This morning I made a beta-3 version of Email Users v4.3.15 available for download from this site. I still hope to incorporate as many translation package updates as I can before the final release.
This latest beta version fixes some bugs where the names and ids or users or roles was not displayed in the recipient lists.
Download the beta release and please let me know if you run into any issues.
Email Users Beta (5593 downloads )This evening I have made a beta-2 version of Email Users v4.3.15 available for download from this site. I have not posted this version to the WordPress plugin repository yet as I’d like to incorporate as many translation package updates as I can before the final release.
This latest beta version includes translation catalog files generated with Poedit to help make the translation process easier.
Download the beta release and please let me know if you run into any issues.
Email Users Beta (5593 downloads )As I told a co-worker 20+ years ago, there is no better way to learn how to do something than having a problem to solve. I need to solve a problem. My WordPress Google Form plugin originally came from a project to help our Middle School Athletics Booster Club. It solved the problem at hand but over time I’ve added more features to it, not because the Booster Club needed them but because people asked or they were interesting problems I was compelled to solve.
Our Booster Club now wants to have an Online Shop and after playing with a couple of eCommerce plugins, I’ve decided to go with WooCommerce. The only thing really missing is the ability to sell a Booster Club Membership. Our membership process isn’t easily handled by any of the eCommerce plugins I’ve looked at. WooCommerce has a paid for add-on module that looks promising but I am reluctant to buy something without trying it first.
I’d really like to inject a PayPal “pay” button into WordPress Google Form and simply use it for our membership registration but doing so isn’t simple. PayPal makes the Payment API look very simple in their documentation but from what I’ve read, it isn’t quite so simple.
With as much mucking around with the DOM I’ve done to Google Forms usiing jQuery I don’t think it would be too hard to insert a PayPal button in place of the Submit. Handling all of the handshaking isn’t quite as simple though. There doesn’t appear to be an easy solution but that is what makes for a good problem. I’ll keep noodling on it, there has to be something I can.
This morning I have made a beta version of Email Users v4.3.15 available for download from this site. I have not posted this version to the WordPress plugin repository yet as I’d like to get some additional testing done on it before doing so as well as incorporate any translation package updates as I can before the final release (which I will likely label v4.4.0).
There are a couple of significant new features and a number of bug fixes in this version.
Download the beta release and please let me know if you run into any issues.
Email Users Beta (5593 downloads )This afternoon I made a beta version of WordPress Google Form v0.46 available for download from this site. I have not posted this version to the WordPress plugin repository yet as I’d like to get some additional testing done on it before doing so.
There are a could of significant new features and a few bug fixes in this version.
Download the beta release and please let me know if you run into any issues. You can see an example of multi-column support on my Multi-Column Test Bed Form.
Google Forms Beta (8720 downloads )I’ve received a few queries as to how a Google Form could be styled such that the form would appear to have columns. I’ve looked at the HTML and CSS that Google provides and if it can be done in CSS, it is beyond my current CSS skill set!
That said, I think it is an interesting question and I had looked at solutions using jQuery a few months ago. I saw one jQuery plugin in particular that looked promising but didn’t have much time to really dig into it at the time.
I received another request for columns today so I took a look at the problem again to see how hard it would be. Here is one of my example forms split into two columns to give an idea of what this might look like:
I am using the jQuery Columnizer plugin to automatically split the form into columns in conjunction with some other jQuery to manipulate the form and add some additional DIVs which will make additional styling easier.
I am generally pleased with how it came out. I am going to play with it a little more before releasing an update but wanted to provide a preview in case anyone had an suggestions or questions.
I was perusing some WordPress feeds I follow this morning and was reading an article about recent debate on where Custom Post Types should live (plugin or theme – for the record, I am on the side that CPTs should reside in a plugin for the same reasons the article points out) on wpBeginner.com when I saw a mention that the debate originated at WordCamp Raleigh.
A WordCamp here in Raleigh? How did I miss that? Unlike many weekends where I am out an about with soccer, basketball, lacrosse or the like, I was around this weekend. I couldn’t have gone to the whole thing but the venue for WordCamp Raleigh is maybe 15 minutes from my house.
Bummer – I really would have liked to have attended a couple of the sessions, in particular Using AJAX in your Plugins, Using Git with WordPress and a couple of others.
Maybe next year …