Shaun Geisert 
Entry Judging for Gravity Forms provides a structured, impartial review process for Gravity Forms submissions. It was developed for scholarship committees, award programs, grant reviews, hiring panels, photo contests, and other situations where multiple reviewers need to evaluate submissions independently while minimizing bias. Judges review entries without seeing identifying information, score submissions independently, and only … Read more
Auto Archive for Gravity Forms is a Gravity Forms add-on developed to simplify recurring programs such as applications, grants, awards, camps, and conference registrations. Instead of deleting old entries or leaving them mixed with current submissions, archived entries are moved into a dedicated Archived view while remaining safely in the database. The plugin is available … Read more
I thought it might be fun to appear to be more active than I actually am on some well-known social media platform, and came up with a little experiment for the job at hand, which also enabled me to build my first Chrome extension. Once installed and activated (by clicking the extension’s icon), it will … Read more
If you’ve been using WordPress for any length of time within Student Affairs, you may have noticed that when you sign into your WordPress site there is an option at the top of your page that didn’t always use to be there, “Purge Current Page”: Caching is a strategy that servers/browsers use to increase performance … Read more
Recently we had an instance where a Gravity Form containing some custom JS became corrupted, with half of the code missing. I was able to restore the original Javascript from a SQL backup doing the following: Download a SQL backup (in my case I use Updraft) with a known “good” Gravity form Open the extracted … Read more
Over the break I was tasked with refactoring an old MVC 2 system for the Educational Opportunity Center. I didn’t build the original system, and this is what their underlying schema looked like:
Here’s some example code to fetch a token and then an iCal feed from a 3rd party service. Unfortunately the times are in UTC and the plugin we are using doesn’t respect the VTIMEZONE attribute, so I have to use regex to individually adjust all event times. private readonly static string tokenUrl = "https://domain:8445/token"; private … Read more
We recently discovered that Gmail doesn’t play nicely with emails that are sent from our Azure instance (which is hosting our WordPress sites). More specifically, Gmail users don’t receive the emails sent to them. Because of this, we have developed an API that resides on a local, on-campus server, wsnet2 to send out WordPress emails. … Read more
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Note: I make no warranty as to the accuracy of any of the info below; this is just my attempt at aggregating a few conferences of personal interest in one location Conference Name Location Date Price Purpose Url Microsoft Build Online May 24 – 26 FREE (normally $2,395 in person) General purpose Microsoft developer conference … Read more