Formidable Forms v1.06.04

Plugin: Formidable Forms

This release primarily consists of enhancements to existing features.

Several plugin conflicts eliminated

Several popular plugins were causing multiple submissions and email notifications. We have reworked the way forms are processed to prevent these types of conflicts from occurring. This also speeds up redirection after form submission, and removes the intermediate page before redirection. Important!:This change affects the redirection in the PayPal and Registration add-ons. If you are using one of these add-ons, make sure you also update those to the latest versions so redirection will continue functioning properly.

BuddyPress was also automatically changing the sending email address to noreply@yourdomain.com. This interference with Formidable email notifications has been removed.

Simpler post creation and display

An extra text area has been added to the "Create Posts" settings tab for combining multiple fields for the post content. This automatically creates a custom display for automatic use with any single post pages created through that form.

The post creation settings also have the option to automatically create a form field for a taxonomy or post status. This prevents going back and forth between the settings and form builder pages when setting up post forms.

We have had multiple requests for a way to insert existing posts into forms. A small meta box has been added to posts that do not have a matching form entry, allowing for entry creation with one click. All forms that are set up to create the post type you are viewing will be listed in the box.

Increased Privacy

Many of our users are working with Formidable on client sites. There have been concerns raised that clients can easily access the pro account username on the settings page. The entire credentials form is now hidden when pro is active, and is blank when revealed. There is also a link to deauthorize a site for which you no longer want your pro account used.

By default, the uploads/formidable folder was indexable and browseable on most servers, just like the regular WordPress uploads folder. It is recommended to add an htaccess file if you would uploaded files kept very private and secure, but for those who don't want the files completely blocked, an index.php file has been added to prevent file browsing.

Additional Hooks

• frm_used_dates hook to add or remove blocked out dates in unique datepicker fields
• frm_redirect_url hook to dynamically change the url before redirection
• frm_cookie_expiration hook to change the cookie expiration time

Other notable enhancements

• Allow field IDs as dynamic default values ie [25] in multi-paged forms. This makes it possible to create a summary in an HTML field or create a combination field in subsequent pages of the form.
• Limit the amount of time a cookie is valid, making it easier to limit entries to one per person per day and other similar configurations.

  Cookie expiration option

• Added basic csv import support for data from entries fields
• Allow for unlimited GET parameter setting in the custom display shortcode. [ display-frm-data id=2 whatever=value whatever2=value2]
• Switched phone field to HTML5 "tel" input type
• Allow searching by user login name on the admin entries pages when a user ID field is selected in the search form dropdown.

  Search by user login name

All changes

• Moved form processing to avoid multiple submissions when some plugins are activated and remove the page before redirection
• Added custom display content box into "create posts" settings tab
• Added options to auto-create fields for post status and post categories/taxonomies
• Added link to de-authorize a site to use your Pro credentials and hide pro credentials settings form when pro is active
• Added meta box on posts with link to automatically create a form entry linked to the post
• Allow searching by user login when selecting a user ID field to search by on the admin entries page
• Added basic csv importing support for data from entries fields
• Added an index.php file into the uploads/formidable folder to prevent file browsing for those without an htaccess file
• Allow field IDs as dynamic default values ie [25]. This will ONLY work when the value has just been posted.
• Allow for unlimited GET parameter setting in the custom display shortcode. [ display-frm-data id=2 whatever=value whatever2=value2]
• Switched phone field to HTML5 "tel" input type
• Added three icons to the error icon setting
• Added cookie expiration option
• Added a frm_cookie_expiration hook to change the cookie expiration time
• Show image for data from entries fields using upload fields
• Added frm_used_dates hook for blocked out dates in unique datepickers
• Added frm_redirect_url hook
• Added the display object into the args array to pass to the frm_where_filter hook
• Updated the auto_id default value to continue functioning correctly even if there are non-numeric values in entries
• Updated calculations and conditional logic to work across multi-paged forms and allow for negative numbers in calculations
• Fixed access to form, entry, and display pages for WordPress versions < 3.1
• Corrected Arkansas abbreviation in templates and bulk edit options
• Fixed default checkbox or radio field values for fields with separate option values
• Fixed display of radio field values from fields with separate values
• Fixed forms submit button labels for forms in add entry mode that follow a form in edit mode on the same page
• Fixed redirect URL to correctly replace shortcodes for forms set to not save any entries
• Fixed regular dropdown field taxonomies to trigger conditional logic and use the auto width option
• Fixed CSV import for delimiters other than a comma
• Fixed duplicate deletion messages when using [ deletelink] in the form customizable HTML
• Removed BuddyPress filters from the email notifications to avoid forcing them to send from noreply@domain.com
• Allow blank required indicator and "to email" in forms