What’s New in Sensei
We’ve just shipped the Sensei 1.10.0 release, which includes:
- Deleting all plugin data when Sensei is deleted
- Support for PHP 7.2
- Revisions history for courses, lessons and questions
- Excluding modules from the course navigation when a module has no content
- Automatically adding the user to the course when they purchase a variable subscription product
- A new
sensei_start_course_redirect_urlfilter that can be used to redirect users to a different page when starting a course - Showing lesson tags in the sidebar and cleaning up other lesson settings when Gutenberg is enabled
- Usage tracking for active and completed courses, as well as system info such as PHP and WordPress versions
You can find the full list of changes in the change log.
Deleting Plugin Data
In order to be GDPR-compliant, please be aware that Sensei will now delete all of its data when the plugin is deleted. This is a significant departure for anyone who has grown accustomed to deleting Sensei and then re-installing it later.
If you need to remove Sensei from your site, and there’s even the slightest chance that you may want to re-install it at some point in the future, we highly advise you take a backup of your site first. Without a backup, there will be no way to restore any of your courses, lessons, quizzes, etc.
Note that deactivating the plugin does not delete any data.
UPDATE: We’ve released Sensei 1.10.1, which introduces a new Delete data on uninstall setting. Sensei will ONLY delete data on plugin deletion when this setting is selected.
Semantic Versioning
Moving forward, Sensei releases will use semantic versioning, which dictates that major releases — those with API changes or the potential to affect extension compatibility — receive a new major version number (e.g. 2.0.0, 3.0.0). Minor releases, on the other hand, will receive a new minor version number (e.g. 1.11.0, 1.12.0), while patches will get a new patch version number (e.g. 1.10.1, 1.10.2).
We’re using this method in an attempt to better describe what each release contains, and tell you at a glance how much of an impact a release may have on your online learning site. We hope this also increases confidence in minor releases and patches, and helps you update Sensei more quickly when one of these updates is released.
What’s New in Sensei Course Progress
We’ve also released Sensei Course Progress 1.0.7, which includes:
- Showing the widget on the module page
- Linking the module name to the module page
- Making the UI consistent when the Display all Modules widget setting is selected vs. when it is not
- Russian translations
You can find the full list of changes in the change log.
What do you think of the latest releases of Sensei and Sensei Course Progress? Let us know in the comments!
