Grassroots – Campaign Widget on home page…

[Stanley Sneed]

I like your Grassroots theme. I think it will fit the needs of the organization I am trying to help. Two issues. I read your answer to a question about replicating what you have done in the demo. I have added the WooCommerce widget, but I cannot find the setting for the widget. I see the edit on the plugin page, but nothing under settings or any other option to setup Woocampaign. Help me with this.

On you demo you have banner like images between pages. How did you do that?

Thanks in advance.
Stan

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning Stan,

Thank you for your business. I do appreciate it. Great questions too. The campaign plugin is an extension of the WooCommerce plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/). It’s the shopping cart that allows for users to actually place donations (orders) via your website. The campaign plugin allows you to turn products into campaigns and will track the actual progress made towards a goal.

Once you’ve installed and activated WooCommerce you’ll be able to create a product and set it as a campaign. The widget allows you to display a campaign like the demo does. You can find the documentation for the extension at https://support.organizedthemes.com/campaign-extension/ to help you get started with it.

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In the theme options there is a section for customizing the home page. It’ll allow you to add background images and set colors for each of the widget areas that make up the home page. The background images on the home page of the demo have been added that way. The widget that says “Together we’ve raised millions to help organizations all over the globe!” is set that way as is one with “You have an organization to run. Stop worrying about your website and go with Grassroots today!” near the bottom.

Both of those have the image set to “cover” for its size. That will ensure that the background image fills the row. The bottom one is set to be fixed in place instead of scrolling. That allows content to flow on top of it.

If you have any questions, just let me know.

Have a great Saturday,
Bill

[Stanley Sneed]

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[Bill Robbins]

Hi Stanley,

Looking at the attached screenshot there, I’m not seeing Woocommerce installed and activated. Without it, my WooCommerce – Campaigns extension will not be able to work. It relies on lots of functionality in WooCommerce to operate.

If you need me to install it for you, I can. Just send over a login and I’ll take care of it.

Thanks,
Bill

[Stanley Sneed]

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[Bill Robbins]

Hi Stan,

Thanks for sending over the login. Here’s what I did. I deactivated all the plugins on the site and then install WooCommerce. It installed successfully. Then I activated the previously deactivated plugins, one by one until I came to W3 Total Cache. When I activated it, that’s when I received a 500 internal server error.

Most likely there is a conflict between that plugin’s configuration, the server configuration and WooCommerce. Precisely what, I do not know at this point. W3 Total Cache can be a good plugin, but it can also be a bit temperamental.

Since you won’t need caching until the site is ready to go live, I would delete it’s folder via FTP. Get everything else squared away. Then at that point, look at caching. There are some pages that you’ll need to exclude from caching (https://docs.woothemes.com/document/configuring-caching-plugins/) in order to make everything work properly.

The server’s error log should have some guidance on exactly what is causing the internal server error. We can look at that too to get to the bottom of it.

See if removing W3 for the time being won’t allow you to go forward. Let me know what you turn up.

Bill

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