CVE-2022-31475: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform

GiveWP is the highest rated, most downloaded, and best supported donation plugin for WordPress. Whether you need a simple donate button or a powerful donation platform optimized for online giving, GiveWP is right for you.

Transform the way you accept online donations, starting for free. With GiveWP you can accept gifts for charity or for other purposes, through customizable donation forms. Our donation plugin also allows you to view donor data and fundraising reports, manage donors, and integrate with a wide variety of third-party gateways and services.

✨ GiveWP Features

GiveWP is free and full of many advanced features to suit your needs. Start by choosing one of our donation form templates to create your first fundraising campaign. Then, take advantage of full-featured fundraising reports and donor management tools to increase your overall fundraising revenue by learning what makes donors donate.

Free donor tools also help keep your donors happy. The donor dashboard helps your donor base easily manage their accounts and access their donation history. With our premium add-ons, you can add additional donor tools, like annual receipts.

Powerful Donation Forms

• Build custom donation forms in your WordPress admin
• Customize donation form templates without any code
• Add goals, multiple giving amounts, custom amounts, terms and conditions and more with just a couple clicks

Actionable Fundraising Reporting

• Get a detailed breakdown of your donation activity
• Control your fundraising data with exports and reports
• Filter reports by date, form, and payment method
• Measure performance across multiple campaigns

Complete Donor Management

• View a complete history of your donor activity
• Generate tax-deductible receipts
• Allow donors to view their donation history, update their profile, manage their recurring donations, and download PDF receipts through their own donor dashboard

Find out more:

• Visit the GiveWP website
• View GiveWP Premium Add-ons
• View GiveWP Free Add-ons
• View our GiveWP Live Demo site
• Book a Live Demo with our Team

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏿 Who Uses GiveWP?

With more than 100,000+ active installs of GiveWP, we hear more and more success stories from nonprofit organizations. Causes are using GiveWP to raise millions of dollars per year. Check out some of our GiveWP Stories and Case Studies for details about their success.

• The City Mission used GiveWP for Giving Tuesday and a competition fundraiser with a neighboring organization, where they raised $45K in 16 hours.
• A local neighborhood watch program switched from using GoFundMe to GiveWP and raised $40,000 in five days for a memorial fundraiser.
• Students have funded their tuition to schools like Oxford through individual fundraising pages.
• A hospital raised money through a community-wide virtual dance party during the pandemic.

In addition to nonprofit organizations, GiveWP is widely used for individual or creative purposes. We’ve seen tip jars for blogs or musicians, live streams, and more. Our Donation Upsells for WooCommerce Add-on is even used in some eCommerce stores to collect donations for a cause, or ask for tips in the cart or checkout.

We’ve even seen GiveWP used to collect gifts for birthdays and weddings!

💝 Simple and Pain-Free Giving

We built GiveWP to be the best WordPress donation plugin from day one. Simply install and activate the plugin to get started.

The strength of GiveWP lies within its optimized donation forms. When creating a form, you can start with a template and customize the donation levels, including allowing donors to give a custom amount. The donation forms can then be displayed anywhere on your website using a block, shortcode, widget, or the single donation form page.
You can also integrate your forms with a wide variety of payment processors, including PayPal and Stripe within the free plugin. You can also purchase add-ons to use Authorize,net, Bitpay, Square, and more.

🌱 First Time Users

For new users, we suggest reviewing our Getting Started Guide to get an understanding of how the plugin works. If you run into any trouble, we offer free support to help you with your issues, questions, and concerns.

If you are a GiveWP customer with an active license of any of our popular add-ons, we’d love to hear from you and support you via our Priority Support channel.

💳 Accept Credit Card Donations and More

GiveWP comes with several payment gateway options:

• Stripe Donations — Our Stripe integration allows you to accept credit card donations on your website. There is a small 2% fee associated with these donations. Want no additional fees? Upgrade to our Stripe Premium add-on to start accepting [Stripe Donations]](https://go.givewp.com/addon-stripe).
• PayPal Donations — Allow worldwide donations with PayPal Donations. No additional fees applied.
• Venmo Donations — Give donors the option to pay through Venmo with their account balance or connected bank account.
• Offline Donations — Enable your donors to send checks or physical donations with an offline gateway with instructions.
• Test Gateway — use the Test Gateway to see exactly how your donors will walk through the donation process.
• And many more Gateways – View additional payment gateways on our website. These include Authorize.net, Bitpay, Square, Razorpay, Paytm, and more.

⚙️ Extend GiveWP with Powerful Add-ons

GiveWP’s goal is to “Democratize Generosity.” We want to make it easy for everyone to raise funds online.

In addition to our free donation plugin, we have premium GiveWP add-ons available to extend the functionality of GiveWP. Ultimately, these tools allow you to raise more money and give you a better relationship with your donors.

Must-Have Add-ons for GiveWP:

• WordPress Recurring Donations
• Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
• Text-to-Give
• Form Field Manager
• Fee Recovery
• Tributes
• PDF Receipts
• Funds & Designations

View all of GiveWP’s Add-ons to discover all the ways you can further enhance and extend GiveWP.

🛠️ Easy to Customize and Enhance

Are you a developer? GiveWP is built with best practices and easy to extend and customize. Here are some great developer-oriented tutorials and docs to help you customize GiveWP to your liking:

• Create Dramatic Donation Email Receipts
• Populate Donor Info with One Click
• Using the GiveWP API to Create Charts with ChartJS
• Theming with GiveWP
• How to Create Custom Form Fields in GiveWP
• How to Build a Gateway Add-on for GiveWP
• How to Style Your GiveWP Forms
• Site Redesigns Without Donation Data Loss
• Handling Custom CSS in WordPress

💚 About the GiveWP Team

GiveWP is part of StellarWP, a Liquid Web Family Brand. Our donation plugin is backed by a growing team of WordPress developers, support engineers, customer success managers, and marketing professionals who’ve worked with WordPress and nonprofits since 2009. This means GiveWP is made with best practices in mind; extremely extensible and customizable, stable, and reliable. We’ll be here in years to come for you and your nonprofit organization.

📧 Connect with GiveWP

Stay in touch with us for important plugin news and updates:

• GiveWP Website
• GiveWP Newsletter
• Facebook
• GiveWP Add-ons
• Write for GiveWP

🐱‍💻 Contribute to GiveWP

This plugin is proudly open source (GPL license) and we’re always looking for more contributors. Whether you know another language, can code like no one’s business, or just have an idea, we would love your help and input.

Here’s a few ways you can contribute to GiveWP:

• Star/fork/watch the GiveWP GitHub repository to learn more about what issues we’re tackling and the project is developing. If you’ve never worked with Github before, learn about pull requests here and submit one for GiveWP, we’d love to give you our feedback.

• Translate GiveWP into your native language. The best place to do that is here on wordpress.org. Go to https://translate.wordpress.org/, then search for your language, click the “Plugins” tab, then search for “GiveWP”. When you’ve submitted at least 95% of GiveWP’s strings, the language moderators will review and approve your translations and then they will be available to all WordPress users for your native language. If you are interested in translating any of our Premium Add-ons, contact us, we’d love to chat with you about that.

• Join the GiveWP Community Facebook group. We chat about all things related to WordPress, GiveWP, fundraising, and online donations in general.

• Creating powerful donation forms is easy with GiveWP. Simply install the plugin, create a new donation form, set the desired giving options, and publish!

• Customizing your donation forms is easy and intuitive with customization options for any fundraising campaign.

• Display you donation forms within a responsive grid on any page to make it easy for your visitors to choose a giving option.

• Show of your donor’s generosity with our customizable Donor Wall block and shortcode.

• Manage your donors and receive key insights to maximize your fundraising efforts.

• Extend GiveWP with a robust suite of powerful Add-ons. Accept recurring donations, credit cards, add custom form fields, and more!

• GiveWP is thoroughly documented to help you get started quickly and learn basic to advanced features and functionalities.

• GiveWP has a dedicated support team to help answer any questions you may have and help you through stumbling blocks.

This plugin provides 6 blocks.

• Donor Dashboard
• Multi-Form Goal
• Progress Bar
• Donation Form
• Donation Form Grid
• Donor Wall

Minimum Requirements

• WordPress 4.9 or greater
• PHP version 5.6 or greater
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater
• MariaDB version 10 or later
• Some payment gateways require fsockopen support (for IPN access)
• cURL version 5.40 or higher
• An SSL certificate — while this is not strictly required, it is highly recommend. If you are converting your site to use SSL/HTTPS now, we have a detailed guide to help you here.

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of GiveWP, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click “Add New”.

In the search field type “GiveWP” and click Search Plugins. Once you have found the plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.

Manual installation

The manual installation method involves downloading our donation plugin and uploading it to your server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.

Updating

Automatic updates should work like a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case.

Where can I learn more about how to use GiveWP?

We have extensive documentation on installing and configuring GiveWP on our website. We suggest starting with the GiveWP 101 article.

How can I get support for GiveWP?

We work hard to the best support possible for GiveWP. The WordPress.org Support Forum is used for free community based support. We continually monitor the forum and do our best to ensure everyone gets a response.

Priority support is given to users who have an active license for one of GiveWP’s Add-ons or Pricing Plans. We provide email-based support to our Premium Add-on customers with an average 1st response time of 2 to 4 hours and average time to resolution of 24-48 hours depending on the severity of the issue.

Do you have any demos?

Yes! We have several live examples of GiveWP and the wide variety of form options you can use with GiveWP. Check out our live demo, where you can see what your donors would see.

GiveWP Plus, Pro, and Agency Plan customers will also get a free 30-minute website audit with our Customer Success Team after they purchase. In this meeting, we’ll cover everything you need to know about GiveWP to fit your needs.

Do you have Case Studies of Nonprofits using GiveWP?

Yes! We have two different types of studies that highlight nonprofits in different ways.
“GiveWP Stories” are stories of how nonprofits or individuals implemented GiveWP with success. You can read them all here.
“Case Studies” are more detailed examples of how an agency implemented GiveWP for a specific purpose for an organization. You can read those here.

How is GiveWP better than a simple PayPal donate button?

PayPal donate buttons take your users off-site, which can cause you to lose some in the process. With GiveWP, your donors can stay on-site and you get the benefit of gathering donor data, viewing free fundraising reports, and creating unlimited donation forms. On the other hand, you can always use GiveWP as a simple customized PayPal donate button if you prefer.

How is GiveWP better than a form plugin for accepting donations through WordPress?

Form plugins are excellent solutions for general intake forms. That said, they most often lack substantial donation reporting features, and donor management options. They also lack a variety of presentation options like GiveWP has for embedding your forms in different places throughout your site. If you want a “Donate Now!” button in the header of your site that opens in a modal, you’ll most often have to do quite a bit of customization to get that working just right with form plugins — but not with GiveWP.

GiveWP works great alongside all the most popular form plugins. Use GiveWP for donations, and Caldera Forms, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms or other for your general purpose intake forms. They’ll work great alongside each other.

How is GiveWP better than an eCommerce plugin for accepting donations on WordPress?

We built GiveWP specifically to overcome many of the hurdles you have to go through in order to get an eCommerce plugin (like WooCommerce) to be streamlined for donations. You want to treat your donors right. No donor wants to add their donation to a cart and go through several page refreshes just to type in their information. You, as the site admin, don’t want to have to change the word “Products” to “Donations” everywhere, and go through all the hoops of removing taxes and shipping, either.

On top of that, customizing the plugin’s terminology is a daunting task. You never want your users to receive an “invoice” for the donation “product” they “purchased.” Rather, you’d like for them to receive a receipt for the donation they gave.

Use GiveWP for donations, and let your WooCommerce or WP eCommerce plugin or the like handle your products. They work alongside each other just fine. Your donors will be happy, your customers will be happy, and so will you.

Additionally, you can use our Donation Upsells for WooCommerce GiveWP add-on to allow your customers to do a donation upsell in the cart or checkout.

How do I eliminated the 2% fee on Stripe donations?

The 2% fee on Stripe donations only applies to donations taken via our free Stripe integration in GiveWP Core. If you purchase the premium Stripe add-on you will not have any additional fees at all. Additionally, even with the free Stripe plugin, the fees only apply to one-time donations, never to recurring donations.

Read our release announcement for all the details, and if you have further questions feel free to reach out via our contact page.

We paid $500 for the package of plugins from GiveWP, and immediately regretted it. The only good thing I can say is that they refunded the payment without much fuss. There are so many problems with GiveWP it is shameful, and if I pay $500 for a plugin - I am not about to spend much time and effort troubleshooting what they should have caught in QA. On top of all the problems outlined below, I just got an email notification that they’ve allowed my account information on their website to be comprimised by a user who should not have had administrator access. “On July 11th, we became aware that an unauthorized administrator account gained access to our customers’ data on givewp.com” - this is a very typical basic violation that you can expect from this developer. A company that makes a billing platform should not have made this mistake. (Or any of the ones below.) Apparently untested on mobile - donations often fail with just a white screen. Reported by over 12 donors. Donations often fail on firefox, with just a white screen. (More than 4 donors experienced this) About 1 in 20 transactions result in a double charge of the amount donated to the donor’s payment method. Several times there was 6-8 duplicate charges to the donor. This is either because the pay button is not disabled while the transaction is processing as is industry standard to prevent this problem, or some other issue with the plugin. Entire plugin designed outside of WP Standards. (Not paged based, does not obey css, does not use templates.) - Not page based, no shortcodes, no endpoints. - Cannot edit pages - Custom CSS ignored - must edit plugin code to adjust styles - Stock styles are horrendously bad - most text is unreadable size, thus requiring CSS editing. Missing basic minimum of features - Reporting is awful and often useless data. Cannot be exported. For example - a donation record does not indicate why the donation was made (ie:Regular, or P2P, etc.) or who referred it (if P2P donation.) P2P Fundraising is half baked at best. - Can’t create team after signing up as individual. - There is no function for registration fees - Donation reporting is useless. - Participant export does not include anyone who has fundraised $0 - Donation email notifications do not include the participant receiving donation - Toggling approval of teams participants off does not automatically approve pending participants. - There’s no way to link to a particular participant’s profile. (No unique links to a profile) - There’s no way to log in or out in the plugin. Once you’ve signed up, you’re logged in forever and cannot start over. - Unable to edit fundraisers or teams in the back end. Just “View” and "Delete". - When visiting a team page without logging in (or having an account) you can only create a new individual fundraiser profile, not join the team. We ended up immediately abandoning GiveWP because it has so many issues - the whole duplicate transaction problem alone was bad enough - we spent a lot of time monitoring and refunding transactions and hoping our donor base does not revolt against our charity. And again, I should not have to spend so much time trying to interact with support staff for a plugin I paid $500/yr for. It should work almost flawlessly.

More than one support member reached out to help us out with our issue. They were concise and the turnaround was outstanding. There are so many plugin options, and that’s just what’s available on the free plan! We were even able to create a pretty involved customized donation page without any extra add-ons. Thanks, GiveWP.

I use a LOT of Wordpress plugins and honestly, the support on so many of them is sub standard to non-existent. Give WP is one of the rare cases where both the plugin is amazing and their support team is even better. We signed up for priority support and the Give WP team really delivers. EVERY single question/support request I have submitted has been answered with careful detail and care and also with expediency. I usually get my support request responded to within the same day which is really rare in the Wordpress plugin world. I love the Give WP plugin!

Very capable donation platform plugin. We had a nasty caching issue, their support was spectacular. Their tech staff must have spent 20 hours resolving it.

The extension for the receipt is a hell to use. DOM PDF works really badly, many bugs, the code works badly or simply deletes itself, the special characters are not displayed even when activating the option

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“GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

2.21.4: July 8th, 2022

• Fix: The CSRF patch for the stats exporter was breaking other exporters. The patch is still in place but the other exporters are working again.

2.21.3: July 7th, 2022

• Security: Protect against CSRF and DOS attacks against the donation stats exporter
• Security: Protect against XSS attacks for the currency endpoint
• Fix: Styling corrections for the donation, donor, and form admin lists
• Fix: Selecting a specific donation when previewing an email no longer throws an error
• Fix: Renewal reminder emails are once again being sent
• Fix: Prevent a 400 error from occurring in Stripe webhooks
• Fix: Anonymous donations are working properly again for subscriptions

2.21.2: June 29th, 2022

• Feature: Exporting donors now supports limiting by their donation date — useful for getting donors who gave in the last year
• Enhancement: the new Gateway API now supports recurring under the hood
• Enhancement: donors are now passed to the give_donors_column_query_data hook (thanks Genevieve!)
• Security: Updated some internal dependencies that had security fixes
• Security: Better protection against invalid dates when exporting donation statistics
• Security: Prevent overreach hack when using the exporters
• Fix: For some folks a really old migration got stuck, and now it’s unstuck
• Fix: Summary Heading for the classic Form field displays as it should
• Fix: The “Display Header” setting for Classic Form shows/hides the corresponding settings
• Fix: Made the default Form Grid colors a bit nicer
• Fix: Some of our greens weren’t the right GiveWP green. All greens have been made right
• Fix: Cleaned up some PHP warnings in the Donor Wall caused by other add-ons
• Fix: Put the donation date back in on the Donor Wall
• Fix: Donation links weren’t working on sub-directory WordPress installs on the Donation List table, now they do
• Fix: Required fields on the Multi-Step form now have an asterisk to help communicate to the donor
• Fix: Resolved a styling conflict introduce by the updated Form Grid on the Goal shortcode and Legacy template
• Fix: Improved some grammar and wording in our PayPal instructions
• Fix: Updated the PayPal logo to their latest and greatest
• Fix: Improved translations on the Donor Wall
• Fix: Updated the currency symbol for LKR (thanks pxydigital!)
• Fix: Donations made with 0-decimals now display properly on the Donor Wall
• Fix: Form goal settings are better reflected on the Form Grid

2.21.1: June 21st, 2022

• Fix: Resolved a “sort buffer” error on MySQL 5.7 and older
• Fix: Added and corrected some missing translations

2.21.0: June 16th, 2022

• New: Fresh new look for the Donor Wall block and shortcode!
• New: Form Grid looks has a great new look and more visual options!
• Enhancement: The new Gateway API now uses he new Models
• Enhancement: All failed queries are now logged with extra data to troubleshoot
• Enhancement: Some minor visual improvements on the Logs admin page
• Security: Remove an unused donor wall endpoint that made donor wall data too easy to access
• Security: Donors can no longer immediately access the Donor Dashboard without authentication
• Security: Further tightening of XSS protection per WordPress security guidelines
• Security: Tighten up file exposure to GiveWP Managers in the Exporter
• Fix: Prevent a notice and database error on fresh installs
• Fix: Cleared up some notices that logging was causing
• Fix: Admin notices no longer scrunch all weird-like up at the top of the page
• Fix: Further compatibility fixes for PHP 8.1
• Fix: Text aligns better for offline donations in the form
• Fix: Stripe gracefully ignores events that come in from another platform
• Fix: Brought back accidentally removed income goal stat filters. Thanks sc0ttkclark!
• Fix: Make sure that all donation errors are caught and gracefully handled to inform the donor
• Fix: Renewals now display the correct payment type in the admin donations list
• Fix: Checkboxes (also created via Form Field Manager) no longer require being checked when conditionally hidden

2.20.2: June 8th, 2022

• Security: Donors are no longer able to view the Donor Dashboard for the email they donated in without logging in
• Security: Added additional URL escaping around the codebase to protect against XSS attacks
• Fix: Subscriptions can now be changed again by donors using the legacy subscriptions shortcode

2.20.1: May 19th, 2022

• Fix: Corrected an issue where admin notices were displaying strangely
• Fix: Removed the “Switch to New View” button that would show up in strange admin places when switched to the legacy donor or donation lists

2.20.0: May 11th, 2022

• New: Refreshed the donor and donation list screens in the admin
• New: Significant improvements to the donor wall and form grid blocks
• Enhancement: Optimized deleting a donation and all of its meta
• Enhancement: Many under-the-hood improvements Gateway API
• Enhancement: Updated Romanian currency symbol to RON
• Enhancement: Logging system has built-in checks to redact sensitive information
• Fix: Resolved a 3D Secure issue with PayPal Donations
• Fix: Tags now work properly in the Offline Donations content
• Fix: Improved error handling if an error occurs with PayPal Donations
• Fix: Viewing a receipt in the legacy donation history page now works
• Fix: Prevent a “donation_decimals” notice when adding and updating forms
• Fix: Percentage goals display properly on the form list
• Fix: The correct donation form title is shown on the Stripe checkout page
• Fix: Donor Wall can no longer be accessed outside of the website
• Fix: Equal operator for conditional fields works again (also affects Form Field Manager)
• Fix: Improved Multi-Step content to provide a default and avoid confusion
• Fix: Clicking the main “Donations” menu item goes to the forms list instead of making a new form
• Fix: Corrected PayPal Donations design when used in Classic template

2.19.8: April 6th, 2022

• Fix: Corrected an issue with our javascript translations

2.19.7: April 4th, 2022

• Fix: Resolved a regression in 2.19.6 that broke the Stripe Checkout gateway — please update immediately

2.19.6: March 31st, 2022

• Change: Click in the background when viewing a form in the Form Grid now closes the form
• Fix: Significant improvements to making GiveWP translatable, especially the Donor Dashboard and other JavaScript
• Fix: Forms were not able to be deleted if Recurring wasn’t installed, but now they can be!
• Fix: Sensitive information was being stored in the logs in some cases. The information will no longer be stored and logged information was removed.
• Fix: Some PayPal donations were stuck in “processing” status, but now they are properly marked “complete”
• Fix: Transaction ID wasn’t being stored for Stripe donations using 3D Secure. Now it’s stored and the missing ID’s were recovered.
• Fix: The Form Grid now displays the excerpt properly on the Multi-Step form
• Fix: The Donor Wall and Form Grid blocks now look as they should in the block-editor

2.19.5: March 11th, 2022

• Fix: Resolved issue with PayPal failing to validate for authenticated users

2.19.4: March 10th, 2022

• Fix: Resolved issue with PayPal failing to validate route after donating
• Fix: Resolved issue with PayPal logo not loading
• Fix: Resolved issue with PayPal donation statuses being set to processing

2.19.3: March 4th, 2022

• Fix: PayPal Standard donations above 1000 dollars are now working again
• Fix: PayPal IPN URL is now working again
• Fix: Stripe subscriptions with no end were being canceled upon the next renewal when using GiveWP Recurring 1.15.0. This resolves that issue. Please update!

2.19.2: March 2nd, 2022

• Fix: Resolved issue with connecting to Stripe with API Keys

2.19.1: February 25th, 2022

• Fix: Added backwards compatibility for Stripe statement descriptors that do not yet meet the new requirements.

2.19.0: February 24th, 2022

• New: New reactive form table interface. The new forms table responds to your clicks instantly.
• New: Stripe statement descriptors can now be set on a per account basis.
• New: Free add-on offer for folks using the free version of GiveWP without premium add-ons.
• New: More detailed logs are now stored during the donation process. A powerful tool to help you troubleshoot any issues your donors might have with donating.
• New: A refactored Payment Gateway API. The makes integrating custom gateways with GiveWP easier than ever before.
• Change: Added subscription logic to allow gateways to support recurring in a more consistent manner. Make sure to update to the latest version of Recurring Donations as well.
• Change: Updated Stripe and PayPal gateways to use the new Payment Gateway API.
• Fix: Prevent fatal error on PHP 8 when a form’s goal is empty
• Fix: Ensured translation domains were consistent
• Fix: Resolved console error for missing admin CSS files
• Fix: Tributes using “button” display now show up correctly on Multi-Step and Classic templates
• Fix: The “Payment Amount” section consistently reflect the amount when the donor changes to a custom amount

2.18.1: February 2nd, 2022

• Fix: On Classic template the payment fields didn’t show up when there was only one active gateway, and now they do!

2.18.0: January 19th, 2022

• New: Shiny new Classic Form Template! Check it out!
• New: New Gateway API under the hood for integrating with payment gateways. Developer docs to come!
• Change: Only warnings and errors are logged unless WP_DEBUG_LOG is enabled
• Change: Increased the default donation goal to $10,000, because who couldn’t use $10k?
• Fix: Currency symbol now displays correctly when using Currency Switcher
• Fix: Donation Summary now works properly with admin-defined recurrence
• Fix: Avoid PayPal IPN errors when using test mode

2.17.3: January 17th, 2022

• Security: Minor XSS vulnerabilities, which require admin access to exploit, have been resolved

2.17.2: December 28th, 2021

• Fix: Only validate email settings that are not empty

2.17.1: November 23rd, 2021

• Fix: Took care of an annoying babel-polyfill 404 in the JavaScript console

2.17.0: November 18th, 2021

• New: Shiny new add-ons page in the admin for exploring our latest add-ons and plans!
• New: Donation Summary section for Multi-Step form! Enable it for existing forms in the Form Template Options for each form!

2.16.2: November 11th, 2021

• New: Donations made via PayPal Donations are now marked as donation in PayPal; also added a setting if you need to change it back
• Fix: Take care of some notices when editing a form and in onboarding — friendly reminder NOT to display PHP warnings on production!
• Fix: Got rid of another notice when using checkboxes in the Fields API

2.16.1: November 2nd, 2021

• Fix: Resolved Multi-Step Form PHP 7.2 and lower compatibility issue

2.16.0: October 24th, 2021

• New: You can now disable google font for Multi-Step form within the form options
• New: Conditional fields are now possible in the Field API (useful in new Form Field Manager update!)
• Fix: Give icons in Gutenberg block admin UI now display correctly in Firefox
• Fix: Resolved issue where a minimum donation error was not showing up properly

2.15.0: October 11th, 2021

• New: There is a new option for making the Donor Last Name field required
• Changed: Sending a preview email now gets send to the email of the user triggering the preview
• Changed: Improved Donor Dashboard messages with improved clarity for donors
• Changed: Donor Dashboard only displays user/password fields if registration is enabled
• Changed: PayPal IPN Verification is now enabled by default for better security
• Fix: Simplified PayPal IPN Verification to avoid failure when there wasn’t any
• Fix: Further improvements for PHP 8 compatibility
• Fix: Donors can now properly set custom amounts in their Donor Dashboard
• Fix: Corrected Lifetime and Average donation amount formatting in Donor Dashboard
• Fix: Restored PHP 5.6 compatibility when running GiveWP WP CLI commands
• Fix: Offline gateway custom label now shows up properly in donation form
• Fix: Offline donation instructions don’t show up if specific form disables gateway
• Fix: Various fixes to the internal Field API

2.14.0: September 21st, 2021

• New: A lot of improvements to the Fields API in preparation for Peer-to-Peer!
• Fix: Corrected a notice when using offline donations
• Fix: Improved decimal formatting in the Multi-Step amount buttons
• Fix: Social sharing works properly again after making a donation
• Fix: Payment ID in donation email preview correctly reflects the sequenced ID
• Fix: Connecting to Stripe on PHP 8 no longer throws an error… it just connects

2.13.4: September 3rd, 2021

• Fix: Corrected a migration introduced in the last release that had a chance of removing donation level data

2.13.3: September 1st, 2021

• Fix: Resolved rare issue with Revenue not storing properly on donation form created during onboarding
• Fix: Donor selecting “Custom” donation amount now focuses on the amount field

2.13.2: August 26th, 2021

• Fix: Resolved issue where donation forms failed to submit when Stripe was disabled

2.13.1: August 20th, 2021

• Fix: Resolved issue where donations with a custom amount changed after a payment error
• Fix: Customizer is no longer broken

2.13.0: August 19th, 2021

• New: Fresh new UI for managing Stripe accounts

2.12.3: August 12th, 2021

• Fix: Resolved issues some donors were having updating subscription cards or amount from Donor Dashboard
• Fix: Primary color picker for multi-step form remains visible if Step 1 is disabled
• Fix: Replace Legacy Form placeholder with nice, instructive image
• Fix: Improve styling for admin-defined recurring donations on multi-step form
• Fix: Improve styling for Authorize.net eCheck on multi-step form
• Fix: Payment errors no longer revert custom donation amounts

2.12.2: July 30th, 2021

• New: Improvements to the Onboarding Wizard
• New: Minor improvements to the Fields API
• Fix: An admin deleting a donor’s donation no longer reveal other donor’s donations to them in the Donor Dashboard

2.12.1: July 22st, 2021

• Fix: Resolved an issue with admin-defined recurring options showing up as a bunch of HTML

2.12.0: July 21st, 2021

• New: Compatible with the upcoming GiveWP – Text-to-Give release!
• Change: Various style improvements for accessibility within the admin
• Fix: Improved compatibility with PHP 8, resolving various warnings and deprecation notices
• Fix: Rare issue of disabling custom donation amounts causing a missing field in donation deatils is resolved
• Fix: Got rid of “Unsupported declare strict_types” warning

2.11.3: July 6th, 2021

• Fix: Important fix which makes sure that givewp.com downtime cannot affect the uptime of customer sites

2.11.2: June 8th, 2021

• Fix: Our new system for logging exceptions now handles critical errors better
• Fix: Uninstalling GiveWP no longer throws an exception

2.11.1: May 24th, 2021

• New: You can now enable billing details for PayPal Donations in Settings > Payment Gateways > PayPal
• Fix: Donor Dashboard is really translatable this time. Honestly.

2.11.0: May 19th, 2021

• New: Multi-Step form template has a new setting to enable showing decimals in amounts
• New: Donor Dashboard is now fully translatable
• Changed: Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) is now updated to reflect legal name change
• Changed: Onboarding includes KR (Repulic of Korea) currency option
• Changed: Removed legacy option to custom load Stripe SDK as it no longer did anything
• Fix: Editing a donor’s address no longer removes spacing between words
• Fix: All email templates can now be disabled
• Fix: Applying Fee Recovery now correctly handles cent rounding in Stripe
• Fix: Importing donations now works on all main browsers

2.10.4: April 29th, 2021

• Security: Resolved Authorized XSS vulnerability – note, you had to be logged in as admin to exploit it
• Changed: Removed PHAR files from vendor directory to meet wp.org standards
• Changed: Switched to using WP HTTP remote functions to meet wp.org standards
• Fixed: Improved escaping in a few places to improve security
• Fixed: Corrected is_give_form() post type so it once again works

2.10.3: April 21st, 2021

• Fixed: Authentication now works more reliably for the Donor Dashboard on different hosts
• Fixed: Nonces were added to the Donor Dashboard for additional authentication and security
• Fixed: Donors without WP accounts are now able to upload avatar images
• Fixed: Logging out from Donor Dashboard works reliably
• Fixed: Renewals were falsely marked as test donations; it was superficial, but is now correct

2.10.2: April 14th, 2021

• Changed: Stripe fee does not apply to Brazil due to Stripe limitations
• Fixed: Migration for creating the logs table is now compatible with MySQL 5.5 and up
• Fixed: When an authentication error occurs on the Donor Dashboard the user can no longer see others’ donations
• Fixed: Made sure that under no circumstances can logging cause an exception… to avoid irony
• Fixed: Activating GiveWP will now generate a Donor Dashboard page ONLY if one does not already exist

2.10.1: March 30th, 2021

• Fixed: Fatal error triggered by the Donor Dashboard on PHP 5.6
• Fixed: Donations to Revenue table migration where migration got stuck on error
• Fixed: Broken email tag link in description
• Fixed: Cleared up PHP notices on system info page
• Fixed: GiveWP Database management tool is now backwards compatible to MySQL 5.5
• Fixed: Cleaned up extra .git directories that got included in vendors
• Fixed: Donor search no longer shows undefined index notice
• Fixed: Fatal error thrown on page/post edit screens when migration table creation failed
• Fixed: Donor Dashboard now works properly on hosts with aggressive page caching
• Fixed: Donor Dashboard is only generated by admins in the admin-side, not other users by accident

2.10.0: March 22nd, 2021

• New: Donor Profile block with a whole new experience for donors to view and manage their donations
• New: Rebuilt log system from the ground up for better log viewing and database management
• New: Migration tool for viewing all GiveWP migrations and troubleshooting them
• Fixed: Paypal Donations now sends Form title to PayPal for use in receipts
• Fixed: PayPal Donations now works properly with forms using the “Button” Display Option.
• Fixed: Form logins now work properly with the PayPal Donations gateway

2.9.7: February 9th, 2021

• Fixed: Using CLI commands no longer throws a fatal error due to a missing dev package
• Fixed: When guest registration is disabled the checkbox to create an account is hidden
• Fixed: Multi Form Goal component no longer throws an error when used in Divi
• Fixed: Corrected some styles in the Setup Page for gateway links

2.9.6: January 13th, 2021

• New: Additional logging and improved messaging for PayPal Donations onboarding
• New: Added ability to adjust gravatar size for the Donor Wall block
• Fixed: Personal information field icons are preserved when switching payment gateways
• Fixed: Fee Recovery checkbox no longer has weird visual glitches on hover
• Fixed: Corrected missing borders for PayPal Donation credit card fields in Firefox
• Fixed: The form title is now reflected in PayPal for donations made through PayPal Donation
• Fixed: Resolved an error where some servers had a trouble with the autoloader using a relative path
• Fixed: Made sure that caching does not cause donations to incorrectly show up as pending in receipt
• Fixed: Create an Account checkbox only shows up when Guest Checkout is enabled
• Fixed: Form fields now preserve their values when the payment gateway changes
• Fixed: Took care of a few cross-browser compatibility issues with the multi-step form
• Fixed: Stopped taps from registering as double-clicks on checkboxes in donation forms
• Fixed: Multi-Form Goals added via shortcode now stack image and text when needed
• Fixed: Foreign keys are no longer used on Give tables and are now removed
• Fixed: Give Aid description popup now works properly on Multi-Step forms

2.9.5: December 3rd, 2020

• New: Added Jamaica to list of countries for onboarding
• Fixed: Currency Switcher options display correctly on Windows machines
• Fixed: Corrected style issues in Multi-Step forms on iOS devices
• Fixed: Restored compatibility with WP versions prior to 5.1.1

2.9.4: November 20th, 2020

• Fixed: Revenue database migration for donations with an amount of 0 now work
• Fixed: Restored compatibility with versions of WP prior to 5.5 when deleting donations
• Fixed: Stripe single-input credit card fields work once again
• Fixed: Donor’s updating the card of Stripe subscriptions work again

2.9.3: November 17th, 2020

• Fixed: Stripe Credit Card donations now work when it is not the default gateway
• Fixed: Stripe Checkout Modal are working again as well
• Fixed: A MigrationRunner warning no longer displays on fresh installs and sites upgrading from 2.8.0

2.9.2: November 9th, 2020

• New: Added a method for manually triggering migrations to re-attempt failed migrations
• Fixed: Resolved an issue when creating donations for currencies with different decimal ranges
• Fixed: Free add-ons no longer cause license errors
• Fixed: Resolved issue that prevented some donors from updating their subscription card or amount
• Fixed: Stripe Modal now renders without any issues on different screen sizes
• Fixed: Recover donation form to be ready for a retry after Stripe error
• Fixed: Multi-step form now reflects form color when embedded on a page
• Fixed: MultiForm Goal shortcode now supports comma separated lists
• Fixed: Resolved issue with revenue table migration failing on MyISAM tables

2.9.1: October 28th, 2020

• Fixed: Restore PayPal Standard functionality that was affected by a name change in GiveWP 2.9.0 (#5414)
• Fixed: Restore compatibility with WordPress 4.9

2.9.0: October 27th, 2020

• Added: New PayPal Donations gateway allows your donors to give using Debit or Credit Cards directly on your website with no additional fees
• Added: New Multi-form Goal block combines progress from multiple donation forms towards a common goal
• Added: Company Name can now be displayed on Donor Wall (#5374)
• Added: Multi-step form styles are now compatible with Currency Switcher (#5220)
• Changed: New database table handles revenue independently from donations for improved performance (#5257)
• Fixed: Imported donations do not affect donation levels anymore (#5410)
• Fixed: Reports for “All Time” are now inclusive of the first day (#5400)
• Fixed: Tabbing through credit card fields now works in the expected order (#5380)
• Fixed: Legacy form loading spinner no longer stutters (#5397)
• Fixed: Field description text is now accessible and aligned (#5396)

2.8.1: October 8th, 2020

• Fixed: Donations now process for non-US countries using billing details #5355

2.8.0: August 31st, 2020

• Added: Onboarding Wizard guides new users through first-time configuration. #5014
• Added: Setup Page clarifies required steps that must be completed prior to accepting live donations. #5014
• Added: Multi-step forms now support RTL styles. #5196
• Changed: Stripe Checkout modal is now rendered using Stripe Elements so that users can continue to use the modal display style even after it is deprecated by Stripe. #4964
• Changed: Default minimum donation amount is increased from $1.00 to $5.00 to help prevent card testing spam. #5120
• Changed: Optional fields in the Multi-Step form template are denoted to appear distinct from required fields. #5157
• Removed: Old Welcome Page has been removed in favor of the new Onboarding Wizard & Setup Page. #5014
• Removed: Admin notice animation has been removed. #5182
• Fixed: Deprecated jQuery warnings no longer appear when jQuery Migrate Helper plugin is active. #5184
• Fixed: The [give_receipt] shortcode is more compatible alongside other shortcodes, which is especially relevant for page builders. #5044
• Fixed: Resolved style and JS issues in WordPress 5.5+ with GiveWP’s WP-admin metabox expand/collapse and repeater elements. #5126
• Fixed: A register_rest_route notice no longer displays when creating a new page in the block editor. #5115
• Fixed: Multi-step form anonymous donation checkbox is now checkable after changing the payment gateway. #5191
• Fixed: Fee Recovery checkbox placement in Multi-Step forms now respects the Fee Recovery input location setting. #5205
• Fixed: Form Field Manager controls are now set up on init of the Multi-Step form to ensure they work with only a single gateway enabled. #5216

2.7.5: August 11th, 2020

• New: Form Templates now support all permalink configurations (or lack there of), including the default value of “plain”. #4952
• New: The Donations search bar now allows you to search by like keywords for rather than exact match which makes it a lot easier to find proper results. #4994
• Fix: Revamped the logic for requiring Postal / Zip codes for countries that do not have postal codes. #5006
• Fix: Resolved an issue when using the Multi-Step donation form with the first step disabled would cause the donor to auto-scroll incorrectly on page load. #5004
• Fix: Resolved a database table creation issue for new installs due to bug within our new bootstrapping process. #5017
• Fix: Ensure that the “Title Prefixes” maintain the order of values when saved. #4992
• Fix: The “Donation Form” Block can now properly be re-selected when it’s using the new Multi-Step donation form template and the admin loses focus on the block. #5017

2.7.4: August 4th, 2020

• Fix: The uninstall process in v2.7.3 previously resulted in a fatal error due to a change made in the plugin’s bootstrapping process. #4981

2.7.3: July 29th, 2020

• Fix: The Donation Reports were not correctly calculating renewals processed via the Recurring Donations add-on leading to incorrect figures. #4883
• Fix: The new Multi-Step Form Template was not correctly marking donations as anonymous if the donor elected to give anonymously. #4959
• Fix: Reports have been improved to account for the use of a comma as the currency decimal separator. Previously, when using a ‘,’ as the decimal separator for a currency, it produced inconsistent errors in terms of decimal placement for totals displayed on the Reports page. Furthermore, using a ‘,’ for the decimal separator resulted in consistent misplacement of the decimal in the Average Donations totals. #4926
• Fix: The Chosen select dropdown field now can properly have separate values and labels. #4943
• Fix: Fixed a typo in the default Thank You page content for the new Multi-step Form Template. #4909
• Fix: The give_get_meta filter had a duplicate parameter passed and now properly passes all parameters. #4464

2.7.2: July 6th, 2020

• Fix: The 2.7.0 upgrade routine could cause WP-Admin to be incorrectly redirected to the update success screen for certain hosting environments after completion. #4900
• Fix: The Donor Wall shortcode now allows you to properly only display certain donors by their donor IDs. #4864
• Fix: Improved the Multi-Step Form Template styles when only one gateway is active. Previously the “Donate Now” button wouldn’t be properly centered aligned and checkboxes could be a smaller width than the container. #4882
• Fix: Provided support for the “Anonymous Donations” checkbox within the new Multi-step Form Template. #4888
• Fix: The “Terms and Conditions” checkbox can now be properly scrolled on mobile devices. #4899
• Fix: When Google Pay was the default gateway a notice would incorrectly display in the new donation form template. #4879

2.7.1: June 30th, 2020

• Fix: Resolved an issue with the 2.7.0 releasing causing the Form Grid shortcode to not render due to a PHP fatal error. #4877
• Fix: Updated a JavaScript version to the latest to prevent browser caching from causing the Reports widgets to not function until a hard browser refresh. #4876

2.7.0: June 29th, 2020

• New: We’re excited to announce a new way to create your donation forms called “Form Templates”. The first template is allows you to create a highly customizable multi-step donation form where you control all the text, colors, and images in place. Be sure to update to the latest version of your add-ons for full compatibility. Read more about Form Templates
• New: Multiple Stripe Account is here! Now you can connect to multiple Stripe accounts and set them per donation form. That means organizations, like charities with chapters or schools with clubs that need to raise money online, can create different forms to accept donations through separate Stripe accounts. Read more about Stripe Multi-Accounts
• New: Our Gutenberg blocks’ UI was improved so they are have a better user experience.
• Tweak: Previous to this release we were packaging two TCPDF packages for backwards compatibility reason. We removed one of the packages and now are relying on the composer package. This means that you’ll need to be running the PDF Receipts version add-on at 2.3.4 or higher for compatibility. #4656
• Fix: If you install GiveWP and didn’t configure anything there would be a JavaScript error on the frontend if Stripe is not connected but enabled, which it is by default for new installs. #4709
• Fix: Improved how reports are rounding percentages so that the trend comparisons are more accurate. #4766
• Fix: Monaco doesn’t have states so don’t display or require a state field when that country is selected. #4773
• Fix: Properly internationalized a tooltip in Stripe so translations properly display. #4677
• Fix: The “Add-ons” like on the plugin activation welcome screen was broken. #4843
• Fix: Resolved a caching conflict with WP Rocket that was preventing donation forms from being cached properly. #4546
• Fix: Prevented a fatal error that could occur on the Donor profile screen in WP-Admin when the Stripe add-on is active but no Stripe payment gateways are enabled. #4787

2.6.3: May 19th, 2020

• New: Added a new payment gateway for Stripe called BECS Direct Debit payments for Australia. This includes support for one time and subscription payments. Note: Subscription payments are only supported via the Recurring Donations add-on. #4590
• Fix: Improved Stripe’s error handling so that the error output is more descriptive of the actual problem and donations are not marked as complete if the card is denied by Stripe. #4689
• Fix: When viewing legacy reports and filtering data you would incorrectly be redirected to the new reports screen instead of seeing filtered report data. #4644
• Fix: The alignment of the money fields were off a few pixels on the donation form settings screen. #4638
• Fix: Modified pro license logic so that old license keys saved to the database don’t cause incorrect notices to display. #4669
• Fix: Updated the country select dropdown to remove missing and incorrect countries. #4745
• Fix: Dates for the donor wall now output the properly translated date. #4721
• Fix: Several field descriptions in the plugin settings had typos and / or required clarity for better understanding. #4649, #2808
• Tweak: Replaced the default placeholder image that was using placehold.it image for a local image for improved support. #4743

2.6.2: April 1st, 2020

• Fix: Resolved an issue with Stripe in the latest release which prevented the donation form from properly redirecting to the donation receipt page upon successful donation. #4605
• Fix: Modified how we compare values in Stripe’s gateway JavaScript to prevent a Payment Intent error from happening for certain configurations. #4604

2.6.1: March 30th, 2020

• New: Stripe now has the SEPA Direct Debit gateway integrated. This is a popular payment option in Europe and can be used to accept one-time and recurring donations. #4571, #4313
• Fix: The new Reports screen was not properly caching results which would cause delays in pulling data on larger sites or small resource servers. #4514
• Fix: The new Reports screen was having issues with certain currency formats which resulted in inaccurate figures. #4537, #4559
• Fix: Resolved an issue with the new Reports interface throwing a few PHP notices. #4515, #4593, #4592
• Fix: Adjusted our Gutenberg styles so that it doesn’t conflict with WordPress’. #4577
• Fix: Resolved an error when using Stripe’s Checkout feature with the Recurring Donations causing “The Stripe Gateway returned an error while creating the Checkout Session” error. #4566
• Fix: Resolved an issue with user roles that would display the “Donations” top level menu item in WP-Admin incorrectly to subscribers. Note: none of the screens would be accessible. #4524
• Fix: Solved an issue where Stripe payments with the form grid not rendering correctly when opening and closing donation forms in the popup modal window. #4467
• Fix: The “Title” field would not correctly display as optional (the asterisk would not remove) when set as optional. #4510

2.6.0: March 4th, 2020

• New: The Reporting feature of GiveWP has undergone a major enhancement. Now reports display using a much improved visual charting interface with a breakdown of income, donors, top donation forms, and more. #1525, #4330
• New: The WP-Admin dashboard Donation Report widget for GiveWP has also undergone a major improvement. Now you can get a high-level overview of your donations for the day, week, or month from directly in you dashboard. #4370
• New: The Akismet SPAM feature has been improved with logs for admins to better understand why an email has been flagged as SPAM as well as a new Whitelist setting for them to allow email addresses to bypass the check. #4110
• Fix: Resolved an issue with the “Recalculate Income Amount and Donation Counts for a Form” not accurately recalculating when using Currency Switcher add-on. #4447
• Fix: Resolved an issue with large databases with more than 13,000 donors receiving a fatal error when viewing the donor’s list screen. #4444
• Tweak: You can now activate any plugin within the GiveWP Licenses tab. This resolves an issue with “this plugin does not have a valid header” error admins were receiving. #4443
• Tweak: Updated the [give_login] shortcode text output to “Username or Email Address” to match WP’s login. Note: you have been able to always log in using email but now the text accurately reflects that. #4434

2.5.13: January 15th, 2020

• Fix: Resolved an issue when using button mode of multiple donation buttons appearing incorrectly within shortcodes, blocks, and widgets. #4379
• Fix: Correct an ordering issue with the form grid when sorting by “Form Title” it was using the slug rather than the actual donation form title. #4392
• Fix: Removed deprecated usage of wp.components.ServerSideRender in our Gutenberg blocks. #4402
• Tweak: Refactored the give_doing_it_wrong() function so that it properly displays Give-specific messages for developers. #2572

2.5.12: December 31st, 2019

• Fix: Resolved an issue with donation receipt emails and admin notifications not being sent out properly when a new donation is made. The cause of the issue was a security permission check incorrectly put in place in the previous version that was unable to be bypassed by new donors. We’ve reverted that change and fully tested to ensure emails are working as expected again. #4379

2.5.11: December 23rd, 2019

• Fix: Activating Give created a minor style conflict with the Gutenberg editor slightly pushing down some buttons. This has been resolved by refactoring the styles so they no longer conflict with WP Core elements. #4354
• Fix: Sorting donation payments by taxonomy would result in AJAX fails in JavaScript. #2976
• Improvement: New unit test added to test for the give_verify_minimum_price() function. #3232
• Refactor: Removed duplicate code for fetching donor addresses to improve performance. #3253
• Refactor: We removed the old notes column from the donor table now that that data has long been migrated over to a custom tables’ column. #3632
• Fix: Improved responsiveness in the donation forms list screen by preventing the copy shortcode button from overlapping with other columns on smaller screens. #4090
• Fix: Ensure that empty donation receipt emails can not triggered incorrectly. #4185
• Refactor: Adjusted meta capabilities so that they are not assigned to roles. #4212
• Fix: Improved give_send_back_to_checkout() redirect functionality with add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() for a dramatically simpler solution that provides for WordPress installed in a subdirectory. Thanks @luizbills for the contribution! #4311
• Fix: Resolved several style issues with WordPress 5.3+’s new admin changes. #4315
• Fix: The UK’s County field is no longer required. This change is based on customer feedback this field should not be required. #4316
• Fix: Resolve updates not showing up without a manual refresh of licenses. Previously add-on updates would be checked every few weeks. Now they are checked on every 48 hours. #4318
• Fix: Resolved an error with Stripe that would occur if an existing donor would make a new donation using a different credit card. The error “The customer does not have a payment method with the ID…” will no longer appear now and donations will process as expected. #4328
• Fix: Resolved an issue with Stripe Checkout if you chose to load scripts in the footer would result in a redirect loop depending on your set up. #4329
• Fix: When clicking on the modal popup button it would previously be hidden from the DOM which could result in background jumpiness. Now the button is not hidden which leads to better theme compatibility. #4352
• Fix: Corrected an broken URL in the in add-ons header. #4307

2.5.10: October 28th, 2019

• Fix: Resolved an issue with Stripe Checkout 2.0 and featured images not properly displaying for certain WP installs. #4281
• Fix: Optimized and resolved a number of scenarios regarding donors updating credit cards with the Stripe payment gateway. Now when comparing the card’s fingerprint the plugin also checks the expiration date and CVC and updates the card in Stripe if it has changed. #4280
• Fix: The Stripe 2% application fee is not ever charged with the new Checkout 2.0 if you are using the Premium gateway add-on. #4287
• Fix: Resolved an issue with the {receipt_link_url} not working when using the plain text email option. #4284

2.5.9: October 15th, 2019

• New: Added a new filter give_donation_form_submit_button_text for developers. Thanks @mcdonagg! #4269
• Fix: Resolved an edge case update conflict with Stripe and Recurring which could cause a fatal error for some installs. #4272
• Fix: Corrected an edge case issue with Stripe Credit Card fields not appearing properly after updating. #4274
• Fix: Improved the layout of the Stripe Connect banner for smaller screens. #4259
• Fix: Removed space in link to Stripe’s webhook documentation. #4266
• Fix: Resolved typos in GitHub’s readme.md documentation. #4268

2.5.8: September 26th, 2019

• Fix: Resolved an upgrade issue for customers who had enabled the Stripe Credit Card option in GiveWP 2.5.4 and below and Stripe 2.2.0 and below. After upgrading existing donors were not able to change their credit card info and new donors were not able make donations. #4260

2.5.7: September 20th, 2019

• Fix: Resolved issues with the notice added in the previous version displaying incorrectly for sites that do not have Recurring Donations installed or activated. #4257

2.5.6: September 19th, 2019

• Notice: Please update the Recurring Donations add-on to version 1.9.4+ in order to use GiveWP 2.5.5+.
• Fix: Resolved a fatal error occurring if using an outdated version of the Recurring Donations add-on. The plugin will now display a message and deactivate the add-on to prevent the error. If you are experiencing this issue please rollback GiveWP to 2.5.4 or below using the WP Rollback plugin and contact support for prompt assistance. #4255

2.5.5: September 19th, 2019

• New: Added support for Stripe’s new Checkout payment method. Now you can accept payments that support Strong Customer Authentication, Google and Apple Pay, Credit Cards and more! #4207
• New: Added the ability to add tabs to settings to more easily break up sections. You can see this within the new Stripe payment gateway settings. #4202, #4204
• New: New hooks have been added to the Stripe gateway for developers to more easily extend. #4244
• Tweak: Improved documentation description for the Stripe payment gateway. #4206
• Fix: The Stripe SDK only loads now when the gateway is enabled to improve performance and further prevent conflicts. #4237
• Fix: Resolved a security issue responsibly disclosed to use by the good folks at Wordfence. Thanks y’all!

2.5.4: August 7th, 2019

• New: Stripe compatibility solution – There is now a setting under Donations > Settings > Advanced > Stripe that allows you select which implementation of Stripe you wish to use. If you are using another plugin that uses Stripe to accept payments there is a chance that it may include the Stripe SDK (Software Development Kit) either through Composer or manually initialized. This can cause conflicts with GiveWP because WordPress does not have a dependency management system to prevent conflicts and the other plugins may be using outdated versions compared to GiveWP’s. To help resolve conflicts we have included two options to use Stripe alongside these other plugins. The recommended way is Composer, but if that is not working then we recommend manual initialized. If both options do not work please contact support. #4193
• Fix: When using Stripe there was a chance your donors would get a receipt from Stripe and from GiveWP. There is now a setting to set whether you want to send Stripe generated receipt emails or use GiveWP’s. We recommend using ours if you’re using multiple gateways, but if you’re only using Stripe you may enable this new option and disable the default receipts. #4203
• Fix: There was an issue with converting dollars to cents and back within Stripe free which has been resolved and now has unit tests to ensure no more issues crop up with the functional conversions. #4200
• Fix: When editing a donor you can now properly remove the “Title” for the donor (such as “Mr”, “Mrs”, etc). #4211
• Fix: Ensure the requirement on the state field is removed from hidden state fields for certain countries and regions. #4201
• Fix: Resolved a compatibility issue with the Tickera plugin’s implementation of QR codes within the PDF generator. The issue was with our shared library of TCPDF and now the QR codes display correctly due to a constant change on our end. #3880
• Tweak: You can now activate any plugin under Settings > Licenses. Previously we were requiring the author to only be GiveWP which caused an “this plugin does not have a valid header” error message to annoyingly display. #4217

2.5.3: July 30th, 2019

• Fix: The Gutenberg Block for Donation Forms embedding was only displaying the most recent 10 donation forms. Now you can search for additional forms and they will for embedding. #4137
• Fix: iThemes Sync was again having an issue with our plugin due to a change we reverted in a previous version. That change has been resolved and now syncing can commence again. Rejoice! #4195
• Fix: Resolved compatibility issues with other plugins using the Stripe SDK by initializing it manually within the included GiveWP Core Stripe gateway class. We tested this alongside many of the most popular plugins to ensure smooth sailing alongside each other. #4193
• Fix: Resolved an issue with editing a donation form when it has thousands of donations. To prevent this issue we now are deleting the group cache of the donation and donor instead of individual IDs.
• Fix: Several deprecation notices were displaying for our Gutenberg Blocks. They are now all updated with the latest version of the WP Block Editor. #4137
• Fix: The “Empty Trash” button was in an incorrect location on the donation form edit screen and now has been placed in it’s proper position. #4075

2.5.2: July 16th, 2019

• Fix: Prevent “PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array” when updating to 2.5+ on a pre WP 5.0 version. #4176
• Fix: Resolved minor appearance issues with the Stripe Connect notice appearance. #4175

2.5.1: July 12th, 2019

• New: Added PHPUnit tests for the important Give_Payments_Query query. #1893
• Optimization: Improved the WP Admin plugin list page load time by reducing the number of queries generated by the add-on activation banner. #4112
• Tweak: Updated the list of counties / states in Ireland to be more accurate. #4145
• Tweak: Polished some minor user workflow issues with the license activation functionality. #4172
• Fix: Ensured that the notice checking Recurring and Stripe versions would only display for users of Stripe on the particular outdated version and not incorrectly for non-Stripe users. #4169
• Fix: Resolve SQL injection vulnerability discovered by Tin Duong from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs. Read more about the patch and the disclosure. Thanks Tin for responsibly disclosing

2.5.0: July 10th, 2019

• New: Stripe credit card processing is now available in GiveWP Core for processing one-time (non-recurring) donations! #4010, #4011, #4012, #4013, #4013, #4034, #4051, #4076, #4093
• New: The licensing interface has been upgraded to provide easier license and add-on activation and to be much more user friendly and reliable. #2058, #4008
• New: The currency setting will now display a preview displaying how it will appear on your donation forms when you update the options. #3187
• New: Documentation links have been added to the shortcode builder. #3233
• New: The “notes” field has been added to the fields to be exported in the donation export tool. #3979
• New: The “Donation Form Grid” block and shortcode can now be filtered by category or tag. #4056
• New: Adjusted the headers in GiveWP Core admin styles and adjusted setting screens legibility.
• New: The GiveWP Modal API now supports an option to close the modal when clicking the background. #4142
• Fix: Prevent multiple admin ajax calls on the Tools > Exports screen. #3351
• Fix: Resolved the “Settings” importer failing when using the JSON format option. #4097
• Fix: Added number formatting to goals with a large number of donors. #4100
• Fix: Added a max-width to chosen select boxes to prevent them from breaking styles when options have very long titles. #4099
• Fix: Improved the logic when an admin disconnects the GiveWP Donor and WP user profiles #4113
• Fix: The give_send_back_to_checkout() function now works as expected on multisite installs. #4032
• Fix: Ensured there are no PHP notices when doing REST API queries. #4038
• Fix: Resolved an issue where the state field would appear incorrectly as not required for the default country. #4144
• Fix: Admin styles were not appearing correctly if using WP in the French language. #4146
• Fix: Resolved an issue with the “Display Type” option for the “Donation Form Grid” not working as expected. #4159
• Tweak: The Swiss Franc symbol has been updated to “CHF” instead of “Fr.” #4086
• Tweak: Removed the word “nonce” from all front end error messages and updated them to be more user friendly and less technically confusing. #4129, #4031
• Tweak: Changed “Swaziland” to “Eswatini”. #4120
• Optimization: Improved various database option calls and general meta query performance throughout the plugin to speed up queries and reduce server load. #3359, #3382, #3383, #3872, #3994, #4104
• Refactor: Pre-2.0.0 backward compatibility code has been removed because it has reached end of life for support. #3033

2.4.7: May 14th, 2019

• Security Patch: Prevent Stored XSS vulnerability in donor names by adding additional escaping to ensure security when viewing donor records in WP-Admin. We take security seriously and would like to thank GoDaddy and Sucuri for reporting and assisting with this fix. Thanks also to the WordPress Plugin Review Team for allowing a force push of all security patches to protect all GiveWP users. For more detailed information see here: https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/05/wordpress-plugin-give-stored-xss-for-donors.html

2.4.6: May 7th, 2019

• Fix: Resolved an issue displaying donations in WP-Admin made when the WordPress install’s date format is set to “d/m/Y”. #4088
• Fix: The Donations Exporter tool was not properly respecting the category or tag filters when creating the CSV file. #4085
• Fix: When the “Personal Info” fieldset within donation forms was not going full width for mobile views and was difficult to view. The fields properly default to full width for mobile views. #3751
• Fix: The {reset_password_link} email tag was not working properly for “New Donation” and “Donation Receipt” emails. #3510

2.4.5: April 16th, 2019

• Fix: Resolved two issues with donor and donation exporters not working properly when filters (Date and Donation Forms) were set. #4078, #4079
• Fix: Ensure that the database upgrade process is fully compatible with WP Multisite upgrades. #4065
• Fix: Resolved a PHP Fatal error that was occurring when clicking on the “Resend Donation Receipt” within the donation details screen in WP-Admin and also when marking an offline donation as complete. #4068
• Fix: The GiveWP API was returning non-valid JSON resulting in Zapier having issues pulling in Sample Data. This has been resolved and an acceptance test created to ensure valid JSON is returned to help prevent it breaking in further releases. #4071
• Fix: The GiveWP API now returns consistent amount formats for donations, fees collected, etc. #4073, #4074

2.4.4: March 20th, 2019

• Fix: Resolved a regression where percentage based goals were not displaying their progress correctly. #4049
• Fix: Resolved a regression in 2.4.3 where IE10/11 browsers had issues with donating with multi-level donation forms. #4048
• Fix: Corrected a PHP Warning on servers running PHP 7.3.3 within the email tags settings section. #4044
• Fix: Resolved conflict with iTheme’s Sync plugin. #3989
• Fix: Updated the backwards compatible TCPDF version used by older plugin versions to the latest version. #4054

2.4.3: March 13th, 2019

• Fix: Ensure when a donation form’s “Registration” option is set to “Login” that it does not appear incorrectly as optional on the donation form. #4045
• Fix: Prevent a PHP warning from displaying in the System Info window due to new host detection login in the previous release. #4041
• Fix: Ensure that logged in users without donor’s associated with their WP users can properly donate. This is a regression fix from the previous version 2.4.2 release. #4039
• Fix: Resolved an incompatibility with Elementor’s “Finder” functionality. #3912

2.4.2: March 11th, 2019

• Tweak: Adjusted how web hosts are detected in WP-Admin > Donations > Tools > System Info to improve accuracy. #3356
• Tweak: Added get_goal within the Give_Donate_Form for developers. #4020
• Fix: License statuses were not properly displaying in WP-Admin > Donations > Tools > System Info and that has been fixed. #3975
• Fix: The label “State” incorrectly displayed on the admin donor details screen. #3995
• Fix: Resolved a tooltip title that was not translatable. #3996
• Fix: Date fields now have better support for international date formats. #4000
• Fix: Resolve a mislabeled name attribute for the donation amount field within donation forms. #4001
• Fix: Improved support for varying capitalization within donor’s emails when a repeat donation happens. This update will prevent case-insensitive matches being incorrectly compared. #4025
• Fix: Resolved incorrect setting of the “autocomplete” attribute on certain dropdown fields. #4028

2.4.1: February 7th, 2019

• New: Links to view receipts and subscriptions no longer expire. This prevents unnecessary errors and login screens for donors who attempt to access donations and subscription history. #3956, #3963, #3964
• Fix: Ensure that browser autofill works for the Billing Country and Address 1 and Address 2 fields. #3830
• Fix: Additional checks are now in place to ensure the plugin’s custom tables properly are created when upgrading from very old versions. #3966
• Fix: The [give_login] shortcode’s “click here to logout” link to log me out was not correctly working. Now the link properly logs out the user when clicked. #3957
• Fix: Resolved an issue with the Donation Form title displaying incorrectly in widgets. #3947
• Fix: The API log was not displaying the proper log count for entries. #3924
• Fix: JSON files can now properly be uploaded to the Donations importer in WP 5.0+. #3907
• Fix: Resolved a conflict with the X theme and accompanying Cornerstone page builder plugin and the Form Grid shortcode on phones and touch devices preventing the modal from opening. #3905
• Fix: There was an issue occurring causing the donor to click twice into a donation form field after they entered a custom donation amount. This has been resolved so the donor can immediately click into a form field after leaving a custom amount. #3889
• Fix: When attempting to export between two dates an error “No data found for export parameters.” was displaying incorrectly and has been resolved. #3864
• Fix: A frontend JS error no longer happens if the offline payment gateway is enable globally. #3959
• Fix: There was a PHP warning occurring when editing a donor’s address that is now resolved. #3961
• Fix: When exporting in certain cases the donor’s address would be incorrect if the donor had the same ID as a WP user. This was due to pre-2.0 backwards compatibility code which has since been removed to correct the issue. #3971
• Fix: Added checks to prevent a PHP “Undefined index: post_type” notice. #3981
• Fix: Updated the email tag descriptions for {name} and {company} to be more accurate and helpful. #3943
• Fix: Allow deletion of Address line 2 in French donation addresses on the donor details screen in WP-Admin. #3940

2.4.0: January 16th, 2019

• New: Optimized the loading of the plugin’s resources to achieve a much more performant fundraising platform. to decrease load times, optimize queries, and decrease processing power. #3871, #3929
• New: Added the ability to sort the Donation Form Grid based on goal progress. #3818
• New: Improved the how “Anonymous” donors appear and the ordering of the Donor Wall. #3826, #3816
• New: Added a search and filter utility within WP-Admin > Donations > Forms to easily find donation forms by goal status, published date, and form name or ID. #3845
• New: Added the ability to import a donor’s IP address when using import tool. #3918
• New: Added advanced search filters for the Donations > Donors screen within WP-Admin. #1882
• New: The Donations > Donors screen within WP-Admin now displays the donor’s Gravatar image based on their email. #3777
• Tweak: The import sample data has been improved to have more realistic example donor names, campaigns, and donation form configurations. #3913
• Tweak: The donation form title will now appears at the top of modal donation forms screens for a better donor experience. #3881
• Tweak: We changed the default text for Anonymous Donation checkbox and tooltips to optimize the donor experience in understanding what the checkbox means. #3911
• Tweak: Reviewed PHP 7.2 compatibility, identified false positives, and resolved a few minor compatibility flags. #3919
• Fix: Resolved an issue with Sessions not being properly set when AJAX was in use. #3941
• Fix: Resolved issue with give_recount_form_income_donation() using incorrectly the post_per_page rather than number which Give_Payment_Query() expects. #2973
• Fix: Sourcemaps now again generate properly for easy SCSS line number references for developers. #3860
• Fix: The {payment_total} tag was incorrectly outputting HTML characters rather than currency symbols when used within the email subject. #3922
• Fix: Searching donations by the donor’s first and last name in WP-Admin is now displaying accurate results. #3927

2.3.1: December 13th, 2018

• New: Gutenberg blocks are here! You can now add donation forms, a donor wall, donation form grids and more to your Gutenberg (Block Editor) powered posts. #3813, #3697, #3887
• New: You can now more easily search your donation records by donor name, email, or donation ID in WP-Admin. #3806
• New: GiveWP now registers its custom tables on plugin activation instead of multiple checks when DB class creates to increase performance. #3854
• New: Added an advanced option to display Babel polyfill for sites that don’t require it. #3658
• Tweak: Removed the “Quick Edit” feature of donation forms because it wasn’t very useful and not often used. #2485
• Tweak: Adjusted the HTML for the “Create an account” checkbox to be consistent with other donation form checkbox elements for consistency. #3499
• Tweak: Updated the default currency formatting for KZT, KGS, KWD, JOD, TRY, CHF, SEK, NOK, HUF, DKK, CZK, BRL to be accurate according to the most widely used formatted for each currency. #3903
• Tweak: Changed GiveWP’s session cookie prefix to be inline with WP’s naming convention to prevent conflicts with hosts like Pantheon’s caching logic. #3819
• Fix: Resolved an issue with Recurring donations renewal receipt links displaying the most recent donation incorrectly rather than the renewal information. #3778
• Fix: Ensure that “nonce verification” errors don’t display when logging in and out between donations. #3820
• Fix: Ensure that mobile-only text displays properly in the [donation_history] shortcode. #3829
• Fix: Prevent nonce error when deleting a donor from the donors screen. #3832
• Fix: Correct the select page placeholder text on “Subscription Page” select field to “Choose a page” in GiveWP’s General Settings page. #3833
• Fix: Removed the apostrophe as a thousand separator for Taiwan New Dollars. #3840
• Fix: Removed usage of PHP 5.4+ shorthand bracket array declarations for compatibility with lower PHP versions. #3847
• Fix: The “cat” and “tag” shortcode attributes now properly work to display total earnings in the [give_totals] shortcode when the “ID” attribute is not set. #3879
• Fix: Resolved rare scenario when a donor attempts to donate when a cookie generated via the email access link is expired and is using the same browser to process a donation. #3886
• Fix: Updated the formatting for the Russian Ruble to be correct. #3893
• Fix: Ensure that deleting the test data at Donations > Tools > Data (tab) deletes donations made when give is in test mode, as well as donations made with the test gateway is in live mode. #2473
• Fix: Ensure that when a subsite is deleted in a multisite environment that GiveWP’s custom tables are also removed. #3790
• Fix: Ensure that when a subsite is created in a multisite environment that GiveWP autocompletes all DB updates. #3795
• Fix: Refactored the database upgrade “v201_add_missing_donors” callback to prevent a rare memory exhausted issue. #3797

2.3.0: October 24th, 2018

• New: This release includes an upgrade routine to move comments from WordPress core tables to our own custom tables. This was done to resolve conflicts with various plugins incorrectly flagging GiveWP’s comments as spam. Developer’s Post – Custom Comment Tables, #3627, #3589, #3604, #3588
• New: Admins now have the ability to send notes to donors via a customizable email within the donation details screen. #2159
• New: A real time view of currency number formatting displays when modifying the setting. #3490
• New: You can now more easily copy form shortcodes by clicking a new “Copy Shortcode” button. #2602
• New: There is now a Gutenberg block for the donor wall. #3546
• New: We’ve added a “Select All Fields” option within the donation exporter for easier select/deselect checkboxes. #3649
• New: There is now a {donor_comment} email tag to pass within emails. #3655
• New: Added the ability to export donation comments within the exporter. #3743
• New: Acceptance testing has been updated to include UI testing. #3663
• Tweak: The donor wall gravatars have been optimized to now load after page load as to not slow down page speed. #3758
• Tweak: Added filters to the donation exporter so developers can include custom data to export as needed. #3709
• Tweak: Updated the “Card Name” field label to “Cardholder Name” to help donor’s understand the field. #3714
• Tweak: Dates are formatted to the WordPress date format found under Settings > General. #3502
• Tweak: Optimized the loading of give options by setting autoload to no for most of GiveWP’s settings. #2491
• Tweak: When changing payment gateways a nonce is verified for additional security. #2580
• Tweak: The TCPDF library is now included with composer to help prevent conflicts with other plugins using the same library. #3482
• Tweak: Currency settings now allow for 8 decimal points to better support Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. #3602
• Fix: The donor wall has now been modified so each individual donation displays separately. As well, we’ve added additional options in the shortcode to sort the donors. The styles have also been improved to be more cross-theme compatible. #3744, #3781
• Fix: When the “Delete all data” tool is used, GiveWP data is removed from all tables BUT GiveWP settings and custom tables are not removed. When GiveWP is uninstalled with the “Remove Data on Uninstall” selected under Settings > Advanced tab, GiveWP data and settings are removed AND custom tables are removed. #3638
• Fix: Per-form emails now use the global email content as a starting point for easier customization. #3653
• Fix: When you delete a donation form the form’s metadata is now removed from the database for better cleanup. #3641
• Fix: When Singapore is selected the City requirement is removed. #3669
• Fix: Allow selection of more than the first 30 forms in the Export tool. #3674
• Fix: Set autocomplete off to all the admin date fields. #3675
• Fix: Resolved typos in the “Dry Run” option of the importer. #3699
• Fix: Resolved jumping to a page number issue in Donations > Donors when entering a custom page number and pressing enter. #3719
• Fix: Do not display shortcode generator above form content. #3739
• Fix: Ensure date fields have the same placeholders throughout the admin interface. #3757
• Fix: Ensure the TinyMCE shortcode builder doesn’t unnecessarily display scrollbars. #3876

2.2.5: September 17th, 2018

• Fix: Resolved a JS error preventing visitors from successfully logging into via a donation form. #3684
• Fix: Typo within tooltip. #3685
• Fix: Removed usage of deprecated jQuery load() method. #3688

2.2.4: August 29th, 2018

• Upgrade: This version contains an upgrade routine to correct issues with the donor wall in which past donors would incorrectly display on the wall regardless of whether they elected to be anonymous or not. As well, donors can now give to multiple donation forms and be anonymous on one and not anonymous on another.
• Fix: Ensure donors can be properly connected and disconnected to WP users in the donor details screen. #3636
• Fix: Prevent error notices from displaying in the Gutenberg editor. #3575
• Fix: Prevent JS errors when attempting to deactivate the plugin. #3619
• Fix: There is an upgrade routine to Donors that mark themselves as anonymous .
• Fix: PHP notices when recalculating total donation income amount. #3611
• Fix: Do not display encoded UTF-8 characters in donor comments. #3631
• Tweak: Added a test to check if all registered db updates complete automatically on fresh install. #3628

2.2.3: August 10th, 2018

• Fix: Added backwards compatibility for email tag “description” and “function” options that were modified in the previous version. #3584
• Fix: Refactored the settings API to have custom save logic for individual setting sections. Developers can now easily create a custom setting page and option name which will store data in its own option rather than increasing the size of the give_settings option. #3541
• Fix: Exclude the honeypot field from floating labels js. #2230
• Fix: All donation forms are now listed on Export screen in wp-admin. #1970
• Fix: Increased the contrast for the floating labels for inactive placeholders. #2179
• Fix: Resolve error with email access when the “View Receipt” link is clicked the donor would receive a permissions error. #3571
• Fix: Prevent login button text from updating with wrong text. #3562
• Fix: Uncomment the give_checkout_login_fields_before hook so developers can use it accordingly. #3566
• Fix: Prevent emails from being sent when importing donations. #3592
• Tweak: The donor wall shortcode has been modified so that donors who give without leaving a comment will display by default. #3581

2.2.2: August 2nd, 2018

• Fix: Fixed email access issue with the donation history page preventing donors from using the submit button once they entered their email. #3553
• Fix: Resolved PHP notices when accessing donation history via email in PHP version 7.2. #3565

2.2.1: August 1st, 2018

• Fix: Resolve an issue with the donor wall displaying incorrect amounts when a donor has given multiple times. #3532
• Fix: Confirm system generated notes insert as comments for donations and aren’t blocked by WP’s spam protections. #3537
• Fix: Render settings textarea field type within a div instead of a p tag for better compatibility with tabs.
• Fix: Updating donor information does not update display on donations admin page. #2985
• Fix: Pass widget arguments to action hook for developers to more easily extend. #3245
• Fix: Extend email notification functionality to support admin context. #3516
• Fix: Deleting all data doesn’t remove form categories or tags. 3145
• Fix: Don’t block login form after first failed login. 3423
• Tweak: Use send_preview_email function to setup email data for previewing emails. #3517
• Tweak: Increase donors table email column length to support longer emails. #3525

2.2.0: July 30th, 2018

• Important: This release requires a number of updates to our add-ons for full compatibility due to the optimization of how we handle donor session data and additional refactoring of the database schema. Please ensure you update all your add-ons after updating for full compatibility. If you have any issues with the update feel free to reach out to our support. GiveWP Plugin Support
• New: The Donor Wall is here. Now you can display your donors, their comment, and the amount they donated in a customizable shortcode. #2900, #3312
• New: You can now enable Title Prefixes, or also commonly called “Honorifics” (Mr., Mrs., Dr.), for donors in a flexible and customizable way. #3011
• New: Refactored how GiveWP stores sessions in a much more cache-friendly way using a new custom table called “_give_sessions”. For more information please see the this GiveWP developers post for more information.
• New: Country and State dropdowns are now using searchable dropdowns in wp-admin plugin settings. #2423
• New: The following email tags are added in this feature: {admin_email}, {offline_mailing_address}, {site_url}. #3070, #3378
• New: Added a more complete list of currencies from around the world. #3367
• New: Added a new helper function give_form_get_default_level( $form_id ) for developers to more easily retrieve a donation form’s default level ID. #3397
• New: An additional “exclude” option has been added to NOT include a donation form by default on the form grid. #3206
• New: You can now duplicate donation forms on the donation form listing screen in wp-admin. #3331
• New: Donation receipts are now loaded via AJAX to prevent caching conflicts. #3412
• New: The “Company Name” field is now able to be updated in wp-admin on the donation details screen. #3413
• New: There is now a plugin deactivation screen that displays with a survey to help us improve the plugin. #648
• Tweak: Improved the database update process so that even if AJAX is inaccessible by the plugin updates can still be ran. The only difference is that admins will have to remain on the page while the upgrade runs. AJAX was used for background updates, but if it’s not able to be used the background process is removed and a notice displays prompting the admin to remain on page. #3420, #3393
• Tweak: Refactored the GiveWP “_give_paymentmeta” table name to “_give_donationmeta” to prevent naming conflicts with plugins like Restrict Content Pro and potentially others that use the same custom table name. #2710
• Tweak: Refactored the multiple methods to delete donors so now there is a singular method for donor deletion that is extensible. For more info see this developers blog post. #2347
• Tweak: The “Terms and Conditions” label now accepts HTML so you can insert links to more info and content. This is particularly useful for improved GDPR compliance. #3225
• Tweak: Core now uses the form’s currency in the process of donation creation. #3401
• Fix: Gutenberg blocks are now fully functional in anticipation of WP 5.0 release. #3518
• Fix: The address email tag is now appropriately formatted so the address fields appear in the correct order. #2790
• Fix: Exporting and Importing donations is now in sync without any errors to make migrating data between environments easier. #2135
• Fix: Resolved issues with the newsletter sign up on the GiveWP activation welcome screen. #2322
• Fix: All email tags listed below the email template WYSIWYG editor are now usable. Previously some were not rendering properly because of the type of email being edited. #2997
• Fix: Modal and button mode donations forms were not properly displaying payment errors within the modal leading to potential donor confusion. #3006
• Fix: Donation form earning now update when a donation amount is updated so stats remain correct. #3085
• Fix: When using a dropdown multilevel select type in Button mode the dropdown would incorrectly display above the button. #3215
• Fix: Removed the restriction of when a donation form is created from the PDF receipt export report found under Donations > Tools > Export > Export PDF of Donations and Income. #3395
• Fix: Updated TCPDF to support PHP 7.2. #3411
• Fix: Added minor CSS to fix conflict with the popular Enfold theme. #3403
• Fix: Removed the GiveWP Shortcode button from the editor for creating emails. #3422
• Fix: Resolved modal background scrolling on iOS. #3424
• Fix: When activating an add-on from the GiveWP menu within the plugin page it incorrectly redirected the admin back to the All menu tab. #3438
• Fix: Format dates to WordPress date_format in the donation admin screens. #3502

2.1.7: July 5th, 2018

• Fix: We have moved “babel-polyfill” to GiveWP Core for better browser compatibility so our various add-ons can use it and it’s not enqueued multiple times which can cause errors. #3433

2.1.6: June 20th, 2018

• Fix: DB Update incorrectly appears on fresh installs. #3390
• Fix: Ensure the level title in the exported CSV reads custom on custom donations. #3380
• Fix: Don’t allow db updates to display if AJAX is inaccessible. #3393

2.1.5: June 18th, 2018

• New: Added a “GiveWP” filter for the plugin menu section on WP multisites. #3355
• New: Added shortcode support to the “Offline Donations Instructions” output. This will allow you to include any type of shortcode output within the content to improve your content. #2937
• New: Added a Company attribute to the give_receipt shortcode. #3361
• Tweak: The total goal attribute is now a required field for the [give_totals] shortcode. #3060
• Tweak: Added a “give” prefix to GiveWP’s notice CSS class to help prevent theme conflicts. #3337
• Tweak: If a DB update needs to run button cannot there are more actionable steps displayed to admins on how to resolve the issue. #3267
• Fix: The License tab was not displaying when an addon was network enabled. #3349
• Fix: The Goal amount should not change upon re-saving settings. #3373
• Fix: The “Create an account” checkbox now displays correctly in a full row if registration is enabled. #3358
• Fix: Resolved conflict with the qTranslate X plugin. #3345
• Fix: Resolved unnecessary notice that would display when a donor clicked on the option for a custom amount to any other level. A show minimum amount notice would display incorrectly to the donor. #3299
• Fix: The “All Forms” dropdown option on the Donation Export only used the first ten forms. #3303
• Fix: Various admin interface style improvements. #2706, #3328
• Fix: A user who had the same ID as a donor ID could incorrectly view the donation details of that donor. #3333
• Fix: The GiveWP manager role is now able to view a donation’s details. #3261
• Fix: Ensured a custom logo appears in the email preview when configured. #3330

2.1.4: June 5th, 2018

• New: Added support for multiple messages passed to GiveWP’s internal notice API. #1936
• New: Added a new check for add-ons to always check the minimum GiveWP version required prior to being able to update. This will prevent the case where an add-on is updated and requires a new version of GiveWP Core than is currently running and deactivates itself. #3217
• Tweak: Improved how a donation amount is saved within the internal Give_Payment class. #3304
• Tweak: If a gateway is marked as disabled in the admin settings then disable the option to set it as the default gateway. #3296
• Fix: Improved the layout of the export donations columns so that they look good on mobile devices and more. #3266
• Fix: Preventing PHP notices related to AKISMET admin settings when saving. #3260
• Fix: Prevent the licenses tab from displaying in settings if there are no add-ons installed. #3254
• Fix: The GiveWP API was not respecting date ranges for earnings and donations endpoints. #3191
• Fix: Plugin conflict with WPML where the plugin would display language settings within GiveWP’s admin settings incorrectly. #3314
• Fix: In button mode text would display incorrectly from the form if closing the modal popup. #3301
• Fix: Plugin conflict where WPML would cause the give_totals shortcode to output the incorrect donation amounts. #3291
• Fix: The GiveWP notice dismiss button should work when rendering GiveWP notices using JS. #3278
• Fix: Theme conflict with Woo’s Storefront theme where GiveWP’s admin footer text would overlap some elements. #3274
• Fix: Ensure that GiveWP’s state field doesn’t lose its style when switching countries. #3255
• Fix: Don’t allow the set donation amount to be less than the minimum amount when saving donation forms in wp-admin. #3249
• Fix: The “total” attribute is now required for the give_totals shortcode so you don’t have a blank goal displaying on the website. #3060
• Fix: Resolved a form grid shortcode issue where the Payment Method field would display incorrect when only one gateway is enabled. #3293

2.1.3: May 23rd, 2018

• New: Better SPAM protection through the usage of improved client and server side validation to only allow alphabet characters for first and last name, validation to ensure that the gateway field is not left empty (to combat SPAM bot scripts), and sanitize all input fields when processing the donation. #3035
• New: Added new customizable “Email Heading” fields for all Core emails (coming soon to add-ons as well). #3110
• New: Added autocomplete field attributes to the applicable donation form fields for faster completion. #3202
• New: Added a GiveWP CLI command to update all add-ons or a single add-on from GitHub. #1390
• Fix: We have refactored how we are using nonces so now the often reported issue of “Nonce verification failed” should no longer happen. The solution implemented provides for the additional security of nonces and is now compatible with various forms of caching. #3200
• Fix: The add-on plugin activation banner now displays properly without having to refresh the plugins screen to see it. #3153
• Fix: GiveWP’s shortcode picker was having an incompatibility with Elementor causing the TinyMCE to be partially blocked. #3171
• Fix: GiveWP was conflicting with Beaver Builder preventing users from seeing the builder options within the WP-admin single page/post view. #3207
• Fix: GiveWP’s API was not respecting the date range parameters passed to it. Now it does so you can filter the API by date ranges as expected. #3191
• Fix: This version contains a database cleanup routine to delete donation payment meta that is not attached to any payment. For instance, if you deleted a payment the metadata associated with it still remained prior to this version. With this upgrade the orphaned data will be removed. #3205
• Fix: Resolved PHP notices when exporting donor in lower PHP versions. (#3222)[https://github.com/impress-org/givewp/issues/3222], #3218
• Fix: We’ve updated the donation form’s form HTML tag ID so it’s unique per form for better W3C compatibility and to ensure Stripe elements works as expected with multiple forms on a single page. #3139
• Fix: Several typos on the welcome guide were corrected. #3230
• Fix: Inline plugin upgrade notices were not displaying properly in previous versions. #2789
• Tweak: Improved the logic of verifying min/max amount for the Currency Switcher add-on. #3203
• Tweak: Improved the tooltip helpers within the shortcode builder for the GiveWP Form Grid shortcode. #3235
• Tweak: Added logic so developers can now adjust the arguments passed to the chosen dropdowns GiveWP uses. #3192
• Tweak: The reset email receipt donation button popup now opens the alert using GiveWP’s new modal API. #3224

2.1.2: May 4th, 2018

• Fix: We found another conflict with the new “maximum” donation amount field and existing forms. This time forms NOT using custom fields would incorrectly display a validation error about a custom amount which prevented the donor from giving. #3159
• Fix: Ensure the minimum donation amount calculates properly with various international decimal separators. #3176

2.1.1: May 3rd, 2018

• Fix: Conflict with the new “maximum” donation amount field and existing forms using custom fields preventing donations if the form is not re-saved. #3159
• Fix: Added clarification to the Donation Form Grid shortcode so admins know which options are optional and have a better description of what it does. #3166
• Fix: Prevent a setting from appearing above GiveWP’s new modal window. #3164
• Fix: Display a progress indicator for updates in 2.1+ and prevent an issue with receiving a blank screen if clicking on “Updates” while an update is running. #3163
• Fix: Resolved JS error when editing a price type setting field in wp-admin. #3161
• Fix: Correct the weekly donation total in the dashboard stats widget. #3156
• Fix: Prevent the update notice from appearing while actively updating plugins. #3155

2.1.0: May 2nd, 2018

• New: Sequential ordering is here! You can now configure donation payments with a prefix, suffix, number padding and more. #2912
• New: Now you can export your donations with much more flexibility via the new advanced donation exporter. #2875, #2996
• New: Query performance improvements for sites with a large database of donations. #2987, #3069
• New: The donation form grid is here! Now you can display multiple donation forms quick and easily using the new donation form grid shortcode. #1414, #2943
• New: The importer has been upgraded with a new “Dry Run” feature and we’ve also included a sample data CSV file for you to test out. #2419
• New: You can now display goal progress from multiple donation forms using a new shortcode. For example, [give_totals total_goal=”5000″ ids=”1,2,3″] would display the progress of 3 donation forms towards the goal of $5,000 in donations. #2883
• New: There is now a new functionality to display a “Company Name” field within your donation forms. This is useful for company matching or just general purpose information collection. #2453
• New: You can now set a maximum donation amount for donations per form.
• New: We’ve replace boring JS alerts with a new modal window API that looks and functions great and other developers can utilize.
• New: There is now a delete button on the single donation payment screen. #2734
• New: There is now a GiveWP plugin filter so you can view only GiveWP and it’s add-ons more easily. #2953
• New: You can now query donation forms that are closed status. #2250
• New: There is a new metabox on the donation form edit screen that displays goal progress. #3027
• New: There is a new “Donor” based goal so that you can set a goal based on the total number of donors. #2986
• Tweak: We’ve polished the activation banner for add-ons so that it’s more intuitive and user friendly. #2056
• Tweak: Added hardening to further help prevent spam donations. #2930
• Tweak: Added validation to prevent donors from entering their email address into the First Name field. #2862
• Fix: The SSL check within the System Info tool was displaying an error due to an API change by the service used. #2998
• Fix: Don’t clear form fields via JS if no GiveWP form is present on the page. #3093

2.0.6: March 7th, 2018

• New: Notices and warnings on the frontend can now be dismissed if the notice has been configured to be manually or auto-dismissed. Previously all frontend notices were static, meaning they weren’t able to be removed automatically or by the user. #2869, #2853
• Tweak: When you add a new donation level in the donation form creation screen the amount field will be auto-focused. This provides the admin a faster interface for adding levels. #2866
• Fix: Due to a bug released in 2.0.5 changing levels multiple times would result in a JS error preventing from the amount to be subsequently updated. This bug has been fixed and it’s suggested you update immediately if you’re on 2.0.5. #2861, #2860

2.0.5: February 27th, 2018

• Fix: The dashboard widget was displaying incorrect stat for donations raised “This Year”. It was showing all time rather than the current year. #2847
• Fix: Resolved conflict with W3 Total Cache causing new donations to not be saved correctly when certain database caching configurations are in place. #2780
• Fix: Resolved conflict with Polylang translation plugin that caused the base language to appear within the donation form when switching gateways. #2784
• Fix: The unformat currency JS function wasn’t correctly formatting the Danish krone currency. #2838
• Fix: WP’s media uploader would upload to the incorrect directory when GiveWP is active under certain environment settings.#2830

2.0.4: February 16th, 2018

• Fix: 2.0.3 broke those pretty chosen dropdown selects, but this version brings them back to life! This bug only affected wp-admin dropdowns using the “Chosen” select field which allows you to search user lists and forms. #2787
• Fix: Resolve bug within Give_Payment_Query affecting WP multisite installs. On multisite, custom post type (form, donation log, and donor ) meta query is not working if using the switch_to_blog function. This has now been resolved. #2815
• Fix: Removed usage of the .load() jQuery method causing conflicts on some installs and now using .on() properly. #2818

2.0.3: February 14th, 2018

• This release contains additional health checks for sites still experiencing 2.0+ update issues. There are no additional upgrades needed to perform if you have already updated successfully within this release.
• New: Added a dynamic email template tag that allows you to output any meta field within your emails by using. #2801
• Fix: Now all your donation forms are now displayed within the shortcode builder. Previously only the most recent 30 would display. #2259
• Fix: The frontend profile editor shortcode now outputs proper messages according to the content the user updated. #2553
• Fix: The dashboard widget was not using the proper date function for translation thus the day of the week and month would always be in english. #2811
• Fix: Properly display the donation payment status icon on translated sites. #2785
• Tweak: Removed the custom amount label from the set donation {donation} email tag. #2653
• Tweak: Added helper give_get_locate_template function to improve custom template location loading. #2577
• Tweak: Removed deprecated email files. #2802
• Tweak: We have added a minimum height to floating label fields for improved theme compatibility. #2340
• UI: Improved heading within the Donor details screen in wp-admin so it now displays the donor’s name. #2286
• UI: Improved the interface for the Donations Importer to display more clearly which fields are required to import donations. #2354

2.0.2: January 31st, 2018

• This update includes additional health checks for the 2.0.0 release. We’ve switched from using WP_Query to move data to direct SQL queries to prevent query manipulation by other plugins and themes.
• New: The donation form now resets when you go back from the donation confirmation page. #2091
• Fix: WP_Query being modified in upgrade routine by the Polylang plugin. #2747
• Fix: Data tools have been upgraded to be compatible with 2.0+. #2744
• Fix: Prevent importer from modifying existing form settings. #2737
• Fix: Donation form donation counts were not getting properly updated when a payment goes from complete to abandoned donation status. #2708
• Tweak: Deprecated the second $_POST parameter within the give_checkout_error_checks action. #2663

2.0.1: January 25th, 2018

• This update includes a number of health checks for the 2.0.0 release. For a post reflection on the GiveWP 2.0.0 release and additional developer information on the 2.0.1 release please read the GiveWP 2.0.1 checklist as well as GiveWP 2.0 Release Reflection.
• New: Added the database table prefix to the system info settings. #2678
• UI/UX: Added an email icon to the per form emails tab. #2680
• UI/UX: Revised field descriptions for the donations importer. #2688
• Fix: If an issue with an upgrade progress happens there is now a pause and restart functionality built in. It is not recommended that you actually use the pause feature unless you’re absolutely positive there was an issue with the update. #2676, #2971
• Fix: The {billing_address} tag was displaying blank on PDF receipts. #2707
• Fix: Updating the Currency Position resulted to a confusing user experience unless you saved it. #2667
• Fix: View all donations link on the donation forms list screen wasn’t properly redirecting to the filtered results. #2683
• Fix: MySQL error after updating Email Preview on Windows 64-bit OS. There was also a database error on the donations list page in the backend on Windows 64-bit OS. #2677, #2677

2.0.0: January 17th, 2018

• New: We have refactored how GiveWP stores data so it’s much more scalable now. This means implementing custom tables and our own database schema. We’ve worked hard to ensure the upgrade routine works without an issue but be sure to make a backup just in case. How to Prepare Your WordPress Site for GiveWP 2.0, #1132, #1148
• New: The email system within GiveWP has been revamped so it’s easier to toggle on or off and customize the various notifications all via one interface. #1346
• New: Donors can now have multiple addresses attached to their profiles. This is helpful in the case of donors having a separate billing and mailing address and also to segment other addresses like Gift Aid addresses, etc. #370
• New: The tooltip library being used has been switched from qTip2.js to Hint.css. Not only do the new tooltips look nicer, they are also more light weight and have better compatibility with the various WP themes. #619
• New: You can now set donation goals based on total number of donations. For instance, setting a goal to accept 500 total donations is now possible. This is useful if you don’t want to show amount or percentage based goals. #1443
• New: Revamped how donors can create an account when giving. Rather than adding additional form fields there’s now a single “Create an account” checkbox. If checked upon submission of the donation a new WP User will be automatically created for that donor. #1517
• New: Implementing query caching in wp-admin for intense queries. You should see improved load times now when viewing your donations, donors, reports and more. #1944, #2121
• New: The upgrade process now works in the background and is much more reliable on various server environments. You can also view overall progress in percentage format and see a stepped progress bar on the upgrade screen. #2531
• Tweak: The plugin’s images are now minified for faster load times. #1035
• Tweak: Renamed the give_customers and give_customermeta tables to give_donors and give_donormeta. #1960
• Tweak: Added a nonce verification to donation forms for additional security. #2568
• Fix: Sorting by donation statuses wasn’t returning the expected results in wp-admin. #2400
• Fix: Donors are now required to actually add content into the First Name field and not just use a space character to pass the validation. #2562