The Official Blog for LifterLMS Contributors

  • LifterLMS Version 3.17.1

    • Refactored lesson completion methods to allow 3rd party customization of lesson completion behavior via filters and hooks.
    • Remove duplicate lesson completion notice implemented. Only popover notifications will display now instead of popovers and inline messages.
    • Object completion will now automatically prevent multiple records of completion from being recorded for a single object.
    • Lesson Mark Complete button and lessons completed by quiz now utilizes a generic trigger to mark lessons as complete: llms_trigger_lesson_completion.
    • Removed several unused functions from frontend forms class
    • Moved lesson completion form controllers to their own class
    Templates updates
    Read more: LifterLMS Version 3.17.1
  • LifterLMS Version 3.17.0

    Builder Updates
    • Moved action buttons for each lesson (for opening quiz and lesson editor) to be static below the lesson title as opposed to only being visible on hover
    • Added new audio and video status indicator icons for each lesson
    • Various status indicator icons will now have different icons in addition to different colors depending on their state
    • Replaced “pencil” icons that open the WordPress post editor with a small “WP” icon
    • Added several actions and filters to backend functions so that 3rd parties can hook into builder saves
    • Added lesson settings editing to the builder. Lesson settings can now be updated from settings metaboxes on the lesson post edit screen AND on the builder.
    • Added prerequisite validation for lessons to prevent accidental impossible prerequisite creating (eg: Lesson 5 can never be a prerequisite for Lesson 4)
    • Added functions and filters to allow 3rd parties to add custom fields to the builder. For more details see an example.
    • Fixed issue causing changes made in “Text” mode on content editors wouldn’t trigger save events
    • Fixed issue causing lesson prerequisites to not properly display on the course builder
    • Fixed CSS z-index issues related to builder field tooltip displays
    • Removed unused Javascript dependencies
    Bug Fixes
    • Fixed typo on filter on quiz question image getter function
    Updates
    • Performance improvements made to database queries and functions related to student enrollment status and student course progress queries. Thanks to @mte90 for raising issues and testing solutions related to these updates and changes!
    • Added PHP Requires plugin header (5.6 minimum)
    • Added HTTP User Agent data to the system report
    • LifterLMS Assignments Beta is imminent and this release adds functionality to the Builder which will be extended by Assignments upon when availability
    Read more: LifterLMS Version 3.17.0
  • LifterLMS Version 3.16.16

    • Fixed builder issue causing multiple question choices to be incorrectly selected
    • Fixed builder issue with media library uploads causing an error message to prevent new uploads before the quiz or question has been persisted to the database
    • Fixed builder issue preventing quizzes from being deleted before they were persisted to the database
    • Fixed builder issue causing autosaves to interrupt typing and reset lesson and section titles
    • Fixed JS console error related to LifterLMS JS dependency checks
    Read more: LifterLMS Version 3.16.16
  • LifterLMS Labs Version 1.5.1

    • Lifti: Custom builder classes will now function as expected when used on free lessons
    • Lifti: Add support for LifterLMS Quiz layouts
    Read more: LifterLMS Labs Version 1.5.1
  • LifterLMS Version 3.16.15

    Quiz Results Improvements and fixes
    • Improved quiz result user and correct answer handling functions for more consistent HTML output
    • Result answers (correct and user) will display as lists
    • image question types will display without bullets and will “float” next to each other
    • Fixed issue causing quiz results with multiple answers from outputting all HTMLS with no spaces between them
    Quiz Grading
    • Fixed issue causing advanced reorder and reorder question types from being graded incorrectly in some scenarios
    • Advanced fill in the blank questions are now case insensitive. Case sensitivity can be enabled with a filter: add_filter( 'llms_quiz_grading_case_sensitive', '__return_true' )
    Fixes
    • Updated spacing and returns found in the email header and footer templates to prevent line breaks from occurring in undesirable places on previews of HTML emails in mobile email clients
    • Added options for themes to add layout support to quizzes where the custom field utilizes an underscore at the beginning of the field key
    • Fixed CSS issue causing blanks of fill in the blanks to not be visible on the course builder when using Chrome on Windows
    • Removed unnecessary get_option() call to unused option lifterlms_permalinks
    • Updated permissions required to see various LifterLMS post types to rely on manage_lifterlms capabilities as opposed to manage_options
    • This will only affect the LMS Manager core role or any custom role which was provided with the manage_options capability. Manages will now be able to access all LMS content and custom roles would now not be able to access LMS content
    • Affected content types are: Orders, Coupons, Vouchers, Engagements, Achievements, Certificates, and Emails
    • Several references to an option removed in LifterLMS 3.0 still existed in the codebase and have now been removed.
    • Option lifterlms_course_display_banner is no longer called or referenced
    • Template function lifterlms_template_single_featured_image() has been removed
    • Actions referencing lifterlms_template_single_featured_image() have been removed
    • Template function lifterlms_get_featured_image_banner() has been removed
    • Template templates/course/featured-image.php has been removed
    Templates updates
    Read more: LifterLMS Version 3.16.15
  • LifterLMS Version 3.16.14

    • Courses reporting table now includes courses with the “Private” status
    • Fixed issue causing some achievement notifications to be blank
    • Added tooltips to question choice add / delete icon buttons
    • Quiz results meta information elements now have unique CSS classes
    • Removed reliance PHP 7.2 deprecated function create_function()
    • Fixed invalid PHP 7.2 syntax creating a warning found on the setup wizard
    • Fixed undefined index error related to admin notices
    • Fixed untranslatable string on Users table (“No Memberships”)
    • Fixed discrepancy between membership restrictions as presented to logged out users and logged in users who cannot access membership
    • Fixed FireFox and Edge issue causing changes to number inputs made via HTML5 input arrows from properly triggering save events
    Read more: LifterLMS Version 3.16.14