System Work

Berowra Waters Progress Association – Updated 1-May-2026

Update May 2026

01/05/2026

Added

Created Membership Levels - Single Membership 1 Year — $30 / 2 Years — $50 (Best Value — Save $10) Household Membership 1 Year — $50 / 2 Years — $80 (Best Value — Save $20)

Added

Installed Paid Memberships Pro 3.7.1 – Core

Updated

Upgrade Posts Table Pro from v3.3.5 to v3.3.6

Update Feb 2025

28/02/2025

Added

User Frontend Posts for the provision of creating newsletters

Update Jul 2020

31/07/2020

Improved

Webpages 'Home' and menu navigation to accommodate split between Progress, Pontoon and Ladies Committee.

Removed

'Asgaros Forum' due to non-use by Subscribers

Added

'Sucuri Security' and 'iThemes Security'

Removed

'Wordfence' due to incompatibility with 'User Role Editor'.

Added

Added new role (members) to user (RC)

Added

'User Role Editor' to create an additional wp role to give access to the USER file. When assigning this new role to a user, give them their primary role (eg Subscriber) and also an additional role (new field) called 'members'

Update Aug 2020

31/08/2020

RESOLVED :: Issues with Elementor. Edit function not available after selecting the Style tab while selecting and element.

Added

Command 'Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://berowrawaters.org' to the .htaccess file

Updated

Issue resolved with installation of a stock standard theme

Added

Support Ticket with Elementor, known issue, expecting file update.

Removed

Deactivated all plugins and tested Elementor, problem not resolved. Plugins all re-activated.

Updated

.htaccess file with line 'Header always append X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN' did not resolve issue

Compatibility

Possible conflict with unidentified plugin.

Update Sep 2020

30/09/2020

Added

Login protection for members. Added Members only section. Updated 404 page. Button to download Application Form after selecting Register or Join. Added email address progressbw@live.com to the Home page

Update Oct 2020

31/10/2020

Optimising Website

Added

Backup performed. Dbase optimised and images compressed.

Update Nov 2020

30/11/2020

Added

File upload page created. Testing functionality.

Added

Introduced visibility of membership menu items based on user role.

Added

Pontoon Association page created. Added sub-menus for login. Added Categoreies to separate membership.

Added

Elementor editing now possible. Added Ladies Committee page. Navigation header uniform.

Added

Local DNS Lookup for this site

Update Dec 2020

31/12/2020

Added

Creating pages for the Residents Handbook

Added

New menu item and page for Committee members

Updated

Link for Pontoon Members to be directed to information at berowrawaters.com

Deprecated

Ray Rogers says unnecessary for Pontoon Members to have separate logon section.

Added

Menu link called 'Lost Password'

Update Feb 2021

28/02/2021

Improved

Update Handbook page Nav menu, heading and main content styling. Saved these as templates for easier creating and access.

Added

Added a page for suggestions or ideas to implement on the website. There is an option for people to vote and/or comment on the request.

Update Mar 2021

31/03/2021

Added

Notification popup on Members Mobile and/or Desktop to subscribe to Auto Notify of New Articles, Newsletters, Posts, etc.

Removed

Social Auto Poster installed and tested. Not suitable due to the multiple permissions required to acquire API's from Social Media sites.

Updated

Installed and Configured Really Simple SSL PRO 4.1.5

Updated

Installed and Configured iThemes Security PRO 6.8.3

Added

Apply to Facebook for approval to manage posts using website

Improved

Coding for Auto post of Newsletters to the Facebook Group.

Added

Redirection after login and logout

Updated

.htaccess file update to increase file upload size - php_value upload_max_filesize 256M php_value post_max_size 128M php_value max_execution_time 300 php_value max_input_time 300

Added

Completed adding the Residents Handbook

Update April 2021

30/04/2021

Setup Emailing from the WebSite

Added

Tested email delivery. OK.

Added

Selected smtp.com for mail server, reviewed reliability and security, setup account. Usage authenticated by use of API key.

Added

Configured WPForm for SMTP delivery

Update July 2021

31/07/2021

General Maintenance

Added

Installed BuddyPress Community Site

Improved

Setup UpDraftPlus for Weekly Backups, retaining 2 historical files, and incrementing daily.

Updated

Update all programs

Update August 2021

31/08/2021

Removed

User Menus and User Role Manager

Added

AR Membership and Elementor PRO 4.5

Update January 2022

31/01/2022

Major push to complete most of the Membership site administration

Added

Discussion Board - Install, configure and test

Added

Mobile - Created a responsive menu compatible for mobile viewing

Added

Security - removed page cache from login and registration pages to minimise false positive security lockouts

Added

Security - Ignore restrictive policies on whitelist IP

Fixed

Security - Application Passwords - It will allow using both, traditional passwords (that users use to log into the website via a login form) and application passwords when accessing website APIs. The setting I have used is “Enabled, access to API using standard user passwords is allowed”.

Added

Security - add reCaptcha to WP login and comment forms

Improved

Security - Remove Wordfence, would not recognise some valid login attempts. Installed new Security plugin, configured and tested.

Added

User - Check boxes for Newsletter, Member Directory and Privacy

Fixed

User - updates to wp user module takes effect to wp user and newsletter subscribers, not user_member files.

Added

User - updates to member_user module takes effect to wp user only

Added

User - User Role created for Treasurer

Removed

User - Followup email address updates from the bounced email list

Updated

User - Data entry, updated all membership details, removed non subscribing members.

Added

Newsletter - Test Resend to conditional lists. Result -will send to incorrect email if it was originally wrong.

Added

Newsletter - Do not upload members from CSV because changes to emailAddress will create an additional subscriber.

Updated

Email - Added CNAME values for url1571.berowrawaters.org and 23487302.berowrawaters.org to brand the emails from berowrawaters.org rather than Sendgrid.

Fixed

Email - Added CNAME values for em6972.berowrawaters.org, s1._domainkey.berowrawaters.org and s2._domainkey.berowrawaters.org, tested connectivity with Sendgrid, ok.

Fixed

Email - Integrate SendGrid for email delivery accessing statistics for bounce and delivery rates.

Updated

Pages - Data entry of grammatical errors and updates to content highlighted by members

Added

Install, configured and tested newsletter plugin. Update invalid email addresses. Send instructions to Hotmail users to 'whitelist' the site domain.

Added

Install, configure and test 3D Flipbook plugin, created 2 flipbooks for members accessible from Member Dashboard

Added

Install and test Security plugin - Wordfence

Added

Install, configure and test Membership plugin. Communicate with members regarding login issues, whitelisted members IP and instructed login incompatibility with Google Chrome for some users.

Update February 2022

28/02/2022

Added

Discussion Board - 2nd Install of another plugin. BBPress was too clunky and a number of other plugins were not compatible with the latest WP version

Update April 2022

30/04/2022

Updated

Update Backup Software to v2.22.12.5

Added

Update Member Membership paid status

Update Feb 2023

31/03/2022

Added

Update Backup Software to v2.23.1.26

Updated

Created Role for Publications that included Newsletters

Update Dec 2023 v1

31/12/2022

Focus to activate the PayPal payment method where members can pay their fees directly on the website. The funds get deposited to PayPal and the Treasurer transfers the money to the Progress Association Bank Account. The update of members accounts are done automatically online with reminder notices automatically being sent out at predetermined intervals. Website design and test time (approximately 4 days).

Improved

Migrated website from a CENTOS7 operating system to AlmaLinux. Went ok, all tests and performance positive.

Added

Integrate the payment method into the site.

Added

Apply for PayPal Account.

Update Dec 2023 v2

22/12/2023

Configuring the BWPA site settings to recognise the webhooks from Stripe
Have had some trouble sending requests in live mode to a webhook endpoint associated with the Berowra Waters Progress Association account. Stripe sends webhook events to this website to notify it of activity in the Stripe account, such as a completed payout or a newly-created invoice.

The URL of the failing webhook endpoint is: https://berowrawaters.org/?ihc_action=stripe_checkout

Fixed

Allowed access to users' data via REST API

Added

Configured exceptions for the anti-spam engine

Fixed

Added IP address for Stripe to WP Cerber Whitelist

Update May 2024

31/05/2024

Refining the Menu display on some pages and added functionality for members to enter into discussion using a Forum Board

Updated

Menu Display

Added

Setup and Configured

Added

Installed a Discussion Board

Update Jun 2024

30/06/2024

Adding a method by which members can post discussion points, etc.

Added

Frontend Post Submission