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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

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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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. Managed Core Updates – WordPress publishes weekly maintenance releases and plugin creators tend to be bi-weekly to monthly. Multiple Staging Sites – you can make a copy of your WordPress website to test new plugins before adding them to a live site.

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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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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

The other useful tool for exploring new keyword ideas is the Keywords Everywhere plugin. You can use tools like Experte mobile test and Pingdom to test your site speed. Keywords everywhere shown for “Nonprofit SEO” 2. Study Seasonal Trends Another fantastic tool is Google Trends.

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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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