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Why You Should Choose WordPress to Manage Your Nonprofit Website

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Ahmad Awais

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March 8, 2017

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WordPress is a great option for a nonprofit company. It’s easy to learn, cheap to use, and doesn’t take much management. For a small team with limited resources, it’s a great way to get online fast. Using the CMS allows a nonprofit organization to save time and money and still have a professional online presence. That said, simply adding a PayPal “donate” button can look dull and insecure. You need employ better solution to make sure people not only trust you as an organization but are excited to donate. WordPress Takes Minimal Website Management There are many complications you can […]

Getting The Most Out of a Freemium WordPress Business Model

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Josh Pollock

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March 7, 2017

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Two years ago, I started a WordPress plugin company. I thought if we made cool stuff people would like it, and therefore buy them and we’d have a bunch of money. I was a bit naive, to say the least. This was my first time selling anything online besides my development services. However, our first month only brought in about $350, which was not exactly what I was expecting. It shouldn’t have shocked me because I wasn’t focusing on what problem my plugin could solve for people. I also didn’t know that Caldera Forms, not our Pods add-on would become our […]

Voting for Torque’s 2017 Plugin Madness is now open

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Marie Dodson

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March 7, 2017

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Let the madness begin! Voting for Torque’s 2017 Plugin Madness is now open. Modeled after the NCAA college basketball tournament March Madness, we use a bracket-based voting system to pit plugins against one another each week. This year we asked you to nominate your favorite plugins, and today we’re happy to kick things off with an impressive lineup of plugins. Head on over to pluginmadness.com to vote for your favorite plugins now. Vote for your favorite plugins here The voting schedule is as follows: March 7: The Enchanting 64 (Round 1) March 14: The Thrilling 32 (Round 2) March 21: […]

4 Considerations for Building a WordPress Enterprise Site

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John Hughes

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March 6, 2017

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When building a website for an enterprise, you may be tempted to bypass a CMS such as WordPress and gravitate towards proprietary solutions to get the job done. However, these expensive (and often bulky!) tools are no longer necessary for building enterprise-level websites and web applications. Having matured over a decade (and now powering more than a quarter of the web), WordPress is no longer a mere blogging framework. It’s now a full-featured Content Management System (CMS) that can handle a growing infrastructure and offers the tools you need to build scalable and powerful sites for your projects. No matter the size […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: What motivates WordPress spammers?

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Doc Pop

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March 6, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. Ever wonder what hackers hope to achieve after gaining control of a site? Wordfence just published a fantastic article about how one very prolific group of hackers were using WordPress sites to drive traffic to counterfeit NFL sportswear. We talk about that analysis and more in this week’s video. Love WordPress News, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. I finally installed Sucuri a few weeks back and immediately […]

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