[sudo-discuss] [omni-sys] development of new wordpress site for omnicommons.org

[Jenny Ryan]

Its not nearly as nice-looking as the original, particularly on mobile, and
given how much other work needs to be done (ie fundraising, actually
writing blog posts) I don't really see the point in expending effort on
this. Sorry.
On 25 Jun 2016 23:23, "Matt Senate" <mattsenate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I've been working on https://omnicommons.org/blog as a replacement to
> omnicommons.org and seeing how far we can go to simplify our lives in
> that regard. I'm not married to any of the content, and most of the style.
> This theme is selected because it's a really simple mobile-oriented
> genesis-based (therefore super-fast-loading) child theme. I'd be down to
> style it out a lot or just a little to move us forward.
>
> Events Manager and the ESS feed are not working, so that's got to end.
> This is the most promising event plugin I've found so far:
> http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=33
>
> I love it! However, the "frontend submit" form plugin (an extension to the
> basic eme plugin) leaves something to be desired. See here how we can
> customize it a bit:
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-made-easy-frontend-submit/faq/
>
> Attached is a form template I started working on, but that doesn't quite
> implement the drop-down menu for locations properly (locations do not get
> successfully saved).
>
> If anyone has bandwidth, I could use a hand fixing up a better custom form
> that especially can:
>
>    - Restrict locations to those pre-defined in wordpress and made
>    available as a drop-down menu on the front end.
>    - Allow for submitting recurring event requests (only single works
>    right now as far as I can tell, but the admin event add forms allow for
>    recurrence)
>    - Adds the additional fields necessary to successfully replace our
>    current booking form.
>
> LMK if anyone wants to meet up to hack on this.
>
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