This website was all built off of the GivingPress Lite Theme; the Kiwanis built a derivative template off of that and generated this for us. Currently, only Katie and I have developer access to this website.
The work I have done so far has not been extremely difficult, but not everything has been straightforward. Fortunately, Kiwanis has created a very comprehensive guide here that does not assume any prior experience
Their WordPress site is refusing to give me a nice-looking image when I embed this.
Even more helpful, they have built their tutorial website on the template to serve as an example. Kiwanis also responds to all technical website questions here
My main message: If you would like to put any articles or photos here, please send them to me. Katie and I can add them fairly easily, but I do not believe there is a way to provide more people with write access (or the ability to submit/delete pages).
The website as it currently appears, with Facebook integration displayed on the right.
An Overall Rundown:
The current domain, citrusheightskiwanis.org, is simply configured as a URL redirect. In reality, the website is hosted on WordPress
The Facebook integration is, in my opinion, one of the more complicated aspects of this template. Fairly recently (as of October 2020), Facebook changed their security features. The facebook feed currently relies on a token linked to my personal page; if this goes away for any reason, we could also use Katie’s, or any other admin for the Facebook Citrus Heights Kiwanis group
Google Calendar is more simple. Everything you see in the calendar is linked to a personal Google Calendar I set up; I can add anyone with a Gmail account to it and give them editing access, with the caveat that anyone will get calendar notifications until they disable it
Currently, everything in the contact form goes to my personal email; anyone else who wants to be added can be added. The form does not use reCAPTCHA v3 – I tried that, but it was simply blocking everyone. Instead, it has a honeypot running in the background. Before I modified the form there was a lot of spam coming in, but this seems to have subsided (either because of the honeypot, or because of a few silly questions I added to the form like “are you a bot?” that I added)
I have also written a little more about this on my personal blog, but the comprehensive guide is the one produced by Kiwanis
We presented the Community Service award to the Citrus Heights Water District at our meeting on September 2 to recognize the multiple ways in which it strengthens our community. Accepting the award from President Tom Steadman were ( l to r) Water District Board President Ray Riehle, Accounting Manager Ben Strange, and Management Analyst Jace Nunes. CHWD serves about 60% of the area within the boundaries of Citrus Heights. Our guest speakers said that the CHWD offers many opportunities for its 70,000 customers to receive rebates for conscientious use of the water that it provides through 500 miles of pipes from its current six wells and two more that will be completed in 2027. CHWD also purchases water from the San Juan Water District. Recently CHWD partnered with SMUD to give customers rebates for planting shade trees. There will be no rate increase in 2027; CHWD rates have been below the region’s average for the past ten years. To guarantee its ability to continue to provide clean water, CHWD’s Project 2030 will serve the next three generations by replacing more than 70% of its aging water mains, beginning in the year 2030 and ending in 2080. We applaud the Citrus Heights Water District for its many cost- and environmentally aware programs that provide clean, safe water to our community. ... See MoreSee Less
We donated $1000 to the Duane Heglie and Family Scholarship Fund; it will be one of the 5 awards given by the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland education fund to a Native American student pursuing continuing education. Duane spoke to our club on August 5 about the Nez Perce Trail. (General Oliver O. Howard pursued Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce for 1300 miles in 1877, from Wallowa, OR, to the Montana border with Canada. The Nez Perce were cornered within 40 miles of that border.) Duane is a professor, educator, and a lifetime member of the Nez Perce Trail Foundation (NPTF) who shares a deep connection with Wallowa, Oregon, through his work in Native American studies and indigenous advocacy. ... See MoreSee Less
Evan’s Guide to Developing this Website
This website was all built off of the GivingPress Lite Theme; the Kiwanis built a derivative template off of that and generated this for us. Currently, only Katie and I have developer access to this website.
The work I have done so far has not been extremely difficult, but not everything has been straightforward. Fortunately, Kiwanis has created a very comprehensive guide here that does not assume any prior experience
Even more helpful, they have built their tutorial website on the template to serve as an example. Kiwanis also responds to all technical website questions here
[email protected]
My main message: If you would like to put any articles or photos here, please send them to me. Katie and I can add them fairly easily, but I do not believe there is a way to provide more people with write access (or the ability to submit/delete pages).
An Overall Rundown:
I have also written a little more about this on my personal blog, but the comprehensive guide is the one produced by Kiwanis
https://medium.com/@evan_soohoo/how-to-make-a-kiwanis-website-52d25ace3800
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We presented the Community Service award to the Citrus Heights Water District at our meeting on September 2 to recognize the multiple ways in which it strengthens our community. Accepting the award from President Tom Steadman were ( l to r) Water District Board President Ray Riehle, Accounting Manager Ben Strange, and Management Analyst Jace Nunes. CHWD serves about 60% of the area within the boundaries of Citrus Heights.
Our guest speakers said that the CHWD offers many opportunities for its 70,000 customers to receive rebates for conscientious use of the water that it provides through 500 miles of pipes from its current six wells and two more that will be completed in 2027. CHWD also purchases water from the San Juan Water District.
Recently CHWD partnered with SMUD to give customers rebates for planting shade trees. There will be no rate increase in 2027; CHWD rates have been below the region’s average for the past ten years.
To guarantee its ability to continue to provide clean water, CHWD’s Project 2030 will serve the next three generations by replacing more than 70% of its aging water mains, beginning in the year 2030 and ending in 2080.
We applaud the Citrus Heights Water District for its many cost- and environmentally aware programs that provide clean, safe water to our community. ... See MoreSee Less
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We donated $1000 to the Duane Heglie and Family Scholarship Fund; it will be one of the 5 awards given by the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland education fund to a Native American student pursuing continuing education.
Duane spoke to our club on August 5 about the Nez Perce Trail. (General Oliver O. Howard pursued Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce for 1300 miles in 1877, from Wallowa, OR, to the Montana border with Canada. The Nez Perce were cornered within 40 miles of that border.)
Duane is a professor, educator, and a lifetime member of the Nez Perce Trail Foundation (NPTF) who shares a deep connection with Wallowa, Oregon, through his work in Native American studies and indigenous advocacy. ... See MoreSee Less
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