Category: Beta

We’ve just released another beta for the open source version of Sensei that will be listed on WordPress.org.

The most noteworthy change since the last beta is a fix we made to flush the permalink/rewrite rules when Sensei is activated. Now when you deactivate and reactivate Sensei, your existing Sensei pages will still be viewable without requiring you to re-save your lessons or click the Install Sensei Pages button.

Here’s what else is new since the last beta:

• Enable running plugin updates when needed.
• Update version numbers and add ABSPATH checks in templates.
• Allow for late additions to data updates.
• Fix issue when activating a different Sensei instance.
• Changes to meet coding standards.

Download the beta or view the full Sensei 2.0 milestone.

We will be applying these changes to Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses, and sending out Beta 3 to our testers next week.

As always, since this is a beta release, please test on a staging site and not your live site. If you don’t have a staging site, you can use the WP Staging plugin to create one.

Today we’re pleased to announce that Sensei 2.0 is available for beta testing!

There are some important changes in this release:

• We’ve split Sensei into two plugins – Sensei (free) and WooCommerce Paid Courses (paid). After upgrading Sensei, those with a valid license will have Sensei renamed to Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses, which is a bundle of Sensei and WooCommerce Paid Courses. You can read more about this change here.
• The new minimum required version of PHP is 5.6.
• The new minimum required version of WooCommerce is 3.0.
• The Access Permissions setting now only controls lesson content, not lesson and course content.

Everything else . . .

• We fixed a conflict between the Jetpack shortcodes module and Sensei that caused Sensei videos not to display.
• We fixed the lesson order changing when a lesson was updated in the classic editor.
• We fixed completed modules being displayed as “In Progress”.
• We’ve changed the text domain from woothemes-sensei to sensei.
• When Sensei is first activated, a pop-up appears asking you to join our mailing list. This pop-up will only appear on sites that have never had Sensei installed before.
• We added a new Sensei extensions page available from the Sensei > Extensions menu.

There are also a variety of minor tweaks, new hooks, and fixes. We won’t go into detail here, but you can see the full list of changes if you’re interested!

Template File Changes

• All templates – Changed text domain from woothemes-sensei to sensei
• content-course.php – Call Sensei_Course::get_course_loop_content_class instead of WooThemes_Sensei_Course::get_course_loop_content_class
• single-quiz/question-type-*.php – Call Sensei_Question::get_template_data instead of WooThemes_Sensei_Question::get_template_data

Deprecated Functions and Methods

Sensei_Main

• Sensei_Main::sensei_woocommerce_email_course_details has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::email_course_details
• Sensei_Main::sensei_woocommerce_reactivate_subscription has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::reactivate_subscription
• Sensei_Main::sensei_woocommerce_subscription_ended has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::end_subscription
• Sensei_Main::sensei_woocommerce_complete_order has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::complete_order
• Sensei_Main::sensei_woocommerce_cancel_order has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::cancel_order
• Sensei_Main::sensei_activate_subscription has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::activate_subscription
• Sensei_Main::woocommerce_course_update has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::course_update
• Sensei_Main::sensei_get_woocommerce_product_object has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::get_product_object
• Sensei_Main::disable_guest_checkout has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::disable_guest_checkout
• Sensei_Main::virtual_order_payment_complete has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::virtual_order_payment_complete
• Sensei_Main::check_user_permissions has been deprecated with no replacement

Sensei_Utils

• Sensei_Utils::sensei_is_woocommerce_present has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::is_woocommerce_present
• Sensei_Utils::sensei_is_woocommerce_activated has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::is_woocommerce_active
• Sensei_Utils::sensei_customer_bought_product has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::has_customer_bought_product

Sensei_Frontend

• Sensei_Frontend::activate_purchased_courses has been deprecated in favour of \Sensei_WC_Paid_Courses\Courses::activate_purchased_courses
• Sensei_Frontend::activate_purchased_single_course has been deprecated in favour of \Sensei_WC_Paid_Courses\Courses::activate_purchased_single_course
• Sensei_Frontend::sensei_woocommerce_in_cart_message has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::course_in_cart_message

Sensei_Course

• Sensei_Course::get_product_courses has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC_Paid_Courses\Courses::get_product_courses
• Sensei_Course::get_product_courses_query_args has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC_Paid_Courses\Courses::get_product_courses_query_args

Sensei_WC_Utils

• Sensei_WC_Utils::wc_version_less_than has been deprecated in favour of version_compare( WC()->version, $str, '<' )
• Sensei_WC_Utils::is_product_variation has been deprecated in favour of $product->is_type( 'variation' )
• Sensei_WC_Utils::get_order_id has been deprecated in favour of $order->get_id()
• Sensei_WC_Utils::get_product has been deprecated in favour of wc_get_product
• Sensei_WC_Utils::get_parent_product has been deprecated in favour of wc_get_product
• Sensei_WC_Utils::get_formatted_variation has been deprecated in favour of wc_get_formatted_variation
• Sensei_WC_Utils::get_product_variation_data has been deprecated in favour of \Sensei_WC_Utils::get_variation_data
• Sensei_WC_Utils::get_product_from_item has been deprecated in favour of $item->get_product()
• Sensei_WC_Utils::get_checkout_url has been deprecated in favour of wc_get_checkout_url

Other

• sensei_wc_add_to_cart has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::the_add_to_cart_button_html
• sensei_check_if_product_is_in_cart has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC::is_product_in_cart
• sensei_simple_course_price has been deprecated in favour of Sensei_WC_Paid_Courses\Frontend\Courses::output_course_price
• is_woocommerce_active has been deprecated with no replacement
• sensei_check_woocommerce_version has been deprecated with no replacement

Deprecated Shortcodes

Additionally, the following legacy shortcodes will now log deprecation warnings. A notice will also be displayed on the front-end that is only visible to users with the edit_posts capability (i.e. it won’t be visible to students or guests):

• newcourses
• featuredcourses
• freecourses
• paidcourses
• usercourses
• allcourses

Deprecated Hooks

• sensei_show_delete_course_button (the Delete Course button that may appear on the My Courses page will be removed in Sensei 4.0)
• sensei_merge_courses_with_parent_product has been deprecated in favour of sensei_wc_paid_courses_merge_courses_with_parent_product
• sensei_wc_subscriptions_get_subscription_types has been deprecated in favour of sensei_wc_paid_courses_subscriptions_get_subscription_types
• sensei_wc_memberships_auto_start_course has been deprecated in favour of sensei_wc_paid_courses_memberships_auto_start_course
• sensei_wc_memberships_auto_start_courses has been deprecated in favour of sensei_wc_paid_courses_memberships_auto_start_courses
• sensei_wc_single_add_to_cart_button_text has been deprecated in favour of sensei_wc_paid_courses_add_to_cart_button_text
• sensei_wc_order_statuses has been deprecated in favour of sensei_wc_paid_courses_order_statuses

Release Testing

We’d like to keep Sensei 2.0 in beta for the next 3 weeks.

If you’d like to help us test Sensei with WooCommerce Paid Courses, please fill out this form. The beta will be sent to those users who have an active Sensei license, so please be sure to enter the email address you used to purchase Sensei. UPDATE: Beta tester signups are now closed. Thank you to all those who signed up!

If you do not have an active Sensei license but are still interested in testing, you can download the free beta version of Sensei here.

To test translations, you will need to rename the .po and .mo files inside the /wp-content/languages/plugins folder from woothemes-sensei-{$locale}.{$ext} to sensei-{$locale}.{$ext}. This step is required because we still need to migrate Sensei translations from Transifex to GlotPress and have them use the new text domain. Unfortunately, we are unable to complete this step until after Sensei is listed on WordPress.org.

Also, we have not yet updated our extensions to work with Sensei 2.0. We will be working on that next while the beta is in testing. UPDATE: We now have betas for Certificates, Course Progress and Content Drip.

During testing, if you come across a bug, please submit an issue on Github or leave a comment here.

As this is a beta release, please test it on a staging site and not your live site. If you don’t have a staging site, you can use the WP Staging plugin to create one.

Thanks to all of our testers and contributors!

Sensei 1.12.2 Beta 2 is now available for testing. You can download it here.

Here’s a list of what’s been fixed in this beta:

• Use updated lesson data when updating quiz
• Rename data attributes to use dash instead of underscore
• Fix visibility of courses on Bulk Learner Actions screen
• Fix escaping of excerpts

Please report any issues you find in the comments. Thanks!