Jonathan Goldford

Sounds good. I hope you’re able to customize it in the way you’d like.

I’ll mark this resolved. If any other questions come up don’t hesitate to create a new ticket.

Thanks for clarifying. We don’t have any documentation specifically focused on coding extended functionality for the plugin. Custom coding is also outside the scope of the support we can provide here.

That said, the best place to start would likely be WordPress’s official Plugin Handbook. If you have a background in coding, this is a great place to learn how to build plugins for WordPress.

If you’re not familiar with code, then I’d suggest looking for a freelancer or company who could help you build what you need. WordPress is incredibly popular, so there are tons of developers willing and able to help.

Let us know if you have any other questions. Have a good one!

I’m not entirely sure I understand. Can you give me a few more details about what you’re looking to accomplish? Hopefully then I can point you in the right direction.

I hope you had a great weekend!

Good question. You can’t add a volunteer to an opportunity manually in the WordPress admin. You can do it on the frontend of your website though. Visit the opportunity’s URL and submit the form using the volunteer’s information. It’s worth mentioning that they will get an email notifying them that they’re RSVPed, but in many cases that can be helpful.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Happy to help @pollowach.

You can display the opportunities by adding the Volunteer Opportunities block to your page content. Once added, you can use the block’s toolbar to show one-time or flexible opportunities.

There aren’t currently any filters for the block, but the volunteer opportunities can be ordered. One-time opportunities are shown in chronological order with the soonest opportunities showing first. Flexible opportunities are shown based on their publish date. To change the order of those opportunities, you can modify the publish date.

The featured images aren’t shown by default when using the Volunteer Opportunities block, but there is a templating system built in to allow you to show them. If you’re comfortable with code let me know and I can send along the steps. The featured image will likely show when viewing a single volunteer opportunity, though that depends on how your theme is configured.

The volunteer signup form can be modified in a few different ways. Check out this question in the FAQs for details.

I hope that’s helpful. Let us know if you have any other questions!

Thanks for checking that. If the board members can’t see the dashboard, what exactly shows up when they log in?

If you’re still not seeing the dashboard then it’s likely an issue with the other plugins or the theme on the website. I’d suggest deactivating the other plugins first to see if that fixes the problem. If not, then switch to the default WordPress theme too.

If the plugins are the cause, you can start reactivating them one at a time to narrow down exactly which one is causing the issue.

Let us know what you find out.

Ah, that makes sense. If the capabilities have been modified for different roles it’s very possible that could have caused the issues you’re seeing.

Here’s the code used to add the Board Member role. You can see the list of capabilities starting with “read”, then “view_board_content”, then “serve_on_board”, etc.

 add_role(
          'board_member',
          'Board Member',
          apply_filters( 'winbm_board_member_caps', array(
              'read' => true,
              'view_board_content' => true,
              'edit_board_content' => true,
              'serve_on_board' => true,

              //Board event caps
              'rsvp_board_events' => true,
              'edit_board_events' => true,
              'edit_others_board_events' => true,
              'publish_board_events' => true,
              'read_private_board_events' => true,
              'delete_board_events' => true,
              'delete_private_board_events' => true,
              'delete_published_board_events' => true,
              'delete_others_board_events' => true,
              'edit_private_board_events' => true,
              'edit_published_board_events' => true,

              //Board committee caps
              'join_board_committee' => true,
              'edit_board_committees' => true,
              'edit_others_board_committees' => true,
              'publish_board_committees' => true,
              'read_private_board_committees' => true,
              'delete_board_committees' => true,
              'delete_private_board_committees' => true,
              'delete_published_board_committees' => true,
              'delete_others_board_committees' => true,
              'edit_private_board_committees' => true,
              'edit_published_board_committees' => true
              ) )
          );

Hopefully by resetting those you’ll have everything working again.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

I’m happy to help @mma789. A few questions for you:

• You mentioned the Dashboard doesn’t show up for your board members. What are they seeing when they log into the website?
• Do your board members have the “Board Member” role within WordPress? If not, that could be why they aren’t seeing the correct information in the WordPress backend, such as the list of board members and upcoming board events.

As long as your board members are given the “Board Member” WordPress role, you shouldn’t need to worry about them making changes to your site. They can still log in, but they can only modify their own user profile and interact with the board management tools. Everything else isn’t available to them.

Once you answer those questions I should be able to offer more help. Thanks a ton.

I’m happy to help @pollowach. I’ll take your questions one at a time.

1. Volunteers are actually set up as users within your website. Because of this, you can delete a volunteer from your site the same way you would remove any other WordPress user. This article walks you through how to delete users on your site: https://pressable.com/knowledgebase/removing-a-wordpress-user/
2. Can you give me more information on what you’re looking for here? Would you like to see the volunteer opportunities in the WordPress admin, or display them on the frontend of your website for your visitors? In the WordPress admin, you should be able to click “Volunteer Mgmt” in the menu to see a list of the opportunities. To display volunteer opportunities for your visitors, you’ll need to add the “Volunteer Opportunities” block to a page.

Let me know how else we can help. Have a great day!

Thanks for creating this thread @squarecandy. We just finished testing and I can confirm this issue is fixed in ACF PRO version 6.2.9.

That’s great to hear. Thanks a ton for circling back @mikerds. We’re really glad you got it all figured out.

@alexgf, I’m going to mark this resolved since we haven’t heard from you all in a while.

Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions down the road.

Thanks for reaching out @mikerds. The volunteer system primarily uses the styles provided by the theme. There are a few possible causes to the issue here:

• The website’s theme doesn’t support what are called “custom post types” which includes volunteer opportunities.
• There is a plugin in place that limits the styling for volunteer opportunities.

As a first step I’d recommend reaching out for help from the Bootscout theme’s developers. Based on their website it looks like you can do that at https://github.com/JackFurby/Bootscout-theme/issues.

Let us know if we can help clarify how the volunteer system works, and what’s needed to ensure everything is compatible.

That sounds good @alexgf. Keep me posted if there’s anything else we can do to help.

@alexgf, I forgot to mention in my last response that we did test the scenario you’re running into in a fresh WordPress installation. We signed up two people for a volunteer opportunity, then removed the RSVP for one of them. Four days before the opportunity started the one still RSVPed got the reminder email, and the one we removed didn’t.

I’m only mentioning this because I want you to know that finding and fixing bugs is very important to us. In this situation though, we think the issue is more likely caused by something related to how this specific website is configured.