Tag: CiviCRM

  • Upgrading CiviCRM for WordPress

    So you need to update your CiviCRM for your WordPress to the latest stable version, so you can take advantage of bug fixes and new features. These are the steps that I followed to upgrade CiviCRM from 4.3 to 4.5 for my WordPress blog – I hope it will help you.

  • Excel to CSV with UTF8 encoding for CiviCRM

    Excel to CSV with UTF8 encoding for CiviCRM

    Working with Excel where there are characters from Russian Cyrillic, Japanese, Polish and Arabic languages to make the data clean, can be an issue. Some non-English characters such as European accent marks will turn into question marks, and many others will lose their accent (e.g. “Tőkés” becomes “T?kes”) (cause: no UTF8 support)

  • Setting up CiviCRM with WordPress

    Setting up CiviCRM with WordPress

    If you are in the market for a good constituent Open Source CRM, I recommend CiviCRM. In this blog post, I will explain how to install CiviCRM for WordPress. Here are the steps that I followed to install CiviCRM for WordPress. Download WordPress and install it on your server Download CiviCRM for WordPress  Unzip the downloaded civicrm-4.5.2-wordpress zip…

  • Configure CiviCRM for WordPress

    Configure CiviCRM for WordPress

    Once CiviCRM has been installed, you should review the initial configuration tasks which allow you to customize CiviCRM for your organization.