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CiviCon in San Francisco, May 2025: Save the date!

4 months 1 week ago

The CiviCRM community is going back to where it all started to celebrate 20 years of serving nonprofits. 

Start planning now to attend the event in the San Francisco area. 

There will be three parallel tracks of sessions over two days, packed with case studies and the latest in SearchKit, FormBuilder and new extensions.  

Planning for this gala event is already underway:

JoeMurray

SYSTOPIA Extension of the Month #11: X-Dedupe

4 months 1 week ago
At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. In this release, we would like to present our Extended Deduplication System - a comprehensive solution for managing duplicate contacts within CiviCRM. Thank you for reading on!
SYSTOPIA

The Benefits of Running A/B Tests for Mass Email Campaigns

4 months 3 weeks ago

Mass email campaigns are a staple of digital marketing, providing a powerful way to reach a large audience quickly. However, ensuring that your email content resonates with your audience can be challenging. One of the most effective ways to optimise email performance is through A/B testing, a feature that has been core functionality for a long time and is now fully implemented using Mosaico.

rebeccatregenna

CiviCRM 5.79 Release

4 months 3 weeks ago

CiviCRM version 5.79.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

dev-team

Next steps for CiviCRM Standalone

4 months 3 weeks ago

CiviCRM Standalone has reached a significant milestone. We are now ready to make the November 5.80 release candidate “the RC” for a first official, stable release of the new Standalone in December.

It’s an exciting prospect, representing lots of work from across the community over the past couple of years. For me personally, getting to this stage has been a key focus of my work on CiviCRM this year.

ufundo

Composer installers and CiviCRM

4 months 3 weeks ago

Most developers in the CiviCRM community are probably familiar with Composer. If not, Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. That's just a fancy way of saying that composer allows codebases like CiviCRM to pull in code (dependencies) from other projects.

bradleyt

Developer content: Down the rabbit hole with Redis

4 months 4 weeks ago

We recently experienced a massive slow down in one of our background jobs and tracked down the cause via redis tools to a cache clearing issue. I decided to write up how we tracked it down to share with other developers - but this blog post comes with a geekery warning : the target audience is definitely solidly in the developer space and assumes the reader has a lot of background knowledge.

Eileen

Card tumbling is back and it's scary

4 months 4 weeks ago

Card-tumbling, like its evil relatives of automated spam, script kiddies and privacy breaches, is not a problem to be solved, but is a fact of life on the internet.

Recently, new strategies for bad actors means that even if you thought you'd fixed this, you might need to review your defenses.

If you've got a publicly accessible contribution page using an on-site payment processor, there's a good chance that you're a target.

AlanDixon

SYSTOPIA Extension Of the Month #10: Donation Receipts

5 months 2 weeks ago
At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. This month, we present one of our most used extensions: Donation Receipts. It supports administrative processes around donation management.
SYSTOPIA

Group Support for FormBuilder

5 months 4 weeks ago

At Third Sector Design, we’re excited to have contributed to adding Group support to FormBuilder, a key feature included in the 5.77 release. We extend our thanks to the Core Team and Coleman for their review and support in getting this important feature across the finish line.

kurund

CiviCRM 5.78 Release

5 months 4 weeks ago

CiviCRM version 5.78.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

dev-team

Changes to the "in-app" Extension Directory in CiviCRM 5.79

6 months 1 week ago

CiviCRM 5.79, which will be released around November 7 2024, will include a slightly different experience for administrators who wish to install extensions. On the surface, it is a rather small change which will make CiviCRM easier to use though it may have a bigger impact for CiviCRM hosting providers and for extension developers.

bgm

SYSTOPIA Extension Of The Month #9: Funding Program Manager

6 months 1 week ago
At SYSTOPIA, we have developed a large set of CiviCRM extensions, Drupal modules and other tools. Currently, we are actively maintaining or co-maintaining over 60 repositories. In this blog series, we want to showcase some of the Civi tools we are most proud of: and the funding framework is a big one! Thanks for reading on.
SYSTOPIA

New СiviAppointment Extension: Streamline Scheduling with CiviCRM

7 months ago

Every non-profit organization struggles with scheduling chaos and missed appointments if it doesn't have an appropriate system. CiviCRM is designed especially for NGOs and non-profits' needs and doesn't let poor planning hold organizations back. With a new extension, CiviAppointment, CiviCRM users can easily create various types of meetings and book them for required contacts hassle-free.  

skornien
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