ZATZ Lab Notes
It’s not the years. It’s the lines of code.
Time to trash old legacy code
If you've landed on this Lab Note because you have a big red and black error message in Seamless Donations, you're in the right place. Answers and guidance will be provided below. Background In early 2015, tens of thousands of nonprofits worldwide were faced with...
Updates, updates, and more updates
This week's news is about updates. There's nothing major, but there are a bunch of small updates. Let's run down the list. First, the Seamless Donations core plugin is moving to 5.0.20 with some new diagnostics for Stripe issues, and a bug fix for a form style crash....
Important change in behavior notice for Giving Level Manager users
Giving Level Manager is an add-on product licensed on a yearly basis. Prior to the upcoming 2.1.1 version, if your Giving Level Manager license expired and you kept Giving Level Manager installed and activated, your form would still show your Giving Level Manager...
Seamless Donations Giving Level Manager New Features (2.1.0)
I just uploaded Giving Level Manager 2.1.0 to the ZATZLabs server. This is a free update for all Giving Level Manager users. Here's what's new: Added a feature that allows you to turn off the giving levels and only provide an entry field for a donation amount. This is...
Seamless Donations urgent bug fix notice
One of our users found a bug where existing LIVE PayPal sites are switching to Stripe SANDBOX mode. This was due to a bug in how Seamless Donations handled defaults when the 5.0.5 update went live. I believe I fixed the bug in the now-available 5.0.9 release, but it's...
Finally! Stripe support (for free) in Seamless Donations
Stripe support is about to be released in a public beta. Check the beta download page for updates. Once it releases to the general public, I'll remove this note. Seamless Donations now fully supports Stripe Checkout as part of its core release. And yes, that includes...
How to export donor information from Seamless Donations
I've been asked this question a lot, and while there have been some export plugins available, none make the process as simple as the one I'm about to show you. Export any WordPress data to XML/CSV The plugin is called Export any WordPress data to XML/CSV by...
Zoom developer chat: May 6, 2020
We had a another great discussion today. Below is the Zoom chat recording. It's unedited, so you'll need to go about five minutes in for everything to start. I hope to do more of these in the future. Thanks to everyone who attended. Stay safe out there.
Seamless Donations 5.0 released! Important tips!
Seamless Donations 5.0 has been released to the WordPress.org plugin archive. The official release version is 5.0.3. Versions 5.0.0, 5.0.1, and 5.0.2 were not released to the archive and were used for testing. Disable add-ons first My recommendation -- and this...
Zoom developer chat: April 30, 2020
We had a great discussion today. Below is the Zoom chat recording. It's unedited, so you'll need to go about five minutes in for everything to start. The session went quite well. I hope to do more of these in the future. Thanks to everyone who attended. Update: I...