June 2026

• CONFIG & ADMIN
• Initialized Site settings
• Initialized Navigation system for config
• Initialized Permission system

May 2026

• EVENTS
• Added 2nd Annual Lima Gathering
• 6th Annual Mayday events created
• 80% Converted into the ARTICLE SYSTEM

• Interface
• Navigation Menu Reworked
• Style Pages split
• Profile Dashboard Reworked
• CTA & other Buttons styles altered (may change again)

• LOGIN / AUTH SYSTEM:
• Reworked Authentication
• Security Enhancements

• STORE:
• Digital Products & Non Digital Now Available
• Non-Digital Products promote shipping form
• Member Exclusive Products now possible
• Product Variants system Installed
• Shippo Initialized

• MEDIA GALLERY:
• Complete Overhaul
• Now Database Driven (making uploads and tagging possible)
• Split Media pages by Type (Audio, Video, Images, etc.)
• Audio Players Reworked
• ALL Media styles reworked
• Images and Flyers in masory style with modal viewing

• ARTICLES:
• Select Audience on creation and edit (allows exclusive articles)
• DEA Drug Fact Sheets now in Articles
• Press Releases now in Articles
• Events now in Articles
• Website Features now in Articles
• Comment Moderation for authors functional
• Pagination installed

• APOINTS:
• Now called HALOS and are available in the store

• SEARCH:
• Search system installed
• Currently searches articles, angels, and videos . . . more to come
• Highlights search term
• Can be filtered

• CHANGELOG:
• Styling reworked

• PROFILE:
• Dashboard reworked
• Dashboard navigation reworked & restyled
• Update Profile Form restyled
• Copyright added to member profile

• TEAM:
• Small redesign
• Email addresses updated
• Member Update -1/+1

• BUGS:
• 5 go down, 10 pop up 😂

April 2026

• ARTICLES:
• Featured Articles Possible
• Article Categories
• Refined Article Allowed Tags
• Added 2026 Events
• Bugs squashed this month (100+)

• STORE EXPANSION:
• Store Categories
• Add to Cart & Buy Now
• Credit Card Acceptance (Stripe Integration)

February 13, 2026

• MEMBER PROFILE:
• Profile Card Display
• Angel submission Display
• Popular Articles Display
• Memorial Comments Display
• View Profile added to Profile Dashboard
• Premium and Premium+ tags added to Profile Display

• ARTICLES:
• Share buttons for FB, X, LinkedIn and Email
• Added a system to strip all but needed HTML out of the post
• Sorting, Filtering, Listing

February 8, 2026

• ARTICLE SYSTEM INSTALLED:
• Users with CONTRIBUTOR permissions may create/edit their own articles
• Added a system to scan and strip all but needed HTML out of the post
• Allows images, links, and basic styling & formatting
• Created two new articles as examples About APALD and Writing for APALD
• Added admin display of Articles (managing articles coming next)

February 6, 2026

• MEMBERSHIP:
• Now logging all account creations
• Discovered and killed bug in emailing new members their activation code

January 11, 2026

• ADMIN:
• Admins Interface cleaned and modernized
• Admins can now modify all members
• Admins can now bulk mail members
• Admins can now ban and delete members
• Admins can now add admin_notes to each member
• Admins can now sort and filter all members

January 7, 2026

• ADVANCED STORE COMPLETE:
• Member-only access with smooth login redirect (while testing)
• Product listing with dynamic category/seller filters
• Advanced sorting (Default, price, name — with clean mobile collapsible options)
• Clickable product cards with functional Add to Cart / Buy Now buttons
• Detailed product pages with large images and full info
• Specific "Product Name added to cart!" success messages on both index and detail pages
• Mobile-optimized UI (single column, larger text/buttons, collapsible filters/sorting)
• Recurring indicator, proper Remove/Update functionality, and mobile card layout
• Full Stripe checkout flow (one-time + recurring), emails, stock management, webhooks
• "Unavailable" displayed for out-of-stock items

January 6, 2026

• BASIC STORE EXPANSION:
• Base code for the store is complete and working with email receipts
• Added product images to cart and confirmation page as well as emails

January 5, 2026

• BASIC STORE COMPLETE::
• Product listing with stock display
• Add to Cart and Buy Now functionality
• Out-of-stock items correctly disable buttons
• Stock validation prevents over-purchase
• Cart checkout (multiple items) via AJAX
• Buy Now (single item) direct redirect
• Dynamic Stripe Checkout mode: payment for one-time, subscription for recurring
• Pending order creation in database with ordered items
• Successful redirection to Stripe Checkout (test mode so far)
• Success page displays order receipt
• Webhook endpoint configured and receiving events

December 17, 2025

• SYSTEM:
• Added a CONFIG file for default settings
• Refactored several pages (main, copyright, membership, events) for new CONFIG

June 22, 2025

• SYSTEM:
• Increased profile image max size from 500KB to 2MB
• Terminated some bugs in UPDATE PROFILE
• Added "Referred by" dropdown in UPDATE PROFILE
• Picking a "referred by" name in profile gives AP POINTS to the person selected

May 11, 2025

• SYSTEM:
• Memorial Wall refactored to optimize code.
• Memorial Wall sort buttons redesigned.
• Memorial Wall pagination added.
• Memorial Wall limited to 20 angels at once.
• Angel pages refactored to optimize code.
• TEAM page refactored and design adjusted.

May 10, 2025

• SYSTEM:
• Profile Dashboard jQuery Overhaul ver 1 Started
• Button style changed on Profile Dashboard
• jQuery installed to profile Dashboard
• Update Profile page updated
• Update Profile page merged with Profile Dashboard via AJAX
• Upload Profile Image moved to Update Profile
• Upload Profile Image button removed from Dashboard
• Update Profile Form styling adjusted

May 1-9, 2025

• SYSTEM:
• jQuery installed
• Forgot Password component added.
• Media Gallery images now sortted by newest first
• Press-releases section added
• Press-release for new VP posted
• More security updates
• Some bugs were wiped out!

• PARTNERS:
• iHeart Media Inc. added to partners

• EVENTS:
• Added iHeart Media commercial spot to events page

April, 2025

• EVENTS:
• 5th Annual May Day info added

• TEAM:
• Daniel Ritchie added to Board

• MEDIA:
• Filesize and uploaded date now displayed on images

August 6, 2024

• MEMBERS:
• Angel Pages now link to Submitted Member's Profile Page
• Patreon Account Created

July 3, 2024

• SYSTEM:
• Created Member Profile Pages
• Added Angel Listings to Member Profile Page
• Added "Comments Made" to Member Profile Page
• Created Member Posts DB
• Member Posts can be Featured by Owner
• Added Member's Featured Posts to Member Profile Page
• Added Public View to Member Profile Page
• Added Member View to Member Profile Page
• Added Admin View to Member Profile Page

June 30, 2024

• MEMBERS:
• Members can now upload profile images (.jpg, .gif, .webp, .png accepted)

June 15, 2024

• SYSTEM:
• Email notification sent to the person that submitted the angel anytime a member comments on that angel
• When a member comments on an angel page, they earn 5 APoints
• Comment privacy set to MEMBERS by default on all angels

June 13, 2024

• SYSTEM:
• Angel update moved to LIVE server
• links to FAQ & Changelog fixed on Angel, Profile and Admin pages

• ADMIN:
• Some mobile formatting applied

June 10, 2024

• TESTING:
• Members can now view all the angels they have submitted
• Members can now see the status of their submitted angels
• Members can now update their submitted angels
• Members can now delete their submitted angels
• Members can now add a middle name & nickname to their angels on update
• Members can now modify privacy settings for angel's middle name, nickname & comments
• Possible angel statuses include APPROVED, PENDING, & REJECTED
• Members can see REASON on REJECTED angel submissions

• SYSTEM:
• SYSTEM now counts how many times a member logs in
• Added referred by to member database (for member referrals)
• Added SUNRISE and SUNSET to ANGEL database

June 9, 2024

• SYSTEM:
• Angel Commenting system added to LIVE server
• Added STATISTICS page to public view

June 6, 2024

• ADMIN:
• Added sorting buttons for MEMORIAL_VIEWS
• Sorting Added [ALL, APPROVED, APPROVED with ALL_COMMENTS, MOST_VIEWS, NOT_APPROVED, MOST_COMMENTS]

• SYSTEM
• Ability to find angels submitted by SPECIFIC_MEMBER * First step to MEMBER updating angels
• Angel comments now have a privacy setting (set by person who submitted angel)
• Angel comments system works, just needs security added, privacy toggle, and moved to LIVE server

June 2, 2024

• ANGELS:
• Added view_count DISPLAY on angel pages
• Added view_reset_datetime DISPLAY on angel pages
• Added comment_count to angel COMMENT_DB
• Added comment_created_datetime to angel COMMENT_DB

• SYSTEM
• Added TRIGGER for COMMENT_DB comment_count - when a comment is made, angel's total comment_count increases

June 1, 2024

• SYSTEM:
• Added Browser, Device, OS, and IP to copyright

May 30, 2024

• ANGELS:
• Angels now have their own page that can be shared on social media sites
• Angels now have a view counter
• Angel pages display properly on FB
• Memorials & Random Angels point to Angel pages
• Modal View removed from Memorials & Random Angels

• PROFILES:
• Profile Dashboard (Mobile View) properly formatted
• Update Profile (Mobile View) properly formatted

• CHANGELOG:
• Added to public view (copyright section)

May 25, 2024

• MEMBERS:
• Modified Profile Dashboard
• Added & Completed "Update Profile"
• Added REWARD_PTS, TEXT_SYSTEM to MEMBER_DB
• Added REWARD_PTS, TEXT_SYSTEM DISPLAY to Profile pages

• PAGES:
• Completed Contact Form
• Modified TEAM buttons to send people to CONTACT_FORM

• ADMIN:
• Added Mailing List
• Added Recent Login

• BUGS SQUASHED:
• Changed Head - fixed BodyId bug
• Fixed Bug with Memorials Modal not showing
• Popout Audio Player

• FAQs:
• Questions about data security and Profile Update added

May 20, 2024

• MEMORIALS:
• Started Process of giving each Angel their own page
• Changed Sorting Method from Dropdown to Labeled Buttons
• Added Submission Date (Oldest First) to Sorting Options
• Added Submission Date (Newest First) to Sorting Options
• Added Age (Oldest First) to Sorting Options
• Modified Age (Youngest First) Sorting Options
• Sorting Options Scroll Left <--> Right

May 16, 2024

• SYSTEM:
• Content Security Policy established & installed
• Fixed bug that wouldn't allow button click on Membership page

May 10, 2024

• ADMIN:
• Main Panel (Task Panels)
• Memorials - Started (3 views) & Counter
• Members - Refactored (3 views) & Counter
• Pages - Added more with hit counters

• SYSTEM:
• Changelog created