Stephen Sherrard

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The 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.

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Hi 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.

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I will look into this.

However, I find it very unlikely that multiple people are trying to sign up for the same spot at the exact same time.

You may want to investigate any caching plugins you have active on your site, and make sure that caching is DISABLED for the pages with the volunteer sheets. I think there may be a chance that the page is getting cached with the info showing spots still open, even though they have been filled already.

Otherwise, how often does this actually happen? The only way I can see it happening is that a bunch of people somehow have the volunteer page open in a tab for a long time, and walk away or come back to it later and then try to sign up without first reloading/refreshing the page.

I can certainly add another check and change the error message that is displayed. However any link they click, such as any of the “back” links, already refreshes the page. But, if you have caching enabled on that page, the info it shows may not be up to date, so make sure you don’t have any caching plugins set to cache that page.

Mark,

You can do that already, but you have to have the options set correctly.

Scroll down in the general options for these settings (copied from the docs page):

Show Expired Tasks? — If you want to save signup info even after the dates have expired, check this box. This ONLY affects the signup lists on the ADMIN side. The public sign up sheets will never show tasks/signups that have expired.

Automatically clear expired signups? — Enables the hourly CRON function that checks for and deletes expired signups from the database. If you want to save your signup data after a task date has passed be sure to uncheck this and then check the above option to be able to view the expired tasks/signups on the admin side. If later on you want to manually delete all your expired signups, use the button on the CRON Functions page. For example, it is useful to clear all signups so that you can alter the dates on a sheet and reuse it for the following school year.

You need to make sure the first one is checked and the second one is NOT checked. Checking the first option above will allow you to view expired sheets & signup info. However, if you had the second box checked, then you are out of luck as it will automatically purge signups from the database once the events have passed.