VERSION 8.9 changes?

  • Resolved John

    (@dsl225)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Guido,

    I notice this is considered as a major update but I don’t really understand the changelog and how those changes or additions will impact existing installations.

    Would it be possible for you to explain a bit more clearly what are the changes to take care of for existing installations please?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi John,

    This update doesn’t mean there’s a risk.. I’ve only made changes to the captcha and the settingspage.

    Maybe I should remove the label “major” because this might be misleading 😉 Besides this I should have used the 3 digit version number, upon initial release of the plugin but at that time I thought it wasn’t necessary.

    Guido

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi John,

    Have updated the changelog few moments ago and removed the “major update” label. To avoid confusion.

    Guido

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks Guido,

    That’s fine but I still don’t know WHAT sort of changes you’ve done there (captcha and settings page) so that I can check my settings accordingly after update.

    With my post here I was mainly suggesting, if possible, to provide a more explicit changelog for existing users and WHERE to look for those changes/additions.

    Thanks.

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi John,

    I’ve added an alternative captcha, which doesn’t use a PHP session and doesn’t use the PHP rand() function to generate a random number. Because some users were having conflicts with other plugins and the capcha wasn’t working when the server has disabled the use of PHP sessions. This new captcha is a random number that changes every hour, so less secure.

    Besides this I’ve added tabbed navigation on the settingspage. I’ve added one new setting, for the captcha. I did not change any existing settings whatsoever.

    And I’ve relocated the validation code and sending & saving code from the 2 shortcode files to separate files, because it makes no sense to have the same code blocks in both shortcode files. I now include the separate files in the shortcode files.

    That’s it.

    Guido

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks Guido, that’s much clearer now!

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi John,

    New plugin update and I’m hoping the changelog is clear for you 🙂

    Guido

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Ha, ha, that’s fine for me, no problem.
    I only hope I’m not the only one reading this changelog as it provides important information for those running your plugin already!

    Many thanks for your continuous support and improvement of this plugin!

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @dsl225 / John,

    FYI, there will be a plugin update soon containing several quite big changes. In short:

    • The redirect to thank you message (and server error message) is being done by javascript now (no jquery). To avoid resubmitting the form upon page refresh.
    • There will be a query string parameter in the URL when thank you message is being displayed. This can be useful when having a thank you page defined in your website statistics / analytics program.
    • Removed the PHP session method from the captcha (random number). The PHP session can conflict with other plugins that also use a session.

    More detailed info in the upcoming changlog.

    Guido

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    Great, well noted, many thanks!

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