There has been a small but important update to BroadFast PRO.

Here are the two main things that have been done besides a few small tweaks:

1. Upgraded CKEDITOR to latest version. I am hesitant whether to replace it with another rich text editor for future versions because this thing starts getting huge.

2. Added “select time of the day” for autoresponder email (feature for which people were asking long time!). The selection says “Send AFTER X o’clock” because the exact time of sending will depend on when your cron jobs run. If you have a large queue of unsent mails (because your “mails per run” number is not bit enough or because cron job doesn’t run often enough), then these mails can be sent later than expected. In any case, once the selected time of the day has come, these mails will be sent with priority over “any time” emails. But “any time” emails starts getting sent at midnight otherwise.

Hope that’s not confusing! 🙂 If required I’ll give further explanation about this feature.

As usual the upgrade is free if your last purchase was less than 1 year ago. Otherwise the upgrade to this version is $43.50.

WatuPRO has been upgraded to version 2.5. Here is what’s new:

– Download full details of exam submission in addition to the download summary of everyone’s results.

– You can now use shortcodes from other plugins inside exam description, questions, and choices.

– Copy exam feature that lets you clone entire exam into a new one, or just copy the questions from one exam to another.

– Define how many times user can re-take a test (as opposed to defining just “once” or “many times” like it was before this version).

– Internationalization ready. Finally we sorted out all the texts and included a .pot file so it should be easy to translate the plugin to foreign languages.

All existing customers will get the upgrade for free because all orders are from 2012. If you don’t receive your upgrade please contact me at info@calendarscripts.info.

And please don’t forget the upgrade procedure, it’s really easy: http://calendarscripts.info/forum/discussion/32/how-to-upgrade-watu-pro#Item_1

There is a big update in WatuPRO for WordPress. The version number suddenly jumped to 2.0 because there are many and quite important updates (in addition to a few bug fixes). Here is what’s new, not in particular order:

• Question categories. Optionally you can select to display the quiz with questions grouped by category.
• Right answer explanation/feedback – optional, shown at the end of the exam. Good way to educate your users/students
• Pull number of answers from all the answers of a question. Helpful to make answers less predictable when exam is taken many times.
• Reorder questions (makes sense if you don’t display them randomized)
• Required questions – don’t let the user continue before answering these.
• Default user roles can work with the exams. Why is this important? Up to now Watu was using Students role, applied on registration from exam page, that was the only allowed to access the exams. But in practice you may want your existing users – subscribers, authors etc, also to work with the exams.
• Import/Export questions to CSV (Excel) file
• User groups and exam categories. You can now limit the access of different user groups to different exam categories. So for example “Basic students” get “basic exams”, “Intermediate” students can get “basic” and “intermediate” exams etc. Or you can separate them by topic – it’s all your choice and is entirely optional.

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 is how to upgrade safely without losing any data.