Wired Impact

Thanks for being patient with us @mtharani. We think we were able to find the conflict and fix it. We’re planning to release an update next week that should take care of it. I’ll let you know when that happens so you can update the plugin on your end.

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out @webhexnl and I’m sorry you’re running into issues. Is there any chance you could switch to the default Twenty Seventeen theme and see if that fixes the problem for you? If that doesn’t work, I’d recommend deactivating all plugins except for the volunteer management plugin to see if that fixes the issue. If it does, you can activate the plugins one by one to see what’s causing the issue.

Let me know how it goes.

Jonathan

Thanks @mtharani. I’m hoping to have a developer take a look at this next week. I’ll be in touch.

Jonathan

Unfortunately, that’s something you would need to reach out to WooCommerce support or the donor management system’s support about. Providing recommendations on how to adjust other plugins is outside the scope of our free support.

Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions.

Jonathan

Thanks a ton for sharing @twowheeler. If you want to submit changes or updates to the plugin we’d recommend you do it by using a pull request to the plugin’s repo at https://github.com/wiredimpact/wired-impact-volunteer-management.

The biggest issue I see right now with the code would be that the patch uses the built-in categories taxonomy instead of a custom taxonomy. I’m not 100% sure about this, but I think the categories would then be used on both the blog and the volunteer opportunities. This most likely wouldn’t work for many nonprofits since they would want the categories to be different based on the type of content. I’d recommend using an entirely new taxonomy via register_taxonomy().

I’d love to hear what you think and thanks again for sharing the patch. We really appreciate it.

Jonathan

The way hooks work in WordPress is far beyond the scope of our support here, but the best place to learn about how they work and how you can implement them is at https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/hooks/. Basically, WordPress has a built in system for executing code at a specific point in time (actions) and for adjusting text or other content when necessary (filters). There are hooks (actions and filters) within our volunteer management plugin which allow you to hopefully modify the plugin in the way you’d like to. All that said, the approach requires a solid understanding of PHP and how WordPress functions behind the scenes.

Good luck and let me know what other questions you have.

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out and I’m happy to try to help @dianapeterson. The best approach to handle what you’re referring to is likely to use the wivm_search_and_replace_text filter within the plugin. The approach requires a decent amount of coding and WordPress knowledge, but since you mentioned being able to add a new field to the form, I’d imagine you’re pretty comfortable.

In order to make this approach work you’ll want to add a new variable to the “Admin Signup Email” within the settings. You can find that field by going to yourdomain.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wi-volunteer-management-help-settings#top#email. For example, you might add text into the email that says {notes}.

From there you’ll want to hook into the wivm_search_and_replace_text filter and replace the variable with the notes. You’ll likely also need to use the wivm_after_opp_rsvp filter to save the notes when someone signs up, but may be able to handle that a few different ways.

Finally, and I assume you already did this, but if you added a field for notes to the form, please make sure not to adjust the form directly within the plugin’s folder. Instead, copy the template to your current theme and adjust it there. That way the changes you made won’t be overwritten when an update happens.

Good luck and let me know if any other questions come up.

Jonathan

I’m sorry to hear that @lyndonpryor. Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do on our end either. As you can imagine, there are a lot of plugin conflicts like this that occur all the time, and it would be very difficult for us to account for all of them in our plugin.

If you wanted we could give you a bid to look into it, but I completely understand if you’d rather not go that route.

Sorry I can’t be more helpful.

Jonathan