Why You Should Use Personify Payments or 8am Affinipay with WildApricot
Personify Payments is now the preferred payment vendor for US Customers in WildApricot. The main features of Personify Payments are: As of October 1, 2018 only 4 … Read More
WordPress.com Supports Plugins and Themes
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has upped their game by allowing plugin and theme installations on the business offering of WordPress.com. For $33 CAD per month you have access to a fully managed WordPress website, but there are some features missing from this new entrant into the custom WordPress hosting space.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Wild Apricot: May 25, 2018 is GDPR Deadline
On May 25, 2018, the European Union will begin enforcing a new set of data protection regulations, known collectively as the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). The GDPR regulates the collection and storage of personal data for EU residents (including UK residents), regardless of where the organization doing the collecting is located. Consequently, Wild Apricot and any of its clients with members in Europe need to understand the requirements of the GDPR, and set up procedures for complying with them.
VIDEO: Using CSS to Customize the Main Menu System in Wild Apricot
The Kaleidoscope theme in Wild Apricot is beautiful! Changing the main menu design though is not something that can be done by pointing and clicking. You need to use CSS to modify the menu. This snippet of CSS code will help you modify the main menu in Kaleidoscope and Bookshelf, two themes that share the same menu styles.
VIDEO: The new Wild Apricot Membership App
The new Wild Apricot membership application is a breakthrough for membership-based organizations. Now your members can interact with your organization from their iPhone or iPad! The member directory is searchable, you can check out your profile and you can register and pay for events. There is even a place to store your tickets. This app joins the admin app as the second mobile app Wild Apricot has released. Here’s a short demo of the capabilities of the new membership mobile app for Wild Apricot.
VIDEO: Managing your Wild Apricot files using WebDAV
If you do a lot of CSS editing in Wild Apricot, you can edit your CSS into your favourite editor (ours is Notepad++), make changes and refresh them instantly in the public view of your website. No more going into admin to tweak a bit of CSS and back into Public View. Check out the short video for a real time saver!
VIDEO: Using the Wild Apricot Sample Excel Spreadsheet
There is an alternative way to export all membership fields, contacts and members from Wild Apricot directly into Excel. Wild Apricot has created an Excel spreadsheet that access the Wild Apricot API to extract any piece of information from the Wild Apricot database.
VIDEO: Setting up a custom domain with Wild Apricot: what can go wrong?
Setting up custom domains in Wild Apricot can be tricky. If all goes well you’re good, but what if you don’t know where to start? This video will show you how to find your registrar, which domain name settings you need to update and some final steps on what you can do for a successful launch.
VIDEO: Beginner’s Guide to CSS in Wild Apricot
Have you ever wanted to change the style of a gadget, a menu or hide a few elements in your event registration process? Is the Colors and Styles under Websites feature failing to help you? The key is understanding CSS, aka Cascading Style Sheets. This short video shows you how to inspect and experiment with CSS and apply a change in Wild Apricot.
VIDEO: Copying HTML from Upcoming Events Gadget in Wild Apricot
Creating a newsletter with your upcoming events can be a troublesome exercise. This snippet of code makes it easy to copy any upcoming event gadget and put it into a newsletter. This short video shows you how using Nicasio Design’s excellent Javascript code snippet.