Category: WordPress
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LRob - Age Gate, a professional WordPress age verification plugin
LRob presents LRob - Age Gate v1.0.0, a new WordPress plugin dedicated to age verification on sites containing restricted content - be it alcohol, gambling, cannabis products or adult content. The result of LRob's experience in secure WordPress hosting and WordPress webmastering, this plugin illustrates a clear desire to offer tools that are both professional, accessible and elegant, capable of meeting the concrete needs of modern site creators. 👉 Discover the project on GitHub: LRob age verification WordPress plugin - Age Gate 🎯 A plugin...
LRob - La Carte: the ideal WordPress plugin for displaying a restaurant or bar menu
There are plenty of WordPress plugins for displaying a restaurant menu... but none of them ticked all the boxes: simplicity, Gutenberg compatibility, elegant display and clear structure for complex menus.To meet this need, we created LRob - La Carte, a plugin designed for restaurants, bars and brasseries, carefully developed by LRob, a WordPress specialist. 🍽️ A plugin born of a real need It all started with a customer project: Le Charbon, a bar in Orléans, where the team wanted a modern, fast and easy-to-manage website. Problem: no “menu” plugin offered a fluid experience...
Creating a WordPress website in 2025: 16 pitfalls and tips for getting started
Getting started on the web is exciting, but fraught with pitfalls. Performance, security, data sovereignty, choice of agency: so many criteria that determine the success (or failure) of your project. In this article, LRob, a web host specializing in WordPress, shares 15 mistakes to avoid and practical advice for laying a solid foundation for your online business.
Drama WordPress vs WP Engine: first round won in court
The beginning of a victory for WordPress and Automattic: the federal court has dismissed WP Engine's most serious charges - antitrust, monopoly and extortion. A decisive step that strengthens Matt Mullenweg's position and confirms the solidity of the WordPress ecosystem, even if the court case is not yet over.
WordPress Gutenberg animations: take care with accessibility!
Adding animations has become easy for WordPress Gutenberg, but beware: they must be deactivatable and follow the visitor's system guidelines.
The best WordPress hosting specialist
As the owner of one or more WordPress sites, you need to know just how much a practical, high-performance, reliable and secure web hosting solution can revolutionize your approach. Or, perhaps you really can't imagine how much you can revolutionize your WordPress management, thanks to wordpress hosting with 24/7 support. So how do you determine the best WordPress hosting provider? Let's be honest, as a WordPress hosting specialist, we're not at all objective. But we do have arguments about security, ease of management, speed and support that clearly deserve to be heard. Elements so...
WordPress.org vs WordPress.com: What's the real difference?
WordPress.org or WordPress.com? Find out the real difference and why hosting WordPress.org with LRob is the pro choice for performance and freedom.
WordPress goes AI: a dedicated team is created
On May 27, 2025, WordPress announced the creation of a team dedicated to artificial intelligence. Objective: to innovate, collaborate and integrate AI into the WordPress ecosystem in an open and responsible way.
Should we still be using WordPress builders in 2026?
WordPress builders go against the grain of the CMS. Do they still make sense in 2026?
How to create your own website with WordPress (Beginner's Guide 2025)
Would you like to create your own website, without the help of an agency or developer? Good news: it's perfectly possible, even without any technical knowledge. In this 100 % beginners' guide, LRob, a specialized WordPress host, explains how to make your website yourself, step by step. A clear, up-to-date tutorial designed for those starting from scratch. Choosing an effective domain name for your website The domain name is your address on the web (e.g.: lrob.fr). It should be: 👉 If you're starting up a business, think about...
WordPress: should automatic updates be enabled?
WordPress updates guarantee the security, performance and compatibility of your site. Are automatic updates a good way to save time?
Web host performance in 2025: test of 10 offers
How do you choose among the many shared web hosting offers? Follow this guide and test the performance of the best-known hosting providers.
WordPress 6.8 is coming: Release date and new features
WordPress 6.8 is on its way and promises to refine the user experience, while optimizing performance, design and security. Scheduled for release on April 15, 2025, this new version should delight users. ℹ️ Is your WordPress site slow, receiving too many attacks or do you need help? Power up your WordPress site like never before with LRob hosting! Sometimes it's hard to figure out what's out there... so we've untangled it for you. Here's what's in store for WordPress 6.8. WordPress 6.8 release schedule...
Performance and Security: LRob's strategy for optimal WordPress hosting
High-performance, secure WordPress hosting, without compromise At LRob, our mission is clear: to offer fast, secure WordPress hosting, minimizing the impact of attacks while optimizing server performance. Unlike standard solutions that simply respond to threats, we go further by actively preventing unnecessary server loads. Because while some hosting providers fail to implement sufficient or any attack blocking measures, or offer no transparency at all, LRob can proudly display the measures in place and the results achieved. In this article, we explain our strategy, which is based on three layers of security...
Record attack: 2.8 million IPs compromised: What impact for WordPress hosts?
A new threat of unprecedented scale is rocking the web: 2.8 million compromised network devices are currently being exploited to flood the Internet with malicious requests. At LRob, as a web hosting provider, we've seen a dramatic increase in attacks in recent days. We'll explain how we're effectively blocking them. These attacks are not just a nuisance: they can seriously impact the performance and security of your websites. How does the attack work? What impact does it have on your websites? How can you protect yourself? Here are the answers. Details of the cyber attack Discovery of the...
Automatic WordPress updates: What are the risks and benefits for your website?
WordPress updates, whether manual or automatic, always raise questions and even fears among webmasters. These updates are necessary for the security and scalability of your site, but they also entail risks. So should you activate WordPress automatic updates? Let's explore the issues. Manual updates No matter how you update your site (manually or automatically), there are risks. On the whole, no matter whether you update automatically or manually, you're bound to run into problems sooner or later. What are the risks of...
WPMasterToolKit: the all-in-one plugin for WordPress
Discover WPMasterToolKit: the essential plugin to simplify your life and lighten your WordPress sites. This made-in-France plugin, developed by Webdeclic's talented Ludwig YOU, brings together a host of essential WordPress features, each of which you can activate with a single click. All in a single extension: simplify your management while speeding up your site! 🚀 A truly different plugin WPMasterToolKit is simple and flexible. With over 83 free, activatable features already, this plugin lets you replace countless extensions with just one. What makes WPMasterToolKit unique, apart from being...
Comparison of the 8 popular free caching plugins for WordPress: which one performs best?
Finding the best cache plugin isn't easy. You have to test it, measure its performance, find out about its long-term support... So what's the fastest cache? What's the best cache plugin? Which ones are practical and complete, which ones perform well? Do we need to pay for a good cache plugin? Today, we're trying to answer these questions with independent measurements that are as objective as possible. The test is a little «meta» in that it concerns a test on lrob.fr, a showcase/blog created with FSE (full site editing). A standard site...