Wired Impact

Thanks a ton for the review! We really appreciate it.

Thanks for all the detailed notes here Ben. A couple of thoughts:

• You absolutely found a bug with the template override system. I’ve located the problem and our team should be able to launch a fix next week.
• Can you give me a better idea of what you mean when you say “The only downside is that the ‘More Opportunities’ paging will not work properly if I add too many filtered types..” I’m not following exactly what the issue is.
• In your code it looks like you have a line to get the number of open spots to volunteer ($opp_avail = $opp->get_open_volunteer_spots() – $opp->get_number_rsvps();). If that is what you’re looking for you can just print $opp->get_open_volunteer_spots() directly. It will actually display the word “Closed” if there are no more spots left.

I hope that’s helpful. Let me know a few more details about pagination and hopefully we can help with that.

Jonathan

Hi Ben,

Thanks for reaching out and this is definitely an interesting question. If I’m understanding you correctly, you want it to be really easy for potential volunteers to scan the opportunities instead of viewing a bunch of details about each on the list. Is that correct?

If that’s right there are two approaches I think you could take. The first, which is the simplest, is to remove the volunteer opportunities shortcode entirely and simply add a list of links that go to each opportunity. It might look something like this:

Fundraiser Volunteer – March 10th, 8am – 10am
Fundraiser Volunteer – March 10th, 10am – 12pm
Fundraiser Volunteer – March 11th, 8am – 10am
Fundraiser Volunteer – March 11th, 10am – 12pm
….

The second option would require overwriting a template file for the plugin, which would require some technical knowledge. If these are one-time opportunities you can copy the opps-list-one-time.php file from within the templates folder in the plugin’s folder and placing it within a folder in your theme called wivm.

From there you can remove content you don’t want to show and even put the content into a table if you’d like.

Let me know what you think and if you need any more direction on option two.

Jonathan

Since we haven’t heard anything in about a week I’m going to mark this as resolved. If further questions come up don’t hesitate to reach out. Thanks.

Jonathan

Great. Please let us know if you have any other questions as you’re using the plugin. Also, since the plugin is so new it would be great if you could provide an honest review at https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/wired-impact-volunteer-management. Thanks!

Jonathan

Thanks for getting back to me @marcdesantis. The volunteers should show up immediately, but it’s possible this was caused by caching either within your browser or on your website’s server. Are you seeing this issue every time someone signs up or have you only seen it that one time?

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out @marcdesantis. I’m not 100% sure I understand your question. The volunteer_emails table only tracks emails sent from WordPress to the volunteers. It does not track any email responses from the volunteers.

The list of volunteers within the admin displays users that have RSVPed for an opportunity. Basically, it shows all the folks that have ever RSVPed and had a record in the volunteer_rsvps table.

Does that answer your question? If not, any more detail you can provide to replicate your problem would be really helpful.

Thank you.

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out @bigdanaix. Unfortunately, right now we don’t have any other translations. That said, we’d love for someone to create a few for us.

Jonathan