Build log – WEC Canada

Build 18 – 22 JUL 2022

added better alignment in the Staff page when images were not present
revised spacing of extra full-size images added to posts
prevent postal code wrapping in footer
fix image links listed under “Helpful Websites”
revised “Helpful Websites and Books” to “Helpful Websites”
added ‘Further Information’ heading on Donate page
standardized color on Headings on Donate page
revised link to payments.ca on Donate page (2x)
added tel# and address (both clickable) to Contact page, and added slight coloring
removed 2015, 2016 from Stories menu drop-down
changed “Related Stories” to “More Stories”
changed the “Reaching the Unreached” embedded video to half-width
corrected text alignment on single story posts for all screen sizes
revised recent stories menu link color to blue (was white; hard to read)
added headings to identify WEC Training Centers’ countries
under the training accordion added a link to the training centers on Resources page
removed logic to take map from international site (no longer available) and added text as supplied, and link to international site.

Build 17 – 15 JUL 2022

added slight separation between principle cards on home page
cleaned up Stories menu drop-down, added color band between recents links and year archive links
added user profiles for Julie, Mick, Karen
revised default WordPress login location (for added security)

Build 16 – 04 JUL 2022

updated Donations page with content supplied.
updated Resources page with content supplied – **check that I have understood the Prayer Resources correctly? Im not sure, thanks**

QUESTIONS about donate:
- use inline form for CanadaHelps (as is done now), or link to the CanadaHelps site?
- specifies link to Privacy policy, but where is it?
- www.cdnpay.ca site does not exist?

Build 15 – 27 JUN 2022

added Home link to top menu ( for space reasons, it is on Secondary menu until sticky menu shows, then it is on sticky)
added Search to top menus, and made more prominent
revised “Pray for Nations” area to only show a detailed link to Operation World site
added “Pray for Nations” area to home page
revised first link in About, Serve, Prayer, and Resources drop-down menus to simply go to the ‘parent’ page (top of page)
added blurbs as provided for Is WEC Right for you?, Steps for Joining, Opportunities
revised text as provided for Under: Is WEC Right for you? Subsection WEC? – Location and Calling
revised Staff page, NEED PHOTOS AND BIOS
changed What We Do image
revised Stories logic to show the first month accordion (of any year) already open
revise styling to address issue of partial images being shown on background on smaller screens. Now, any screen less than 1024px wide will show entire image as background (ratio permitting) *but* the image will scroll (no parallax effect) . The static background and show full image attributes are incompatible
on single story pages, float image left and wrap text

Build 14 – 17 JUN 2022

added more Staff profiles, to better demonstrate page’s functionality (accordion)
added Position as separate field for Staff records, and show on accordion header area

Build 13 – 15 JUN 2022

added animation delay to “how will they ….” on home page
re-added Stories main banner (this was missed on build 12)
revised color banding on Ministry Partners to match Stories color banding
revised top-level ‘Stories’ menu item to go to Stories page (instead of doing nothing)
add slight color variance and font weight on Stories menu links to differentiate ‘Recent’, ‘Years’, and ‘All’
have all YEAR accordions open (Showing months) when page is first shown
added ‘Most Recent’ Accordion to top of Stories page
if specific year is selected from menu, open it, but show all other years’ accordions on page as well
show Stories accordions as smaller when closed, expand when open
*started* Staff page, under ‘About’ – needs feedback on this format
TECH:
- moved custom JS code to separate file
- moved recent stories query to inc. file

Build 12 – 06 JUN 2022

added Helen Roseveare quote to Serve page
removed placeholder intro text on Contact page
rewrite Stories display logic
added a significant number of Stories, as per list; can not find some
show ‘read time’ on Stories single page
TECH
- stories-archive has custom template
- storeis menu items driven by custom functions to populate

Build 11 – 30 MAY 2022

moved build details link to above header for more room on header (THE BUILD LINK IS TEMP WHILE WE ARE IN BUILD)
shifted sub-menus left 82px to avoid truncation
enhanced Stories page to add color banding, cleaner presentation on wide screens
‘Stories’ menu drop-down will shown 3 latest Stories, and a link to ‘All Stories’
revised Donate page, Contact page to bring header to std presentation format
added slight shadow to page headings to assist readability on light backgrounds
TECH:
- enabled caching (using Siteground Optimizer)
- enhanced Stories menu handled to properly show drop down chevron

Build 10 – 24 MAY 2022

removed “Home” opportunities, posts, and post category for opportunities
populated Prayer area, and all subpages (Prayer Resources still to come)
NOTE: should get Operation World’s approval of use of their content under “Pray for the Nations”)

Build 9 – 18 MAY 2022

added code to check if accordion header is hidden under sticky header when clicked, if so, scroll it down into view
enhanced look of subtext ‘headings’ in accordions (.e.g under Faith, “At any point in any…..’)
added jump menu to Serve page
replaced WordPress default search functionality with enhanced plugin (Ivory Search)
converted ‘Resilience’ from headings/ Text format to Accordion format
changed sub-accordion headings to white
(TECH NOTE) added hook in functions.php at template-redirect to ensure that any navigation to a child page goes to parent page, with hash set. For this to work, the slug of the child must match (case-sensitive) the element ID set in the insert on the parent page. Also make sure the hash matches in float (“jump”) menus and menus are set to match
updated parent theme to 3.8.1
added favicon
completed all content to the ‘Serve’ area, as provided by WEC (need some blurbs for banner images, as noted on the image)

Build 8 – 16 MAY 2022

added link to Practices and the Core of WEC here: https://www.wecinternational.org/admin/resources/core-of-wec.pdf in ‘How We Work’ section
added link to our opportunities database in the Long Term section (as well as the opportunities section)
fixed Acts 13 link
populated ‘Faith’ with sub-accordions and ‘Resilience’ (with headings and text) under ‘SERVE’ . This is to help decision on what interface to use for for all sections

Build 7 – 13 MAY 2022

reworked page headings and section leading “quotes” to be on image
removed WEC MK School references
removed Training as its own page
brightened text on home page banner

Build 6 – 11 MAY 2022
– cleaned up Ministry partner logos – made all PNG
– added links originally missed on Ministry partners
– added faint underlining to all links in body content
– added ‘Map’ page to show where WEC is (iframe-ed custom PHP pulled feed from international site)
– increased banner images height for About, Why WEC, What We Do, and How We Work
– added links from Core Principles logos on home page to the Core Principles section under ‘How We Work’

Build 5 – 09 MAY 2022
– added ‘Jump’ menu to About page to demonstrate; (will add to all if approved)
– revised text on home page
– revised banner image on About page
– populated all sections of About page, with content and images provided
– added skeleton ‘Training’ page

Build 4 – 04 May 2022
– added subtle load fade-in animations on home page
– added text shadow to “how will they know…” on home page to make it stand out more
– added banner image to Donate page
– added text to Donor page (copied from existing site, but not all text)
– added Canada Helps form and logo to Donor page

build 3 – 02 MAY 2022
– enhanced titles and hero images on pages
– changed letter spacing on script font ‘Rock Salt’
– left justify text on home screen when less than 768 px