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Permalink Reply by BSC_Photo on October 4, 2011 at 6:22pm

Yea figuring out which widget area goes where is typically the biggest issue. If I could have Pre-filled the widgets I would have but that is one thing wordpress themes don't do and I didn't have time to create a complete wordpress install..

Please share your link here, I'd like to see how people end up using the site.

If you have questions let me know ;

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Davies on October 4, 2011 at 6:34pm

I'm just getting started, so it's pretty raw, but here is the link: http://help-portrait-boulder.com/

 

I intentionally moved the Volunteers and Donations to the lower main content area because I am going to put some more event specific information in white box area. I did get it to configure properly your way, though I had to inspect your current site to figure out what HTML to include to get the boxes to format correctly.

 

This is great though.  To get to this point from scratch would have taken many, many hours, but here I am in less than an hour.  You rock.

 

I did modify the CSS to make the main menu green (in part I felt a darker color was more visible, and in part, I think Boulder calls for more green in general. ;)  I'll probably make the same modification for some of the headers as well. 

 

Matt

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Permalink Reply by BSC_Photo on October 4, 2011 at 6:55pm

Ahh yes.. Well if you need some help with adjusting the CSS for the new white block widget area let me know!!

That theme took me about 3 days to complete but that also included my system for accepting and organizing volunteers with plugins. Will you be using my method of letting volunteers sign up? Did you have any issues with setting u the plugins?

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Davies on October 4, 2011 at 7:08pm

I'm putting those items in place just in case.  We're just getting started now.

So far I only installed the Cimy Extra fields plugin. It installed fine and I have set up the custom fields and activated some of the standard fields.  I really didn't touch anything at the top of the plugin's setting page.  Do I need to know anything special about the General or Database sections?

I'm moving on to your other plugins tomorrow. Did you hide the Dashboard page from the menu just by not including it in the custom menu? How do volunteers get back to it each time they return?

I've used Wordpress to host my website, but I'm not very versed in it's user management features and how to show and hide content to different user groups.

Are you treating the volunteers as "Subscribers"?

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Permalink Reply by BSC_Photo on October 4, 2011 at 7:36pm

Well there is no link to the dashboard admin (/wp-admin) in the menu so there's nothing to hide. Instead I installed the Petere's Redirection plugin which sends the new users to a page on your blog instead of the real wordpress admin.

For me, I created the "volunteer dashboard" which I did not include in my custom menu because really only new members need to be directed there.

What i missed/ forgot was to add a stinkin LOGIN area!!! D'oh!

Ok this is the prettiest way to fix it. Open header.php

and find
<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {

wp_nav_menu (array ( 'theme_location' => 'secondary-menu') );

}
?> <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?>" id="logout">Logout</a></div>

replace with this:

 

<?php if (is_user_logged_in()) : ?>

<?php wp_nav_menu (array ( 'theme_location' => 'secondary-menu') );  ?>
 <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(get_permalink()); ?>" style="float:right;">Logout</a>
<?php else : ?>
    <a href="<?php echo wp_login_url(get_permalink()); ?>" style="float:right;">Login</a>
<?php endif;?>

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Permalink Reply by BSC_Photo on October 4, 2011 at 7:36pm

Following those instructions will add a link to logout if you;re already logged in or a LOGIN button if you're not logged in.

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Permalink Reply by Megan Huddleston on October 11, 2011 at 9:30am

Thank you SO MUCH! I'll be getting started on this today!!!

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