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Tadpole has been exploring alternatives to the Caldera Forms for CiviCRM (CFC) plugin which is no longer actively maintained or supported by its developers.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 …
In 2018, WordPress introduced the Gutenberg block editor, and while it’s been hugely popular with content editors it has also impacted the way CiviCRM users traditionally insert CiviCRM entities onto their WordPress pages. In the video, Kevin Cristiano demonstrates how the Gutenberg Blocks for CiviCRM plugin improves on Gutenberg’s default Shortcode block and walks us …
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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It’s been six years since we wrote about a project where we used WordPress User Taxonomies to build a directory. Although that website is still working fine, it’s about time for an update on how we would approach such a project today. For the organizations that we typically work with, such as nonprofits and local …
