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The Phone field is now optional in version 1.7 released today. See the main settings page… there is a new checkbox that you can check to remove the phone field.
The Phone field is now optional in version 1.7 released today. See the main settings page… there is a new checkbox that you can check to remove the phone field.
Fairly easy to edit the code to remove the field from the required fields check, if you don’t mind editing the PHP file. All you need to do is to totally delete line 91 of the class-pta_sus_public.php file, the line that reads:
|| empty($_POST[‘signup_phone’])That will make it not required.
To remove that field from the signup form, you need to remove the fields in two different locations further down in that same file. Signup form function starts on line 632 You’ll need to edit out the last paragraphs and text inputs on lines 682-685 and 705-708, making sure to leave the closing single quote and semicolon after the paragraph close tag in both locations.
That should work and shouldn’t mess up anything, although I haven’t tested it. Might want to save a backup copy of the file first. I did a quick look at where I save the signup into the database table, and it should still work without the phone field data.
Let me know if that works.
You are correct as far as the headers on the contact form… I should have added some classes to those, or a wrapper div at least, with the last update… just super busy with projects here, so put that last update out quickly and didn’t look at the contact form function.
I’ll see if I can push out an update today with a div wrapper around that contact form, as well as some classes for those headings.
However, there are also filter hooks in place to allow other plugins or themes add content before and after the form (including before those headings are output). So, you could add a wrapper div of your own choosing around the contact form without modifying the plugin by adding a couple really simple hooks and functions to your theme’s functions.php file. This is all you would have to do to add your own div wrapper:
function ptamdcf_add_div_start($html, $id, $location) { return '<div class="ptamd_contact_form">'; } add_filter('pta_member_before_contact_form', 'ptamdcf_add_div_start', 10, 3); function ptamdcf_add_div_end($form_html, $id, $location) { return $form_html . '</div>'; } add_filter('pta_member_before_contact_form', 'ptamdcf_add_div_end', 10, 3);Also, the nonce and referrer fields are necessary for security and best practices. Those are generated by the built-in wordpress function wp_nonce_field, and the location in my script is actually inside the form, but it looks like I didn’t set the optional third echo argument to false, so it’s echoing those fields before the rest of the form is returned. It still works fine that way, but I’ll change that in the new update.
You’re welcome. Closing this thread so I can keep track of things once this forum gets busier.
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Yes… good suggestion, and easy enough to add with the next update.
Also, for a quick fix to make phone optional, you can edit the class-pta_sus_public.php file and remove line 91 that looks like this:
|| empty($_POST[‘signup_phone’])
delete that entire line, and you shouldn’t get an error message if you leave the phone field blank.
If you don’t want to send out the sign-up confirmation emails, which is also copied to the event chair emails, you can delete lines 156-158 in the same file, which look like this:
if ($emails->send_mail($wpdb->insert_id) === false) {
$this->messages .= apply_filters( ‘pta_sus_public_output’, __(‘ERROR SENDING EMAIL’, ‘pta_volunteer_sus’), ’email_send_error_message’ );
}I understand… no online data is ever 100% safe, but a phone number is not much of a security issue like a SSN would be, and most phone companies are already selling your phone numbers to marketers anyway. If people are that paranoid about their phone numbers and emails, then they shouldn’t even be online at all. Most hackers are much more interested in accessing email accounts so they can send their spam, so they best thing you can do is to set it up so that all your WordPress users are forced to use very strong passwords, and never use “admin” as the user name for your admin account.
Also, if you are requiring users to be logged in, then the fields on the sign-up forms will be pre-filled, so they won’t have to type them in each time.
Wordpress and this plugin are open source, so you could freely modify the plugin to make the phone field not required, or to remove it entirely. Any one with just a little bit of PHP knowledge could easily make those changes.
Again, though, I will definitely keep this in mind as a potential future option, and this one wouldn’t be too much work to implement. I obviously can’t implement every single feature request, as the plugin would become unwieldy and be too confusing with the amount of settings/options needed to implement everything. That’s why I set up this new feature request forum, as an easy way for me to keep track of feature requests, and eventually pick the most popular ones if and when I decide to include more features.
At the same time, any body is free to take this plugin and fork it into an entirely new plugin, as that’s originally how this plugin got started (a modification of an existing plugin to fit the needs of our school’s PTA site).
Phone numbers and email address are NEVER shown to the public with the sign up sheets plugin, so there is no privacy/security concern there. The public doesn’t even see full names for sign-ups. Since people can’t always be trusted to type their email correctly, a phone number is a good alternate means of contact, and a much faster method of contacting volunteers if something changes at the last moment.
However, I will keep this here and consider adding another option to make the phone field optional.
If you don’t want the automatic reminder emails, you simply don’t enter anything in the reminder fields when you create a new sign-up sheet and no reminders will be sent. If you do that, then the only emails that get sent are a confirmation email right after they sign up, along with a notice email to the committee chairs. That’s pretty standard for signing up for anything via the web, and any one who marks those emails as spam clearly has some issues.
Also, on a related note, you can install an SMTP plugin on your site to make WordPress use a SMTP email account to send outgoing emails, which you could then configure to use a Gmail or other off-server email account to send emails if you are worried that your server will be shut down for simply sending sign-up confirmation emails.