Donations: an update

Posted on May 1 2020

I wrote about the new donations box on this blog yesterday, but had to say that at that time it was not live. Getting it embedded properly took a little longer than expected.

I am pleased to say that the box is now live, and works. And I am grateful to those who donated yesterday. Their donations more than covered the cost of adding the option. I am reassured by that.

As requested, the option to pay via PayPal and direct by bank transfer has also been added. I am aware that many do not want to provide card details online.

There are, however, still some bugs left on the blog at this moment. If you use the search facility right now you will, for example, get a response saying you have crashed the blog. You won't have done, thankfully. But you won't get your results either. Quite a lot of behind the scenes updating has gone on in the last day or so. I hope that's the last bug to be sorted. I hope it will happen today. Thanks for your patience.

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13 Responses

  1. anon says:
    May 1 2020 at 8:53 am

    Good to see this working now. However, I can’t seem to enter a “Custom Amount”….. so I think there is still a minor glitch (or is it me?).

  2. Bob Edwards says:
    May 1 2020 at 10:11 am

    I want to set up a monthly donation for a custom amount.

    Two observations:

    1. When I enter a custom amount I cannot see what I have entered, its as if the font is coloured white. If I double click on the amount I can see the numbers in relief.

    2. I added card details etc and even though the post code entered is correct your form shows that the post code is incorrect?

    Accordingly, the monthly donation is presently pending. I will make a bank transfer for my first donation, but can you ask your developer what I need to do to complete the monthly donation.

    • Richard Murphy says:
      May 1 2020 at 10:19 am

      Bob

      With my developer now…

      I’d already found the white text issue

      He promises me fixes soon

      What’s irritating is we bought a well-reviewed and used package to avoid these issues….

      That’s IT

      Thanks for trying

      Richard

  3. Bob Edwards says:
    May 1 2020 at 10:28 am

    Let me know when and if I need to update details to complete the monthly arrangement.

    First one-off bank transfer has been made.

  4. Craig Sykes says:
    May 1 2020 at 11:20 am

    Monthly donation set up. Hope it helps.

    I’m a bit disappointed I’m not getting a key ring…..only joking:-)

    Seriously, keep up the great work and hope it does have an impact.

    Craig

  5. sickoftaxdodgers says:
    May 3 2020 at 11:53 am

    Richard, I’ve just tried twice to set up a monthly donation , once by offline method (I assume this means bank transfer), and when I got a message saying you must donate more than £0.00, I tried to do the same thing by credit card. However, I got the same message.

    Have I missed something?