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Quick Fixes to Common WordPress Problems: Part 1

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Although many WordPress users find them a little scary, shortcodes for widgets are great as they add functionality to text areas without having to know any real coding. If you’re scared about entering it manually, install the Shortcode Widget Plugin and let it do the work for you.

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

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CAPTCHA has become the go-to resource for blocking spam in a comment section: type in series of letters and numbers or a word from a picture and get access to the section. You’ll still effectively block spam, and you’ll be brought into closer interaction with your users.

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

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So show little excerpts of posts or other content rather than everything right off the bat; keep the homepage simple by not trying to cram too much on it; ditch widgets that aren’t absolutely necessary for navigation; and dump plugins that you don’t need and aren’t using. htaccess” file.

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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

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Social features on your site—such as comments, discussion boards, user-submitted stories, ratings, and voting widgets—can help build engagement within your audience. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content.

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You're an Accidental Spammer: What Do You Do When You've Been Hacked? (Digital Dispatches from the desk of Gavin Clabaugh)

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Gavin Claubaugh, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Effective IT management is more about wetware than it is about hardware and software: it's all about managing the intersection of technology and these rather strange things called people. Scenario: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, bacon and spam.

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Things We Like (January 2009)

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The return of technology as a national priority. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. An IT program in Germany has a section on social skills. Economy still got you down?

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic.