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=== GiveWP - Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform ===
Contributors: givewp, dlocc, webdevmattcrom, ravinderk, mehul0810, kevinwhoffman, jason_the_adams, henryholtgeerts, kbjohnson90, alaca, benmeredithgmailcom, jonwaldstein, joshuadinh, glaubersilvawp, pauloiankoski
Donate link: https://go.givewp.com/home
Tags: donation, donate, recurring donations, fundraising, crowdfunding
Requires at least: 6.5
Tested up to: 6.7
Requires PHP: 7.2
Stable tag: 3.20.0
License: GPLv3
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Accept donations and begin fundraising with GiveWP, the highest rated WordPress donation plugin for online giving.

== Description ==

**[GiveWP](https://go.givewp.com/home "Visit the GiveWP website")** 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.

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=== ✨ 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](https://go.givewp.com/addons "See all our Premium Add-ons"), you can add additional donor tools, like annual receipts.

**[Powerful Donation Forms](https://go.givewp.com/features-forms "See how powerful our fundraising forms can be")**

GiveWP has taken inspiration from Gutenberg blocks to create an even better form-building experience. The Visual Donation Form Builder uses sections and blocks to provide a more intuitive way to build and configure your donation forms.

In this builder, you’ll see your design in real time. Watch as your form takes shape as you select custom colors, fields, elements, and more. For those with a flair for customization, you can add Custom CSS directly into the builder.

* 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

Never used blocks before? No worries - [we’ve got you covered with our guide](https://go.givewp.com/visual-builder).

**[Actionable Fundraising Reporting](https://go.givewp.com/features-reports "See our gorgeous and helpful reports dashboards")**

* 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](https://go.givewp.com/features-donor-management "See how our donor management tools help you enhance donor loyalty")**

* 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](https://go.givewp.com/home "Visit the GiveWP website")**
* **[Read our Docs on How to Use the Visual Form Builder](https://go.givewp.com/visual-builder).**
* **[View GiveWP Premium Add-ons](https://go.givewp.com/addons "See all GiveWP Add-ons")**
* **[View GiveWP Free Add-ons](https://go.givewp.com/freeadds "See our free Add-ons")**
* **[Book a Live Demo with our Team](https://go.givewp.com/csdemo "Book a 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](https://go.givewp.com/cmstory) for Giving Tuesday and a competition fundraiser with a neighboring organization, where they raised $45K in 16 hours.
* [A local neighborhood watch program](https://go.givewp.com/memstory) switched from using GoFundMe to GiveWP and raised $40,000 in five days for a memorial fundraiser.
* [Fans of Ivan the Gorilla have kept his memory alive](https://go.givewp.com/readivan) by fundraising for a conservancy program in his name.
* [A hospital raised money](https://go.givewp.com/twiststory) through a community-wide virtual dance party during the pandemic.
* [Quiltlove](https://go.givewp.com/quiltlove), which provides personalized quilts for different life events (like new babies, extended hospital stays, and more), uses GiveWP to create a sustainable business model.
* [Niels Vink, a Dutch wheelchair tennis player](https://go.givewp.com/niels-vink), uses GiveWP to raise money to train, travel, and participate in competitions. At the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, Vink earned a gold medal in doubles and a bronze medal in singles.

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](https://go.givewp.com/wooread) 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 ===

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For new users, we suggest reviewing our [Getting Started Guide](https://go.givewp.com/rmgettingstarted "Visit the GiveWP Getting Started Guide") to get an understanding of how the plugin works. If you run into any trouble, we offer [free support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/give "Visit the GiveWP support page on WordPress.org") 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](https://go.givewp.com/support).

=== 💳 Accept Credit Card Donations and More ===

GiveWP comes with several payment gateway options:

* **Stripe Donations** -- Accept donations through any payment method (like Apple Pay, Google Pay, or ACH) activated in your Stripe accounts. Upgrade to the [Premium Stripe](https://go.givewp.com/addon-stripe) add-on to remove the 2% fee for one-time donations processed through 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](https://go.givewp.com/addons "View all of GiveWP's Premium 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](https://go.givewp.com/addon-recurring)
* [Peer-to-Peer Fundraising](https://go.givewp.com/p2pread)
* [Text-to-Give](https://go.givewp.com/text-to-give)
* [Form Field Manager](https://go.givewp.com/form-field)
* [Fee Recovery](https://go.givewp.com/fee-recovery)
* [Tributes](https://go.givewp.com/tributes)
* [PDF Receipts](https://givewp.com/addons/pdf-receipts/)
* [Funds & Designations](https://go.givewp.com/read-funds-des)

[View all of GiveWP's Add-ons](https://go.givewp.com/addons "View all GiveWP 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](https://go.givewp.com/blog-emails)
* [Populate Donor Info with One Click](https://go.givewp.com/blog-populate)
* [Using the GiveWP API to Create Charts with ChartJS](https://go.givewp.com/blog-api)
* [Theming with GiveWP](https://go.givewp.com/docs-theming)
* [How to Create Custom Form Fields in GiveWP](https://go.givewp.com/docs-custom-fields)
* [How to Build a Gateway Add-on for GiveWP](https://go.givewp.com/gatewaydoc)
* [How to Style Your GiveWP Forms](https://go.givewp.com/styledoc)
* [Site Redesigns Without Donation Data Loss](https://go.givewp.com/datalossdoc)
* [Handling Custom CSS in WordPress](https://go.givewp.com/cssdoc)

=== 💚 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](https://go.givewp.com/home "Visit the GiveWP website")**
* **[GiveWP Newsletter](https://go.givewp.com/subscribe "Subscribe to GiveWP via MailChimp")**
* **[Facebook](https://go.givewp.com/fb "Visit the GiveWP on Facebook")**
* **[GiveWP Add-ons](https://go.givewp.com/addons "View all GiveWP Add-ons")**
* **[Write for GiveWP](https://go.givewp.com/rmwrite4us)**

=== 🐱‍💻 Contribute to GiveWP ===

This plugin is proudly open source (GPL license) and we’re always looking for more contributors. Whether you know another language, love to code, 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](https://go.givewp.com/github) 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](https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/) 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/](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/give), 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](https://go.givewp.com/contact), we'd love to chat with you about that.

* Join the [GiveWP Community Facebook group](https://go.givewp.com/fb-group). We chat about all things related to WordPress, GiveWP, fundraising, and online donations in general.

== Upgrade Notice ==

== Installation ==

= Minimum Requirements =

* WordPress 6.5 or greater
* PHP version 7.2 or greater
* MySQL version 5.7 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](https://go.givewp.com/ssl).

= 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](https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation).

= Updating =

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

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Where can I learn more about how to use GiveWP? =

We have extensive documentation on installing and configuring GiveWP [on our website](http://bit.ly/WPORGDocs). We suggest starting with the [GiveWP 101 article](https://go.givewp.com/give-101).

= How can I get support for GiveWP? =

We work hard to the best support possible for GiveWP. The [WordPress.org Support Forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/give) is used for free community based support. We continually monitor the forum and do our best to ensure everyone gets a response.

[Priority support](https://go.givewp.com/support) is given to users who have an active license for one of GiveWP's [Add-ons](https://go.givewp.com/addons) or [Pricing Plans](https://go.givewp.com/pricing). 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](https://go.givewp.com/demosite), 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](https://go.givewp.com/stories).
"Case Studies" are more detailed examples of how an agency implemented GiveWP for a specific purpose for an organization. [You can read those here](https://go.givewp.com/case-studies).

= 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](https://go.givewp.com/addon-upsells/) 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](https://go.givewp.com/version2-5) for all the details, and if you have further questions feel free to reach out via [our contact page](https://go.givewp.com/contact).

= How can I report security bugs? =

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. [Report a security vulnerability.](https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/give)

== Screenshots ==

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

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

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

4. Show of your donor's generosity with our customizable Donor Wall block and shortcode.

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

6. Extend GiveWP with a robust suite of powerful [Add-ons](https://go.givewp.com/addons "View all GiveWP Add-ons"). Accept recurring donations, credit cards, add custom form fields, and more!

7. GiveWP is thoroughly [documented](https://go.givewp.com/docs "Visit the GiveWP documentation") to help you get started quickly and learn basic to advanced features and functionalities.

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

9. Customize your forms with design mode.

10. Use almost any payment gateway integration with GiveWP through our add-ons or by creating your own add-on.

== Changelog ==
= 3.20.0: February 3rd, 2025 = 
* Enhancement: Updated Event list table to truncate long event descriptions
* Enhancement: Updated Event description field with placeholder text
* Enhancement: Updated Events block to display a “sold out” message when all tickets have been sold
* Enhancement: Updated Events block to display an “Ended” message when the event date has passed
* Enhancement: Updated Event list table to display correct revenue based on the number of tickets and price at the time of the purchase
* Enhancement: Updated donation form to hide gateway options when donation amount is zero
* Change: Due to Stripe API changes, we have removed the usage of the statement_descriptor attribute from the Stripe Payment Element Gateway
* Security: Updated our meta persistence in donor and donation repositories for safer data exchange
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the donor profile picture in donor list was not correct
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the donation form archive page not displaying all forms
* Fix: Restored keyboard accessibility in the donation amount field
* Fix: Explicitly execute script with PHP for Windows compatibility
* Fix: Prevent duplicated column error in Event Tickets migration
* Fix: Set content for missing title in event tickets template
* Fix: Display donation receipt in Form Grid modal after offline gateway redirect
* Fix: Updated the donor dashboard to use the date timestamp with the proper timezone
* Fix: Check if the form goal is enabled before calling the goal stats function
* Dev: Added a CSS class for each form design
* Dev: Updated Strauss installer script to auto download and use latest release
* Dev: Added renewal methods to the subscription model

= 3.19.4: January 7th, 2025 =
* Security: Added additional sanitization to the donation form request to prevent malicious encoded data
* Security: Added additional validation to the company field

= 3.19.3: December 24th, 2024 =
* Security: Added additional sanitization to the donation form request to prevent malicious serialized data (CVE-2024-12877)

= 3.19.2: December 17th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the custom donation amount field where using certain languages like Swedish were resulting in additional zero values being added

= 3.19.1: December 17th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with PayPal where some fields were not being validated properly before processing the donation
* Fix: Resolved an issue with PayPal and emails with a plus sign trying to connect to GiveWP 
* Fix: Updated the format of the donation count in the multi form goal progress stats 
* Change: Updated subdivision ISO code for Odisha, India to OD (Open source submission by @sorensd) 

= 3.19.0: December 5th, 2024 =
* New: Added support to the donor dashboard for managing recurring donations from our Blink Payment Gateway add-on
* Fix: Resolved a compatability issue with loading translations on WordPress 6.7
* Security: Added sanitization to the manual migrations parameters  


= 3.18.0: November 20th, 2024 =
* New: Added support to our form migration process for our upcoming Constant Contact add-on 3.0.0 version 
* New: The donor wall now shows the donor's uploaded image avatar when available
* New: Added a global setting to enable or disable the Option-Based Form Editor and settings.
* Fix: Resolved an issue with multi-step form designs growing extra space outside the form
* Fix: Resolved an issue where some people were not able to connect to PayPal
* Fix: Resolved an issue that was preventing the form migration process from completing
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the donation confirmation email sending the wrong donation description for visual form builder forms
* Dev: Addressed PHP 8.2 depreciation warnings in the Donation Session Object

= 3.17.2: November 6th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the Donor Wall shortcode and block filtering by only_comments
* Fix: Resolved a WordPress 6.7 styling compatibility issue with the visual form builder
* Fix: Resolved an issue where Stripe Payment Element was causing an error when donation amount is zero
* Security: Removed Faker PHP library from production to prevent malicious direct access 
* Security: Further improved our data sanitization and validation across all of GiveWP to prevent malicious serialized data
* Dev: Resolved php 8.1 compatibility warnings for Give_Addon_Activation_Banner, Give_License, and CurrencySwitcherSetting classes 

= 3.17.1: October 22nd, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with PayPal donation buttons where clicking the GiveWP donate button was causing an error.
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the donation amount level descriptions option was not visible in the form builder.
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the "Update Subscription" button being always disabled for Stripe in the donor dashboard.
* Fix: Resolved a styling issue in the donor dashboard with Stripe subscription amount fields.

= 3.17.0: October 16th, 2024 =
* New: Added new security tab with option to enable a honeypot field for visual builder forms
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the donor name prefix block not saving correctly 
* Dev: Resolved php 8.1 compatability conflict with MyCLabs\Enum\Enum::jsonSerialize()
* Dev: Added gateway api updates for pausing subscriptions 

= 3.16.5: October 15th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved a PHP v8+ fatal error on option-based forms when the Tributes add-on was enabled
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the donor dashboard menu not opening on mobile devices

= 3.16.4: October 10th, 2024 =
* Security: Added additional protection against serialized data in the option-based donation form request (CVE-2024-9634)

= 3.16.3: October 7th, 2024 =
* Security: Added additional validation to the donor title field, further protecting the option-based donation form request

= 3.16.2: September 25th, 2024 =
* Enhancement: Updated the visual builder header description field to use the rich text editor
* Enhancement: Updated the strings in the form builder onboarding buttons to be translatable (Open source submission by @DAnn2012)
* Enhancement: Updated strings in give settings to be translatable (Open source submission by @DAnn2012)
* Security: Added additional prevention for serialized data in the option-based donation form request 
* Security: Added additional security measures to the legacy donor list table request (CVE-2024-9130) 
* Fix: Resolved a styling issue with some text fields not respecting error border styling
* Fix: Resolved a styling issue with the anonymous block for WP 6.6 compatibility
* Dev: Removed defaultProps in favor of ES6 default parameters for React 19 compatibility

= 3.16.1: September 10th, 2024 =
* Security: Added additional protection to the option-based donation form request (CVE-2024-8353)

= 3.16.0: Aug 28th, 2024 =
* New: Added support for form taxonomy tags and categories in the visual form builder settings
* New: Added a setting to the visual form builder to enable redirecting to an individual donation confirmation page 
* Enhancement: Multi-step form designs now scroll to the top of the form on step change
* Enhancement: Added individual form migration links to the donation form list table 
* Enhancement: Updated various strings throughout GiveWP to be translatable (Open-source contribution by @DAnn2012)
* Security: Resolved security issues related to file paths and permissions (CVE-2024-6551)
* Security: Resolved security issue related to the PayPal disconnect button  
* Fix: Added prevention of subscription renewals with gateway transaction IDs already used previously
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the donation form list table and form grid not loading properly on sites with a large number of forms and donations
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the form grid not showing header images and link previews
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the subscription payment failed email not saving the supported gateways information

= 3.15.1: Aug 22nd, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the Akismet integration preventing form submissions when settings are not yet configured

= 3.15.0: Aug 14th, 2024 =
* New: Added Akismet integration support to forms using the visual form builder
* New: Updated the onboarding wizard to create a new form with the visual form builder
* Changed: Updated the "Add Form" buttons to use the visual form builder by default
* Fix: Resolved an issue with Give Subscribers accessing their donor dashboard history

= 3.14.2: Aug 7th, 2024 =
* Security: Added additional security measures to the option-based donation form and the donor dashboard (CVE-2024-37099) 

= 3.14.1: July 24th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an error with the give_totals shortcode when using multiple form IDs

= 3.14.0: July 17th, 2024 =
* Enhancement: Updated the visual donation form builder with various UI design improvements
* Enhancement: Updated the form builder design tab preview to be more responsive
* Enhancement: Improved the design of single active gateways on forms
* Enhancement: Improved the login block design
* Enhancement: Improved the Terms & Conditions block UI
* Enhancement: Improved the donate button hover state & secure donation tag
* Enhancement: Improved the donor title prefix setting styles
* Enhancement: Improved the checkbox style for form builder Build & Design screens
* Enhancement: Improved the Consent block by removing "Link Text" option when "Show terms in form" display type is selected
* Enhancement: Improved the File Upload field interactivity to limit the button scope
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the drag and drop block placement in the form builder
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the Give Goal and Multi-Form Goal blocks and shortcodes were displaying the wrong donation amount
* Fix: Resolved an issue when exporting donations that use Razorpay gateway
* Fix: Resolved an issue in the form builder where recurring donations descriptions were not always matching frequency selection
* Fix: Resolved an issue with custom donor columns in csv exports and revive filter give_export_donors_get_default_columns
* Security: Resolved various security issues related to user permissions 

= 3.13.0: June 26th, 2024 =
* New: Added option to PayPal settings to keep webhooks when disconnecting account
* Enhancement: Updated donor comment block active state border color to be the primary color
* Enhancement: Updated form builder global settings links to open in new tabs
* Fix: Resolved an issue with some validation errors using Stripe Payment Element Gateway not displaying information correctly
* Fix: Resolved an issue with Stripe accounts using API keys and the Stripe Payment Element Gateway

= 3.12.3: June 19th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue where PayPal was not processing donations due to missing billing address fields

= 3.12.2: June 11th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue where only the donation amount was sent to PayPal, ignoring event ticket values for one-time donations.
* Fix: Resolved an issue where donations were processed on PayPal but not recorded in GiveWP due to missing city, state, and zip fields.

= 3.12.1: June 5th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the Donor Phone field was not included in the donor export
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the Billing Address field was not saved in Stripe
* Security: Added additional escaping to Stripe onboarding
* Dev: Added a new filter `givewp_log_source_view` to allow customization of the log source column

= 3.12.0: May 15th, 2024 =
* New: Updated the donation amount block with options for donation amount level description in the visual form builder
* New: Updated form goal settings with options for start and end dates in the visual form builder

= 3.11.0: May 7th, 2024 =
* New: Added pre-requisite form builder compatibility for upcoming ConvertKit add-on release
* New: Added ability to customize alt tags for header images in the visual form builder
* Security: Added additional escaping to the give_form shortcode
* Security: Added additional sanitization to the custom css field in the form builder

= 3.10.0: April 30th, 2024 =
* New: Added pre-requisite form builder compatibility for upcoming ActiveCampaign add-on release
* Enhancement: Updated PayPal support phone number
* Enhancement: Updated various strings to be translatable (open-source contribution by @DAnn2012)
* Security: sanitize additional give_form shortcode args
* Fix: Resolved styling issues with recurring labels in the form builder

= 3.9.0: April 24th, 2024 =
* New: Added a donor phone number block to the form builder to collect donor phone numbers on donation forms
* Enhancement: Updated form field inputs to have a single border color when selected 

= 3.8.0: April 17th, 2024 =
* New: Added pre-requisite form builder compatibility for upcoming double the donation add-on release
* Enhancement: Updated the form builder tour to highlight where to find the guided tour again 
* Dev: Added BlockType api for easier block to field conversion

= 3.7.0: April 10th, 2024 =
* New: Added pre-requisite form builder compatibility for upcoming constant contact add-on release
* New: Added phone number field to the donor details page, more updates for this field will come in future releases!
* Enhancement: Updated the form block option to select more available forms than the original limit of 10
* Enhancement: Updated the form builder left-side menu to open automatically when entering the build screen
* Security: Added sanitizing and escaping to shortcodes
* Fix: Resolved a conflict with GiveWP and WordPress bulk actions functionality

= 3.6.2: April 5th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with WordPress 6.5 and the visual form builder that was making it difficult to interact with blocks

= 3.6.1: March 21st, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with PayPal donations and currency switcher on donation forms using the visual form builder

= 3.6.0: March 13th, 2024 =
* New: Introduced a new beta feature called "Event Tickets" that is open for feedback! If enabled, you can create events and sell tickets on your donation forms.
* New: Added a new form builder layout called "Two Panel" that offers a side-by-side appearance and a multi-step donation experience.
* New: Added a new setting in the form builder styles tab for the header image overlay
* Fix: Resolved several styling issues with the donation form modal
* Fix: Resolved styling conflicts with native WordPress UI components  

= 3.5.1: March 6th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with PayPal that was preventing the ability to connect a PayPal account to GiveWP.

= 3.5.0: February 29th, 2024 =
* Security: Resolved a couple potential security vulnerabilities
* New: Added the ability to add a header image to forms in the Visual Form Builder
* Fix: Resolved an issue with new Stripe accounts having trouble making credit card donations
* Fix: Resolved a PayPal Donations issue where the donation buttons didn't show up in the modal view of an Option-Based Form Editor form

= 3.4.2: February 19th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with PayPal donations that ensures the correct donation amount will be used after filling out payment details and modifying the original amount.  

= 3.4.1: February 13th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the default email block that ensures it is always a required field in the donation form. 

= 3.4.0: February 8th, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved several issues with the billing address block including dynamically requiring certain fields and allowing state/county field input
* Fix: Resolved an issue with multi step form layout where the title was missing on the first step when show header was disabled
* Fix: Resolved errors when adding/removing a sub-site in a WP multisite environment (open-source contribution by @Genevieve-K)
* Fix: Resolved an issue with form modals and some gateways that redirect offsite to display the confirmation page after a donation
* Fix: Resolved a fields api compatability issue with showInReceipt metaKey
* Fix: Resolved a nonce validation issue with translated values (open-source contribution by @Genevieve-K)
* Fix: Resolved a PHP 8 compatability issue with the system info page (open-source contribution by @JeromeBeckett)
* Fix: Resolved several styling issues with the form modal block
* Fix: Updated Stripe connect redirect to be limited to specific pages
* New: Added form migration step for the GiveWP Gift Aid add-on
* New: Added new filter `givewp_stripe_payment_element_appearance_options` to modify the Stripe Payment Element gateway appearance options
* New: Added donation form processing lifecycle actions for more programmatic control over form processing
* Enhancement: Made donation list table programmatically extendable (open-source contribution by @pulsovi)
* Enhancement: Improved the flexibility of donation confirmation page detail values to allow sanitized html
* Enhancement: Added new filter to the gateways block to control visibility
* Enhancement: Made several improvements to the give importer for third-parties and admin

= 3.3.1: January 23rd, 2024 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue checking for the GiveWP Funds and Designations add-on information during form migrations  

= 3.3.0: January 10th, 2024 =
* Happy new year!
* Fix: Resolved an issue where some migrated forms were being duplicated
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the donor export filter by donation form
* Fix: Added additional attribute escaping to the donor wall shortcode
* Enhancement: Improved current compatibility with PHP 8.2
* Enhancement: Improved the UI of the visual donation form builder to be more intuitive with dedicated Build, Design, and Settings screens
* New: The donor dashboard now has a way to update and reset passwords
* New: Added pre-requisite v3 compatibility updates for the Give Funds and Designations add-on
* New: Added v3 form migration compatibility for select GiveWP add-ons including: Mailchimp, Funds and Designations, and Per-Form Gateways
* New: Added a new programmatic way to interact with the v3 confirmation page using our fields api

= 3.2.2: Dec 20th, 2023 =
* Fix: Resolved an error on the donor details page when they have no donations
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the continue button setting was not being reflected on forms using legacy template

= 3.2.1: Dec 13th, 2023 =
* Fix: Resolved an issue that was duplicating the "Donate Now" button on legacy form template
* Fix: Resolved an issue that was preventing display options from being reflected on the form
* Fix: Removed an error notice that was showing up on admin menu pages
* Fix: Resolved an error in the donation form block when the admin page is refreshed


= 3.2.0: Dec 6th, 2023 =
* New: Embed form button added to the Visual Donation Form Builder
* New: Pre-publish confirmation panel added to the Visual Donation Form Builder
* Enhancement: Updated parts of the Form Builder text areas to Text Editors to provide more formatting options
* Enhancement: Improved compatibility with the donation block and Visual Builder forms
* Enhancement: All donors are connected with a user for improved security and caching compatibility
* Enhancement: Improve the Name, and Terms and Conditions blocks with global settings
* Fix: Resolved some strange behaviors when using the Amount Levels setting in the Form Builder
* Fix: Removed WP_Background_Process and WP_Async_Request to avoid conflicts with other plugins
* Fix: Donor honorific (Mr, Mrs, etc) is now properly saved as part of the donor record
* Fix: PayPal Donations displays a helpful error message when incorrect credit card information is entered
* Fix: Visual Donation Form Builder loading is improved by preventing the formBuilderSettings meta from becoming too large
* Fix: Resolved an issue where some donations list tables were failing to load due to missing donation mode meta
* Fix: Resolved an issue where the donation forms list tables were resulting in duplicate forms
* Fix: Resolved an issue where PayPal smart buttons were not being displayed on embedded forms using legacy template
* Fix: Resolved an issue with PayPal donations and fee recovery where the fee was not being added to the donation total

= 3.1.1: November 3rd, 2023 =
* Fix: Embedded forms created with the Visual Builder now redirect to the confirmation page after a completed donation.
* Fix: Donor title prefixes are now formatted as strings (like Mr or Ms) instead of numbers.

= 3.1.0: October 25th, 2023 =
* Feature: Design Mode changes in the Form Builder are now instant and awesome! Instant gratification!
* Feature: Donor prefixes can now easily be reordered in the Donor Name block
* Feature: The form goal is now changeable from the Design mode of the Form Builder
* Enhancement: The form goal amount now better displays the currency amount
* Enhancement: The first time a form (in the form builder) is saved, the title is used as the page slug
* Enhancement: Improved translations in the form builder and gateways
* Enhancement: Compatibility improvements in preparation of WordPress 6.4
* Enhancement: Improved donor flow that passes along their name, email, and address to PayPal Donations
* Fix: Minor wording improvement on the login block
* Fix: Added a give_user_info_fields_user_info filter to allow for customizing the user info fields
* Fix: Links on the donor list table now work properly on sub-directory WordPress instances
* Fix: Resolved an issue where errors failed to display on older forms upon donation submission
* Fix: Multi-form, form grid, and totals shortcodes no longer throw a warning
* Fix: Multi-form goal block no longer throws an error when filtering by form
* Fix: Multi-form and progress bar goals no longer throw an error for themes that return false for get_theme_support
* Fix: Resolved old GiveWP behavior that altered default WordPress behavior when retrieving GiveWP post type meta

= 3.0.4: October 30th, 2023 =
* Fix: Resolved issue with some Stripe gateways not recording incoming recurring donation renewals.  To recover missing renewals from Stripe in GiveWP, please use the "Sync Subscription" button on the individual subscription details page.  Click [here](https://docs.givewp.com/syncrecurring) to learn more about syncing subscriptions in GiveWP.

= 3.0.3: October 20th, 2023 =
* Fix: Using the multi-form shortcode with the ids attribute no longer causes a fatal error
* Fix: Forms no longer have fatal errors on Elementor websites when the Display Content option is enabled

= 3.0.2: October 19th, 2023 =
* Fix: Stripe per-form settings are included when migrating a form to the Visual Donation Form Builder
* Fix: Gateways are properly separated in the settings page and Global Settings for Fee Recovery shows all gateways when you select per gateway

= 3.0.1: October 17th, 2023 =
* Fix: Resolved a conflict with Matomo plugin that was causing a fatal error

= 3.0.0: October 16th, 2023 =
* New: Try out the all new Visual Donation Form Builder!
* New: All new form infrastructure for forms using the Form Builder!
* New: Stripe Payment Element gateway for Stripe with support for many types of payment methods
* New: Existing forms can be migrated and upgrade to use the Form Builder

[See the full GiveWP changelog on Github](https://github.com/impress-org/givewp/blob/master/changelog.txt)


== Upgrade Notice ==

= 2.9.0 =
This version contains a database upgrade that improves performance by migrating donation meta to a new revenue table. Please ensure you have a backup in place prior to updating and be sure to update GiveWP Core and then your GiveWP Add-ons to the latest versions for maximum compatibility.

= 2.7.0 =
This version contains a database upgrade for donation forms and Stripe. Please ensure you have a backup in place prior to updating and be sure to update GiveWP Core and then your GiveWP Add-ons to the latest versions for maximum compatibility.

= 2.1.3 =
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.

= 2.1.0 =
This new version is full of many great features and enhancements. Please ensure you have a backup in place prior to updating and be sure to update GiveWP Core and then your GiveWP Add-ons to the latest versions for maximum compatibility.