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 …
We hope you are keeping safe as corona virus is upending our lives. Our deepest sympathy and solidarity go out to those who have been personally affected by the pandemic. While your organization is likely adjusting to a physically distant work environment, please understand that your web assets remain secure and operational with Tadpole. We …
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 …
As of version 0.4.4 there are three new processors in CFC: Membership, Line Items and Order Processors. With these new processors you can setup forms using Caldera Form’s conditional logic and layout options, map the data to CiviCRM, and take payments using either the Stripe or Authorize.net add-on plugins. A more detailed outline of what’s …
Using Caldera Forms CiviCRM (CFC) for Membership Registration and Donations Read More »
When collecting information with a form on your website, you’re generally asking a single person to provide information about themselves: name, address, phone number, etc., but there are times when you need to collect information about multiple individuals to include in your CiviCRM database. For example, you may want to ask for details about parents …
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