The Verowa WordPress plugin is a new way to show data from your Verowa.ch instance to the world.
Verowa is a swiss management software for churches and parishes. Verowa connects your team, manages your rooms and equipment, helps to plan events like church services or meetings and organizes your ads, office weeks and much more. Verowa keeps you informed of subsequent changes and also keeps your webpage content up to date with this plugin.
This WordPress plugin is connecting with the Verowa API. To use it on your WordPress project you need to obtain an instance of Verowa and an API key. Please visit the Verowa website (in german) and contact us to get started.
Subscriptions
With Verowa Connect visitors of your website can subscribe to certain events. The number of seats can be limited an Verowa can provide a waiting list automatically if needed. Subscription forms may contain a large variety of input fields. The visitor’s data will be sent directly to Verowa where you can view and edit each individual subscription. (These options require the Verowa subscription module.)
Room Reservations
Verowa Connect can display complex room reservation forms, so your visitors can apply for rooms, devices and services. Verowa automatically sends confirmation mails and shows the data in a neat overview for you to check. Once approved one click changes the form data to a Verowa event. (These options require the Verowa room reservation module.)
Screenshots
The Verowa options panel
How can I style the event list according to my wishes?
The Verowa templates are very powerful and act like a serial letter: Just enter your desired HTML code and include the provided placeholders like TITLE, LOCATION or DATE_FROM_LONG. For the complete list of placeholders visit the Verowa Connect documentation (in german).
Does Verowa Connect run without a Verowa license?
No. Consider this plugin as a connection between WordPress and Verowa. It stores the data in a couple of custom tables in the WP database to run even if the Verowa server is down. However all data is imported from Verowa or the webforms and cannot be typed in manually in some backend.
Subscriptions: Can I filter the listed events?
Yes. The easiest way to show only certain events is to make a list in Verowa and add the list’s ID as an attribute to your shortcode (e.g. [verowa_subscriptions_form id=34]).
I have a problem, who should I contact?
Call us directly at +41 52 551 04 40.
For specific questions about the WordPress plugin please write an e-mail to support@verowa.ch.
ChangeLog
2.14.0
- Added: The attribute
filter for the shortcode [verowa_event_list] to restrict the results according to list IDs.
- Added: Support for related fields in room reservation and subscription forms.
- Added: Ability to add additional CSS classes to fields of room reservation and subscription forms.
- Added: Placeholders
BUSINESS_PHONE_NUMBER, BUSINESS_MOBILE_NUMBER, PRIVATE_PHONE_NUMBER and PRIVATE_MOBILE_NUMBER for single person pages.
2.13.2
- Bugfix: Display errors for events or people if widget and content templates are active at the same time.
- Bugfix: Layer selections for events are displayed again.
2.13.1
- Added: Shortcodes
[verowa_urlencode] and [verowa_encode_link].
- Added: Placeholders
DATETIME_FROM_UTC and DATETIME_TO_UTC for event templates.
- Added: Agenda JS scripts for multi-site installations.
- Bugfix: Toggle function of event list.
- Bugfix: Template table extension.
2.13.0
- Added: Nested templates to display rosters.
- Added: Event placeholder
LIST_IDS for if-statements in templates.
- Added: Template option to display all events of the current day.
- Added: If saving a subscription or room rental fails, an error message is displayed to the user.
- Bugfix: The error message above the subscription form is no longer displayed twice.
2.12.2
- Improved: Agenda fulltext search.
- Bugfix: Display agenda datetime on mobile devices.
2.12.1
- Bugfix: Reading the agenda filter during the plugin update caused an error.
2.12.0
- Added: Event placeholders to display the Datetime.
- Added: GET parameters for agenda:
vcat, vq und vdate.
- Improved: The shortcode
[verowa_roster_entries] no longer displays a title.
- Improved: Lesser API calls for better performance.
- Improved: Templates are loaded via WP cache.
2.11.5
- Improved: Lesser API calls when multiple verowa events are updated at once.
2.11.4
- Bugfix: Insert query for the person groups.
2.11.3
- Added: Update post content when the template is updated.
- Improved: Lesser API calls for better performance.
2.11.2
- Bugfix: Public events without list IDs are assigned correctly to their target groups and layer IDs.
2.11.1
- Added: Placeholder
PERSON_ID for person details.
- Added:
[verowa_event_list ...]: Shows notification when handle_full is set and no events have been received.
- Bugfix: Import persons related with events.
2.11.0
- Added: New shortcode
[verowa_image] to display a person’s image.
- Improved: Each Verowa template supports shortcodes.
- Change: Shortcode
[verowa_agenda_dynamic] replaced by [verowa_agenda].
- Change: Shortcode
[verowa_event_liste_dynamic] was obsolete and has been deleted. Use [verowa_agenda] instead.
2.10.0
- Added: Roster list and first roster entry support templates.
- Added: Javascript validation for subscription Form.
- Change: Shortcode
[verowa_print_subscriptions_form] deleted.
- Change: Renamed the shortcode
[verowa_subscriptions_form] to [verowa_subscription_form].
- Change: Renamed the shortcode
[verowa_subscriptions_response] to [verowa_subscription_confirmation].
- Change: Renamed the shortcode
[verowa_subscriptions_validation_anmeldung] to [verowa_subscription_validation].
- Change: Renamed the shortcode
[verowa_print_subscriptions_form] to [verowa_subscription_overview].
2.9.2
- Added: Javascript validation for renting form.
- Added: Multiple selections in the forms for subscriptions and room reservations support the options “min” and “max” selected items.
2.9.1
- Added: WP 6.0.0 and PHP 8.1.4 support.
- Added: LiteSpeed support.
- Change: Placeholder
LOCATION_WITH_ROOM needs a label e.g “Location”.
- Change: Placeholder
CALENDAR_EXPORT has been removed, replace it with e.g. “Calendar export”.
- Change: Placeholder
HAS_PRIVATE_ADDRESS returns 1 instead of “Private:” for more easier use.
- Change: Placeholder
HAS_BUSINESS_ADDRESS returns 1 instead of “Business:” for more easier use.
- Refactoring: Renting forms
2.9.0
- Added: Full text search in agenda.
- Added: Placeholders for additional text fields (
ADD_TEXT_1..4).
- Added: Detail pages of past Verowa events remain accessible via direct link for several days to support outdated newsletter links.
- Added: Verowa events and persons can be excluded for search engine indexes.
- Added: Verowa events have the meta tag “unavailable after” for robots.
- Improved: Deprecated Verowa options removed.
- Bugfix: Delete the temporary user data for the subscription form and the room reservation form
2.8.11
- Improved: New DB update logic after plugin update.
- Improved: The agenda’s output buffer got removed to prevent memory overflow.
- Bugfix: The date-time picker in the agenda shows the icons again.
- Refactoring of person functions.
2.8.10
- Bugfix: Phone number validation.
- Bugfix: Update event and person posts after changing the corresponding template.
2.8.8 / 2.8.9
2.8.7
- Improved: When a subscription form cannot be fetched via the API it is loaded from the database cache.
- Bugfix: Display room names.
2.8.6
- Bugfix: Navigation error on new custom post type.
- Refactoring
2.8.5
- Added: PHP 8 support
- Added: Verowa events and persons are also stored as custom post type “verowa_event” and “verowa_person”.
- Improved: Form error messages are now displayed below the affected input field.
- Improved: Use of $_SESSION removed.
- Change: Personal details and event details pages must be deleted.
- Refactoring
2.8.4
- Bugfix: Subscription add person.
- Bugfix: Add further persons.
- Bugfix: Shortcode
[verowa_event_liste_dynamic title].
2.8.2 / 2.8.3
2.8.1
- Added: Update list event mapping on post save.
- Bugfixes: Several warnings and notices.
2.8.0
- Improved: Lesser calls to the Verowa API for better performance.
- Added: Template placeholder for events:
LOCATION.
- Bugfixes: Several warnings and notices.
- Refactoring
2.7.2
- Bugfix: Plugin Activation Error: “Headers Already Sent”.
2.7.1
- Added: New template placeholder for persons:
PERSONAL_URL.
- Added: Extracted Verowa IDs in widget are stored in widget_text.
- Change: The template placeholder
SERVICE_4_PERSONS requires a label.
2.7.0
- Improved: Event IDs used in widget are also included when querying the event.
- Change: Subscription buttons in the agenda are displayed without the subscription date.
- Change: Subscription option: new delimiter
|| instead of ;.
- Bugfix: Subscription from.
- Refactoring
2.6.3
- Added: With Flexy Breadcrumb, the breadcrumbs are displayed accordingly in the person and event details.
- Added: The improved agenda supports the GET parameter
cat for categories.
- Bugfix: Subscription form radio button default values and drop-down lists.
2.6.2
- Added: Verowa templates can now be duplicated.
- Added: New “html” field type for renting forms.
- Bugfix: Renting forms.
2.6.1
- Added: Verowa Template Editor
- Improved: On activation the plugin creates the generic detail pages for persons and events automatically.
- Bugfix: Sublayer ids
2.5.0
- Added: Live updates: Verowa event changes can be pushed to Verowa Connect and are immediately updated in the WPDB. Requires Verowa to be configured accordingly.
2.4.1 / 2.4.2
2.4.0
- Improved: Lesser requests to the Verowa API for better performance.
- Bugfix: Event and person updates.
2.3.2-4
- Bugfix: Display persons and events.
- Minor bugfixes and refactoring.
2.3.0
- Improved: The agenda filters are now persistent and the scroll position is maintained.
- Bugfix: Error messages for checkboxes in renting forms can be configured.
- Bugfix: Backlinks.
- Added: New placeholders for events:
ORGANIZER_NAME, COORGANIZER_NAMES.
2.2.1
- Added: New input fields, e.g. date and time, for subscription and renting forms.
- Improved: The subscription and renting forms use the same input control class.
- Refactoring
2.2.0
- Added: The former separate plugin “Verowa Subscriptions” has been integrated to Verowa Connect.
- Improved: renting forms.
- Refactoring
2.1.0
- Added: New HTML templates for event details, person details, event lists and person lists. After updating you need to select four default templates in the options for the shortcodes to work.
- Added: New event widget, similar to the person widget.
- Improved: Events, persons and person groups are now stored in the WPDB. They are automatically updated hourly via a cron job.
2.0.5
- Added: Event and person details are now displayed through pages with shortcodes:
[verowa_generate_post_event], [verowa_generate_post_person].
- Added: New rules are automatically added to the htaccess file upon plugin update.
- Added: List title, max amount of events and max days in advance can be adjusted while editing a page.
- Added: Shortcode to display the event lists:
[verowa_event_list]. The deprecated shortcodes are automatically directed to the new one.
- Refactoring
2.0.4
- Added: Buttons now lead directly to the subscription form in the agenda.
- Improved: Support for smaller person pictures in pages, events and group-pages.
- Bugfix: Preselected list for sorting the agenda works again.
2.0.3
- Bugfix: Slashes in captions no longer cause trouble.
2.0.2
- Change: Person’s HTML structure improved.
2.0.1
- Added: Runs now on PHP 7.4.
2.0.0
- Added: New shortcode:
verowa-first-roster-entry.
- Change: Code for localization refactored.
- Change: Roster functionality refactored.
1.9.5
- Added: an option to show/hide the event organizer in event lists and detail pages.
- Bugfixes and broad refactoring.
1.9.1
- Change: This version merges several forks that had hard coded values and altered features. It brings the plugin back to an equal code base.
- Change: The plugin folder’s name has changed from “verowa-connect-plugin” to “verowa-connect”.
