Jonathan Goldford

Unfortunately, our team doesn’t work on custom coding projects. I’d recommend finding a WordPress developer who may be able to help you with some of the coding.

Thanks a ton for the feedback @sauceyman. We totally agree that the lack of custom fields makes it tough for organizations who need the flexibility. Unfortunately, once you start allowing custom fields you’re getting into form builder territory, which is a massive technical undertaking. Then you’re looking at different field types (text fields, radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, etc.), the ability to order, add and delete them, as well as the flexibility to store that information and display it in a number of different ways.

We’ve considered doing a simpler implementation or possibly integrating with form tools like Gravity Forms, but haven’t been able to find the time to make it happen at this point.

We do really appreciate the feedback. It’s always helpful to know what’s holding back nonprofits from using the plugin. Thanks again.

Thanks for reaching out @advertisingworks. Right now if a volunteer logs in there isn’t a page for them to view their volunteer opportunities, but this kind of functionality is exactly why we create a new “Volunteer” user every time someone signs up.

To your note about coding the customization, it’s definitely possible, but would be a pretty substantial undertaking. If you have a developer you’re comfortable with, I’d suggest discussing it with them. If you’d like to discuss the project with our team, feel free to reach out at https://wiredimpact.com/contact-us/.

Otherwise, don’t hesitate to let us know if any other questions come up. Take care.

Thanks for reaching out @joelnewcomer and sorry you’re running into issues with the reminder emails. For some background, the plugin utilizes the WordPress Cron system to send emails. Essentially, the reminder email is triggered to be sent when anyone visits your website and the volunteer opportunity is starting in less than four days. That said, it’s pretty unlikely that it was a month between your website visits. However, it can be helpful to know that the emails don’t normally come exactly four days before the opportunity starts.

To troubleshoot the best next step would be to create a new volunteer opportunity to start five days from now and RSVP for it. If you get the email four days out then you’ll know the system is generally working fine. Since we don’t know how the Duplicate Post plugin might be affecting this, I’d suggest creating one opportunity from scratch, and duplicating another.

Feel free to give that a try and let me know how it goes. If you’re not getting the reminder emails then we’ll need to continue troubleshooting to find the cause.

Since we haven’t heard from you in a little while I’m going to mark this as resolved. As always, let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks for reaching out @pscjwilliams. You’ve asked some great questions. As of now there is no built-in way to add categories or tags to the volunteer opportunities. It is something you could add manually, but you’d need a web developer to help build that out.

As always, let us know if you have any other questions. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Thanks for reaching out @pscjwilliams. Yes, this can definitely be changed. The number of volunteer opportunities shown on a page uses the global setting that determines how many blog posts are shown on each page. You can find this setting within the admin at Settings >> Reading >> Blog pages show at most. The number used for that setting will be applied to volunteer opportunities. We recommend you adjust this setting with caution though, as it’s used often when themes and plugins display their own types of content.

I hope that’s helpful. Let us know if you have any other questions.