Form Block 1.7.0 released, and more

This weekend, I released Form Block 1.7.0 and made sure that all other plugins correctly state their support for WordPress 6.9. There are some cool new features I would like to talk about.

Customization

This release of Form Block is built completely around the topic customization. If you use the styling options inside the block and site editor, this release is completely for you. I’ve added support for global styling of the form elements and block specific styling options around border, color and shadow.

Also, the custom setting “Type” for inputs has now been replaced with block variations. That means, that each variation inside the select menu now contains a short description, it can be quickly transformed into another variation by using either this menu or the block transformation menu, and you can now also find all available input types directly within the block inserter to make it easier to get the field you wanted.

Block transforms menu with examples for different input types to transform the current one into

Block settings with menu to transform a text field to a different input variation

You can now also transform an input to a select or textarea and vice versa and group it inside a fieldset from the transformation menu.

Block transforms menu with an example to transform an input into a fieldset

I hear you

Aside of that, there are now multiple new actions/filters before and after a form submission is created to allow customization by third party developers. This is due to a suggestion in the support forums.

If you have suggestions, just ask. I’m happy to make them possible! ❤️

That’s it

That were the biggest changes for Form Block 1.7.0. For all changes, please visit the changelog on WordPress.org.

Testing testing testing

I’ve spent quite some time last month to write extensive PHPUnit tests for Impressum Plus. If you don’t know what that is: Unit testing is when you take a small part of code, pass some data into it and test whether the result is what you’ve expected. This way, many errors can be fixed even before they make it into a production release. At least, in an ideal world.

Impressum Plus is now nearly fully testable and there were quite some issues I could resolve. Fortunately, no big ones but at least enough to create a dedicated release for it. You can see all bugfixes listed in the changelog in the documentation.

I’ll try to rollout such tests for all of my plugins successively within the next months.

Smaller updates

Aside of this feature release for Form Block and a rather big bugfix release for Impressum Plus, you can find additional updates for Block Control, Impressum and Multisite Auto Language Switcher with smaller bug fixes, improvements and official support for WordPress 6.9.

For Embed Privacy, I’m already working on new improvements for a new release.