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Wondering About Widgets? How to Use Them in Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

It may be a funny sounding word to many beginning WordPress users, but widgets can be—and should be—a vital component to any WordPress design. What exactly are widgets? In simple terms to the uninitiated, widgets are small blocks that provide very specific functions on your WordPress page. Then find the link below it to delete.

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The Right Direction: Free Plugins to Put your Website on the Map

Byte Technology

Indeed, so much of what we do online these days depends on our physical location, with a host of apps that can make recommendations and programs that sync seamlessly with map services. The aforementioned Google Maps is certainly a leader in the online map market—you can embed a code that you paste into your WordPress posts.

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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded.

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Vote for Your Favorite Nonprofit Technology Conference Panels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference will take place on March 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC. Online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching: The big picture. Nonprofit Technology #FAILS: How to “Fail Informatively”. A Unified Voice for the Nonprofit Technology Community: Possibility or Herding Cats?

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How Your Nonprofit CRM Can Support Marketing Efforts

Nonprofits Source

Technology is increasingly changing the future of nonprofit marketing , which is why your organization must leverage its software to keep up. According to CharityEngine’s guide to donor journey maps , your nonprofit will need a well-designed donation form to convert prospective supporters into actual donors.

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The Picture Show: The Best WordPress Themes for Video Ventures

Byte Technology

Designed to handle full-screen background or popup videos, it also includes a convenient gallery module as well as widgets to display portfolio showcases. Users can rate videos easily (via the PostRatings plugin), the homepage is widget-rich and friendly and it melds beautifully with social media through customizable buttons.

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The Buddy System: Going Social with Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

Feature rich, it allows you to set up social sharing as well as a contact form and integration with Google Maps. Social networking on Twitter and Instagram is controlled via custom widgets, and you can control most elements of the design including the background and the placement of your logo.

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