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8 Mar 2018

5 Things To Consider Before Choosing A Theme

Many people strive to launch their blog with WordPress platform. A huge part of creating an impactful digital experience is choosing a beautiful theme. Many new site owners can get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of themes in the repository. Especially when each of them looks better than other. When choosing the most appropriate theme, …

Design & UX

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8 Mar 2018

Why Your eCommerce Store Needs AMPs ASAP

As you probably already know, mobile usage is on the rise. From checking the news to online shopping, mobile has become the easiest and most accessible way to get things done—partly because users can rely on their mobile devices to be available anytime and anywhere, which makes it convenient with our on-the-go lifestyles. People are …

Tutorials & GuidesDevelopment

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7 Mar 2018

Things You Should Know As A Freelancer WordPress Developer In 2018

There are many ways to improve freelance web developer revenue. The holy grail may be hidden somewhere between sales process improvements, creating better proposals, and changing the pitch. Sometimes the key is actually to offer products that do not require pitching at all. Let’s go through a few ways to get noticed and start making …

Tutorials & GuidesDevelopment

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7 Mar 2018

Torque Toons: What Makes Up The Other 70%?

It seems like it was only yesterday that the WC3 announced that 26% of all websites were powered by WordPress. That number has recently gone up to 30%, so we decided to find out what the rest of the internet is made of. The post Torque Toons: What Makes Up The Other 70%? appeared first …

Community & Events

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7 Mar 2018

Using the Symfony Options Resolver in WordPress

I’ve written a lot about object-oriented PHP and more specifically dependency injection and using classes to encapsulate functionality with a simple public API. By using the object-oriented programming features of PHP this way, you can write unit and integration tests so that you whenever you make changes to the class, you know that given the …

Development

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6 Mar 2018

7 Web Development Trends to Take Notice of in 2018

It’s safe to assume that every new year will bring major advancements in web development. Not only that, but the various platforms, languages, and other cogs that make up the web are also constantly evolving. Keeping on top of these developments can be a potential time sink. For example, you may be wondering where WordPress …

Development

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5 Mar 2018

Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness Now Open

Let the madness begin! Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness is now open. Modeled after the NCAA college basketball tournament March Madness, we use a bracket-based voting system to pit plugins against one another each week. This year we asked you to nominate your favorite plugins, and today we’re happy to kick things off with …

Community & EventsInterviews & Features

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5 Mar 2018

WordPress Now Powers 30 Percent Of The Internet

What began as a blogging platform nearly 15 years ago is one step closer to taking control of the entire web. WordPress officially powers 30 percent of the Internet according to W3Techs. It is also the fastest growing CMS by far, with Squarespace and Wix barely coming close. These numbers are a huge victory for WordPress …

Community & EventsInterviews & Features

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2 Mar 2018

5 Pieces of AI Software for Your WordPress Site

Major experts across a range of verticals are espousing the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for their industries. AI, defined by John McCarthy in the 50’s as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines’, has numerous applications From natural language processing to market analysis and data mining, AI is being used across financial, educational, …

Development

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2 Mar 2018

WordPress Myths Debunked

Not only does WordPress power 29% of the entire internet, it takes up 50-60% of the CMS market share, making it the most widely used CMS in the world. Whether you are setting up a blog, reviving your website, or launching your online enterprise presence, many will recommend that you use this CMS due to its “jack-of-all-trades’ …

Community & Events

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1 Mar 2018

Torque Toons: Who Are You Wearing?

Of course everybody is talking about this year’s Plugin Madness competition, which kicks off on Monday March 5th, but the big question is: What WordCamp swag will the nominees be wearing as they walk the red carpet? Doc Pop Doctor Popular is an artist and musician living in San Francisco. As a full disclaimer, …

Community & EventsInterviews & Features

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28 Feb 2018

How The REST API And Gutenberg Work Together

Since the WordPress REST API was first proposed, we’ve talked a lot about how it will be involved in the future of wp-admin. Gutenberg, the new WordPress UI system that will be used for the new post editor in WordPress 5.0 is the first example we have of the REST API being used to communicate …

Development

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