CiviCRM with Smarty

CiviCRM has Smarty support which enables useful logic for contribution emails and similar things, but it is not enabled for email by default. You must edit /wp-content/uploads/civicrm/civicrm.settings.php and enable Smarty: In addition, you should disable entities in CK editor. You can do that at Administer->Customize Data & Screens->Display Preferences. Then scroll down and click the […]

CiviCRM WordPress Upgrade checklist

A quick list version of the upgrading doc at CiviCRM.org with a few personal notes. ssh to server ensure everything is backed up right now, not last night. This is normally handled automatically on a daily basis by ManageWP and also by a local msqldump process. Disable CiviCRM logging because of DB upgrade issues. Administer->System […]