Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

That’s how many websites tech security experts and analyze estimate are hacked every single day, a staggering number even when you consider there are some 644 million active sites operating at any one time. However, most people don’t consider an equally startling fact: WordPress sites are some of those most commonly attacked.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

mail-tester:: mail-tester.com This free tool reveals if your email domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. See also OptInMonster.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 13, 2017

As wonderful as the WordPress content management system is, by its very nature—capable of supporting hundreds of different themes, thousands of plugins and so much more—it can be quite slow at times. Remember this always: when a visitor first lands on your site their initial impression is everything. Think about image optimization.

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Byte Technology

MAY 2, 2017

No matter whether you’re a WordPress newbie or a seasoned pro who has been building and managing sites on the platform for years, it’s absolutely inevitable that, at some point, you’ll hit a snag and need some help. This is convenient sure, except that it makes your site look sloppy and amateurish.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 21, 2012

They included a variety of graphics that look like typical credit score spam, but the sender addresses are obviously faked and the links look like they point to hacked WordPress sites like nbouhout.astblogs.org//wp-content/themes/trulyminimal/includes/framework/plugins/score_for_free.html.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2016

One of the hallmarks of the WordPress content management system is the ability to engage a user audience and create a back-and-forth conversation of sorts in the virtual world. Regardless of why a site doesn’t foster an active comment board, there are some quick and easy ways to change the issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.)

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For anyone who designs, owns, manages or administers a WordPress site, the importance of the “community” that surrounds the wildly popular content management system cannot be understated. Here are some good tips for tapping into this information-rich resource and becoming an active player in WordPress world. Check out a forum.

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Byte Technology

JULY 11, 2017

In Part 1 of this column we learned that, thanks to the vast and incredibly helpful community of WordPress users, there are countless hacks, tricks and tips to make designing, building, editing and administering a WordPress site a lot easier and, often, a lot more fun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2024

For many years Nonprofit Tech for Good used a budget website hosting company for $12 a month, but by 2020 our website downtime became significant and our email opt-in forms overrun with spam bot subscribers. Since then, our site has experienced zero downtime, no more bot email subscribers, and customer service is exceptional.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 13, 2012

The first 3 links point to hacked WordPress sites that mean do me harm, such as: aliceclayton.com/wp-content/plugins/akismet/greet.html. This site says the links install malware. This email was sent by 123Greetings.com, Inc., 1674 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. emeraldexpo2012.com/wp-content/plugins/akismet/greet.html.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

At some point yesterday morning, my WordPress database disappeared and was replaced with a default WordPress install. It looked like this in Safari: That tiny print is the copy that’s on a default WordPress installation, but with the Thesis theme I use applied to it…kind of. WordPress 2.3 Although WordPress 2.3

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 15, 2017

So why wouldn’t you do the same for your WordPress website? After all, WordPress sites are made up of many different component parts, including the core program, hosting, software, plugins and even themes. For less busy sites, every six months is most likely enough.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Tweets overloaded with hashtags look messy, are hard to read, and make your nonprofit look desperate to gain followers.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 12, 2015

As long as there have been websites, there have been tools in place to keep those sites safe from spam and hacker abuse. Historically robots aren’t able to solve the distorted text, but new artificial intelligence programs are changing that, allowing non-humans to gain access to sites with a scary 99.8%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 19, 2017

An eye-catching design; award-winning content; a strong and reliable host server; an intuitive and engaging user experience—the best websites incorporate all these things and more, and missing the boat on one or more of them can spell doom for an e-commerce or blog site. So try to settle on a name that’s catchy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Google+ is less valuable that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but overall the site is more valuable than most nonprofits realize in terms of referral traffic and SEO. I did not delete my Tumblr in case the site ever soars to can-not-ignore popularity status, but mostly like it has tumbled its last tumble. Quit a Social Network.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. commenting on any item. rating items. tagging capabilities to keep things organized.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Off page SEO factors – factors that are behind the scenes and used by search engines to communicate with your site (e.g. In other words, when people search for a keyword that is valuable to your brand you want to be the one ranking on the first page to drive more traffic to your site. So how do you get those first page results?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Laura: Joomla can work for both a simple site and a complex one. design: is it clean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Check out the TINT 4 Good site for more information. You can also use RSS to pull in content from other sources like Flickr and WordPress. You can choose from a collection of premade themes for a variety of cases for use on websites, retail TV displays, mobile apps, event projector screens, and e-commerce sites. Personalize.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We use Wordpress to power our blogs.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Does it say what you really want it to about your organization? Email is a critical channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. It will help you centralize all your efforts and reduce the amount of spam and notification e-mails sent to your work e-mail account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. Hotjar helps you better understand how users behave on your website site through heatmaps, recordings, and surveys. Newsletter Spam Check :: mail-tester.com. Hotjar :: hotjar.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. It’s quite a powerful tool, and has everything you’d want in a private social media site – friending, profiles, groups, collaboration tools, etc.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Blackhat SEO spam campaigns are also based on economic gain. By putting links (usually hidden) on your site and tricking users into clicking them, they eventually get those links into search engine results and are rewarded with money from your audience.

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