Wired Impact

Thanks for reaching out @phishingchik. Just to confirm, are you saying that every person logs into the website using the exact same user? If so, every person should be able to sign up to volunteer using their personal email addresses. The volunteer system utilizes someone’s email address to determine if they’ve already signed up. If they have, it doesn’t let them sign up again. If everyone signs up using their individual email addresses, the volunteer system should allow it.

Let me know if I’m misunderstanding the issue. Have a good one.

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out @cassyput. We’ve done a little research into GDPR, but have struggled with the gray areas surrounding the new regulations. For example, is the fact that above the volunteer form it says “Express Interest in Volunteering” and that they are willingly providing their personal information via the form enough to constitute consent?

We’re not lawyers of course, which makes this more difficult. I think our plan at this point is to wait and watch the dust settle before making any substantial changes. That way we don’t have to make a lot of unnecessary revisions.

Let me know what you think.

Jonathan

Thanks for the helpful feedback Matt. It’s great to know if more people are interested in a particular feature. It allows us to prioritize the features that seem to be most needed.

Take care.

Jonathan

It is possible to set up buttons, but you’d have to work with your web developer to make that happen since it would require some coding knowledge. Good luck and let us know if you have any other questions.

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out @kghadiali. I’m not entirely sure what you’re referring to, but hopefully I can help.

There isn’t a way for users to sign up without going to the page for each individual volunteer opportunity. If you only have one volunteer opportunity, you can change the main menu at the top of your site to link directly to that opportunity. Although I wouldn’t recommend that if you plan to have multiple opportunities on your site.

Is that helpful? If not, maybe you can provide a little more detail regarding what you’re looking for.

Jonathan

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

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out @inspiro. Unfortunately, none of those features are currently included, but I’ve noted each of your suggestions.

At this point we’re trying to be very careful with which features we add since we know that every new feature will make the plugin more complicated. Given that our primary goal has always been simplicity, we want to do our best to keep the plugin as easy to use as possible. That said, we’ve been noting all feature requests and prioritizing what we want to add next.

Have a good one and thanks again.

Jonathan

Thanks for reaching out @gbbuggs. At the moment there are two ways I think you could approach this.

1. You can put the location of each volunteer opportunity within the main content of each. That would make the location searchable using the default WordPress search.

2. You could create individual pages for each location and link from those pages to each opportunity at that location. For example, you could have pages called “St. Louis Volunteer Opportunities”, “Chicago Volunteer Opportunities”, “Austin Volunteer Opportunities”, etc. Then you could create a landing page called something like “Volunteer Opportunities” with links to each location’s page. This is a more manual approach than using the shortcodes or option 1 above, but it would allow visitors to see the volunteer opportunities that are specific to a given location.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Jonathan