Development

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When I first looked at Vue vs React, I chose VueJS. One of the reasons was that I felt like Vue was a better choice was the complexity of React classes and life-cycle events. I felt like that was a lot of extra complication that would help with developing frameworks, but preferred the simplicity of …

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29 Oct 2018

A Developer’s Guide to Brutalist Web Design

If you give even a quick glance to any popular web design blog, you’ll see tons of gorgeous and easy-to-use designs that appeal to readers and developers alike. However, there’s a growing trend of turning back the clock (in a manner of speaking), to an age where web design was in its infancy and web-safe …

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25 Oct 2018

How to Use an RSS feed in 5 Different Ways

If you are running a WordPress website, RSS feeds are a great way for you to reach out to your audience. Sure, most people follow news and updates from their favorite websites and blogs via social media or by directly accessing the site, but there are also plenty of those which use services like Feedly …

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24 Oct 2018

Getting Started With React Unit Testing For WordPress Development

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23 Oct 2018

WordPress Site Not Ranking in Google? Here are 13 Possible Reasons Why

Do you ever find yourself thinking something like, “Why is my WordPress site not ranking in Google? I have done everything right! I even installed an SEO plugin! Why is this happening!? I hate my life.” I get it, it can be frustrating. Putting in all that effort to optimize your site, reading awesome articles …

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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 …

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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 …

DevelopmentTutorials & Guides

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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

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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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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