by David Gewirtz | Feb 10, 2023 | Lab Notes, Seamless Donations
This Lab Note contains instructions for setting up the new PayPal interface in Seamless Donations version 5.2.0 and later. Be sure to read the guidelines below. A lot has been going on behind the scenes. Since early 2022, I’ve been working with the development...
by David Gewirtz | Sep 16, 2021 | Lab Notes
I’m happy to announce that My Private Site and Donor Pays Fees are each getting updates today. My Private Site 3.0.5 My Private Site moves to version 3.0.5, marking what I hope is a final fix for a long-vexing bug: various incompatibilities with the...
by David Gewirtz | Mar 31, 2021 | Lab Notes
If you’ve ever wanted to know how this site works, what plugins it uses, and how it’s set up, this is your lucky day. Over on ZDNet, where I write my DIY-IT column, I wrote a detailed anatomy of the ZATZLabs site. It’s part of my ongoing series about...
by David Gewirtz | Dec 30, 2020 | Lab Notes
In the fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager, there’s a two-episode story arc called “The Year of Hell.” The plot involves a “time ship” that alters history, changing the timeline and plunging the crew of the starship Voyager into a deadly,...
by David Gewirtz | Dec 28, 2020 | Lab Notes
So here’s the bottom line: you must have a consistent, working SSL implementation on your website. Failure to do so will result in punishment by Google and the inability to function with PayPal and Stripe. In this post, I’m not going to go into how to set...
by David Gewirtz | Dec 4, 2020 | Lab Notes
This post was inspired by a great question from user Krista, and the answer is a pretty simple set of steps. First, though, it’s good to understand how My Private Site works. That, too, is pretty simple. My Private Site will block pages and posts from users who...
