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7 Aug 2018

The Down And Dirty Way To Migrate A WordPress Website

A very common task WordPress site owners ever have to do is to move their site from one server to another. Reasons to do this include: You hate your web host and need a new service. You’d like a copy of your site so you can work on it either locally or from a remote …

Best PracticesDevelopers

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6 Aug 2018

Getting Started With JavaScript (And How It Compares to PHP)

JavaScript has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. There’s a growing need for WordPress developers to “learn JavaScript deeply.” However, making the switch from PHP can seem overwhelming at first glance. In our opinion, even if PHP is your only programming language, you should find the switch to JavaScript comfortable …

DevelopersjavascriptPHP

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3 Aug 2018

How Voice Search Will Impact SEO in the Future

In the world of search, the voice is an emerging trend and of course, something that should we should keep an eye on. Google algorithms change once or twice in a day. But rarely do we experience major ranking fluctuations in it. Those are actually the updates marketers are concerned about. We’re going to get …

BeginnersTechnical

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3 Aug 2018

Solving the Five Most Frequent WordPress Issues

WordPress is by far one of the most popular content management systems due to its flexibility and simplicity of use. In fact, it now powers over 30 percent of the web. However, like any other platform, it can have its problems. Here are the five biggest issues users deal with and how to solve them. …

DevelopersTips & Tools

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1 Aug 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 7: Refactoring Is An Opportunity To Adopt Test-Driven Development

So far in this series on writing WordPress plugins using object-oriented PHP, I’ve focused mainly on testing. This is because a key advantage of object-oriented PHP is that it can be written in a way that is both highly testable and highly reusable. Just using classes doesn’t magically give us this We’ve also not written …

Developers

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1 Aug 2018

Torque Toons: WordCamp for Procrastinators

Speaking of WordCamps, I’ll be at WordCamp for Publishers next week in Chicago. I’ll be there shooting videos and handing out WordPress themed comics. I hope to see you there! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons! Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician living in San Francisco. As a full …

CommunityWordCamp

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31 Jul 2018

Top Productivity Tools for Bloggers

We’re all blessed with the same amount of hours in each day. It’s just that some of us seem to make more out of our time than others. This is the essence of productivity: meaningfully improving your output rate on a meaningful task. Obviously, as a blogger, it would be a wondrous thing to be …

Beginners

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30 Jul 2018

Torque Toons: Our 5th Birthday!

The big 5.0 is here! No, not WordPress 5.0… It’s our fifth year of publishing Torque Magazine. Thanks for 5 years of support! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons! Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician living in San Francisco. As a full disclaimer, he is neither a doctor nor …

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30 Jul 2018

Who Is Going to Win the Gutenberg Arms Race?

2018 has been dominated by the Gutenberg editor – WordPress’ attempt to overhaul the user’s writing experience. This (of course) brings change to the platform. Consequently, developers are just beginning to embark on an ‘arms race’ to see who will get the upper hand with early adopters. This may seem like an inconsequential battle to …

blocksgutenbergWhat's New In WP

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27 Jul 2018

WordPress Tricks for Working with Records and Pages

WordPress is the most popular content management system, powering over 30 percent of the web. Over time WordPress has transformed from a simple blog to a flexible CMS which enables web users to create any type of website. Users have used WordPress to create digital experiences for ecommerce sites, personal blogs, and enterprise websites. Because …

Beginners

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26 Jul 2018

12 Tips For Choosing the Right WordPress Theme

WordPress is the most popular CMS today, powering over 30 percent of the web. It is very easy to use and configure for anything from a small business to an enterprise site. One of the reasons so many people use the platform is the number of themes that are available. Instead of designing a website …

Themes

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25 Jul 2018

Doc Pop News Drop: The CCPA vs GDPR

Doc’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 talk about the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 and how it might affect WordPress users. We also talk about …

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