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This week at CiviHosting, we are working on automating US Tax form generation for one of our clients. They need to generate a certain Form for their clients, depending on financial criteria for each client. They have been doing this by hand. Now we have it automated for them.

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We sent out emails with the following text to a set of our clients: Hello, We are writing to let you know about a recently-disclosed vulnerability in one of the WordPress plugins installed on your website – “Profile Builder”. You can find more information here: https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c142e738-bc4b-4058-a03e-1be6fca47207 Due to the severity of the vulnerability and their high potential impact, we proactively upgraded the plugin on your website to the latest stable version provided by the vendor to protect your website from hacking attacks. The vulnerabilities are already being exploited in the wild, so it was only a matter of time before a hack attempt was made against your website as well.… Read More

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There was a recently discovered serious vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin: Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk. You can rad the full report here: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/05/sql-injection-vulnerability-patched-in-cleantalk-antispam-plugin/ Due to the severity of the vulnerability and its high potential impact, we proactively upgraded this plugin on all websites on our servers to the latest stable version provided by the vendor to protect them from hacking attacks. The vulnerability is already being exploited in the wild, so it was only a matter of time before a hack attempt was made sites on our servers. We then contacted the owners of all affected sites individually.

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PHP 8.0 is now available on all CiviHosting servers. To test PHP 8 on your account, you can easily change the PHP version via the hosting Control Panel > PHP settings tab. You can control the PHP version of each subdomain separately. Enjoy. 🙂

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To copy a site on our servers, whether from one account to another, or from a different subdomains within the same account, is not hard. You indeed must have some technical skills, but beyond that, the process is fairly straightforward. The first step is to copy the files and also the databases. The files can be copied within the same account directly in the File Manager. To copy from a separate account, you would want to download a backup archive of the files and then upload that to the new account. To copy the database, in the same account, you can select the source database in phpMyAdmin and click on… Read More

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The CiviCRM Installation Guide for Drupal 9 says to run these three lines of code: composer config extra.enable-patching true composer require civicrm/civicrm-asset-plugin:’~1.1′ composer require civicrm/civicrm-{core,packages,drupal-8}:’~5.39′ We edited that last one to end with the latest version of CiviCRM, which today is 5.39, but anyhow if you run these commands today, on the second and third you will see this error: $ composer require civicrm/civicrm-{core,packages,drupal-8}:’~5.34′ ./composer.json has been updated Running composer update civicrm/civicrm-core civicrm/civicrm-packages civicrm/civicrm-drupal-8 Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages. Problem 1 – Root composer.json requires civicrm/civicrm-core ~5.34 -> satisfiable by civicrm/civicrm-core[5.34.0]. – civicrm/civicrm-core 5.34.0 requires… Read More

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This week one of our clients asked if we could help to convert a large Word document to MediaWiki pages. His document was separated into 30 small “chapters” and he wanted each one to be its own page. We said no problem and we converted that for him, including footnotes. How did we do it? Good question. First trick is to open the file in LibreOffice Writer. Next is to copy and past one chapter into another document and then you can export that in MediaWiki format. Do that 30 times and now you have 30 text files. But they have some garbage “anchor” code that comes out ugly red… Read More

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We have now had our third client complaint that public CiviCRM pages don’t work — no data appears on the page. We investigated and could not find a cause. Two clients said that Event pages didn’t work and one said that a Contribution page didn’t work. The solution we can offer for such cases is to use a regular WordPress “Page” for the Event Info page and include there a link to another regular WordPress “Page” which will be the Event Registration page. The trick is that in this Event Registration page we put in a shortcode like this: [civicrm component=”event” action=”register” id=”16″] This is valid to do as CiviCRM… Read More

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CiviCRM uses the URL: /libraries/civicrm/extern/soap.php for unsubscribe links and other tools. On a default Drupal 8 install, such a URL is blocked by the .htaccess file. To fix that, add these lines: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/authorizeIPN.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/cxn.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/ipn.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/open.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/pxIPN.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/rest.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/soap.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/url.php$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/libraries/civicrm/extern/widget.php$ to that file just after this line: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/core/modules/statistics/statistics.php$ That should fix it.

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A client contacted recently to ask for help in automating data entry to their Google Spreadsheets. They were copying and pasting information from form submissions, and also donations, into their spreadsheets manually. They hired us for a few hours of labor and we used the Google Sheets API and set up for them a system to automate all of those tasks. We then added also features for them via Google’s Gmail API. They investment they made will pay for itself soon as these tools will now save them hours of labor each week.

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