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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better.

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6 Reasons Open Source Makes Sense

3rd Sector Labs

We talk a lot about Open Source technology (and we use it quite extensively too) so it might make sense for us to take a moment and explain why we are such advocates. Affordability – Open Source is free of licensing fees. Proven – Open Source platforms like Drupal, WordPress, CiviCRM, etc.,

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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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Interesting sites I’m looking at (weekly)

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Fluxx | Open Source Grants Management. Catch My Fame » jQuery Before/After Plugin. tags: jquery plugin image toblog. tags: toblog women technology developers. tags: grants CRM opensource toblog nptech. tags: cryptography secure communication toblog. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Nonprofit

Allegiance Group

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. Many do not have open-source code, but some, like Umbraco, do. Nevertheless, choosing isn’t simply about popularity.

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Plugging In: Updating Your WordPress Utilities Safely and Securely

Byte Technology

Want to know the number one reason WordPress sites get hacked as well as the number one reason users experience compatibility issues? It’s simply because the site itself—including those awesome little plug-ins that allowed you to customize your pages—isn’t working off the latest update. or in a cloud-based service such as Dropbox.

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.