We’ve been hard at work focusing on making Charitable easier to use, especially for new users – and also including some nice behind-the-scenes updates for more experienced users and developers. That’s why we’re excited to announce the new updates to Charitable!

Charitable Checklist

New users can go through a checklist to familiarize themselves with Charitable and create their first campaign as quickly as possible.

This checklist will provide an overview of Charitable while allowing you to confirm and update general settings, as well as enable emails and hook up your payment gateway (we highly recommend using Stripe, which can be done directly from the checklist page itself).

If you’re looking for a quick way to get an overview of what Charitable can do for you and launch your first campaign fast, give the checklist a try.

We hope this new onboarding feature helps make using Charitable a better experience. If you have feedback or questions about this, please let us know.

(Improved) Guided Tour of Visual Campaign Builder

In 1.8.1.4 of Charitable, we introduced a guided tour of the visual campaign builder. In 1.8.2 we gave it a polish based on our testing and feedback from users – you could say it’s a “version 2” of the guided tour. It is more interactive and highlights areas that new users should know about. The tour also improves for users in additional browsers and screen sizes.

Donation Button Shortcode

If you work with shortcodes and just need a simple button, then the new[charitable_donate_button] shortcode allows you to display a button or link to a campaign. You can read up on the parameters you can pass into it – and we plan on turning this into a block (for the WordPress block editor) in the future.

Other Updates

Outside of what I just mentioned above, here’s a list of items that are a part of the “changelog” for 1.8.2.

• NEW: Warning messages for admin users – in the gateway settings page and viewing donation forms (as admins) – if Stripe is enabled, but no keys are detected.
• NEW: Dashboard notifications for important messages and notices.
• NEW: Added ‘charitable_email_fields_donation_field_value’ filter which can help with the output of custom field values in emails.
• NEW: Campaigns shortcode now has a new “description_limit” parameter that limits words displayed from the campaign description.
• NEW: Added both a filter and an option (in beta) in the general setting tab to disable showing a login form or registration reminder on donation forms. We have a new doc page that covers the details.
• UPDATED: Improved tour guide for visual campaign builder with more interactivity and showing more elements.
• UPDATED: Campaigns shortcode now displays a photo and campaign description from campaigns built with the visual builder.
• UPDATED: Moved “Categories”, “Tags”, and “Customize” menus from the main menu. Now found in the Charitable -> “Tools” page.
• FIX: Adjusted appearance of the donation button in Youth Sports campaign theme when modal button setting was on.
• FIX: Resolved an issue with the donation summary field for the visual campaign builder involving showing/hiding items.
• FIX: Resolved several instances where donation amounts were not being formatted currently in non-English languages in the reporting screens.
• FIX: Improved loading for the WordPress dashboard widget.
• FIX: Adjustments to CSS on the Dashboard page.
• FIX: Minor translation, misc CSS, UI, and PHP coding updates.

And There You Have It!

Want to start benefiting from the latest version of Charitable? Head to your site and update Charitable to the latest version.

And if you’re not using Charitable yet, this can be the perfect time to start!

Get Charitable Pro for your site today to grow your donations with the best WordPress donation plugin on the market.

Of course, we can’t end this without thanking our awesome community for making this update possible. We’re truly grateful for your continued support and feedback.

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(Hint: We’ve got more updates and surprises coming up for you, so stay tuned!)

David Bisset Project Manager

David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.

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