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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.
Do you manage memberships for your organisation? If so, there's good chance you have been asked to generate a report for your membership data to find out:
"How many members did we have at 1 January 2021?"
"How many times has this specific member renewed?"
And probably even more toe curling questions that are quite challenging or seem impossible to solve
CiviCRM version 5.43.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.
Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:
Training information:Duration: 3,5 hrsCMS: Wordpress with CiviCRMLanguage: EnglishDate: 29 November 2021Time: 9-12.30 CET (GMT +1)Cost: €150,00 (excl. VAT)Max nr. of participants: 5
Over the last year the Core Team have been working hard on Search Kit - a new way of searching and reporting on data in CiviCRM.
Although still in beta, Search Kit is already a very powerful tool. It’s also fast, which makes it particularly pleasing to use. It’s a quietly revolutionary feature.
Recently, CiviCRM user 9to5 decided they wanted to take advantage of some of the features that Action Network provides, including tools that make it easy for constituents in the USA to contact their elected representatives.
The Unspoken Problem All Association's Struggle With“What is the biggest challenge that your association is facing right now to grow your membership?"This is a question we ask every association we work with.We are always curious to hear their answers, but also pretty confident we know what they will say.Everyone is in consensus about one thing: association membership renewal struggles!
The CiviCRM Community Council have been working on a set of guidelines for the CiviCRM Community Blog.
Many people in our community expressed a desire for some guidelines to inform posting and conversation, and now that we have a draft together, we would like to collect feedback from the community on what we're proposing.
In the upcoming 5.43 release significant changes have been made to the code that handles token rendering. The primary goal was to fix technical debt issues that were tying us in knots and holding us back. However some new usability features are also included in 5.43
Accessibility is an important concept that is becoming increasingly incorporated into the zeitgeist. In the spirit of this important movement, we invited web accessibility specialist, author and UN special advisor, David Berman on our podcast to share ideas with associations about accessibility for their websites and member portals.
