NarraFirma v1.5.16

This minor release is an anti-verbosity pro-clarity update. It slims down verbiage, removes irritating barriers, and add useful information.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.16.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.16.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.15

This minor release deals more gracefully with a (reported) situation in which a multi-choice question (checkboxes) was changed to a single-choice question (select) after data was collected. NF was choking when the stories were being exported. In general it is best not to make changes to question types after stories have been collected. However, NF should now handle this particular situation more gracefully, by posting warnings to the development console (and exporting the data anyway) rather than refusing to work.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.15.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.15.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.14

This minor release fixes a bug in printing story cards where story-form question-answers were not appearing.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.14.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.14.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.13

This minor release fixes two tiny bugs you might have run into if you had extra (blank) leading or trailing spaces in your question short names, or if you had extra (empty) lines in your available-answers lists. NF now deals more elegantly with both situations.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.13.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.13.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.12

This minor upgrade fixes two bugs: (a) the texts of edited stories did not appear correctly in the "Show story texts for copying" popup on the "Explore Patterns" page, and (b) annotation import and bulk change might not work correctly for edited stories. For more information, see the blog post.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.12.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.12.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.11

This tiny upgrade improves error handling for empty (no-name) questions. NF was choking on them during export. Thanks to a helpful NF user for finding and telling us about this bug!

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.11.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.11.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.10

This minor release fixes a small bug in which write-in survey answers were being left out of the "this is what you said" copy-and-paste display users can see (if you want them to) after they submit their story(ies). That's it!

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.10.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.10.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.9

This "clarity" release improves various usability aspects of NarraFirma.

Most importantly, I added page descriptions to each section page (Planning, Collection, etc). These descriptions used to be in popup "tooltips" that appeared when you hovered over page links. However, it did not seem like people were doing that. So I moved them to texts that always appear after each link. If you find these new explanatory texts annoying, you can turn them off using a new project option in the Project administration / Project options page. I also went through and improved all of the page descriptions, so that they explain more clearly why you would want to use each page.

Other improvements in this release mainly have to do with colors (some of the more annoyingly bright colors have been toned down) and links (which now show hover-over, or focused, boxes to make it more clear what you are about to do). Oh yes, and the section pages now have images that match the home-page diagram, rather than just the boring old name of the section. I think this will be a more grounded way to look at each section.

And as usual I found and fixed a few small bugs.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.9.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.9.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.8

This release does two things: adds the ability to import annotations from a CSV file, and fixes a bug in which the buttons that add questions to a story form didn't work when the story form was brand new. It was an oversight in testing and is now fixed. NF really needs a tester who is not the same person as the developer. Developer testers always miss things.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.8.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.8.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.

NarraFirma v1.5.7

This minor but critical release fixes a longstanding bug in the WordPress version of NarraFirma that nobody noticed until today, when a user discovered and posted the issue. On the NarraFirma WordPress options page, if you entered a WordPress user id or role in the "read access" field of a project, and then deleted that id or role, NarraFirma granted anonymous read access to the project. This bug is now fixed.

We never thought to test this use case. More importantly, it never occurred to us that the HTML form on the NF settings page would return a blank string (instead of a null or other non-data result) when the user deleted the contents of a field. Because the user id of an anonymous WordPress user is not "anonymous" (or, again, null) but a blank string, the two fields matched up. Now NF specifically checks for an empty read-access permission string. We apologize for this mistake and hope that it has not affected any other WP-NF installations to date.

Note that this problem has never existed in the Node.js version of NF, in which an anonymous user is called "anonymous" and an empty permission string cannot be stored.

To use the WordPress version of NarraFirma, first download the zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.7.zip) from the link you see on this page. Then upload the zip file into the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. Caution! Don't mix up the WordPress zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.5.7.zip) with the source code file (narrafirma.zip).

For more installation instructions, go to https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma.