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Getting Ready for Gutenberg – Part 1: Is Gutenberg Ready for Us?

Gutenberg Stress Test

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If you run a WordPress website, you’re undoubtedly aware of the big change that’s coming in the platform’s next major release, WordPress 5.0. Whenever this update rolls out (should be any day now), the page building and editing interface we’re all familiar with will be replaced by Gutenberg—a new visual editor which utilizes draggable “blocks” of content to build your posts and pages. While it’s great that WordPress is focused on actively updating their product, we here at LLD – who build 95% of our sites on WordPress – wonder if this is the best direction for the platform and if, in fact, Gutenberg is stable enough to be included in its core installation. In fact, the last time we checked, Github users have logged no fewer than 1,200 issues reported by users.  

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9 Security Tips For Keeping Your WordPress Site Safe

9 WordPress Security Tips

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Imagine you’re a new small business owner who has just opened a small retail shop on Main Street, USA. Within this shop, you not only have all the widgets and wares you sell, but also a safe full of cash in the office, and computers containing your customers’ sensitive personal and credit card information as well. One night, after an exhausting 12-hour day, you leave the shop and head home, only to realize halfway there that you forgot to lock the door. You race back to the shop and find, to your relief, that no bad guys discovered your error, so you lock up and go home. This story has a happy ending, but it may make you think a bit more about how to make sure your business is safe without having to worry about whether you locked the door every night on the way home. Maybe you’ll invest in security gates or an alarm system, just for the added peace of mind.  

 

If you’re willing to go the extra mile for the safety of your brick-and-mortar business, why wouldn’t you do the same for your online business, into which you’ve likely invested just as much time and expense? Each month, almost 20,000 websites experience malware attacks, with a great majority of these sites running a CMS like WordPress or Joomla — not because these platforms are inherently less safe, but because users running them tend to make assumption that, because of the built-in security features of the platform, they do not need to take extra precautions. This is a dangerous assumption for any online business.

 

In this week’s post, we’ll walk you through nine basic steps you can take to make sure you’re not the victim of a malware, crypto-mining, or any other type of attack that could put your business at risk.

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5 Reasons an Email Newsletter is a Digital Marketing Must-Have

5 Reasons an Email Newsletter is a Digital Marketing Must-Have

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Often, when we recommend starting an email newsletter to clients who have come to LLD for our digital marketing services, many start off by being on-the-fence or indifferent to the idea.  A common objection we hear is,  “No one uses email anymore.” While a strong argument could have been made to this point under a decade ago, Read on…

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Five Common Misconceptions About Using WordPress to Build Your Business Website

Top 5 Wordpress misconceptions

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Here at Love Local Design, we proudly build a majority of our websites on the WordPress framework. WordPress has been around for almost 15 years, is used by 75 million websites worldwide, and we’re confident that it offers the most secure, versatile and user-friendly platform for almost any website. Whether you are a startup just getting off the ground with your first site, or a large corporation who deals with sensitive customer information (and we’ve built sites for both), WordPress is most often the best solution. Nonetheless, we often experience resistance Read on…

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