Stephen Sherrard

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.

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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’ );
}

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.

Please note that you can already do this in a round about way.

Admin can clear any signups from the admin dashboard.

Admin, or any other user, can sign up anybody on the front end form. If you are logged in, it will pre-fill your information, but you can override any of the fields, allowing you to sign up someone else. If you enter the other person’s email address when you sign them up, they will get a confirmation email immediately, as well as reminder emails if you have reminders set for the sheet.

So, all of the above is possible, just not all for the admin dashboard right now. The only catch, is that if you are logged in when you sign someone else up, it will still put that signup as belonging to your user ID (the user that is logged in). To work around that, you should be logged OUT of the site, and then when you signup somebody else, it will try to match the email you enter to a user account. Then, that person will be able to see the clear link on the signups list.

Hi Fred,

Sorry for the delay… email notification must have gone to spam folder.

You may want to search WordPress.org for plugins that can import/export data for Custom Post Types. I know there are a few out there, but I haven’t personally tried any of them.

My plugin doesn’t create any new database tables. Instead, it creates a custom post type called “member”, and all the additional info for each member (contact info, and custom fields) are store as post meta fields.

So, you would need to find something that can take info from your CSV and first create a “member” post type, and then map each column from your CSV data to a specific post meta key. You would have to search through my code to find the post meta keys, but they are usually prefixed by “_pta_member_directory_” and then the name of the field, such as “_pta_member_directory_email”.

I’d have to look through my code for the custom fields plugins to confirm, but I’m pretty sure I stayed with the same prefix and then the slug version of whatever name you gave to the custom field you created. Although, things like links are split into two custom fields, one for the title and one for the url.

So, the short answer is I’m not sure there is any easy way to do this. If you can find a plugin that can do the mapping for you, it would certainly be easier, but you need to figure out the meta keys for all the fields you want to transfer over.