Wired Impact Volunteer Management

Once you’ve downloaded the plugin, you’ll want to adjust the settings to fit your specific needs. You can do this by visiting the Volunteer Management menu and clicking “Help & Settings”. Here, you can do things like: Choose to include our styles Set a default contact and location for volunteer opportunities Pick your default form settings Write a template message for your confirmation and reminder emails

In the Volunteer Management menu, click “Opportunities” On the Opportunities page, click “Add Volunteer Opportunity” Fill in all of the “Volunteer Opportunity Details” fields Click the blue “Publish” button

You can display the opportunities by adding the Volunteer Opportunities block to your page content. Once added, use the block’s toolbar to show one-time or flexible opportunities. It’s not currently possible to display both types of opportunities in a single list. We recommend showing only one type of opportunity per page.

One-time volunteer opportunities happen at a fixed date and time. One example might be a trivia night fundraiser where you need volunteers to help check in attendees. Flexible volunteer opportunities can happen on different days and times. One example might be weekly tutoring. Another example could be looking for a volunteer to help with your social media or blog.

Volunteers appear in the database after signing up for an opportunity. You can’t manually add a volunteer to the database.

In the Volunteer Management menu, click “Volunteers” Click the name of the volunteer you’d like to add a note about Click “Edit Volunteer Info” Scroll to the bottom of the page to the Notes section Add or edit any notes Click “Update User” to save any changes

If a volunteer is no longer able to help out with a specific opportunity, you can remove them from the signup list. Click “Opportunities” from the Volunteer Management menu Find the opportunity you need to remove the volunteer from Click the opportunity to edit Scroll down to the RSVP list, find the volunteer’s name and click “Remove RSVP” Confirm their removal by clicking the blue “Remove RSVP” button You can also remove the RSVP through that individual volunteer’s profile.

If you have a recurring opportunity where different people will sign up each time, we recommend creating a one-time opportunity for each date and time. That will allow you to track the RSVPs separately. If the recurring opportunity will have the same volunteers each time, we recommend creating one flexible volunteer opportunity.

There are three options for handling volunteer signups within the plugin: Use the built-in volunteer signup form which includes name, phone number and email address fields. This form can be modified, but only through code using the PHP template files included inside the plugin. Choose the option not to show a form, then manually embed a third-party form within the content of each volunteer opportunity. If you’re utilizing the Gravity Forms plugin, you can show a form you’ve built within your volunteer opportunities. Information can be passed into the volunteer management system using a form…