A session is “closed” after 30 minutes of inactivity or a log-out event.

  • Added “Last Seen” student reporting column which reports the last recorded activity for the student.

Enhancements
  • Automatically hydrate when calling LLMSAbstractDatabaseStore::toarray().
  • Added CSS to make course and lesson video embeds automatically responsive.
Bug Fixes
  • Correctly pass the $remember variable when using llms_set_person_auth_cookie().
  • Fixed undefined index error when retrieving an unset value from an unsaved database model.
  • Fix issue causing quotes to be encoded in shortcodes used in course and membership restriction message settings fields.
  • Fix issue preventing manual updates of order dates (next payment, trial expiration, and access expiration) from being saved properly.

LifterLMS Version 3.35.2

September 6, 2019 / Release Notes / / Leave a Comment
  • When sanitizing settings, don’t strip tags on editor and textarea fields that allow HTML.
  • Added JS filter llms_lesson_rerender_change_events to lesson editor view re-render change events.

LifterLMS Stripe Version 5.0.0

September 5, 2019 / Release Notes / / Leave a Comment
Updates
  • Updated to support PSD2 (SCA). For more details on what this means see Stripe’s article at https://stripe.com/guides/strong-customer-authentication.
  • LifterLMS version 3.29.0 or later is now required.
  • Updated Stripe API Version to 2019-08-14.
  • Added a purchase-aware dynamic statement descriptor for each charge.
  • Added automatic installation of Stripe Webhooks from admin settings screen.
  • Added webhook receipt endpoints for receiving updates from Stripe when asynchronous payments fail and charges are refunded.
  • Added minimum transaction checks for the following currencies: BRL, INR, MYR, & NZD.
  • Added UGX as a supported zero-decimal currency.
  • Database installation script no longer installs tables from version 2.x and 3.x.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed typo in filter llms_stripe_get_card_desrcription, use llms_stripe_get_card_description.
Deprecations
  • Removed class constant LLMS_Stripe_API::API_VERSION, use LLMS_STRIPE_API_VERSION instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::get_stripe_amount() use llms_stripe_get_amount() instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::get_transaction_minimum() use llms_stripe_get_transaction_minimum() instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::get_card_desrcription() use llms_stripe_get_card_description() instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::charge()
  • Removed class LLMS_Stripe_Crons
  • Renamed file includes/class-llms-gateway-stripe.php to includes/class-llms-payment-gateway-stripe.php

LifterLMS Version 3.35.0

September 4, 2019 / Release Notes / / Leave a Comment
Security Notice
  • Fixed a security vulnerability disclosed by the WordPress plugin review team. Please upgrade immediately!
Updates
  • Explicitly setting css and js file versions for various static assets..
  • Added data sanitization methods in various form handlers.
  • Added nonce verification to various form handlers.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed some translation strings that had literal variables instead of placeholders.
  • Fixed undefined index error encountered when attempting to email a voucher export.
  • Fixed undefined index error when PHP file upload errors are encountered during a course import.
Deprecations

The following unused classes have been marked as deprecated and will be removed from LifterLMS in the next major release.

  • LLMSAnalyticsMemberships
  • LLMSAnalyticsCourses
  • LLMSAnalyticsSales
  • LLMSMetaBox_Expiration
  • LLMSMetaBox_Video
Template Updates

LifterLMS Version 3.34.5

August 29, 2019 / Release Notes / / Leave a Comment
  • Fixed logic issues preventing pending orders from being completed.
Templates Changed
  • [checkout/form-confirm-payment.php](https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/blob/master/templates/checkout/form-confirm-payment.php

LifterLMS Stripe Version 5.0.0-beta.1

August 28, 2019 / Release Notes / / Leave a Comment
Updates
  • Updated to support PSD2 (SCA). For more details on what this means see Stripe’s article at https://stripe.com/guides/strong-customer-authentication.
  • LifterLMS version 3.29.0 or later is now required.
  • Updated Stripe API Version to 2019-08-14.
  • Added a purchase-aware dynamic statement descriptor for each charge.
  • Added automatic installation of Stripe Webhooks from admin settings screen.
  • Added webhook receipt endpoints for receiving updates from Stripe when asynchronous payments fail and charges are refunded.
  • Added minimum transaction checks for the following currencies: BRL, INR, MYR, & NZD.
  • Added UGX as a supported zero-decimal currency.
  • Database installation script no longer installs tables from version 2.x and 3.x.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed typo in filter llms_stripe_get_card_desrcription, use llms_stripe_get_card_description.
Deprecations
  • Removed class constant LLMS_Stripe_API::API_VERSION, use LLMS_STRIPE_API_VERSION instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::get_stripe_amount() use llms_stripe_get_amount() instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::get_transaction_minimum() use llms_stripe_get_transaction_minimum() instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::get_card_desrcription() use llms_stripe_get_card_description() instead.
  • Removed method LLMS_Payment_Gateway_Stripe::charge()
  • Removed class LLMS_Stripe_Crons
  • Renamed file includes/class-llms-gateway-stripe.php to includes/class-llms-payment-gateway-stripe.php

Improving Course Navigation User Experience [Part 1]: Establishing UX Patterns

August 28, 2019 / Recipes / Leave a Comment

Navigation is a broader term than what we understand by lesson navigation in LifterLMS with the Previous & Next Lesson links. The lesson navigation is but one of the ways students move around in the course.

Another way a user navigates a course is through the Mark Complete (or Take Quiz/ Assignment) button. A third way a student can navigate through the course is via the sidebar syllabus.

All these three user interfaces (UIs) provide their own type of navigation experience and in some aspects, act as redundancies of each other (that is, there are more than one way of accomplishing the same thing).

Student Behaviour

To understand the user experience (UX) of a student, let’s try creating a persona and describe their behaviour in a course context.

Apam Learns Yoga

Apam enrolls in a Beginners Yoga Program. Each individual lesson has a video, images and some text about one asana (yoga pose).

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LifterLMS Version 3.34.4

August 27, 2019 / Release Notes / / Leave a Comment
  • Add a new admin settings field type, “keyval”, used for displaying custom html alongside a setting.
  • Added filter llms_order_can_be_confirmed.
  • Always bind JS for the login form handler on checkout and registration screens.
Templates Changed
LifterLMS REST API v1.0.0-beta.6
  • Fix issue causing certain webhooks to not trigger as a result of action load order.
  • Change “access_plans” to “Access Plans” for better human reading.