Practical, plain-English guides - useful whether or not you ever install our plugin.
Add a donation form to Avada, Enfold, Betheme, Divi, Elementor, Astra and other popular themes.
What each platform offers for donations, and when to link to a WordPress donation page.
The complete walkthrough: choosing an approach, payment processors, compliance basics, and a working donation form - in an afternoon.
Read the guide →Practical, no-budget tactics that turn one-time givers into monthly supporters - some of the most valuable work in fundraising.
Read the guide →What high-converting nonprofit donation pages do differently - layout, copy, amounts, trust signals, and the mistakes to avoid.
Read the guide →How platform fees hide inside "free" plugins - including GiveWP's 2% on Stripe - and how to keep 100% of every gift.
Read the guide →A transparent 2026 price comparison - license, add-ons, and platform fees - across the major WordPress donation plugins.
Read the guide →Fees, donor trust, and checkout compared - and why offering both beats choosing one.
Read the guide →Set up recurring tithes, designated funds, and offline gift entry on WordPress - for free.
Read the guide →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 by step.
Read the guide →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 spam donations safely.
Read the guide →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 hand off cleanly.
Read the guide →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 deduction, and cash and check offerings.
Read the guide →Your Stripe deposit is smaller than your donation report because payouts arrive net of fees, in rolling batches. Here is how a volunteer treasurer reconciles it.
Read the guide →Build a vet-bill fundraising page for one rescue animal on your own WordPress site in an afternoon: goal thermometer, monthly sponsors, tributes, zero platform fees.
Read the guide →What actually transfers when you leave GiveWP or Donorbox, what cannot, and how to import your donor history by CSV.
Read the guide →PayPal has deprecated Website Payments Standard, and vendors report Buy Now buttons stop in January 2027. How to check whether your donate button is affected.
Read the guide →A technical pre-flight checklist for your WordPress donation form before Giving Tuesday and year end: webhooks, live keys, cache exclusions, receipts, timezones.
Read the guide →How a PTA, PTO or booster club takes card and bank donations on the WordPress site it already owns: designations, cash entry, sponsor receipts, treasurer handoff.
Read the guide →Monthly giving total dropped? Here is exactly how failed recurring donations work in Stripe and PayPal, how to find who lapsed, and how to win them back.
Read the guide →Yes, you can take donations before your 501(c)(3) is approved. The disclosure to post, the exact receipt wording to use while pending, state rules and fees.
Read the guide →Only a donor can restrict a gift, and no separate bank account is needed. Track restricted donations from the form field to your QuickBooks export line.
Read the guide →How to switch from the Charitable donation plugin: export donations and campaigns, keep donor history, fix dates, and keep recurring gifts recording.
Read the guide →Monthly donations charged in Stripe but missing in WordPress after month one? Stripe's 2025-03-31 API moved the invoice's subscription field. Here is the fix.
Read the guide →Does a CAPTCHA stop card testing on a donation form? What reCAPTCHA and Turnstile block, what Stripe already does, the donor cost, and when to add one.
Read the guide →What to exclude in WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache and Cloudflare so donation forms, Stripe.js and payment webhooks keep working.
Read the guide →How to leave Donorbox, Givebutter, GiveWP, Zeffy or any donation tool: what exports, why recurring gifts rarely move, and a safe order to switch.
Read the guide →Currencies, processors and the receipt rules of HMRC, the CRA, the ATO and Inland Revenue, mapped to what a WordPress plugin can do.
Read the guide →Got a chargeback on a donation? Deadlines, fees, donation reason codes and the evidence to send, from Stripe's and PayPal's own docs.
Read the guide →When an online Donate button means registering in other states: the Charleston Principles, exemptions, disclosures and donor tracking.
Read the guide →How Donor Merchant compares with GiveWP's free plugin and paid plans.
How Donor Merchant compares with Charitable's free plugin and paid plans.
Donorbox's platform fees, plans and features next to a free WordPress plugin, with worked costs on a $100 gift and a $50 monthly donor.
How Givebutter's optional tips and fees compare with a free WordPress plugin, with worked costs on a $100 gift and a $50 monthly donor.
Tithely's giving fees and plans next to a free WordPress plugin: what each costs a church, and what a plugin cannot do.
Zeffy costs nonprofits nothing. When a WordPress plugin with your own Stripe account is the better fit, and when it is not.
Free from WordPress.org, with recurring giving included.
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