Usage - wpmudev/fundraising GitHub Wiki

Welcome to the fundraising wiki! Got some fundraising planned, need an easy system for accepting donations? This is the plugin for you!

To Get Started:

Once you've followed the instructions below you can reference the Fundraiser Doc for more info on using the plugin.  You can get it here:

Fundraiser Doc PDF

Introduction

Check out our introductory video to help get you started with Fundraising.

Recently Added Features

As of version 2.5 of Fundraising, you can now edit & tweak access to fundraising features for every user role available in your WP installation. Administrator gets access to all of them by default. fundraising-2500-permissions

To Install:

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress Manual if you are new to WordPress. 1. Download the plugin file. 2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive 3. Upload /fundraising / folder to **/wp-content/plugins/**folder on your site.

  • If you are new to all this and want to learn more about FTP, just pop over here: Using FTP - Click Here
  • Thats a complete walk through of uploading to your web hosting account.
  1. Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:
  • On regular WordPress installs - visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
  • For WordPress Multisite installs - Activate it blog-by-blog (say if you wanted to make it a Supporter premium plugin), or visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.

When WordPress is run in Multisite mode you can network activate this plugin. There are no network settings, the plugin will function on all sub sites independently.

Note for BuddyPress Users

If you have BuddyPress activated on your site or network, please remember to visit the Pages tab of your BuddyPress settings to assign a page for your Fundraisers.