CiviCRM is designed from the ground up for non-profits, charities, and membership organisations. Out of the box it supports many core non-profit workflows, and it can be extended to to meet more complex requirements.

It is developed and supported by a worldwide community that work together to contribute new features and improvements and made freely available under an open source license.

We’ve been contributing back to CiviCRM since it started in 2005 and are committed to ensuring it stays freely available to anyone that wants to use it.

WordPress is the most popular tool for building websites on the planet. And for good reason – it packs a lot of power in a simple package.

WordPress – and the new Gutenberg editor – lets us create amazing looking websites that meet accessibility guidelines, and are simple to update and maintain.

What’s more, WordPress offers deep integration with CiviCRM, giving amazing user experiences that connect to your CRM directly on your website. We use them together to power fundraising campaigns, petitions, grant applications, and lots more!

More tools

Accompanying CiviCRM and WordPress is a carefully curated set of additional tools, including our recommended WordPress plugins, CiviCRM extensions, payment processors and email service providers.

We’ve created a set of Docker images optimised for WordPress and CiviCRM that powers our hosting infrastructure and are freely available for others to use.

We also use other industry leading tools like Gitlab, Mattermost, Grafana and Prometheus to ensure we can provide the best service to our clients.

Here are a few things we consider when adding a tool to our recommendations:

• tried and tested – has it stood the test of time? Does it have a proven track record? Will it be around for years to come?
• user community – does is have a large and active user community? Is it evolving and improving based on feedback?
• open source – are we free to use and adapt it to our needs without user lock-in? Can we contribute our improvements back?