{"id":162,"date":"2021-01-22T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/?p=162"},"modified":"2022-09-25T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T09:18:42","slug":"help-switching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/help-switching\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Switching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inertia prevents many people from switching. Switching their bank, energy supplier, or their insurance provider. The idea that there is a better deal out there might sound appealing on one level, until you actually have to feel the pain of doing it. So many don&#8217;t. Regulators and economists seem to overlook this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It is much the same with website templates (and website technologies). Many users stick with what they know &#8230; perhaps long after their template has been abandoned, demonstrably no longer working by modern standards (e.g. looks dreadful on a phone), or worse throws up ugly errors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, switching templates, like switching bank, is a faff, especially if website management isn&#8217;t part of the daytime job. Experience suggests many will postpone indefinitely until something breaks or worse they find their website has been taken over\/defaced. It happens to the best people. But if you are using an older template (more than 5 years old or not received updates in 2 years) and you value your digital presence \/ reputation, you&#8217;d be wise to consider a switch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you having been thinking of embarking on a change, but have procrastinated, why not reach out. We&#8217;ll happily give you some free advice and perhaps lend a helping hand, as it is after all the season of goodwill &#8211; meaning that there is still snow on the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inertia prevents many people from switching. Switching their bank, energy supplier, or their insurance provider. The idea that there is a better deal out there might sound appealing on one level, until you actually have to feel the pain of doing it. So many don&#8217;t. Regulators and economists seem to overlook this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-switching-themes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}