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19 Apr 2018

Small Businesses Need to Get Ready for AI

From self-driving cars to stores with no checkout stations, AI is changing our world. The business world is jumping aboard the AI train. Their eyes are focused on big profits. With its potential to reduce labor costs, provide marketing information, and reach new heights in data management, artificial intelligence stands poised to change business just …

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18 Apr 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 3: Unit Testing For WordPress REST API Plugins

This post is part of a series of posts on extending the WordPress REST API using advanced object-oriented PHP. In the first post, I showed you how to use three filters to modify the schema of any post type route. Using an object-oriented approach is more complex, and takes more work than using functional programming …

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18 Apr 2018

Torque Toons: Pre-Post-Retro-Futurism Party

Needless to say, we got really excited when we heard that the theme for this year’s WordCamp Europe after party is “retro-futurism“. Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician living in San Francisco. As a full disclaimer, he is neither a doctor nor popular. The post Torque Toons: Pre-Post-Retro-Futurism Party appeared first on …

Community & EventsInterviews & Features

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17 Apr 2018

Getting Ahead of Gutenberg

One of the biggest changes to WordPress ever is coming soon. Are you ready? How can you prepare? Why is WordPress making this change anyway? These questions and many more have been flying around the WordPress space for nearly a year since the new Gutenberg editor was announced by Matt Mullenweg in Summer of 2017 …

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16 Apr 2018

3 Revenue Streams for First-Time Freelance Developers

Beginning your journey as a freelance developer can feel like one small step for man, and one giant pain when trying to find work. You’ll want to find prosperous areas in which to apply your trade, but you’ll often encounter saturated markets that require hard work if you want to be successful. Finding a profitable …

Tutorials & Guides

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16 Apr 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Plugin Madness 2018 Recap

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. Congrats to Smush Image Compression for winning Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness competition! Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted this year, it was a huge success. …

Interviews & FeaturesPluginsWordPress

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16 Apr 2018

Smush Image Compression Wins 2018 Plugin Madness

For the second year in a row, WPMU Dev’s Smush Image Compression has won Plugin Madness! This year’s competition was fierce, but in the end, the image compression plugin came out on top. The plugin beat out Autoptimize, ShortPixel Image Optimizer, Hummingbird Page Speed Optimization, previous winner Advanced Custom Fields, Custom Sliders, and finally Restrict …

Community & Events

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13 Apr 2018

Code Review Part 1: Fixing Design Flaw with the “Return Early” Strategy

While reading Josh Pollock’s first article in his Advanced OOP for WordPress series, I noticed opportunities to improve his code’s quality and performance. So I reached out to him. As a fellow educator, he suggested that I do a code review and then publish my insights in a series of articles here on Torque as …

Tutorials & GuidesDevelopment

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12 Apr 2018

The 8 WordPress Plugins That Will Change the Way Your WordPress Site Looks and Performs

The world of CMS has only one king – WordPress. Even the king needs his hands to rule over his domain of 2 million websites, and in this case, the king’s hands are the plugins. Each year WordPress comes up with thousands of new plugins for the users, developers, digital marketers, online entrepreneurs and website …

Tutorials & GuidesPlugins

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11 Apr 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 2: Setting Up Automated Testing Of WordPress REST API Plugins

In my last post, I showed how to modify the WordPress content endpoints using WordPress hooks — aka the WordPress plugins API — during REST API requests. The practical example changed the underlying query to improve search. Now I need to test that code isolated from the WordPress plugins API. For this article, we will …

Development

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10 Apr 2018

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Flipping the Script on Hackers with the Coin Auth Plugin

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. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to flip the script on hackers and run cryptomining software on their computers? In this week’s video we talk …

Security & PrivacyPluginsWordPress

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10 Apr 2018

What is the Optimal Content Length? – Here’s What the Science Says

What is the optimal content length? How long should your blog posts be? What is the ideal word count for SEO? These are questions many would-be bloggers and marketers ask themselves. Obviously many things go into successful content marketing. From choosing the right keywords, to learning to write well, to image optimization. All these are …

Marketing & BusinessTutorials & Guides

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