Leslie Surel

Leslie Surel the founder of Surelutions, a Michigan-based agency that helps nonprofits with website planning, design, and growth. Leslie has a background in psychology and 20+ years expertise in user-focused design, website technology, and big picture thinking. Her ultimate goal is to make websites easier and more useful for nonprofits so they can focus on their mission.
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Updated: 7/16/24 If you’re familiar with adding news or blog posts in WordPress, you’ve likely encountered the terms “categories” and “tags.” Both are foundational tools for organizing your content, but they serve different purposes. To help you understand the difference between categories and tags on your WordPress posts, let’s use a cookbook for a simple … Read more

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Learn how to avoid broken links and manage URL changes in WordPress without losing SEO value. This guide covers everything from setting up 301 redirects to updating internal links, tailored for nonprofit marketing teams.

Are you leaving your doors unlocked? WordPress powers more than 40% of all websites. It’s used by both experts and beginners, and our preferred website tool at Surelutions. Unfortunately, many WordPress sites are not properly maintained. The combination of popularity and neglect makes outdated sites an easy target for hackers. All software is vulnerable when … Read more

If there’s one single problem across every client I’ve worked with in the last 20 years, it’s how to keep track of passwords. There are so many passwords! Your website login, social media access, domain registration, hosting dashboard, software licenses, email accounts, the list is endless. How do you keep track of it all AND … Read more

How to add a user with limited access to your PayPal or Stripe account

We frequently help our clients set up GiveWP donation forms, WooCommerce products and subscriptions, Gravity Forms with payment options, and many other integrations that involve PayPal or Stripe. The tricky part of this process is that we need access to their accounts to set up the connections. As the web experts, we don’t want to … Read more