Membership Pro version 2.10.0 relaesed

Dear customers

Today, I am happy to announce the next release of Membership Pro, version 2.10.0. Below are the details of this release:

1. System requirement changes:

From this version, we bring minimum PHP version requirement to 5.4.0. It allows us to use some of PHP 5.4 features like trait to use one of PHP 5.4 feature called Traits to write better, easier to maintain code (reduce repeating code). If you update and receive the below warning, please contact your hosting provider, ask them to change your hosting account to use PHP 5.4.0+ (Joomla recommends you to use PHP 5.6 or better, PHP 7.0, your site will be safe and load faster)

2. New features:

2.1 Added a new config option to control subscription renewal behavior
By default, when subscribers renew their membership, Membership Pro will create new subscription record for that renewal. Doing that will help administrator and subscribers keep track of membership history. However, in some case, you don't care about that history, just want to see when the subscription started, when it is ended. In this case, you can set Subscription renewal behavior config option to Update Subscription instead of the default behavior Create new subscription

2.2 Improve Group membership feature
- Show group admin in group members management page backend
- Support exporting group members
- Added a new setting to custom field called Show on group member form (default Yes). So in case you don't want a field to be displayed on add group member form, just edit that field, set above setting to No

2.3 Improve URL restrictions method
At the moment, if you want to restrict access to a URL, you will need to enter that full URL into URL Restriction settings tab when you add/edit a subscription plan. This version added to new parameter called Compare method to Membership Pro URLs Restriction plugin with following options:

- Default - Exact URL (Recommended) : That's how it works at the moment
- Match part of URL: For example, if you want to restrict access to all urls like domain.com/articles/article1 , domain.com/articles/article2 , domain.com/articles/article3 ...., you can use this method. Just enter domain.com/articles/ or even /articles/ and all urls with that pattern will be restricted. It will reduce the URLs you have to setup
- Use regular expression : That's a difficult method, for power users who understand regular expression only (not recommended)

2.4 Improve user profile page
- Subscribers can now update their username from membership profile page if Change Username parameter in Joomla users management parameter set to Yes
- You can now also choose what field users can update data on profile screen. If you don't want them to update any field, just edit that field, set Can Edit on Profile parameter to No

2.5 Improve Membership ID format- Email layout
You can now control Membership ID length, use more prefix like [YEAR], [MONTH] in the Membership ID if needed. Email layout is also got improved

2.6 Added tool to make a custom field search and sortable - will update documentation later

I also works to improve code quantity of the extension to have better code, easier to extend and maintain in the future

3. Bugs fixes:
- This version fixed a small bug with batch coupon generator feature + a minor bug with Joomla group plugin

4. Updates

You can use Joomla update membershipprodoc.joomservices.com/gettin...on#use-joomla-update to update to this latest version from backend of your site or access to My Downloads menu item, download latest version and upgrade it manually

Thanks for using our products and support our development

Regards,

Tuan

Great features Tuan but did have issues updating.

joomla Update didnt work so had to do install (always happens). Dragged and dropped the file.

It never finishes with spinning Joomla logo still going now.

Opened up another admin window and release seems to be fully working.

How can I check that all features are fully deployed?

Hi Alan

Don't drag and drop

Please click on the green button to select the file (don't remember exactly the label of the button now, something like or browse file to upload) to install and it will be installed properly

You need to re-install using that method to make sure database structure is updated to latest version

Tuan

Thanks, that worked.

I guess thats a bug then as all other software I install using drag and drop works fine.

2.3 great feature!!!!

Hey Tuan,
Once again, excellent job! Your team, as always, is amazing. You are the best!
Thanks for all you do. We really do appreciate you.

Very Respectfully,
Steve Babbitt
Mile3 Web Development

Many thanks all for your nice words. There are still many things we can work on to make the extension better. I will keep working to improve it

Tuan

Hi Tuan,
thanks for the 2.10.0 Update.

Just found a little bug: If you configure the Invoice settings with Reset invoice number every year to NO, the [YEAR] tag won't print out the year (just 0).

Looks like the email-layout got changed: white box with grey background around.
Before my email looked like



Now it looks like



Would it be possible to disable the new layout - for specific emails?

Kind regards,
Bernhard

Can you provide a quick description of the custom field search?

Hi Josef

Basically, you can login to administrator area of your site, then access to this URL

domain.com/administrator/index.php?optio...F_THE_FIELD_YOU_WANT

(domain.com needs to be replaced with site domain, ID_OF_THE_FIELD_YOU_WANT needs to be replaced with ID of the custom field)

After that, you can search for subscription records base on value of this custom field in Subscriptions Management screen

Regards,

Tuan