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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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Cybersecurity strategies for nonprofit websites

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In addition, using a password management tool can help to generate, store, and secure passwords. A WAF protects against cross-site forgery, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and SQL injection attacks. Train employees on cybersecurity. Educate staff about risks and vulnerabilities. Back up your website.

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

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 #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

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Working Together: Great Social Media Plugins for Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

Thankfully there are some wonderful choices—so many so that it may be a bit overwhelming choosing one—for WordPress plugins that help your site become fully social media friendly. And those tools—in the form of style sheets, scripts etc.—have have the potential to slow down the operating speed of your site.

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SEO For Nonprofits: A Beginners Guide To Digital Marketing Success

Nonprofits Source

Google’s mobile-friendly test tool is a quick way to check whether or not your pages are optimized for mobile devices: 7. LSIGraph is a free tool that provides a list of related keyword suggestions based on your keyword: This suggestion tool does have the downside of not providing information like keyword difficulty.

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Navigating Your Upgrade from Drupal 7

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These tools enable content creators to robustly manage large volumes of content and easily create pages with flexible layouts that connect with target audiences. The migrate suite doesn’t provide a path for migrating from Panelizer to Layout Builder automatically, so we leveraged the migration toolset and wrote custom plugins.

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Fact versus Fiction: A Q & A on WordPress Plugins

Byte Technology

When it comes to WordPress sites, designers and admins—when asked what is one of the most confusing aspects of the platform—will most likely put “plugins” somewhere on their list. Indeed, plugins are fantastic and, in many cases, a must-have when working on a WordPress site. Q: Can WordPress plugins really affect my sites load time?

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