We have some really big news – Allen has accepted a position at Automattic – the company behind WordPress – and will be starting there as a Code Wrangler (much cooler than simply a software engineer) in a little over a week. While we are excited about this new opportunity, it also means it is [...]
Announcing Seamless Donations for WordPress
We are excited to announce that a new free edition of our popular custom donations plugin for WordPress is now available on the WordPress repository. It takes your website beyond the simple PayPal donation button to a donor-friendly form with suggested giving levels, memorial and tribute gift options and generates fully customizable thank you emails. [...]
Don’t take the bait – more fake PayPal and Bank of America emails lately
We received a few of these emails in our inbox lately. It got my attention – official looking PayPal logo showing a very large amount being sent to someone. Uh oh! But on closer inspection, it isn’t legit. It’s a phishing email – designed to get me to click on something and then send me [...]
Recommended WordPress Update (3.3.1) Becomes Even More Important
We want to encourage you to take some time and update your website to the latest and greatest WordPress release – 3.3.1. It fixes a few bugs and adds a few security improvements too – we highly recommend you update promptly if you haven’t already done so. Just yesterday there was an article in PC [...]
Did You Know Your Non-Profit Can Get Special Rates from PayPal
It’s true – we didn’t even know this ourselves, and we’ve been working with PayPal for a long, long time. Non-profit organizations that use PayPal can enjoy lower fees on payments (think donations) people make to them with PayPal. At the time of this writing, instead of PayPal taking 2.9%, they only take 2.2%. That’s [...]