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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. 2) Ensure that your website is responsive. Is your nonprofit’s website responsive across all devices?

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

Byte Technology

It’s an all-to-common scenario: a new user to WordPress builds their site, goes live and starts blogging or selling or raising funds without giving much thought into how their site’s performing. Leave it to Google to come up with the industry-leading site testing app. YSlow Browser Plugin. WebPagetest.

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Top 4 Web Hosting Providers for Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WP Engine’s one-click staging for testing plugins or new features. Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Your site can go down for days. Also, a great collection of resources.

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Current Affair: The Importance of Keeping Your WordPress Site Updated

Byte Technology

But beyond the exciting new gadget and gizmos being folded in through regular updates, there are more crucial reasons to keep your programs and devices current: when an app, plugin or other program is created, it’s inevitable that there will be problems with performance, connectivity and, most importantly, with security.

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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. Basically, it’s about ranking higher in the search engine results for keywords related to your site. The more the better?

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Taking Care of Business: Some Great WordPress Themes for E-Commerce Sites

Byte Technology

And indeed developers and programmers quickly identified the desires of a burgeoning e-tail community and reacted with some excellent themes, plugins, payment programs and more, all based on the needs of intrepid sellers, buyers, marketers and the like. Will a bare-bones theme give enough choices for your clientele?

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WordPress 5.6 is Coming: PHP 8 is Already Here

Byte Technology

We recommend not updating to PHP 8 just yet to allow WordPress core and plugin developers to update their code and release new PHP 8 compatible versions. Byte Technology recommends testing your site on the new version first on a staging environment and identifying and applying fixes there before going to production.

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