WordPress Petition Plugin

1. Petitions can be added and removed on the "Petitions Add/Delete/Edit" page in the Settings administration page.
2. Settings for individual petitions can be changed from the same page by clicking on the Edit button. The settings should be self explanatory.
3. When setting the confirmation e-mail text, placing [[curl]] within the text will insert the confirmation URL at that point in the text. If you don't do this, the confirmation e-mail will be useless.
4. Within the post or page where you wish the petition to appear, insert [[petition-n]] where n is the number of the petition. The petition will not appear until you enable the petition on the settings page.

The data gathered by the petition can be managed from the "Petition Management" page under Settings.

• The entire petition can be wiped using the button on the upper right of the page.
• Individual signatures can be deleted or manually confirmed from within the table.
• Comments can be completely erased but not edited.

Under the petition settings page you can add custom fields to a particular petition. You could use this to gather a person's home town, postal code or state for example. When adding a drop down field, the choices offered to the user should be entered as a comma separated list into the options box e.g. Orange,Apple,Lemon.

All the information required to translate the petition is contained within the template, fcpetition.pot. You need to fill out the template into a suitable named file. For example, fcpetition-nl_NL.po for Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands or fcpetition-es_CU.po for Spanish as spoken in Cuba. You can do this manually but it's recommended that you use a tool such as Poedit (http://www.poedit.net/) instead. Once you have completed the translation, you can send the .po file to me for inclusion with the next version of the plugin.

The plugin purposely avoids forcing any style upon the petition. The styling of the HTML elements displayed in WordPress is controlled by your Theme.

The e-mails are sent in the same way as all e-mails sent from your WordPress install. The most likely reason you are not receiving them is because your web host has blocked them. Contact them first for help, before coming to me.