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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress, Webflow, and Shopify are cost-effective and allow users to build a website quickly that can be easily edited without needing vast technical abilities. If you have a contact us form, add a Google reCAPTCHA to help stop spam emails. 1) Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS) platform.

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

Byte Technology

One of the hallmarks of the WordPress content management system is the ability to engage a user audience and create a back-and-forth conversation of sorts in the virtual world. WordPress experts will tell you that a website comment section can strain internal resources, especially for your web hosting server.

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Useful Hacks, Tricks & Tips for WordPress Users: Part 2

Byte Technology

In Part 1 of this column we learned that, thanks to the vast and incredibly helpful community of WordPress users, there are countless hacks, tricks and tips to make designing, building, editing and administering a WordPress site a lot easier and, often, a lot more fun.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.

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Keeping Up With Regular Maintenance Tasks (Part 1)

Byte Technology

So why wouldn’t you do the same for your WordPress website? After all, WordPress sites are made up of many different component parts, including the core program, hosting, software, plugins and even themes. WordPress experts continually harp about the importance of backing up your site, and for good reason.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Tweets overloaded with hashtags look messy, are hard to read, and make your nonprofit look desperate to gain followers. Twitter Communities.

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NetSquared Events in May and June

Tech Soup

Seattle, WA: WordPress: Blogs, Websites and So Much More! Peterborough, Canada: Spam legislation- What it means for e-communcations. Naples, FL: How to Vision, Create, Promote, and Manage an effective Social Media Campaign. Vancouver, Canada: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What Nonprofits need to know before July 1.