Plugin: Formidable Forms
Formidable 1.6 has been released. The newest version of this powerful plugin contains tons of new features and enhancements. Update today and experience the new UI, increased security, and full WordPress 3.3 compatibility.
Here are a few of the new features packed into Formidable 1.6
- User interface improvements. We have overhauled the UI making 1.6 the prettiest Formidable release to date. We have added new, clean icons and menus that match the WordPress admin creating a seamless integration with the platform we all love.
- Added graphs for fields over time plus other customizing options: x_axis, x_start, x_end, min, max, grid_color, show_key, and include_zero.
- Increased security and optimization. As WordPress becomes more popular and powerful, so does the security risk to your site. We have made it a priority to make Formidable secure and fast, so you can focus on what you love rather than potential threats to your site.
Added star ratings. Switch any scale field to be displayed as stars for easy ratings. Enable stars by opening the field options for any scale field and check the box to “Show options as stars.” If you would like to display the average rating with stars as well, type=star has been added as an option in the frm-stats shortcode.
For example [ frm-stats id=5 type=star]
Extended the conditional field logic. Now you can show or hide your fields conditionally based on multiple criteria rather than just one. Create simplified-dynamic forms that are un-cluttered and easy for your users to complete.- Improved post creation feature. If you are using Formidable Pro to create posts, you will love the new "Create Posts" settings found on the new form settings page. Easily see or change which fields generate your post content, title, etc in one place.
- New rich text editor options. Now choose between the Tiny MCE or NiceEdit Rich Text editors (Tiny MCE requires WordPress 3.3 or above).
- New password field type. Add a password field to your form with the click of a button.
- Improved calculations. Numbers to be used in calculations can now be parsed from the end of an option instead of requiring strictly numeric entries. For example, if you have "Gold $25" in a dropdown used for a calculation, only 25 will be used.
- New redirect option. You can now post a success message before the user is redirected upon form submission
- New bulk delete entries button Need to delete all the entries saved to a form? Now you can do it with one click.
Added star ratings. Switch any scale field to be displayed as stars for easy ratings. Enable stars by opening the field options for any scale field and check the box to “Show options as stars.” If you would like to display the average rating with stars as well, type=star has been added as an option in the frm-stats shortcode.
Extended the conditional field logic. Now you can show or hide your fields conditionally based on multiple criteria rather than just one. Create simplified-dynamic forms that are un-cluttered and easy for your users to complete.
All changes
- User Interface improvements
- Increased security and optimization
- Moved the "automatic width" check box for drop-down select fields to free version
- Moved email "From/Reply to" options to free version
- Fixed form preview page for form templates
- Added German translation (Andre Lisbert)
- Correctly filter external shortcodes in the form success message
- Show error messages at the top if they are not for fields in the form (ie Akismet errors)
- Updated bulk edit options to change the dropdown in the form builder at the time the options are submitted
- Fixed default values set to clear on click to work with values that include hard returns
- Added ajax to uninstall button
- Free only: Fixed hidden label CSS
Pro Version Only
- Extended the conditional field logic
- Added graphs for fields over time, and other customizing options: x_axis, x_start, x_end, min, max, grid_color, show_key, and include_zero
- Moved post creation settings from individual fields to the forms settings page
- Added option in WP 3.3 to use Tiny MCE as the rich text editor
- Added "format" option to date fields. Example [25 format='Y-m-d']
- Added star rating option to scale fields
- Added star type to [ frm-stats] shortcode to display the average in star format. Example [ frm-stats id=5 type=star]
- Added option to format individual radio and checkbox fields in one or multiple rows
- Added server-side validation for dates inserted into date fields
- Allow multiple fields for the same taxonomy/category
- Allow a taxonomy/category to be selected for data from entries fields. This makes cascading category fields possible.
- Added [post_author_email] dynamic default value
- Added a frm_notification_attachment hook
- Added clickable and user_id options to the formresults shortcode. ex [ formresults id=x clickable=1 user_id=current]
- Improved field calculations to extract a price from the end of an option
- Added the option to specify how many decimal places to show, and what characters to use for the decimal and thousands separator. For example, to format USD:
$[25 decimal=2 dec_point='.' thousands_sep=','] - Added a message before the user is redirected, along with a filter to change it (frm_redirect_msg).
- Added a button to delete ALL entries in a form at the bottom of the entries page
- Added a password field type
- Conditionally remove HTML5 validation of form if default values are present
- Added like parameter for inline conditions in custom displays. Example: [if 25 like="hello"]That field said hello[/if 25]
- Allow fields set as custom post fields to be used for sorting custom displays
- Updated import to create the posts at the time of import
- Unattach images from a post if they are replaced
- Leave the date format in yyyy-dd-mm format in the CSV export. This can be changed with the 'frm_csv_date_format' hook
- Allow importing into checkbox fields
- Added option to use previously uploaded CSV for import so new upload isn't required when reimporting
- Added option to change the text on the submit button in the frm-search shortcode. Example [ frm-search label="Search"]
- Fixed bug preventing a field dependent on another data from entries field from updating
- Fixed bug affecting pages with multiple editable forms on the same page that caused the first form to always be submitted
- Updated the truncate option to not require full words if truncating 10 or less characters
- Fixed bug preventing front-end entry deletion when the form was editable and limited to one per user
- Fixed bug preventing checkbox selections from showing in custom email notifications if a checkbox contained a quotation mark
- Prevent the uploading files message from showing if no files were selected
- Check a default value when using dynamic default values in the check box options
- Fixed bug preventing a newly created post from getting assigned to the user selected in the user ID dropdown if the selected user was not the user submitting the entry or was created with the registration add-on in the same form
- Fixed bug preventing Data from entries "just show it" fields from showing a value in admin listing and view entry pages
- Fixed bug causing the options to be empty if the data from entries options are limited to the current user and the form they are pulled from are creating posts
- Fixed empty results in the [ formresults] table for forms that create posts
- When a blog is deleted in WP multi-site, delete database table rows related to copying forms from that blog
- Don't strip out desired backslashes
- Updated to latest version of datepicker javascript