Hello Frank,

Sounds good, depending on what the Sports Authority Coordinator wants to do, we can proceed from there, either keep it as is, or just have to remove those fields.

There is a block called "Columns" and when you first make it there are design layouts you can choose or you can make them your own by clicking on the block. It is a little tricky sometimes, so often times the best way is to use the Block Navigation menu, shown in the screenshot, then selecting the column you want and choose the width in the Block Pane on the right side. 

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Block Navigation Menu, may need to select Columns to see inside it first. • Download

Hello Frank,

I just wanted some clarification, so that we do this correctly the first time for the Homepage slider.

This is what you want the user to see when they first come to the homepage correct (Screenshots below)? The video/slider is the same size, but it is no longer behind the menu/header. 

From my understanding, you wanted the whole video displayed rather than just making the Menu opaque and keeping the top of the video/images, cut off. Correct?

Again, I just want to make sure, so that it is the way you want it! Let me know if this correct, or provide more detail as to what you were thinking.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Proposed Vs Current Version

Hello Frank,

That sounds good! Is the size of that slider okay or should it be smaller? The issue with the bigger size is that people won't know about the buttons underneath it immediately. If it needs to be smaller, should it be the same size as it was, so you can see the buttons, just without any of it being cropped by the menu, as it were, or slightly larger, but able to see some of the buttons?

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Right now, the slider area without it including the menu bar is 555px tall. We can make it 720px tall if that is what you want. Screenshot is of it as 720px tall.

Let me know if that works for you!

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

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Hello Frank,

This is what we can do as well. We can make the basically push the slider down so that it is not hidden behind the menu, but have it stop at the same spot on the page as it did before. That way you can still see the buttons, but the menu isn't covering anything in the images or videos. See screenshot below. I believe the site is set to this right now, so if you want to do a hard refresh, instructions here, you should be able to see that. It doesn't cut off any of the words or anything like that and you can still see the buttons, best of both worlds.

Let me know if this works!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Sounds good!

It might have saved a cached version and did not want to update it, so I will stick with that.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Hello Frank,

Can you send me screenshots so I can see what you mean by the navigational menu bar taking more space? 

Also, can you tell me what screen size you are using, so that we can test it on a similarly sized screen and make sure that things are looking the right way?

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Thank you for sending those screenshots, Frank,

Do you know what resolution your screen is running? That is what I meant by size, but I definitely did not word that correctly. Sorry about that! 

Once I have the screen size, I can let the developer know and he can ameliorate the issue.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Yeah, that is very helpful.

If you try turning off the 150% for the size of text, apps, and other items, does that fix the issue with the menu? I just want to see if that fixes the problem, but then the developer and I can work toward a solution to making it look right.

Wonderful! I am glad things are working better that way.

Hello Frank,

So if you are just adding a new ministry page under "Group Ministries" page, for example,

The way it works is through the parent-child relationship and the templates. if those two things are set then it will show correctly on the parent page.

Let me know if you have any further questions about this!

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

Looks good! Everything is there and filled out correctly! 

Cody Armock

Hello Frank,

Try testing it again. If it still doesn't work, then make sure that the Notifications are active and that the settings are correct. 

Let me know if it still isn't fixed after that and let me know which form it is, so that I may check a few things on it!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

Please check your Spam or Junk folder for the media@transfiguration.com email, I tested it with my email and it seemed to work fine.

Let me know if the emails were not there!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

I changed the notification back to your email and deleted my entry from the website. Could you try setting the notification to a different email and seeing if that works?

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Hello Frank,

Do you have an IT person at your parish? or someone who is in charge of your transfiguration.com email suite. They may be filtering those emails out and the IT person could make it so that no-reply@transfiguration.com is white-listed.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

I am glad that you got it figured out, Frank.

Alternatively, you could set up a Gmail account or another Transfiguration.com account and have that be the sender of the emails in forms, but up to you.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Gravity Forms can do that. All you have to do is Add A New Notification called User Notification and for the Send To Options, click on the Select a Field option and find the email field and fill in the rest of the notification like usual. You can even have it conditional where if you have a radio button field asking them if they want one and basing that notification off of that.

Let me know if you need further instructions on how to do this!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Good Morning Frank,

I have added a slider maker onto the website, it is called Metaslider and you can access it at the bottom of the Wordpress Menu on the left side of the screen in the backend of the site. It is relatively easy to use and can be used as a block on pages or posts, since Envira gallery currently does not have slider functionality. 

You can go ahead and experiment with it and make different sliders and play with the settings and add them to pages.

If you have any questions, let me know!

Have a great weekend!

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

The featured image is mainly there to be an aesthetic and not so much to show off content as much, just as a reference. The pixel size for the featured image is going to change based on the device viewing it, so it is not a simple answer, but the pixel size for the featured image on pages for a desktop will be 1903x304px.

I will make a note for the developer to fix that. He is out of the office today, but he should be able to get to it early next week.

Have a great weekend and be safe!

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

I have made the to-dos for the developer!

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Good Morning Frank,

I have sent him the new password!

Thanks,

Cody Armock

Hello Frank,

1. You can just add the same page from the page list twice to the menu and then drag them to the two different places. That way they will both link to the same page, but appears in two different spots.

2. To my knowledge, there is nothing native to WordPress that does this. You can have things in the menu labeled however you want and have it go to a different page, but that is about the extent of it in WordPress. I don't think there is a URL shortener built-in though. I will discuss with some colleagues to see if they know of anything. You can also use URL shorteners like tinyURL or https://bitly.com/ among others. 

I talked to the developer and he said that we can set it up where transfiguration.com/journey will take you to transfiguration.com/education as a redirect. It is not best practice to have multiple slugs for a page. Since it is in multiple places and trying to correct that would be a monumental undertaking, we can set up this redirect server-side.

3. Due to security concerns, Diocesan is the one to update and add users. Just let us know when you need to add another user or need an update to one.

June 1st is good for the launch date and I have put it on the schedule for now as tentative. I will send you an email about a week out to confirm that you are all set for the launch date and that we are all set on our end too.

For the launch, we will just need to know the contact information for the person in charge of or the login information for the domain. It looks like it is through GoDaddy, so either sending us the login information for that or letting us know the contact information for the person in charge of it and we can give them instructions for the day of the launch.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777 

Hello Frank,

There isn't a way for a page to have two parents, so, unfortunately, there is no way to Knights of Columbus under the Just for Men page and the Service Ministries page without having two pages. You could get rid of the Just for Men Ministries Parent page and just relocate the child pages to a different group of Ministries. You can usually just select all the blocks on the page and copy and then paste them on another page. Otherwise, if that doesn't work, copying the information from the frontend of the preexisting knights of Columbus page and then copying that over to the new one.

My thinking was to have different categories, so if somebody looking for all men's group or all women's group, or a mix of them, or doing volunteer than they could find those quicker.

Let me know if you have any further questions about this!

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

The Alphabetical List is done automatically because of the template of "All Ministries". You could do something similar by doing it in the content. Changing the Just for Men Page to a Default Template and then using the right headings and linking them off to the right ministry pages and including an excerpt from that page if you want, but it would have to be done manually and then updated with any changes manually as well, but it can be done.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

Yes, we can do that. I will make Cindy a Parish Admin like you and will make the rest an author role like Gerald, I believe and will assign those pages you listed. If I miss any, you can always do a quick update and change the author of that page to the correct person.

Unfortunately, there is only allowed one author per page, so I see a conflict with Kristen Smith and Saundra Rownd not having access to the right page. What we can do instead is have a single Preschool Account. That way, Kristen and Saundra could both log in with that account and have access to those pages, but only have one account. Would you like me to do that? I can send the login information to both of them though.

Let me know if you have any questions and how you'd like to proceed with the preschool conflict.

Thanks,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Good afternoon Frank,

I will add Gerald onto that Preschool Account and will let him know to switch the author over to the Preschool account so that he can edit it from there. 

It might help for me to know what you mean by ordering/sorting posts. What do you want to do with the posts exactly that cannot be done with native WordPress?

Let me know and we can go from there!

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

Thank you for explaining that issue to me. I will talk with the developer and see what we can come up with. Right now, that seems to be the only way to keep it to the front by either changing the date on those top three posts or by setting the date for the new posts farther away than the important ones.

I will let you know what we come up with or if those important items should just be placed on a page that is linked to from one of the buttons under the slider on the Education Page. Those buttons can swap out based on what is most important, whereas posts are meant to be more dynamic.

I have also sent out the user accounts and changed the authorship pages to the new ones where applicable. Keep in mind that if the parish Admins (Amy, Joyce, Gerald, etc.) were accustomed to filtering by the Mine tab at the top of the All Pages list, then these pages will no longer show up, but for the Parish Author Role to work correctly and for these people to have access to these pages, this is how it needs to be. I suggest passing this along to those Parish Administrators so that they do not change it back and thereby removing the Author's access to them. 

Let me know if you have any questions!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

 

Hello Frank,

After talking with the developer, we have added a Menu Order field to the Posts that will order them much as it does in the Staff Member Module. We have set the Registration Post to a Menu Order of -1 which will make the first one and then the rest can be a Menu Order of 0. You can change these in the Quick Edit option for the Post in the All Posts list. It goes Menu Order Ascending and then Date Descending, so if Post 1 has order of 0 and Post 2 has order of 0, whichever one was published most recently will display further left (first in the carousel/slider). I hope that makes sense. 

I am not sure why but you cannot change the post to a menu ordering of -1 while you are in the post editor for that specific post, but you can set it to 0 or above. I recommend just always using Quick Edit to change the menu ordering for that reason. -1 will keep the post at the front of the queue. 

This is a much better way to go rather than a plugin because of all the bloat that the plugin brings, plus it does not compromise the security of the site if the plugin goes outdated.

Let me know if you have any questions about this!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

Please try a hard refresh, instructions here, on those pages and if that does not work, you may want to clear your cache. I know the developer just fixed the iOS calendar display issue yesterday and I believe the slider/navigation menu issue has been fixed, but if it has not please let me know and be as detailed as possible in what needs to be changed.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

The developer used a test calendar for the iOS fix and then switched it back, so I know that the calendar issue is fixed and I believe that the developer  fixed the slider issues when he fixed it on the main page too.

However, if something does come up, don't hesitate to let us know and we will do our best to fix it.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

They are of different sizes. That is because, in the slider proof that was approved, the slider is slightly shorter than the one on the homepage. That is why they are slightly different sizes.

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

Thank you for sending that to me! Is that a different browser on your phone or have you cleared your cache? Often times it will keep the old styling unless you clear your cache or try another browser on your phone.

Let me know if it is still broken even after those steps!

I am discussing the slider template with Veronica and the developer.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hi Frank, 

This is Blake Stapleton, the designer who worked with all of you during the design phase of the project. I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy!

So in our meetings, we did speak about how we wanted the homepage and some of those important inner pages to look very similar. However, during our meetings together, we spoke about having the inner page sliders be a little shorter and have their page titles on them. We decided to do this so visitors to the site could differentiate between the homepage and inner pages, and not be confused as to where they were on the site. We wanted to keep the look similar but just have a slight difference to help the visitors navigate a little better. We also wanted the first row of the buttons to be fully visible when we landed on the inner page, which strengthened our reasoning for making the slider a little shorter.

I have a couple of screenshots of the original proofs below that reflect what we talked about as a group and were approved. Let us know if you have any questions about this and we will be happy to help and explain further.

Best,

Web Department, Diocesan

877.923.0777

Hi Frank,

Happy to help, you are very welcome. I will pass this along as well. I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy! :) 

God Bless,
Blake Stapleton

Hello Frank,

I will make a to-do for the developer about this. He should get to it very shortly.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

I have made and sent out the information for Sheila.

There is a max of 10 folders that can be made with that plugin. The pro version is $25 and that has an unlimited number of folders. Let me know if you are interested in that and I can have Veronica send over a confirmation email.

We should be all set on our end. We added the search to the mobile version of the site, so that is all set. Please send over that login info for GoDaddy so that we can make sure that we have everything for when we launch.

It doesn't seem that we have any promotional materials. I would definitely suggest putting something in the bulletin and posting on your social media about it. There is also a free online tool called canva.com, that has a lot of templates that you can use to post on social media.

I am glad that you are liking the site and that the others like it as well.

The easiest way to replace files is to delete the file from the media library and then rename the new file the same as the old and then upload it after the old one was deleted. This will keep it as the same link and then you will just need to change the text on those. I would also suggest putting in the description for the new/updated file the correct or something like UPDATED: 5/21/2020 or whatever the date is, that way you can make sure it is the correct file. That would be the easiest way to do it. 

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

I will have Veronica send that confirmation email over to you about the plugin and then she will let you know how it will be charged too.

I signed into the GoDaddy account and it sent an email to Victor I believe with a 6-digit code, so if you could send that over to us as well, that would be great.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Hello Frank,

It is has been done!

I hope you had a great memorial day weekend.

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Wow, Frank,

That sounds like absolute craziness. I am glad that you have been able to finally take a sabbath. 

Good luck with your reopening tomorrow. Stay Safe!

Cody Armock

Hello Frank,

I have created a new password and resent it to her.

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Good Morning Frank,

Yes, we will be going live sometime between 9:30 AM and 1 PM EST today. Once the website is launched, we will send you an email with the new login instructions and how to contact us now that the website is live.

That is a good idea to wait to make changes as logging in during launch and making changes can cause issues, but more often prevents the changes from being saved.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

Good Morning Again Frank,

I know that when the developer tries to log in to GoDaddy to access the domain information, Victor gets a security code that expires in 20 minutes, so for the developer to get access to the domain, the security code needs to be sent over relatively quickly. I just wanted to coordinate it so that you can let Victor know that the code will be sent sometime between 9:30 and 10:00 AM today. Once he gets the code just relay it back to us as fast as possible, so that the launch process goes as smoothly as it can.

Thank you,

Cody Armock

Web Department, Diocesan

877-923-0777

I just sent another request for the 6-digit code by email to v*****@t*****.com. Please share the code as soon as you get it.