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No problem. I will look into that. I thought perhaps you were the same person since it was just 2 or 3 days ago that was posted on my feature request forum, which I didn’t think could be a coincidence, but I guess it was. =)

Yes, this is a feature request and you already posted it a couple days ago on the feature requests forum of my site.

I have noted it and will see what I can do the next time I work on an update for this plugin. Note that there are far too many feature requests, and I make no promises of including them all, as the plugin already has so many features as to confuse many new users with all the settings, and I don’t want to make a bloated plugin by trying to include every feature.

This one should be relatively easy, though, so I’ll most likely include it in the next update, even though an additional click on the column you want to sort by doesn’t seem like a major issue to me.

Sorry, I was out for a few hours, but I guess you got it figured out, based on the other thread you replied to.

Please check your settings for selecting the page for the main volunteer page, as I mentioned in the previous reply.

It is automatic when someone signs up. Nobody needs to review or approve, but admin can clear signups.

Yes, that’s not correct.

Did you select the correct page in the general settings to be the volunteer-opportunities page? Or did you somehow set that to be the volunteer-board page? The page you set in the general settings is the page it will redirect to you when click a signup link. I think you have it set to the contact form /volunteer-board page.

Also make sure to thoroughly read the documentation here:
https://stephensherrardplugins.com/docs/pta-volunteer-sign-up-sheets-documentation/

Your wording is not clear, is it not showing up in either the backend or frontend? Or is it showing on the frontend, but not in the backend?

Are you getting a confirmation email of the signup?

If the signup is not showing on both the frontend and backend, then you may want to check your server error logs to see if there are any server errors at the time of the signup.

If it’s only on the backend that it is not showing, it could be a browser caching thing, and you can hold shift and reload the page a few times to try to clear the browser cache. If the date has already passed, then it won’t show on the backend unless you make sure to check the checkbox for Show Expired Tasks? in the main settings, and also make sure the checkbox that says Automatically clear expired signups? is NOT checked (it will delete signups automatically when the date is past to keep your database size under control).

No problems. Glad you got it figured out.

For the first problem, it could be a permalink issue, although it worked fine for me with both desktop and my phone.
Sometimes you need to flush the permalink cache by going to your WordPress permalinks settings page and just hitting save (don’t need to change anything).

Otherwise, the most likely cause is caching of the page, either by the browser or a caching plugin you have, or possibly some server side caching (would have to ask your hosting provider about that).

Another smaller possibility is some conflict where some other plugin, theme, or script, is rewriting the URL arguments, or somehow removing some of the arguments. When the problem occurs do you still see that last 2 arguments with the task ID and date in the URL in the browser address bar? They should look something like this:
&task_id=523&date=2022-09-07
If those are missing, then it will just go back to the sheet page. Those two arguments need to be set for my plugin to show the signup form.

For the Customizer update issue, check to see that the license is the same, or if it got changed if you let the old one expire. The most likely cause, if it has been a long time since you updated, is that changes in the licensing software I use are not working with your old version. In any case where you have trouble updating through the dashboard, you can always login to your account on my site and download the zip file of the newest version (as long as you have an active license), and then you can update from that. Recent versions of WordPress allow you to update a plugin by simply uploading the newer version zip file just like you are installing a new plugin. Go to the plugins page, select Add New, choose the option to upload, then upload the zip file. Then WordPress will show you a comparison of the old version and the new version (just version numbers) and ask if you want to replace the old/current version with the uploaded version… just confirm that, and you’re good to go.

A few things you can try (in no particular order):

• Go to your WordPress settings > permalinks page and just hit save again to clear the permalink cache
• Disable any caching plugins you have, or at least turn them off for that page (is possible with your plugin). Maybe see if you can disable any server side caching as well
• Try disabling Elementor on that page and just use the classic editor. Sometimes page builder plugins/themes can cause weird behavior with shortcodes and output from other plugins

No problems. Just wasn’t sure what you were wanting.

I suggest you install it and give it a try for yourself. According to www.remarpro.com, there are over 2000 active installs, but I have no way of knowing what sites they are installed on unless someone buys one of my paid extensions and registers on their site, or if someone gives me a link to their site with a support question.

I know there are a lot of church organizations that use this, as well as many other volunteer and non-profits, but I really can’t give you any examples without looking through old emails or sites that have been licensed for my extensions.

Sorry, but I’m confused as to what you are asking. This doesn’t seem like a support request.

I have no idea who Fetch Design is and am not aware of any demos of my plugin on their site, or any other.

This plugin is Free. If you have a WordPress site, simply install the plugin and then you can test it out and demo it for yourself. The plugin only works with WordPress.

If you need help with how to use this plugin, the documentation can be found here:
https://stephensherrardplugins.com/docs/pta-volunteer-sign-up-sheets-documentation/

If you are in need of help in creating some kind of custom demo to use for your presentation, you can contact me privately through my site (the site where the documentation is), and we can discuss. I’m available for hire for custom projects.

Sorry, I missed your first post, only saw the second one in the email.
If you have WP Crontrol, or something similar installed, then the hook for my plugin is:
pta_sus_cron_job

If you aren’t seeing that in the list of cron events, then it hasn’t been set up properly, and deactivating/reactivating should set it up again.

You can deactivate and reactivate the plugin without losing any data. The WordPress CRON hook is set up during activation. Activation also sets up the database tables or database updates, only if needed, as well as the custom role.

The only thing that gets removed when you deactivate is the custom role, but then it’s created again when you activate, so you won’t lose anything.

Sounds like you might already know this, but just to be sure, and for anyone else who stumbles across this, the WordPress CRON is not a true CRON, so it won’t show up in your server’s list of real CRON functions. Also, since it’s not a true server CRON, it can only be triggered when your WordPress site is loaded by a visitor or webcrawler, etc…. so, depending on how much traffic you get, the hourly CRON functions might not actually get triggered every hour.

If you want to see the WordPress “CRON” hooks, you need to install a plugin like WP Crontrol, which will allow you to view, edit, delete, and immediately run any CRON events.

Disable the “Grouping” feature. You can do this in the dataTables view by clicking on the button that says Disable Grouping, or if you never want to use Grouping, there is an option in the settings you can check to turn it off completely.

By default, the task date and title are “grouped” above the rows of signups. Those are special rows that the dataTables jQuery plugin creates, and they won’t be exported.

If you click on the disable grouping button while viewing the table of signups, you will then need to click on the Column Visibility button and turn on Task Titles and/or Dates, depending on what you want to see. Or, if you disable grouping via the main setting, then you don’t have to do that as those columns will then be visible by default.

I make use of dataTables for those sortable/searchable tables with all the print/export functions. I did not create that code. It can be found here:
https://datatables.net/