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Form Management Improvments

• 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

• 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.