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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress also offers easy-to-add plugins that add functionality to your website and it is worth noting that WordPress and its plugins need to be updated regularly to prevent potential crashes on the website. To install SSL certificates on your website, contact your website hosting provider.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. Can you {suggest|recommend} a good {internet hosting|web hosting|hosting} provider at a {honest|reasonable|fair} price? .| It goes on and on, but you''ll get the idea pretty quickly. I found it fascinating.

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Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts

Byte Technology

And while WordPress has some terrific plugins available that can help you create and manage a comment section on your site, too often unforeseen problems and lapses exist that stymie the commenting process. WordPress experts will tell you that a website comment section can strain internal resources, especially for your web hosting server.

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Keeping Up With Regular Maintenance Tasks (Part 1)

Byte Technology

After all, WordPress sites are made up of many different component parts, including the core program, hosting, software, plugins and even themes. The program comes with a very easy-to-use built-in system to handle updates for the core, plugins and themes, and you should always check to make sure you’re using the latest version.

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The Fast Lane: More Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

As wonderful as the WordPress content management system is, by its very nature—capable of supporting hundreds of different themes, thousands of plugins and so much more—it can be quite slow at times. How’s your hosting? Too many people try to save money by choosing a shared hosting service, but this can be a big mistake.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Use a premium hosting service for your website. Inexpensive website hosting is tempting for nonprofits on a limited budget, but eventually, the high price of low-cost website hosting becomes evident and problematic. Another benefit of premium website hosting is automatic daily backups of your website.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. In truth, it is difficult to host a successful Twitter Chat if your nonprofit does not have a large, engaged following on Twitter.

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