Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
Stephen SherrardKeymaster
This content is restricted to buyers of:
October 28, 2024 at 8:55 AM in reply to: Volunteer Sign-up Sheets Custom Fields and shortcode #44380Stephen SherrardKeymasterIf you want to view this content, you need to buy any product.
October 26, 2024 at 11:11 AM in reply to: Volunteer Sign-up Sheets Custom Fields and shortcode #44374Stephen SherrardKeymasterIf you want to view this content, you need to buy any product.
October 26, 2024 at 8:56 AM in reply to: Volunteer Sign-up Sheets Custom Fields and shortcode #44372Stephen SherrardKeymasterIf you want to view this content, you need to buy any product.
October 23, 2024 at 8:52 AM in reply to: Volunteer Sign-up Sheets Custom Fields and shortcode #44367Stephen SherrardKeymasterIf you want to view this content, you need to buy any product.
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
Stephen SherrardKeymasterMy plugin has nothing to do with staging mode vs. live mode. That’s completely dependent on how your staging system is set up. Usually when you say “staging” that means a site that is a clone of the live site where you can test things out without it affecting anything on the live site. Then, if everything works on the staging site after all the changes, you push those changes back to the live site to update the database and code on the live site. Again, my plugin has absolutely nothing to do with that. If you are using some plugin to create a “staging” mode, and it doesn’t copy all the database table changes back over to the live site when you switch to “live” mode, then that’s not the fault of my plugin.
The most common form of staging is done via server software that the hosting company provides and has nothing to do with wordpress directly… it simply creates a clone of all your files and your database, and it doesn’t care what software you are running on that site (WordPress, or anything else).Stephen SherrardKeymasterThe problem remains, where do you specify the empty row, and how do you specify after what entry that row should appear? Again, the custom fields extension adds columns (not rows), and even the Customizer extension only allows you to specify which columns are shown. The plugin has no way of knowing which signups should be shown together with a separator after them.
If it was some kind of fixed setting, such as insert an empty row after every third row, then that could possibly be done. However, you can do that right now with custom CSS that targets your tables. Look up some standard CSS for tables and lists and how to use the ‘nth’ type operator, or the ‘even’ or ‘odd’ operators, to specify how to change the styling for some of the rows (as long as they fall into a repeating pattern such as even, odd, or every ‘nth’ row). I think some custom CSS is probably your best bet right now if there is a pattern to where you want some kind of styling to separate entries. If there is no pattern, however, then it pretty much becomes impossible unless we do some major code changes to somehow allow people to specify which signups belong together as they are signing up.
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThanks for the suggestion. I agree that something like that would be nice. However…
The problem with your suggestion is that custom fields are additional columns in the table displays, and are NOT something that are output in between rows. There is currently no way for you to specify any type of field to appear between rows of volunteers.
This is much more complex than simply allowing a field where you could insert html.
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
Stephen SherrardKeymasterHi Vicki,
That date is the date the plugin was originally published, not the last update date. It’s still a relatively new extension, but I have updated it twice since its release, and it’s working just fine with the latest versions of WordPress and PHP 8.2.10.
Note that the plugin itself does NOT do the actual sending of emails. Just like the main plugin, this plugin uses the WordPress wp_mail function to actually send the emails. If you are using a plugin that replaces the wp_mail function to connect with a better email SMTP service (highly recommended), then it should still work fine as long as that plugin uses the same parameters and header formats that the wp_mail function uses. I haven’t test specifically with Brevo, but if it’s working fine with the free volunteer sign up sheets plugin, then it should work just fine with this extension.
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
Stephen SherrardKeymasterThis content is restricted to buyers of:
-
AuthorPosts