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September 2024 – Monthly Changelog

New Features:

  • We added the ability to manually upload thumbnail images for Video Post Types in the Member Dashboard.
  • We created a new Advanced Setting called “MEMBER CREDITS: Select Transaction Types Credits Can Be Applied To”. This new setting allow Admins to select the types of transactions to which member credits can be applied.

Enhancements / Fixes:

  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the "My Support Tickets" filter field in the Admin Dashboard from returning accurate results in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to add a city as Service Areas from the Member Dashboard in some cases.
  • We implemented several Admin security updates.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing cloned newsletter forms from including new newsletters signups if the email address had already been submitted in another copy of the newsletter form.
  • We fixed an issue that was causing free Membership Plans to display payment options on the upgrade page, even though the plans had been set as free in some rare cases.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing public frontend forms from saving the checkbox form fields values to a custom table in the database.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing Multi-Photo Post Type forms in the Member Dashboard from working properly after adding a custom "End DateTime Picker – Group" widget field to the form when the Date Format of the site was set as "YYYY/MM/DD".
  • We fixed an issue affecting paid member signups using 3D Secure credit cards when Stripe was set as the Payment Gateway in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the ChatGPT Content Creator Add-On from working properly with the Froala WYSIWYG editor on the Send Newsletter page in the Admin.
  • We updated the Froala WYSIWYG editor to the latest version available.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the "Type of Employment" dropdown filter on the Job Listing Search Module from retaining its selected value after a search.
  • We fixed an issue preventing the Review snippet structured code from working properly when the "Hide Reviews Star Rating Options" Membership Plan Setting was active.
  • We fixed an issue with the Tax & VAT Manager Add-On which was preventing the system from including the tax rule when a member tried to upgrade their Membership Plan in some cases.
  • We updated the homepage streaming widgets to accurately reflect the Website Time Zone set for the site when displaying data.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from respecting the "Make Category Fields Required?" Lead Setting when submitting a lead in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue with Smart Lists that was preventing the system from sending the "stringify" values of fields to webhook endpoints after connecting a Smart List to a webhook.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the Open Graph URL meta tag from working properly after performing a search in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from displaying the order summary on checkout pages in some cases.
  • We updated the paid member signup workflow to fix rare cases where a coupon code would not be applied to the payment as expected for sites using Stripe as the Payment Gateway.
  • We fixed an issue that was causing the system to send the "Verify Account" email multiple times when new members attempted to verify their email address.
  • We updated the workflow of deleting members from the Admin area to also delete any post comments made by the deleted members as well.
  • We implemented a security update to the Multi-Listing Location (Service Area) Add-On.
  • We implemented a security update when uploading images to Multi-Photo Post Types in the Member Dashboard.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the Canonical, Prev, Next and Open Graph URL elements in the <head> from working properly on Post Search Results pages in some cases.
  • We updated the Brilliant Directories Zapier App to allow assigning member tags to members using the "Create" or "Update" member actions.
  • We added the "nofollow" attribute to the the "print page" link on Post Details pages.
  • We updated the homepage streaming widgets to accurately reflect the Website Time Zone set for the site when displaying data.
  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to display multi-image posts on the Manage Post page in the Admin when one of the posts did not have any images uploaded.
  • We implemented a security update to the "Delete Member CV File" logic in the Member Dashboard.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from returning accurate results when searching for cities in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the Brilliant Directories API "Get User" action from returning results in some cases and implemented pagination functionality when using this API endpoint.
  • We fixed an issue which was causing Business Data tool to create duplicate records in the users_photo table when importing Business Data records.
  • We fixed an issue with the "RSS Feed for Posts" Add-On which was preventing XML Parsers from correctly reading the <media> tag value for images from the RSS feed in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue which was affecting the ability to delete the Single Post thumbnail image when deleting posts from the Manage Post page in the Admin in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue that was preventing the system from correctly rendering the layout of the "lead accepted" email after a member accepted a lead in the Member Dashboard.
  • We updated the "Delete Unused Image" tool in the Admin Dashboard to identify and delete the member and post images that are not currently used on the website.
  • The Digital Products Post Type Search Result page is now compatible with the "Photo Gallery Previewer Add-On".
  • We implemented an update to remove the "%EF%BB%BF" character (Byte Order Mark for UTF-8 files) which is sometimes added to the first category name in the import file when importing categories via CSV in the Admin.
  • We fixed an issue with the Send Newsletter feature which was preventing the system from updating the status of a campaign to "Sent" after the campaign was completed in some cases.
  • Member Sub Category search results pages are now compatible with the Google Search Assist Add-On.
  • We updated the Video Post Type Form to allow the ability to manually upload thumbnail images for videos.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the Chinese Traditional language from working properly in 3rd Party tools like Google Maps and the Froala WYSIWYG.
  • We updated the Featured Blog Article Slider Add-On to add a space between the title and the content when displaying the data.
  • We updated the frontend of the websites to make it compatible with the "Text Direction" Advanced Setting.
  • We implemented an update to delete any pending subscriptions if the process of purchasing a Digital Product with a recurring subscription fails to be completed.
  • We updated the Brilliant Directories Zapier App and API to allow assigning member credits to members using the "Update" member action.
  • We added the ability to add member credits to member through the bulk actions on the Search Members page in the Admin.
  • We made several small bug fixes and a performance update to increase the speed of importing members using the Business Data tool in the Admin.
  • We fixed an issue which was preventing the system from respecting the "Credits to Add After Initial Purchase" Digital Product Setting when trying to purchase a Digital Product in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue that was preventing the system from respecting the "What Can This Code Be Used For?" Coupon Code setting on checkout pages in some cases.
  • We fixed an issue that was causing "+" characters in member email addresses to be converted to a blank space when using the Export Member Data tool in the Admin.
  • In all, over 80 feature enhancements and software updates were released this month.

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