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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress also offers easy-to-add plugins that add functionality to your website and it is worth noting that WordPress and its plugins need to be updated regularly to prevent potential crashes on the website. If it is not installed on your website, this tutorial provides set up instructions. 3) Use and monitor Google Analytics.

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Shopping Spree: Some Great WordPress Plugins for Building an Online Store

Byte Technology

The right ecommerce plugin. Here’s a peek at five WordPress plugins for building and running an online store, each with different features, options and layouts and each a good fit for different types of virtual selling. By far the most popular e-tail plugin is WooCommerce, designed and launched by the company behind WordPress itself.

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On the Move: Great Drag-and-Drop Plugins for Easy Site Customization

Byte Technology

WordPress plugin developers have thankfully embraced the ease of drag and drop, and have built some wonderful programs that utilize it for page customizing. The Elementor plugin is first and foremost built for speed, a nice feature for those who want to edit as quickly as their minds work and creative ideas take hold.

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

Byte Technology

And while WordPress has some terrific plugins available that can help you create and manage a comment section on your site, too often unforeseen problems and lapses exist that stymie the commenting process. When a particular post has outlived its exposure, most admins will turn off the comment section for that post as a way to limit spam.

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The Picture Show: The Best WordPress Themes for Video Ventures

Byte Technology

Most are free and many are easy to use for beginners, but don’t be afraid to call in some help from the WordPress experts if you’re unsure of how to install and launch them or if you need a tutorial on how to safely and efficiently administer the themes. Here are some stand-outs certainly worthy of further exploration.

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New on SSIR: What the New Facebook Changes Mean for Nonprofits

Amy Sample Ward

The good news is that the nonprofit technology community is rich in sharing, and there are lots of online tutorials about this latest wave of updates on Facebook. John Haydon has an in-depth video tutorial that will walk you through every report now available. I’ve pulled a few of them together here.

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6 Reasons Open Source Makes Sense

3rd Sector Labs

It isn’t just that WordPress or Drupal work, it’s that the support universe is so vast that if you have a special need chances are almost certain that someone else has built a plugin or widget for it – in fact, there are probably dozens of them. Again, they’re free and no commitment of any kind is necessary.