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Fundraising guides

Practical, plain-English guides - useful whether or not you ever install our plugin.

How to accept donations on WordPress

The complete walkthrough: choosing an approach, payment processors, compliance basics, and a working donation form - in an afternoon.

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How to grow recurring donations

Practical, no-budget tactics that turn one-time givers into monthly supporters - the highest-leverage work in fundraising.

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Donation page best practices

What high-converting nonprofit donation pages do differently - layout, copy, amounts, trust signals, and the mistakes to avoid.

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Donation plugins with no platform fees

How platform fees hide inside "free" plugins - including GiveWP's 2% on Stripe - and how to keep 100% of every gift.

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What donation plugins really cost

A transparent 2026 price comparison - license, add-ons, and platform fees - across the major WordPress donation plugins.

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Stripe vs PayPal for nonprofits

Fees, donor trust, and checkout compared - and why offering both beats choosing one.

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Online giving for churches

Set up recurring tithes, designated funds, and offline gift entry on WordPress - for free.

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Stripe Says the Donation Succeeded but WordPress Never Recorded It

Stripe payment went through but the donation is not showing in WordPress? The money is safe. Here is the webhook, caching and PayPal-pending fix, step

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Hundreds of Fake $1 Donations Overnight: Stopping a Card-Testing Attack on Your Donation Form

Hundreds of fake $1 donations overnight? That is a card-testing attack. Here is the first-hour triage, the five defense layers, and how to clean up sp

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Putting a Donation Form on a Client's Site Without a Per-Site License or a Cut of Their Donations

A free GPL WordPress donation plugin for nonprofit client sites: no license key, no per-site fee, no cut of donations. Deploy on unlimited sites and h

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Annual Giving Statements for Your Congregation, Generated From Your Own Website

How to send annual giving statements to church members from your own website: what the IRS requires, the $250 aggregation rule, the 2026 non-itemizer

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Your Stripe Deposit Doesn't Match Your Donation Total. That's Correct - Here's How to Reconcile It

Your Stripe deposit is smaller than your donation report because payouts arrive net of fees, in rolling batches. Here is how a volunteer treasurer rec

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A Fundraising Page for One Animal's Vet Bill, Live on Your Own Site in an Afternoon

Build a vet-bill fundraising page for one rescue animal on your own WordPress site in an afternoon: goal thermometer, monthly sponsors, tributes, zero

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Switching plugins without losing history

What actually transfers when you leave GiveWP or Donorbox, what cannot, and how to import your donor history by CSV.

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Your next monthly donor is on your website right now

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