I have prepared an incremental update to WP-Members that will wrap up some unfinished business from 2.5.0:  [Read more…]

As I mentioned earlier, WP-Members has gained in complexity which makes releasing upgrades more complicated.  Case in point – I have realized that the toggle to force a settings override was left on (I was debugging checkbox support at the end of testing – a requested feature addition).

About the first 225 downloads were affected.  I corrected it 4/13/2011 around 9:10 US Central Time.

If you updated before that, you may want to double check your settings.  (If you use the default install settings, you may not even notice.)

To correct this without redownloading/reinstalling, edit $chk_force in wp-members-install.php to be:

$chk_force = false;

I am finally ready to release WP-Members version 2.5.0 as a production release.  This release represents many months of work moving from version 2.3.2.  There are many new features, and as such, it required a lot of testing and debugging.  As this plugin has grown in features, it has also grown in complexity.  This makes each new release much more complicated than before, as I try to make sure that as many upgrade scenarios are accounted for.

Here is a list of changes since 2.3.2:

New Features

• added reCAPTCHA support for registration
• added Terms of Service (TOS) checkbox and popup
• added shortcode support for members area and register pages
• added custom user management panel for bulk user edits
• added user list export
• localization support (beginning)
• contextual help in admin panels (beginning)
• added shortcode support for login only page
• added support for checkboxes in the registration fields
• added setting for members area/settings page url (so we can have “forgot password” link anywhere)
• added a “change your password” link in the email if members area/settings page url is set

Code Improvements

• updated the registration process so that unused fields are not put into the user_meta table
• updated emails for moderated registration to send user the url they signed up on
• capture user’s IP address at registration
• sets logged in admin as activated (prevents admin from accidentally being locked out)
• added toggle to force clean install of settings
• improvements to uninstall process

Bug Fixes

• added stripslashes to dialogs (accommodates the use of apostrophes/quotation marks)
• fixed sidebar login for non-widget use (bug from 2.3.x)
• corrected a bug introduced in the 2.3.x widget update that caused the widget to be undraggable in certain instances

WP-Members 2.5.0 is available here