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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability. 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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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Security

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Once inside your site, a hacker can delete pages, plugins, and themes without anyone knowing. 1) Regularly update your plugins. One of the simplest ways to close back doors to hackers is by updating all of your WordPress plugins every month. Hackers use software that can scan your website and make a list of all of your plugins.

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

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WP Engine’s one-click staging for testing plugins or new features. 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. Three “staging” environments are included, along with one-click staging for need basic plugin testing.

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Fact versus Fiction: A Q & A on WordPress Plugins

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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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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

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A faulty WordPress plugin, for example, that “breaks” a part of your website may require you to restore your website to a version before the plugin was installed. The files on your computer(s), however, do require subscribing to a service, such as Carbonite or iDrive. and requires no maintenance.

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Work Safe: The Best WordPress Plugins for Security

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That’s why installing an extra layer of security via a plugin is so important: besides keeping your data—and the information of your users, clients and customers—protected, it also ensures that, if your site is comprised, you can get back up and running quickly and with a minimum amount of effort.

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Feel the Heat: The Best Firewall Plugins for Your WordPress Site

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But to really protect your website against hacks, brute force attacks and the dreaded “denial of service” quagmire, all site owners and administrators should look carefully into adding a firewall via a plugin. But unlike the previously mentioned plugins Wordfence works from your own server rather than a remote proxy.

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