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A streaming video app that stymies a toddler

March 7, 2015 by Erin Olmon Leave a Comment

… is not a good thing. For the most part, my young child can interact with a touchscreen app. Maybe not in the way it’s meant to be used, but he can explore. He can guess what can be touched, and he has developed certain expectations regarding the effect of certain actions on his part. […]

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WP + CiviCRM: Paid User Registration

January 31, 2015 by Erin Olmon Leave a Comment

In an earlier post, WP + CiviCRM: User Registration, I discussed how to have a user register for a WordPress and CiviCRM site such that their information was in sync between the two systems by using a CiviCRM profile and embedding that profile into a WordPress page. I recommend reading that post first, because having […]

Filed Under: Wordpress and Civi Tagged With: civicrm, mattreport, membership site, paid registration, wordpress

WP + CiviCRM: Assigning new WordPress Users to Existing Civi Contacts

January 25, 2015 by Erin Olmon Leave a Comment

So far in this series I’ve talked about user registration and creating a membership site. When I refer to “user registration”, that means allowing a person to sign up for the website and become a WordPress user and having a corresponding contact created in CiviCRM. When I refer to a “membership site”, that means setting […]

Filed Under: Wordpress and Civi Tagged With: civicrm, mattreport

WP + CiviCRM: Setting up a membership site

January 23, 2015 by Erin Olmon Leave a Comment

One of the things I love about CiviCRM is that the model it uses for “membership” aligns with many models. I have tried many membership plugins that accept payment for membership, and none of them are quite right. The main issue is they don’t provide the option to pay by check out of the box. […]

Filed Under: Wordpress and Civi Tagged With: civicrm, civimember role synchronize, mattreport, members, membership site, nav menu roles, wordpress

WP + CiviCRM: User Registration

January 17, 2015 by Erin Olmon Leave a Comment

The Big Goal We want a person to sign up to be a user on a site. And we want WordPress’s users to stay in sync with CiviCRM’s contacts. Including First and Last Names. Note: In this case, “user registration” includes gathering the user’s First and Last name as well as username, email, and password. […]

Filed Under: Wordpress and Civi Tagged With: mattreport

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