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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.

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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.

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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.

We, the Community Council, owe all of you an apology. As you might remember the CiviCRM Community Council was elected in April 2020. Some of our members were elected for 2 years and some of us for 1 year. So we should have had an election last April for those members that either stepped down (1) or are at the end of their term.

Learn more about how you can deal with duplicate records in CiviCRM in this talk by Aidan Saunders of Squiffle Consulting.

This is a recording of the talk Aidan gave at the CiviCRM North East meeting on 8 September 2021. He spoke about:

CiviCRM version 5.42.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience: https://civicrm.org/download

Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade, as there are no ESR-specific bug-fixes or security issues at the moment. The current version of ESR is CiviCRM 5.39.x.