` Here’s how this looks for example on our demo site:
### Open Quiz
[](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-demo-exam/)
[Take quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-demo-exam/)
### Personality Quiz
[](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/sample-personality-quiz-what-is-the-best-fruit-for-you/)
[Take quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/sample-personality-quiz-what-is-the-best-fruit-for-you/)
### New Open Quiz
[](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/open-quiz-new-design/)
[Take quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/open-quiz-new-design/)
### Flashcards Quiz
[](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/flashcards/)
[Take quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/flashcards/)
### Likert Survey
[](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/likert-scale-survey-maker-for-watupro/)
[Take quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/likert-scale-survey-maker-for-watupro/)
ISTJ example
The above example is ISTJ: more points going to Introvert, all other categories got less point which put the user into the first group of each. Please note it’s up to you how many points can be in category and how the points put the user into one of the two groups, but it’s important to follow the same logic in all questions.
Here’s an ESFP example:
ESFP example
Here the user ranks as extrovert, perceiving, sensing and feeling. Note that the system will show you the categories in alphabetical order, not in the order of Myers-Briggs tests so be careful how you enter the point ranges.
Step 5: Display Quiz Results
----------------------------
Because these tests are specific you will most likely not want to show points, % correct answers, etc standard texts at the end of the quiz. You’ll most likely want to show only the achieved result. So go to Edit Quiz -> Final Page / Quiz Result and edit the default content to something like this:
This is probably all you want to display. If for some reason you want to include also the %%ANSWERS%% variable to show how the user answered each question, you will not want to show correct / incorrect checkmarks because such quiz has no correct or wrong answers. So go to Edit Quiz page -> Advanced Settings tab and select to hide them:
That’s it, now your Myers-Briggs test needs only to be published.
WatuPRO Developer's API: Custom Grade Calculation
=================================================
From version 6.0.4 WatuPro has a filter that allows plugging in your own custom grade calculation that replaces the built-in calculation. This can be useful in very specific quizzes where the grade is calculated in a non-standard way and cannot be handled by the existing functions.
This filter is a bit more complicated to explain hence we have created a separate post for it. If you are looking for the general developer’s API guide [it’s here](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-developers-api/).
### Using the filter:
You need to add the filter in the following way:
`add_filter('watupro_calculate_grade', 'your_callback_function', 10, 8);`
As you can see the filter needs 8 arguments. Here is how your callback function should be structured, with explanation of all arguments:
``
```
function your_callback_function($return_arr, $taking_id, $exam_id, $points, $percent, $cat_id, $user_grade_ids, $points_percent) {
// expand $return_arr in the 4 constructing variables if you need:
list($grade_text, $certificate_id, $redirect_url, $grade_object) = $return_arr;
// your custom calculation here which may modify each of the 4 $return_arr elements
// ...
// return array of 4 elements
return array($grade_text, $certificate_id, $redirect_url, $grade_object);
}
```
### Attributes / Arguments
Here are the attributes in detail:
**$return_arr** is an array of 4 variables: **$grade_text** is the human-readable grade or personality type returned from the test (title and description); $**certificate_id** is ID of the assigned certificate, if any, otherwise 0; **$redirect_url** is optional URL where the user should be redirected to at the end of quiz, or false if no redirect; **$grade_object** is the grade as DB object returned from the wp_watupro_grades table. You can construct it yourself with the minimum required properties: “title” and “description”.
**$taking_id** is the ID from the watupro_taken_exams table which corresponds to this quiz attempt. VERY IMPORTANT: at the time of grade calculation the $taking_id already exists however the full details are not yet populated in watupro_taken_exams table. That’s why we pass points, percent correct, etc. as additional variables. The purpose of passing $taking_id is that it allows you to access all the individual answers from wp_watupro_student_answers table in your custom grade calculator, should you need so. Example query:
`$answers = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare("SELECT * FROM ".WATUPRO_STUDENT_ANSWERS." WHERE taking_id=%d ORDER BY ID", $taking_id));`
**$exam_id** is the ID of the test / quiz.
**$points** is the number of points collected. If $cat_id is 0, then $points are the total points collected on the attempt. If $cat_id is not 0, then $points is the number of points collected for that specific category ID.
**$percent** is the % correct answers collected. If $cat_id is 0, then $percent is the % correct answers on the whole attempt. If $cat_id is no 0, then $percent is the % correct answers for that specific category ID.
**$cat_id** is the ID of the category for which the grade is calculated. When 0 this means we are calculating the grade / result for the test attempt. When not 0 we are calculating grade for that specific category and you should return grade for that specific category, or none.
**$user_grade_ids** is used only on personality tests. It contains array with IDs of the personality types in a specific format.
**$points_percent** contains the percent of maximum points on this quiz attempt. If $cat_id is not 0, then it’s the percent of maximum points for that category ID.
Your custom function should always return an array of 4 elements as explained in $return_arr above – changed or unchanged. Be very careful not to mess the order of variables as you won’t be getting the expected result.
User Registration / Login and WatuPRO
=====================================
This post has the goal to answer one of the often asked questions – can you have WatuPRO tie quiz attempts to user accounts? The short answer is **yes, of course.**
Here are more details:
How Does It Work
----------------
It’s very easy. In Edit Quiz -> User and Email Related Settings tab you need to select “Require user login”:
A lot of new options appear when you select this but they are not related to user registration itself.
So, once you select this the quiz will not be accessible to users without accounts. If you want to allow users to register themselves make sure the following option on **your General WordPress Settings page** (not a WatuPRO page!) is selected:
If you don’t want users to register themselves, you need this to be unchecked.
What’s important to understand is that WatuPRO uses the underlying WordPress user login and registration system rather than inventing its own. This has a lot of advantages, with the main one being that any plugins you use to customize user registration and profile pages will affect WatuPRO as well.
About Emails Sent on Registration
---------------------------------
Emails that are sent at the time of user registration are controlled by WordPress, not by WatuPRO. If you want to change the email contents you can do it with various other plugins. For example, see [this tutorial](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-send-a-custom-welcome-email-to-new-users-in-wordpress/).
About Customized User Profiles
------------------------------
If you have customized the user profiles with other plugin or theme, or with your custom code, this should also work fine with WatuPRO. However before rushing to install a custom profile plugin just because you want to collect some contact information along with the quiz, check the option “Ask user for contact details” which we provide at Edit Quiz -> User and Email Related Settings tab:
About Integration With Membership and Other Plugins
---------------------------------------------------
Because WatuPRO uses the built-in WordPress user management system, integration with any other plugins which do so is seamless. Fortunately almost all membership plugins and other plugins dealing with user profile use it as well instead of investing their own. This is the beauty of WordPress.
Please have in mind integration does not mean WatuPro will automatically show custom profile fields somewhere in the quizzes or that other plugins will automatically show WatuPro stats on user profile pages. It means just that any changes that other plugins do to user profile affect the same users that take quizzes.
Copy, Reuse or Import Questions in WatuPRO: What's The Difference?
==================================================================
WatuPRO has several options that make managing and creation of lots of questions easy. Each of them has different purpose, so let’s dive into it:
Copy Questions
--------------
You can copy questions (and also grades and quiz settings) from one quiz to a new quiz that will be created on the fly or to an existing quiz. This feature is accessible from two places:
- The Edit Quiz page -> link “Copy into another quiz” on top
- The Manage Questions page -> link “Copy quiz and/or questions” above the table.
Here is how it looks:
When you copy questions you are creating their **duplicates** into the new quiz. You can then go and modify them in the new place and your changes will be applied on the copied questions only. This is exactly the same as re-making these questions manually, it just saves a lot of time.
So, “copy questions” is most suitable when you want to create new quizzes fast and these new quizzes will have similar settings and questions as the one you copied from. It’s good because you can make changes to them without affecting the originals.
But what if you want to have many quizzes pulling questions from question banks? If ten quizzes pull from a bank of 100 questions, it’s not a good idea to copy these questions at ten places – just one typo and you’ll have to edit it ten times.
This is where reusing is far more useful:
Reuse Questions
---------------
**The “Reuse Questions” feature is part of the Intelligence module.**
To reuse questions go to the Manage Questions page of the test and select the checkbox:
This super powerful feature lets you use just any other quiz in the system as a question bank and even combine multiple question banks into a single quiz in any way you can imagine.
**Reusing does not create copies of the questions.** It uses them “on the fly”. This means that if you want to change a question you can go to the original quiz where it’s created, change it there and the changes will automatically affect all tests which reuse this question.
So if you want slightly modified questions in another quiz, copy them. If you want exactly the same questions but perhaps in different order, from only some categories or with different quiz settings, then reuse.
From version 6.3.8 you can use the [enhanced reuse questions feature as a question bank](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/powerful-question-bank-features-in-watupro-6-3-8/).
Import Questions
----------------
Another way of quickly creating questions is importing them from CSV (Excel) or Aiken (simple Moodle format) file ([see exact formats available](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/new-imports-from-watupro-4-2-3/)).
Importing lets you quickly adds a lot of questions if you prefer to use Excel or text file for creating them. It’s not good way of editing existing questions of a quiz: if you want to do this, you will have to delete the old questions when you import the edited one. So it’s best to use import only for initial creation.
Import also works great if you want to copy questions between different sites or sub-sites in a network – as long as they all run WatuPRO. Just export the questions from one site and import them to the other site.
Once the questions are imported into a quiz they can be copied and reused just like all other questions.
WatuPRO 6.0
===========
The [premium WordPress quiz and exams plugin WatuPRO](https://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) has been updated to version 6.0.
Here is the change log between version 5.9 and 6.0:
- Added option to choose the view of downloaded files of single user quiz attempt: snapshot or table. Defaults to snapshot. You can also choose the file format which from now on will default to .html instead of the problematic .doc file. Don’t forget you can generate PDF files instead using our free PDF bridge.
- Improved user data removal and hooked to WP personal data eraser (for better compatibility to data protection laws).
- Added Text Settings page where some of the user-facing texts can be changed from the administration without the need of applying translation files.
- New shortcode added: N/a to display average % correct answer or points for a group of users answered the same way a selected question. More information [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/segment-performance-shortcode-in-watupro/).
- Improved **watupro-segment-stats** shortcode: now it lets you display the % of users from the same segment who received the same grade or even category grade in a question category.
- Fixed the non-working “delete my results” link when the My Tests page was used in a shortcode. The “export data” link will be available for users only when they access the dashboard version of the page**.**
- A new option on the quiz General Settings tab lets you specify different design theme for each quiz.
- Added attribute “return” to the **watupro-users-completed** shortcode. When return=”percent” it will calculate the % of quiz attempts vs. total instead of showing the number that satisfies the criteria defined by the other attributes. Added attribute “catgrade_id” to calculate number of attempts achieved a specific category grade. Note that category grade IDs were not recorded up to this version so using this parameter on tests which had data before the change may return inaccurate results.
- The optional answer explanation box in the administration is now hidden by default when adding new question and can be toggled by a link to save screen space.
- When quiz accept file uploads for open-end questions a check for allowed file sizes and types will be performed also before submitting the quiz (javascript based, will work only in modern browsers).
- Added design configurations for the timer of timed tests: it can now be configured to scroll together with the screen.
- The timer position now be distanced from left or right, top or bottom by choice.
- The segment-stats shortcode now allows calculating the % of users who got worse or better grade when the criteria is “grade” or “category_grade”.
- After copying of quiz / questions the page will redirect back to all quizzes to avoid confusion.
- Added option to mass-change “accept user feedback” on questions. (The mass-change options become available on the Manage Questions page at the bottom, only after you select at least one checkbox from the table with questions).
- Question paginator position can now be top or bottom.
- In the administration questions can now be reordered by draggind and dropping the row with the question.
- Open-end questions that accept file uploads can also require the file to be uploaded to consider the question answered.
- You can now override our main.js file the same way you can override view files.
- The option to allow users to rate questions now can be enabled per individual question instead of all the questions in the test.
- Added parameter “public” to the **watupro-takings** shortcode to allow public read only access to the page.
- On View results page added information how the grades on this test are calculated. Helps if you receive some unexpected grades. Helps us to answer questions as well.
- The two custom fields in “Ask user for contact details” section can now be drop-down fields with pre-defined values.
- When the option “answer to each question can be seen immediately by pressing a button” is selected, you have a new option that allows you not to require the user to attempt answering the question first.
- Added option to calculate & display total points earned from registered users on your main WP Users page.
- A new variable %%GROUP-MANAGER% in the admin email field in User and Email Settings tab allows you to specify that the email with test results will be sent to managers from the same user groups of the respondent.
- User group IDs are now visible in User Groups page.
- [Namaste! PRO Integration] For class managers with access to view test results only the results of students in their classes will be shown.
- [Intelligence module] “Fill the gaps” questions now can have per-question case sensitive mode.
- [Intelligence module] Added new bundle type: number of unque tests – you don’t need to specify which paid tests exactly or test category. It’s good for selling packages of 5, 10, etc paid tests.
- [Intelligence module] Added configuration for font size of “Fill the gaps” questions gaps & drop-down boxes (on WatuPRO Settings page).
- [Intelligence module] Added option to hide the “My Quizzes” page for any of the user roles that are given rights to manage the tests.
- [Reporting module] Added parameter “user_choice” to the watupror-poll shortcode to allow marking the user’s answer when the shortcode is used at the end of the test. See the WatuPRO -> Help page in your menu for full details.
- Fixed issues with multiple quiz certificates.
- [Fixed bug] When “Apply difficulty level restrictions per user account” is selected questions with no difficulty level were not allowed to users with some difficulty level in their profile.
- [Fixed bug] When “Sum up subcategory performance” was selected the parent category was not included in the Advanced Settings tab for reordering. If %%CATGRADES%% was not used at the Final screen, you could not use the %%CATEGORY-xxx% variables on these parent categories.
- [Fixed bug] When a timed quiz also asked for contact details at the beginning of a quiz with a required checkbox it was impossible to submit the quiz due to wrong “field required” message.
- [Fixed bug] The column “% of points” was showing negative % in some cases. It should always show between 0% and 100%.
- [Fixed bug] When quiz reused question from other quizzes it could not be reverted back to using its own questions.
- [Fixed bug] The new way of reordering questions in admin did not work on some installations.
WooCommerce Integration in Arigato Pro 3.0.1
============================================
From version 3.0.1 [Arigato Pro Autoresponder](https://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) has built-in WooCommerce integration. The integration allows you to automatically subscribe customers to mailing lists when they purchase products from your WooCommerce store.
Here’s how to make this work:
1. Obviously you need to use [WooCommerce](https://woocommerce.com/) and create some products.
2. Then enable the integration at the Arigato PRO Settings page:
3. When this is done your Add/Edit Mailing List page will show the products you have in the store:
Just select the products and save the list. That’s all.
(Note: the unsubscribing options are available from version 3.0.3.5)
4. Your mailing lists page will show information which lists have WooCommerce store products assigned to them:
5. **IMPORTANT:** The customer will be added to the list only after the order status in WooCommerce is **COMPLETED**. For digital and downloadable products this happens immediately when payment is verified. For shipped products this happens when you actually ship the order and mark it as completed.
6. Unsubscribing users. From version 3.0.3.5 you can also have users UN-subscribed from a list when they purchase selected products. This excellent feature allows you to remove users from prospect lists once they purchase and move them to another list to get different campaigns.
Arigato PRO 3.0
===============
Our premium WordPress auto-responder [Arigato PRO](https://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) is now upgraded to version 3.0.
Here are the new features, improvements and fixes from version 2.9 to 3.0:
- Added option to copy/clone a newsletter.
- Added option to change the mailing list owner. This is useful if you have defined user roles that can manage only their own mailing lists.
- A duplicate list feature lets you copy/clone a mailing list with its custom fields and associated autoresponders. This will not copy the subscribers however.
- You can send autoresponder email also to those who will not receive it because it’s added later to the sequence. This generates a newsletter to only those subscribers.
- Applied your WP timezone settings across the system. This will make sure that any date intervals are accordingly to your timezone and users have proper signup date on registration. Note that the optional setting for sending emails after X o’clock remains configurable for backward compatibility.
- New option lets you not send a newsletter to email address if that address also exists in other selected mailing lists.
- For better site performance new setting lets you include Arigato scripts and CSS only on the pages that contain signup form shortcode.
- When using the “Subscribe by email” option and a name has broken encoding the subscriber will be inserted without name.
- Improved integration with Contact Form 7: you can now include the list signup shortcode in the CF7 message to get yes/no confirmation whether the user has subscribed for each of the mailing lists.
- Improved handling of new lines around list tags in outgoing messages.
- Improved handling of POP3 connection errors when checking for bounces or email subscribes. They will no longer stop sending of the cron job emails.
- Added option to use the standard WP auto paragraphs functions on messages that to not properly display new lines. Use it only when needed.
- Arigato no longer stores or shows the IP address of the subscribers to comply with data protection laws. You can still use the {{{ip}}} variable in admin notification emails at your own responsibility.
- Added option to redirect the subscriber to a selected URL if they are already registered and activated in the mailing list.
- Name will automatically have first letter capitalized when you use the {{name}} and {{firstname}} variables inside messages.
- Default unsubscribe action is now “delete” instead of “deactivate”. You can change this at Arigato PRO Settings page.
- For consistency changed “label_style” shortcode parameter to “labels” in all locations. Legacy shortcodes will still work.
- Added parameter size to Google reCaptcha, when version 2 is used.
- Fixed bug: The option “For better performance load Arigato scripts and CSS only on pages that contain signup form shortcodes.” was causing PHP error in some occasion.
- Fixed bug: list notification email field did not properly accept more than one email separated with comma.
- Fixed bug: when Blacklist management contained empty lines it was blacklisting everything.
- Fixed bug: when a list has redirect URL it should redirect there even duplicate users.
- Fixed bug: when newsletters were created from presets a tracker for opened mails were not added.
Tech Support for WordPress Plugins
==================================
Sometimes when you have a problem with any of our plugin we will request you access. This happens only in cases when your problem cannot be reproduced on our installations. Why is this required is explained later in this post.
How To Provide Access
---------------------
It’s easiest to just send administrator’s login (preferably not yours, but a designated account which after resolving the problem will be deleted). Understandable some customers do not want to share full access to their sites so we have a very easy solution for this: create user with role Editor or even Author. Then enable admin rights only for the plugin you need help with:
### For WatuPRO
The setting is on WatuPRO Settings page, section Roles -> Roles that can manage exams (or test, quizzes etc). Select the user role and save.
### For Arigato Pro
The setting is in Arigato Autoresponder Options page, section Roles -> Roles that can manage the autoresponder. Select the role and save.
### For Namaste! LMS
The setting is in Namaste! LMS Settings page, section WordPress Roles that can administrate the LMS. Enable the role and save.
This is it, we’ll need the login details of the account you have created.
In rare events this may not be enough and we may need an FTP account with access to the plugin folder.
**You must deactivate, delete or change the account password after the problem is resolved.**
Why Provide Access
------------------
You don’t expect your doctor to diagnose you only based on symptoms neither you expect your car mechanic to fix your car by watching pictures of the engine. Please don’t expect that software developers can resolve all issues by watching screenshots or reading explanations.
There are many reasons why we may need access:
- There might be a specific edge-case bug that cannot be reproduced on our installations
- There might be a conflict with other plugin or theme on your installation
- There might be a specific server configuration that causes the problem only on your installation
- The specific volume and type of data you have might be producing a problem that cannot be reproduced elsewhere
- You may just be doing something wrong
- Anything else
If we are requesting you for access this means there is no other way to resolve your problem. **If you don’t want to do it, this is perfectly fine but technical support can be provided only if do.**
In case you don’t trust us you are free to resolve the problem yourself or with the help of trusted by you developer – all plugins come with open sourced code.
What Are We Going to Do With It
-------------------------------
We will reproduce the steps that cause your problem along with outputting debug information on various places in the code. This is the reason we may also need FTP access.
We will use the access to diagnose the problem and resolve it, and for nothing else.
**Disclaimer:**
We are not going to intentionally delete any of your data or send any emails to your users without explicit permission. We will not steal your data or share it with anyone for any reason. Our best interest is to resolve the technical issues you have as soon as possible. However we still recommend creating backups of any sensitive data you have.
**WE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY OF AND NO LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY ATTEMPTING TO RESOLVE YOUR TECHNICAL ISSUES. IN NO EVENT AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL KIBOKO LABS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY DATA LOSS, DATA LEAKS, SITE DOWNTIME AND SO ON. KEEPING YOUR DATA SAFE IS YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY.**
Segment Performance Shortcode in WatuPRO
========================================
From version 5.9.2 WatuPRO supports a new shortcode which allows to show how a segment of the respondents performed on the test – as average percent correct answers or as average number of points.
The segment is based on the answer of a chosen question.
### What does it mean and how does it work?
Let’s use an example to make things easier. We will create a single-choice question to ask the user for their age. (You can also use open-ended question for example if you want users to type their answer).
We’ll make this question a “survey” type by selecting “This is a survey question” because we don’t want it to affect the test calculations. Your situation might be different.
Then, in the final screen of the quiz we’ll add the following shortcode:
`The average results of respondents aged {{{answerto-2083}}} is [watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="percent_correct"]% correct answers on this test.
` Which displayed the following output: **The average results of respondents aged 37-50 is 23% correct answers on this test.** Breaking Down The Shortcode ------------------------------ Let’s break down the shortcode and all its parameters so you know how to use it. If you find the explanation of the parameters complicated go straight to the examples to get a better idea how to use the shortcode. The shortcode is **watupro-segment-stats** and accepts the following parameters: ### question_id This is a required parameter. The shortcode will not display anything without the question ID. You can see the question ID at the quiz Manage Questions page. It’s the first column in the table. ### criteria This is an optional parameter which defaults to “percent_correct”. You can use the following values: - **percent_correct** to display the average percent correct answers of the group answered the same way to the question in the first parameter. - **points** to display the average points collected of the group answered the same way to the question in the first parameter. - **grade** to display the percentage of users from the group who received the same grade. If you also pass the parameter **grade_id** you can specify the grade you are referring to – otherwise the calculation will be based on the currently achieved grade from the user. - **category_grade** to display the percentage of users in the group achieved the same category grade for the given category. When criteria=”category_grade” passing one of the parameters **catgrade_id or category_id** becomes required. You can for example use the shortcode once for each category grade to show the % of users achieved each specific grade on the category. If you pass category_id instead the stats will be shown based on which grade was last received by the current user on that category (see the examples for more clarity). There is a trick that makes things easy if you use the %%CATGRADES%% variable to loop through all the categories. Pass the parameter category_id like this: **category_id=”this”** in the “common category grade output box” on the Manage Grades page (you have to select a question category to have the box shown) and the program will automatically figure out which is the category and what grade was achieved on it for each of the categories. compare ------- This attribute can be used only when criteria is “grade” or “category grade”. It lets you calculate either users who got the same grade (or category grade) as the quiz taker (this is the default behavior) or what % of users got worse or better grade. Possible values for the attribute: “same” (default), “better” or “worse”. ### segment This is optional parameter which lets you show the results of a chosen by you segment. **This is very important:** by default, when the parameter is missing, the shortcode will display the results of the same segment as of the current user. So if the user responded “37-50” like in our example above, the shortcode will display the stats for all users who took the same quiz AND selected “37-50” on the question. However the shortcode allows you to display stats for other groups by passing the segment parameter. So you can show full stats like this: `The average results of respondents aged up to 18 is [watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="percent_correct" segment="under 18"]% correct answers on this test while the average results of respondents aged over 50 was [watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="percent_correct" segment="over 50"]% ` This shortcode is intended to be used only in the “FInal Page / Quiz Output” box. It will work just fine outside it but in this case the parameter **segment** becomes required and the shortcode will calculate stats based on all tests which use the question passed in “question_id” parameter. Examples -------- This is a very powerful shortcode and with all these parameters it can be confusing. Some examples will make things much easier to understand: Show average points from the group on the whole test (in the final screen): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- `The average points achieved from the other respondents your age is [watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="points"].` This will display something like: `The average points achieved from the other respondents your age is 33.` *** Show average % correct answers from all groups on the whole test (in the final screen): --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- `The average results of respondents aged up to 18 is [watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="percent_correct" segment="under 18"]% correct answers on this test while the average results of respondents aged over 50 was [watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="percent_correct" segment="over 50"]% ` ### *** ### Show the % of users from the group who achieved the same grade (use only on the final screen): **Your grade is %%GTITLE%%.** **On average `[watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="grade"]`% of the respondents aged {{{answerto-2083}}} got the same grade.** This will display something like: **Your grade is B+.** **On average 36% of the respondents aged18-36 got the same grade.** *** ### Show the % of users from the group who performed worse (got lower grade) **Your grade is %%GTITLE%%.** **On average `[watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="grade" compare="worse"]`% of the respondents aged {{{answerto-2083}}} performed worse than you.** This will display something like: **Your grade is B+.** **On average 41% of the respondents aged18-36 performed worse than you.** *** ### Show the % of users from the group who achieved the same category grade in each question category: (You need to use this shortcode inside the “Common category grade output” box and make sure %%CATGRADES%% variable is included in the “final output” of the quiz.) For category **%%CATEGORY%%** you got **%%POINTS%%** points and **%%PERCENTAGE%%%** correct answers. Grade: **%%GTITLE%%** **On average `[watupro-segment-stats question_id=2083 criteria="category_grade" category_id="this"]`% of the respondents from your age group got the same grade.** This will display something like: For category **Business Analytics** you got **8** points and **65%** correct answers. Grade: **Success** **On average 74% of the respondents from your age group got the same grade.** Using Certificates in WatuPRO ============================= This pictorial will guide you step by step through the process of creating and assigning certificates in WatuPRO. In this guide: - [Creating certificates](#creating) - [Certificate verification](#verification) - [Generating PDF](#pdf) - [Single quiz or multiple quiz certificates](#multiquiz) - [Assign certificates to tests](#assign) - [User’s access to certificates](#access) - [Multiple certificates with a single test attempt](#multiple) - [Troubleshooting certificate assignments](#troubleshooting) - [Paid certificates](#paid) Creating Certificates --------------------- Go to WatuPRO -> Certificates and click on “Add new” link. You will be taken to a page with a simple form to create a certificate:  This is as simple as creating a post in your site. You can insert and format text and pictures just like everywhere in WordPress.
**Attention:** If you have a ready design for your certificate or prefer to design it yourself using HTML we strongly recommend not using the rich text editor at all and selecting this option at WatuPRO Certificates page:
In such case you will be presented a regular textarea where to create or paste your HTML code. This is because the WordPress rich text editor is known to “fix” the code to its own likes, which can often create problems with carefully designed pages.
**Note that when this option is selected we will not automatically add new lines on the front-end!** You are entering HTML code and you should use <br> or <p> tags where appropriate.
Under the box for creating certificate you will find several variables which you can use inside the certificate so they are replaced with dynamic content when the certificate is displayed.
The certificate can have expiration date or require admin approval.
Certificate Verification
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From version 6.5.5.5 WatuPRO supports verification of the issued certificates. For each of them the plugin generates an unique URL which can be used to verify that this certificate is really issued by your site.
All you need to do is to use the variable %%VERIFICATION%% inside the certificate contents. It will output the URL for verification. It’s not a hyperlink so use the rich text editor or a HTML code to make it clickable.
If you have the plugin [QRCode](https://wordpress.org/plugins/doqrcode/) installed and active, instead of an URL the variable will print a QR code. In such case do not hyperlink it. The QR code will automatically take the user who scanned it to the URL for verification.
The verification URL is not the same as public certificate URL. It does not expose the certificate contents and does not require the certificate to be marked as public. All it does is to show a text saying whether the certificate is valid or not.
PDF Certificates
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Normally certificates are just rendered in the browser when they are achieved. This is very convenient because it works on all devices and even lets you include video or audio in the certificate.
However many customers need certificates that are printable and easy to download. PDF is the industry standard for this. To create such certificate you need to download and install our [free PDF bridge](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/using-the-free-pdf-bridge-plugin-in-watupro/). This plugin is large so the functionality is intentionally not included in the WatuPRO core.
Once installed and activated you need to select and save the following option on the WatuPRO Certificates page:
After that your Add/Edit Certificate page in WatuPRO will get a new section called PDF settings:
Certificates will be created in PDF format accordingly to your selections in this area.
So far we have covered the most important points of creating certificates. But how do quiz takers actually get them? To do this we need first to talk about the difference between single-quiz and multiple quiz certificates.
Single Quiz or Multiple Quiz Certificates
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By default certificates in WatuPRO can get assigned when user completes a quiz and if they achieve a desired result (grade). More on this in the next section.
However you can define certificates that get assigned upon completing several tests. To create such certificate select the multiple quiz option, then select the quizzes and the desired criteria:
Assign Certificates to Quizzes
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So, how do certificates actually get assigned? There is a difference between single-quiz and multiple quiz certificates:
- **Single quiz certificates** get assigned when user completes a quiz with a desired grade. How do you define this grade? By going to Grades link for the quiz you want to issue certificate and assigning the certificate to the successful grade(s) of that quiz:
Save the grade and when the user completes the quiz **and achieves this grade** they will be assigned the certificate.
If you have a quiz that defines no grades but still want to assign a certificate you must create one “catch-all” grade that will cover every possible outcome of the quiz (from 0% to 100% correct answers) and assign the certificate to it. You don’t have to show this grade in the end of the quiz if you don’t want to. However it must exist.
You can also have **more than one grade** in the quiz assign the certificate or even have different grades assign different certificates.Don’t let the phrase “single quiz certificate” mislead you. Such certificates are not tied up to only one quiz. You can very well reuse them in any of your tests.
- **Multiple quiz certificates** get assigned automatically when all requirements are met. This means all the required tests are completed by the user AND the average points and percentages required are achieved. If you allow multiple attempts on your quizzes and the respondent doesn’t achieve the required averages on their first attempt, but achieve them later, they will get the certificate when the conditions are achieved.
Multiple Certificates from a Single Test Attempt?
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After version 6.0 of WatuPRO it’s possible to achieve multiple certificates in a single quiz attempt. The respondent can get one “single-quiz” certificate assigned to the achieved grade + any number of multiple-quiz certificates as long as completing the current test has triggered their assignment.
When multiple certificates are assigned, the %%CERTIFICATE%% variable will contain individual links to all of them. If you are using the PDF bridge and have selected to send certificates by email as attachments, each of the approved certificates will be attached to the email.
OK, now you know how certificates are assigned. But how do users actually get to see them:
How Users Can See Their Certificates
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- **In the “Final screen” of the quiz.** The easiest method to let the user know they achieved a single quiz certificate is to include the %%CERTIFICATE%% variable in the “Final page / Quiz output” box of the quiz. If a certificate is not earned the variable will be replaced with nothing. If the certificate is earned it will contain the text “You can now print your certificate” with a link to it.
- **In their dashboard.** By default all registered users get “My Certificates” page in their dashboard, under the “My Quizzes” (or “My Tests”, “My Exams”, etc. depending on your choice of words) page. They can refer to these certificates any time.
- **By email.** You can select to have an email sent to the user when they complete the test. From Edit Quiz page go to User and Email related settings tab and select:
Then make sure that the %%CERTIFICATE%% variable is included in the quiz Final page or the email contents box so the user gets a link to the certificate in the email.
If you have installed the PDF bridge and selected that certificates will be generated as PDF, you can skip the %%CERTIFICATE%% variable in the email contents and instead have the PDF attached to the message by selecting this option:
**Certificates that require admin approval will not be sent by email when the quiz is completed!** Instead they can be sent when the approval is done and only if you have configured the following section:
Troubleshooting Not Assigned Certificates
-----------------------------------------
A certificate is not assigned as expected? Please check the following most common problems:
- **It’s a single quiz certificate and the desired grade is not achieved.** You can see the result of the particular user in your Quizzes -> View results page. Is the desired grade achieved? Probably not. If yes, please make sure you have actually assigned the certificate to the grade in Quizzes -> Grades page.
- **It’s a multiple quiz certificate and the criteria are not met.** This is harder to check because you need to find all user’s attempt on the required tests and calculate the averages. However we can assure you that WatuPRO does these calculations correctly and this has been tested multiple times. So even if you are sure something is not OK please double and triple check your Math before emailing us.
- **It’s a certificate requiring admin approval.** These certificates do not get issued until admin manually approves them.
- **It’s a certificate with expiration date and has expired.**
If you have gone through the troubleshooting list and still don’t have a certificate assigned as expected you can contact us to have a look. **In such case you MUST provide URL of your site, administrator’s login and clear explanation which certificate had to be assigned to which user but it did not happen.**
Paid Certificates
-----------------
If you have the Intelligence module installed you can also charge for getting a certificate. In such case the test taker must first complete the test(s) successfully so they earn the certificate. After that, when the access the link to see it they will be presented the selected payment methods. After payment the certificate becomes available for viewing and/or downloading.
Assuming you have set some payment methods in WatuPRO Settings page, enabling paid certificates requires just setting a price on the Add / Edit Certificate page:
Note that paid certificates cannot be sent as attachment to emails – you can however insert the link to the certificate so users can pay when they try to visit / download it.
Coupon codes and bundles cannot be used for paid certificates. Users with rights to manage WatuPRO will always be able to see paid certificates.
If you use our [free WooCommerce bridge](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/woocommerce-bridge-in-watupro/) and have WatuPRO 6.3 or a newer version you will be able to also sell certificates as WooCommerce products.
WatuPRO 5.9
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Version 5.9 of the WordPress quiz plugin WatuPRO is now available. Improvements and fixes since version 5.8:
- - Improvements when questions are grouped by category: subcategories will by default arrange under their parents (you can change the order from Edit Quiz -> Advanced Settings tab). Added options to choose heading tag for categories and subcategories. Added option to exclude subcategories from the category-based paginator.
- Basic integration with Ultimate Member allows users to select WautPRO user group on registration. More details: 
Arigato PRO Bridge to WooCommerce
=================================
This is a new free bridge for our WordPress mass-mailer and drip marketing software [Arigato PRO](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/).
The bridge has one very simple purpose: to let you automatically sign up users who buy products into associated mailing lists.
Download the bridge here: [bftpro-woocom-bridge](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bftpro-woocom-bridge.zip) – version 0.5 (11 KB)
How To Use It
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You can use this plugin either to tie-up purchasing products to mailing list signups or to directly sell access to mailing lists that you don’t want to give access for free. Here is how:
1. install and activate the plugin through the WP dashboard page (you must already have [Atigato PRO](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/))
2. Create or edit product in your WooCommerce store. Go to Attributes and create a custom attribute. its name must be **bftpro.** The value of the attribute must be the ID of the mailing list you want the user to be signed up for:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bftpro-woocom-product.png)
How do you know the list ID? Easy – you can see it in your BroadFast PRO Mailing Lists page in the “Subscribe Form” column:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/list-id.png)
The number in the shortcode is the list ID. So in the picture above the list ID is 1.
That’s all. Now when someone pays for a product (or you manually approve order as paid in admin), their email and name will be added in the associated mailing list.
Paid Class Signup in Namaste PRO
================================
From version 1.1.1 the [PRO plugin for Namaste! LMS](http://namaste-lms.org/pro.php) supports paid signup for a class / group. Configuration is really easy:
1. Make sure you have payment methods set up in Namaste! LMS Settings page
2. In Add / Edit Class page enter your price in “Charge X to sign up for this class” box. You need to have selected “Allow users to sign up for this class” checkbox first
3. Use the class “sigup shortcode” shown on the Manage Classes / Groups page. Publish it on a post or page and the paid class sign-up will be handled automatically.
That’s it.
[Arigato PRO] The {{url}} Variable
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Most configurable emails in [BroadFast for WordPress](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) allow using the {{url}} variable. It gets contextually replaced by URL toi subscribe, unsubscribe etc (as appropriate).
**Please note that the variable will not automatically be replaced with a HTML hyperlink**. It will be replaced with **URL only**. If you want to explicitly make it clickable HTML hyperlink you can do this with the rich text editor or if you prefer the Text mode, just write:
`{{url}}`
The idea is to let you use free text, for example:
`Click here!`
Of course if you are sending plain text emails it’s best to leave it as URL only. Most modern email programs will make it clickable anyway.
Adding images in match/matrix answers
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The answers area of the match / matrix questions in WatuPRO does not use the rich text editor. There is just no space to put it there because there are two boxes for each answer. The rich text editor will make the UI there bad.
But you can still add images there by entering HTML code. The easiest way to do so is this:
- Scroll down just a bit to see the “Optional Answer Explanation” box
- Click on its “Add Media” button
- Locate or upload your image
- Get its URL from the “Attachment Details” sidebar which appears when the image is clicked
- Copy the URL
- Enter `This issue is most often caused by:
- You have not defined grades at all. “Grades” is not the same as score, % correct answer or points. Grades are textual result that you assign to the respondent depending on their performance on the test. For example Passed or Failed; A, B, C, D, F; and so on. If you want to use grades you have to create them first.
- You have selected **“Calculate grades by % correct answers instead of points collected”** to calculate grades but your grades are created with points in mind (or vice-versus).
I.e. if the following is checked, your grades must cover the whole range from 0% correct answers to 100% correct answers:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/grades-by-percent.png) This checkbox is on the **General Settings** tab in the Add / Edit quiz page. This is a very common mistake so please triple-check it before contacting support.
- Your grades do not cover the whole range of points or percentages user can collect. If you are using **points** for grade calculation, make sure that **all possible points are covered from the defined grades**. If your best grade has 20 points for “to” and the user collects 21 points they will not be assigned any grade (and will receive None). If you are using % correct answers for grade calculation make sure your grades cover the whole range between 0 and 100. Please check the “Watch out the decimals” item below too.
- **Watch out the decimals.** If you have one grade A: from 0 to 9 points and another grade B: from 10 to 20 points, and your quiz allows decimal points what happens with user who collected 9.5 points? They’ll get no grade. **So the grades in this example should be A: from 1 to 10 points and B: from 10 to 20 points.** If they get exactly 10 points they’ll be assigned the higher grade. Note that percentages are rounded to the whole number so if your quiz calculates grades by % and not by points you will not need to worry about this.
- Using category grades without knowing how they work. Please check [this guide](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/using-category-grades-in-watu-pro/).
- The from – to values of grades should always be entered from the **lower to the higher number.** This means the lower number goes in the left box “from”, the higher number goes in the right box – “to”. Be careful if you define grades with negative points: -100 is lower than -1 for example. So -100 goes in the “from” box at left, -1 goes in “to” box at right.
Grade calculations are fully tested and work fine. If you are receiving “None” as grade this can be only because of misconfiguration. Use the variables %%POINTS%% and %%PERCENTAGE%% in the “Final Page / Quiz Result” tab to get better idea why none of the defined grades matches the points you collected (or the percentage correct answers).
Quizzes Published in Custom Fields
==================================
By default [the quiz plugin WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) expects that you’ll publish the quiz shortcode in the post / page main contents area. When this is done it automatically detects the URL of the published quizzes and hyperlinks the quiz in your administration “Quizzes” page. It also uses this detection to determine when exams are published and to show only published tests in “My quizzes” page, and the Tests, Skills and History pages of the Reporting module.
Some customers however need to publish their quizzes in custom fields or other non-standard way (for example via do_shortcode() call in their theme). **From version 4.5.8** WatuPRO has a solution for this:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/non-standard.png)
This checkbox and field is visible on the Name & Description tab in your Add / Edit quiz page. Once you select the checkbox and set the URL you can have all these quizzes treated as published and automatically hyperlinked from all the corresponding pages.
WatuPRO Bridge to myCRED
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There is excellent free plugin for managing points called [myCRED](http://mycred.me/). It lets you reward users for activities on your site, and a lot more.
Now there is a bridge between myCRED and WatuPRO and you can download it for free:
[WatuPRO to MyCRED Bridge 0.9 (6.3 KB)](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/watupro-mycred.zip)
Once activated look for “Bridge to myCRED” in the WatuPRO menu.
What Does It Do?
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It’s pretty simple. When logged in user submits a quiz, the plugin will transfer the collected points to the selected myCRED points balance. You also have the options to transfer only positive or only negative points:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mycred.png)
From version 0.5 The bridge also adds a **custom hook** that lets you reward default points for completing a category of quizzes (different points can be set for different categories):
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mycred-hooks.png)
From version 0.6 you can also use the bridge to **assign badges** for completing quizzes using the Badges addon of myCRED. Thanks to myCRED author for helping with this!
Awarding Badges
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Here is how this happens. First, in the WatuPRO to MyCRED bridge (link Bridge to myCRED under the WatuPRO menu) you need to select that you want to transfer the points to myCRED (shown in the top of this page).
Then in MyCRED, create a badge that will be assigned for quiz completion. It’s up to you how many times or points you will require:
[WatuPRO + Intelligence Module] Paid Quiz Bundles
===================================================
From version 4.5.7 the Intelligence module of [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) provides a feature that lets you sell access to **bundles of paid quizzes**.
**Note that adding a quiz to a bundle does not make it protected.** You must also set a non-zero price for that quiz on the Edit Quiz -> Intelligence module tab so the quiz cannot be accessed without payment.
How It Works
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On your WatuPRO Settings at the bottom of the **Payment Settings** section you will see a new link “Create payment buttons for selling bundles of quizzes”. It takes you to a page to manage your paid quiz bundles. You can add any number of bundles:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bundle.png)
Each bundle can provide access either to a whole **quiz category** or to a selection of specific quizzes, regardless the category.
It’s a good idea to provide redirect URL so when the users pays for a bundle they are directly taken to the first quiz in it, or to a page with links to all quizzes (or anything else you wish).
**The bundle buttons must be manually published on a page** or post using the shortcodes that will be shown to you once you create the bundle. This lets you publish payment buttons for the different payment methods you accept and make your sales pages in any way you wish.
### Idea:
Is there a possibility that your users land directly on the quizzes page instead of your “Buy Bundles” page? If so, help them figure out that they can buy access to the quiz there. In WatuPRO Settings page -> Payment Settings section -> Other payment instructions box enter some text with a link to your page with bundles.
Important:
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There are two important aspects about the payment bundles:
- They will ignore the setting “Mark payment as used after each quiz attempt (so if multiple attempts are allowed the user will have to pay each time).” if you have selected it. A bundle once paid, will always give access to the quizzes in the bundle.
- Changes to bundle will reflect users who purchased it. For example if you add new quizzes to the bundle, or to the category that the bundle includes, users who bought the bundle will also get access to these quizzes.
Your feedback is most welcome.
[WatuPRO] Quiz Not Showing in "My Quizzes" Page or Reports?
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Update: from version 4.5.8 you can handle this easier: [see here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-quizzes-published-in-custom-fields/)
Only quizzes that are *published* will be shown in “My Quizzes” page and the tabs from the Reporting module – for example the History tab.
**What means a published quiz?** This is a quiz whose shortcode is placed **inside the content** of a post, page, or custom post type. If you place the shortcode in some widget, custom field, via do_shortcode() call in your theme, or some other odd way, **the system will not recognize the quiz as published** and it will not be shown in these pages.
A very easy way to know if a quiz is published or not is by looking at your Quizzes page in admin (the first page when you click on WatuPRO menu). If the quiz title is not clickable, this means it’s not recognized as published.
Using Sorting Questions in Personality Quizzes (WatuPRO)
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From version 4.5.4 [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) supports using sorting questions in personality quizzes (Intelligence module required). Up to this version using sorting questions made sense only for knowledge based tests.
How To Use Them?
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Let’s see why you would want to use them first. Unlike the other question types where answer is directly matched to a result (or results), the sorting questions give the user the option to assign different value to the answers. Most popular example of such questions are the “like most -> like least” or “most like me -> least like me” quizzes.
Let’s just dive into an example to make things really clear.
An Example Quiz
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We will use a very basic personality quiz with two questions for this example. The quiz has three possible results (personality types): **Analytic, Emotional, and Mixed.** Two sorting questions will define the quiz taker personality.
The screenshot from the add/edit question page will show you how the answers to the question “Sort the values from “most like me” to “least like me”” will be given:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sorting-personality.png)
Here the order you should match is automatically given to you by the program. This question isn’t very smart – it asks the user to directly sort the possible personality types in the way they think suits most.
The second question is probably a better example: “Sort the movies in order you like most”:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/movies.png)
Here the administrator has decided that whoever likes drama movies is mostly emotional. The one who likes criminal movies is most analytic and the mixed type likes action movies.
So what will happen if the user sorts the answers in the **same** order? He will get **3 points** for “Emotional”, **2 points** for “Analytic”, and **1 point** for “Mixed” type.
Another example. Let’s say the user sorts the question like this:
Criminal movies
Action movies
Drama movies
In this case they will receive 3 match points for “Analytic”, 2 for “Mixed”, and one match for “Emotional”.
Example Final Output
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The below screenshots will give you an example of how I setup this quiz.
This below is the “Final page / Quiz result” box. I have used the shortcode “watupro-expand-personality-result” to show detailed breakdown of how user’s answers matched to personalities. This shortcode is explained in your internal Help page under WatuPRO menu.
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/final-page.png)
Below is example output of user who was strongly analytic:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/analytic-personality.png)
Don’t let the “points” word in the above screenshots mislead you. This is not the points you assign to answers. In personality quizzes points do not participate in grade calculations.
And the next screenshot shows Emotional user but not as strictly matching the emotional personality (he thinks he is mostly mixed personality but the movies question defined otherwise)
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/emotional-personality.png)
This should make it clear.
**Don’t forget to select “This is a survey question” to avoid correct / wrong checkmarks shown on such questions.**
JetPack Contact Form Integration in Arigato PRO
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From version 2.3.3 Arigato PRO, the newsletter and drip marketing plugin, now has built-in integration with JetPack contact form.
It works very similar to the [Contact form 7 integratio](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/how-to-integrate-broadfast-for-wordpress-with-contact-form-7/)n. The only difference is that you need to add the BroadFast PRO shortcodes inside the post which contains the JetPack form shortcodes. If you are including also custom fields, make sure to switch the WordPress editor to Text mode.
I have included a sample screenshot showing how one custom field and the subscribe checkbox are placed in the contact form.
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jetpack-integration.png)
WatuPRO Bridge To MailChimp
===========================
If you are using MailChimp for your newsletters, here is a free bridge that will allow you to automatically subscribe users who complete quizzes in selected mailing lists. Similar to the [Arigato PRO bridge](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-to-broadfast-pro-bridge/) it allows you to select required result / grade which lets you subscribe users to different mailing lists depending on their performance.
Note the following from the MailChimp API: “**Subscribe the provided email to a list. By default this sends a confirmation email – you will not see new members until the link contained in it is clicked!**“. From version 0.9 we have added a checkbox that allows you to override this setting and signup the user without email confirmation. **Do this at your own risk.** If your MailChimp account gets banned for abuse we can not help and will not be responsible.
Note also that MailChimp now requires name not to be empty. So please use it for quizzes which request name from the user in one or another way. If it’s let empty, the plugin will attempt to set it as “Guest” but this is not recommended way to handle things.
**The bridge will not work if you select “Don’t store any data / results of this quiz in the database.”**
Once installed and activated the plugin will add link “Bridge to MailChimp” in your WatuPRO menu.
In order to use it you need to obtain free [MailChimp API key](http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/where-can-i-find-my-api-key/).
[Download The Plugin Here (Version 1.7, 9 KB)](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/watupro-chimp.zip)
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Here is a screenshot of how it looks:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/watupro-chimp.png)
From version 1.6 you can also tag members when adding them to the mailing list.
Troubleshooting
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In case the respondents do not get added to the mailing lists as expected, have a look at the Log tab (next to Settings on top of the bridge page). It contains the MailChimp response and canhelp you identify the problem. If you have to contact us, we will need the information from this log.
If you’d rather not pay monthly fees and leave your mailing list data in someone else’s hand, we recommend you our premium [WordPress Autoresponder / Drip marketing suite](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/). It comes with one-time fee and *optional* yearly upgrade fees, and there is also free bridge for connecting WatuPRO.
Namaste! LMS to Arigato PRO Bridge
==================================
This is a free bridge for Namaste! LMS users who also have [Arigato PRO](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/). The bridge lets you do two things:
1. Automatically enroll user who subscribes to selected mailing list in a selected course
2. Automatically subscribe user who enrolls or complete course into a mailing list
[Download Bridge Here (6KB)](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/namaste-bftpro.zip)
**After activation a new link called “Bridge to Autoresponder” will appear under you Namaste! LMS menu.**
The screenshot below will give you a better idea what it does.
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/namaste-bftpro.png)
WatuPRO 4.5 - Chained Logic, File Uploads, New Quiz Page Design, and More
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Here is the latest update to WatuPRO:
1. A new setting lets you allow users to flag questions for review
2. Now there is much easier way to request user email, name and other contact info – see [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/collect-user-contact-information-with-watupro/)
3. You can now set up no-ajax submitting of some quizzes to accept file uploads and for other reasons [(learn more](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/regular-no-ajax-form-submitting-option-from-watupro-4-4-6/))
4. When using category grades and the %%CATGRADES%% variable you can also control the order the category results appear at the end: default, from best to worst, or from worst to best category by user performance
5. Added “Time spent” column in the “View results” page
6. The add / edit quiz form has been redesigned with tabs to make it easier to use
7. You can pass a list of comma separated question IDs in the quiz not found shortcode to specify exactly which questions to be shown and disregard any randomization and grouping settings. This is yet another method to reuse questions from same quiz in multiple setups. The format to use is quiz not found where X is the quiz ID. This is internally called by the free [User Choice](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/user-choice-free-add-on-for-watupro/) add-on
8. The free User Choice addon lets you publish quizzes in which the user selects what questions to answer.
9. The new Chained logic addon – [see here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/chained-quiz-logic-free-add-on-for-watupro/)
10. Option to auto-publish unpublished quiz at the time of creating or editing it
11. You can allow users to select WatuPRO user group when signing up
12. Twitter sharing is now available in our free social sharing addon
13. [Intelligence module] A new shortcode lets you expand the information show for personality quiz results. Please check the internal Help page for more info and example.
14. [Intelligence module] Now personality quizzes allow matching one answer to multiple results. This will be useful if you don’t always relate answers 1:1 to results (for example having 30 personality types should not mean that you need 30 possible answers on every question)
15. Changed the quiz shortcode to small letters for better compatibility with other plugins. The old codes will remain working
16. When questions are grouped by category the category title and description will be shown in all quiz pagination types (used to be shown only when the quiz is paginated “one page per question category”)
17. Stats per questions also shows number and % unanswered (Reporting module)
18. Fixed % calculations in the poll shortcode (Reporting module)
19. Auto-stop any playing audio questions when user moves from page to page
20. Added filters from WP Quick LaTeX so you can now use everything from that plugin (this is the best LaTeX plugin!)
21. Fixed bug with “time taken” for non-logged in users on paginated quizzes
Eligible customers will receive the update by a newsletter. In case your free upgrades subscription has expired you can renew for another year with 60% discount.
BroadFast for Wordpress 2.3 and the Intelligence Module 0.9.3
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Our [WordPress drip marketing suite](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) has been updated to version 2.3.
Here are the updated features since version 2.2:
- Bounce management now available
- Subscribe by sending email: you can now set up email address which can be used to automatically subscribe users when they send email to it.
- You can now enable other user roles to work with the autoresponder so your staff members can create marketing campaigns without accessing the admin
- The generic form shortcode can now be configured to display radio buttons or checkboxes instead of the default drop-down selector. When checkboxes are displayed, the user will be able to subscribe for multiple mailing lists at once.
- A new option lets you test newsletter and get it delivered immediately to your email
- Built-in Contact form 7 integration – more info at http://blog.calendarscripts.info/how-to-integrate-broadfast-for-wordpress-with-contact-form-7/
- Detailed log of all emails sent to a subscriber
- Added filter to show unsubscribed users. The word Unsubscribed will also show next to Inactive for all users who unsubscribed
- Data from custom fields is now available in the subscribers list
- Simple text area added as custom field type – allows displaying text box without the rich text editor
- Daily or weekly digest can be automatically scheduled from the published posts in your blog (Intelligence module required)
- Improved the WordPress-friendly form code for easier use
- Improved error reporting for email sending errors
- General user-interface improvements
If you don’t have the Intelligence module you can purchase it for $40 using [this link.](http://sites.fastspring.com/calendarscripts/product/bftpro-intelligence)
Chained Quiz Logic Free Add-on For WatuPRO
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This is a free add-on which implements long requested functionality for [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/): The ability to add “chained” logic to quizzes. So depending on the user’s answer on a question you choose the next question or finalize the quiz.
**Download here**: [wchained-logic](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wchained-logic.zip) (24 KB)
**Current version**: 4.3
**Requires:** WatuPRO 6.1 or newer
How Does It Work?
-----------------
Once installed and activated, the add-on will enable a new menu item called “Chained Logic” under your WatuPRO menu. Click on it and you’ll be taken to a page where you can set up chained logic for a given quiz, and a shortcode to publish its chained logic version.
The chained quiz will work only with the new shortcode. The old shortcode will keep working with the standard behavior.
Here is a screenshot how you can set chained logic in your quiz:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chained-question.png)
### Specifics and Limitations:
1. The quiz pagination will be automatically set up to “One question per page”
2. Back buttons, “save” button, numbered paginators, “show answer”, and “Question X from Y” text will not be shown.
3. Grouping and randomizing questions settings will be disregarded – the questions will start appearing by the order you have given in the “Manage questions” page.
4. This will work for “live quizzes” (no “practice mode”)
5. Only single-answer, multiple-answer and “open-end” questions can be chained. The other question types will be excluded. **From version 3.3 you can use “fill the gaps”, “slider” and “sortable” with the Logic Threshold function (explained below) but they should not be the first question in the quiz.**
6. From version 3.7 chained quizzes partially-submitted state can be saved if “automatically store user progress as they go from page to page” setting in WatuPRO is selected. This feature requires WatuPRO 6.5.4.2 or a newer version.
7. You can’t ask for contact details at the end of the quiz. This feature currently does not work. You can however ask at the beginning of the quiz.
8. Flashcard questions are not supported
9. File uploads are not supported
10. Progress bars cannot be used on chained quizzes because the chain can end or change the question number any time. The program can never know how many questions are still to go.
Logic Threshold Instead of Fixed Chain
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From version 2.3 the chained logic addon supports on-the-fly evaluation of the % correct answers given by the respondent. This allows you to define different chain if they have given less or above a selected % correct answer.
This option is available for every question and the threshold can be different for each question. You’ll find the checkbox under the default selections for each question:
In this example if the user has answered **less than 51%** of the questions up to this point (including the last question) correctly, they will be redirected to question one. If they have answered **51% or more** correct the logic will follow whatever you have selected for that choice (not shown on the screenshot).
So the dynamic logic has priority over the static logic.
Another example:
If after answering the question the user has already collected more than 80% correct answers, you want to finalize the quiz. If they have not achieved 80% let them continue accordingly to the selections for that question.
**From version 3.4 of the plugin the logic threshold can be limited to the same question category.** If you select that checkbox in a question, the logic will not evaluate the whole user performance on all questions but only on the questions from the same question category.
This is super powerful logic that allows you to prematurely end a quiz, not let the user continue until they have desired success rate, roll them back to earlier point of the test or let them skip a section.
**From version 3.8 the dynamic logic can be based on the correct / wrong results on every specific question:**
This is very convenient if you want to use a regular chained logic on most questions but correct / wrong only on some of them.
It is also powerful way to handle open-end questions where you cannot predict every possible answer typed by the user. Instead you can choose what specific action to be taken if the user did not type any of your pre-defined answers (which typically means they answered wrongly).
### Integration with the free Chained Quiz Plugin
From version 1.1 you can transfer the quizzes made with the free [Chained Quiz](http://wordpress.org/plugins/chained-quiz/) plugin into WatuPRO quizzes. The chained logic will be automatically transferred as well.
The results of users will also be transferred although without the details and the stats of num wrong answers, % correct, etc.
Dealing with open end / essay questions
---------------------------------------
If your open-end question has possible correct answers, things are easy – just select where each answer goes.
If the user answers something else, the answer is considered **wrong**. The quiz will continue with the next question unless you have explicitly selected a behavior for wrong answer:
If the question has no possible answers, then from a chained logic perspective it’s always answered wrong. So you can use the same logic if you want to specify some behavior different than going to the next question.
Troubleshooting
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### 1. The questions or answers do not show in the expected order
Please be careful if you test the chained logic as a logged in user. In case you have started the same quiz in the regular version of WatuPRO but not yet finished it and have saved your progress (either by hitting Save button or automatically), **you will see the questions and answers from your unfinished attempt in the order of the regular quiz**. This is because WatuPRO always gives priority to the saved unfinished quiz.
There is very easy fix for this: simply complete the quiz once and you will see it works fine. Or don’t test as logged in user (typically site owners test with their administrator account).
### 2. The chained logic is not saved
Large quizzes with a lot of questions may overload your POST server limit when the chained logic is saved. In such a case you need to request increasing your POST limit from your hosting support or server admin.
Learn more about this [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19731856/php-post-missing-field-when-too-much-data).
Another (similar) possible issue is the setting “max_input_size” not high enough.
Changelog
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From version 3.6 the plugin supports WatuPRO’s advanced setting “When user answers a “single choice” question go to next question” (it auto-submits the current question without clicking the button – it won’t technically go to the next question if your chained logic has defined something else).
User Choice Free Add-on for WatuPRO
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[**Download v. 0.9 here**](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/watupro-user-choice.zip)
**Note: requires WatuPRO 4.4.8 or newer version.**
This add-on lets you publish a form where user will select the questions from a quiz themselves. There are two modes of selecting: the user may be allowed to choose the exact questions to work on, or they can choose number of questions from each category. You can specify the maximum and minimum of total questions that the user can choose:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/user-choice.png)
See example of how the selection from the screenshot works: [click here](http://demoblog.calendarscripts.info/extended-demo-test-choose-questions-yourself/)
You can also let the user select the exact questions.
**Note that quizzes published only this way (and not through the standard WatuPRO shortcode) will not automatically be clickable in your dashboard neither will show in “My Quizzes” page of students.** To fix this you need to use the “This quiz is published in custom field or other non-standard way” option on the Edit Quiz page and enter the URL of the post where the user-choice version is published.
Daily or Weekly Digest From Your Content (Intelligence Module for Arigato PRO)
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From version 0.9.3 the Intelligence module of our drip marketing suite [BroadFast for WordPress](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) supports a cool new feature:
**Schedule a weekly or daily digest from your published content.**
You can set up multiple digests. Each digest can pull all your recent content or only content from selected category.
You can fully control how the digest looks and the email contents before and after it:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/digest.png)
How exactly do digests work?
----------------------------
Once per day (when you visit your dashboard or when the cron job runs), the software will check all your posts from the last 7 days. Any posts that match the optional category criteria **and** are not included in the previous digest will be included.
We look at the post date so you can have old post included if you change its date.
The digests **generate and schedule** newsletters. Then the newsletters get sent from the cron job just like the regular newsletters. So you can cancel them, edit them, re-sent them – everything you would do with a regular newsletter.
The feature also requires that your BroadFast for WordPress runs the most recent version – 2.2.7.8 or newer.
Regular (No-Ajax) Form Submitting Option from WatuPRO 4.4.6
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From version 4.4.6 the quiz plugin [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro) supports non-ajax submitting of the quiz. To enable it for selected quizzes go to your WatuPRO Settings page:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/noajax.png)
Why No AJax?
------------
Submitting forms by [ajax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29) is nice and looks good but in rare cases causes problems:
- There are other plugins which also use Ajax or extensive JavaScript functions which will not work in Ajax-called page. So if you want to include such plugins in the “Final screen” of your quizzes, some of them won’t work. (For example some charting libraries). This problem gets solved if you submit the form normally.
- Selecting “no ajax” is required to allow user upload files in open-end questions because uploading files by ajax is unreliable*.
When you look at it, the difference between a quiz submitted by ajax, and one submitted normally is very minor for the user – one page refresh.
Uploading Files
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When you enable “no ajax” submitting for some quizzes you will be able to allow file uploading for open-end questions. This is configured individually for each open-end question by checking a checkbox in the “Add / Edit Question” page:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/file-upload.png)
There are also configurations for accepted file size and file type. These are set at a global level in your WatuPRO Settings page.
* Yes, I know it’s 2014 and uploading via ajax is not entirely impossible. However it’s unreliable, javascript-heavy and not supported by older browsers. So for now we’ll stick to the regular file upload.
Subscribe By Sending Email in Arigato PRO
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From version 2.2.7 the WordPress autoresponder plugin Arigato PRO supports “Subscribe by sending email” feature.
Here is how it works: you need to designate an email address and enter your POP3 login details in the new “Subscribe by Email” page:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/subscribe-by-email-pop3.png)
Then the plugin’s cron job will login once per day to this account and will check all emails older less than one week. The users who sent email to this address will get subscribed to the selected mailing list(s) and accordingly to the settings you set:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/subscribe-by-email-lists.png)
You can specify a phrase in the email subject that will be used to recognize who should subscribe (so spam or other random email won’t be processed). This lets you even to use the email address for other correspondence although this is not recommended.
How Do I Get The Update?
------------------------
If you are not yet a customer, please [purchase the plugin](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) from our site. If you are existing customer eligible for upgrade we will send you upgrade by a newsletter when version 2.3 is completed. Don’t want to wait? Email us and we’ll send you 2.2.7 right away.
Namaste! LMS to WatuPRO Play Bridge
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This is a tiny bridge for customers who use both Namaste! LMS and the WatuPRO Play plugin. It lets you do two things:
- Assign badges from WatuPRO play for completing courses in Namaste! LMS. These badges will be assigned without considering the badge requirements. if you want badges which will be assigned for completing courses but cannot be assigned through taking quizzes, simply assign very high requirements (for example a million points or over 100% correct answers) so the badge can never be earned from WatuPRO but only from Namaste
- You can also transfer the points earned in Namaste (if using the Namaste points system) to the user’s balance in WatuPRO Play. Then they can use these points to earn levels, badges, or redeem rewards.
**[Download the plugin here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/namaste-play-bridge.zip)**
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/namplay.png)
Collect User Contact Information With WatuPRO
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**Note: From version 4.4.3 to version 4.4.4.5 there is a small bug in the Advanced Settings page (Intelligence module).** When you save the advanced settings it will remove the contact info feature settings. If you are running any of these versions please let us know to send you update. Update will anyway be sent to everyone when we release version **4.5** so there is nothing to hurry about unless you use the Advanced Settings page and have a version between 4.4.3 and 4.4.4.5.
From version 4.4.3 the quiz plugin [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro) has an easier way to collect the following information from every quiz taker:
- User email
- Name
- Company name
- Phone
The best thing is that you can easily set this to happen before or after taking the quiz. Here is how the new setting looks in the Add / Edit Quiz page under “User and Email Related Settings”:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ask-for-contacts.png)
That’s it. The software will figure out how to display this depending on your quiz settings.
And more, for logged in users it will automatically prepopulate email and name. This is what you call easy.
Thus collected information will be visible to you in the quiz results page.
Moreover, if you have selected to email the user their results, the quiz will use the information from these fields and no longer open “Enter email” field on top of the page. (The field will still appear if you don’t select “Ask for email” but select “Email user their results”). So every possible situation is covered.
Other and older (more complicated) methods:
-------------------------------------------
The older methods of obtaining user contact information still exist and you can still use them:
- Request contact information with open-end “survey” type questions
- Request user and email with your own tags like explained [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/request-email-and-name-to-submit-a-quiz-watupro/).
While both methods will keep working, we strongly recommend you to start using the new option. It is really much simpler for you.
How To Integrate Arigato PRO with Contact Form 7
================================================
From version 2.2.4 our premium newletter and auto-responder WordPress plugin [Arigato PRO](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) has a built-in integration with [Contact Form 7](http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/). This is the most popular contact form for WordPress so we decided to simply build the integration inside our software instead of creating additional plugins.
What Does It Integrate?
-----------------------
The integration allows you to use your existing contact forms also as subscribe form for the autoresponder. This way you can have users who ask you questions also subscribe to your newsletter or marketing campaign. Don’t worry, it’s not automated – the user will be given a checkbox for the mailing list(s) you want to offer them. You can even include custom fields from the mailing list into the contact form:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/contact-form.png)
How To Do It?
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1. Go to your “Mailing lists” page. You will see a link “**Integrate in contact form**” in the “**Subscribe form**” column of the table:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/integrate-link.png)
2. Click on it and you’ll be taken to a page that gives you two things:
a) Shortcode for the checkbox. You can make it checked by default, and optionally assign CSS class and HTML ID. The text next to the checkbox defaults to “Subscribe for {list-name}”:[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/list-shortcode.png)
b) The right side of the page will show you all custom fields in the list if there are any. You can also get shortcode for each of these fields:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/custom-fields.png)
3) Any of these custom fields along with the “subscribe” checkbox shortcode can then be placed inside your Contact Form 7 contact form. Go to “Contact” in your WordPress admin menu (obviously the plugin Contact Form 7 must be installed and activated) and click to edit the contact form. Then place the shortcodes from BroadFast anywhere you want them to appear:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/place-shortcodes.png)
4. That’s it. Now your contact form will also act as subscribe form for your mailing list(s).
Note the following:
- You can include checkboxes for more than one mailing list
- The user’s email will be auto-confirmed if the mailing list does not require double opt-in confirmation. If the list requires confirmation, a confirmation email will be sent – just like with a regular subscribe form.
- The information from custom fields that are included in the contact form will not come to your Contact form 7 email but will be recorded along with the user’s data and visible in your subscriber’s data.
- From version 2.7.1 of Arigato PRO you can include the [bftpro-int-chk list_id=”…”] shortcode of each list inside your Contact form 7 message. This way you’ll get yes/no confirmation showing if the user has checked that list. Especially useful if you allow the user to subscribe for multiple mailing lists.
WatuPRO 4.4 - Matrix Questions, New Pagination Options, Free Add-Ons and more
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The new version of [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/), the best WordPress Quiz plugin, is now ready. The version is 4.4, and the improvements from 4.3 to 4.4 are listed below:
1. New pagination option – show custom number of questions per page
2. Option to randomize categories when questions are grouped by category
3. You can now create default grades which can be reused from or copied into every quiz
4. A new question type – True / False is available as sub-type of “Single choice” questions
5. First name and last name (when available) are added to the export of the results
6. Logged in users can switch-off the automated emails for completed quizzes
7. The email that is sent to user when quiz is completed can now be restricted based on the achieved grade. So you can select grades that will initiate the email and grades that will not.
8. Pagination of 50 questions per page is added in the “Manage questions” admin page
9. New option lets you blank out some of the fields from the quiz results to save DB space, without losing reports and points-related data.
10. A free WatuPRO Simple Designer add-on is available for changing the quiz UI. More info [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-simple-designer-plugin/).
11. “My Quizzes” page will show also previous attempts on the same quiz
12. Now advanced users can create their own version of any of the program layout pages (the “views”) and can customize them. (See the Help page inside your WatuPRO menu)
13. New option lets you deactivate a quiz. This makes it inaccessible and removes it from “My quizzes” page and the shortcodes that return list of quizzes.
14. Match / Matrix question type (Intelligence module)
15. Advanced setting option lets you not load logged in user progress when they come back to unfinished paginated quiz (Intelligence module)
16. Two performance improvements have been made: quizzes paginated “one question per page” will no longer save user data on the fly (but you can enable it with a checkbox, and it will be auto-enabled for your old quizzes to avoid forcing you do manuall work). The second performance tuning requires the advanced settings page (Intelligence module) and lets you switch off storing question text along with user answers in the database
17. %%USER-NAME%% variable can be used to display user’s name on the FInal screen / email content. The variable uses the value entered in {{{name-field}}}. If empty, displays the logged in user name. If empty, displays “Guest”.
18. Two new variables available for the Final Screen – %%AVG-POINTS%% and %%AVG-PERCENT%% showing respectively the average points and % correct answers achieved by other quiz takers.
19. Shortcodes for poll-like charts let you publish how all user’s answers are distributed in a question. More info: http://blog.calendarscripts.info/using-watupro-for-polls-new-shortcodes-from-reporting-module/ (Reporting module)
20. Fixed problem with showing the same certificate earned multiple times on different quizzes
21. Fixed problems with using multiple “chart by grade” shortcodes on a page
22. Fixed bug that was showing the categories of hidden questions on the final screen, when the quiz is paginated one question per page.
23. Fixed bug with personality quiz questions – these should not display correct/incorrect checkmarks
The free upgrade has been sent to eligible customers. If your free upgrades package has expired, you will receive a promo code to renew with 60% discount. Or feel free to contact us for the code. Renewal is optional – you can keep using the latest version you have as long as you need it.
How To Copy WatuPRO Data from One Site To Another?
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This is a frequently asked question about the quiz plugin [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/).
If you want to copy only a single quiz it might be easier to export and import questions from the “Manage Questions” page. More info about export/import formats is available [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/new-imports-from-watupro-4-2-3/).
On the other hand, if you want to copy all your quizzes, takings data, and so on, it’s much better to do it through **phpMyAdmin**. (See [how to access phpMyAdmin on your host](https://support.hostgator.com/articles/cpanel/how-to-access-phpmyadmin-from-cpanel). If your hosting control panel is different you may need to ask your hosting support.). Here are the steps you need to do **assuming WordPress is already installed on your new site**.
1. In your **old site** go to phpMyAdmin and export all tables that contain “watupro” in their name. When exporting, include **structure and data**. [See how](https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/exporting-databases-and-tables-with-phpmyadmin/).
2. Go to your **new site**, load phpMyAdmin and **import the exported file there**.
3. Install WatuPRO on the new site. It will recognize the imported data.
Using WatuPRO for Polls (New Shortcodes From Reporting Module)
==============================================================
From version 4.3.7 the quiz plugin [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) supports “poll-like” shortcodes through the [Reporting module](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/modules.html). The shortcodes render a simple bar chart showing how all users have answered a given question. Here’s an example from our [open demo quiz:](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-demo-exam/) (note that it pulls random 3 of 5 questions so the frog question will not always be loaded) [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/frog-question.png) In this example the chart is shown immediately after answering the quiz. It can however be used everywhere, including in some custom made pages. The shortcode can show either how each answer distributes (for “single choice” and “multiplce choice” questions), or the distribution of correct / incorrect answers (for all other question types). You can get the shortcode for each question from add / edit question page: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/frog-question-edit.png) Clicking on “How to configure” will take you to the help page which explains how you can change the colors or show “correct/incorrect” chart instead of distribution per answer. **Note that this functionality requires the Reporting module.**
An SQL Query
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You like this so much that you want to add it in the optional “answer explanation” are of all your existing thousands of questions? You can do it with an SQL query:
**`UPDATE wp_watupro_question SET explain_answer = CONCAT(explain_answer, '[', 'watupror-poll question_id="', ID, '"]');`** Note that you may need to change “wp_watupro_question” depending on how the table prefix is named in your installation. Social Sharing Addon for WatuPRO ================================ **Update: from WatuPRO version 4.6.3 this functionality is embedded in the plugin and you don’t need the social sharing add-on.** We hear you! The old “shareable final screen” feature wasn’t good enough especially for sharing quiz results on Facebook and Twitter. So here we come with this free social sharing addon: [Download watupro-share plugin](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/watupro-share.zip) Current version: **0.7** Requires **WatuPRO 4.3.4.7** or newer version. Currently it can generate **Facebook** and **Twitter** share buttons. How To Use It? -------------- Download the plugin from the link above, install from your **WordPress Plugins -> Add New -> Upload page,** and activate it. ### For Facebook Sharing: 1. Go to the new “Social Sharing” page that will appear under your “Watu PRO” menu and set up your Facebook APP Id. If you don’t have any, [get one here](https://developers.facebook.com/apps). 2. Make sure to select “Website” for “App Platform” on your app Settings page: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/app-platform.png) 3. Then add your site URL and allow the domain in “App Domains”: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/app-site-url.png) 4. Finally, use the shortcode to display the sharing button in the “Final Screen” area of the “Add/Edit Quiz” page: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/final-screen-share.png) Pressing the button will use the achieved **grade title** and **grade description** to be shared on Facebook. And the link will go back to the quiz page so users who follow will be able to take the quiz. ### For Twitter Sharing: Simply select “Show Tweet button” and fill the rest of the fields as you see fit: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/twitter-sharing.png) About Images In Facebook ------------------------ If the **grade description** contains an image, it will also be used when sharing. If there is more than one image, the first one will be used. If you want to select a specific image from several that are included in the grade description, simply add CSS class **watupro-share** to it. Enjoy and let us know your thoughts! WatuPRO Simple Designer Plugin ============================== This is a small free add-on for our quiz plugin [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) that lets you redesign the way some questions work. The result is very effective as you can see on [this version](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/open-quiz-new-design/) of our open demo quiz. Instead of selecting radio buttons and checkboxes users will click on the answers directly. And depending on what you select in the settings of the new plugin the correct/incorrect check-mark can be displayed immediately. Note: the plugin does not work well with the following option selected in WatuPRO:  Better choose some of the WatuPRO design themes with “buttons” in their name instead of the SImple Designer to achieve similar functionality. Download WatuPRO Simple Designer: --------------------------------- [Download version 1.1 (16kb)](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/watupro-simple-designer.zip) Please note this plugin requires that you have WatuPRO. It won’t do anything without it. How To Use It: -------------- Once installed and activated, a new link will appear under your WatuPRO menu: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/simple-designer-in-menu.png) Click on it and you’ll be taken to the plugin settings page. Choose colors there, define whether the result should be shown immediately (note: means more Ajax requests to your server), and select which quizzes you want this design applied to: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/simple-designer.png) That’s it. Once set up, you’ll see the changes. Category Tabs ------------- From version 0.7 this plugin adds one more enhancement. For quizzes paginated “one page per question category” you will be able to use nice shortcodes for category tabs. See the “Simple Designer” page in your WatuPRO menu (after installing version 0.7) for more info. True / False Questions in WatuPRO ================================= From version 4.3.2 [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/), the WordRress quiz plugin, supports a True / False question type. This is a sub-type of the “single answer” questions and can be enabled by selecting the checkbox which shows only when “Single answer” is selected: [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/truefalse.png) What are the specifics of True / False Questions? ------------------------------------------------- They are single-choice questions and generate radio buttons just like them. However: - When you select this type the two answers are automatically added (saves time) - These answers never randomize – True is always on top - There are always exactly two answers shown – True and False, regardless of any limits set for the quiz. True / false questions are small but very useful addition built per customer requests. WatuPRO 4.3 - New Import Formats, New PDF Bridge, and More ========================================================== Version 4.3 of [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/), the WordPress quiz plugin, is now ready: 1. A major rework has been done on import/export (the legacy formats are still supported). Now we have a very simple format, advanced format with all properties, and Aiken format. More info at[ http://blog.calendarscripts.info/new-imports-from-watupro-4-2-3/](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/new-imports-from-watupro-4-2-3/) 2. Marking a question as important ensures it will get included with priority if you are pulling only subset of all quiz questions 3. The free PDF Bridge has been reworked to use the MPF library. Now it can work with foreign characters and complicated designs 4. The {{{points}}} variable can now be used in the “Optional answer explanation” field to display how many points the user has earned on the question. 5. Added “% Correct answers” to the results list page (also in the filters & exports on the page) 6. When copying quizzes from the free Watu you can now select the shortcodes to be automatically replaced with WatuPRO shortcodes 7. You can also copy the current user results from Watu basic to WatuPRO 8. A new display code lets you include the individual user’s answer to each question into the final screen or certificate contents. You’ll find the code at the top of the Edit Question page 9. Mass-apply new category to selected questions on the Manage Questions page 10. Option to penalize unanswering a question with a number of negative points 11. Configuration allows you to select whether to show “My Quizzes” and “My certificates” pages in user dashboard. If you have the Reporting module, you can also select which tabs to be shown there. 12. Option to randomize answers but not questions 13. A new variable %%TIME-SPENT%% in the final screen shows the time spent when taking the test. 14. A new option lets users make each of their certificates visible by everyone (including non-logged in visitors) 15. You can view who and when has started but not finished a quiz, and delete these attempts 16. The shortcodes that display lists of quizzes now let you order them by title or by latest on top. Check the Help and Categories pages for more information. 17. You can choose to not show paid quizzes that have not been purchased in “My quizzes” page (Intelligence module) 18. Sorting questions can now be treated as a whole and assign points when the entire set is sorted correctly or not (Intelligence module) 19. Advanced setting option lets you switch off the “You did not select or enter any answer” confirmation popup (Intelligence module) 20. Advanced setting lets you enable enumeration on answers – numeric or alphabetic (Intelligence module) 21. Shortcodes to display “Stats per question”, “All question answers” and “Chart by grade” pages (Reporting module) 22. Fixed edge case bugs with “redirect to shareable final screen” option 23. Watupro is now qTranslate compatible so you can easily have multi-language quizzes. Eligible customers have received their upgrade. In case your one year free upgrades / support package has expired you can renew it for 40% of the regular price. WatuPRO Community Translations ============================== Thanks to some of our customers we are starting a page with community translations for WatuPRO. If you have translated the plugin and want to share your work with the others, please let us know on info@calendarscripts.info! German Translation ------------------ The following translations, actual to version 6.7.2 have been provided by [Tobias Eichner](http://www.tobiaseichner.com/) – a business consultant helping businesses to get their web projects up and running. [Watu Pro](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/watu-pro.zip) [WatuPro Play](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/watu-play.zip) Thanks to [Peter Baumgartner](http://peter.baumgartner.name) we have German translations for WatuPRO, WatuPRO Play and the free Watu: - [Watu translation](http://peter.baumgartner.name/goodies/uebersetzungen/watu-deutsche-uebersetzung/) - [WatuPRO translation](http://peter.baumgartner.name/goodies/uebersetzungen/watupro-deutsche-uebersetzung/) - [WatuPRO Play translation](http://peter.baumgartner.name/goodies/uebersetzungen/watupro-play-deutsche-uebersetzung/) Mr. Baumgartner has also translated [Namaste! LMS](http://namaste-lms.org). Links to his translations can be found at the bottom of [Namaste! Help page](http://namaste-lms.org/help.php). Dutch Translation ----------------- The currently most up-to-date Dutch translation is provided by Casper Rutten:
From version 6.4.7.5 of WatuPRO you can skip adding the parameters manually. On Edit Quiz -> Intelligence module tab, once you set a price for the quiz you will see a drop-down selector of all products that are both downloadable and virtual. Selecting a product will automatically create the proper attributes:
In this case you can skip the section below, the section “Redirecting to the quiz”, and the section “Payment Settings in WatuPRO”.
**To see this box you need at least one downloadable and virtual product. In the new Woo versions this happens by marking No shipping:
[](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screenshot-from-2024-05-10-18-13-01.png)**
And then adding at least one file for download from the General tab in the Edit Product page in Woo.
**Read this the rest of this section only if you don’t use the simpler method described in the yellow box above.**
Name them any way you want, give any price you want. **Mark them downloadable and virtual products so WooCommerce will automatically mark orders completed on payment (this is fairly important!)**. The price given in WooCommerce does NOT need to match the price given in WatuPRO. The only important thing is to create a custom attribute with name “watupro” and value containing the ID of the quiz you want to sell:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wwbridge-product.png)**Note! Do not create these attributes as custom attribute type from the separate WooCommerce Attributes menu.** It needs to be done like on the image above -just enter “watupro” in the small box and the ID in the big box. The drop-down at right should be saying “Custom product attribute”.
How do you know the quiz ID? Simple, it’s the number in the quiz shortcode:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wwbridge-quiz-id.png)
That’s all, you can start selling access to quizzes. You can add coupons, bundles, and so on -anything that you would do with your WooCommerce products.
When the payment of order is completed, the access to any associate WatuPRO quizzes will get activated. If the user is not logged in and does not exist, an user account will be created on the fly.
The access to the quiz will not be granted until the payment is **COMPLETED** in WooCommerce. If you see the orders in your WooCommerce admin and their status is different than “completed” this is most likely because you have missed to mark the product “Downloadable” AND “Virtual”.
Redirect to the Quiz
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**Read this section only if you don’t use the simpler method described in the yellow box above.**
From version 0.8 the bridge supports automated redirecting after the order is paid. Just add another custom attribute to the same product. The attribute must have name **watupro-redirect** and value the URL of the quiz. You can also use any other URL if for some reason you want to redirect elsewhere.
If the user purchase multiple quizzes in one shopping cart they will be redirected to the first purchased product which has the “watupro-redirect” attribute.
Selling Quiz Bundles
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From version 0.9 the bridge also allows selling quiz bundles (note: bundles are available for users of the WatuPRO Intelligence module). The process of setting up a bundle is exactly the same as of a quiz, but the attribute name should be **watupro-bundle** instead of just “watupro”. The IDs of the bundles are visible on the Manage Bundles page.
Payment Settings in WatuPRO
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**Read this section only if you don’t use the simpler method described in the yellow box above.**
From version 1.2 this bridge allows you to control how the quiz page behaves if visited by the user before the quiz is paid for. You can either redirect automatically to the WooCommerce product page or display a text with link so the user goes there themselves.
To access the settings go to WooCommerce Bridge link under your WatuPRO menu:
**IMPORTANT:** If you choose the second option and WooCommerce is the only payment option you use, you’ll need to put at least something in the “Other payment instructions” box in the WatuPRO Settings page. Enter some generic instruction or even just an icon or image, otherwise WatuPRO will display “no payment methods set up” error.
Here’s an example of what the content from the above image and “…” on the “Other payment instructions” box produces:
Note that WatuPRO Coupon codes will not work in WooCommerce and vice-versus.
Allow Dashboard Access
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Since a while WooCommerce started hiding the WP dashboard from users. This may be OK for some customers who use the shortcodes to put “My Quizzes” etc. pages on the front-end, but not for all. If you still want to allow your students to access the standard WP dashboard, you can do it from the “WooCommerce Bridge” link under the WatuPRO menu:
Charging for Certificates
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From version 1.3 you can also handle certificate payments through WooCommerce. The principle is very similar but the product attribute you need to use is “watupro-certificate”. For value enter the **certificate ID** (not the quiz ID):
**Do not use the watupro-redirect attribute with certificates.** Because certificate links are dynamic, the user will automatically be redirected to view the certificate after payment (unless they have many products in the shopping cart in which case they may be redirected elsewhere or stay on the success page).
When a certificate requires payment and is not yet paid for, and there is associated WooCommerce product, the “view/print certificate” link will automatically redirect the visitor to the WooCommerce product page.
Troubleshooting
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In case user does not gain access to the quiz after paying, check the following:
1. Your WooCommerce product must be marked as **Virtual** AND **Downloadable**.
2. The custom attribute must have name “**watupro**” (all small letters) and its value must be the ID of the quiz you are selling. Double check you have entered the correct ID.
3. Check the order status of the WooCommerce order. It must be **Completed**. Any other order status will not mark the quiz as paid.
4. Make sure the page with the quiz is not cached by a caching pluigin. A cached page may always show payment buttons instead of dynamically changing its behavior.
### Changelog Version 1.0
We have updated the plugin to work with Woocommerce 2.6.11. The older versions of the bridge will not work when “watupro-redirect” is used!
### Changelog Version 1.1
The plugin provides “allow dashboard access” option explained above.
### Changelog Version 1.3
Added support for paid certificates. Quiz and certificate pages will automatically redirect to the WooCommerce product for payment when such is available.
Using The Free PDF Bridge Plugin in WatuPRO and Namaste! LMS
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From version 4.1.8, in addition to DocRaptor, WatuPRO supports free PDF generation via the **PDF Bridge** plugin. It uses the [MPDF library](https://mpdf.github.io/) and is capable to parse rather complicated designs and texts different languages.
(Now also available for Namaste! LMS)
[Download The PDF Bridge Here (version 2.0.1, 47 MB – for PHP 8+)](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pdf-bridge.zip)
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[Download The New PDF Bridge Here (version 1.9, 8 MB – for PHP 7.3+)](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pdf-bridge-1.9.zip)
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Older PHP version users can still use [version 1.4.3](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pdf-bridge-php6.zip). See also the note about fonts at the bottom of this page.
**If you have problems with broken fonts in the PDF** [see below](#fonts).
**Note: this file is big and uploading through your WP Admin -> Plugins page may not work.** In such case you need to upload the unzipped folder by FTP or upload the zip from your hosting control panel account.
Install the plugin and activate it. Then in your Certificates page, under the certificates you’ll see options to generate PDFs either through DocRaptor or the free plugin. That’s all you need to set up.
From PDF Bridge version 0.4 and WatuPRO version 4.6.2.1 and above you can also set up page size and orientation in the Add / Edit Certificate page:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/pdf-settings.png)
**From version 1.0 the bridge also supports placing a background image.**
**In Namaste! LMS these options will appear if you have installed PDF Bridge version 0.7 or newer.**
Troubleshooting
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1. **Images do not appear in certificates or you are getting an Image not found error.** Almost always this is a problem with DNS configuration on your server: it does not resolve correctly to localhost. You have two options:
a) Upload your image on a different domain and link to it.
b) Contact your hosting support or server admin to fix the DNS misconfiguration. More information about this can be found [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23514062/mpdf-not-rendering-images-mpdf-error-image-error-could-not-find-image-file).It’s also possible that there is a permissions issue with your server configuration: many webmasters or server admins make wp-content folder not accessible for scripts and MPDF can’t fetch the images from it. In such cases you should either remove the limitation (usually from your .htaccess file) or copy the images to the root of your site and change the paths in the certificate.
**From your main Settings page, PDF Bridge menu link you can switch off and on showing image errors.**
2. **Other design issues.** MPDF library is capable to convert most properly written HTML code into PDF but there is no guarantee that every possible design will be converted. If you experience problems you need to check the MPDF documentation or try different approaches in your HTML code. We are not the authors of MPDF and can’t provide assistance with such issues.
3. **Blank page / server errors.** Note that MPDF requires the PHP **mbstring** extension to be enabled. Not having mbstring is the most common reason for errors. If your case is different you must obtain information about the exact error caused from the server error log or from errors shown on the screen.
Regarding fonts:
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To keep the bridge size reasonable we are using a stripped version of the MPDF library including only the essential fonts. If you need all fonts (for example for Chinese, Japanese languages, etc) you have two options:
- To use [version 1.4.3](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pdf-bridge-php6.zip)
- To manually download the fonts from [this page ](https://github.com/mpdf/mpdf/tree/development/ttfonts) and upload them in folder pdf-bridge/lib/vendor/mpdf/mpdf/ttfonts. You also need to open /pdf-bridge/lib/vendor/mpdf/In the exam description field simply enter any of the following two codes at the places where you want the fields to appear:
{{{name-field}}}
{{{email-field}}}
You can of course use only one of the fields if you wish. You can add any content around them, for example:
**Your name:** {{{name-field}}} *(please enter your full name)*
You can use the fields with or without a start button (the {{{button}}} tag), that’s up to you.
By default these fields are required and the user cannot submit the exam (when no “start” button is used) or reveal the exam contents (when “start” button is used) without filling the fields.
However you can make any of these fields optional if you add class “optional” to them. Like this:
Your name: {{{name-field class=”optional”}}} (so this is optional and won’t display an alert if left empty)
Your email (required): {{{email-field}}} (and this remains required)
You can also pass any HTML attributes if you want to style the fields beyond the default style. For example
{{{email-field size=”100″ onclick=”someJavascriptFunction();”}}}
and so on.
In Certificates:
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From version 4.1.4.6 exactly the same codes can be used to display the entered information in certificates. What if you use the same certificates for quizzes that use these codes and for quizzes that don’t use them? Don’t worry. The code {{{name-field}}} will then default to the behavior of the %%USER-NAME%% variable, and the {{{email-field}}} will be populated with the email from the user’s profile.
In the Final Screen / Email Contents
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To display the user name there please use the **%%USER-NAME%%** variable.
WatuPRO to Arigato PRO Bridge
=============================
Do you want the users who take your [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) quizzes to get signed up to a mailing list or an auto-responder marketing campaign?
This is now easy with the new bridge that connects WatuPRO to [Arigato PRO (a.k.a. BroadFast PRO)](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/). It will let you specify a relation between quizzes and mailing lists so when someone completes a specified quiz, they are automatically subscribed in the corresponding mailing list. The plugin will work even for non-logged in users as long as email is provided (which will be if you select “Email user their results” in the quiz settings).
From version 0.9 (updated in January 2020) you can also specify desired grade and thus have users achieving different grades be subscribed in different mailing lists.
**The bridge is absolutely free and can be [downloaded here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wbbridge.zip).**
Install and activate it. Then under your WatuPRO menu you’ll see a new page called “Bridge to Arigato PRO”. Download and enjoy it.
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wbbridge.png)
User Info Shortcodes from WatuPRO Version 4.1.1
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From WatuPRO version 4.1.1 and above you no longer need additional plugins to display data from user profile of the logged in user (if you want to display data for another user read the section “Passing User ID” at the bottom. **This is especially important if you will use the shortcodes in certificates.**) WatuPRO defines own shortcodes that are super easy to use.
If you are using the light version – the free Watu plugin, the shortcode **[watu-userinfo]** works exactly the same way.
Here is what you need:
**[watupro-userinfo profile_field]** where “profile field” is the field from the user profile you want to display. For example:
**[watupro-userinfo display_name]** will display the user display name
**[watupro-userinfo first_name]** and **[watupro-userinfo last_name]** will display respectively the first and last name and so on. The full list of default user fields is here:
ID
user_login
user_pass
user_nicename
user_email
user_url
user_registered
display_name
first_name
last_name
But this is not all. You can also display ANY value from the user_meta table as long as you know the key, even if it’s created by another plugin. For example [watupro-userinfo namaste_points] will display the points collected in Namaste! LMS and so on.
One great plugin for managing user_meta is [Advanced Custom Fields.](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/)
Showing Defaults (and handling non-logged in users)
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You can prepare a default value to be shown if the user is not logged in, or simply if the value is empty. You just need to pass the default as second argument to the shortcode. Here is example:
`Hello [watupro-userinfo first_name "Friend"]!`
Passing User ID
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This feature requires min. WatuPRO version 4.9.1.4.
By default this shortcode displays data for the currently logged in user. However you can pass user ID by adding “user_id” attribute **after the other attributes**. The user_id attribute can contain fixed number (the ID of the user). In certificates it can contain “certificate” in which case the user ID will be figured out from the certificate owner (please don’t use “certificate” outside of the certificate contents, it will not work).
Examples:
`[watupro-userinfo first_name "Friend" user_id="5"][watupro-userinfo user_url user_id="certificate"]` The user_id attribute can contain “quiz-taker” in the page that lets you configure email for manually edited results (Intelligence module). Example: `[watupro-userinfo first_name "Friend" user_id="quiz-taker"]` That’s it. Use the new shortcodes in the final screen, in certificates, in the email contents, anywhere. You can use them even in areas outside of WatuPRO – for example in post or pages, in the sidebar, etc. WatuPRO 4.1: Question Hints, Multiuser Management, PDF Certificates, And More ============================================================================= Here are the new and improved features in WatuPRO 4.1: 1. New powerful feature – question hints. They are optional, you can enable multiple hints for every question, and specify how many hints the user is allowed to see total in the quiz and per question. 2. New detailed report showing a list of all answers on a question (Reporting module). 3. You can now add a custom “Start” button on each quiz which will hide the quiz content until the button is clicked (works both on timed and non-timed quizzes). More info here. 4. Improved interface on “Copy questions” page lets you see them grouped by category. 5. Option to cleanup all taking data on specific exam. 6. Added visible Paypal error log for seeing payment errors (Intelligence module). 7. Multiuser management is now available in the Intelligence module (there is a link on the WatuPRO Settings page, right under Role management). 8. PDF certificates can be generated through DocRaptor. 9. Custom roles can also be selected to manage exams. 10. The text “Question 1 of X” is not shown when the quiz has only 1 question. 11. Added a second import method to solve problems that some customers have with importing questions with foreign characters. 12. You can choose to add the new question in the beginning instead of at the end of the quiz. 13.
Improved performance and fixed small bug with backslashes on “Stats per questions” page
(Reporting module).
14. Improved the way “Fill the gaps” question look when submitted (Intelligence module).
15. Added link to view / print certificate from the “users who earned it” page.
16. Automatically redirecting non logged in users to login page when trying to view certificates.
17. Added required question warning when quiz is paginated one page per question category.
18. Fixed bug with category grades showing in the “re-submitting is allowed only if…” section.
19. Fixed bug with importing multiple categories when you import XLS file with new question categories.
The upgrade is sent to all eligible customers.
Create Start Button in WatuPRO Using The {{{button}}} Tag
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Since version 4.0.8 WatuPRO supports starting the quiz with a start buttons, similar to how other plugins do it. We don’t do this by default because it’s not suitable for all cases. But it’s super easy to configure, and this page will show you how.
**Please do not use this together with “Ask for user contact details” setting. When you require user contact details, the button is created automatically when appropriate.**
The start button tag should be placed into the quiz description box, and it will render a HTML button tag. More about this later.
Timed and Non-Timed Quizzes
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First, note the difference between timed quizzes (quizzes with time-limit) and non-timed quizzes (quizzes without time limed). If you place the start button in a **timed quiz,** the start button will appear in the place of our default “Click here to start exam” link. If you place the start button in a **non-timed quiz,** the button will appear where you have placed it in the description.
See [example timed quiz](http://demoblog.calendarscripts.info/sample-timed-quiz/) and [example non-timed quiz](http://demoblog.calendarscripts.info/basic-exam/).
Configure the button
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By default placing the {{{button}}} tag will generate a HTML button tag with default style and text “Start Exam”. But you can easily customize this:
`{{{button "Start My Quiz Now"}}}` – just add text in quotes after the button word (don’t forget the space) and WatuPRO will generate the button with that text.
`{{{button "Start My Quiz Now" "color:green;background-color:black;padding:20px;"}}}` – add any CSS as third argument (note the space and the quotes) and WatuPRO will apply your CSS to the button.
Easy!
Using Category Grades or Showing Performance Per Category in Watu PRO
=====================================================================
This short visual guide will clarify the common misconceptions about using “category grades” in [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/).
Note: **Creating category grades is optional. You can show category performance with points and percent correct answers even without creating category grades. Just skip step 2 and don’t use the grade variables in step 3 (but feel free to use any other variables).**
If you prefer watching a video, here’s a 3 minutes video tutorial that shows you the most important things. For full details please still read the documentation on this page.
Here is the procedure step-by-step:
**Step 1.** **Make sure you have question categories.**
Category grades make sense only if you have categorized the questions in your test. Typically you will have at least two question categories.
**Step 2. Create your grades.**
**Creating category grades is optional. You can show category performance with points and percent correct answers even without creating category grades.**
Go to the Grades page for the exam and select the desired question category you want to create grades for. The page will reload and then you can create and manage the grades for the category.
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/category-grade-dropdown.png)
The category grades look just like the “whole exam” grades. If you use points and not % good answer don’t forget to consider only the possible sum of points **within the category**, not the total points of the whole exam.
**Step 3. Create the category grade output**
Under the drop-down selector there is a link “Design the common category grade output for this quiz”. Click on it to open a box like the one shown below:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/gradecat-design.png)
Note the variables listed below. Some of them are the same as on the “Final screen”, but not all.
On the same page under that box you can control how the categories are ordered and how many of them to show:
This whole design will be repeated once for each category when you use the %%CATGRADES%% variable on the “Final screen”.
**On the same section you can select that subcategories will sum up their performance into their parent categories.** If this is selected the subcategories will not be included in the %%CATGRADES%% loop variable.
**Step 4. Display category grades on the Final screen.**
You simply need to include the %%CATGRADES%% variable as shown below:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/catgrades-final.png)
The variable will be populated with the output you designed in step 2, and it will be repeated once for each question category used in the quiz.
Here is how the output would look like:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/catgrades-output.png)
Manually Craft The Output
-------------------------
As you see, by default %%CATGRADES%% is automatically replaced by your content in a loop.
Sometimes you may want to manually design this output so you can arrange the categories in different way. You can do it this way:
1. Ignore the %%CATGRADES%% variable and the “category grade output” (steps 3 and 4 above).
2. Instead of this use the following variables directly in the “Final page / Quiz output” box:
**%%CATEGORY-NAME-X%%**
**%%CATEGORY-DESCRIPTION-X%%**
**%%CATEGORY-CORRECT-X%%** (no. correct answers given in the category)
**%%CATEGORY-WRONG-X%%** (no. wrong answers given in the category, from WatuPRO 6.4.5.5)
**%%CATEGORY-EMPTY-X%%** (no. unanswered questions in the category, from WatuPRO 6.4.5.5)
**%%CATEGORY-TOTAL-X%%** (total number of questions answered in the category)
**%%CATEGORY-POINTS-X%%** (points collected in the category)
**%%CATEGORY-PERCENTAGE-X%%** (% correct achieved)
%%CATEGORY-GTITLE-X%% (grade title of the assigned grade, if any)
%%CATEGORY-GDESCRIPTION-X%% (grade description, if any)
**%%CATEGORY-PERCENTAGEOFMAX-X%%** (% from maximum points in that category collected, variable available from WatuPRO v. 5.0.8.1)
%%CATEGORY-ANSWERS-X%% (the %%ANSWERS%% variable only for this category, added in WatuPRO 6.6.9)
%%CATEGORY-UNRESOLVED-X%% (the %%UNRESOLVED%% variable only for this category, added in WatuPRO 6.6.9)
**Note that X is the Category ID. You can see all category IDs at the “Question categories” page.**
From WatuPRO version 5.8.4.5 the variables that you see **in bold** can also be used directly in certificates. The variables that are NOT bold will work only if you have explicitly selected the option “Store full category grades along with the results” at the Edit Quiz -> Advanced Settings tab, section “Advanced Workflow Settings”. Note that this selection can result in large database space usage.
Creating Charts
---------------
If you have the Reporting Module installed you can create a chart like this:
Simply embed the shortcode **watupror-user-cat-chart.** It accepts some parameters explained in the internal Help page of the plugin.
Since version 6.2.2.5 the plugin with the Reporting module can also generate two pie charts:
The points based pie chart shows the points collected per question category:
The shortcode to display the above chart is **`[watupror-pie-chart radius=150 from="points"]`**. The “radius” parameter is optional and defaults to 100 (pixels).
The same shortcode but used with attribute **from=”correct”** will display one pie for each question category, showing percent correct vs. percent wrong answers:
When **from=”correct”** you can also pass **draw_unanswered=1** to generate charts with 3 sectors – for correctly answered, wrongly answered, and unanswered questions. Example:
**`[watupror-pie-chart radius=150 from="correct" draw_unanswered=1]`**
*(the above parameter is available from WatuPRO 6.4.6)*
You can learn about all available charts in the Reporting module [here](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/charts-in-watupro-reporting-module).
### Pie Charts in Email and PDF
Note that the pie charts shown above are JavaScript based and won’t be displayed in email sent to user neither in PDF output. There is a solution for this: if your server has the GD library installed (most web hosts have it), you can use the GD version which produces real images.
To use this mode you need to pass attribute mode=”gd” to the shortcode, for example like this:
**`[watupror-pie-chart radius=150 from="points" mode="gd"]`**.
Myers-Briggs Personality Tests
------------------------------
A newer and probably better way of [creating Myers-Briggs tests is explained here](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/myers-briggs-tests-in-watupro/).
Using this feature with manually crafting the output is also a way to create Myers-Briggs personality tests. Here’s how to do it:
- Place your questions in five categories (for example Mind, Energy, Nature, Tactics, Identity)
- Create different category grades for each category. For mind you can have grades Extraverted and Introverted (use only the letters for grade title: E and I), for Energy Intuitive and Observant etc.
- In the final screen construct the 5 letter personality types by combining the grade titles of the 5 categories: **%%CATEGORY-GTITLE-1%%%%CATEGORY-GTITLE-2%%%%CATEGORY-GTITLE-3%%%%CATEGORY-GTITLE-4%%-%%CATEGORY-GTITLE-5%%**
- Then if you wish you can construct the explanation text from the descriptions of all category grades similar to how you constructed the title above
Test Grade Based on Question Category Performance
-------------------------------------------------
From 5.5.8 you can define final test grade which depends on the performance of each question category. This is the best way to handle complicated and non-standard tests. Learn more about this feature [here](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/test-grade-based-on-question-category-performance-watupro/).
Troubleshooting
---------------
**Problem:** Not all categories appear on the final screen.
**Solution:** This happens because you have added questions from categories whose order is not yet defined.Simply re-save the quiz and everything will be fine. If you want to change the category order you can do it from the Advanced Settings tab of the quiz.
Personality Quizzes in WatuPRO
==============================
A personality quiz is a quiz where the results do not depend on from-to points collected (or % correct answers) but the answers are directly matched to the result. So with a classical example of Intorvert / Extrovert type of quiz answer A of question 1 could be giving 1 point to Introvert category and answer B might be giving 2 points for Extrovert category. Answer A on quesiton 2 could be giving 3 points for Extrovert etc. At the end of the quiz the result that collected the most point is the respondent’s personality.
Here is a [really basic example](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/sample-personality-quiz-what-is-the-best-fruit-for-you/).
And here is how you can create such a quiz:
**1. You need the Intelligence module installed. When creating your quiz you need to check the following checkbox in the “Intelligence Module Settings” area:**
**2. It’s recommended to then go and create your Personality types:**
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/personality-grade.png)
Unlike Grades, the personality types do not have “from points” – “to points” setting. This is because they are directly matched to question answers (see below).
If you wish you can assign certificates just like in the knowledge quizzes.
**3. Create your questions**
When creating them, directly match the possible answers to the possible results:
If you wish you can use “Correct answer” and “points” fields but they usually don’t make sense in personality quizzes. Only the “Assign to grade” selection will be taken into account when calculating the result of the quiz.
**From WatuPRO version 5.0.3.2 and above points actually matter.** Quizzes work as they used to when you enter 0 or 1 point. We will count one point for the associated personality type(s) in both these cases (because adding zero when you have selected that personality type makes no sense). But this and future versions allow you to enter more points and they will be calculated to the associated personality type(s). So you can give some question or answer more weight by assigning 2 or more points to it.
Sortable questions are special case. Learn more about them [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/using-sorting-questions-in-personality-quizzes-watupro/).
**4. Setup your Final screen:**
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fina-screen-personality.png)
This is not too different than the final screen on knowledge quizzes and exams. Except that most probably you won’t use tags for number of points and correct answers (although you can include this information if you wish).
That’s it.
Elaborating Quiz Results
------------------------
You can also elaborate this by including information how the different personality types rank for the given quiz taker. The information below is also available in the internal Help page of the plugin:
The following shortcode can be used **only in the “Final Screen” and email box** to improve the content shown to the user on personality quizzes. Many personality quizzes work better when displaying not just the assigned personality type but also information how many answers the user gave for the other types. Here is how to use it with an example:
`[watupro-expand-personality-result sort="best" limit=3 empty="false"]
For personality type {{{personality-type}}} you gave {{{num-answers}}} answers ({{{percent-answers}}}% of all).
{{{personality-type-description}}}
[/watupro-expand-personality-result]
` **Inside this shortcode you can use ONLY the 3 curly-braced variables shown above, exactly the way you see them. Don’t use %%GRADE%%, %%GDESC%%, or %%GTITLE%% or other of the global variables inside the shortcode.** The text inside the shortcode will be repeated for every personality type. All the arguments in the shortcodes are optional: - **sort** defines how the types are sorted. You can sort by “best” (most answers collected type on top), “worst” (least on top), “alpha” (alphabetically by type title). If you don’t specify the parameter the types will be sorted by the order you created them. - **limit** can be used to limit the number of personality types shown after sorting. Will be useful if you have tens of personality types and want to show only the ones that user gave most answers for. Or set to “1” to display information only for the type they received as result. If you don’t include this parameter all the existing types will be shown. - **empty** defines whether the personality types that got 0 answers will be shown. When the parametter is skipped, they will be shown. When set to “false” they will be excluded. Multiple Personality Types -------------------------- From WatuPRO 5.3 in case several personality types rank first with the same number of “points” they will all be displayed to the quiz taker. If you have assigned certificates they won’t be issued in these cases (this may change in a future version). Note the option “Assign only one personality” in the Intelligence module tab (just under the “This is a personality quiz” checkbox). If you select it, you will have the quiz work the “old” way – in case of a tie only one personality type will be assigned instead of multiple personalities. Personality Chart ----------------- From version 6.1.4 you can use the shortcode **watupro-personality-chart** to print a bar chart from the performance on each personality type. **This shortcode can be used on the “Quiz output / Final page” box (or in the email contents sent right after completing the quiz).** Supported shortcode parameters: - **bar_width** is the width of each bar in pixels. Defaults to 200. - **label** is the text shown under each bar. It supports the variables {{personality-type}} and {{points}} - **colors** is comma separated string of desired colors of the bars. You can skip the parameter, then default set of colors will be used. Here is an example chart and the shortcode used to display it:  `[watupro-personality-chart bar_width=250 label="{{personality-type}}" colors="#AA0070, #B91ACC, #C0FA9F"]` **The chart will display up to 10 bars.** To pass **associative colors** (so you can attach a color to a personality) use the attribute **assoc_colors** instead of colors. Each color will consist of the numeric personality ID (visible in your Manage Personality Types page), a colon, and the color. Example: `[watupro-personality-chart bar_width=250 label="{{personality-type}}" assoc_colors="1:#AA0070, 3:#B91ACC, 4:#C0FA9F"]` This way each personality bar will have the specified color for that personality regardless how they rank. Myers – Briggs Personality Tests -------------------------------- These are very specific and usually are not created using this feature. Learn how to create Myers-Briggs tests [here](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/myers-briggs-tests-in-watupro/). JoResponder 1.3 =============== We just managed to do important cleanup and bug fixing on our[ Joomla auto-responder JoResponder](http://calendarscripts.info/joresponder.html). The Changelog of version 1.3: 1. Improved usability 2. Fixed bug when editing email message and both date / send after were required 3. Added email validation and improved usability on add/edit user page 4. Moved import/export on new pages and fixed bugs JoResponder is free and is going to be kept up to date, so don’t hesitate to download and use it. Please let us know any feature requests and bug reports. WatuPRO 4.0 =========== Time is flying – WatuPRO reached version 4.0. If you are eligible for a free upgrade a newsletter will reach your inbox in the next few days. The customers who are eligible for paid renewal will instead receive the promo code. Here are the updates in this version: **New features and improvements:** 1. Filter quizzes by category and title. 2. You can now create personality quizzes with the Intelligence module (points, correct answers etc calculations can still be used in personality quizzes if you wish). 3. Added tags to questions for management purposes. You can filter questions by tags. 4. Certificates now can require admin approval. 5. Open end questions have different modes of matching ([learn more](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/open-end-essay-questions-in-watupro/)). 6. Select which questions and grades to copy when copying a quiz. 7. Added again the optional quiz description field. When filled it will be shown before the quiz. It can also optionally be shown on the “final screen” and in certificates. 8. Improved questions export/import will not support the additional question properties. The old simpler CSV formats will still be supported. 9. You can now choose between large box, medium box, or single-line text field for open-end questions. 10. You can exclude questions from displaying on the final screen (when %%ANSWERS%% variable is used). Often useful for survey questions. **Bug fixes and minor changes:** 1. Removed the redundant “Answer display” section. Please use only the %%ANSWERS%% variable for this purpose. 2. The category and “my exams” shortcodes can be restricted to show exams from one or more categories. 3. Fixed bug with missing submit button when the quiz is paginated 1 page per question category but there are no question categories. 4. Fixed problem with importing question when other plugins catch the improt data (weird edge case). 5. Fixed problems with complex answer feedback in Practice mode exams (Intelligence module). 6. Fixed problem with rounding points when admin edits user results (Intelligence module). 7. Fixed problem with rounding points when copying exams. 8. Fixed problem with %%MAX-POINTS%% variable (negative points were being added). 9. Fixed missing “Answering this question will be considered CORRECT when:” setting when copying exam. 10. Fixed time limit exceeded bug. 11. Fixed but with Advanced Settings -> Select number of random questions by category. The bug was visible when the quiz was reusing questions from another quiz. WatuPRO Changelog Archive ========================= This post archives older changelog that’s no longer listed on the site. For more recent changes check the [How-to page](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/howto.html) (Click on Changelog tab) ### Changes in Version 5.9 1. Improvements when questions are grouped by category: subcategories will by default arrange under their parents (you can change the order from Edit Quiz -> Advanced Settings tab). Added options to choose heading tag for categories and subcategories. Added option to exclude subcategories from the category-based paginator. 2. Basic integration with Ultimate Member allows users to select WautPRO user group on registration. More details:
Quizzes to complete
-------------------
Completed quizzes
-----------------
[Delete all my watupro results and data](#)
[Export this data](https://blog.calendarscripts.info?watupro_export_my_exams=1&export_results=1)
now can accept one more argument to show only completed quizzes or quizzes to complete. Please check the internal Help page for details.
11. New improvements to the timer.
12. Fixed the default order of categories when the quiz is paginated one page per category: it will follow the order of your questions.
13. [Intelligence module] – new question type added: slider / rating widget.
14. [Intelligence module]: Improvements to the multiuser access. You can now apply the user group / roles restrictions to allow editors manage only quizzes within their user group or role permissions. A new “view level” permission is added which allows you to designate accounts that can only view quiz results.
15. [Intelligence module] Paypal PDT is now supported for hosts that experience delays in Paypal IPN.
16. [Intelligence module] From the payments page for a quiz now you can select another quiz or even see the payments collected on all quizzes.
17. [Intelligence module] Custom payment options can now be used also in bundles and manual management of bundle payments is added.
18. [Intelligence module] Simple discount code management allows you to provide coupons for paid quizzes and bundles.
19. All variables will now be replaced everywhere in the grade description as well which will let you include more dynamic information right in the table with quizzes on “My quizzes” page.
20. Various improvements to the social sharing options.
21. The free WooCommerce bridge now allows setting up another attribute with URL where to redirect after checkout. Usually you’ll want to redirect to the quiz.
22. Unified smart quotes and straight quotes when doing text comparisons in open-end questions.
23. Fixed problem with calculating personality grades when personality quizzes reuse the default grades.
24. Fixed problem with calculating % correct when there are survey questions.
25. Fixed bug with extra commas on question tags when quiz / questions are copied into another quiz.
### Changes in Version 4.7
1. Added quiz design themes. More information [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/design-themes-from-watupro-4-6-5/).
2. New free addon: Likert Scale Survey Maker. Information and free download at [this page](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/likert-scale-survey-maker-for-watupro/).
3. Added option to delete all quiz results of a selected user
4. Added option to automatically delete user quiz data when the user account is deleted from admin
5. Added option to keep each certificate from multiple quiz attempts from the same user on the same quiz
6. Added %%CONTACT%% variable to display the extra contact fields (company and phone) in the “Final page” and the email sent to user. Available are also variables for the individual contact fields that can be used there and in the certificates.
7. Added progress bar option for all paginated quizzes.
8. User’s feedback on questions can now be seen in structured way. Just follow the link “Feedback on questions” from the “View results” page on the quiz.
9. Improved question category management screen + rich text editor for category descriptions
10. Improved the indentation of multiple-line numbered questions
11. Improved handling of multiple-line contents and HTML tags when exporting questions
12. The social sharing options are now embedded in the plugin and you no longer need the social sharing addon. Added options to share by email, Google +, and LinkedIn.
13. You can switch off the rich text editor from certificate editing to avoid your HTML being messed by it
14. Question export CSVs now can be configured to use comma or tab. Default is comma.
15. Added variable %%BETTER-THAN%% to show the user what % of users performed worse than them on the quiz.
16. Low memory mode – learn more [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-low-memory-mode/).
17. Survey questions no longer ignore the points assigned to their answers.
18. [Intelligence module] A new advanced setting lets you configure “single choice” questions to automaitcally proceed or show the answer.
19. [Intelligence module] Paypal payments now support sandbox mode and open CURL connection when such is available.
20. [Reporting module] Fixed problem with the poll shortcode and multiple-answer questions
21. Fixed problems with question hints on quizzes that reuse questions from other quizzes
22. The shortcodes that list quizzes will also include quizzes published with the User Choice addon
### Changes in Version 4.6
1. Questions can accept user’s comments / feedback.
2. Single-choice questions can be displayed as drop-down selector instead of radio buttons group.
3. You can now specify custom subject for the submitted quiz notification email.
4. You can filter questions by ID in the Manage Questions page. The question IDs can also be displayed to the user using the variable {{{ID}}}
5. Bridge to MailChimp is now available: | Quiz title | Category |
|---|---|
| [Open Quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-demo-exam/) | Demo Exams |
| Quiz title | Points | % Correct | % of points | Result/Grade | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Personality Quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/sample-personality-quiz-what-is-the-best-fruit-for-you/) [+ Toggle 1 previous attempts](#) | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | Apple Apple is simply the best popular fruit out there. I bet you love apples. [](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/apple.jpg) | [view](#) |
| [New Open Quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/open-quiz-new-design/) [+ Toggle 2 previous attempts](#) | 3.00 | 40% | 20% | Poor
Sorry, you gave too many wrong answers 🙁
| [view](#) |
| [Flashcards Quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/flashcards/) [+ Toggle 1 previous attempts](#) | 4.00 | 100% | 66% | None | [view](#) |
| [Likert Survey](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/likert-scale-survey-maker-for-watupro/) [+ Toggle 1 previous attempts](#) | -1.00 | 100% | 0% | None | [view](#) |
**This is not a bug in WatuPRO, it’s poorly written CSS outside of it.** WatuPRO does NOT overwrite the behavior of any HTML tags, but your blog theme CSS might be doing it.
So please check your CSS and pay special attention to any lines that show “display:block;” for the “label” or “input” tags.
**A Quick Solution:**
**
**
If you don’t have the resources or knowledge to solve the problem in the CSS, you can try adding the following lines at the bottom of the CSS file:
.quiz-form label {
display: inline !important;
}
.quiz-form input[type=’checkbox’] {
display: inline !important;
}
.quiz-form input[type=’radio’] {
display: inline !important;
}
In most cases this should solve it. If not we can provide a CSS expert for charge as this is not a problem coming from the plugin.
WatuPRO 3.7
===========
This release is fairly important and contains a lot of updates. Here are the new features and fixes made after 3.6. If you have some of the intermediate versions between 3.6 and 3.7 you may already have some of them enabled. As usual the release will be sent as a newsletter to customers who bought less than one year ago.
[WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) 3.7 Changelog
-------------------------------------------------------------
1. Exams pagination and sorting
2. Fixed issue with the timer on non-paginated tests
3. Conditionally load the scripts and CSS to avoid loading them on pages where you don’t have exams.
4. Fixed import/export issues
5. Dependencies can work with % correct answers (Intelligence module)
6. Re-take exam only when some grades (results) are achieved (a new option)
7. Allow multiple correct answers in “Fill the gaps” questions (Intelligence module)
8. Certificates are now shown on the front-end. This avoids issues with some plugins and configurations where the student is not allowed to reach the dashboard.
9. Exams can be published in custom post types
10. “Sort the values” question type (Intelligence module)
11. Changed the Paypal headers in the IPN script, as required by latest Paypal announcement
If you don’t receive the newsletter in the next couple of days feel free to [send us email](http://calendarscripts.info/contact.html) and request the update.
How To Upgrade Watu PRO
=======================
**Since July 2017 the plugin auto-updates through the dashboard using license key. The information below is useful if you want to do a manual update or your last installation is from before this date.**
Note: If you have purchased WatuPRO less than one year ago, you are eligible to get any upgrades for free. Otherwise the price of the upgrade is 40% of the full price.
**If you have your custom translation files you need to backup them first unless you have followed the recommended “Custom” location choice explained in step 2 [here](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-plugin/).**
If your current plugin version is 4.2.2 or newer **the only thing you need to do is to deactivate and delete the old plugin, and install the new version.**
**There will be no data loss and no loss of settings. All your data will remain in place.**
FTP users can upgrade the plugin by simply replacing the files through FTP.
Customers who upgrade from versions older than 4.2.2 please email us.
PHP Autoresponder Basic and PRO Upgrade
=======================================
There has been a new release to the [PHP autoresponder app](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html).
(Please note this is not the WordPress plugin “Broadfast for WordPress”. That one will be upgraded soon)
Besides some bug fixes there are two most important changes:
1. You can now control the contents of subscribe/unsubscribe notification emails (both Basic and PRO)
2. There are much better link tracking stats for trackable links (Pro only)
Upgrading is free for customers who bought less than one year ago, and costs 40% of the full price for customers who bought before that.
WatuPRO 3.6 and The Play Plugin
===============================
The Upgrade
-----------
There has been a significant upgrade of [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) with several important features and bug fixes:
– Resolved conflicts with all known membership plugins
– “Show results” button can be always visible on ‘one question per page’ quizzes, but warns about premature submitting. Useful for long quizzes.
– Schedule exam (makes it available only in selected date ranges)
– All user roles can now use the exams. The limitation to Student role caused far more issues than benefits so we decided to drop it altogether. You can still manage which roles have access to manage the tests.
– You can now use WordPress User Roles instead of User Groups to avoid redundancy, and for better integration with membership plugins.
– Navigation improvements
– Filter test results by user role
– Started developers API (see the previous post for more information)
As usual upgrade is free for users who purchased WatuPRO less than one year ago and will be delivered by a newsletter in the next few days.
The Play Plugin
---------------
Another thing to note is the new plugin called [Watu PRO Play](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/modules.html#play). It adds gamification element to Watu PRO and lets you assign levels and badges, allow users to redeem rewards, generates many leaderboards, and more. Just check the site for more info or email us with your questions.
WatuPRO Hooks Reference & Developers API
============================================
As WatuPRO is growing we see the need of many customers to enhance and customize it. We do provide some customization services but can’t handle all of the requests. Besides, we wanted to allow third party developers and companies to extend WatuPRO and add more functionality to it. So here is the first version of the developers API. Please consider this page work in progress, as is the API itself. We are starting with just a few basic function calls. More will be added and documented with the time. For simplicity the API itself will use the same version number as the plugin.
WatuPRO API Version 3.6
-----------------------
### Main Concept
WatuPRO API uses WordPress [do_action](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_action) calls to create custom actions. This means that in order to add custom functionality you need to use [add_action()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action) to call your custom functions. Any custom parameters passed to do_action will be shown below.
### Barebone Custom Plugin
We have created a “barebone” custom plugin that will help you with the initial setup for your custom work. Download the plugin here: [watupro-custom](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/watupro-custom.zip)
### Available actions
**do_action(‘watupro_completed_exam’, $taking_id)** – called when test is completed. Passes the current completed exam record ID.
**do_action(‘watupro_completed_exam_edited’, $taking_id)** – called when admin/teacher edits user’s details. This option is enabled by the “Manual grading” feature in the Intelligence module. Passes the ID of the taken exam record.
**do_action(‘watupro_my_certificates’)** – this call is at the bottom of the “My certificates” page. The action passes no parameters but you can get the current user ID as a global. This action is already used by the [Play Plugin](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/modules.html#play).
**do_action(‘watupro_select_show_exam’, $exam)** – called when displaying the exam on the screen, and prior to any permission checks. Passes the exam object and allows you to do something with it.
**do_action(‘watupro_admin_menu’)** – lets you hook a custom page under watupro admin menu. Use ‘watupro_exams’ as parent.
**do_action(‘watupro_user_menu’)** – lets you hook a custom page under watupro user dashboard menu. Use ‘my_watupro_exams’ as parent.
**do_action(‘watupro_show_exam_js’, $exam)** – lets you plug your custom javascript in the quiz itself. Passes the $exam object.
**Available Filters**
We have started adding some filters too:
**apply_filters( ‘watupro_filter_view_show_exam’, $show_exam_view, $exam);** – called right before showing the quiz. You can use it to load your custom show_exam view. We recommend to still include our view (views/show_exam.php) and use it only to do something before or after it.
**apply_filters( ‘watu_filter_current_question_text’, $current_text, $qct, $question_content, $correct ) –** called after a question has been processed so you can modify the way it’s displayed on the final screen and live result.
The following filters allow you to modify the content of the emails sent to admin or quiz taker when a quiz is completed:
**$output = apply_filters(‘watupro-email-results-taker’, $output, $taking_id);**
**$output = apply_filters(‘watupro-email-results-admin’, $output, $taking_id);**
The following filter allows you to modify the content of user uploaded files:
**$contents = apply_filters(‘watupro-user-file-uploaded’, $contents, $question_id, $detail_id, $taking_id);**
**$achieved = apply_filters(‘watupro-achieved-points’, $achieved, $taking_id); –** allows third party plugins to modify number of points
The following filter is applied on calculating quiz grade:
**watupro_calculate_grade** -it’s more complicated so it’s documented separately [here](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-developers-api-custom-grade-calculation/).
Expect a lot more actions to be added in the next versions of Watu PRO.
WatuPRO 3.5
===========
This update solved some really hard problems and added several features that some customers eagerly waited for.
Here you are:
1. Improved import/export that will let you copy exams to different blogs
2. Show answers immediately – this button can be activated for tests that are paginated one question per page.
3. Shortcode for a basic leaderboard of best performing users
4. Grade on a category level. Now you can grade the users and display their performance for each question category.
5. Resolved conflict with [Paid Membership PRO](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/paid-memberships-pro) so finally you can use this plugin with WatuPRO.
As usual, existing members who purchased it less than one year ago will get the upgrade for free with the newsletter. If you have bought more than 1 year ago, you can restart the 1 year loop with paying just 40% of the current version prices.
WatuPRO 3.4 With Updates in Intelligence and Reporting Modules
==============================================================
This is an important update to [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) addressing some customer requests. Here are the news:
- Email shows in taking details for everyone who provided it (logged in or not)
- Cumulative per-question stats (in **Reporting** module) which make WautPRO even more suitable for surveys
- Improvements to how the timer works
- Description for a question category (optional). If you enter it, the description will be displayed when the test questions are grouped and paginated by category.
- More flexible control over the calculation logic of correct/incorrect questions (for multiple-choices and “fill the gaps” questions). You can now decide whether all answers should be correct or only one, to consider the whole question correctly answered.
- Practice mode now respects the selections you make about ordering and grouping questions (it used to just randomize them)
- Manually edit/grade already taken exam (available in **Intelligence** module). You will be able to change the results and the grade, percentage and possible certificate assignment will be recalculated. Email can be sent to the user with the new details.
That’s it in 3.4.
Thanks for being with us!
WatuPRO: Quick Getting Started Guide
====================================
**Here is how to start really quick with [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/):**
1. Go to **Create new quiz** page:[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/create-exam.png)
2. You can skip filling almost everything – just entering quiz name is enough. However you may want to check at least the “Final page / Quiz output” tab. It gives you full control over what the user sees when they submit the quiz. Maybe there is something you want to add or remove there:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/final-screen.png)
3. Once the test is saved you’ll be taken to a page to create **questions**. Please add some, a test makes no sense without any questions.
4. If you want to create grades, you can do this after the quiz is saved and questions created by clicking on the “**Grades**” link for the new quiz:[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/show-hide-grade.png)
5. Go back to edit the quiz. Check the checkbox shown below to have the quiz automatically published when you save it:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/auto-publish.png)Alternatively you can copy the quiz shortcode from the “Quizzes” page and publish it yourself in a post, page, custom post type, etc.
6. You can view who submitted your new quiz by clicking on the hyperlinked number under the “**View Results**” column. You will see all the details, and you can filter through them, import, export them, etc.[ ](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/taken.png)
7. That’s it! Feel free to create quiz categories and question categories, certificates, and user groups.
BroadFast For Wordpress 1.9
===========================
There is an update to our [WordPress Auto Responder](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/):
- Each mailing list can, by your choice, automatically subscribe users who register in your blog.
- Option to make “name” and any custom field a required field when user subscribes.
- Sent mails log for autoresponder campaigns.
- Mass delete subscribers.
- Unsubscribe management – user can unsubscribe from multiple mailing lists at once.
- See the progress status of newsletters that are in progress of sending.
This upgrade will be sent for free to all existing customers. Please allow a day or two to receive your newsletter.
Feel free to contact us at info@calendarscripts.info if you don’t receive it till the end of the week.
WatuPRO 3.3
===========
This version of [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) comes shortly after the last one as we wanted to address several important issues.
So here is what’s new:
- Admin can now see the student’s dashboard along with their exams and reports (in Reporting module)
- Admin can filter questions by category when managing them
- Manage questions category page that lets you delete and edit the existing categories
- You can now allow other roles – Editors, Authors and Contributors – to create and edit quizzes. Thus you can delegate the work of making the quizzes to someone else without heading them your main admin login.
- A new shortcode lets you display user’s answers on the final screen. This is an improvement compared to using the “Display answers” option because it lets you choose a place and text that will go before the answers.
- You can now define a different content to be sent by email than the content shown on-screen after taking the test. This is useful if you want to force users to check their email or dashboard instead of showing them the results right on the screen.
- Improved localization – we’ve had some strings in the javascript in the last .pot file. Now everything is translated.
That’s it for now! Expect a guide on translation in a day or two, as we often get questions about this.
As usual the upgrade is free if you have bought less than 1 year ago, otherwise upgrading is just 40% of the regular price and starts another 1 year cycle of free upgrades and support.
WatuPRO 3.2
===========
There’s no joke, we really hear your feedback. And the latest update to [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/) is proving this again. Let’s get right to the news:
1. Shortcode for showing only unresolved questions on the results screen. This is useful if you want to show the users which questions they didn’t answer correctly but without revealing the correct answers to them.
2. Pull a number of random questions per category. Now the old randomization feature lets you spread the number of questions equally per question category.
3. Option to send email with user results to the quiz taker even when they are not registered.
4. Paginate per category – show questions from each category on their own page.
5. Minified javascript for faster loading.
6. You can now use decimals in points.
7. Randomize questions but don’t randomize answers to them (option)
8. Reuse questions from another exam on the fly – Intelligence module only
As usual old customers who purchased less than 12 months ago will get the upgrade for free. Otherwise it’s just 40% of the full price.
Thanks for being with us and keep those suggestions coming!
PHP Auto Responder, Basic and PRO Update
========================================
We’ve just shipped a new version of our [PHP Autoresponder](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html). Now the Basic is version 3.0 and PRO is version 1.3.
What’s new:
- Mass delete users
- Read mails are now tracked for autoresponder campaigns as well. This means you can see who actually has read each of the mails in your campaign.
- CKEDITOR is updated to the latest version
- PRO only: you can now add clickable link to display email in a browser (like “If this email does not properly display click here to read it online”). This is configurable for every single message
- Of course various bug fixes and internal improvements
Upgrade terms: existing users who bough less than 1 year ago get it for free. If one year has expired you can buy the upgrade for 40% of the regular price and this starts another 1 year of free support and upgrades.
BroadFast For Wordpress 1.8
===========================
There’s a new version of the [WordPress autoresponder plugin Broadfast](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/). The upgrade is free for all old customers and will be sent by email.
Here are the changes:
- **Attachments.** Although you could upload files from the WordPress media uploader and incldue them in the mail contents, most customers preferred to have an option to send mails with “regular” attachments. So we heard you, and here you are – 1.8 has option to attach files to any message.
- **Shortcodes** from other plugins are now parsed in email content. Of course you should only use sane ones – javascripts for example rarely work in email.
- **Uninstall** feature with configuration whether to delete the data or not.
- And of course some **bug fixes**.
The price for new customers remains $47 one time and includes a full year of free support and upgrades.
WatuPRO 3.1 and the new Reporting Module
========================================
This update comes very soon after the previous. It wasn’t planned but as we finished the new [Reporting module](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/modules.html) I had to add an interface to upload modules. But of course, that’s not good enough for a new version, so here are all the new things:
1. Modules compatibility and upload interface. Now additional modules can be added to the plugin at any time.
2. Shortcodes to display “My exams” and “My certificates” outside of the wp-admin area.
3. Help page added (to be expanded)
4. Set minimum time limit between different attempt for a given exam – Intelligence module only.
The new version is free for users who purchased after January 15th 2012. Anyone else can upgrade for 40% of the regular price which currently means only $18.80.
The new Reporting module will be useful for all kind of education and training sites whose webmasters want their users to have more impressive and catching way of tracking their progress. The module can be purchased separately for $27. You need WatuPRO 3.0 or newer to use it.
WatuPRO 3.0
===========
A new version of [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro) is now available. Here are more details:
1. WordPress shortcodes to display all exams or exam of selected category in any post or page
2. “My certificates” page for the user so they can access their certificates any time
3. The blog administrator also has “My exams” page for easier testing
4. Previous button is now optional, configurable for every test
5. Grade title and description can be included separately on the final screen
6. The usual portion of bug fixes and localization improvements
This upgrade is still free for all old customers because we released the first version of this software just an year ago. So feel free to mail me or download the latest version from the [CalendarScripts Member’s area](http://calendarscripts.info/members/).
The safe upgrade procedure remains [the same](http://calendarscripts.info/forum/discussion/32/how-to-upgrade-watu-pro#Item_1).
ReCaptcha, Previous Button and More in WatuPRO 2.8
==================================================
There has been important update to our [WordPress tests plugin WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/):
In addition to the usual small or not so small bug fixes, there are several nice new features:
1. Previous (back) button to go back and fix already answered or skipped question. So many people asked for this, so here it is. Of course the button is accessible only until the exam is submitted.
2. Detailed export of taker’s data. You can now get points, grade, etc along with the answer given to every question in the exported CSV file. The old short format remains available.
3. Optional [reCaptcha](http://www.google.com/recaptcha/whyrecaptcha) to prevent spam bots from submitting your exams. This of course makes more sense on “open” exams that require no user login.
4. Option to redirect to URL instead of showing a grade. I was surprised that many people asked for this, so here is it now available. Enabling it is very simple – just enter valid URL instead of grade title.
5. Grades can be calculated as % correct answers (**Intelligence module feature**). Some customers wanted to calculate grade based on % of correct answers instead of defined points. This will be especially useful for exams that often get questions added or edited. Available in the Intelligence module.
As our first order of WatuPRO is from 2012, everyone gets this upgrade for free again. I’ll be sending email newsletter but if you don’t get your upgrade just contact me at info@calendarscripts.info as usual.
Arigato PRO (aka BroadFast) For Wordpress
=========================================
The first public PRO version of BroadFast for WordPress is now available at 
As the first version of WatuPRO was released this year, all existing customers are eligible for a free upgrade (please mail me at info@calendarscripts.info if you want to get it).
And [here](http://calendarscripts.info/forum/discussion/32/how-to-upgrade-watu-pro#Item_1) is how to upgrade safely without losing any data.
Eventy Basic and PRO For Wordpress
==================================
It’s time for [Eventy](http://calendarscripts.info/event-calendar-software.html) to also be available for WordPress. And [here it is](http://pimteam.net/wp-eventy/). Eventy Basic (free) and Eventy PRO ($29) aren’t exact copy of the standalone software but they work around the same idea. Events are displayed on a monthly calendar. Calendars are just custom post type in WordPress. In the PRO version you can have multiple calendars, each one showing different events.
Editors, contributors and authors can also manage events if you want to allow this. Better just check [the features](http://pimteam.net/wp-eventy/features.html) and [the tour](http://pimteam.net/wp-eventy/tour.html).
If you hesitate about purchasing just try the free version. It’s also available at the WordPress repository.
MicroCal Back To Life
=====================
[Microcal](http://calendarscripts.info/product-1.html) was one of the very first scripts I ever shared with the public. It was even commercial back in 2004 (I don’t remember the price but I think it was $5). I doubt I have sold more than 3-4 of it before I decided to give it out for free. Now, nearly 8 years later it still has several hundred downloads every month.
Just today I managed to check it and figured out how outdated the code was and how many PHP notices it produced. So here we are, fixed some bugs, improved the code a little bit and MicroCal is again usable in version 1.2 – also available as [Google Code repository](http://code.google.com/p/microcal/).
My plan is to revive it a little bit in the next versions, add some better options for including in forms, make it call-able through ajax and will see what else. Unlike the popular calendar plugins for jQuery it doesn’t add much Javascript overload so it has some potential. Let me know if you have any feature requests about it.
Eventy 1.8, Eventy Plus 1.2
===========================
The latest update to [Eventy & Eventy Plus](http://calendarscripts.info/event-calendar-software.html):
- Improved design of the event pop-up (using [lightbox_me](http://buckwilson.me/lightboxme/))
- A link to share any event
Additional feature in Eventy Plus:
- Event categories. You can now categorize the events for your own use and optionally display this information to the visitors. Again optionally you can let them filter events by category.
Upgrade terms are as usual – free if you bought less than 1 year ago, and 50% discount if your purchase is older. Upgrading starts another 1 year cycle of free upgrades and free support.
Watu PRO Version 1.1
====================
Of course we listed to feedback and I hear you. So here’s the first upgrade to [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro):
1. The questions are now numbered and you’ll see “Question 2 of 15” etc so you know better how much is left to take the exam.
2. You can configure what to display when every exam is taken – the result text only or to include the questions along with the answers and marks for correct/incorrect one.
3. Logged in users can continue taking the exam even if closing the browser, on another day, or even year. This feature is disabled for time-limited exams to avoid cheating.
Old customers bought WatuPRO this year are eligible for free upgrade. Please just mail me and let me know to send you the zip. Please [do read this](http://calendarscripts.info/forum/discussion/32/how-to-upgrade-watu-pro) before upgrading.
Autoresponder updates: Basic 2.9 and PRO 1.1
============================================
Here are the latest [BroadFast Autoresponder](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html) updates:
Basic Autoresponder, version 2.9:
- Improved “read” tracking. I added bgsound tag for better tracking of who read your emails (this works only when switched on by yourself). These stats can never be 100% reliable because some email services don’t show the tag, but now the correct percentage should be higher.
- External signup script that you can place anywhere and hide the registration. More info in [this pictorial](http://calendarscripts.info/forum/discussion/30/using-the-external-signup-script#Item_1).
PRO Autoresponder, version 1.1:
In addition to the same new features as in Basic, we have added **segmentation**. It allows you to target segments of any of your mailing list, thus improve results and at the same time sending lower number of emails. [This pictorial](http://calendarscripts.info/forum/discussion/31/sending-emails-to-a-segment-of-your-visitors#Item_1) will explain the filters and segmentation in greater details.
Upgrade terms for existing customers are as usual – free upgrades if you have bought less than 1 year ago, and 50% discount otherwise.
Improved Grocery List on Pyrostia
=================================
Our free [weekly menu planner](http://calendarscripts.info/pyrostia/) now has improved automated grocery list. You can mark various items as bought and know what you really need to buy for the week.
The source code will be released soon so you’ll be able to host Pyrostia on your site as well.
WatuPRO Wordpress Plugin To Create Exams
========================================
A lot of people expressed interest to have our [web based exam software](http://calendarscripts.info/online-exam-software.html) as a wordpress plugin. So, here we go, the premium WordPress plugin for creating and managing exams is online – [WatuPRO WordPress Plugin](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/).
While the WordPress plugin is similar in functionality to the standalone PHP based Watu Exam/Watu Plus, it also have some extra features and cleaner user interface. The best thing in it is that you can install it and manage it entirely from your WordPress admin panel.
[Have a look at WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/).
WatuPRO Demo Exam 2
===================
This is a demo of [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/).
This exam **reuqires registration** to be completed. While the questions/answers are the same as in “Open exam”, they will be displayed **all**, each time, so the maximum point number is 15. On top of that you have only 3 minutes to complete it – it’s **exam with a timer**. Questions and answers are randomized each time. Once logged in, you can take the quiz many times. This is also configurable, as the admin may decide to disallow second taking of the same exam. Unlike the other demo exam, this one shows **all questions on one page** – which is also configurable from the administration.
Upon completion and receiving “Passed” grade (if you receive at least 8 points), you will be able to print customized “**certificate**“. It’s a simple one here, but you can use as complex and rich HTML as you wish.
This quiz is currently inactive.
WatuPRO Demo Quiz
=================
This is a demo of the WordPress quiz, survey and exam plugin [WatuPRO](http://calendarscripts.info/watupro/).
This demo quiz is **open for everyone**, no registration required. **Three** **random** questions are pulled each time, out of a **pool of 7 questions**.
Please go to [WatuPRO Demo Quiz](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/watupro-demo-exam/) to view this quiz
Watu Plus 1.2
=============
What’s new in [Watu Plus 1.2](http://calendarscripts.info/online-exam-software.html):
- **Select random questions from a pool.** This feature allows you to create many questions in one exam and then have each student see only a small number of them, randomly selected and server. Makes the exam unique for every sitting.
- **Import/Export students in user groups as CSV file.** This will make your life easier if you want to mass edit student records in Excel or to import users from existing database.
As usual old customers can purchase upgrade with 50% discount, and upgrades are free if you have purchased Watu Plus less than one year ago.
Period and Fertility Calendar
=============================
This is our latest free application for women – [period and fertility calendar](http://calendarscripts.info/free/period-calendar/). Here is what it does:
- Figure out your most fertile dates
- Find out expected due date
- See the approximate date of your next period
- Store history of your periods so you never forget them and be prepared on time
Some technical background (because many developers read this blog):
It’s HTML 5 Ajax app with localStorage support. I’m not yet ready with the pluggable open source version, but you can see the front-end javacsript with View Source.
BroadFast PHP Autoresponder PRO
===============================
Several repeatable needs of customers led to the creation of two versions of the [Easy PHP Autoresponder](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html) – Basic and PRO. You already know what’s in the Basic version. Here are the extras in the first PRO version:
- Email templates for handy sending of well looking messages
- Paid mailing lists to help your monetization strategies
- Contact forms that also act as mailing lists and can be tied to autoresponders as well
- Free installation upon request
The price of PRO is $87.
BroadFast Autoresponder Version 2.8
===================================
Here’s the latest in our [PHP Autoresponder](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html):
- Easier web based installation similar to WordPress
- MySQLi as in all our recent updates. I know it’s technical stuff but it is fairly important.
- ReCaptcha is now available to prevent from spam submissions in your lists
The upgrade terms are as usual – free if you purchased up to 1 year ago, and 50% of the price otherwise.
Watu Exam 2.2 and Watu Plus 1.1
===============================
Both versions of our [exam software](http://calendarscripts.info/online-exam-software.html) has been updated. Watu Exam is now in version 2.2 and Watu Plus – 1.1.
Here are the updates for both:
- **Question categories.** Now you can categorize individual questions (for example Algebra, Geometry etc). You can choose to have the questions then grouped by category when presented to the students.
- **MySQLi** implemented for compatibility with future PHP versions (tech stuff)
- **Improved installation procedure.** Now it’s all through the browser, just like WordPress.
The following is new feature available only in **Watu Plus:**
- **Optional explanation of the correct answer.** This will be available when you choose “Show also the best/correct answer to every question” option in “Format of the results” section for the exam. It allows you to explain the student why the best answer is best and why the other choices aren’t as good. You can then decide to show this explanation only when the student does not give the right answer, or display it always.
As usual upgrades cost just 50% of the regular price of each software and customers who have bought their software less than 1 year ago get upgrades for free (just contact me at info@calendarscripts.info)
Watu Quiz 1.4
=============
[Watu Quiz](http://calendarscripts.info/quiz-script.html) is finally updated to version 1.4. Here is what’s new:
1. Improved UI
2. List of user’s results is now available for every quiz. So you can see how many people took the quizzes and what were their results.
3. MySQLi implemented in order to ensure compatibility with future PHP versions
BroadFast Newsletter 1.9
=========================
[BroadFast](http://calendarscripts.info/email-newsletter-software.html) has been updated to version 1.9. Here is what’s new:
1. Easy registration code copy. Now it’s easy to just embed the newsletter registration form in your site or blog.
2. Language file which allows easy translation of the interface in your language
3. PHP MySQLi extension applied to ensure your script will work with the future version of PHP
4. Improved installation procedure.
Existing customers with others less than 1 years old may contact us for free upgrades. If your order is more than 1 year old you can still get 50% discount of the price.
Weight Loss Calculator for Wordpress: Now Available as Widget
=============================================================
The WordPress version of the [weight planning calculator](http://calendarscripts.info/weight-loss-calculator.html) is now updated to version 1.2. Here’s the most important in this update:
1. The plugin is now available as widget along with the old in-content embed method. The CSS options reflect both modes and are accessible both from the calculator settings page and from the Widget options page.
2. Some small but important layout changes will allow the calculator to fit in different widths and sidebars
3. Tested with the latest WordPress version.
More details and download link [here](http://calendarscripts.info/weight-loss-calculator.html#wordpress).
E.M.M.A. 1.2 Released
=====================
Here’s the latest in our [membership management software](calendarscripts.info/emma):
1. New and easier installation procedure
2. Email reminders for expiring subscriptions
3. Optional quick mode which allows you to redirect the user to payment page for the selected plan right after registration. This can help you increase your conversion rate.
4. Create “visible for everyone” content to pre-sell your members and/or to attract search engine traffic.
As usual upgrades are free for customers who purchased E.M.M.A. up to one year ago. For older purchases upgrading costs 50% of the current price.
PurpleSalad: Personal Chef and Recipe Management Software
=========================================================
Here’s out latest project – [personal chef and recipe management software](http://purplesalad.net/). It’s called PurpleSalad and it’s goal is to give personal chefs and hobbyists a web based, modern and easy to use app at affordable price.
I know it sounds like a cliche but currently personal chefs are present only with very old-fashioned, installable, and quite pricey software options. PurpleSalad aims to change this. Let’s see how it will go.
If you are a personal chef or hobbyist interested in cooking, check out the site. There is free trial for everyone so you risk nothing to sign up.
Pyrostia: Free Weekly Menu Planner
==================================
We are starting new simple web application: a [free weekly menu planner](http://calendarscripts.info/pyrostia/). While the user interface and features are fairly basic at the moment we are looking to add a lot more to this little app.
Pyrostial will help you to manage your weekly meals and create a grocery list. There is a very nice function which automatically parses the ingredients and suggest you to add them to the grocery list.
Enjoy Pyrostia and let us know your feedback and suggestions.
A.M.Y. 1.4
==========
The latest version of [A.M.Y.](http://calendarscripts.info/ad-management-software.html) is out.
In addition to some minor fixes there are 2 main updates:
- Send receipt to advertiser after payment or (optionally) after activating package from the administration
- Send automated reminders after a package expires. This will help you receive more ad revenue. This is also configurable for each pricing plan and each advertiser
As usual previous customers get from 50% to 100% discount for upgrades depending on purchase date. Please [contact us](mailto:info@calendarscripts.info) for details.
Watu Plus - An Extended Version of Watu Exam
============================================
Since some time we are getting requests for extra features of watu exam. While most ideas are good, they won’t be suitable for every user of Watu Exam. As a result I decided the split the product in two versions – one cheaper for customers who need the basic functionality and one more expensive for those who want all.
The two versions are accessible from the [Watu Exam](http://calendarscripts.info/online-exam-software.html) page.
Any feature suggestions and comments are always welcome on info@calendarscripts.info
Watu Exam 2.1
=============
What’s new:
– Limit exam by date range (option). If you select such date range, the exam/test will be accessible and displayed in students control panel only within the range
– Copy exam. A lot of users wanted to be able to copy existing exam into new one. Now this is possible.
As usual existing customers can contact me for the upgrade. It’s either free or 50% of the regular price depending on when was your original purchase.
BroadFast Autoresponder 2.7
===========================
We’ve made an important internal change in this version of our [autoresponder software](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html). While there are no visible changes, the way newsletters are scheduled is changed. This should allow scheduling a newsletter to very large mailing lists even on slow hosts. Until now the software scheduled all these emails in the DB, but when some people had lists of 100,000 subscribers this meant 100,000 DB queries. On slow shared hosts this often caused problems.
Now the new version runs one query for the newsletter regardless of your list size. While managing such large lists on shared hosts is asking for trouble, I wanted to make sure our software handles it.
If you have purchased less than an year ago you can contact me to get the upgrade for free. Otherwise upgrades are 50% of the regular price as usual.
BF Autoresponder 2.6
====================
A quick note that our [autoresponder software](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html) is updated to version 2.6. Here’s the new:
- Improved UI
- Customization of double opt-in email and unsubscribe text
- Easier upgrade from previous versions
As usual, customers who have previous versions can contact me to get the upgrade either for free or for 50% of the cost depending on the time of their last purchase.
Free Ajax Poll (PHP, MySQL)
===========================
Polls are very simple things and yet so many people don’t get them right. I looked into many scripts and didn’t like most.
[Watu Ajax Poll](http://calendarscripts.info/ajax-poll.html) is an effort to make one that is really simple and just works. We are giving it 100% free without any obligations.
For the moment it’s self-hosted, i.e. you need to download it and install it on your site. If I get some good feedback, we may offer free hosted version so people will be able to just sign up, get their code and embed it in any site.
Feel free to fork us any mods! The source code is open and while not on Github yet, it’s available to poke.
E.M.M.A. - Easy Membership Management Application
=================================================
I’ve been interested in membership sites for long time – they are really a great business model allowing you to sell your content to premium members instead of releasing it to public and hoping to earn from ads. Of course you need high quality content to build a good membership site.
And after you have created the content, a new pain appears – how to make it so only paid members can access it and even to give different access to different content to different members…
There are some (actually plenty of) membership softwares, but most I have seen are very hard to set up, bloated with features and too expensive. Perhaps the most popular of them is [aMember](http://amember.com/). $180 for membership site that looks so 2002? No, thanks.
I’ve built a simpler, cheaper and modern [membership site software](http://calendarscripts.info/emma/) called E.M.M.A. and am offering it to you for just $39. Free support, unlimited domains license, instant delivery, money back guarantee. You already know my stuff, no need to explain further.
Yes, it doesn’t have all the features of aMember – in fact it lack mostly those that you will not need anyway.
BroadFast Autoresponder 2.5
===========================
What’s new:
1. More email types:
– “send every X days” – for sending reminders each 10 days or 20 days etc
– “send every weekday” – for sending emails on each Monday, or Tuesday, or Friday…
2. Send email as both HTML and plain text – probably the best option for most marketers
The current price is $47. You can get the PHP autoresponder [here](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html).
If you are existing customer and your order is less than 1 year old you can claim your free upgrade.
BFT Light 1.2
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There was a strange error in activating [BFT Lite](http://calendarscripts.info/autoresponder-wordpress.html) in WordPress versions 3.01 and up. I have fixed it now, so please go ahead and donwload the latest version, or install it directly from the WordPress repository.
Watu Exam Version 1.5
=====================
There is a major update in [Watu Exam](http://calendarscripts.info/online-exam-software.html) allowing exam takers (students) to log in and see the results of their exams, and also see any other available exams that are there to take. They also can take again those exams that allow to be taken again.
This move is a preparation for the future versions of Watu Plus which will be a more complete solution for exams, quizzes and tests. It’s a good idea to purchase Watu Exam now because there will be special discounts for existing customers when the big software is released.
Watu Quiz 1.3
=============
The new version of [Watu Quiz](http://calendarscripts.info/quiz-script.html) is finally out. Here is what is new:
– Unicode support. Now you can create quizzes in any language
– Badges. When a quiz is taken, the user can post his result in any blog or website using the HTML badges. As you are able to include additional links in this badge this can be a great way to have users promote your site and quizzes. There is also a link for easy posting to Facebook.
– Some glitches are fixed too.
Don’t forget that upgrades are free within 1 year after purchase.
BFT Autoresponder Wordpress Plugin 1.1
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Our [autoresponder plugin for Wordpres](http://calendarscripts.info/autoresponder-wordpress.html)s has been updated for compatibility for WordPress 3+. If you have not updated yet, do it now.
Broadfast Newsletter 1.8
========================
This is a quick note. [Broadfast Email Newsletter](http://calendarscripts.info/email-newsletter-software.html) followed the autoresponder and also has an update using SwiftMailer. This means no more PEAR library will be required to send SMTP mails and now Sendmail is also available.
Another new in the version is subscribers search and sort and unicode support.
Registration API and No More PEAR - Version 2.2 Of Broadfast Autoresponder Is Online
====================================================================================
We had some customers complaining that PEAR was hard to set up or was unavailable in their hosts. So here is the answer, no more need of PEAR! The latest version of the [php auto responder](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html) uses the best mail sending library out there – [SwiftMailer](http://swiftmailer.org/). This leads to the following new features:
– Sendmail and SMTP email sending. Now it’s easy to choose between three protocols – PHP Mail, Sendmail and SMTP without the need to install anything else on your server.
– Attachments. Although we had a way to include files through “Files and Links” menu, looks like most users prefer to directly attach files to their emails. Well, this is now possible.
Another important addition is the registration API which allows advanced users to program user registrations through some other software. This can be very useful if you have existing membership system, blog or forum.
The price remains $37 for this version, but you should expect an increase soon, so it’s better to [order now](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html).
Eventy and Eventy Plus
======================
Your [event calendar software](http://calendarscripts.info/event-calendar-software.html) now has an extended version called Eventy Plus. Instead of upgrading the original calendar and raising its price I decided to split it in two versions. Many customers like the calendar as is and there is no point in overloading it with features they don’t need. I know there are others however who need the few features of Eventy Plus:
- Multiuser interface. There is one superadmin and sub-admins. The sub-admins can add/edit/delete only their own events.
- Rich text editor CKEDITOR
- Sending email notifications for events with optional ICal support.
If you want to see other features, let me know! Feel free to comment on the prices as well.
A.M.Y. Version 1.0 is out
=========================
A.M.Y. is our new[ ad management software](http://calendarscripts.info/ad-management-software.html) for small to medium publishers. The software automates selling and maintaining advertising banners, text links and rich HTML ads for web publishers. There are detailed reports for both admin and advertisers, different types of ads, campaigns, pricing zones, plans etc.
We have started the product with a price of $29 as it’s still in beta stage. Once I get the first feedback from customers and add the most demanded extra features, the price will probably be raised to $39.
You can check out the demo and let me know what you think. Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Broadfast Autoresponder 2.1 Is Available
========================================
The latest version of the [PHP Autoresponder](http://calendarscripts.info/php-auto-responder.html) is available. Besides some nice UI updates, the most important new feature is the ability to assign one autoresponder to several mailing lists. This will give you more flexibility for your email marketing campaigns.
Nice Testimonial Received about BF Autoresponder
================================================
Normally I don’t ask people for testimonials neither I did it this time. I consider my customer service very good, but I know I sometimes answer the support requests as a typical geek. So it always surprises me nicely when customer say [such a nice thing](http://mikemoyer.org/2010/03/email-marketing-a-real-find/).
Mike Moyer is using the software for his [Trade Show Samurai](http://www.tradeshowsamurai.com/) site in a live environment so this has been a great test for me as well. He even discovered a bug which is useful for everyone who will buy the autoresponder.
Thanks Mike, and wish you success with your project.
Broadfast 1.7 Supports SMTP
===========================
This is just a quick update about the latest version of our [php mass mailer](http://calendarscripts.info/email-newsletter-software.html). After I got several requests for SMTP in the autoresponder and added that it resulted in more satisfied customers. So I decided to do it for Broadfast as well. And here is the new version – with SMTP support and bounced back tracking.
The price is now $17 – I believe it’s a fair price for the software.
Watu Exam Now With Images and Open End Questions
================================================
There were some requests to make our [exam testing software](http://calendarscripts.info/online-exam-software.html) work with images, so here it is: in the latest version there is a **“Image Gallery”** popup which allows you to upload unlimited number of images. Under each uploaded image the HTML code that can be used for exam questions, answers and grades is displayed. You can copy this code anywhere to create content with pictures.
The other interesting new feature is the ability to add **open end questions**. I had to think some time how to solve these, because the initial idea of this software is to calculate grade based on the user’s answers. Apparently this functionality is not required by everyone but I still wanted to allow calculating grade for open end questions. So here is what i came up with.
These questions will only optionally have answers. You can add unlimited number of answers to those questions and the system will not show them to the exam taker. Instead of that it will compare the freely entered text, case insensitively, to every answer. If answer is matched (assuming you have answers), the system will assign the points you have given to that answer. Simple and very efficient.
## Business
HOCK international: Case Study on the Flexibility and Customizability of Watu PRO
=================================================================================
### Written By Kevin Hock, CFO of HOCK international
**Watu Pro – An Easy Choice**
-----------------------------
[HOCK international](https://www.hockinternational.com/) prepares candidates for professional accounting exams, and test banks are a critical tool in our study programs. With thousands of multiple-choice questions per exam, we needed a way to categorize, organize, and offer questions by topic to students.
While it can be difficult to evaluate and choose from the dozens of quiz plugins available for WordPress, Watu Pro has been a cornerstone of our learning management system since 2014. In this case study, I will explain how we chose Watu Pro, show some of what is possible using Watu Pro, and give examples of how easily it can be customized.
Powerful and Flexible Test Bank
-------------------------------
Watu Pro’s question categories allow us to organize the questions in a way that mirrors the exam structure, and then offer questions to students in various combinations, including by topic, by Section, and from multiple Sections. Furthermore, Watu Pro’s ability to re-use questions from entire quizzes rather than just selecting specific questions is a powerful and unique feature, even among other quiz systems that claim to offer test bank capabilities.
The following screenshot shows how easily a student can pick questions to study from one or many topics (and see their current statistics):
Detailed Statistics
-------------------
Students preparing for professional certifications want detailed statistics about their performance. Watu Pro’s database tables store every student response in any easy-to-understand layout, which is convenient for creating custom queries to show the students’ progress. Aggregate queries such as SUM, COUNT, and MAX can all be used to create performance metrics. By storing the results of such queries in the WordPress user metadata table, statistics can be displayed in dashboards created through page builders like Beaver Builder, as shown in the following screenshot.
HOCK’s Customizations to Watu Pro
---------------------------------
Beyond the built-in features, the modular design of Watu Pro allows PHP/MySQL programmers to easily edit the code. With only minimal modifications, we were able to add the following customizations:
- Show bar graphs of topic-by-topic performance using the wpDataTables plugin.
- Group incorrect answer choice explanations using expanders.
- Display explanations for only a limited number of unanswered questions on each quiz.
- Allow students to delete quizzes with a score under 25%.
- Show the percent correct next to each topic in the question selection list.
- Choose questions not yet answered correctly before repeating questions.
- Sort “All of the above” and “None of the above” to always appear as the last answer choice, even with answer randomization.
- Create reports for the percent of students who get each question correct on their first try to identify difficult or poorly-worded questions.
Extensive Visual Customization
------------------------------
Watu Pro uses CSS to control many aspects of the quiz layout. In the screenshots below, compare the standard Watu Pro layout to one of the layouts created by Watu’s designer to get an idea for how much the look and feel can be modified.
### Default Layout
### Customized Layout
The Watu Pro Advantage
----------------------
Even when HOCK investigated commercial AI-driven learning systems, none of them could match the features offered by Watu Pro. Furthermore, being able to extend the capabilities of Watu Pro offers tremendous advantages over other quiz platforms. With the help of Watu Pro, HOCK has been able to offer a best-in-class learning experience for our students.
About HOCK international
------------------------
Founded in 2000 by Brian Hock, [HOCK international](https://www.hockinternational.com/) provides complete and affordable study materials for the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exams. In addition to the robust test bank powered by Watu Pro, HOCK also offers detailed textbooks, multimedia classroom videos, and the best support and guarantees on the market.
## Tips
Oddness in The WordPress Posts Loop and WP Query
================================================
While working on the new version of [Shortcode Revolution](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-revolution/) we faced a couple of confusing behaviors of WordPress functions. I’ll document them here and will keep adding such information. Hopefully it can help other developers and save them a lot of time and frustration.
Excluding posts from WP Query (using post__not_in)
-----------------------------------------------------
There is a good comment [here](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/268662/why-post-not-in-is-ignored/268663) explaining that post__not_in wouldn’t work when used with post__in in the same query. This is a good note but our query did not include post__in and post__not_in was still simply ignored. I did not dig deep into the code to see why this happens – the conclusion was simply not to use it.
Here is an example how we get 3 random related posts in Shortcode Revolution:
```
$query = [];
// we add 1 to the default number of posts which is 3 or to the user-passed number or posts
$query['posts_per_page'] = (empty($atts['num']) or !is_numeric($atts['num'])) ? 4 : intval($atts['num']) + 1;
$query['orderby'] = 'rand';
// getting the posts here
$wp_query = new WP_Query($query);
$posts = $wp_query->posts;
// now because this is "related posts" query, we don't want the current post to be repeated below it. So let's filter it out
// $post_id is a variable we have defined earlier in the shortcode and it contains the current post ID
// we are using array_filter with a closure here. You can do it inside a loop with a counter but this solution is more elegant
$posts = array_filter($posts, function($p) use($post_id) {
return ($p->ID != $post_id);
});
// if the current post was not there we have one more than needed
if($query['posts_per_page'] < count($posts)) array_pop($posts);
```
So that’s it – you just get more posts than you need and then remove the unwanted ones in PHP.
Showing the excerpt outside of the post loop – get_the_excerpt
----------------------------------------------------------------
If you look at the [documentation](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_excerpt/) it sounds like you can call get_the_excerpt with any post ID and receive the excerpt for that post id. Good luck! You may get the proper excerpt (sometimes!) but won’t get the automatically generated “read more” link properly. The first version of our code was this and it did not work:
```
foreach($posts as $p):
$background_image = has_post_thumbnail( $p->ID ) ? get_the_post_thumbnail_url($p->ID) : '';
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt($p->ID);
.....
```
I intentionally did not use $posts as $post to avoid overriding the global $post variable but apparently this was wrong. Fortunately [this comment](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_excerpt/#comment-2457) gave me the hint how to fix it:
```
foreach($posts as $p):
// yes, do override the global!
$post = $p;
// and you need to setup_postdata($post)
setup_postdata($post);
$background_image = has_post_thumbnail( $p->ID ) ? get_the_post_thumbnail_url($p->ID) : '';
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt($p->ID);
......
endforeach;
```
And after the end of the loop don’t forget to reset the post data:
```
wp_reset_postdata();
```
## Knowledge base
Namaste! LMS Bridge for GamiPress
=================================
We have just released an [integration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/namaste-lms-bridge-for-gamipress/) between [Namaste! LMS](https://namaste-lms.org/) and [GamiPress.](https://gamipress.com/)
The integration adds new activity events that let you award GamiPress points of any type when any of the following events happen in Namaste! LMS:
#### For Courses
- When a student finish a course
- When a student finish a specific course
#### For Modules (When Modules are Enabled)
- When a student user finish a module
- When a student finish a specific module
- When a student finish a module of a specific course
#### For Lessons
- When a student complete a lesson
- When a student complete a specific lesson
- When a student complete a lesson of a specific course
The new events are visible in the “When” drop-down selector in Add/Edit point type page:
Feel free to send us any suggestions for other events in this integration.
## Namaste! LMS
Namaste! LMS Bridge for GamiPress
=================================
We have just released an [integration](https://wordpress.org/plugins/namaste-lms-bridge-for-gamipress/) between [Namaste! LMS](https://namaste-lms.org/) and [GamiPress.](https://gamipress.com/)
The integration adds new activity events that let you award GamiPress points of any type when any of the following events happen in Namaste! LMS:
#### For Courses
- When a student finish a course
- When a student finish a specific course
#### For Modules (When Modules are Enabled)
- When a student user finish a module
- When a student finish a specific module
- When a student finish a module of a specific course
#### For Lessons
- When a student complete a lesson
- When a student complete a specific lesson
- When a student complete a lesson of a specific course
The new events are visible in the “When” drop-down selector in Add/Edit point type page:
Feel free to send us any suggestions for other events in this integration.
## Uncategorized
Myers-Briggs Tests in WatuPRO
=============================
This tutorial will show you how to create Myers-Briggs personality quizzes in WatuPRO. It covers the technical side of things and not the psychological side – we won’t be showing what specific questions you have to ask to create such tests. This example will be about creating a “Keirsey temperaments” tests but it can be used for any other kind of Myers-Briggs type of quiz.
If you prefer a video, here you go:
Still we recommend reading the post below for more details.
Step 1: It Does Not Need To Be Marked as a Personality Quiz
-----------------------------------------------------------
I know it may sound confusing, but because Myers-Briggs is a very specific type of test, it’s actually easier to be created as a “knowledge” test where answers get points assigned to them and do not directly assign a personality type. **So you don’t need to select the following setting:**
**Leave it unchecked.**
Step 2: Create Question Categories
----------------------------------
Because Myers-Briggs tests rank the respondent into multiple categories, you need to create them as question categories in the system. Using the classic example, there are four categories: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perceiving:
There is no need to create question sub-categories.
Step 3: Create Your Questions
-----------------------------
It’s up to you how many questions you are going to ask and how many points you’ll assign to each of the answers. Typically these tests have mostly single-answer questions but it’s also very common to use “from-to” sliders and [likert scales](https://blog.calendarscripts.info/likert-scale-survey-maker-for-watupro/).
What is important here is:
- **Each of your questions should belong to one of the four categories.** If it’s a question showing how introvert is the quiz taker then it goes to Extraversion/Introversion category. If it’s about sensitivity it goes in the Sensing/Intuition category and so on.
- **Decide how you will assign the points.** For example if you have 10 questions in each category and each question gives from 0 to 10 points depending on the answer, this means the user cat collect between 0 and 100 points in each category. This is important for the next step where you’ll define the grading.
- **You need to follow some logic:** for example if the answer means the user is more inrovert you may want to give more points to that answer. Follow this logic on all questions so at the end more than half of the possible points collected will mean the user is more extrovert than introvert. Similarly do in the other categories.
Step 4: Create Your Grades (Personality Types)
----------------------------------------------
This classical type of Myers-Briggs test has 16 possible combinations of user’s performance in each category, so it has 16 personality types (see [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator)): ISTJ, ISFJ, INFJ, INTJ, ISTP, ISFP, INFP, INTP, ESTP, ESFP, ENFP, ENTP, ESTJ, ESFJ, ENFJ, ENTJ.
So, you need to create 16 grades or personality types for this test. **Here’s the most important part**: you need the option “The final grade in this quiz will depend on the performance on different question categories” selected:
This will allow you, for every single result, to define the ranges of points that the user needs to collect in order to fall into it. So if we go back to our example with 0 to 100 points possible in each question category, we’ll then know that between 0 and 50 puts the respondent in the first group for that category (which in Extraversion/Introversion would mean he’s an extravert) and 51 to 100 points puts the user into the other group (inroverts). Knowing this for every of the 4 categories, we are able to define the exact criteria for each “grade”:
ISTJ example
The above example is ISTJ: more points going to Introvert, all other categories got less point which put the user into the first group of each. Please note it’s up to you how many points can be in category and how the points put the user into one of the two groups, but it’s important to follow the same logic in all questions.
Here’s an ESFP example:
ESFP example
Here the user ranks as extrovert, perceiving, sensing and feeling. Note that the system will show you the categories in alphabetical order, not in the order of Myers-Briggs tests so be careful how you enter the point ranges.
Step 5: Display Quiz Results
----------------------------
Because these tests are specific you will most likely not want to show points, % correct answers, etc standard texts at the end of the quiz. You’ll most likely want to show only the achieved result. So go to Edit Quiz -> Final Page / Quiz Result and edit the default content to something like this:
This is probably all you want to display. If for some reason you want to include also the %%ANSWERS%% variable to show how the user answered each question, you will not want to show correct / incorrect checkmarks because such quiz has no correct or wrong answers. So go to Edit Quiz page -> Advanced Settings tab and select to hide them:
That’s it, now your Myers-Briggs test needs only to be published.
[Arigato PRO] The {{url}} Variable
====================================
Most configurable emails in [BroadFast for WordPress](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) allow using the {{url}} variable. It gets contextually replaced by URL toi subscribe, unsubscribe etc (as appropriate).
**Please note that the variable will not automatically be replaced with a HTML hyperlink**. It will be replaced with **URL only**. If you want to explicitly make it clickable HTML hyperlink you can do this with the rich text editor or if you prefer the Text mode, just write:
`{{url}}`
The idea is to let you use free text, for example:
`Click here!`
Of course if you are sending plain text emails it’s best to leave it as URL only. Most modern email programs will make it clickable anyway.
Subscribe By Sending Email in Arigato PRO
=========================================
From version 2.2.7 the WordPress autoresponder plugin Arigato PRO supports “Subscribe by sending email” feature.
Here is how it works: you need to designate an email address and enter your POP3 login details in the new “Subscribe by Email” page:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/subscribe-by-email-pop3.png)
Then the plugin’s cron job will login once per day to this account and will check all emails older less than one week. The users who sent email to this address will get subscribed to the selected mailing list(s) and accordingly to the settings you set:
[](http://blog.calendarscripts.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/subscribe-by-email-lists.png)
You can specify a phrase in the email subject that will be used to recognize who should subscribe (so spam or other random email won’t be processed). This lets you even to use the email address for other correspondence although this is not recommended.
How Do I Get The Update?
------------------------
If you are not yet a customer, please [purchase the plugin](http://calendarscripts.info/bft-pro/) from our site. If you are existing customer eligible for upgrade we will send you upgrade by a newsletter when version 2.3 is completed. Don’t want to wait? Email us and we’ll send you 2.2.7 right away.