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18 Oct 2018

MotoPress Hotel Booking vs HBook vs WooCommerce Bookings Plugin Comparison

If you want to accept online hotel bookings and reservations for other types of accommodation and hospitality services, then WordPress and its wealth of plugins will help you build a suitable website. However, with a number of excellent hotel booking plugins available for WordPress, which one should you choose for your website? That’s the question …

Design & UX

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17 Oct 2018

Making Mobile Web a Priority

More and more people are ditching their desktops for phones and tablets. If your site doesn’t display properly on mobile, you run the risk at falling behind your competitors. According to Global Product Partnership, Barb Palsner, the median mobile web experience has grown almost 1,000 percent in the last eight years. That is a staggering …

Interviews & FeaturesTutorials & Guides

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17 Oct 2018

Using React For WordPress Gutenberg Development

This is the third post in a series on learning React, for use with Gutenberg, the new WordPress block-based editor that will be powering the WordPress post editor in WordPress 5.0. React is built on top of Facebook’s React library. In this post, we’re going to take the code from the previous two tutorials and …

Development

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16 Oct 2018

Choosing the Right WordPress Theme for Your Business in 2019

Are you planning your next website update? WordPress has hundreds of thousands of themes you can download for free. It can be hard to find the perfect one. You need something responsive, engaging, and easy to use. How do you know you are making the best choice of WordPress theme for your company? We’ve compiled …

Design & UX

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16 Oct 2018

How to Develop a Strong Internal Linking Structure for Your Website (4 Key Tips)

We’re willing to bet that you’re always on the lookout for ways to drive more traffic to your site. In addition, keeping that traffic around long enough to experience a solid chunk of your content is vital. However, it can be a challenge to find easy ways to accomplish both of those goals. While there …

Tutorials & Guides

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12 Oct 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: A chat with Josh Pollock about React, Gutenberg, and his WordPress predictions

Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop we have an in-depth conversation with Josh Pollock about React, Gutenberg, and his predictions for WordPress. Josh is the founder/lead-developer …

GutenbergJavaScript & FrontendWordPress

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12 Oct 2018

Why Every Business Needs a WordPress Site

The Internet gives companies and individuals access to people they would not reach otherwise, even letting them reach out to people in different states and countries around the world. It also gives a sense of authority, whether you are an individual who is trying to build a portfolio or offering a service online or a …

Tutorials & Guides

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11 Oct 2018

3 Ways to Make the Most Out of a HubSpot/WordPress Integration

If you’ve made the decision to boost your marketing efforts by adding HubSpot to your WordPress site, you have taken the first step to improving your organization’s marketing capabilities. After you’ve installed the plugin, which adds HubSpot tracking code to your WordPress site and creates subscribers from non-HubSpot forms on your site, it’s time to …

Tutorials & Guides

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11 Oct 2018

Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for setting up a Website

Regardless of if you are an experienced project manager or a developer who just started out, prototyping remains the core of every project you take on. Prototyping is the procedure of developing a preliminary version of the final web product in order to see how everything will look before going live. Creating a prototype is …

Tutorials & Guides

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10 Oct 2018

React Basics For WordPress Developers

In my last post for Torque, I wrote about how WordPress with the new Gutenberg editor uses React. I also gave my opinion on if WordPress developers need to learn React. While you do not need to know React to create Gutenberg blocks, I laid out a few reasons why it might make sense for …

Development

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9 Oct 2018

5 Actionable Ways To Improve Your WordPress Site With Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Running a WordPress site is hard work, so wouldn’t it be great if you could get a little help now and then? No, I’m not talking about hiring a human! I’m talking about harnessing artificial intelligence to improve your WordPress site without lifting one of your human fingers. Artificial intelligence is no longer the exclusive …

DevelopmentInterviews & Features

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9 Oct 2018

How to Prepare Your WordPress Site for a Vacation (So You Can Relax)

Everyone needs a vacation every now and then, including owners of WordPress websites. However, what happens to your site while you are away? After all, the Internet never closes. If you’re feeling like you can’t take time off for fear of having your site or business collapse, be unafraid. WordPress offers plenty of tools to …

DevelopmentTutorials & Guides

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