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Using Drush with Drupal is standard practice for most developers, but since CiviCRM support was removed, many find themselves having to switch between separate command-line tools for each environment.

Your Membership Site Needs a ChangeThinking about a new CiviCRM deployment for your new membership site is a promising sign that you are in tune with the growing needs of your team and your membership.

In 2021 we created a website containing Use Cases that show CiviCRM’s possibilities in combination with different CMS’s.

The 2021 annual report for the CiviCRM Core Team is now live at https://civicrm.org/annual-report just in time for the Community Round Tables tomorrow.

CiviCRM version 5.45.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release. Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

Combining the power of Drupal Commerce with the flexibility of CiviEvent, Skvare’s team of experts developed the Commerce CiviCRM Event Registration module allowing website managers to build a storefront that includes both events and merchandise.

Just a quick heads up that the next Community Round Table will be on 18 January 2022. These are intended to be informal community meetings (open to all) with the Core Team and Community Council. There's no formal agenda, however typcially it looks something like:

No two events are alike. From conferences to performances, the need for event registration is as different as the activities. That’s why Skvare’s expert developers have contributed the Event Registration Button Label extension for CiviCRM.

People are at the heart of any organization, whether it’s volunteers, students, or clients, and getting the most out of your technology can help organize them to better accomplish your goals.

Drupal websites have leveraged the power of webforms through the CiviCRM Webform module to gather user information, for scheduling and other automated jobs. The one thing missing — user account creating.

CiviCheer

Join us for a timezone-appropriate drink next week!

This is just gonna be a fairly impromptu catch up to shoot the breeze and acknowledge the seasons festitivies. Silly hats, Christmas sweaters = optional. We would love to see you there!

Yesterday we had a second video call about the future of caldera. Main question was how can we collaborate together whilst supporting clients who are currently using caldera and who can not migrate easily within a short time.

Most of us had clients who are using Caldera Forms plugin and those forms are not easily rebuild in another tool (if there was another tool available, more on that later).

Security for your CiviCRM install is important, especially this time of the year. Because of two recent, massively exploited vulnerabilities in Wordpress, I'm posting this with some simple advice for small organizations that might not think they can do anything about security, or that it might not affect them.

At the end of this month the wordpress plugin Caldera Forms will be end-of-life. Meaning that the maintainer behind this plugin won't provide any official updates anymore.

CiviCRM version 5.44.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

We know CiviCRM is great for receiving payments in – be it donations, ticket sales or members

Imagine you have a ‘contact us’ or 'sign-up for our newsletter' or 'register for our next event' form on your website. How much time would you save if each webform submission would be automatically recorded in your CiviCRM database? What if you could automatically dispatch emails, renew memberships, add contact tags, etc. as that data is being saved? Full website CiviCRM integration provides organizations with an opportunity to optimize their workflows and significant time savings.

This month at CiviCRM North East, Rich Lott of Artful Robot spoke about how to improve email deliverability and avoid your mailings being marked as spam.

As we discovered, it is quite a complex topic but Rich did a great job of explaining the technicalities.

Rich answered questions such as:

Howdy folks!

Webform CiviCRM module 6.0.0 was released on October 11, 2021 a few weeks before Drupal 8 went EOL. This first official full Drupal 9 release 🎉 is featuring many more additions to automated (Functional Javascript) testing: Tests: 46, Assertions: 1124 ✅

On Monday November 22nd we have planned a CiviCRM Webinar for current users and interested parties. The rest of this blog will be in Dutch, since the meetup / webinar is aimed at organisations in Belgium/Flanders and The Netherlands.

For English speaking users: we will plan another webinar in January 2022.