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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please join Chuck on October 29 for a webinar on how to prevent your WordPress website from getting hacked. WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability. Events, Fundraising and Donations.

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Feel the Heat: The Best Firewall Plugins for Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

But to really protect your website against hacks, brute force attacks and the dreaded “denial of service” quagmire, all site owners and administrators should look carefully into adding a firewall via a plugin. But unlike the previously mentioned plugins Wordfence works from your own server rather than a remote proxy.

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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Security

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Chuck Spidell , founder of ILLUSIO and a WordPress Strategist committed to helping nonprofits get their websites unstuck and moving forward. If your nonprofit has a website, someone is always looking for a way to get in. Dealing with a hacked WordPress website can be time-consuming, expensive, and emotionally draining.

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What’s New in WordPress: Top Plug-ins for 2021

Byte Technology

Ideally, you will have already updated your website and have the Gutenberg plugin installed. And there is so much more in the new WordPress like improvement in accessibility, a long list of changes for developers, plenty of fixes for bugs, and UI enhancement. Change site title, time zone, and tagline. Add a contact form.

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A Guide to Facebook Social Plugins for Nonprofits

NetWits

You might have read about the recent changes Facebook made. Or maybe you’ve seen changes appearing on one of the sites you frequently visit - there are over 100,000 of them out there. Facebook did a nice job making their social plugins simple to implement, but understanding the practical uses for each of the plugins can be confusing.

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WordPress 5.6 is Coming: PHP 8 is Already Here

Byte Technology

How does this release affect my WordPress website? 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. What are some of the changes I will see? From a functional/user standpoint, there won’t be any obvious changes.

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A Wake Up Call: What the Equifax Breach Means for Website Owners

Byte Technology

For website owners, managers, administrators and users whose sites gather and, perhaps, store customer data, the Equifax crisis should absolutely serve as a wake-up call. This means: Keeping all your core programs, platforms, scripts, plugins and themes up to date with the latest versions. Lastly, change your passwords again.

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