EffectIO Easy Digital Downloads - Frontend Submissions

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Released on: 2025-01-14

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Easy Digital Downloads – Frontend Submissions 2.7.1 is a powerful plugin that enables users to register as vendors directly from the frontend of your website. Once approved, vendors gain complete access to their personalized dashboard, where they can effortlessly create new products, update existing ones, view orders, track earnings, communicate with customers, and manage their account details.

To ensure the highest quality vendors and products on your marketplace, Frontend Submissions offers comprehensive review processes for new vendor registration and product submissions. This guarantees that your marketplace is full of top-notch offerings.

Efficient communication is key to maintaining a thriving marketplace, which is why Frontend Submissions facilitates easy interaction between vendors and customers. Vendors can respond to customers’ inquiries and support queries directly from their dashboard. By utilizing the EDD Message extension, store administrators can equip vendors with an option to send email messages to customers.

Frontend Submissions seamlessly integrates with the Commission extension, allowing you to effortlessly track and record vendor commissions for products sold on your marketplace. Earnings are conveniently accessible to vendors on their dashboard.

To keep site administrators in the loop, Frontend Submissions provides comprehensive email notification options. You can configure separate emails for various events such as product submissions, updates, vendor registrations, and earned commissions. This ensures that you stay informed about important activities on your marketplace.

With the drag-and-drop form builder, site administrators have complete control over the fields displayed to vendors during registration, product submission, and vendor account profile setup. This flexibility enables you to tailor the form fields to your specific requirements.

Frontend Submissions also includes seamless integration with the product Reviews extension, allowing vendors to easily access and respond to customer reviews on their products. Additionally, customers can provide valuable feedback on vendors, enabling site administrators to assess vendor performance effectively.

Setting up your multivendor marketplace is made simple with the extensive documentation provided by Frontend Submissions and its integrated extensions. The documentation portal contains all the necessary information to assist you throughout the process.

Choose from a wide range of EDD Themes Marketplace options that support Frontend Submissions. Some themes are optimized to maximize the potential of Frontend Submissions, including Marketify, Stocky, and Checkout Ma.

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2.6.9
  • Improvement: Vendor dashboard now displays dates in the format specified in General Settings.
  • Fix: FES was unintentionally removing some columns from the admin "Downloads" table.
  • Fix: reCAPTCHA validation error when submitting a form, missing a required field, then re-submitting.
  • Fix: "Settings" admin menu item didn't include the download post type, which caused style inconsistencies.
  • Fix: Undefined array key warnings.
2.6.8
  • Improvement: The Tools page has been updated for improved accessibility and UX.
  • Fix: Repeat registration field triggering `count()` errors.
  • Fix: FES interfering with EDD core tooltip styling, making them semi transparent and unreadable.
2.6.7
  • New: Added `edd_fes_allow_numeric_usernames` filter, which allows you to change whether or not numeric usernames are permitted by vendors.
  • Improvement: Show warning if active theme doesn't support post formats when adding this field to the form builder.
  • Fix: Vendor earnings incorrect when using quantities.
  • Fix: Wrong date/time shown in vendor dashboard orders.
  • Fix: Undefined property error when saving/submitting submission form.
  • Fix: "Add File" button missing when adding multiple files to a product.
  • Fix: Vendor files not being uploaded to protected EDD directory.
  • EDD 3.0: Update vendor reports.
2.6.6
  • New: Introduced `fes_get_vendor_url` filter on the vendor profile URL. This allows the URLs to be customized.
  • Improvement: Disallow entirely numeric vendor usernames. This is because they conflict with vendor profile URLs.
  • Fix: Potential memory issues when updating vendor email when the user account is updated. (`FES_DB_Vendors->update_vendor_email_on_user_update()`)
  • Fix: "Rows" setting not honored by rich textareas.
  • Fix: Undefined index errors.
  • Fix: Number fields that are marked as required were not being treated as such.
  • Fix: Infinite loop when viewing vendor shop profile while using Vendd theme.
  • Fix: Deprecation notices in PHP 8.
  • Fix: User bio field didn't have an option to switch to the "Rich textarea".
  • Tweak: Update plugin author name to Sandhills Development, LLC.
  • Dev: EDD 3.0 compatibility.
  • Dev: Correct `EDD_Front_End_Submissions::$helper` docblock.
2.6.5
  • Fix: PayPal field from the Commissions extension does not display
2.6.4
  • Fix: Honeypot field does not render on frontend
2.6.3
  • Fix: Missing arguments in usage of the_category filter
  • Fix: reCaptcha validation causes contact form to show error when API keys are not entered
  • Fix: Custom download product columns overwritten when FES is active
2.6.2
  • Fix: unnecessary information displaying in EDD System Info output
2.6.1
  • Fix: CSS and JS not loading due to removal of Welcome page.
2.6
  • New: Telephone field type now supported
  • New: Number field type now supported
  • New: Option to "Delete Vendor Data" has been added to the vendor delete screen
  • New: Action hooks have been added before and after the submission form submit button
  • New: Automatic submission approval can now be enabled on individual vendor accounts
  • Tweak: Action icons have been removed from the Downloads list table
  • Tweak: Lost Password link repositioned
  • Tweak: Logout changed to Log Out
  • Tweak: Log Out link is now forced to the end of the menu links
  • Tweak: Columns setting has been removed from the Textarea field
  • Tweak: Welcome screen and redirect on plugin activation has been removed
2.5.11
  • Fix: Duplicate filter name for form legends
  • Fix: Incorrect use of plural "Vendors" when it should be singular
  • Tweak: Removed file download link in admin as files are inaccessible
  • Tweak: Deleted products now get placed in the trash
2.5.10
  • Fix: Label for URL field on Profile form not saving properly
2.5.9
  • Fix: Compatibility with Commissions 3.4 and above
  • Fix: Vendor page didn't work on initial install without permalinks being updated first
  • Fix: Unable to delete existing vendor address details
  • Fix: Label for the URL field was not saving
2.5.8
  • Fix: Vendor application emails sent even when disabled
  • Fix: New submission email uses admin email content instead of vendor email content
  • Fix: Commissions not automatically enabled on new submissions
  • Fix: Remove avatar link does not work in some themes
2.5.7
  • Fix: X button to remove avatar does not work in all themes
  • Fix: Vendor store URL returns 404 error if assigned a parent page
  • Fix: Undefined variable payment_id
2.5.6
  • Fix: Auto-approve vendor submission option does not work and leaves products as pending review
2.5.5
  • Fix: File upload filter has unneeded checks which can result in errors
  • Fix: All submitted products are saved as drafts
2.5.4
  • Fix: Save Draft option did not work in Safari and Firefox browsers
2.5.3
  • Tweak: Improved status labels on the Download list table
  • Tweak: Improved capitalization of URL
  • Tweak: Changed "Submit" to "Log In" and "Register" where appropriate
  • Tweak: Added spacing between Submit and Save Draft
  • Fix: PHP notice on vendor registration form on some installs
  • Fix: Missing borders on vendor dashboard when there are no comments
  • Fix: Draft products cannot be submitted for review
  • Fix: Incorrect product statuses shown in product overview
  • Fix: "Invalid arguments" error when uploading files
2.5.2
  • Fix: Email field shows incorrect validation error.
2.5.1
  • Fix: Registration form builder broken when the form contains the Display Name field
  • Fix: Incorrect ID attribute on Submission Form legend
  • Fix: Typo on Submission Form and Login Form legend class names
2.5
  • New: Save Draft option has been added to the product submission form
  • New: An email that is sent when scheduled products are published has been added
  • New: A recount stats tool for vendor accounts has been introduced
  • New: A "Toggle" field type has been added for the submission, registration, and profile forms
  • New: Three template files have been added for frontend-edit-product.php, frontend-new-product.php, and frontend-profile.php
  • New: Vendor avatars now support all of the standard sizes
  • New: Additional hooks have been added to the Orders tab of the vendor dashboard
  • New: The Earnings tab of the vendor dashboard now displays an overview of the vendor’s earnings
  • Tweak: Extensive improvements have been made to all frontend markup
  • Tweak: Additional parameters have been added to several hooks
  • Tweak: The opt-in data tracking has been removed
  • Tweak: The settings that allowed the form used for submission, profile, contact, and registration have been removed as they were problematic and not needed
  • Fix: Quick edit did not work on the Downloads list table
  • Fix: Editing a product from the backend can result in media files being reassigned to the site admin
  • Fix: Account approved email not sent when vendors are manually approved
  • Fix: Files section of the Prices and Files field not shown on product edit screen in certain conditions
  • Fix: Pagination not working properly in several places
  • Fix: Error message missing when pasting a file URL into the file upload field
  • Fix: Orders show incorrect status on the vendor dashboard when they are any status other than Complete
  • Fix: File uploads not always attached to the product they are uploaded to
  • Fix: Usage of the deprecated get_page() function has been replaced with get_post()
2.4.8
  • New: Added new Vendor Card view in Admin
2.4.7
  • Fix: Log out link is incorrect for suspended vendor accounts
  • Fix: Pagination broken on Products tab of Vendor Dashboard
  • Fix: Pagination broken on Orders tab of Vendor Dashboard
  • Fix: Some characters incorrectly removed from valid email addresses
  • Fix: Product count incorrect in Vendors list
  • Fix: No error message shown when vendors attempt to update their profile with an already-used email address
  • Fix: Not all vendors listed in vendor drop down on product edit screen
  • Fix: Incorrect price assignment in some cases during product submission
  • Tweak: Improved some strings for translation
  • Tweak: Added translation context to submit buttons
2.4.6
  • New: File Upload field now includes support for limiting uploads to specific file types
  • Tweak: User ID shown on vendor details page now linked to user edit screen
  • Tweak: Log in form now supports logging in with email
  • Tweak: Admin tool bar no longer shown to pending or suspended vendor accounts
  • Tweak: Use meta caps instead of outdated user roles for vendors
  • Tweak: fes_get_attachment_id() function now uses attachment_url_to_postid() function
  • Tweak: Improved function that retrieves vendor product counts
  • Fix: Incorrect edd-required indicator class on input fields
  • Fix: "Use FES's CSS" option not enabled by default on new installs
  • Fix: Session variables used to detect edit and create screens can get mixed up
  • Fix: Default value not shown in text fields
  • Fix: reCaptcha field does not work on vendor contact form
  • Fix: Repeat fields save values as "Array" if fields are left empty
  • Fix: Import / export of forms does not work
2.4.5
  • Fix: JavaScript error on some pages when Debug Bar Console plugin is activated
  • Fix: edd_vars variable not defined on the vendor reports tab
  • Fix: Downloads list table not responsive when FES is activated
  • Fix: Undefined variable in vendor shop template
  • Tweak: PDF report files now included in FES in anticipation of them being removed from EDD core in the future
2.4.4
  • Fix: Undefined 'name' array key on submission form when using taxonomy field
  • Fix: Possible fatal error on log in / registration submission
  • Fix: Possible fatal error on form submission
  • Fix: Possible fatal error in taxonomy field
  • Fix: Possible fatal error in emails class
2.4.3
  • New: Vendor avatar fields can now be changed from backend
  • New: "fes_submission_form_header" filter
  • Tweak: Terms and conditions field now includes an option for setting the checkbox label independently of the field label
  • Tweak: Terms and conditions field now no longer outputs empty label div
  • Tweak: Admin notice shown if no page is selected for Vendor Dashboard is now linked to the proper settings screen
  • Tweak: Improved description for frontend meta display options
  • Fix: Non-FES metaboxes will no longer be shown on edit form screens
  • Fix: Uninitialized string offer warnings with repeat fields
  • Fix: Repeat fields save incorrect in admin area in some cases
  • Fix: Vendor name not shown in page title of vendor shop pages
  • Fix: JavaScript and CSS files failing to load in the admin area when site is translated into certain languages
  • Fix: frontend.css file loading incorrectly on EDD purchase history page
  • Fix: Default WordPress Avatar settings showing current user's avatar
  • Fix: HTML not escaped properly in checkbox labels
  • Fix: HTML not properly stripped / escaped in field labels
  • Fix: Downloads with Private status shown as having Trash status
  • Fix: "vendor" hard-coded on frontend instead of using label settings
  • Fix: Email notifications sent to admin when publishing products from the backend
  • Fix: Script IDs reversed on CSS and js files
2.4.2
  • Fix: Watermarks from Download Image Watermark not applying on new product submissions
  • Fix: Editing a live product converts the status to Pending even when Auto-Approve Edits is enabled
  • Fix: Editing a product creates a duplicate product on some sites
2.4.1
  • Fix: Media files not loading on non-download post type edit screens
2.4.0
  • New: Moved to EDD Settings from Redux
  • New: Added submenu for settings in FES that redirects to EDD settings tab for FES
  • New: Added filter to change content of login shortcode when user is logged in
  • New: PHP7 compatibility
  • New: Detect lack of imagick or gd and show notice
  • Tweak: Username field can no longer appear on the profile form
  • Tweak: FES will no longer set default commission rates, just turn it on
  • Tweak: Removed
    in password repeat label
  • Fix: Can't uncheck "Enable image upload in post area" setting
  • Fix: Custom registration fields don't show up in admin email notification
  • Fix: Empty class (attribute) output on vendor dashboard menu items
  • Fix: Submission fields don't get saved in admin unless all required fields are filled out
  • Fix: Taxonomy Field Error when no taxonomies are present
  • Fix: Undefined variable on the post transition filter
  • Fix: Deprecated notice for "like_escape()"
  • Fix: Submission form Categories & Tags fields did not output Text Input terms
  • Fix: Undefined variable: selected in Vendor Metabox
  • Fix: EDD CSS being Output with [fes_login_registration_form] even when CSS setting turned off
  • Fix: Bug in opt-in tracking class
  • Fix: Typo in name of formatted_data() filter
  • Fix: l10n un-translated "Order #" string
2.3.11
  • New: Adds a filter in the multiple_prices field for better Amazon s3 compatibility.
2.3.10
  • Fix: Avatar on vendor dashboard page shows avatar of current user, not vendor
  • Fix: Rich text option missing from textarea fields
  • Fix: Password field in the Profile form does not save
  • Fix: Checkboxes cannot be unchecked
  • Fix: Nickname field cannot be added
2.3.9
  • Tweak: Corrected label in regards to one of the email settings
  • Tweak: Allow admins to access entire media library in frontend
  • Fix: Fixed issue with taxonomy email tags not working
  • Fix: Fixed issue with Download Image Watermark extension compatibility
  • Fix: Fixed issue that prevented custom vendor shop names from working
  • Fix: Fixed issue where single option multiple price fields couldn't be saved
  • Fix: Fixed issue where wp_login action called by FES ran with only 1 of 2 parameters (caused compatibility issue with Jetpack)
  • Fix: Added safety in vendor shop class for a vendor object not being returned
  • Fix: Fixed issue where repeat fields could not be saved in the formbuilder
  • Fix: Fixed issue where post excerpt fields would not be visible on the frontend
  • Fix: Corrected a race condition on the formbuilder when more than 1 field was attempted to be inserted at the same time
  • Fix: The select field now respects the required option
  • Fix: get_queried_vendor() triggers fatal error if $wp_query is not an object
2.3.8
  • Fix: Fixes fatal error caused by non-object (legacy) fields.
2.3.7
  • Fix: File upload fields do not save file URL when administrators select a file uploaded by a vendor
  • Fix: Undefined index notices on Vendor Dashboard in some themes
  • Fix: Meta keys can be saved with invalid characters
  • Fix: Restore fes_render_field_{field} action for pre 2.3 field types
  • Fix: Missing label on checkbox fields
2.3.6
  • New: Radio and checkbox fields are now using list item hierarchy
  • Tweak: Revert removal of list item hierarchy on categories
  • Tweak: vendor_can_view_receipt_item no longer returns false on vendor's own purchases
  • Tweak: textarea field now use wp_kses instead of sanitize_textfield
  • Tweak: FES's field import/update schema corruption autodetection/autofix system now detects more types of issues and automatically fixes them
  • Fix: Sorting vendors by date now works
  • Fix: Vendor pages now have the correct title
  • Fix: Disabling columns on multiple price field and setting it to required no longer throws validation error for field vendor cannot edit
2.3.5
  • Fix: Vendor contact form not working properly
  • Fix: Broken HTML with Nickname field in Profile editor
  • Fix: Products cannot be submitted when "Allow vendors to set names of options" is set to "no"
  • Fix: Incorrect text for "Show on Product Page" option
  • Fix: Invalid meta keys allowed in form editors
2.3.4
  • Fix: Submissions get auto approved even when auto approval is disabled
  • Fix: Vendors get automatically approved even when vendor moderation is enabled
  • Fix: Registration form fields do not all save properly
  • Fix: Emails during vendor registration not sent properly
  • Fix: Vendors table not sorting properly
  • Fix: Incorrect table cell markup for checkbox fields
  • Fix: Some settings missing from the FES System Info
  • Fix: Improper grammar with Show Form Dropdowns option
  • Fix: Invalid vendor ID error shown on vendor contact form
  • Fix: Undefined variable is_backend when vendor registration is disabled
  • Fix: Logged in users cannot register as vendors
  • Fix: Show on Product Page should not show if disabled
2.3.3
  • Fix: Vendor registration not creating vendor accounts
  • Fix: Form editor links under EDD FES can show broken URL
  • Fix: Undefined variable is_backend on vendor registration form when guest registration is disabled
2.3.2
  • Fix: Issue where page titles get overriden by product constant name when Vendor page not assigned
  • Fix: Taxonomy field didn't display selected taxonomy when > 2 taxonomies existed
  • Fix: The Frontend Vendor role no longer explicitly denies any capabilities
  • Fix: "Show on Product Page" no longer appears on the formbuilder fields unless the setting is turned on
  • Fix: The excerpt field was missing a closing fieldset on output
  • Fix: The vendor contact form didn't work due to the JS not loading
  • Fix: Checkbox and select fields now correctly show the defaults on the admin new download page where auto-drafting is turned on
  • Fix: When using the vendor class count() you can get a SQL error if the default isn't set
  • Fix: The vendor table didn't paginate correctly
2.3.1
  • Fix: Multi-select fields not showing saved value
  • Fix: Fatal error on some sites due to missing get_user_meta() function
  • Fix: Added min-height to vendor's product screens to fix display when a vendor has no products
  • Fix: Comment author's name floated improperly in vendor dashboard
2.3
  • New: Introduced Fields API that all FES fields now run on
  • New: Introduced Forms API that all FES forms now run on
  • New: Introduced _fes_deprecated_function()
  • New: Introduced Honeypot field
  • New: ReCAPTCHA field now uses ReCAPTCHA 2.0
  • New: Introduce fes_is_key() function
  • New: Formbuilder now divides fields into extension, custom, and specific metaboxes
  • New: Introduced Vendors DB class
  • New: Introduced Vendor class
  • New: Introduced new vendors table in the admin
  • New: Introduced reports for vendors
  • New: Introduced notes for vendors
  • New: Introduced CSV export of customers for vendor product(s) in the admin
  • New: Increment/decrement vendor earnings/sales count based on payments and refunds
  • New: Raised minimum EDD requirement to 2.3
  • New: Raised minimum WP requirement to 4.2
  • New: Introduced optional opt-in tracking of data
  • New: Introduced Tools class
  • New: Introduced Welcome class
  • New: Introduced public radio toggle for submission form items
  • New: Introduced setting to let submission form items be automatically outputted on the product page
  • New: Introduce set_option (for redux settings)
  • New: Introduce redux global variable for use in set_option
  • New: Vendors can now be searched for by commission email, user_id, custom vendor meta and username
  • New: Introduced DOING_FES_FORM_SUBMISSION
  • New: Resetting a form now uses statically declared FES fields, not a psuedo imported json file
  • New: Introduced get_form_id_by_name function
  • New: Introduced get_form_class_by_name function
  • New: Introduced get_form_by_name function
  • New: Introduced get_form_by_id function
  • New: Introduced get_form_name_by_class function
  • New: FES Emails can now use any field in the emails
  • New: Added error if the vendor dashboard isn't set
  • New: Custom receipt view for vendors for the orders
  • New: If a user has an FES role, the FES role will always show in the role column on the user table
  • New: Adds FES actions to the user table
  • New: Added JS loading overlays to the submission of forms on the frontend
  • New: Added JS success/fail alerts to the submission of forms on the frontend
  • New: Added index.php in the language folder
  • New: reCAPTCHA now shows a warning on the formbuilder field to ensure users set the reCAPTCHA settings
  • New: Introduced a highly robust and filterable field sanitization and validation system
  • New: Introduced a highly robust and filterable success/error message and redirect system for submission of forms
  • New: Introduced fes_dash_to_lower function
  • New: Introduced fes_is_frontend() function
  • New: Introduced fes_is_admin function
  • New: Introduced fes_is_api_request function
  • New: Redux has been upgraded 40+ versions
  • New: All FES emails now have defaults
  • New: Completely rethought system for triggering the EDD file protection for uploaded files
  • New: Scripts and Styles are now minified triggered using an new, better system
  • New: Introduced is_fes_form function
  • New: All FES fields now contain more explicit titles, subtitles, descriptions and sample content
  • New: Introduced Name field
  • New: New FES logo
  • New: Add reset all forms and reset form meta options on tools
  • New: Introduced a Custom Taxonomy field
  • New: FES now integrates with social login in terms of using Social Login's grabbed social network profile picture as the vendor avatar
  • New: FES will now look for FES templates in the EDD folder
  • New: Introduced fes_get_theme_template_paths function and a more robust template loading system
  • New: Added a metabox to change the FES status of a vendor, and see the current status of a vendor on the edit user screen
  • New: Vendors can now be sorted by every column in the vendor table
  • New: Fatal errors in FES are now handled as a JS alert (no more spinning wheels of death, despair, and life contemplation)
  • New: And those fatal errors have a complete stacktrace dumped in the console for devs
  • New: Taxonomy fields now provide live suggestions for text fields
  • New: Added shortcodes to render the output of FES forms
  • New: Every single FES file has been formatted to standard
  • New: The vendor dropdown on the edit download page now uses Chosen to make finding a specific vendor easier
  • New: The FES Tools page now uses a combined metabox for import, export, and reset with a chosen dropdown to select the form to apply the action to
  • New: Introduced a Post Format field
  • New: There is now a prompt before any action can be taken to change the status of a vendor (safety measure)
  • New: There is now a link to the vendor's store page from admin edit vendor page
  • New: A password field is no longer required on the FES registration form (if not present, FES will automatically issue the user a password)
  • New: Completely redesigned About/Welcome to FES page
  • New: Composer.json to help those who manage their WordPress sites using Composer
  • Field and Form names are now completely translateable
  • Fix: Bug in Multiple Pricing and Files field that caused the wrong columns to sometimes get unset
  • Fix: Hover on post date in the vendor dashboard was off
  • Fix: Menu fix for r34177 in WordPress core, scheduled for release with WordPress 4.4.
  • Fix: Don't show announcements section if annoucncement isn't set
  • Fix: FES now correctly attempts to use vendor contact email in profile before vendor user email
  • Fix: ReCAPTCHA field now echos the insert settings before using this field warning on the formbuilder field
  • Fix: Correct isues with the file (and file type) fields saving
  • Fix: FES settings global variable was on the wrong variable in certain situations
  • Fix: Resetting a form now ensures the form is correctly saved to the FES settings panel
  • Fix: Pagination links now work when using default permalink structure on the dashboard
  • Fix: Use FES specific css for the menu icon
  • Fix: ReCAPTCHA now works on ssl sites
  • Fix: JShint errors for comma on last item in an array have been remediated
  • Fix: Import/Export fields now redirects with the correct tab open
  • Fix: FES will now save image files with a dimension post-fix on the filename
  • Fix: Remediated PHP notices on plugin activation caused by the install routine attempting to find forms that didn't exist yet
  • Fix: Logout no longer fails if Vendor Dashboard page is incorrect
  • Fix: FES now automatically saves new name indexes on new fields added on the formbuilder (like it was supposed to do)
  • Fix: Solves issues when EDD is deactivated and FES is left active
  • Fix: Profile information now displays in backend dashboard
  • Fix: Email auto-populates now for the vendor contact form
  • Fix: upload_dir is now properly (not) filtered in admin on non-download post types
  • Fix: Corrected usage of wp_new_user_notification() post WordPress 4.3
  • Tweak: Removed all FES shortcodes deprecated in FES 2.2
  • Tweak: Suspended vendors products are now set to draft instead of trash
  • Tweak: Better warnings about what revoking a vendor entails
  • Tweak: is_meta is now a characteristic of the field instead of being stored in the database
  • Tweak: When visiting a vendor page that doesn't exist, a more generic title is presented
  • Tweak: Removing the only line from a file upload now clears that line instead of the JS error
  • Tweak: Removed deprecated & unused vendor_not_enough_permissions function
  • Tweak: Removed Formbuilder Template functions used solely by FES internal fields
  • Tweak: All functions referencing P/product(s) and/or D/download(s) and/or V/vendor(s) now use the vendor and product constants
  • Tweak: Upload buttons on file fields are now buttons instead of links
  • Tweak: X buttons on file fields are now the x symbol
  • Tweak: Removed get_input_fields function
  • Tweak: Removed prepare_meta_fields function
  • Tweak: Removed get_buffered function
  • Tweak: Removed remove_button function
  • Tweak: Removed all field functions from the Forms class
  • Tweak: Removed deprecated EDD_FES()->vendors->use_author_archives()
  • Tweak: Better admin and frontend script and style loading
  • Tweak: Removed signal_error function
  • Tweak: User Website URL field is now User URL field
  • Tweak: Rewrote the install class
  • Tweak: Rewrote the upgrade class
  • Tweak: FES now loads post types from it's own file (prevents alot of the install bugs we were seeing)
  • Tweak: FES now loads the default fields and meta from a schema.php file (greatly reduces code redundancy)
  • Tweak: Prevent cloning of global FES object
  • Tweak: Prevent wakeup of global FES object
  • Tweak: Greatly improved the legend field used on fields output
  • Tweak: Corrected some string textdomains to edd_fes from edd
  • Tweak: Completely rewrote the FES_Menu class
  • Tweak: All menu item titles are now translatable
  • Tweak: All mentions of "application" are changed to the new "registration" if possible (context wise)
  • Tweak: Formbuilder fields now use css classes unique to the formbuilder
  • Tweak: FES system info is now included in the EDD system info, reducing chance of confusion
  • Tweak: Removed commented out console.logs in javascript
  • Tweak: Better action hook field description
  • Tweak: Completely rewrote readme.markdown
  • Tweak: Removed backup json files
  • Tweak: Removed login as vendor/customer option
  • Tweak: Use FES specific css for the menu icon
  • Tweak: Assume we want to refresh the page if vendor dashboard page isn't set on an FES ajax call
  • Tweak: Copyright dates fixed
  • Tweak: Check to see if settings for reCAPTCHA are set before rendering the field
  • Tweak: Removed reCAPTCHA 1.0 JS, PHP and CSS
  • Tweak: Completely removed JS based field validation
  • Tweak: Access Denied error messages now give a reason in each instance
  • Tweak: All fields are now translatable
  • Tweak: Localization options for js files are now filterable
  • Tweak: Hide Redux garbage (newsletters, tracking option, submenu pages, admin notices, etc)
  • Tweak: Product and Vendor constants are now 1 setting each not 4 settings each
  • Tweak: Main tab FES settings now show in the order of usage
  • Tweak: Profile form no longer redirects on submission
  • Tweak: First Name and Last Name field on the Vendor Contact form has been replaced with a Name field
  • Tweak: Removed the subject field on the Vendor Contact form
  • Tweak: Vendor Contact now includes more sane titles and message on the email sent to vendors
  • Tweak: The registration form will no longer try to login users on submission
  • Tweak: Added a check before trying to find fields if the form doesn't have the meta we added in the 2.3 upgrade on the reset form
  • Tweak: If FES forms are missing, then during upgrade FES will add them
  • Tweak: The FES walkers for taxonomys got reworked
  • Tweak: The install and tools classes uses get_posts to help alleviate issues with other plugins hooking into query
  • Tweak: Added more strict hiding of the Add New button on FES Forms on multisite installs
  • Tweak: Removed the ability to set a user to an FES role on the edit user screen (since that no longer makes that user a vendor)
  • Tweak: Vendors can now be sorted by every column in the vendor table
  • Tweak: Vendor and Download Status columns have been increased in size to make them easier to read/spot
  • Tweak: The name columns of the vendor and download tables have been combined with the action columns
  • Tweak: Removed all old FES js validation spans
  • Tweak: Removed old WordPress checks for versions FES no longer supports
  • Tweak: Removed fallback for emails if EDD_Emails doesn't exist (because FES only supports EDD versions now with it)
  • Tweak: A better JS and CSS minify was employed to result in better than previous filesize minification
  • Tweak: More specific CSS for the status columns on the download and vendor tables
  • Tweak: The Post Title can no longer be removed from the submission form
  • Tweak: The forms settings are now hidden in the FES settings panel by default
  • Tweak: The settings panel has seen settings shuffled around to be more intuitive
  • Tweak: Replaced global $edd_options with edd_get_option() calls
  • Tweak: Links to "FES Profile" have been renamed to a more correct "View Vendor Profile"
  • Tweak: The default minimum length on the password field has been bumped up to 12 characters
2.2.17
  • Fix: Issue with an undefined key possibly causing profile, registration, login and vendor contact forms to not redirect in certian cases.
2.2.16
  • Fix: Fatal error on wrong registration form rendering function being called in the dashboard class for the view "register"
2.2.15
  • Fix: Multi-column repeatable fields do not save properly
  • Fix: From Name / Address not set properly on vendor contact form
  • Fix: Fields should not be required in the admin area
2.2.14
  • Fix: Added missing translation functions. Login and contact forms can now be translated via translation plugins
2.2.13
  • Fix: fatal error with wp_get_current_user() function caused by Redux framework
2.2.12
  • Fix: Updated Redux libraries to the latest version to resolve conflicts with other plugins using the latest version
  • Fix: Image files are now detached from the Download product when deleting them from the File Upload field
2.2.11
  • Fix: Allow all valid mimetypes to be uploaded with a file path
  • Fix: Default text for Vendor Announcement area cannot be translated

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