Sounds good Father,

Thank you. I will send a quick follow-up email, requesting your approval, just so that it is on record. All you have to do is check yes. 

Have a great memorial weekend!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

I hope you had a peaceful and relaxing Memorial day weekend!

1. I have added the video to the homepage. Unfortunately, there are a few things that have come up and should be considered before keeping it there.

I recommend having it on the Welcome/Our Parishes page, where it was (it is still there) and then linking to that from the slides or the hero image. That way people can still click there very easily, but also have sound for the video, and since it is hosted on YouTube, the page load time is a non-issue.

2. You can edit the staff in the Staff Module on the left WordPress Menu in the backend. The Staff page is populated from there.

3. With the forms, you can print out the entries, but from what I am seeing, there is no way to print the actual form. You would have to make these another way.

4. To have the posts populate on the homepage, they need to be in the "News & Events" category, and from the looks of it, none of the posts in the past little while have been added to that category. You can actually check multiple items in the All Posts list, then click on "Bulk Actions" then select "Edit" from the list, and Click "Apply" and then you can place them all in the News & Events category by checking that box and clicking update, to place them all in that category, instead of doing it individually.

NOTE: To have the posts display, you will need to add a date and location for the post. Again, this will show up after you have placed the post in the "News & Events" category.

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5. There is no limit to the number of posts that will show up on the homepage recent posts bar, it will only show those posts that have a date (see #5 above) in the future though.

6. With the form restrictions of allowing only x number of entries, there is not a way to check the date they selected and then compare it to see if they allowed to or not. What most parishes are going to right now is Sign up Genius it seems and then you can link there from the homepage slider or somewhere else.

7. If you wanted to have separate forms, which is an alternative, having 16+ forms would not be a problem. I would suggest having each form on a separate page or post and then having a page with buttons or links to each of those respective form pages. I think that would make it the easiest. That way you could have a link to a Mass Sign Up page, and then buttons that go to each sub-page or post, with the form for that Mass. You could duplicate the forms to make it easier. Just make sure that the first form is perfect (Fields, Form Settings, Confirmations, and Notifications) before duplicating it 15 times. Make sure to switch the notification to you and not to have it go to us.

8. To add a form to a page, you just have to go to a page you would like to add it to or create a new one, then add a "Form" block either by typing in the default paragraph block "/form" or searching for it in all blocks. 

Here is the link to the training sessions, if you need any further assistance: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sIMjQuKa055b4_74Fl2Hn-wSJqnWgHU2?usp=sharing

Thank you,

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Father,

Does it say what it is for? That may help. If possible, could you forward the message or copy and paste it, so I can take a closer look.

Thank you.

Hey Mary,

When you get a chance can you take a look at this email above? I am not sure what is happening here and why they are getting charged for it.

Thank you!

Hello Father,

I can do that one and it pulls in from YouTube, so not a problem in the slightest. All I did was replace the link that was there with the link to your new video. That resolves all the issues currently with having it in the hero place. I set it back to the slider. 

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I forgot that there was a spot for a welcome video on the homepage. Been a while since I scrolled down, haha. 

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

The charge on that invoice from WordPress is $0.00.

It's to "remap" the domain after we transferred it - I had to go in and relink the domain to the account and they do that via a zero-dollar invoice.  You were not charged - it's $0 total.

--Mary

Good Morning Father,

I have switched the links to the Church Schedule page. It looks like it was once a child page, but is no longer, so the link to it changed. They work now.

The website will be launched between 9:30 and 1:30 PM EST, please refrain from using the website during that time as it can cause issues with the launch, but more frequently, your changes will not be saved.

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For the posts to show on the homepage, they need to be in the "News & Events" category as you have done, and they need to have a date set at the bottom of the editor. Once that date passes though, the post will no longer show on the Homepage, hence why the "Thank you" post is no longer showing as it was done yesterday.

I currently see the Scheduling Mass Intentions post on the homepage with the date and location set.

If you want to see a category's posts, you can link a category in the menu, by clicking on the category dropdown beneath pages and posts. If it is not there, click on "Screen Options" in the top right and select the checkbox for categories and that option will now be displayed.

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If you wanted to manage categories and view them yourself, so you can copy the link to a page or post, you can go to Categories under the Posts menu in the backend. You can delete Categories that are no longer needed, and you can get the links to Homilies and Audio Categories to put on pages from there by hovering over them and clicking "View".

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A person would have access to the archives once you add the link to a page or a post, or if you add the category to the menu.

Let me know if you have any other questions! 

We will begin the launch shortly, but you have a little bit of time before we launch to make some of those changes if you want, or you can do them after if you prefer.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

The date given is the end date, yes and yes, it will start immediately unless scheduled.

Can you explain a little more about what media is not linking on your phone? The developer is making a few adjustments to the site right now and while he is at it, he can possibly take a look at this too.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Father,

The buttons below the image are the links, not the image itself.

I also noticed in the forms when making sure that the notifications were set up properly, that there were a couple that you were emailing to yourself when it seemed like you wanted to send it to the person filling it out. The way you can do that is to adjust the Send To field and changing it from the default "Enter Email" to the "Select A Field" option. That will let you select the email field that they filled out with their email. That will work a lot better than having the email sent to you. I thought I should warn you before you start getting emails and hopefully prevent some confusion there.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Father,

You can replace one of the featured buttons and have the Homilies and Videos there, or you can replace a button in the Media Center at the bottom of the Homepage or you can add it as a sub-item on one of the Parent Menu Items. I would recommend the Menu so that someone could get to it from any page.

I suggest if you are going to be sending user notifications from the forms, then you have at least two notifications, a User Notification, and an Admin Notification. I have set up the User Notification for the RCIA form and changed the "Pastor" notification to it. You can see what I did there and then carry that over to the other forms.

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Father,

I am glad that the website is looking good! The way to add a form to a page is using the "Form" block. You can add it to a page in any number of ways that we normally add blocks. The quickest of which is to make use the default paragraph block or what it is set to after to hitting the "Enter" key and then typing "/form" and the form block will come up for you to click on. Then you can select the form you want from the dropdown.

I would recommend one form per page that you can then link to from a parent page that way it keeps everything simple and one page, one purpose.

Let me know if you have any further questions!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Father,

Good questions.

The notifications are who should get an email when the user hits the submit button. You can have multiple notifications on the form, so that when they hit submit, one notification/email gets sent to you, and another gets sent to them. Two notifications (an admin notification and a user notification). It depends on where you want to send them to.

I don't think you would need any special page for that, but I would think that since you already have the Homilies Category for posts, then you can just put the Homilies category under the Our Parishes tab. I think that would be the easiest and the cleanest way to organize all the homilies, a post for each one.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Good Morning Fr. Barr,

I have made a test page that you can check out to reverse engineer how I did it. This is a singular page using an accordion, like the sacraments page, with a form in each accordion and the accordion title describing what the form is. 

All you have to do is make a page, add an accordion block to it (/accordion), click the edit pencil (see screenshot below) and then start opening adding accordions and paste this shortcode in the accordion editor:

 [gravityform id="#" title="true" description="false"]

 (Make sure to include the square brackets.) Replace the '#' with the id of the form, which you can get from the list of all forms (Second Screenshot). You can show or hide the title or description by adjusting the true or false for the attribute.

You can view the test page I made here: https://stjosephstmary.com/test_signup-page/

I think that will work. If Gravity Forms does not seem to be the best option for you, you can also check out Sign Up Genius, which many parishes have been using to do this scheduling.

Once you have made this page, you would just add the page to the menu and/or link it from wherever you want. 

You can add a form to a page, by adding the default paragraph block and typing "/form" or clicking the Add Block button (circle with a "+" in it) and searching for Form under the Embed category.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Father,

The Mass Times can be changed in the Theme Settings. In the backend, the Theme Settings are close to the bottom of the wp menu on the left sidebar.

You can go to the Mass Times tab in theme settings and change the confessions there.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Fr. Barr,

The Mass Times are pulling from the Theme Settings and the Mass Times tab within the Theme Settings. The Mass Times on the Homepage pull from this and so does the Church Schedules page.

Cody Armock

Good Morning Father,

So the button on the homepage under the Mass Times was hardcoded, but I changed it to go to the right link, so that is fixed.

The link in the footer is part of the Quick Links that can be found in the Theme Settings in the last tab called "Links". I changed it there as well, so you should be all set.

Also, as the website is now launched and this basecamp project will soon be archived, you should send any further questions to webdepartment@diocesan.com. When Basecamp projects are archived, there can be issues about emails coming through, but if you send it to the webdepartment@diocesan.com account, it makes sure that we get them.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777