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Kudos Donations Documentation

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Documentation for the Kudos Donations WordPress plugin, including installation guides, campaign management, payment provider integration with Mollie, and developer resources for hooks, filters, and actions.

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What's inside Kudos Donations

  1. Overview of Kudos Donations Plus features

    Kudos Donations Plus is a paid add-on that extends the base Kudos Donations plugin with advanced reporting, customization, and marketing tools. Key features include a visual activity dashboard, CSV data exports, custom branding for receipts and forms, a standalone Campaign Progress WordPress block, and automated newsletter integrations.

  2. Manage campaign goals and progress tracking

    Kudos Donations allows you to track and display financial targets for your campaign:

    • Goal: Sets the target amount to track progress in the campaign overview and publicly.
    • Display Goal Progress: When enabled, a progress bar is displayed at the top of all associated donation forms for public visibility.
    • Additional Funds: Allows you to manually increase the campaign total to account for donations made outside of the Kudos Donations plugin. This is primarily used to ensure the public goal progress bar is accurate.

  3. Extend Kudos Donations using WordPress Hooks

    Kudos Donations utilizes WordPress hooks to allow developers to interact with or modify plugin behavior without editing the plugin's core code. This ensures that customizations persist after plugin updates. Hooks are categorized into two types:

    1. Actions: Used to add new features or inject data at specific execution points within the plugin.
    2. Filters: Used to modify existing data or text generated by the plugin before it is output or saved.

  4. Understand the Kudos Donations Plus Dashboard

    The Dashboard is an admin page available when the Plus add-on is active. It replaces the default Kudos Donations landing page in the WordPress admin, aggregating data from all campaigns and transactions into visual charts and summary cards to provide a high-level overview of donation and campaign performance.

  6. Customize the Dashboard layout

    Users can customize the Dashboard interface by adjusting the number of columns used to display charts and hiding unnecessary charts. These layout preferences are saved automatically and persist across user sessions.

  7. Create a new donation campaign

    To organize donations into specific projects or goals, create a campaign by navigating to Donations > Campaigns in the dashboard. Click the New campaign button to create a campaign with default settings, assign a unique Campaign name, and click Save in the header.

  8. Install Kudos Donations via the WordPress plugin directory

    The recommended method for installing Kudos Donations is through the WordPress dashboard. This ensures you receive important updates automatically.

    1. Navigate to the Plugins page in your WordPress dashboard.
    2. Click the Add New Plugin button.
    3. Search for Kudos Donations in the search box.
    4. Click Install Now.
    5. Once installation is complete, click Activate.

  9. Meet server requirements for Kudos Donations

    To run the Kudos Donations plugin, your server must meet the following minimum software requirements. These are generally aligned with standard WordPress requirements.
    • WordPress: Minimum version 6.9
    • PHP: Minimum version 7.4

  10. Manage and customize donation campaigns

    Campaigns allow you to organize donations into specific projects or goals. You can customize campaign text, colors, and determine which fields are present or required. To access the customization settings, navigate to Donations > Campaigns and click on the name of the campaign or the pencil icon next to it.

  11. Export Kudos Donations data to CSV

    The Export to CSV feature allows you to download data from specific admin pages as comma-separated value files compatible with Excel or Google Sheets. The 'Export' button is available in the header of the following pages when the Plus add-on is active:

    • Campaigns
    • Transactions
    • Donors
    • Subscriptions

    Downloaded files are automatically named using the entity type and the current date (e.g., transactions-2026-05-13.csv).

  12. Export donation data to CSV with Kudos Donations Plus

    Kudos Donations Plus allows users to download campaigns, transactions, donors, and subscriptions as CSV files. Any filters or sort orders applied in the admin list view are preserved and carried through to the exported CSV file.