This simple infographic explains the different pieces of a WordPress site. Stack your blocks in well-constructed tower to make the best website for your nonprofit!
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New Nonprofit WP Pages Focus on Beginners
Three new pages published in the last month, fill out Nonprofit WP to make it even more useful! Two of the pages especially aim to help the least-experienced users get started and get the most out of the site.
Choose Your Nonprofit Website Role Models Carefully
The nonprofit sector and open-source software both share a love of collaboration, support, and openness. These are good things that make everyone better, but only when we make thoughtful choices for ourselves and don’t blindly follow the latest trend.
Upcoming Idealware Webinar: Using Pro Bono Help for Tech Projects
Idealware and the Taproot Foundation are experts on low- and no-budget nonprofit technology projects. Here’s a fantastic opportunity to get their expertise for free! We tossed in a free piece of advice while we’re at it 🙂
6 Achievable Nonprofit Website Tasks for the New Year (Start With One!)
Let’s skip the resolution and get straight to the action! Here are 6 extremely achievable tasks you can use to improve your website for you and your visitors in the year!
Notes from “Decoding Tech Volunteerism” at 501 Commons
A presentation at 501 Commons in Seattle, Washington had a ton of great information about finding and working with technology volunteers to get the most out of a volunteer technology project!
A Great Idea for Nonprofit Bloggers: Seasons
A great way to make posting to your blog more fun and more frequent! Consider blogging in “seasons” as one blogger suggests.
On Small Donate Buttons & Contextual Requests for Support
When I’m building a website for a nonprofit, it’s common for the organization to ask me to make their donate button: bigger brighter higher on the page anything else to make it “stand out” Donate Buttons Don’t Cause Donations. You Do! I always want to please the client—and I definitely want all nonprofit websites to raise … Continue reading On Small Donate Buttons & Contextual Requests for Support
Make a Social Timeline on Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Blog Without Storify
or: How I Learned to Stop Using Embed Codes and Love Embedding Videos, Tweets, and More! It can be hard to continually write good content for a website or blog. One effective-yet-underutilized type of content is curated social media posts. You might have seen these on other websites before. They’ll be a series of well-chosen tweets, Facebook posts, and other … Continue reading Make a Social Timeline on Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Blog Without Storify
2016 Nonprofit Benchmarks Report from NTEN & M+R
Each year NTEN and M+R conduct the best study I know establishing benchmarks for nonprofit email, websites, social media, and more. How does your organization stack up?