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  • PayPal giving fund

    PayPal giving fund


    For UK Churches there is a PayPal giving fund, where there are no charges on any online donations made to your church. Donors can also opt to Gift Aid what they give which will give their gifts a 25% boost from the government.

    You’ll need a Church PayPal account – which has been verified as a Charity account (which reduces fees on normal transactions too). That took a while – for us largely because the Letter of Authorisation you have to download, print and sign needs to be on headed paper to be accepted!

    If you have a church PayPal account – then start enrolling here – it will take you to the verification pages if needed as part of sign up.

  • Do you hate spam contact messages?

    Do you hate spam contact messages?

    I hate getting spam, it’s such a time waster! But I do want genuine contacts here and on my church website that aren’t trying to grow body parts, get me better SEO or design a website for me!

    There’s a couple of things that you can do to help stop spam and make it easy for people to get in touch from your website.

    1. I don’t put my email address on websites as that guarantees that you get on spammers lists.
    2. Install a contact form plugin. The problem with most of them is that the emails can still disappear into spam folders

    So I created the “Never Loose Contact Form” plugin. It uses some standard tricks to weed out spammers, including spammy words in the message, filling out the honeypot hidden field (bots just love to fill all the form fields), too many links in the message (hey, one is enough!) and a few more that I’ll keep hush hush!

    To make sure you don’t miss a message, they are saved in the Database as well as being sent to you by email.

    There’s a widget, a block and a shortcode to use on the front end of your website.

    As you can see I have been protected from 54 spam messages since the weekend, which is just great!

    The plugin a free download from the WordPress repository

  • Emergency password reset

    Emergency password reset

    Occasionally you will need to reset everyone’s password to make sure your site is staying secure. I created an emergency password reset plugin some years ago that does that and emails everyone to let them know.

    It can also change SALTs too – they are random gobbledygook that are used to salt sensitive data before encrypting it for extra security.

    It’s available FREE on the WordPress plugin repository or search “Emergency Password reset” from Dashboard>Plugins>Add Plugin.

    As you can see it is pretty easy to use!

  • Service pre-booking

    I’ve just created a YouTube video on how to set up service pre-booking on your WordPress website using the Church Admin plugin