NGP Forms

This plugin helps you integrate NGP (NGP VAN) donation, signup, and volunteer forms with your site. You’ll need an SSL certificate running on your site if you want to use the donation portion of this plugin.

This plugin does not work with the new NGP Action Platform.

Alert No. 1!

This plugin does not work with NGP’s recently released “NEW” platform. I think they call it the “Action” platform, but it’s unclear.

Alert No. 2!

You should be running your site under an SSL certificate if you utilize this plugin for donations.

Usage

Place this short tag on the appropriate page or article:

[ngp_show_donation]

You can set custom amounts for the donation amount in two ways:

1. 01Put the amounts in the embed tag: [ngp_show_donation amounts="50,250,1000"]
2. 02Put the amounts in a GET querystring: http://mycamapign.com/donation?amounts=50,250,1000

If you want to have a default donation amounts, put them in the embed tag and then override it with a querystring amounts when you need to.

You can source an article in two ways:

1. 03Put source in the embed tag: [ngp_show_form source="hard-hitting-ad"]
2. 04Put the source in a GET querystring: http://mycamapign.com/donation?source=hard-hitting-ad

If you want to have a default donation source, put it in the embed tag and then override it with a querystring source when you need to.

You can set custom thanks URL for the donation process by putting the url in the embed tag:

[ngp_show_donation thanks_url="/thanks-for-your-donation"]

The donations thanks URL defaults to: /thank-you-for-your-contribution

You can turn off the custom amount field:

[ngp_show_donation custom_amt_off="true"]<h3>Careful!</h3>

If you turn off the custom amount field and you’re using the Donation Invite form, you’ll have constituents entering amounts that can’t be found in the form and don’t have a chance of getting placed in a custom amount field!

Donation Suggested jQuery

We use the following on our donation pages to make sure that the user understands that the radio buttons and the input field are for the same thing. If the user doesn’t support javascript and the custom field holds a value, it always overrides whatever’s selected in the radio buttons.