ZATZ Lab Notes
It’s not the years. It’s the lines of code.
Seamless Donations 4.0 kinda works, in an alpha sort of way
All the key elements of Seamless Donations 4.0 now work, and work together (mostly). Each of the core elements has been written and tested. These include the new forms engine, the new admin UI engine, the new custom post types, and the PayPal interface that takes data...
Successfully migrated first site from multisite to standalone WordPress (here’s how)
I just successfully migrated my first site out of the big ZATZ Archive zatz.com multisite installation into a standalone site.I wanted to migrate the legacy site located at http://zatz.com/authorpower back to its ancestral home at authorpower.com. Although there are...
Seamless Donations 4.0 internationalization and reveal family system
Made a huge amount of progress over the last two weekends getting ready for Seamless Donations 4.0. The big focus was in adding internationalization features and a reveal family system designed for form management. We're also just about at the point where it's time to...
Seamless Donations 4.0 forms engine details
Considerable progress has been made in creating the new forms engine for Seamless Donations. The purpose of the engine is to abstract form elements from the HTML page design such that it will be easier to add, move, delete, and change form elements. The PHP-based...
Seamless Donations 4.0 admin UI now feature complete
All of the settings in the admin UI have been implemented in the new extensible interface. Settings load from previously-saved settings and write to previously-saved settings, so both settings environments are data-compatible with the exception of the custom post...
David’s Home for Wayward Plugins
My little WordPress plugin side project is taking on a life of its own. As you know, last month I adopted two plugins: Seamless Donations and Better Recent Posts Widget. Seamless Donations is an important plugin doing great work for worthy causes and I've been a...
Much progress systematizing the admin UI
Yes, I am writing this instead of watching the new season of Game of Thrones. That's how serious I am about coding this project. You're welcome. Added tabs to the new admin interface. The Thank You Page tab now works. I also added the Log tab, but to this I added an...
If it’s Saturday, this must be Roadmap
Can I tell you what's been keeping me up at night (well, not counting last Thursday's leftover Taco Bell)? One word: breakage. When I adopted Seamless Donations, I also adopted an active user community. People and non-profits use the plugin every single day to help...
Upgrade alert added to installed base of Seamless Donation plugins
Updated the distribution version of Seamless Donations from 3.3.4 to 3.3.5. This version added an upgrade warning admin message and a very big and very red box on the main Seamless Donations admin page letting folks know come here to get update information on the...
Legacy data migration code and new interfaces complete
I finished the new Funds interface and have a routine that converts legacy funds data into the custom post type we're using from here on. Seamless Donations 4.0 implements custom post types for funds, donations, and donors. In earlier versions, only donations had its...
