Changelog

Version 1.2.0 – Released 12 November 2024

Features

• New “Send email from fixed template” option. This feature allows you to specify a template for scheduled emails. The email will be sent with the exact content of the selected template at the time of sending. This enables you to make updates to a template even after it’s added to workflows, providing greater flexibility and ease of management.
• New “Bulk controls” section. Add email and course enrolment interactions to Cohort Workflows in bulk with the new “Bulk controls” feature, streamlining setup for larger workflows.
• New Email queue / log functionality. Scheduled emails are now sent in limited batches using an email queuing system, ideal for large sites that send a high volume of emails. Additionally, a log of all sent emails provides a record of emails dispatched by Cohort Manager.

Updates

• Enhanced cohort workflow filters. Filter workflows with additional criteria, including LearnDash group and course categories, and adjust pagination for easier navigation.
• Declared compatibility with LearnDash 6.6.1
• Update to plugin licensing functionality (Provided by Freemius)
• General code enhancements in line with WPCS (WordPress Coding Standards) ruleset (https://wp-punk.com/wordpress-coding-standards-for-php/)

Version 1.1.12 – Released 03 June 2024

Updates

• New action and filter hooks have been added to allow developers to add their own custom functionality. Please see the Actions/Filters for Developers page for more information
• Added checks to make sure scheduled tasks are still running. This aims to resolve issues where some users of the plugin noticed scheduled tasks stopping intermittently
• Added a safeguard to prevent email and course enrolling/unenrolling interactions that have missed their schedules by more than one hour from being actioned
• Declared compatibility with LearnDash 6.5.3
• Update to plugin licensing functionality (Provided by Freemius)

Bugfixes

• Fix for filename of troubleshooting CSV export

Version 1.1.11 – Released 07 November 2023

Updates

• Resolved conflict where a lesson has unlock dates set in both Cohort Manager and LearnDash lesson settings. Now Cohort Manager settings will override those of LearnDash
• New “Copy shortcode” feature for cohort specific content in workflow listing page
• General code enhancements in line with WPCS (WordPress Coding Standards) ruleset (https://wp-punk.com/wordpress-coding-standards-for-php/)
• Added option to include experimental features, such as cohort specific comments
• Declared compatibility with LearnDash 6.3.2
• Update to plugin licensing functionality (Provided by Freemius)

Version 1.1.10 – Released 05 July 2023

Updates

• Update to plugin licensing functionality (Provided by Freemius)

Version 1.1.9 – Released 09 May 2023

Updates

• Email tokens can now be used in the email subject line as well as the content

Bugfixes

• Fixes for display issues with apostrophes in email subject lines and content in some setups

Version 1.1.8 – Released 01 May 2023

Updates

• Updated plugin logos

Bugfixes

• Email token fixes and improvements
• Fix for issue where a / was being added to apostrophes in email content in some setups

Version 1.1.7 – Released 03 April 2023

Features

• • • • HTML content (including formatted text, links etc.) is now allowed in emails sent from Cohort Manager.
      • Email content can now administered via a content editor, rather than a basic textarea field.
      • Emails can be personalised by inserting any of the following “tokens” into the email content:
        • {{recipient.firstname}} – Shows the first name of the recipient
        • {{recipient.lastname}} – Shows the last name of the recipient
        • {{group.name}} –  Shows the name of the LearnDash Group associated with the Cohort Workflow
        • {{course.name}} –  Shows the name of the LearnDash Course associated with the Cohort Workflow

Updates

• • • • Declared compatibility with WordPress 6.2

Version 1.1.6 – Released 15 November 2022

Updates

• • • • Declared compatibility with WordPress 6.1.0.

Bugfixes

• • • • Fixed an issue where lesson unlocking times were inaccurate in “X days from course start” type workflows that straddled daylight saving time changes.

Version 1.1.5 – Released 22 August 2022

Updates

• • • • Added custom capabilities for more flexibility over user roles who can use Cohort Manager’s features. Please see: How to allow different WordPress roles to use the features of Cohort Manager.

Bugfixes

• • • • Minor text amends to interface labels

Version 1.1.4 – Released 28 July 2022

Bugfixes

• • • • PHP 8.1 compatibility fix on Workflow editor page

Version 1.1.3 – Released 4 July 2022

Updates

• • • • Increased maximum length of workflow titles from 50 to 255 characters
      • If you have applied custom labels to Courses, Lessons, Groups or Group Leaders in your LearnDash settings, these will now be reflected in the Cohort Manager interface
      • Added optional parameters to the certain shortcodes to allow them to be used outside of the context of a course

Bugfixes

• • • • Resolved an issue where cancelling the edit of an interaction before subsequently creating a new one would cause an interaction to be overwritten

Version 1.1.2 – Released 19 April 2022

Updates

• • • • Changed datepicker date to an internationally recognised format for better compatibility with non-English sites

Version 1.1.1 – Released 29 March 2022

Bugfixes

• • • • Minor layout fix on “New workflow” dialog box date fields
      • Fix for potential issue with “Custom date shortcode” under BST timezone

Version 1.1.0 – Released 22 March 2022

Features

• • • • The plugin is now translatable into different langauges. Please see the Translation page for more information.
      • New action and filter hooks have been added to allow developers to add their own custom functionality. Please see the Actions/Filters for Developers page for more information.
      • New interactions available: You can now schedule groups to be enrolled and unenrolled from courses.

Updates

• • • • Declared compatibility with WordPress 5.9.2.
      • Updated help links to point to the newly developed knowledgebase.

Version 1.0.6 – Released 18 March 2022

Bugfixes

• • • • Fixed issue where list of groups available in dropdown was restricted under certain LearnDash pagination configurations

Version 1.0.5 – Released 01 March 2022

Updates

• • • • Declared compatibility with WordPress 5.9.1
      • Updates to plugin licensing functionality

Version 1.0.4 – Released 31 January 2022

Updates

• • • • Minor UX improvements to clone workflow interface

Version 1.0.3 – Released 14 January 2022

Updates

• • • • Minor UX improvements to workflow interface

Version 1.0.2 – Released 10 January 2022