The Official Blog for LifterLMS Contributors

Updates

• Updated the Access Plan metabox on courses and lessons with improved data validation.
• Added a set of methods for creating access plans programmatically.
• When using the block editor, the “Pricing Table” block will automatically update when access plan changes are saved to the database (from LifterLMS Blocks 1.3.5).
• Removed code related to an incompatibility between Yoast SEO Premium and LifterLMS resulting from former access plan save methods.
• Added the ability for instructors and admins to mark lessons complete and incomplete for students via the student course reporting table.
• Reduced application logic in the course/complete-lesson-link.php template file by refactoring button display filters into functions.
• Replaced LifterLMS logos and icons on the admin panel with our new logo assets.
• Updated checkout javascript to expose an error addition functions
• Removed display order field from payment gateway settings in favor of using the gateway table sortable list
• Abstracted the checkout form submission functionality into a callable function not directly tied to $_POST data
• Added function for checking if request is a REST request
• Fix checkout nonce to have a unique ID & name

Bug Fixes

• Access plans are now created and updated via AJAX requests, resolves a 5.0 editor issue causing duplicated access plans to be created.
• Fix an issue causing GET requests with no query string variables from causing issues via incorrect JSON encoding via the API Handler abstract.
• Fix an issue causing access plan sale end dates from using the default WordPress date format settings.
• LLMS_Lesson::has_quiz() will now properly return a boolean instead of the ID of the associated quiz (or 0 when none found)

Template Updates

• checkout/form-checkout.php
• course/complete-lesson-link.php
• product/access-plan-pricing.php

Templates Removed

Admin panel templates replaced with view files which cannot be overridden from a theme or custom plugin.

• admin/post-types/product-access-plan.php
• admin/post-types/product.php

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• Tested to WordPress 5.1
• Fixed an issue causing JSON data saved by 3rd party plugins in course or lesson postmeta fields to be not duplicate properly during course duplications and imports.

Updates

• Updated default country list to remove non-existant countries and resolve capitilization issues, thanks nrherron92!

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the email notification content getter to use the same filter as popover notifications.
• Fixed an issue preventing default blog date & time settings from being used when displaying an access plan’s access expiration date on course and membership pricing tables.
• Fixed an issue causing 404s on paginated dashboard endpoints when the permalink structure is set to anything other than %postname%.

Deprecations

• LLMS_Query->set_dashboard_pagination()