varilink / fobv-wordpress

WordPress configuration for The Friends of Bennerley Viaduct website.

FoBV - WordPress

David Williamson @ Varilink Computing Ltd

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This is the repository for The Friends of Bennerley Viaduct (FoBV) website, which is based on WordPress. It contains:

1. The website's WordPress theme.
2. My WordPress plugins library as a submodule.
3. Migrations for the website.

The plugins submodule enables development and testing of any of those plugins that this website uses within the client environment created by my FoBV - Docker repository. In other words, in the context of their use by this website. It tracks the correlation of versions of this website to versions of my plugin library.

The migrations are inspired by the concept of migrations in the Django web framework. They contain updates to the content of the website accompany theme changes. These would normally be applied manually, in the WordPress dashboard but I have attempted to define them as WP CLI commands so that their deployment alongside the theme changes that they accompany can be automated using Ansible, see my FoBV - Ansible repository.

fobv-wordpress's Issues

Continue Join Us to Mailchimp integration in the redesign website

We want to retain this integration and the Mailchimp list is still segmented with the different approaches to doing this in live and test.

Remove cash as a payment option for the "Join Us" action

Instead we should put somewhere under the payment options that will remain supported (cheque, bank transfer and online) something to say that if you're struggling to use one of those options you should "Contact Us".

Align the footer to the bottom of the page when there is too little content to push it there or beyond

Associate reCAPTCHA actions to page accesses

I have setup reCAPTCHA checks on form submissions but in the reCAPTCHA documentation it seems (if I read it right) to suggest also associating them with at least some page GET requests for the site, so that reCAPTCHA has "context" to inform its scoring of whether requests are suspicious or not.

Make section menus larger

Increase the size of the section menus that appear just below the headers. While we're at it, I think perhaps the main menu could do with a size increase or some other way to improve the clarify of the options.

Check the function of the capture payment via webhook in the redesign website

Receiving candidate comments on images

We've sought to disable comments on the site and mostly succeeded. However, very occasionally we're receiving a candidate comment seeking moderator approval on an image. Clearly we've missed a route in for comments that we need to close.

Check the setting of vars in the session in the redesign website

This needs to be both for flow-forward (no errors) to the next step in a process dialogue and flow-back (errors) for the previous step in a process dialogue.

Editor role can't save changes to the notifications email addresses

Add Google Analytics integration

Pagination missing for Latest News posts

We haven't included pagination when news items are listed on the "Latest News" page. Check for the "Upcoming Events" too, though at any one time there should be a limited number of those.

Complete all the process flow page settings

These are the settings that produce a 404 response for a page that is downstream in a dialogue flow unless that page is reached via that flow, i.e. if somebody just navigates to the page's location directly rather than as a result of going through the relevant process.

Clear the payment reference from the session after the Gift Aid step

We don't want a payment reference to be reused. It's stored in the session so unless it is cleared at the relevant point it will be reused. The completion of the Gift Aid step is when notifications are sent and, if the payment method is online, we flow to PayPal. Both these use the current payment reference, so completion of that step is the right place to clear it.

Add info to the notification email addresses for the donate call to action

Ensure that the editor role can NOT lock or unlock blocks

Add cheque and bank transfer payment options to the Donate call to action

Put a login if not already authenticated link on the redesign website

Replace references to Twitter with references to X in the redesign website

Replace the plugin contact form with my own implementation

Restore the use of the Merchant Id in the PayPal interface of the redesign website

Pass address through to PayPal if provided

If the website visitor makes a Gift Aid declaration then they must provide their address. If they're paying online and are directed through to PayPal to handle the payment, they must again provide their address. Can we pass through the address in the Gift Aid declaration to PayPal?

Bug in PayPal flow

There's an intermittent bug in the flow out to PayPal in the redesign website. Sometimes when we arrive at the PayPal landing page it would appear that no order has been passed through.

This seems to happen on the second pass, when testing for example donations, multiple times. If you come back to the redesign and force a refresh without caching, then the bug doesn't occur on the next run through.

Submit disabled due to reCAPTCH V3 on two forms in the same page

The "Support our Charity" page has two forms on it, the "Donate" form and the "Join Us" form. Both have reCAPTCHA v3 protection on them. This seems to have disabled the submit on the second form. An Internet search suggest that this is a known limitation of reCAPTCHA v3, it can't be applied to more than one form on the same page.

Enable the fobv-payment-reference shortcode to be used to clear the payment reference without outputting anything

Problem with column stack of location map and associated text on home page

Change references to "Support the FoBV" to "Support Us".

New donation amounts wanted

The current donation amounts are all fixed, with choices of £5, £10, £20, £30.

Instead we want £5, £10, £20, £50 and specify an amount yourself options.

Demo the within site PayPal integration

Once we've gone live with the redesign site, create a new test site based on the now live redesign site and put a page in that with the within page PayPal integration using their Javascript SDK in it. I'll also need to supply details of the SSL certificate implications for the decision on whether to move to this mode of integration to be taken.

Style in-page menus properly on a mobile display

Add the email notification logic to the redesign website

Give wider prominence to "Contact Us" and "Donate"

Work out some way within the theme to give quick access to "Contact Us" and "Donate" on every page.

Make the site logo clearer on the background in the header

Put in place the reCAPTCHA protection on the redesign website

Add a suitable icon file for the redesign website

Using third-party parent theme

Went live using wp-bootstrap-starter parent theme. Would be better now to theme from scratch.

Redirect for donate page on redesign go-live

A link to the current donate page is distributed via QR code so when the redesign website goes live put in place a redirect to the equivalent path in the new website.

Make the 404 page in the redesign website more "human"

Use a human message rather than the HTTP return code and also provide a handy, in-place link to the home page.