SureDash Alpha 3

This update is primarily focused on a few bug fixes as well as adding our licensing so the next release can be pushed to your website.

But future updates will not be perfectly smooth just yet. While we can push an update to your site for the premium version, that is not the case yet for the core version, so this will have to be manually updated on the next release.

We are working with the WordPress plugin directory to have our core version there, which would push updates to your website. Sorry to get all technical on ya and this may require extra explanation.

Next Update

Early next week we will package and start testing the next release.

This is the update that will bring some new features.

• Global topography options
• Setting to make the portal your homepage
• New inline comments and the comments improvements I demo’d 2 weeks ago
• Course and lesson UI improvements that I demo’d 2 weeks ago
• Translation improvements

The team will package this up, and we will start testing it next week, this is the step we have before we release it to everyone.

Performance Update

The performance update will come after the update mentioned above.

We have had some nice breakthroughs in regard to performance. This is partially what caused these brief delays, extensive testing and multiple POC’s (proof of concept).

The gist of it is, we are in the process of building our own custom ORM structure (Object-Relational Mapping) vs using the WP_Query which has bottlenecks.

We will have to put a doc together to explain this in more detail when we have the release ready. There are a few things we want everyone to understand related to performance and in some cases where some 3rd party plugins may not function as intended.

Can You Start Building Now?

Yes you can. When we have the update to switch our method of querying data, there won’t be any compatibility issues.

New:

• Added licensing system for the plugin.
• Introduced new “Performance Measures” settings for the plugin.
• Introduced a “What’s New” notifier to highlight updates.

Improvements:

• Added internationalization support for the plugin.
• Coding standards improved as per w.org guidelines.

Fix:

• Settings: Color reset option not working.
• There is a line break in the topic creation & comment submission text area.
• Video Space – Embedded video not working on the front end.
• Console error for scrollIntoViewIfNeeded function incompatible with cross-browsers.
• Forgot password not working on the portal login page.
• Register Block – Social on-tap registration was missing.
• Login & Register Block – Refactor codebase for social on-tap login.
• Link Space – Link target conflicts with an opening in a new and same tab.
• Login Block – Lost password URL missing in the form.
• Coding standards followed as per WordPress guidelines.
• Admin Portal Page – There is a jerk while accessing More settings in space or space group edit.