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Build Beautiful Fundraising Pages Visually with the New WPBakery Integration

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We are thrilled to announce a powerful new integration included in Charitable Pro: Native WPBakery Page Builder Support!

You can now build your donation forms and campaigns in seconds AND place them in your layouts quickly – all without coding.

This new feature is designed to help you build stunning fundraising pages, donation forms, and campaign grids using the WPBakery drag-and-drop visual editor you already know and love.

By bringing Charitable directly into WPBakery, we’ve made it easier than ever to design your non-profit’s website without touching a single line of code or memorizing shortcodes.

The WPBakery integration is available today in Charitable Pro.

Drag, Drop, and Donate

For years, WPBakery has been a go-to page builder for WordPress users who want flexibility and control. Now, Charitable fits right into that workflow.

Instead of copying and pasting shortcodes, you can now find a dedicated “Charitable” category right inside the WPBakery element picker. Just drag the element you need onto your page, tweak the settings visually, and publish.

With the new WPBakery integration, you can:

  • Visually build your campaign pages and donation forms.
  • Instant previews of your campaign grids and buttons in the backend editor.
  • Style everything using WPBakery’s native Design Options (margins, borders, padding).
  • Filter and sort campaigns with easy dropdown menus.

See it in action below:

Four Powerful New Elements

We know that every fundraising site has different needs. That’s why we’ve included four distinct elements to give you complete control over your layout.

1. Charitable Campaign: Display a single campaign with all its details – description, progress bar, and stats. It’s perfect for highlighting a featured cause on your homepage or building a custom landing page for a specific project.

2. Charitable Donation Form: Embed a complete donation form directly onto any page. Whether you are using our new Visual Form Builder or legacy forms, you can drop a donation form anywhere to maximize conversions.

3. Charitable Campaigns (Grid/List): Need to show a list of your latest causes? This element lets you display a grid or list of multiple campaigns. You get full control over how many to show, the number of columns, and which information (like “Donate” buttons or “Read More” links) appears on the cards.

4. Charitable Donate Button: Sometimes simple is best. Add a standalone “Donate” button or link anywhere on your site – sidebars, headers, or call-to-action sections – that links directly to a specific campaign’s donation page.

Powerful Filtering and Customization

This integration isn’t just about placing elements; it’s about giving you control over the data you display. The new elements come with robust settings built right in:

  • Smart Filtering: Easily show campaigns from specific categories, tags, or even exclude specific campaigns by ID.
  • Flexible Sorting: Order your campaigns by “Newest,” “Most Popular,” “Ending Soon,” or “Amount Raised.”
  • Design Control: Use WPBakery’s built-in Design Options tab to add custom margins, padding, borders, and background colors to any Charitable element.
  • Responsive Ready: All elements are designed to look great on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices automatically.

Get the WPBakery Integration Today

The new WPBakery integration is available today in Charitable Pro version 1.8.10.5 and later.

We’re excited to see how you use these visual tools to create more engaging fundraising pages and raise more for your cause. To learn about every available setting, you can check out the new documentation.

Read the full WPBakery + Charitable integration documentation »

Not yet a Charitable Pro user? Sign up today and get up to 50% off on your plan. We’re confident you’ll love raising funds with Charitable. If for any reason Charitable is not the right fit for you, we’ll refund your purchase with our 14-day money back guarantee.

We’d love to hear how you’re using these new features!

We’re committed to continuously improving our WPBakery integration – shaped by your needs and ideas.

If you’re using the WPBakery integration, you’ll now find a built-in feedback form where you can share your thoughts and tell us what you’d love to see next. Your input directly guides our development roadmap for 2026.

We’re also exploring new integrations to make Charitable even more flexible for your fundraising setup. More advancements are already on the way, and your feedback helps us decide which tools to connect with next.

Thank you for helping us make Charitable better for every nonprofit that relies on it.

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Your feedback keeps Charitable moving forward. Let’s keep building better fundraising tools – together.

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David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.

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ambassadors New

🖨️ Introducing Fliers and Posters: Raise Money Away From the Screen!

A lot of peer-to-peer fundraising happens away from a screen: at the finish line of a 5K, on a school noticeboard, in an office kitchen. Charitable Ambassadors 3.4.7 adds 2 printables, a fundraiser flier carrying each fundraiser’s own story and QR code, and a recruitment poster that signs new fundraisers up. Both open as a normal web page and print straight from the browser. Why this is important:

  • 🏁 A flier for every fundraiser: Each one carries that fundraiser’s own photo, story and goal, with a QR code that opens their page rather than your main campaign.
  • 📌 A poster that recruits: It shows “Now Recruiting” above your campaign name with a large QR code that opens your sign-up form, so someone can start fundraising without waiting on a link from you.
  • 🪄 No design tool needed: Both printables render as a normal web page and print from the browser, with no PDF plugin and no designer.
  • 📄 2 flier layouts: Hand out carries the full story for giving to friends and family, and Post up carries a short hook with 5 tear-off tabs for a noticeboard.
  • 🛡️ Off until you switch it on: Fliers stay off after the update until you enable them under Charitable » Ambassadors » Other » Fliers, and only the owner or an administrator can open one.

Check out our announcement here.

author avatar
David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
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💸 Introducing Tiered Rates for Fee Relief: Match the Ask to the Gift!

Fee Relief asks your donors one short question at checkout: would you like to cover the processing fee on this gift? Until now that question used a single rate for every donation on a gateway, so a $10 gift and a $500 gift were asked for the same percentage. Fee Relief 1.3.0 lets you set as many donation bands as you like, each carrying its own rate. Why this is important:

  • 🪙 Gentler on small gifts: A fixed transaction cost is a far bigger share of a $10 donation than a $500 one, so bands let you ask for less at the bottom.
  • 🎚️ As many bands as you need: Each band carries its own percentage and its own fixed amount, and the top band runs on with no upper limit.
  • 🛑 An optional ceiling: A Maximum fee field stops any donor being asked for more than a number you choose, however large the gift.
  • 🔌 Set per payment gateway: Stripe can run on four bands while Windcave and Payfast stay on a single rate, because bands belong to a gateway and not to your whole site.
  • 🛡️ Nothing changes until you say so: Your current rates stay exactly as they are until you switch Use Tiered Rates on under Charitable » Settings » Advanced » Fee Relief.

Check out our announcement here.

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David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
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📊 Your Pro Dashboard Can Now Compare, Export, and Score!

Most fundraising dashboards only tell you how much you have raised. Charitable Pro 1.8.19 rebuilds the dashboard and the Reports Overview around the harder questions: whether anything is broken, whether this period beat the last one, and which single change would make the most difference today. Why this is important:

  • 📈 Every figure has a trend: Pick a period and the tiles and the chart move together, with each total shown against the previous period.
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  • 🔀 Compare any 2 periods: Not just consecutive ones, so you can ask how this December did against last December. That matters because fundraising is seasonal.
  • 📤 Export the whole summary: Send the full overview out as CSV or PDF, ready for a board pack or a funder report.
  • 🎯 Score your setup for free: Have your fundraising setup scored, so the one change worth making next is the one you can see.

Check out our announcement here.

author avatar
David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
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🎟️ Introducing Charitable Events: Sell Tickets Inside Your Campaigns!

Most nonprofits sell event tickets in one tool and collect donations in another, which leaves two sets of reports and a manual match at the end of the year. Charitable Events brings both together, selling tickets through the same donation forms and payment gateways you already run in Charitable. Why this is important:

  • 🎟️ Every ticket is a donation: Ticket sales run through the gateway you already use and count toward the campaign goal, with everything managed under Charitable » Events.
  • 📱 QR check-in from any phone: Each attendee gets their own QR code on the receipt, and volunteers scan at the door through a check-in link that needs no WordPress account.
  • 🧾 Receipts ready for tax time: Give each ticket type a fair market value, and Charitable puts the correct tax-deductible amount on every donor receipt.
  • 📋 Attendee details at checkout: Ask every guest for a meal choice, shirt size, or access needs, with a separate attendee record created for each ticket.
  • 🗓️ Blocks and calendars included: Three editor blocks plus Sugar Calendar and The Events Calendar support put your events where supporters already look.

Check out our announcement here.

author avatar
David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.
ai New

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Your AI assistant can now build, edit, and manage your Charitable fundraising campaigns directly — just by asking. With Charitable Pro adding write support for the WordPress Abilities API, tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor can handle full administrative actions safely through MCP. Why this is important:

  • 🤖 Campaign creation in plain language: Prompt your assistant with a goal like “Set up a fundraiser for the shelter with a $5,000 goal”, and it builds a real draft campaign complete with suggested donation tiers.
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  • 📝 Offline gift logging: Tell your assistant about cash or check gifts, and it will match donor emails and record transactions into your history.
  • 🛡️ Safety and control by default: Write access stays strictly off until turned on in Charitable » Tools » AI MCP, keeping read-only reporting safe by default.
  • 📜 Full audit logging: Every change made by an AI assistant is tracked under Charitable » Tools » Logs, so you always know who (or what) updated your site.

Check out our announcement here.

author avatar
David Bisset Project Manager
David is the project manager of Charitable since 2022. David works with several non-profits (one operated by his wife) along with managing and developing features, support, and marketing for Charitable. Has been with WordPress since 2006 and has been lead organizer of multiple conferences, events, and meetups.