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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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8 Oct 2018

How to Convert Your Website into a Mobile App Using a WordPress Plugin

It probably won’t surprise you that more people are using mobile devices than ever before. In fact, your customers likely spend the majority of their online browsing time on their phones, tablets, and so on. This means optimizing your content for those devices is vital. While there are many ways to do that, one of …

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8 Oct 2018

Participate in the Genesis Community Survey

The Genesis Framework has changed the way themes are created and makes it easy and fast to build beautiful and professional looking websites. Now, the Genesis team at StudioPress is looking to expand on their vision and improve their product, and they want your help. If you use Genesis you’re invited to take part in …

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8 Oct 2018

Torque Toons: Super Gutenberg Cloud

In case you missed it, developers recently announced Gutenberg Cloud, a new way for WordPress and Drupal users to create their custom Gutenberg content blocks. To learn more about it, check out our newest News Drop video. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons! Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician …

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5 Oct 2018

How to Make Your Content SEO sing in 2018

SEO is a never-ending race and it’s important to always stay updated with Google’s latest trends and algorithm changes. When it comes to content, it’s incredibly important to understand User Experience, Keyword Density, and relevance when writing a new piece for your website, especially if you want to organically rank in a very quick way. …

Beginners

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4 Oct 2018

Best Free and Paid WordPress Themes for Bloggers

The Internet plays a vital role in helping us share ideas, concepts, and a way to deliver our voice to a broader audience. For example, if you are a blogger, you can share how you feel about ‘French-cuisine’ or ‘one-foot island’ with hundreds of millions of people just by uploading it on your website or …

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3 Oct 2018

Do You Need to Know React as a WordPress Developer?

The new WordPress content editing system Gutenberg will be powering the WordPress post editor in WordPress 5.0. Gutenberg is a “block-based” editor. When creating content, everything is a block. If you have a post that is one paragraph, one header, and then two paragraphs, that’s four blocks. Gutenberg comes with a set of default “core” …

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3 Oct 2018

Why Will You Never Win Without Google AdSense

Google is by far the largest search engine in the world, and it can help you figure out which ads will best promote your website’s content. In this article, we will discuss how to set up Google AdSense matched content in WordPress. Google advertising products via selling a slot Google AdSense is a program used …

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