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4 Tips For Maintaining Your Nonprofit’s Databases

TechImpact

Database are extremely useful in simplifying business operations, communication, and workflow for both the for-profit sector and nonprofit sector. Nonprofits and charities use databases to manage donor, volunteer, and B2B profiles and aggregate data. But of course, a good database can go down-hill if it is not properly maintained.

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6 Qualities A Nonprofit Database Management System Should Have

TechImpact

Nonprofits use databases to handle volunteers, donors, staff, and more. For smaller nonprofits, a database may be nothing more than an Excel file. Medium to large nonprofits might have an IT staff and a simple database, designed by the in-house development team. Who manages the database? Authorization.

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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Security

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Once inside your site, a hacker can delete pages, plugins, and themes without anyone knowing. Most nonprofits can’t afford to pay a $10,000 ransom every month because a hacker planted a virus on their site. How many months would you lose trying to rebuild your site? 1) Regularly update your plugins.

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Don’t you hate it when your database goes poof?

Judi Sohn

At some point yesterday morning, my WordPress database disappeared and was replaced with a default WordPress install. Luckily, Erik was the one who brought the problem to my attention, and he stuck with me until the site was restored. It emails me a backup of my database every night. Database corruption? Not a fun Friday.

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Save the Day: Knowing Which WordPress Files to Always Back Up

Byte Technology

From targeted hack attempts to denial of service attacks to unexpected—and all too common—server failures, not having the correct data backed up can cause headaches and even total ruin for a site owner. The Core WordPress Files. Configuration Files. htaccess” file. The “WP-Content” Folder.

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Top 4 Web Hosting Providers for Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Multiple Staging Sites – you can make a copy of your WordPress website to test new plugins before adding them to a live site.

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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. Here’s a list of plugins that will help save you time, make your site more engaging and easier to use for staff and visitors; and is secure: Productivity and Workflow.

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