ICF Church

Last month we made a lot of small improvements and solved some bugs. We added the language switcher to the profile dropdown to help change the language faster, we added the possibility to add the thumbnail to the resource detail page, and we solved several thumbnail bugs to bring that to the next level. 🚀

As always we also integrated a few other things, changed small stuff, and solved different bugs ✌️

We will stay tuned and keep you up-to-date!
If you have any feedback contact us or post your request directly to our EQUIP Roadmap

Your Digital Team 😊

We've been hard at work behind the scenes, and we're excited to bring you some significant updates! In this release, we've undertaken a major refactor of one of our core backend modules: users/identities and user import. This overhaul has led to significant enhancements in both stability and user-friendliness. The user import process is now considerably more stable, boasts improved input validation, and introduces the ability to preview and edit changes before finalizing the import. And the best part? It's now asynchronous, making the whole experience smoother! 😃

That's not all! We're thrilled to announce the introduction of a CDN (Content Delivery Network) service for lightning-fast image delivery. This translates to a remarkable 4-5 times improvement in frontend loading speed. Plus, there's no need to go through the hassle of optimizing your images with tools like squoosh.app before uploading them to huulo! Booom!!!

Our board module has also undergone a transformation, effectively replacing sli.do. You can now pin board entries to the top of the list and archive them, whether you're in the frontend or the backend. Say goodbye to additional services for your event's Q&A sessions – huulo has you covered!

Here's a brief overview of additional improvements:

• Program Item Filters: We've added filters to the backend's program page, making it easier to sort through your program items.
• Flexible Post Publishing: You can now publish a post with or without a push notification.
• Custom Styling: We've introduced the ability to incorporate an external CSS file to tailor the appearance of the huulo web app according to your preferences.
• Enhanced Linking: Enjoy the newfound flexibility of adding external or internal links to activity categories, activities, and info categories. This feature empowers you to organize your data within huulo in diverse ways. For instance, an activity category can be linked to a speaker, a board, an info item, a custom page, another activity category, and much more.

Highlight:
Last month marked a milestone in our journey, with a record-breaking number of active users. On one particular day in October, we had over 2000 daily active users, and in the last 30 days, more than 11,000 users have engaged with huulo!

What's Next:
We're currently dedicated to improving our API. Our ultimate aim is to enhance data management and enable seamless integration between huulo and other services. There are already exciting features like "User Passes" available, exclusively accessible via the API. Stay tuned for further updates!

As always, if you have any questions or need assistance, our team is here to support you. Feel free to reach out to us at support@huulo.io.

Thank you for choosing huulo – we're committed to delivering exceptional experiences and continually enhancing our platform for you. 😜

With these two releases, we have finally managed to activate the PDF Preview for Mobile and desktop so that you can preview PDF documents on EQUIP before downloading them. 📑 ⬇️

We also integrated a few other things, changed small stuff, and solved different bugs ✌️

We will stay tuned and keep you up-to-date!
Your Digital Team 😊

Dear huulo users!

Today, we are really happy to announce that we could finally implement push notification in huulo!! After a long wait, Apple decided to support this feature in iOS 16.4. 🚀

We also improved the new post module. You can now not only schedule posts, but also tag them for certain user groups.

The new board module is still beta, but we still decided to release it early. With this module, you can easily build your own boards like: feedback board, Q/A board, prayer walls etc. You can also sort entries by either date or reaction!

There is a lot more… Like the new mailer (Communication → Send Emails) or the new series feature in the program!

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated! And if you have any questions we are here to help (support@huulo.io)!

Dear huulo users!

Today, we are really happy to announce that we could finally implement push notification in huulo!! After a long wait, Apple decided to support this feature in iOS 16.4. 🚀

We also improved the new post module. You can now not only schedule posts, but also tag them for certain user groups.

The new board module is still beta, but we still decided to release it early. With this module, you can easily build your own boards like: feedback board, Q/A board, prayer walls etc. You can also sort entries by either date or reaction!

There is a lot more… Like the new mailer (Communication → Send Emails) or the new series feature in the program!

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated! And if you have any questions we are here to help (support@huulo.io)!

WE ARE CELEBRATING A NEW EQUIP UPDATE ❤️🎉

We did it again! We have published a major update of EQUIP - We now have Favorites!

You can now:

🤝 Save your favorite resources as favorites
🙌 See an overview of your favorites in your profile at any time
✌️ You can filter & sort your favorites
👏 You can recognize your favorites anywhere on EQUIP by the ❤️

Test the new feature
👉 https://icf.church/equip

Have fun 🎉
Your Digital Team

With these three updates, we switched our picture hosting from tiny.pictures to imgix to save money. We also integrated a few other things, changed small stuff, and solved different bugs.

We are excited to announce the release of some amazing new features that will enhance your user experience. All of them will really help you managing content and keep your users up to date. We really love our new Unsplash integration! With Unsplash 📸 you can quickly add images to your app and it will save you a lot of time managing your content. 😜

Hey ICF Web Admins ✌️

We have an update for you 🥳 In the past years, there have been some changes in the digital area of the ICF Movement, and it was unclear where to report an issue or question and who is the right person to be contacted.

That's why we have now integrated "HelpScout" in the backend. With this form, you can reach our support team, and you always know where to place your website questions & problems.

In addition, we have recently updated the plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-salesforce-crmperks/).

Greetings from Zurich

A lot has happened since our last release. That's why we're also combining versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1 & 2.2.0 here.

The Profile Page and the Church Invite Page have been completely renewed. Everything is now easier to navigate, more beautiful, mobile-friendly, and has several more functions. Feel free to test the new functions https://icf.church/equip.

We also have a new view for resources 🎉 You can now look at the resources in a table view and easily filter and sort them. The resources are now also displayed on several pages.

We were able to fix some bugs and also implemented some new things. You can see the complete list below if you are interested in the details.

Have fun ✌️

We're excited to announce a lot of new features! Most notably, our app menu is now fully customizable, giving you even greater control over your app. We've also added custom pages, which means that you can create your own app pages tailored to your unique needs. And that's not all - we're thrilled to let you know that a new start page and news feed module is coming soon, which will keep your users up to date on all the latest happenings at your event.

We can't wait for you to check out all these new features and give us feedback. And yes, we also added a handy icon picker… 😜

🤩 A NEW LOOK FOR EQUIP! 🤩

For some time now, we’ve been working on something exciting in the background. 

We are thrilled to finally be able to present EQUIP to you in its new design. It has never been easier to find inspiring resources for your church on our platform! 

From now on, you can also use EQUIP cleanly on your mobile. 
We hope you like the improved platform! 👏

This is one of the biggest releases so far! 🚀 We upgraded the whole backend of the huulo platform to a new version of the framework. After several months of hard work and more than 400 (!) commits later we finally pushed the new release into production. If you have any problems, please let us know (support@huulo.io). We also did some small changes here and there to improve usability.

It was quite in the last few months but as always a lot was going on… :-) Here the latest changes:

• We re-engineered our infrastructure to improve scalability and performance
• We now support the frontend as a PWA out of the box! Hurra!! 🎉
• We can now autom. connect custom domains without manual steps involved from our side.
• We developed a new module called “connect” - more about this coming soon.
• We almost finished the branding/pricing process and can soon announce the product under the new name and look! Stay tuned!

Hello there!

If you're here, it's most likely you are interested in what ICF is doing in the digital world. We're excited you're here - and would love to get to know you more!

We launched a discord server that allows us all to come together and discuss all things technologies and church - and you're invited! Feel free to join!

👉 https://digital.icf.church/community 👈

We're looking forward to meeting you there!

We now have a newsticker functionality!

When this plugin is enabled, it adds a new menu bar for creating newsticker entries. Those are shown on the front page below the header area, allowing you to show the latest news to your users!

The newsticker entries can have a start/end date and time, and can link to a configured URL. If used in conjunction with the Pagevideo plugin, the video height will not cover the newsticker, so everything is visible without scrolling. You can even set the background color under "Theme Options -> Home"!

Also, make sure your newstickers are not too long, otherwise it gets really hard to read on mobile. 😉

New stuff! All Flama fonts are now available in CSS (especially useful in combination with the ability for global CSS)

Also we added the Progress Meter Gravity Forms Add-On, that shows progress bars for reaching our donation goal to the Ukraine.

New and fresh look - our front page now features an awesome fullscreen video background! ✨🎥🤩

We added the possibility to upload an MP4 video to any (yes, any!) page that replaces the default header image with a fullscreen video background. Feel free to try it out for yourself by enabling the "Avantgarde-Pagevideo" plugin! Then you can set the page video via the meta box when editing the page.

A couple of things to keep in mind when using this feature:

• Create an engaging videoclip that shows many different aspects of your church

• Don't make the clip longer than 10-15 seconds

• Export it with strong compression to get the file size under 4MB if possible

  • We use Adobe Media Encoder
  • Resolution: 1920x1080
  • Codec: H.264
  • then play with the bitrate to get below 4MB

• Upload the clip to our website directly on the "Edit page" page in the Pagevideo box

Having the transparent menu as default on all pages worked great - except when it didn't. We were often setting an image on a page, only to notice that the white menu becomes invisible on a white sky in the image. That's not only frustrating to us but also to users, especially considering accessibility!

Well, now the transparent menu is set only on the front page by default - but worry not, you can get it to show on any page by selecting the correct page template. That's what you call a "best of both worlds" solution. 😉

Also minor update to lazyloaded YouTube embeds: sometimes YouTube doesn't supply a FullHD thumbnail - we now use the fallback image in that case.

Some information behind the scenes:
We migrated our Check-in Church server to our new infrastructure. This allows us to more easily manage the check-in service with our standard tools and provide a stable and secure environment.

We also tackled some minor bugs and upgraded the application to PHP 7.4. This leads to some performance improvements.

If you miss any features or have any ideas to improve the service please let us know! :-)

It's now possible to enter custom CSS code in the theme options that is embedded on your entire instance! This allows for easier styling of sub-brands like ICF Oneighty, YouthPlanet or College.

With a brand new interface and an improved look and feel, the new Gravity Forms Update feels long overdue. (Of course, it's still not perfect, but a great step in the right direction 😉)

Just a quick warning about the Currency Selector: It doesn't work properly if currencies have different decimal separators (e.g. 19,99 € vs CHF 19.99). This was the case before the update and remains, unfortunately. Bug is filed with plugin developers.

It's not even been 3 months since the last release but there are already 185 new commits in the code! :-) Tja, our annual ICF Conference is always a big booster for new features and ideas. Let's start:

We added the first API endpoint to create new users. And there are already some nice things like: sign-up the user to an activity or tag the user. Use Zapier or other automation tools to combine e.g. your forms with the endpoint and automate even more!

We also added webhooks! Connect the Event App CMS with endless other tools (e.g. via Zapier) and integrate it with your existing systems. Just one example: Send a webhook to Zapier and use Twillio (SMS provider) to send a text message to the user after the registration has been completed. Or an email. Or send the data into a Google Sheet. Or both ... endless options! 🥳

Next. Custom domains! 🎉 This is big. Make your event app available under your own domain e.g. app.mychurch.com or icfconference.app etc. You can also upload your own favicon now.

There have been a lot of smaller improvements and fixes to make the whole platform more robust. We are still working on integrating a PWA version of the frontend. The current version is only a SPA. What's the different?! We won't go into that - too technical... but PWA is better! 🤓

Please let us know if you have any feature requests or feedback! And we hope you like the new backend design... Cu! 🤙🏻

It's been a while since the last release. But we got some nice updates in the last few weeks. The biggest of all: we improved the design for desktop users. Till now the webapp didn't look quite nice on desktops. It was streched and clumpsy. When we did the new design last year we focused on mobile users. Now the booklet looks the same on desktops. :-) Open our church webapp on a desktop to check it out: https://icf.app

With many videos embedded on a page, YouTube Embeds can REALLY slow loading times down. The new content block "YouTube (lazyloaded)" avoids that entirely by using a small library that renders the video thumbnail as an image, and only loads the iFrame once the user clicks on it.

In other words: a page with >30 videos now takes a couple of seconds to load, down from minutes (!) of loading time! ⚡️

Hey there, and welcome back!

It's been a really long time since you last heard from us. Sorry about that. We did however try to make this release count - and we think we did just that! 💪

While it might seem like a minor thing, actually improving the search makes all the difference for the user. You see, searching is at the core of almost all online behaviour. There's a reason that "googling" has become a verb, and I always chuckle when I hear sentences like "Just Google it on YouTube!" (which is technically less wrong than it first sounds - but I disgress... 🤔)

We wanted to give our users the search experience they deserve and are used to on the internet, which is far more difficult than it first sounds - if we try to do it ourselves. Our search worked, and mostly returned the results one would expect - but the performance was, let's say, mediocre at best. 😐 We spent a lot of time investigating what could be improved to boost performance - and I mean a LOT of time - without much success. After all, building search is not easy. ... or is it?

Enter Algolia!

Algolia offers a hosted search API for sites like ours to use. Basically we just provide the data to be searched, and they handle the actual search request - complete with typo tolerance, custom rankings and more advanced features like synonyms or rules. All those features are nice and all - but they're not what we were after. Our #1 priority was improving the performance of our search, while still making sure our users receive the results they'd expect. That was our requirement to Algolia... and boy, did they deliver! It's not just fast, it's - well, look: 👀

Yes, that's one ms. No, I didn't click multiple times to get that result. 🤷‍♂️

Just try it for yourself! It's really fast!

While we're at it...

Just as the search got so fast, it became really apparent that large images take some time to load. I mean, who wants to wait on the images loading after you already see the search results being generated? So - we fixed it. Usually one would go about and automatically resize the image to the required dimensions on their own servers (requiring processing power), save it for future requests (requiring storage) and then deliver it to the user (requiring bandwidth). What if there was someone who already did all that? Turns out: there is!

tiny.pictures is a service that acts both as a reverse proxy and as a CDN, all while being able to apply a variety of operations on the source image. Sorry, what was that? 🤔 Alright, again: The search thumbnails are now loaded from tiny.pictures. If they don't have the image yet, they load it from our server once, then resize it, crop it (even trying to keep faces in focus) and save it on their servers. For every following request they just immediately return the small version - resulting in lightning fast image load times! ⚡️

Alright, but what else?

Of course, there are a few other things here and there. Most of them are minor reworks, some small tweaks here and there. We'll list a couple of them below.👇

Thanks for reading!

As always, if you have any suggestions or ideas, or just wanna give us feedback: we're more than happy to hear from you! Get in touch! 🙂

There is more flexibility to manage attendees in the backend. You can now add (manually or existing users) or remove registration. And you can also move attendees from one event to another. There has been some refactoring so the breadcrumb menu makes more sense now. :-)

We added some more check-in features! The best of all: Check-in users can get temporary access to all the check-in features by scanning a QR code from an admin.

Wow, this release includes tons of new features! Let's get started: Activities, activity categories and info categories can now be linked to any internal or external page. This way you can guide your users to any website you want. We also added activity admins, so only certain people can see the attendees list, can edit the activity etc. And there is a new check-in feature on the attendees list! You can now check-in or check-out attendees very easily by swiping left resp. right. See more about all the changes below. Have a great day!

We now have a new block available in the page editor! Organize your FAQ or just info sections into a neat accordion form!

To get in line with our release tags we jump forward to 1.4.0. ;-) This release includes some bugfixing.

We also changed the way subdomains for your booklets are created. Until now a user could define his/her own subdomain, e.g. my-camp.booklet.camp. Now, the subdomain is generated based on the title and a random number and can not be changed after that. If you would like to have your event app available under a specific or even custom domain, please reach out to our support! We will add the support for custom domains later...

This is our first publicly announced release note. So let's start with v1.0.0. Our camp and event booklet services exists since 2018 and has been a great tool for big and small events and camps. We were working hard to put everything together as an online service and to make it available for others.

In this first version we are happy to announce that the service is finally ready for public. You will now be able to setup your own event or camp booklet within minutes! You can find an example here: https://churchweek.booklet.camp/

If you have any questions or feature requests, please reach out to our support via the bubble on the bottom right. We are always happy to help!

At the moment the service is availalbe for free. We will add some plans in the near future to cover the costs of development, support and infrastructure.

This release is about bug fixing and small improvements.

This release finalises the new person/group structure. We also added some nice and helpful new features. Some highlights:

• Password reset is finally here!! ;-)
• On a closed station you now see when it opens next.

We also made a lot of improvements in the background to make Check-in Church more robust.

In this beta release we made some preparations for the next release. We are changing the way persons are organised. Until now, a person could only have ONE age group (in Elvanto it's called "demography"). But a person could also exist in multiple categories (see here: https://checkin.church/app/import/group/). So the problem was, that if you have multiple categories or so called data sources (e.g. a category for the Sunday service and one for a special event) that person had the same age group within both categories. For many events, thats a limitation. An organiser what's to have different "age groups" for special events (e.g. based on number of registrations etc.). Hope you understand the problem... :-)

The new structure is like this:

• A person is always part of at least one (or multiple) group/s (within Elvanto this is the family)
• A person can have different age groups (within Elvanto this is the demography) in each group.

Example: Group: Family Miller Category: Sunday Service Person 1: John - Age Group: Little Stars Person 2: Ben - Age Group: Baby World

Group: Family Miller Category: Kids Conference Person 1: John - Age Group: Little Rockers Person 2: Ben - Age Group: Baby World

This release includes some improvements in the gateway registration process. After registering a new gateway all available printers are automatically linked to this gateway (only if only one is available...). There is another new feature to download a CSV file with an overview of all checked-in people. And some more improvements and bug fixing has been done in the background to make the whole check-in a little bit better... ;-) Please be aware, that we are going to introduce a simple pricing model from January 2020 to cover our costs for support, infrastructure and futher development. We are going to announce the prices very soon.

This release brings a few bugfixes in different areas and two brand new settings! 🚀 The "Note" button on the check-in view is now disabled by default. You can enable it again via settings. The other new setting allows you to disable the "Print Extra Label" button.

As always feedbacks and ideas are always welcomed!

This release contains some nice improvements. Check out the new stats on the start page or the separate stats page. This gives you some interesting insights about your church and kids ministry. There were also some bug fixes going on in the background and we are working hard to make the cloud solution as stable as possible!

A small bugfix release at the beginning of the new week. This release fixes some annoying things coming from the local to cloud migration. Have a great week! And let us know if there is anything which doesn't work as expected!

We are very happy to announce, that we can now provide our kids check-in solution as a service in the cloud! The days of local installations are gone... Our check-in solution has been in production since we moved into our new building, the Samsung Hall in Zurich. Since then many thousand kids have been checked-in and have been provided a safe environment.

There was a problem with images not loading correctly from flickr… 😬

Thats now news from the past.

Some boxes where placed wrong horizintally. That's been fixed.

Over the past few weeks, we have reworked large amounts of our code base to make the site faster and more secure. We have also improved the way files are previewed:

Old way:

Shiny new previews:

Now you can add buttons next to each other;

We have redesigned our homepage for you. Featured resources are now front and center and the resources of categories you follow are now more prominent. We also redesigned and streamlined the navigation.There you'll find a new category overview as well as your user settings.

In this release, we improved the onboaring for new users:

Welcome to our new release page. Subscribe and stay updated about updates to the ICF Website.

Below you'll find a collection of all the past releases:

Version 3.0.2 - 28.11.2018

• Fixed Tabele issue #292
• Integrated Countdown fix #234 – thank you Andreas Neroth and Claudio Kressibucher
• Fixed SmallGroup issue #300 – thank you Lukas for reporing
• Updated Wordpress and Plugins and languages

Version 3.0.1 – 01.10.2018

• Google API Key for sites required: Design/Appearabce > Theme Options > APIs / API Codes
• Optain your own key here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key
• Fixed Product Box for links without https

Version 3.0.0 – 01.10.2018

• PHP 7.2 Compatibility
• Product Box improvements
• Removed Layout Slider

Version 2.0.20 – 24.09.2018

• Prodcast Improved
• Improved CSS Grid
• Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.19 – 19.07.2018

• Improved Celebrations on mobile
• Celebrations module now shows the whole series and, if less than 4 celebrations are left for the current series the next series up until 8
• Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.18 – 10.07.2018

• Further layout optimizations and fixes
• Added translations to event module
• Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.17 – 02.07.2018

• Implemented event calendar improvements of Oliver Weber – Thank you very much!
• Minor layout fixes

Version 2.0.16 – 27.06.2018

• Rewrite of grid system – improved stability
• Design tweaks for rows, forms and videos inside boxes, buttons and menu
• Updated Wordpress and Plugins

Version 2.0.15 – 04.06.2018

• Added new Gravity Forms add-on (https://gravityplus.pro/gravity-forms-utility/)
• Added new Gravity Forms add-on (https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-entry-expiration/)

Version 2.0.14 – 31.05.2018

• Updated Wordpress, plugins and Languages
• Added new plugin for cookie notice (https://wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-notice/)

Version 2.0.13 – 30.04.2018

• Fixed #230 – Event Calendar issues. Thank you @oliverweber

Version 2.0.12 – 05.04.2018

• Updated Wordpress and Plugins
• Added Polish translation file for WP and ICF Plugins
• Add ?fullscreen to your start page to get a fullscreen version of your slider (e.g. https://www.icf.ch/?fullscreen)
• Fixed #233 - Disable permalink page for images, events, preacher, series, podcasts etc.
• Fixed #235 - New address for ICF Startup Hamburg
• Fixed #247, #209, #232 - Listed ICF Startups on movement map/list (Credits: Lukas Ammann)
• Fixed #215

Version 2.0.11 – 18.12.2017

• Improved home-page slider image size
• Fixed #215 – Listed ICF Startups on movement map/list (Credits: Lukas Ammann)
• Fixed #221 – Listed several new ICF Startups, updated links, addresses etc. (Credits: Lukas Ammann)
• Fixed #104 – Added footer to startup template

Version 2.0.10 – 08.11.2017

• Updated Wordpress, Plugins & Languages
• Added Advents-Calendar function, see: https://www.facebook.com/notes/icf-web-community/advents-kalender-auf-deiner-icf-webseite/494324544272298/

Version 2.0.9 – 20.10.2017

• Welcome Andreas & Claudio to our developer team! :D
• Updated Wordpress, Plugins & Languages
• Added Dutch translation for ICF Church vision template
• Fixed #117 - Improved textarea height on mobile
• Fixed #190 - Featured Box image resolution
• Fixed Error in avia backend editor
• Fixed Creating of cache directory
• Fixed Flickr loading issue (array_flip error)
• Removed Unused facebook js

Version 2.0.8 – 28.08.2017

• Update ICF Church vision template
• Added feature #189 – focus in searchfield
• Fixed: #180 – Celebration title on startpage
• Updated Wordpress, Plugins & Languages

Version 2.0.7 – 03.07.2017

• Updated Plugins & Languages
• New page template for ICF Church vision
• Improved – Header output
• Fixed #183 - Header title to small on tablet

Version 2.0.6 – 03.06.2017

• Updated Wordpress, Plugins & Languages
• Fixed #113 – Lazy loading of podcast images
• Fixed #163 – ingle event not opening
• Fixed #109 – Visual glitch for 2 collumn forms
• Fixed #166 – Video previews on serie design: https://gitlab.com/icf-website/wordpress/wikis/celebrations/celebrations-howto-de#videoclips-für-serien
• Fixed #161 – Translations for event plugin (next-step)
• Fixed #171 – Missing celebration title breaking homepage layout
• Fixed #157 – Acitvated new SEO Plugin, removed old ones

Version 2.0.5 – 12.06.2017

• Improved display of color sections and parralax sections
• Improved display of error messages
• Fixed #152 – Improved slider: Added arrow and dotts to mobile
• Fixed #150 – Select Box Overlay

Version 2.0.4 – 26.04.2017

• Updated Wordpress and Plugins
• Fixed #136 - restored german translation from next-step plugin
• Added new css classes for gravity forms: gf-form---newsletter gf-form---transparent
• Added new css classes for gravity form elements: gf-element---center
• Added lightbox feature to slide: use external links with ?lightbox at the end: /yourpage?lightbox
• Layout fixes

Version 2.0.3 – 10.04.2017

• Updated Wordpress and Plugins
• Improved search and 404 template
• Fixed #131 – Translation for German
• Fixed #28 – Recover single template:
• Fixed #90 – width of event images
• Fixed #137 - Warning is displayed in frontend
• Updated Czeck Language

Version 2.0.2 – 06.02.2017

• Fixed #77 – Spelling error in next step module
• Fixed #70 – Layout issue on givings page

Version 2.0.1 – 31.01.2017

• Updated: WordPress Core 4.7.1
• Updated: Languages
• Updated: Plugins

Version 2.0.0 – 23.01.2017

• Redesign: Soft redesign touching many details:
  • Centered logo
  • New fonts
  • Black, grey, white color-scheme
  • Removed red color
  • Improved font sizes
  • Closed #42: Improved navigation on mobile and with livestream
  • Closed #59: Improved margin and paddings for sections and columns
• Fixed #9: Next Step filter broken layout due to wrong HTML width
• Removed: Overlay for events on startpage, use the slider or the boxes below

Learn more here about how to get the redesign working with your website: https://gitlab.com/icf-website/wordpress/wikis/redesign-2017

Version 1.7.5 – 20.11.2016

• Fixed: #11 – Pinboard on mobile
• Fixed: #41 – Navigation links with no submenu now open on mobile
• Updated: Screen breakpoints according to https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-100-correct-way-to-do-css-breakpoints-88d6a5ba1862#.ddlebmq1v

Version 1.7.4 – 28.11.2016

• Fixed: Minor design Issues with forms introduced with a plugin update
• Fixed: Design issue #53 with long series descriptions
• Added: Czech language Support for smallgroup program – thank you Lukas Knizek
• Removed: Plugin seo-data-transporter

Version 1.7.3 – 24.11.2016

• Added: Facebook Gallery integration, check out the theme settings
• Added: Gravity Forms Addon for Stripe and Zapier
• Improved: Backend performance

Version 1.7.2 – 22.11.2016

• Fixed: Font-CSS not loading with cache
• Fixed: Issue #32 – Rewritten Flickr implementation: now with vue.js
• Updated: Added app.js to minification

Version 1.7.1 – 13.11.2016

• Fixed: Issue #31 – Google maps integration
• Fixed: Issue #23 – Event Images
• Fixed: Minor visual interface issue on forms
• Added: New Chaching with minification and concatenation of css and js as well as html caching, addresses issues #39 and #40
• Added: Lazy loading
• Added: Plugin Cloudflare for CDN
• Removed: WP Total Cache Plugin
• Removed: WP Retina 2x Plugin
• Removed: Royal Slider Plugin
• Updated: Plugins & Languages

Version 1.7.0 – 27.09.2016

• Feature: Issue #23 for Bern
• Fixed: Missing welcome message
• Fixed: Issue #8 – video embed in easy slider, thanks @Semilsky
• Fixed: Issues: #17 #25 #26 #27 #29
• Added: Plugin Revisr
• Updated: Plugin WordPress Core 4.6.1
• Updated: Plugin W3 Total Cache
• Updated: Plugin Optimus
• Updated: Plugin Akismet
• Updated: Plugin Disable Comments
• Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
• Updated: Plugin Polylang
• Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
• Updated: Plugin WP-Piwik
• Updated: Plugin WP Media Category Management
• Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO

Version 1.6.0 – 23.08.2016

• Improved: Placement of ICF logo and menu
• Fixed: Bug that caused IE to not execute JS
• Fixed: Button margins
• Updated: WordPress Core 4.6.0
• Updated: Languages
• Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
• Updated: Plugins wp-migrate-db
• Updated: Plugin members
• Updated: Plugin Kommentare deaktivieren
• Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
• Updated: Plugin Polylang
• Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
• Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
• Updated: Plugin Zalomení
• Updated: Translations

Version 1.5.4 – 07.07.2016

• Added: Ability to integrate churchonline.org and podcasts as well as embeds on frontpage
• Added: htaccess code to rewrite urls of non existing local files (in _.htaccess)
• Improved: Some hundred lines of old CSS and JS code removed
• Improved: Renamed "Start-Page" menu to "Frontpage" and added descriptions and images
• Improved: Slide navigation-buttons and links
• Improved: Frontpage overlay close behaviour and styling
• Improved: Mobile layout
• Fixed: Slide publishing
• Fixed: Flicker integration
• Fixed: Location dropdown on mobile with no locations
• Fixed: Multiple configurations of language navigation conflicting
• Updated: JW Player implementation for podcasts

Version 1.5.3 – 15.06.2016

• Fixed: Forms frontend has been rewritten from the ground up (https://trello.com/c/F1htxKU5):
  • Conditions working – Multistep forms working – Many layout improvements
• Fixed: Missing languages, now all languages are possible. Use 2 letter language code for language (f.e. "en"): https://trello.com/c/nXPkfNRi
• Fixed: Improved implementation of hoffline icon-font in backend and frontend: https://trello.com/c/lQhmq3zf
• Fixed: Dropdown select button in firefox (how is using FF anyway?? ;-)) is working now: https://trello.com/c/ED20pU88
• Fixed: Event calendar - Only auto archive single events due to problem with recurring events
• Improved: Slideshow Caption
• Improved: New page template without menu added
• Updated: Plugin wp-piwik
• Updated: Plugin wordpress-seo
• Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
• Updated: Plugin polylang
• Updated: Plugin optimus
• Updated: Plugin multisite-enhancements
• Updated: Plugin gravityforms
• Updated: Plugin akismet

Version 1.5.2 – 08.06.2016

• Fixed: Text prefix for celebrations more than 7 days away
• Fixed: event calendar external link
• Fixed: Important wp core fix for months genitive case (Credits: Jan Semilsky - Thanks!)
• Fixed: 404 header
• Fixed: podcast plugin / feed url
• Fixed: podcast / celebration table (remove clickable)
• Fixed: usernoise plugin - make url protocol neutral
• Fixed: podcast archive pdf download link
• Fixed: header image not visible on phone
• Fixed: mailchimp archive shortcode - ssl problem
• Fixed: Restore missing js for gallery shortcode
• Updated: Czech translation (Credits: Jan Semilsky - Thanks!)
• Updated: backend options and made Movement link static
• Updated: French translation
• Updated: Merge podcast plugin with latest official version

Version 1.5.1 – 16.05.2016

• Improved: Slider design & functionality on mobile
• Improved: Location selecort (not yet working on Firefox)
• Fixed: First slide not visible on first load of previous slides are not in daterange

Version 1.5.0 – 12.05.2016

• Improved: Picly is now labeled "Startpage" and was moved to the top in the WP Backend
• Feature: ICF Conference Livestream
• Feature: Major rewrite of Homepage:
  • All new Slider, much cleaner, larger, less code, based on CSS 3 Transitions
  • Link to Online Church with new Button – Default Celebration Background (Ste in Startpage Module) – Ability to use celebration without title, speaker or series: – Celebrations without title display the Speaker – Celebration pictures are displayed in the following order:

    1. Post image
    2. Speaker image
    3. Series image
    4. Default celebration image

• Feature: Adding Youtube & Vimeo links for video podcast; Add 3 resources:
  1. Link –Video Hosted (first entry displayed on the page)
  2. Video resource on your server (needed for the RSS feed)
  3. Audio resource ob your server
• Hotfix: RSS Feed
• Improved: Page titles
• Improved: Menu on Android
• Improved: Font Handling. Include https://www.icf.ch/wp-content/themes/avantgarde3-cooperate/terrific/fonts.js?min to load ICF fonts
• Improved: More Menu & Feature Box on Mobile
• Updated: Czech Translation (thank you Jan Semilsky)
• Fixed: Event Icon
• WordPress Update 4.5.2
• Updated: Plugin Akismet
• Updated: Plugin Dicentis Podcast
• Updated: Plugin Kommentare deaktivieren
• Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
• Updated: Plugin Polylang
• Updated: Plugin Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin
• Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
• Updated: Plugin WP-Piwik
• Updated: Plugin WP Media Category Management
• Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
• Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro
• Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro CLI
• Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro Media Files
• Updated: Plugin WP Migrate DB Pro Multisite Tools
• Updated: Plugin Polylang
• Updated: Plugin Wordpress SEO

Version 1.4.4 – 06.04.2016

• Fixed: Home page slider click
• Fixed: Mobile improvements Home-Page
• Fixed: Menu on Android

Version 1.4.3 – 10.03.2016

• New: Simon Egli, our new web-boss in ICF Zurich simon.egli@icf.ch
• Updated: WordPress to 4.4.2
• Improved: Menu, location & podcast dropdowns, social-icons, mobile
• New: Timed Publising of Home-Page Elements – Thanx @Daniel Ammann
• New: Install WP Mail SMTP Plugin
• Fixed: jQuery version missmatch causing form-errors
• Fixed: Celebrations going missing
• Fixed: Protocol missmatch for podcast player resulting in download of video rather than play
• Fixed: SSL Bug Online Church
• Updated: Location URLs & Movement Map – Thanx @Lukas Ammann
• Updated: Plugin akismet
• Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
• Updated: Plugin polylang
• Updated: Plugin wordpress-seo
• Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db
• Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
• Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db
• Updated: Plugin wp-media-category-management
• Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
• Updated: Plugin quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin
• Updated: Plugin polylang
• Updated: Plugin optimus
• Updated: Plugin multisite-enhancements
• Updated: Plugin hide-youtube-related-videos
• Updated: Plugin gravityforms
• Updated: Plugin disable-comments
• Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
• Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
• Updated: Plugin disable-comments
• Updated: Plugin email-address-encoder

Version 1.4.2 – 12.01.2016

Happy New Year!

• BREAKING CHANGE: Removed .htaccess from git (for individual server config) – on local installations, rename _.htaccess to .htaccess to make it work again
• Updated: WordPress to 4.4.1
• Updated: Plugin WP Retina 2x
• Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
• Updated: Plugin Enable Media Replace
• Updated: Plugin Members
• Updated: Plugin WP-Piwik
• Updated: Plugin Akismet
• Updated: Languages

Version 1.4.1 – 21.12.2015

• Removed: Plugins: Regenerate Thumbnails, BackWPup Pro, Hammy, TinyMCE Advanced, Visualizer: Charts and Graphs
• Fixed: podcast feed problem with multiple speakers and series

Version 1.4.0 – 17.12.2015

• New: Podcast – You can use podcast feeds with all video and audio files like so: https://your.icf.ch/podcast/show/my-audio-show/feed/audio or: https://your.icf.ch/podcast/show/my-video-show/feed/video Create two shows to have different Icons in iTunes and assign each Podcast to both shows.
• New: Podcast – Option to add series and speaker in feed-titles
• Fixed: Backend editing with Picly
• Fixed: PHP Error in child Theme
• Fixed: Load fonts from current domain
• Updated: htaccess (reverse proxy for icf.ch/party and icf.church/teachings)
• Updated: Podcast & Merged changes
• Updated: Plugin akismet
• Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
• Updated: Plugin regenerate-thumbnails
• Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
• Updated: Plugin optimus
• Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db-pro
• Updated: Plugin wp-migrate-db-pro-media-files
• Updated: Plugin wp-retina-2x
• Various improvements
• Language updates

Version 1.3.4 – 3.12.2015

• New: Picly updated to support publishing dates – Thanx @Daniel Ammann
• Fixed: Readded Categories for events
• Updated: htaccess for more Pprsisent SSL connection – Thanx @Daniel Freiwald
• Updated: Plugin WP Retina 2x
• Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
• Updated: Plugin Multisite Enhancements
• Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms
• Language updates

Version 1.3.3 – 1.12.2015

• Fixed: Error where events don't filter without search-field present
• Updated: Plugin Multisite-Enhancements
• Updated: Plugin Optimus
• Updated: Plugin Wordpress-seo
• Updated: Plugin Wp-retina-2x
• Removed: Plugins: Debug-bar, Github Updater, Loco Translate, Minqueue, WordPress Importer

Version 1.3.2 – 24.11.2015

• Updated: Plugin Yoast SEO
• Updated: Plugin WP Media Category Management
• Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
• Updated: Plugin Polylang
• Updated: Plugin Optimus
• Updated: Plugin Business Directory Plugin
• Language updates

Version 1.3.1 – 23.11.2015

• Updated: Busineslogic for nextstep
• Fixed: Bug on mobile for eventlist
• Updatedd: czech translations - theme, plugins (event, user noise) – Thanx Jan

Version 1.3.0 – 5.11.2015

• New: Extended Event Plugin with Next-Step functionality

Version 1.2.6 – 3.11.2015

• Change: Not moving old events to trash but set to draft status
• New: Add Podcast from Celebration automatically – By Jan Semilsky
• Updated: Plugin Visualizer: Charts and Graphs
• Updated: Plugin ThreeWP Broadcast
• Language updates

Version 1.2.5 – 27.10.2015

• Fixed: SSL issue in Hammy Plugin: https://github.com/noeltock/hammy/pull/9
• Hide meta description if is Seo Yoast active – By Jan Semilsky
• Added: Podcast single view! – Thanx Jan
• Added: Zalomení Plugin for Czech
• Podcast integration improved – Jan
• Updated: Plugin dicentis-podcast
• Updated: Plugin threewp-broadcast
• Updated: Plugin visualizer
• Language updates

Version 1.2.4 – 17.10.2015

• Moved shortcodes to child theme
• Emergency Fix Podcast with https
• Code cleanup
• Updated: Plugin polylang
• Updated: Plugin business-directory-plugin
• Updated: Plugin akismet
• Language updates

Version 1.2.3 – 14.10.2015

• Fixed: vimeo embed code for https for podcasts
• Fixed: backend for events over https
• Updated: ignores to ingnore files with versions etc (removing from live server)
• Improved: Prevent direct access for sensitive files
• Added: Read Me

Version 1.2.2 – 13.10.2015

• Fixed: https, no more cross-protocol calls; All websites are now capable of https
• Improved: Free https certificate included for all domains! Thanks Peter Heusser for the tip.
• Improved: Force WP backend over https
• Fixed: CSS bug on donation page, thanks Jan Semilský for collaboration
• Updated: languages packages and Czech translation, again thanks Jan
• Fixed: HTML bug on podcast page, thanks Jan
• Updated: Plugin wp-retina
• Updated: Plugin wp-piwik
• Updated: Plugin Broadcast
• Updated: Plugin Quick-Redirect
• Updated: Plugin Optimus
• Updated: Plugin Members
• Updated: Plugin Gravity Forms

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