Category: Tips & Tutorials
Innovative Ways to Use GiveWP
How to Organize a WordPress Hackathon
Getting help on your nonprofit website can be as simple as planning and attending a hackathon. The WordPress community and the overall software community love to give back. What is a Hackathon? The word “Hackathon” sounds scary, right? Don’t worry, it’s not that kind of hacking. A while back, we discussed how to prepare yourself…
Read more about “post|post_title”Michelle Frechette May 9, 2018
GDPR Tools for your Nonprofit Website
Your nonprofit website needs to be GDPR compliant. Get a head-start with these free GDPR tools. If your organization interacts with European citizens in any way, it’s important you understand what responsibilities you have to protect the privacy of those visitors and perhaps donors. The European Union will be enforcing a new regulation called the…
Read more about “post|post_title”Matt Cromwell May 3, 2018
A Free Fundraising Report for your Give Donations
This free donation reporting tool can take your Give data and provide you with valuable insights to better understand your donations and donors.
Read more about “post|post_title”Matt Cromwell April 25, 2018
Auditing Your WordPress Plugin for Gutenberg
With its growing list of features and blocks, it’s difficult to know where to begin in preparing an existing WordPress plugin for Gutenberg. That’s why we’re going back to the start to focus on the one change that has kept us most excited about Gutenberg since day one—the block and its ability to unify the…
Read more about “post|post_title”Kevin Hoffman March 29, 2018
How to Back Up Your Site for Faster Troubleshooting
If your server crashed today, could you restore your site from a backup? If you needed to provide a backup to a developer to help with troubleshooting, could you? We recommend regular backups to all of our Give users. Aside from being a WordPress best practice, a functional backup of your site can mean the…
Read more about “post|post_title”Ben Meredith January 23, 2018
How to Prepare Your WordPress Site for Give 2.0
Give 2.0 is coming very soon, and it is the first step toward a more robust, powerful, flexible, and developer-friendly Give.
Read more about “post|post_title”Matt Cromwell January 11, 2018
A/B Testing Donation Landing Pages with Google Optimize
Use the free Google Optimize tool to A/B test your donation landing pages.
Read more about “post|post_title”Andy McIlwain December 21, 2017
Popular Page Builders for your Giving Tuesday Campaign
A review of several popular WordPress Page Builders to use for your Giving Tuesday donation landing page.
Read more about “post|post_title”Devin Walker November 22, 2017
Pros and Cons of Asking Donors to Create an Account When Donating
Donor registration allows your site to become more powerful: bring donors close to the heart of your organization, personalize their experience, and gain greater access.
Read more about “post|post_title”Ben Meredith October 30, 2017
Nonprofit End-Of-Year Reporting with MailChimp and Give
Every nonprofit needs to master end-of-year reporting in order to provide personalized donation reports to their donor base. Whether this is at the end of the year, the end of a fiscal year, or even each month, using MailChimp with Give is the key. How do I start end-of-year reporting with Give? Your nonprofit needs…
Read more about “post|post_title”Ben Meredith September 19, 2017
Fundraising Urgency: Using Goals and Countdowns to Increase Donations
You have a Give form for fundraising. But is it working? There are some tips and tricks for fundraising that you can take advantage of — namely, urgency. Urgency is a powerful psychological motivator. It’s the brilliance behind door buster sales, crowdfunding campaigns, and matinee rates at the theater. Effectively using urgency can also help you…
Read more about “post|post_title”Ben Meredith May 16, 2017
Using Google Analytics eCommerce Data to Understand your Donors
Donations are “eCommerce,” too! Donation conversions can be tracked with Google Analytics. Here’s some of the insights you can get by leveraging Google Analytics eCommerce tracking with Give. Our Give forms strive to be as streamlined as possible so that by the time your donor gets to the donation form, they have zero struggles making…
Read more about “post|post_title”Matt Cromwell March 14, 2017
