Category: Release

We’ve just shipped a release of Sensei Media Attachments. This is a maintenance release which updates the location of the media files, fixes some translation strings, fixes some coding standards errors, removes the use of a deprecated Sensei hook, and adds Russian translations.

Please refer to the change log for the full list of changes in this release.

Sensei 1.12.1 is now available. This release patches some theme compatibility bugs introduced by Sensei 1.12.0, plus fixes a couple of other issues patched by some of our awesome third party developers.

Here’s what you’ll find in Sensei 1.12.1:

• Comments not displaying on Lesson page for unsupported themes
• Ensure comments are not displayed on archive pages
• AJAX requests from Course(s) dropdown on Edit Module screen sent too frequently (@lkraav)
• Fix i18n violations (@GaryJones)

Special thanks to @MustafaEltayeb for letting us know and helping us investigate the comment issues.

Theme Compatibility and You

If you’ve made any modifications to your theme in the past to enable it to work with Sensei, but have not explicitly declared support for it, it’s possible that your theme may not look as it did prior to Sensei 1.12.

To fix this, please ensure that you add the following code snippet to your theme, which formally declares Sensei support:

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'declare_sensei_support' );

function declare_sensei_support() {
    add_theme_support( 'sensei' );
}

Read more about disabling theme compatibility.

We’ve just shipped a release of Sensei Course Progress that fixes an issue with the widget display, removes some PHP notices, and updates the Russian translations.

Widget Display Issue

Previously, the widget was not displaying lessons that were not a part of a module. If the course had no modules at all, the widget would only display the course title and nothing else.

This has been fixed in 1.0.8. The widget now displays all modules that are not in a module under the heading “Other Lessons”.

Please refer to the change log for the full list of changes in this release.

Today we’re excited to release Sensei 1.12 into the wild! This release has been in development since July, and brings with it better theme compatibility.

Better Theme Support

We’ve greatly improved the way Sensei looks on themes that don’t declare support for it. You should now be able to use Sensei with almost any theme!

The best way to tell if your theme formally declares Sensei support is to review the theme’s documentation. It should explicitly state whether or not it was built to work with Sensei. If you’re already using a Sensei-supported theme (e.g. Storefront), then you shouldn’t notice any change.

Read more about theme compatibility (including how to disable it) here.

Improved Course Navigation

We heard from our users that their students are often confused after clicking the Complete Lesson button, thinking that the same lesson was being repeated. With Sensei 1.12, students will be automatically taken to the next lesson in the course after completing the previous one.

Comments for Preview Lessons

Preview lessons (i.e. lessons that don’t require a site visitor to purchase the course or login before viewing) would show the lesson content, but not the comments. Preview lessons will now also display comments associated with that lesson.

Read more about these changes here.

What Else Will You Find in Sensei 1.12?

Here’s everything else you can expect to find in this release:

• Remove Single Course page displays setting
• Start lesson when user first views lesson page
• Bulk Learner Actions showing all users in the network
• Add sensei_course_image_html filter to enable altering HTML output of a course image
• Minify sensei.css
• Upgrade Select2 library to latest version
• Fix JavaScript error on Lessons page

Please note: While we have thoroughly tested this release on a number of different themes, it’s always possible that we’ve missed something. We strongly advise that you test the update on a staging site before updating your live site.

What do you think of our latest release? Please let us know in the comments.

And thank you to everyone who helped test 1.12!

We’ve just shipped a release of Sensei Certificates that fixes some date formatting issues and a bug in the menu positioning.

Date Format

Previously, different date formats were used in a certificate based on whether or not the site’s language was set to English or a non-English language. These formats also had different syntax.

In 1.1.0, there are two changes to date formatting:

1. By default, the date format used for a certificate will match the format set in the WordPress Settings page for the site.
2. If the date format is customized using the sensei_certificate_date_format filter, the format syntax required by date_i18n is preferred for consistency. Old sites using the strftime format syntax will still work for now.

You can find the full list of changes in the change log.

 

We’ve just shipped a minor release of Sensei Content Drip that fixes some access issues and adds Russian translations.

Access Issues

Previously, depending on the settings in Sensei, it was possible for users who were not taking a course to see its lesson’s content before it was sent out. This has been changed such that if a lesson’s content is set to drip in the future, no access will be granted to any site visitor. This will take precedence over the Sensei setting to allow logged-out users to see course content.

You can find the full list of changes in the change log.

 

We’ve just shipped a minor release of Sensei that includes a new module page template and a change to how course navigation works.

Here’s a punch list of what’s new:

• Added a new page template for modules
• Updated the course navigation to enable moving between both modules and lessons
• Removed the Sensei welcome screen that used to appear when activating Sensei
• Removed the theme check notice that sometimes appeared when switching themes
• Added filters to quiz answers for customizing both the text and CSS classes
• Added usage tracking to enable the Sensei team to make better decisions about what features to focus on improving

Here are some additional details on what’s new in 1.9.20.

Module Page Template

We’ve added a new taxonomy-module.php page template that reduces visual clutter by displaying just the module’s title and description. Should you prefer to show the old module page that also lists each of the lessons associated with a particular module, you can copy the contents of woothemes-sensei/templates/archive-lesson.php to your_theme/sensei/taxonomy-module.php.

Course Navigation

We’ve made a change to course navigation to more closely align with the structure of a course. Previously, course navigation moved only between individual lessons, skipping over any module content. Now, course navigation will move between both lessons and modules as per the order set in Lessons > Order Lessons in the WordPress admin.

What do you think of our latest release? Let us know in the comments!