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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. Search engine optimization (SEO) can be an expensive and time-consuming because it requires on-going maintenance.

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Best to Test: Tools for Gauging your WordPress Site’s Speed and Performance

Byte Technology

Having images that are too large, a poorly coded theme, a lousy hosting service and far too many plugins are all things that can slow down your site considerably and have visitors hitting the “back” button immediately. Leave it to Google to come up with the industry-leading site testing app. YSlow Browser Plugin.

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8 Best SEO Tips for Nonprofit Strategy in 2024

Whole Whale

SEO – Search Engine Optimization – (if you don’t already know) is the practice of improving and promoting a website in order to increase the number of visitors the site receives from search engines. Chances are you are on this page as a result of doing searches for SEO basics or intros to the topic and now you’re here!

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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded. Read on for a small look ahead.

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Staying in Check: Keeping Up With Important Regular Maintenance Tasks (Part 2)

Byte Technology

From backing up your files to keeping on a schedule of updates to your theme, plugins and other programs to remembering to always change your passwords, there are lots of ways to keep your site purring along and, more importantly, to make it safe from hackers, malware and the like.

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Choosing a CMS: 3 Tips for Your Nonprofit

Top Nonprofits

Security features , such as two-factor authentication, the ability to assign restricted permissions to different users, and automated security tests. Search engine optimization (SEO) tools to help your site pages rank on search engine results pages. Custom plugin, module, or theme creation. Module and plugin upgrades.

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Making a Connection: Tips and Tricks for Designing a Contact Page

Byte Technology

How many times have you browsed a website with content you really liked and, wishing to stay abreast of new developments or additions, you searched in vain for a contact page only to find there wasn’t one? Then make those templates your own by adding a plugin like CSS Hero which allows you to edit the visual aspects of a form.

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