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3 Tips for Using Block Templates

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Tom Rankin

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Development

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July 8, 2020

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Every webpage can be broken down into sections. Each contains specific elements, such as forms, buttons, paragraphs, and more. With WordPress, you can easily add those elements anywhere you want using blocks. However, building entire sections of a page is still time-consuming. Using block templates, you can save yourself some time by copying entire section layouts directly into the WordPress editor. For example, you can import a hero section and then customize its component elements to make it your own. With templates, the Block Editor aims to help you build complex websites even faster. In this article, we’ll explain how […]

3 Best Practices for Selecting Secure WordPress Plugins

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Tom Rankin

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Plugins

Published

July 7, 2020

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Like most WordPress users, you probably rely heavily on plugins to power some of your website’s most critical tasks. However, it’s important to understand that not all plugins are equally ‘safe’ to use. Knowing how to spot secure WordPress plugins is key to minimizing vulnerabilities attackers can exploit. Fortunately, there are several qualities that can tip you off to whether a plugin is safe to use. In this article, we’re going to walk you through the best practices for selecting secure WordPress plugins. Before we get started, let’s talk about plugin vulnerabilities in general! Why Plugins Can Make Your WordPress […]

How to Leverage Social Proof to Boost Sales

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Syed Balkhi

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SEO

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July 3, 2020

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As a business, you spend much of your time trying to convince your ideal customers to buy from you. This process can be time-consuming; it’s difficult to get complete strangers to trust your business enough to bust out their credit cards. But, to make it easier, you can use social proof. What is social proof? Social proof is a phenomenon where people copy the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior for a certain situation. For instance, imagine if you overheard someone talking about the hottest new restaurant in town. They say the atmosphere is amazing and […]

The ADA and Universal Design: Why Do We Develop Accessible Web Experiences?

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David Feldman

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Design

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July 2, 2020

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Why do we develop accessible websites? And what does it even mean for a website to be accessible? The answers lay in a complicated 60-year history of disability activism and in 30-year-old legislation created before the web. It’s a story of U.C Berkeley wheelchair renegades who took sledgehammers to sidewalk curbs, a visionary architect who designed an illustrated guide to accessible building codes, and an ongoing attempt to define how the legislation that brought us wheelchair ramps applies to website design. This is the first in a series I’m writing on accessible web experiences. In the articles to follow, we’ll […]

How to Protect Your WordPress Site from Brute Force Attacks

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Security

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July 1, 2020

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Brute force attacks are a real and very scary threat for WordPress users. If someone else manages to figure out your username and password, your site could be defaced or have all its content wiped overnight. And if you lose access to your email as well, you may not be able to get back into your account to recover your website. Though it can be terrifying when your website is the target of a brute force attack, you’re not left completely to the mercy of those trying to get in. There are multiple ways of putting your site on lockdown […]

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