ZATZ Lab Notes
It’s not the years. It’s the lines of code.
Seamless Donations 4.0.8 fights back against spammers (plus GitHub)
Welcome to the 4.0.8 release of Seamless Donations. This release is pretty special because I've had the opportunity to partner with Mihai, creator of GoodBye Captcha. The experience turned out to be awesome. Let me give you some context. Seamless Donations displays a...
Seamless Donations 4.0.6 incorporates many under-the-hood improvements
From one perspective, Seamless Donations 4.0.6 is just a maintenance release. No (or at least very few) new features are added and much of the time has been spent fixing a few nasty bugs. But from another perspective -- in terms of how much improvement has been made...
Reengineering the Seamless Donations core payment gateway
This update has been almost six weeks in the works. Granted, much of that time has been spent doing my "day job" work, but it has still taken a much longer time than I wanted -- especially considering that it's a bug fix upgrade. During that time, I issued two public...
Seamless Donations 4.0.2 adds Spanish, French, and some form tweaks
This week, had the opportunity to add a few features and fix a few residual bugs from the 4.0 release. Special thanks go to David Chávez and Etienne Lombard for their Spanish and French translations. Here's a quick rundown of changes and tweaks. Additions Added an...
Seamless Donations 4.0.1 includes German translation and bug fixes
It's been a busy week. Fortunately, other than the initial naming problem found when updating the repository, bugs have been generally manageable. All exiting tags listed as bugs have been fixed. Here's the rundown. Had some reports about file problems, particularly...
Fixing Seamless Donations 4.0 update/activation problems
Despite all my efforts to guarantee you all a smooth upgrade from Seamless Donations 3.3 to 4.0, things didn't quite work out as planned. If you are experiencing upgrade problems, white screen of death, or hangs while trying to update the plugin, here's what you need...
Seamless Donations 4.0 Beta 1 is here: Please test!
Well, it's looking good. Seamless Donations 4.0 is now ready for testing. The final changes to the PayPal payment gateway are done (there's now only one form on the form page, not a mix of two forms competing with each other), and it seems to be working quite well. To...
Seamless Donations 4.0 kinda works, in an alpha sort of way
All the key elements of Seamless Donations 4.0 now work, and work together (mostly). Each of the core elements has been written and tested. These include the new forms engine, the new admin UI engine, the new custom post types, and the PayPal interface that takes data...
Successfully migrated first site from multisite to standalone WordPress (here’s how)
I just successfully migrated my first site out of the big ZATZ Archive zatz.com multisite installation into a standalone site.I wanted to migrate the legacy site located at http://zatz.com/authorpower back to its ancestral home at authorpower.com. Although there are...
Seamless Donations 4.0 internationalization and reveal family system
Made a huge amount of progress over the last two weekends getting ready for Seamless Donations 4.0. The big focus was in adding internationalization features and a reveal family system designed for form management. We're also just about at the point where it's time to...
