A behind-the-scenes look at the humble website submission form. Website submissions forms have been around for a long, long time. From the simple “Contact Us” form used to send a short message, to the fancier forms used for registering for events or submitting multi-page applications, forms are a great way to allow web visitors to …
How WordPress blocks have changed the game for the world’s most popular website CMS Back in 2018, when WordPress first introduced Gutenberg, its block editor, a large segment of WordPress users resisted adopting it for everyday content publishing. Perhaps it was fear of the unknown (to be fair, the first few versions of Gutenberg were …
On June 24, 2022, Tadpole hosted a virtual Lunch and Learn where Kevin Cristiano gave an update on the progress of the CiviCRM Search Kit. Now under development by the CiviCRM core team, Search Kit expands and improves upon the search experience for CiviCRM admins. Search Kit is community funded; the primary funder of the …
Tadpole has been exploring alternatives to the Caldera Forms for CiviCRM (CFC) plugin which is no longer actively maintained or supported by its developers. We’ve been working on a solution that uses Advanced Custom Fields Pro and the Advanced Custom Fields Extended (ACFE) suite of enhancements to create forms that integrate with CiviCRM fields and …
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On August 13, 2021, Tadpole hosted a virtual Lunch and Learn where Kevin Cristiano gave an update on the progress of the CiviCRM Search Kit. Now under development by the CiviCRM core team, Search Kit expands and improves upon the search experience for CiviCRM admins. (Search Kit is community funded; the primary funder is Wikimedia …
CiviCRM allows you to create Groups of Contacts or Members. You may already be using Groups to create mailing lists, but did you know you can also allow users to access content based on Groups? Restricting Menu Items and Front-End Content Groups are useful if you have content on your public-facing website that should only …
Both WordPress and CiviCRM allow for the grouping of users either to provide special access to content on the front-end, e.g., a special membership area; or to grant administrative privileges on the back-end. CiviCRM also uses Groups for email subscription lists. By default, WordPress comes with five basic user groups: Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, and …
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As CiviCRM for WordPress experts, we receive questions daily from non-profits who want to adopt an open-source CRM solution for their organizations. Whether you plan on using CiviCRM to manage memberships, event registration, or simply to collect donations, there are a number of practices that every organization, regardless of size, should adhere to when implementing …
Caldera Forms is already a powerful tool for creating front-end forms for your WordPress website. If you’re a nonprofit organization running CiviCRM to engage your constituents, you can also use Caldera Forms to collect and save data into your CiviCRM database. As a very simple example, Screenshot #1 is Tadpole’s basic contact form. There is …
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